All Eyes Lead to the Truth | Darkness Falls (1x20)
Saying Agent Scully was making it worse would be unfair, but he couldn’t help but think it.
He didn’t blame her though. In his fifteen years working for the Federal Forest Service, Larry Moore had never seen anything like this. From the way they moved in clusters to their unnatural coloring, the insects were perturbing in every way.
Moore certainly didn’t like it, but he just had to pretend it was normal. If he thought of them as a swarm of fireflies or a nest of any other creepy crawlers, then it wasn’t so bad. He’d slept in hostile environments before and made it out, it was just a matter of waiting it out.
What he couldn’t deal with was the voice of reason in their midst completely losing it.
Ever since he was tasked with accompanying the feds, he got the impression part of Agent Scully’s job was keeping her partner from blowing a gasket. They were both fine people, but the eccentric man just seemed a little more prone to emotional outbursts than she did.
His heart nearly fell outta his ass when she whacked that lightbulb. He didn’t mean to yell at her, and he felt bad that he did. Moore supposed he just was reacting to his fear in the same way she did — acting on impulse without thinking.
The whole time they’d been there, with every crazy theory her partner suggested, Agent Scully’s level-headed reason had been a comfort. He’d been a Freddie for nearly a decade now. He could sense a storm coming hours before a cloud darkened the sky. He could read imprints left in the dirt as if they were words from a storybook. But this was so out of his realm that for the first time in his career, he felt on edge. Watching her devolve into blind panic so quickly made him spiral with her.
While she wasn’t screaming anymore, her eyes were wild. It was a look similar to the animals he found whose feet had been caught under fallen rocks — trapped and vulnerable. Only right now, there was no proverbial rock anyone could lift to set her free. But that didn’t mean Agent Mulder wasn’t trying.
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