Andrea

When you realize that The Ghost That Stole Christmas is the first year after Emily died it takes on a new meaning as to why Mulder pushes her to go to the house with him. He knows Scully is going to be surrounded by family who don’t understand and have to put on a front while she’s hurting. He also knows that Scully deals with grief by working so he concocts a fake X file to distract her. I think the ghosts are wrong that he was doing it for selfish reasons and to avoid being alone. While he can be self centered and myopic, Mulder has spent 30+ Christmas eves alone, the only one he tricks Scully into spending it with him is the anniversary of her daughter’s death. I will concede that I’m sure he is also grieving the death of the little girl too and wants to be with Scully, who understands what it’s like to miss someone you barely got to know.

thinking about that time Scully told her friend she thinks Mulder is cute and then went on a date with a random guy, said she wanted a normal life and laughed at Mulder a little bit for not having one but then DUCKED OUT of a date with the random dude from before in order to go someplace with Mulder — TWICE — and then in the very next episode Mulder asks her if she wants to go see the Liberty Bell with him. he was literally taking her on a date.