Drabble #30
by Aloysia VirgataEmail: aloysia.virgata@yahoo.com
Category: Revival
For Separation Anon: I LOVED The Oak and the Cypress. I want more in this universe! (I mean, actually I don't, but if it has to happen, I want you to do it.)
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The worst part is how easily he adapts to her absence. She was right, he's gone all the time anyway. He tucks the ache of missing her deep inside with his other sorrows. He calls her a few times, giving her highlights.
"Stopped at that little diner we liked by Lake Erie," he says. “And I saw the Largest Tinfoil Ball in the Midwest. Thought of you." He scuffs his shoe against the side of an abandoned fertility clinic near Akron.
"Did you make a hat out of it?"
"Nah, this was the cheap stuff. You need heavy duty to keep out the space rays."
"Be safe out there, Mulder."
He's quiet for a long time, just holding on to this connection they have through cell towers and satellites. He hangs up, finally, before he says anything he might mean.