TITLE: Ache

AUTHOR: Gwinne

E-MAIL: gwinne@yahoo.com

WEBSITE: http://www.dreamwater.org/xfileluv/Gwinne/Gwinne.html

ARCHIVE: Ephemeral, Gossamer; otherwise, please ask

KEYWORDS: MSR

SPOILERS: a fill-in-the blank for "Daemonicus"

DISCLAIMER: It's Season 9, Chris still owns them, and I'm fairly 

content.





ACHE





She's spent most of her life in the car, shuttling between here 

and there.  She's tired.



"What are you going to do, attach the pump to the cigarette 

lighter?"  That's what Mulder asked when they talked about her 

going back to work.  She has a month-old son asleep at home and a 

hole in her heart as big as an alien spacecraft.  New mothers, 

she thinks, are prone to hyperbole.



She hits a bump in the road, and her nipples strain against the 

cotton of her nursing bra.  "Sexy," Mulder said the morning he 

left.  She knows he meant it.  Now she can't feed the baby 

without thinking of him, his index finger on the swell of her 

milk-pale flesh.



"I'm on my way back to DC," she tells Doggett.  How her breasts 

ache.  









NOTE: This story came out of a Scullyfic challenge to write 155 

words about Scully.  For Jen, webmistress extraordinaire.