The sex is poorly timed, and that *is* what makes it kind of hot.
The misunderstandings surrounding the sex make it even more heart wrenching, however. Scully believing she has just given up her last mystery, and therefore, made herself less interesting, made me ache a little bit. It was believable Scully POV for me, which I sometimes think is harder to pin down than Mulder POV. On the other side of it, Mulder wondering whether the chip had somehow brought her to his bedroom and whether she remembered it at all--gah! That slayed me.
It ends happily enough (except for the threat of cancer and Mulder's disappearance) with them together, so we know this was all resolved, but I also would have been happy had we not known that some of these aspects were tied up between the two of them. We have ample evidence that these two leave a lot unspoken, so unresolved would have been fine with me. Maybe I just enjoy the angst and delayed payoff too much.
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The misunderstandings surrounding the sex make it even more heart wrenching, however. Scully believing she has just given up her last mystery, and therefore, made herself less interesting, made me ache a little bit. It was believable Scully POV for me, which I sometimes think is harder to pin down than Mulder POV. On the other side of it, Mulder wondering whether the chip had somehow brought her to his bedroom and whether she remembered it at all--gah! That slayed me.
It ends happily enough (except for the threat of cancer and Mulder's disappearance) with them together, so we know this was all resolved, but I also would have been happy had we not known that some of these aspects were tied up between the two of them. We have ample evidence that these two leave a lot unspoken, so unresolved would have been fine with me. Maybe I just enjoy the angst and delayed payoff too much.