It's a lifetime away but she can see it so clearly, and she laughs, because even if she hasn't done anything like that since college she's sure he's right. Older men in a vacation resort, she could wrap them around her fingers if she wanted to.

And it rings true, it explains some of how he's different. Mulder has always been athletic, but she noticed immediately how he's broadened out. Guiltily she feels a spark of interest, an echo of that time between them-- when she'll have license to have her hands on him whenever she wants.

"And what about the Bahamas?" Other than learning to cook.

Her fingers itch to try her luck touching him.