And Mulder's falling down on his end of the deal by doing a
lousy job of making the bed; it's impossible to convince myself
that this really is nothing.

The layers upon layers of denial go way too deep for me to accept this. It's too much, even for them. For me. LOL.

And we know for sure they've had sex as recently as Drive.

We know that because of a later story, though, right? We don't know that now, or do we? Did I miss one of his subtle hints? LOL.

make me think he was going to end it with them 'escaping into obscurity' or something - getting out of the fight. I can never imagine the story going that way, and I don't want to imagine it. I'm one of those people who read Dancing Skeleton Day and hoped it meant Mulder and Scully were coming back.

Interesting. Yeah, the ending for Sokol did not make me very happy, though I can see why it had to end that way. I can't imagine them leaving the fight either--which is half the reason I disliked IWTB as much as I did.

I have to go post the next three stories.