There's nothing better than having a show where you genuinely enjoy many different pairings and you know the characters would end up happy in different ways. Even more so when you still enjoy them 30 years later.
I honestly live for some Skinner/Scully. I really think that Skinner would be surprised every time Scully kissed him and would have a moment of shock before he kisses back. Even years and years after being with each other.
I want to do another one of them but after Skinner's hair has migrated to the front of his face.
4x14 really showed the Mulder x Scully x Skinner dynamic. Scully telling Mulder about her cancer before anyone else. Going to Skinner together and him trusting them to do there thing. Scully writing to Mulder while in the hospital. Mulder being willing to do anything for Scully, even make a deal with he cigarette smoking man. Skinner convincing Mulder not to make the deal then trying to make one himself. I loved it.
Neither can remember when it started, but both will remember when it ended.
It's a quiet night with the moon at half. She'd come to his door once again, like a million times before, but with a hesitation and slice of sadness he picks up on as soon as he opens to her.
Mulder and Scully were inevitable, as inevitable as impossible as Walter and Dana were. She doesn't need to say anything, because he knows why she's here. Silence - that's what they they existed in when they were alone, carnal urges with no strings because Walter knows he couldn't tie a bow to save his life. He treated her as sacred and clear, through grief and just the need to fuck, and it never bled into real life.
Scully picks at his knick-knacks, crap picked by Sharon he'd carried into his new life without her. Scully tucks her hair behind her ears, hedging sentences until he simply takes her hand in his and kisses her palm, softly in finality and she smiles a wan, melancholy smile.
He opens the door for her and she whispers what sounds like goodbye; he nods, closes the past behind him and turns off the light before heading to bed.
And if given the choice between advancing my career by being blindly loyal to some faceless puppeteers pulling strings from the shadows, or to throw in with you two, make no mistake about it. I'd make the same decision every single damn time.
THE X FILES GIF MEME [1/4] DYNAMICS
Mulder x Scully x Skinner
You know, Scully, we've got four weeks' probation vacation and nothing to do, and Wayne Federman's invited us out to LA to watch his movie being filmed... and God knows I could use a little sunshine.
California, here we come.
THE X FILES GIF MEME [8/20] EPISODES
Hollywood A.D. (7.19)