TITLE: Paradox AUTHOR: stellar_dust EMAIL: stellar_dust_x@yahoo.com WEBSITE: http://katycat.net/xfiles/ ARCHIVE/FEEDBACK: Sure! SPOILERS: Requiem CHALLENGE: First Lines (Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities") RATING: PG-13 SUMMARY: Scully's full of contradictions. DISCLAIMER: Creating (and owning) these two was a far, far better thing on CC's part than I have ever done. DATE: 06/27/2004 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. In short, if Mulder didn't get the hell un- abducted and haul his ass back to her so she could stop feeling so horribly guilty about feeling so marvelously happy about this God damn, incredible, terrifying, miraculous, impossible, beautiful baby they'd somehow made together, Dana Scully swore she'd guillotine the obstinate, adorable, reckless son of a bitch herself.