thinking about maggie looking up at mulder from her deathbed, grabbing his hand, directing her final words to him, rather than her daughter. 20 years after she stepped in between him and a gun, wanting to leave him with something. her grandbaby’s father. how mulder brings up scully’s coma, but for those 3 months “back in the day,” it was him and maggie. it was him and maggie at the crime scene and on the bench outside the fbi and choosing gravestones. how he was always invited by her. “this is a moment for the family, but you can join us.” so many decades of phone calls, check-ins, the way that in wetwired when he calls and she doesn’t answer, he knows. the inherent connection that comes with knowing your closest person’s closest person: two emergency contacts, two people who always have to be notified, two people who are always at the side of a hospital bed or funeral or event. two people who know what “i’m fine” means, what an eye roll means, what a nosebleed means. closeness in the periphery.
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“Whats your class and level? Level 1 dwarf?”
“My name is Lady Applejack, and I’m a chaotic, good half-elf rogue level 14, and I will sneak behind any monster you throw my way and stab them in the back with my poison-soaked kukri, and I’ll smile as I watch them die a slow, agonizing death. So we gonna do this, or we gonna keep chitchatting like this is your mommy’s book club?”
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I just want to know how long Tory had been going at the drinking game before Sam showed up because obviously it was a while. Like ... how much did she actually drink that night??? Because the fact that she went through several rounds of that game, was likely drinking before the game, then kept drinking afterward (as evidenced by the cup in her hand the last time we see her), and STILL somehow was able to get safely home afterwards all by herself raises so many concerns.
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