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The one friend I know of that’s having problems is also in the UK??
well what the fuck tumblr why do you hate brits
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griefheld replied to your post: walkingshcdow replied to your post: ...
The one friend I know of that’s having problems is also in the UK??
well what the fuck tumblr why do you hate brits
@griefheld liked the starter call
“That’s an affirmative, Agent Doggett.”
@griefheld
WITH HIS BLOOD PUMPING , familiarity flooding his veins with every step he made across the court , it was hard to say mulder wasn't having fun . . . it was just a surprise with who was all . ❛ you up for a little trash talk , agent doggett ? ❜ he swiveled suddenly , bouncing the ball a few feet before he launched off the floor as he threw it , shoes squeaking . watching it bounce off the back of the rim and manage to slither into the hoop , mulder flaunted a smirk at the agent before moving off to fetch it . ❛ –– coulda easily deflected that . ❜
——– angst sentence starters / send me one and i’ll love you forever ! asked by : @griefheld ( but it’s really mostly about @vndicate )
the ring upon her finger tells her she is married ; the ring on mulder’s finger tells her he is, too. she wears a white dress, simple lace, low neckline to show the collarbones he has been prohibited from nipping all week to stay pure for this matrimony. only a handful of people were invited to partake in celebration, only a handful of people they trust or care for enough to include. reception, reserved tables at favored dc hangout. happy hour. beer and champagne. this round is on her mother.
doggett was invited on her behest and her husband’s indifference, the history between the two men shaky in a euphemiszed way. his presence there touches an already bursting heart, a truth she stole away with him in attempt to communicate. he looks good in his suit. he looks tired. he cried when he saw her in white. ❝ i know none of this has happened in a traditional way. ❞ pregnancy and aliens and abduction and death and aliens and government conspiracies and life lived on exile on the run. and aliens. understatement of the decade for a decades’ worth of love and loss and insanity. ❝ your support means everything to me. it always has. without you, i don’t know what i would have , , , back when he was gone . . . i’ve never forgotten. ❞
her eyes wander across the room to the object of her affection. in the few moments since she has been gone from his side, he has managed to askew his tie. she wonders in passing if perhaps such action was purposeful, a ploy designed to ensnare her upon her return, compelled to correct his appearance. she delights in the motion. the small of her back tingles where she knows he will place his hand, pull her closer against him, settle his fingers on her hip. she will place her hand on his chest or his abs and his heart will race. a soft smile tugs on her lips at the mere thought, her response already glistening in her eyes.
❝ I AM, john. finally, truly, i am. ❞
——– angst sentence starters / send me one and i’ll love you forever ! asked by : @griefheld
he speaks but makes no eye contact, stares out window in passive observance of clouds cut like cotton by the wings of the plane. she follows his gaze, though vantage point is inferior to his from the window seat. / he had proffered such placement for the taking, as always, dogged determination. she had declined, as always, equal insistence. i’ll be up and down at least twice to pee. ( and will count herself lucky if that is all she needs expel on this flight. ) MIDDLE GROUND ? acceptance of his pillow, tucked now behind her, better lumbar support. ( her back will ache still. her whole body already aches. )
justice was served, but the platter was cold by the time it reached the table. a quadruple murder - suicide, their reports will read, though questions linger about the nature of the perpetrator’s death, had the man with supernatural characteristics truly ended his own life ? or had the magic / voodoo / curse / deal with the devil he had made simply run its course ? / AND IT’S HARD, she knows, to swallow something like that, to look into the eyes of victims’ families and give them swiss cheese answers. to board this plane, to go home, to lay head to pillow and feel any sort of contentment, any consolation that the job is done and done well. arduous, yet straightforward police work, the meat and potatoes, that’s where he thrives. the x - files, where such is only adequate sustenance to a point, that’s where he struggles. ( she knows all too well. it is where they BOTH struggle, to begin with. )
absently does her hand fall to her stomach, habit developed over these months. fabric of this shirt is restricting and she longs for her apartment, a shower, a robe, no pants ------------- back on task, eyes of blue find his face, survey his expression from this sideways vantage point. how many times did she occupy his current position ---- right down to the posture ---- the sagging shoulders and the hung head. what affirmations did HER counterpart provide?
❝ you were excellent on this case, agent doggett. without us, without you, those families wouldn’t have any SEMBLANCE of closure. and they’ve suffered long enough. ❞ for months had investigation dragged, long before bureau involvement, victim count rising. of all personnel his expertise alone had pried open cracks in investigation, had lead to conclusion, unsatisfying though denouement may seem. INADEQUATE TOO, this measly attempt at comfort. a pause. lowering of already hushed tone. an elaboration, more personal. ❝ i was proud to call myself associated with you out there yesterday. ❞
——– fall out boy’s MANIA sentence starters / accepting !
