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. ~~~~~~~~~~ Keep Surprising Me ~~~~~~~~~~ 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.