TITLE: Tea for Two
AUTHOR: stellar_dust
EMAIL: stellar_dust_x@yahoo.com
WEBSITE: http://katycat.net/xfiles/
ARCHIVE/FEEDBACK: Sure.
SPOILERS: Umm .. Tooms, I guess.  Setting is any 
time in a late-ish season when Mulder's in the 
hospital.  d-:
RATING: PG
CHALLENGE: Fate
WORD COUNT: 100
DISCLAIMER: If there's a Dr. Pepper in that bag, 
they could be mine .. oh darn.  Oh well.
SUMMARY: "Must be fate, Mulder."
DATE: 09/14/2004
NOTE: Yeah yeah, this story's been told fifty 
billion times by better writers than I.  It's 
still cute.  d-:


"I brought you something, Mulder."

"More? You already supplied flowers."

Scully smiled mysteriously, placed a bottle on 
the table.

"Iced tea?"

She turned pink.  "Must be fate, Mulder."

He frowned, confused.

"Just – just drink up, Mulder, I'll, I'll be back 
tomorrow."  She squeezed his hand, was gone.

Mulder peered at the bottle.  Surely she knew he 
wasn't allowed caff-

/*Oh.*  I am an *idiot.*/

****

Scully's cell rang.

"Thanks for the tea, Scully."

She laughed, relieved.  He *had* remembered, she 
felt slightly less stupid –

"It really, it was - I mean I - I mean - *thank 
you.*"

"Anytime, Mulder," she whispered.  "Good night."