TITLE: Just Another Night
AUTHOR: stellar_dust
EMAIL: stellar_dust_x@yahoo.com
WEBSITE: http://katycat.net/xfiles/
ARCHIVE/FEEDBACK: Sure.
SPOILERS: none
RATING: PG
CHALLENGE: FTF soundtrack: One More Murder
WORD COUNT: 162
DISCLAIMER: They'll never belong to me; they only 
belong to each other.
SUMMARY: "One more murder in this town don't mean a 
thing; you get accustomed to the sound .."
DATE: 10/10/2004


Scully was indignant.  "I was sleeping, Mulder," 
she whined as they ducked under the yellow tape.  
Her umbrella caught in a tree and she yanked it 
back, splattering drops across her face.  She 
sighed.  "It's just another murder, couldn't it at 
least wait until-"

Mulder'd stopped, head bowed.  At his feet was the 
chalk outline of a woman, legs bent at an unlikely 
angle, head twisted to the side.  Already the rain 
blurred the lines, watery chalk flowing in twisty 
white rivulets across the asphalt to the storm 
drain.  By morning, this would be just another 
length of rain-washed sidewalk.

God.  The wind whipped her coat around her legs; 
thunder rumbled in the distance.  She reached 
blindly for his elbow.  "Mulder," her voice 
cracked, "when did I stop feeling?"

He said nothing, just wrapped her fiercely in his 
arms.  Her umbrella bobbed down the street, 
illuminated once in a flash of lightning, then 
gone.

His chin kept the rain off her hair.