TITLE:  I KNOW
AUTHOR:  Bonetree
SPOILERS:  None
SUMMARY:  Mulder in 155 words

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He sits at his desk, his hand on his forehead, dark hair pushed back.  I have 
sat here for hours, but I can't help but look at his shoulders, the juts of 
bone like wings through his shirt's rumpled back.  The faint smell of sweat 
from a day's fruitless work.

So I go to him, moving slowly.  My hands settle on his shoulders, the back of 
his neck.  He does nothing.  Then I lean down to the skin beneath his ear, my 
cheek rubbing there and my lips taking the lobe between them, tongue 
smoothing.  

The pen goes down, and I feel a intake of breath.  He says my name, and then: 
"I'm so tired."

My arms go beneath his to the pearled buttons of this shirt.  More skin, the 
darkness over his heart.  His warm belly.  The line of soft black hair that 
leads to his sex.   

I have followed it before.  I know.