#i havent read fanfic in a while
Prompt: “watch me” from this list.
Teen & Up || Fluff, UST, tipsy Scully, Early-ish season || 1990 words
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Right around 9pm, she passed the line—or more accurately, tripped over it, from delightfully tipsy to drunk.
Having both agreed, after a tough year—several of their cases in which one or other of them had been maimed and/or nearly killed—they went to the staff Christmas Party. Together. It was Mulder’s idea. Scully, more hesitant. Truth be told, it was a perfect excuse for Mulder to see her outside of work. A ready-made ‘date’. Though he would never dare call it that.
Aside from cursory greetings to other agents, they spent most of the evening, heads close, chatting above the music. At first, about case files, then the conversation morphed to more personal topics, evolved steadily, with their growing drinks tally.
A few hours in and Scully returned from the ladies with a glint in her eye and two shot glasses. There was a determination about her as she placed the drinks on their table.
“Okay,” she declared, “let’s get drunk.”
