Stories 179-180: "The Fall of Our Summer" and "Poems" by Khyber

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We're back into the angst, this week, with a couple of vignettes that fill in some of the blanks the previous fics have hinted at about Mulder and Scully's past assignations, and the days of their early relationship. First up is "The Fall of Our Summer", a post ep for Drive, which Kyber originally posted to xf_is_love in 2009. Second we have "Poems", a post ep for Wetwired, and the second to last instalment in the KvsS7 universe.


The Fall of Our Summer

Poems


Only one more KvsS7 fic to go. Hopefully you've been fascinated, intrigued, or otherwise drawn in by the story so far, and you'll tune in five (or so) days from now, to reach the end of the road with us.

Comments

Re: The Fall of Our Summer 2/?

[wendelah1]

I also think this part of the fic is about...hmm...I suppose it's that Scully's psyche is utterly suffused with the horrors she's seen. As she says, she simply has no room left within her for any more pain or horror. There is no safe place for her, not even in her own mind or body - no 'sacred circle' she can fortify herself with or talisman of sane fact she can hold fast to (I'm considering this in relation with the future Scully of Weret Hekau). There is nothing untouched by trauma. Thus, she can't draw a seperation in her mind (or body) between herself and the alien that had begun to grow inside of her. She has been invaded in violent and unimaginable ways, and she's instinctually thinking about that. She's barren, and Mulder is coming inside of her, and she's wondering if an alien, which destroys the life it grows inside of, has a concept of what a mother is.

This is the best reading of this line that I can imagine. It blows me away, really, it does, but it makes the story even grimmer.