The X-Files fandom as a whole has really weird taste in angst, which is easy to note as such because almost none of it corresponds to my taste in angst. It's the same couple of stories about cancer and (physical) Mulder torture and profiling over and over again. But 2% of it is really great! SO I DON'T KNOW.

I DO TOO, but I also like it when the perilous situation causes the character B to realize their longstanding feelings! And sometimes I like the concealing, but other times I like it when the event makes B ~need~ to tell A, but they're too dumb to figure out how.