"If you want to," and he means yes, of course, please, but there's too much doubt in him these days.
It's not hard to believe that she wants to be here. When Scully doesn't want something, you'll be hard-pressed to get it from her, and she opened up to his touch like she'd been waiting for it for years. More difficult is the idea that she wants to be here with him. Not the Mulder she knew in the 90s, whose face she's presumably been superimposing over his own. With him.
But she asks, and it's not like his answer was ever going to be no. He lies there as he couldn't allow himself to before, letting her observe and touch as she wants. He's older, softer, built like a man who gets his muscle through hard work rather than forty-minute workouts, and he can't get it up. But if that's what she wants, she's welcome to it.
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It's not hard to believe that she wants to be here. When Scully doesn't want something, you'll be hard-pressed to get it from her, and she opened up to his touch like she'd been waiting for it for years. More difficult is the idea that she wants to be here with him. Not the Mulder she knew in the 90s, whose face she's presumably been superimposing over his own. With him.
But she asks, and it's not like his answer was ever going to be no. He lies there as he couldn't allow himself to before, letting her observe and touch as she wants. He's older, softer, built like a man who gets his muscle through hard work rather than forty-minute workouts, and he can't get it up. But if that's what she wants, she's welcome to it.