The "OOC is blasphemy, canon is everything" rec list: Day 9

Title: Milkshakes at Midnight
Author: Brandon D. Ray
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: K+
Characters/Pairings: Scully, Mulder, Mulder/Scully

Why it's awesome: Brandon did a brilliant job of getting into Scully's head after the episode "Millennium".  It's short, sweet and adorable.  If only something like this could have happened on the show.

Favorite Line:

And now, finally, Mulder's gone and done it. He's crossed the line, and there's no way for me to ignore it or pretend he didn't mean it. He isn't drugged up -- well, okay, he is a little, but thirty milligrams of Tylenol #3 just isn't the same as IV Demerol. He wasn't desperate because he thought I was about to leave him. He wasn't even hyped up over some hokey story about a baseball-playing alien.

Nope. None of those things are true. He simply, plainly, unmistakeably, wanted to kiss me. And I wanted him to kiss me. And he did, and I let him, and now here we are at Denny's at 1:45 in the morning eating french fries and chocolate milkshakes, and I'm shaking like a leaf.