"Tad?" There's where the bitterness lies, in the awareness that they have a shared resource in Tad O'Malley, and Scully could have screwed him. That work and romance could have gotten tangled, with Mulder watching from the sidelines.
They weren't together at the time. They still aren't really together, they're just less apart. He has no good reason to feel like she betrayed him by even thinking it - but leaving him wasn't betrayal, either, and it had still felt like being eviscerated.
He doesn't want to argue, least of all to argue about a rightwing radio host whose goals occasionally align with theirs. Instead, he makes himself take a breath, the single most useful and annoying of therapy skills. "I didn't do a lot of dating in the 90s, believe it or not. What's similar?"
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They weren't together at the time. They still aren't really together, they're just less apart. He has no good reason to feel like she betrayed him by even thinking it - but leaving him wasn't betrayal, either, and it had still felt like being eviscerated.
He doesn't want to argue, least of all to argue about a rightwing radio host whose goals occasionally align with theirs. Instead, he makes himself take a breath, the single most useful and annoying of therapy skills. "I didn't do a lot of dating in the 90s, believe it or not. What's similar?"