Next up in sentence prompt fics- “I didn’t think you’d care so much.”
“Ouch!” Scully cried, putting her bleeding finger into her mouth.
“You okay?” Mulder asked, glancing up at her from the other side of the office.
“Yeah. Just a paper cut. But shit, it hurts,” Scully said, still sucking on her finger. “Why is it always the smallest cuts that hurt so badly?”
“Hmm,” he chuckled. “Because it’s unexpected and also it’s on the epidermis and it slices through nerve endings.”
“Well,” she said, raising her eyebrows as she took her finger from her mouth and glanced at it. “Look at you. I didn’t think you’d care so much about biology.”
“Biology happens to be something I’m very interested in. Wait, or is it chemistry?” he asked, looking at her and smiling. “Are there overlapping areas of both?”
“You mean like biochemistry?” she asked, smiling back at him.
“Hmm,” he said with a shake of his head, rifling through the drawer and then standing up. Walking across the office, he sat in the chair next to her. “I don’t think so. Of course I didn’t exactly excel in those subjects in school. Too much studying and book reading. I’ve always felt a hands-on approach was better.”
“I may have noticed that about you,” she said with a smirk as he unwrapped the bandage and nodded as he put his hand out, asking for hers.
“I just feel it’s a better way to learn and understand things,” he said, wrapping the bandage around her finger and placing a gentle kiss on it when he was finished. Staring at her, he smiled as he kissed her finger again.
“I like your method of learning,” she said. “In fact, I prefer it.”
“My body? Very much so,” she whispered, leaning closer to him and smiling.
“Hmm,” he hummed, also leaning closer, squeezing her hand gently. “We have that in common.”
Their lips met, kissing slowly and softly, her hands on his face, his wrapped around her calves and his thumbs rubbing gently.
“Yeah,” she whispered between kisses. “I like the hands-on approach very much.”
“Even with a bandage,” he teased against her lips and she laughed through her nose, kissing him repeatedly, no longer concerned with her aching finger.