Forever rings: a drabble
@because-they-dont-exist posted this prompt:
I have a fic request for any of you super talented writers if you want to write something sappy: Scully and Mulder getting small matching tattoos on their ring fingers instead of wedding rings? 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Despite my initial reaction, that I didn’t think canon Mulder and Scully would do this, somehow this idea spoke to me and allowed me to write a tiny drabble.
I hope you like it, @because-they-dont-exist! I hope other writers might also try their hand at this prompt. Tagging @today-in-fic because why not.
“Forever rings”: a Drabble in response to the above prompt
Set post-The Truth and during the Revival era. Slightly bittersweet, but hopeful (I hope).
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Ten months into their continental drift, and they are happy. They don’t need much more than each other and enough money to live on, which they have thanks to some pre-planning on Mulder’s part and the odd job that they’ll take in one little town or another. They have become nomads in love, partners in crime, fully cohabiting in each other’s sphere. The pain of the past--abductions, their desperate flight, the loss of their family and friends, and, most especially, William--has been neatly tucked away, only brought out for examination in quiet moments of sadness that they have learned over time to share.
They go about their lives, childless, married as far as the world around them is concerned. The lack of a formal, legal ceremony makes no difference to them. Months ago, to mark the anniversary of their romantic relationship, they purchased a set of inexpensive rings. Barefoot on an Oregon beach, their eyes shone with unshed tears as they quietly promised each other forever.
Tonight, though, perched on a barstool with two and a half drinks in her and her hand settled on Mulder’s thigh, a cheap wedding band is suddenly not enough. She wants to mark her commitment to him permanently on her body. She looks straight at him and suggests matching tattoos, vines intertwined, on their left hand ring fingers. He will do anything for her.
Years later, she refuses to comply with FBI protocol and cover up the tattoo on her hand. They are still married, they are still forever, and they are working their way back to each other. Their boss raises an eyebrow at seeing their hands, but says nothing.
