Story 203: "Living with the Dreaming Body" by Punk M

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After the considerable word count of our last fic, now seems like a good time to take a bit of a breather with a nice short read. This week's fic was recommended by lightlack. It takes place sometime not too long after the events of "Christmas Carol" and "Emily" when Mulder and Scully end up back in San Diego on a case. The fic is focused on Scully and how she is coping with recent developments, the turn her life has taken, what it all means for her, and where Mulder fits in amongst all the chaos and wreckage.


Living with the Dreaming Body by Punk Maneuverability


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Comments

[wendelah1]

No matter what Mulder said to her in Per Manum, the fact is she wasn't deathly ill. She was newly diagnosed with cancer. She was alert and in her right mind. She was competent to make her own decisions about her medical care and her life. It wasn't right for him to withhold information from her, for him to decide for her what she could or could not handle at that point.

If her doctors had discovered while working her up for her cancer that she was infertile, do you believe they had the right to withhold that information? If they didn't have the moral and legal right, certainly Mulder didn't. It doesn't matter whether the ova were or weren't viable, they were still evidence of what was done to her. Finding the truth about what was done to her and the other Mufon women was what kept her on the X-Files. She wanted justice, not protection. Instead of continuing to pursue the evidence, Mulder suppressed it to "protect her" and that was both morally and legally wrong.

I don't think we are going to come to a resolution here. Please don't take this as being critical of you or your argument or anyone participating here, but for personal reasons, this discussion is causing me emotional distress, so I am no longer going to comment.