He makes a face, glancing down once more at their hands - and his gem, hidden between their palms. Too good to be true, apparently. It's not surprising that an alien implant would have downsides, especially given the barcode Scully'd identified during a case a few years ago, but the realization still makes his skin itch.
Has anyone tried digging them out? he wants to ask, but that'll just worry Scully. He's seen how she's looked at him in the last day, like he might turn out to be a trick of the light at any moment. If he wants to borrow one of her scalpels and use it on himself, he's going to have to find a different source of information beforehand.
(And then she'll kick his ass. But if he looks into it and decides not to do it, and she knows about it, he thinks some part of her is always going to wonder if he's going to change his mind.)
"Yeah. Found that out my first day." Though he doubts his mild discomfort had anything on Scully's. The newness of everything had disturbed him; for Scully, the synchrony itself seems like it'd be a hurdle to clear. "You said you'd found some people, right?"
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Has anyone tried digging them out? he wants to ask, but that'll just worry Scully. He's seen how she's looked at him in the last day, like he might turn out to be a trick of the light at any moment. If he wants to borrow one of her scalpels and use it on himself, he's going to have to find a different source of information beforehand.
(And then she'll kick his ass. But if he looks into it and decides not to do it, and she knows about it, he thinks some part of her is always going to wonder if he's going to change his mind.)
"Yeah. Found that out my first day." Though he doubts his mild discomfort had anything on Scully's. The newness of everything had disturbed him; for Scully, the synchrony itself seems like it'd be a hurdle to clear. "You said you'd found some people, right?"