Story 204: "El Quinto Sol" by Onemillionandnine

[wendelah1]

I'm feeling a wee bit obsessed with season seven at the moment. I already know what most people's favorite season seven story is (and don't get me wrong, I like "Parabiosis," too), but this one is mine.

Summary: An explanation of Mulder's sudden belief in "miracles." Arthur C. Clarke's second law in action. A bit of Mytharc in the guise of a case file. But in the end it's all about sex. Then again, what isn't?

I can't think of anything to add at the moment. The link is to her old site, now at reocities, but if you want to read an old-skool text file, the entire fic can be read or downloaded at onemillionnine's Author Page at Gossamer.

If anyone has suggestions, especially for season seven stories, feel free to leave them in the comments or the suggestion post. And good, bad, or indifferent, please let us know what you think.

Read "El Quinto Sol".

Comments

[dryadinthegrove]

The way Mulder and Scully think and feel about each other has a heavy, messy, ill at ease quality that gives me a slightly sick feeling of disillusionment, yet the narrative swerves radically from that kind of darkness to “souls mating, minds blown” sex

Yes, exactly, precisely.

The OC’s are interesting in an exuberantly inventive way, but they lack the steady grounded quality that would make me A) care about them, and B) believe in them as more than a source for amusement and exposition.

Yup, yup. I really disliked the Melissa bit intensely - and that may be because of my own issues, but it didn't ring true to her character. That might sound ridiculous given how little we see of her on the show - or maybe just the failure of my imagination.