Story 249: "Only Apples" by Kelly Keil

[wendelah1]

This is a sweet vignette about Mulder and Scully doing ordinary things by one of the old Yes Virginia crowd. I found it on a defunct multi-fandom rec site and thought it might make for a nice change of pace from the long, angst-filled pieces we've been reading recently.

RATING: PG
CLASSIFICATION: V, MSR
DISCLAIMER: I don't own them. You know who does. I just took them on an outing.
SUMMARY: Spend an autumn afternoon with Mulder and Scully.

Read Only Apples

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Comments

[wendelah1]

You can probably guess what I thought of the romance part, but I did like the moment when she thinks all she does is look down and see the dirt (or something to that effect).

Ha ha. Yes, I know exactly what you thought. I was just happy that there wasn't any graphic sex I had to skip over. It easily could have had a non-shippy ending, too.

Reminded me of that conversation at the beginning of Dreamland 1, about 'normal' people and their dogs and all that. If I shipped them, I would've loved this.

It reminded me of that, too. Scully is committed to Mulder and to the X-Files, but she's aware that she's given up a lot in the process. I liked that this story acknowledged that--and had Mulder acknowledge it too, but in a non-melodramatic way, minus the self-blame that show-runners and fic-writers alike usually assign him, me included. *cough*

Good catch re: Frost's "Apple-Picking." Now I have to go reread it. Sensory details minus the flowery language: my favorite kind of poet.

[lyryk.livejournal.com]

It easily could have had a non-shippy ending, too.

That's what I was thinking. The concept would work pretty well for a genfic, too. That's a lovely thought, really: the two of them spending an afternoon away from all the bad, just soaking in the calm.

Sensory details minus the flowery language: my favorite kind of poet.

Yes!