What a great piece of writing. I appreciated it better when I reread, but I don't plan to read it often. Because it burns.
Mulder's paranoia always correlated with actual real-X-File-life threats, so we don't think of him as, well, warped. But this story--so starkly told, like a cautionary folk tale or a classic tragedy--displays the incest nightmare that for all we know is one from which he actually woke up sweating.
The conclusion eerily displaces Scully from wife to sister. She's the new Samantha, as impossible to possess as the old had been. And for all we know, or for all canon tells us, Mulder had sex just once with her too. And was punished for it.
This is a fic to visit, not to live in.
FCTIC was discussed at Fic_Talk. Not here, I don't think, though Wendy can tell us.
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Date: 2010-06-09 11:05 pm (UTC)Mulder's paranoia always correlated with actual real-X-File-life threats, so we don't think of him as, well, warped. But this story--so starkly told, like a cautionary folk tale or a classic tragedy--displays the incest nightmare that for all we know is one from which he actually woke up sweating.
The conclusion eerily displaces Scully from wife to sister. She's the new Samantha, as impossible to possess as the old had been. And for all we know, or for all canon tells us, Mulder had sex just once with her too. And was punished for it.
This is a fic to visit, not to live in.
FCTIC was discussed at Fic_Talk. Not here, I don't think, though Wendy can tell us.