Title: Static Author: Emily Siazon E-Mail: emily9@erols.com Rating: PG Category: VA Spoilers: None Keywords: Scully/Krycek and a little bit of Mulder/Scully. Feedback: Yes, please! Summary: Scully and Krycek have a little talk after Mulder has ditched her yet again. Disclaimer: All characters belongs to 1013 production, Chris Carter, and FOX. No infringement is intended. ************************************************ FOUND A GOOD LEAD ON THE CONSORTIUM. BE BACK ON TUESDAY. MULDER Scully crumpled the note and blindly threw it across the moonlit room, not caring if it messed up Mulder's already disorganized apartment. Damn him. Damn him for doing this to her. And damn her for falling for it again. Scully wiped off the tear that continued to fall despite her best effort and looked around his coffee table for some clue to his whereabouts. She had hoped that his bad habit of leaving her behind would end once they became lovers. She had fooled herself into believing that that things would actually change because they finally admitted how they felt. What a damn fool she was. "Why do you bother to stay with him?" A familiar male voice suddenly asked her from the darkness, making her realize too late that she hadn't been paying enough attention to her surroundings. "What do you want, Krycek?" "I want to know why you keep running back to him when he keeps treating you like shit. I wanna know what makes him so fucking special that you patiently put up with him time and time. . ." "You know what, I don't really need this right now," Scully interrupted as she turned on the light and found him brooding on one end of Mulder's black, leather couch. "I have more important things to do right now, so save the lecture for someone who actually cares." "It's not a lecture. I'm just trying to understand what Mulder did to have you running at his every beck and call." "How dare you!" she yelled, her attempt at slapping him in the face thwarted by his more agile hand. "I do what I do because I love him. Something I'm sure *you* know nothing about." Krycek looked to have aged ten years right before her eyes. The lines around his eyes became more pronounced and his posture more stooped as he released his tight grip on her wrist. "I know enough about it to know that you're so afraid of losing what you think might be the ONE that you stay in it without actually finding out if life had anything better to offer you. "But life shouldn't be about settling, Scully. It should be about taking risk and making mistakes. It should be about being ninety-five, sitting in you rocking chair and looking back with pride at your triumphs and regrets. It's about being human." "And what kind of mistake do you suggest I make, Krycek?" she asked icily, hoping that the flash of self-doubt she'd felt at his words wasn't obvious. "This," he answered as he roughly pinned her to a nearby wall and forced his lips on hers. Scully felt a sudden heat envelope her body as their tongues collided, dueling for dominance. She had never felt this way with Mulder. Never felt the excited thrill course through her body. Never felt the urge to submit all control. With Mulder, every step was deliberate, thought out. Safe. Nowhere near as exciting as kissing Krycek at all. Then, just as quickly as it had started, Krycek pulled away and looked at her straight in the eye. "You can call that mistake number one." And then he was gone, leaving behind a very aroused but also very confused Scully. END (1/1) *********************************************************** Author's Note: I'm suffering from a bit of writer's block with "Predictable," so I thought I'd write a short Skipper fic to help me get unstuck. Please send feedback to