TITLE: Keep Surprising Me!

AUTHOR: Wylfcynne  

DISTRIBUTION: Gossamer, Ephemeral, MulderTorture and
Xemplary, certainly; anyone else, please ask; that way I'll
know where it all goes, so I can visit.  

SPOILERS: Theef

RATING: G

CLASSIFICATION: MSR, post-ep, 155

SUMMARY: Give me a break!

DISCLAIMER: They certainly aren't mine; if they were, they'd
be having more fun, and I'd have more money! Thank you, Mr.
Carter, for creating the show, and thank you, Mr. Duchovny,
and you, Miss Anderson, and you, Mr. Pileggi, for creating the
people. I'm just borrowing Fox, Dana, Walter and the others
for some fun and games...I promise I'll bring them back on
time and unharmed...and they won't remember a thing...  

AUTHOR'S NOTES: I'm a comparative newcomer to X Files
fiction, but I have a long history of character abuse in other
fandoms. Those characters are all very glad my attentions
have turned elsewhere; they needed a break to finish healing.  

DEDICATION: Overall, all my X Files work is dedicated to my
writing partner, Ravenwald, without whom I would still be
doing all this using a ballpoint pen, who introduced me to
fandom on the 'Net, and awakened the Muse, who had been
sleeping for a VERY long time. 

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Keep Surprising Me
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She turned to face him and started toward him at once,
moving slowly, awkwardly. 

"Scully...?" he spoke very softly. There was something in her
expression  that terrified him. 

She walked right into his arms. 

"I was blind," she mumbled into his shirt. 

He shuddered, and she felt it. They held each other more
tightly. 

"You saved me," she went on, still not looking up. 

He lifted his hands off her body, cradled her face and forced
her to look up  at him. "You saved them. C'mon. We're still on
duty." He kissed her  forehead briefly, and she stepped back
with a fragile smile. 

"You keep surprising me," she told him. 

"And ideally I'll keep on surprising you for the next fifty or sixty
years,"  he grinned recklessly. 

Dana Scully grinned, knowing that they would only be Special
Agents for half  that time, or less, knowing what he was
proposing. 

United again, reinvested, they went back to work.