Fox Mulder's life hasn't settled into normalcy in the weeks and months after his brush with death, but he's not actively in danger of being murdered, and that's close enough to normal for him. He's survived being grounded - unfairly, incredibly unfairly - finished out the school year, and mostly convinced his mother that he's not about to be lost forever. (She's been weird about the whole thing, hot and cold in her moods. But so has Dad, so maybe it's just an inevitability within the Mulder family.)
It's late summer now, sweltering in D.C. and probably gorgeous back on the Vineyard. Mulder's taken more and more to driving the hell away whenever he feels like it; after the first time he slept in his AMC Gremlin and caught hell from his father, he's only been more enamored of the notion. It's awkward, given just how tall he is, but it pisses his dad off, and the freedom of knowing he doesn't have to answer to anyone is as intoxicating as any liquor.
Today, he finds himself drawn back to the little New Age shop he, Gimble, and Phoebe visited months ago. The reasons hasn't quite formed, but he'd like to say it has something to do with Samantha. There are secrets that Beyond Beyond hasn't given up, he suspects, and he wants to know what they are.
Once he gets there, the shop owner - Carinda? Carinda - is nowhere in sight, though. It might be harder to delve deeper into Beyond Beyond's beyond.
"Hi," he says to the girl at the tea counter. She's small, with a snub nose and brilliant red hair. (If he profiled her the way Agent Douglas does, what conclusions could he draw? Religious, judging by the necklace. A little younger than him, maybe a local? He can't decide.) "Do you work here?"
teenies au.
It's late summer now, sweltering in D.C. and probably gorgeous back on the Vineyard. Mulder's taken more and more to driving the hell away whenever he feels like it; after the first time he slept in his AMC Gremlin and caught hell from his father, he's only been more enamored of the notion. It's awkward, given just how tall he is, but it pisses his dad off, and the freedom of knowing he doesn't have to answer to anyone is as intoxicating as any liquor.
Today, he finds himself drawn back to the little New Age shop he, Gimble, and Phoebe visited months ago. The reasons hasn't quite formed, but he'd like to say it has something to do with Samantha. There are secrets that Beyond Beyond hasn't given up, he suspects, and he wants to know what they are.
Once he gets there, the shop owner - Carinda? Carinda - is nowhere in sight, though. It might be harder to delve deeper into Beyond Beyond's beyond.
"Hi," he says to the girl at the tea counter. She's small, with a snub nose and brilliant red hair. (If he profiled her the way Agent Douglas does, what conclusions could he draw? Religious, judging by the necklace. A little younger than him, maybe a local? He can't decide.) "Do you work here?"