[all-xf] Little Cat Feet (no archive)
leighchristine
TITLE: Little Cat Feet
AUTHOR: Christine Leigh
E-MAIL: leighch...@hotmail.com <mailto:leighch...@hotmail.com>
RATING: G
CATEGORY: MSR, V
KEYWORDS: Missing scene.
SPOILERS: "all things"
SUMMARY: Scully POV as she is leaving
Mulder's apartment the morning after.
DISCLAIMER: The characters are the products of
Chris Carter. They also belong to Ten-Thirteen
Productions and the Fox Network. No copyright
infringement intended.
Little Cat Feet
by Christine Leigh
She moves between the bedroom and bathroom
in silence. He is asleep and she doesn't want to
disturb that, having seen him rest like this too
seldom in the years they've spent together. His
forehead is unfurrowed and an intermittent audible
expulsion of his breath is the only sound in the
room.
Outwardly she is composed. She checked
herself hurriedly while dressing and passed
muster. It is time to go, but she lingers for just a
moment to take in the view. He's kicked off part
of the sheet and the graceful limb that is exposed
is an object of beauty. He is the only man she's
ever known whose physical presence at any
given moment in a day can take her out of her
mundane world. Kicking and screaming,
figuratively, back in the day. But, no longer.
Well, most of the time.
She walks out the bedroom door.
In the living room she moves toward the soft blue-
green glow of the aquarium. The pretty fish have
been his steadfast companions for as long as
she's known him. She has never asked him
when he first acquired the tank and its
inhabitants. In her mind they're ubiquitous; she
can't imagine Mulder without them any more than
she can imagine her existence without him.
She loves him. Has for years. Last night was a
long time arriving, but she believes that this is
how it was intended to be. She still prays and,
yes, she said a prayer upon waking an hour ago.
She looks out the window. The rain has given
over to a gentle fog as she leaves on little cat
feet.
- end -
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
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