[For a moment, she seems to be considering it. The vague tug of a latent craving pulls at her, but it remains nothing more than vague, and she shakes her head. Even if she had found herself wanting one, she’s done sufficiently many autopsies on sufficiently many smokers as to turn her off to the idea entirely.]
Not since I was an undergrad, but thanks.
[It had been a logical extension of earlier rebellions, a habit acquired from nights on the porch of the family home, smoking her mother’s cigarettes in one of the first, decidedly teenaged manifestations of a rebelliousness that would follow her through the rest of her life. Once she’d been on her own, though, standing nearer the edges of her father’s shadow, the act had ceased to appeal for its own sake, and she’d realised she’d never enjoyed it much in the first place.
In retrospect, probably a good thing. The less that ties her to that chain-smoking bastard the better.
In lieu of accepting a cigarette, she gives the stranger another once-over.]
Do you get to do this often? Give the welcoming speech?
[Both too frequently and too infrequently betray the possibility of an ulterior motive. Scully searches for them out of habit.]
no subject
Not since I was an undergrad, but thanks.
[It had been a logical extension of earlier rebellions, a habit acquired from nights on the porch of the family home, smoking her mother’s cigarettes in one of the first, decidedly teenaged manifestations of a rebelliousness that would follow her through the rest of her life. Once she’d been on her own, though, standing nearer the edges of her father’s shadow, the act had ceased to appeal for its own sake, and she’d realised she’d never enjoyed it much in the first place.
In retrospect, probably a good thing. The less that ties her to that chain-smoking bastard the better.
In lieu of accepting a cigarette, she gives the stranger another once-over.]
Do you get to do this often? Give the welcoming speech?
[Both too frequently and too infrequently betray the possibility of an ulterior motive. Scully searches for them out of habit.]