Story 17: "Night Song" by Zuffy

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Our next story was also nominated by lsugaralmond. It's another all things missing scene, because she suggested that it might be interesting to compare and contrast. So, go to it!

Night Song
Author: Zuffy
Email: zuffynuffy@yahoo.com
Website: http://Zuffy.tripod.com/index.html
Rating: PG-13
Classification: V, MSR
Spoilers: *all things.
Summary: A woman awakens on a couch.

Comments

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I'm so ultra-picky that I only have a handful of saved fics, but this is one of them. I love that it strides boldly into uncharted territory and takes a completely original angle on the post-*all things scenario. Give me an unexpected approach to the canon material any day--not in the interest of novelty for its own sake, but in the pursuit of insights that ring true about the characters. 'Night Song' does this.

"The interesting thing is, this room may not really exist." The room that doesn't exist is a stroke of genius, really, and fits so well Mulder's sense of adventure and exuberance when it comes to the unexplained. The banter between them, as wendelah1 points out, is spot on. The whole exchange captures that sense of whimsy that occasionally surfaces in the XF.

We do, in the end, arrive on the doorstep of the physical closeness that so many other post-*all things offerings take for granted, but we get there by a much more adventurous route, as if instead of taking the straight path from the sidewalk to the front door, we've wandered through a magical garden full of unexpected blooms and colors.

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

We do, in the end, arrive on the doorstep of the physical closeness that so many other post-*all things offerings take for granted, but we get there by a much more adventurous route, as if instead of taking the straight path from the sidewalk to the front door, we've wandered through a magical garden full of unexpected blooms and colors.

What a wonderful summary. That's it exactly.

[wendelah1]

I agree with emily_shore, that is a wonderful summary.

[idella]

Give me an unexpected approach to the canon material any day--not in the interest of novelty for its own sake, but in the pursuit of insights that ring true about the characters. 'Night Song' does this.

Yes, it really does, and I knew I was going to like this fic right from the beginning, when Scully is talking about saying necessary things and I learned a new yet true thing about her. This is one thing that will always make me consider a fic worthwhile, even if it's flawed in other ways. (This fic, though, has a premise that is absolutely brilliant and an execution that is nearly flawless, and so this small piece of character insight turned out to be just icing on the cake, but still, it impressed me from the start.)

We do, in the end, arrive on the doorstep of the physical closeness that so many other post-*all things offerings take for granted, but we get there by a much more adventurous route, as if instead of taking the straight path from the sidewalk to the front door, we've wandered through a magical garden full of unexpected blooms and colors.

This summary is as lovely as the fic itself.

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

This is one thing that will always make me consider a fic worthwhile, even if it's flawed in other ways.

Absolutely.