[ There are a dozen reasons why traditional family photos don't suit him, but all the opportunities they'd missed with their son loom large over everything else. Sure, posed photos where everyone wears the same outfit and smiles big cheesy grins in a field are for the kinds of people who put LIVE LAUGH LOVE signs in their kitchens. But the real problem is the lie of it: three smiling faces that don't tell the whole truth.
Ever since that day on the road, when William spoke to Scully, Mulder's thought about him. About who he could be, circling their life and waiting for a sign that he's welcome in it. There's no denying that William still loves his mother, still feels a connection with her; even if that connection doesn't exist for Mulder (and whose fault is that?), William might come home to Scully. He needs to know he can.
A long pause here, too, considering the options. The idea of the frames, waiting to be filled, is enticing. The way to translate it to their lives, to say there are holes here even if we're smiling, probably won't be normal enough for Tara and Bill, but they have to be used to that by now. If the alternative is recreating Superman's origin story... ]
Do you want one empty chair or two?
[ They can't forget Emily, even if she'll never come home. ]
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Ever since that day on the road, when William spoke to Scully, Mulder's thought about him. About who he could be, circling their life and waiting for a sign that he's welcome in it. There's no denying that William still loves his mother, still feels a connection with her; even if that connection doesn't exist for Mulder (and whose fault is that?), William might come home to Scully. He needs to know he can.
A long pause here, too, considering the options. The idea of the frames, waiting to be filled, is enticing. The way to translate it to their lives, to say there are holes here even if we're smiling, probably won't be normal enough for Tara and Bill, but they have to be used to that by now. If the alternative is recreating Superman's origin story... ]
Do you want one empty chair or two?
[ They can't forget Emily, even if she'll never come home. ]