Mulder: 1. He really does have an eidetic memory, even if Scully doesn't believe him anymore. It's just... kind of creepy, at some point, he thinks, if he knows weird little details? I mean, he's glanced at her personnel file and he's not really ever going to forget her grandmother's middle name and there's something a little weird about that, so he pretends to forget stupid things, like her birthday and which cabinets she keeps her groceries in. 2. He grew up a Red Sox fan like any good New England boy, and that was really the one thing he and his father connected on, it always felt like. There was something different in Bill's eyes when he took him to baseball games. He switched to the Yankees at fifteen, because he was sick of everything and all he really wanted to do was hurt them and that was the best betrayal he could think of. 3. Sometimes he makes up cases (well, takes up ones that he knows aren't anything) just for those hours on the plane, in the rental car, stretched out across her hotel bed.
Scully: 1. Yeah, she totally already knew how to play baseball. 2. She's come to hate Scully family holidays. She feels like she gets tiptoed around, because she's old and alone and infertile, and she sometimes has to wonder what Bill and Charlie say to their kids to make them tiptoe around her the way they do. Her mother looks at her with sad eyes, and she doesn't understand how they can think of her as a little crazy -- like this thing means nothing and is so easy to extricate her from -- after Melissa. 3. "Even my parents call me Mulder" really bothers her, in retrospect, because his parents do call him Fox. Sometimes when she's feeling especially unhappy about the state of everything, she thinks that she's the only one who isn't allowed to call him Fox. Which isn't fucking fair, really, that Diana waltzes in and calls him by his first name every second word, because she's put in so much more than that woman.
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Date: 2007-12-07 04:55 am (UTC)Mulder:
1. He really does have an eidetic memory, even if Scully doesn't believe him anymore. It's just... kind of creepy, at some point, he thinks, if he knows weird little details? I mean, he's glanced at her personnel file and he's not really ever going to forget her grandmother's middle name and there's something a little weird about that, so he pretends to forget stupid things, like her birthday and which cabinets she keeps her groceries in.
2. He grew up a Red Sox fan like any good New England boy, and that was really the one thing he and his father connected on, it always felt like. There was something different in Bill's eyes when he took him to baseball games. He switched to the Yankees at fifteen, because he was sick of everything and all he really wanted to do was hurt them and that was the best betrayal he could think of.
3. Sometimes he makes up cases (well, takes up ones that he knows aren't anything) just for those hours on the plane, in the rental car, stretched out across her hotel bed.
Scully:
1. Yeah, she totally already knew how to play baseball.
2. She's come to hate Scully family holidays. She feels like she gets tiptoed around, because she's old and alone and infertile, and she sometimes has to wonder what Bill and Charlie say to their kids to make them tiptoe around her the way they do. Her mother looks at her with sad eyes, and she doesn't understand how they can think of her as a little crazy -- like this thing means nothing and is so easy to extricate her from -- after Melissa.
3. "Even my parents call me Mulder" really bothers her, in retrospect, because his parents do call him Fox. Sometimes when she's feeling especially unhappy about the state of everything, she thinks that she's the only one who isn't allowed to call him Fox. Which isn't fucking fair, really, that Diana waltzes in and calls him by his first name every second word, because she's put in so much more than that woman.