[Delivered with a casualness that suggests this is all quite par for the course by now. If anything, in fact, it sounds as though she's a bit bored, which in a way is true. The work can't ever be said to be boring, insofar as it matters, insofar as there are lives to be saved and all of that nonsense Scully would like to have let go of here but hasn't been able for a moment, but it's not quite on the same scale as the work back home was. There's no sense of being on the front line, of doing something that matters in a way that nothing anybody else was doing mattered. Maybe that's why, in spite of herself, Scully has been considering picking up work on the side, something more along the lines of what she used to do. Only... only she doesn't have Mulder's audacity, his relentlessness, least of all his willingness to permit himself to be made laughable as long as there was someone who was willing to believe and as long as it helped the people it was meant to help. Scully, shamefully (and there of course the irony), is not nearly shameless enough.]
You know, I think I'll have to stop by the museum sometime. I've been meaning to brush up on my history.
[A wry smile.]
This place isn't quite like my home either. I'd like to know where I stand.
[Whether or not what's presented there is true is, of course, another matter, but the fact that it's presented at all marks it as in some way important, and therefore worth exploring.]
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[Delivered with a casualness that suggests this is all quite par for the course by now. If anything, in fact, it sounds as though she's a bit bored, which in a way is true. The work can't ever be said to be boring, insofar as it matters, insofar as there are lives to be saved and all of that nonsense Scully would like to have let go of here but hasn't been able for a moment, but it's not quite on the same scale as the work back home was. There's no sense of being on the front line, of doing something that matters in a way that nothing anybody else was doing mattered. Maybe that's why, in spite of herself, Scully has been considering picking up work on the side, something more along the lines of what she used to do. Only... only she doesn't have Mulder's audacity, his relentlessness, least of all his willingness to permit himself to be made laughable as long as there was someone who was willing to believe and as long as it helped the people it was meant to help. Scully, shamefully (and there of course the irony), is not nearly shameless enough.]
You know, I think I'll have to stop by the museum sometime. I've been meaning to brush up on my history.
[A wry smile.]
This place isn't quite like my home either. I'd like to know where I stand.
[Whether or not what's presented there is true is, of course, another matter, but the fact that it's presented at all marks it as in some way important, and therefore worth exploring.]