Considering I'm the one who recced this, I feel like I should have some essay on why I love it so. But, I don't. I just like it. I like FTF gap-fillers and there aren't many out there that do it for me, but this one surely does. But I love Tesla's stuff (with the exception of her M/O series, which really rubs me the wrong way and not just because it's M/O) and this one of my favorites.

I get the criticism that both of them might be slightly OOC, but I figure they've been shot, frozen, intubated and generally screwed over in just about every way. By this point in the movie, they have been traumatised in so many ways (the bombing, the hearings, the resignation), so for me, everything in this fic reflects that. Mulder's "honey" is not at all jarring to me. It works for me given the overall circumstances and I actually like that little bit.