Enantiomers
After Scully came out of surgery, Mulder was there waiting in her hospital room for her.
Mulder whispered her name to her, and Scully's eyes fluttered open at the sound. She smiled, a loopy, close-mouthed greeting, and clumsily waved a hand towards him. He caught it, and wrapped his fingers around hers. This was their secret handshake borne of heavy emotion and long hospital hours passed by the other’s bedside.
Here, Mulder and Scully's fingers claimed and held each other's, as if at the center of some sort of an interlocking spiral. Scully chuckled lowly, and then spoke indistinctly, murmuring to him. He leaned in to hear what she said.
"We're chiral, you'n'me."
"Chiral?" He asked. "As in the mathematical concept of two mirror images, whose objects are not superposable upon each other?
"Mhmph."
A flutter warmed Mulder's chest. Scully. Only she could describe what he felt in such a mathematical metaphor. His affection for her bloomed every day.
"Like hands, y'see." Scully shifted, unwrapped her fingers from around his until they met palm to palm. His hands, much larger than hers, dwarfed hers in size, and yet Scully looked at them as if there was a magic to the two of them. As if what had only been appendages were now a synchrony. "If our hands tried to occupy the same space in the same direction, they wouldn't be symmetrical. But when pressed together like this... the symmetry reveals itself. You're my reflection, Mulder."
Startlingly Mulder felt near to tears. He took her hand between both of his and pressed a slow kiss to her palm, and then her hand to his heart. He admitted, "I know."
She smiled up sleepily at him. He leaned in to press a kiss to her forehead, and settled at her bedside to sit her vigil.
Scully, as ever, recontextualizing his world with her presence and her science. Scully and Mulder, as if they were two molecules, expanding the known definitions of partner.
(Ao3) Is it okay to dedicate a drabble to your mutuals? I have decided that it must be. Dedicated to @sentientsky and @actual-changeling, who encourage and inspire me <3
Awww man!! This is sooo them and sooo cute!!!
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