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Dana Katherine Scully ([personal profile] faithfulskeptic) wrote in [community profile] what_wings_dare2022-09-09 06:57 pm
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🅧 Please explain to me the scientific nature of 'the whammy'




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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-09 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
He snorts. Our work. He'll be the judge of that - but he's at least tentatively willing to give her a try. It won't be possible to fob her off on anyone else if it doesn't work out, but he can probably make it miserable enough that she'll ask for a transfer.

And maybe she'll work out. She hasn't been scared off by what she can see of his work; she might be able to hack it.

"Let's test that theory." He reaches for the slides he's been peering at, poking them into a slide projector's carousel. "Hit the lights."
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-09 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay," he says, letting the slide projector's glow fill the room in lieu of the fluorescent lights. The first slide he clicks to is a photo of a corpse's face. "Case out of Oregon. Victim is female, twenty-one, no established cause of death. Only thing the autopsy turned up were these."

Click. There's her back, and on it, two lumps.
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-09 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
His attention stays on her. These slides aren't new to him, at this point - he's been squinting at them for the last day. What is new is seeing Agent Scully react to them; this is a test of sorts, of her commitment to her new work.

And so far, he has to admit she seems engaged. "The county coroner couldn't tell us. All we have to go on is the substance found in the surrounding tissue."

Click.

"Recognize that molecule?"
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-09 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Search me." It's promising that she doesn't recognize it, though. Scully's clearly bright, but her expertise is decidedly earthbound, from the sound of it. If, as he suspects - hopes - they're looking at something sourced from a little further afield, it's liable to be unrecognizable for them both.

Click. This one's a teenage boy.

"I haven't been able to identify it, and neither has anyone in Sturgis, South Dakota." Click. Another body, unidentifiable so close up. "Or in Shamrock, Texas. We have a nationwide mystery on our hands, Scully. Probably international, but I haven't been able to verify cases outside the country."
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-10 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
"I do," he says, "and I have a theory."

She's on board - he thinks she is, anyway. Even if all of this is going to end up in the inboxes of a few well-placed suits upstairs, her questions sound genuine so far.

He's been walking around as he talks, in what space there is to pace, and now he comes back to her. "My theory is that we should take this case out of the category of unexplained phenomena and put it somewhere a little more concrete. We're investigators, Scully. Refusing to investigate, consigning this case to history's junk drawer, is a cowardly act."
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-10 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Mulder gives her a wry look. She's playing along - not playing, really - and it's been so long since someone was willing to discuss his work with him. He blossoms under attention, especially now that it's positive.

"Theories the Bureau would prefer we weren't pursuing. Tell me, Scully: Do you believe in extraterrestrial life?" One hand comes up, fingers wiggling - oooh, spooky.
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-10 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, he thinks. Nobody's perfect.

"Where's the logic in these deaths? Our Oregon female -" and he's turning back to grab the clicker, backing them up to the face of their most recent victim - "isn't the first person from her school to end up this way, Scully. She's the fourth.

"Science has failed her and her classmates. Reason has failed her. And if we can't rely on science and reason -" with a little flourish, like he thinks this is a teaching lecture rather than the start of a criminal investigation - "at some point, we must start to consider more...extreme possibilities."
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-10 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"As long as you ignore South Dakota and Texas," he cuts in, though he doubts it'll score any points with her. It's not going to convince her, but this conversation doesn't have to. If they find what Mulder thinks they'll find, she'll have to concede the point.

In the meanwhile, though, she's right about one thing - that last one. "That's why they put the "I" in F.B.I. Our plane departs for Oregon at eight AM tomorrow."
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-11 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Turns out she's polite, even as she's stubborn and argumentative. If nothing else is true, this first little interview suggests that Dana Scully's going to be interesting to work with. Even if she's here on assassination duty, she's willing to bring her own ideas to the fore - and who knows? Maybe he can convince her.

Even if he can't, he has the feeling the next few days are going to be interesting.

In the morning, he slings his overnight bag over a shoulder and heads out to Dulles, meeting up with his new partner at the gate.

"Morning, Scully." Mulder has the irritatingly chipper manner of someone who woke up at two in the morning and made his peace with exhaustion. (It's a long ride to the other side of the country. Maybe he'll sleep then.) He holds out a sizeable foam cup of coffee to her. There's another in his other hand, already half drunk. "Ready to look at some extremely pedestrian and definitely terrestrial phenomena?"
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-11 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"You'll have to read it and find out." She's so prim. It's actually kind of charming, the seriousness she's affecting this early in the morning. (He'll be right there with her once they're actually in the field - not this intensely proper, but closer. Until then, though, the rules are a little different.) Waving her over to a pair of open chairs, he adds, "I'd save any reading for the plane itself, though."

Having the little tray table will probably make a difference. In the meanwhile, since they've got another ten minutes or so before anyone's going to let them aboard, he takes a seat. His legs stretch out like he's hoping to be a tripping hazard. "Unless you want to play a solitary game of I Spy, I think we're going to have to talk to each other."
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-11 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Fire codes, schmire codes. He's going to be cramped up in coach seat for five and a half hours; until then, he's going to sprawl. "I still fully expect you to report back to your handlers, whoever they might be. But I also recognize that we have some time to kill here."
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[personal profile] bigfootfetish 2024-05-11 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Murderers from beyond the stars," he offers jovially, since she's not willing to say it. They can leave aside the question of the legitimacy of her spying, not to mention the extent of her awareness that she's being used by powers greater than either of theirs. They still have more salient questions at hand.

And this one seems liable to make or break their work together, so he does her the service of a real answer. "Have you heard of cattle mutilations?"
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[personal profile] rockitlike 2024-05-11 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't think I have." She's a little bit apprehensive; it sounds a little... eccentric. That's the polite way to put it. But she needs to know what he's thinking.

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