NEITHER OF THEM SHOULD BE AT WORK RIGHT NOW ; both know it, surely, yet neither has reprimanded other. ( fear of exposing own hypocrisy, perhaps ? certainly true of her. ) for many hours they have sat here, filling silence with clacking of keyboards and shuffling of papers, exciting variety when one or the other rises to open filing cabinet with signature click and squeal. neither took a lunch break, neither wants to stop and be forced to smell the roses ; they are all dead or trampled into the ground with no hope of being replanted.
she coasts. she struggles with feeling grounded to the passing of time, she struggles with desire to be tethered to this shaky ground. so she coasts, cruise control, autopilot. she breezes through reports, among the most straight - forward she has ever composed. they are behind on reports. they’ve been given dispensation for being behind. ( there have been extenuating circumstances, she can hear skinner’s voice say just across his desk a thousand miles away. in both of your lives. ) but she will not have it. not anymore. she will not stop, she will not slow.
he has ; he is. she notices gradually and without hint of judgment. elongated pauses between bursts of typing and forced breaths. a frustration, a kind of pure exhaustion she knows well ——— or would if ever she truly allowed these emotions to make her acquaintance. she passes by such feelings on the streets daily, multiple times a day, and always turns her head, claims ignorance, will not acknowledge a familiar that feels predatory.
i think i got too many memories getting in the way of me. his words the first in some time. she nods. she understands. BRAIN FOG. she thinks of smoke from a devastating inferno, firefighters rushing into the flames in hopes of salvaging that which is already lost, everything one loves reduced to ash. she thinks of smog in the heart of a bustling city, how one can choke on something so thick and heavy and invisible and drown in broad daylight. she thinks again of smoke and paints it black. a chemical reaction, potassium, perchlorate, anthracene, sulphur, thick black billows over the sistine chapel. there is no new pope to find belief in.
❝ i think you should go home, agent doggett. ❞ professional. gentle. without a hint of judgment. how many times has he offered to her the same ? particularly last year, when both heart and womb were heavy ? ( far more than she has actually accepted. she can only hope he will be more prudent for his own sake. ) ❝ i'll call you if a legitimate case comes across my desk. ❞
“If there were any more left of me, I’d give it to you.”
——– fall out boy’s MANIA sentence starters / accepting !
the dim light of her table lamp paints them both in warm oranges and golds, oven light in the kitchen behind them casting a slightly cooler hue. a quietness permeates both these spaces and the shadows that surround them. a parallel : the darkness of night outside broken by georgetown streetlamps, the thinly-veiled threats and mysteries of life beyond that, the dangers, the trauma, interrupted only by these moments of reprieve so fleeting. it unnerves her, how imminently such perils creep, how steadily they persist. straight for her most beloved, barreling without mercy through those who dare stand in the way.
he has stood in the way, and he — incredibly — still stands now. he wears his coat, and she wears a large sweater masquerading as housecoat. he offers these words, which are more than simply words, and she lowers her eyes. / mere days ago, she wept at his bedside, hot and heavy tears of guilt and grief that he awoke to discover. these apologies were heavy, and among her pantheon of fears rests that she has forced him to carry them now. never was this meant to be his crusade, never was his blood meant to be spilled in this fight. long as she known and lamented this, but especially sharply is she cognizant of that now, as, in spite of everything, he speaks of more.
❝ please, no, ❞ she breathes more than speaks. exhaustion clings to the words with a desperate thread. ❝ no, you’ve given . . . SO MUCH already, you’ve given enough and more —— your LIFE, very nearly. for me. for william. ❞ hushed tones do not disturb the named child where he lay swaddled in pale blue against her shoulder. her fingers tap a gentle rhythm against his back that follows no song nor nursery rhyme. a glance at the clock would reveal the hour has long past to lay him down to sleep, but doing so would leave her arms vacant, her hands idle, left only to tremble and betray to the man before her the extent of her unease. she cannot do that to him, reveal the extent of her concern that every herculean effort in the world could not beat back this breed of darkness, her despair is a weight difficult to bear alone. but this one she will not pass on. ❝ i’ll never know how to thank you for that. ❞
“I will freely admit that I’m stress eating right now.” for Monica
❝ and here i thought you were more of a ‘go for a run’ guy. what’s your poison ? i’ll pick some up ON MY WAY OVER. ❞
@griefheld // na meme