A very sweet, charming story. It works better for me as a stand-alone than as a post-ep for "All Things," but that's just splitting hairs.
For so long it has seemed so improbable that Mulder and Scully would ever admit their feelings for one another, that it is only fitting for a room outside of time and space to be the place where they finally come together. Only in The X-Files would this seem a plausible scenario, but using "Dreamland" like this is a stroke of genius on the part of the writer.
I liked this passage, it's very Scully...
She wanted to say only necessary things to him. It had always been like that. Necessary and complete, things that would make him think, things that would hold his attention. Neither he nor she was much for small talk.
This is just a bit too sappy for Mulder, methinks...
"I wanted lie in the moonlight with you. Count the shooting stars. Climb the fence at Stonehenge and wait for dawn." His hand stroked her back gently. "Beside you."
But this sentence is just perfect...
Outside the illusory window, silver clouds raced across the sky, a thousand stars in their wake.
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Date: 2008-04-13 01:40 pm (UTC)For so long it has seemed so improbable that Mulder and Scully would ever admit their feelings for one another, that it is only fitting for a room outside of time and space to be the place where they finally come together. Only in The X-Files would this seem a plausible scenario, but using "Dreamland" like this is a stroke of genius on the part of the writer.
I liked this passage, it's very Scully...
She wanted to say only necessary things to him. It had always been like that. Necessary and complete, things that would make him think, things that would hold his attention. Neither he nor she was much for small talk.
This is just a bit too sappy for Mulder, methinks...
"I wanted lie in the moonlight with you. Count the shooting stars. Climb the fence at Stonehenge and wait for dawn." His hand stroked her back gently. "Beside you."
But this sentence is just perfect...
Outside the illusory window, silver clouds raced across the sky, a thousand stars in their wake.