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TITLE: The Fine Art Of Bouncing Theories
AUTHOR: Rhetta
RATING: PG
CLASSIFICATION: Vignette; Mulder POV
DISTRIBUTION: Sure, just let me know.
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SPOILERS: 'Fire'
DISCLAIMER: Mulder and the rest of the 'X-Files' belong to Chris
Carter, 1013, and FOX. David Duchovny belongs to himself.
SUMMARY: A partnership epiphany.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Written for the Haven's 155 Words Mid-Episode
Challenge.
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It was hard to let someone in when the only person you trusted
was
yourself.
Watching your own back was damn difficult. And rarely effective.
That was before Scully.
It had hit him earlier with Phoebe. They had been talking.
He'd
thrown out a working theory expecting it to be met with
skepticism.
She had smiled and agreed with him.
At the time it had felt good. He wasn't used to someone
agreeing
with him so quickly. Or at all. With Scully he had to work for
everything.
But bouncing a wild theory off of Phoebe hadn't felt the same.
It had been flattering at first, but empty. Not real.
It had began so quietly that he hadn't realized, until it was
much
too late, that he couldn't imagine searching for the Truth
without
Scully beside him to share in the chase.
How the hell had she done that?
And why didn't it bother him?