TITLE: No Pun Intended
AUTHOR: stellar_dust
EMAIL: stellar_dust_x@yahoo.com
WEBSITE: http://katycat.net/xfiles/
ARCHIVE/FEEDBACK: Sure!
SPOILERS: early season 6
PAIRING: M/D (past), M/S (sorta)
RATING: PG (one bad, yet accurate word)
CHALLENGE: Birthdays/Anniversaries
WORD COUNT: 176, and I can't bear to part with 
any of them.
SUMMARY: I wonder if she expects me to call 
her.
DISCLAIMER: If they were mine, DD would've had 
to either explain it, or not start all this in 
the first place.
DATE: 08/13/2004


So I'm sitting here, staring at this ring, 
considering it's ten years to the day since I 
put it on for (what I thought was) ever, 
remembering Diana said engraving it was stupid 
but I insisted, and she's right, "F + D" looks 
too much like something I carved in a tree when 
I was ten - 

I wonder if she expects me to call her.

I wonder if she wonders if I expect *her* to 
call *me.*

I wonder if she wonders if I wonder -

The phone rings.

"Mulder, I have too much Kung Pao chicken here 
for anyone smaller than a sumo wrestler to eat 
in one sitting, and since we're leaving on shit 
patrol tomorrow, it'll spoil if I put it in the 
fridge, so I was wondering if -"

How does she *do* that?

"Scully, you *know* what I like," I grin, "I'll 
be right over."

I put the ring away, thinking, absurdly, that I 
wouldn't even have to get it reengraved.

Although "M x S" does have a nice ring to it.