Title:  To Grandmother’s House
Author:  cofax
Email:  cofax7@yahoo.com
Rating:  G
Category:  155-word Scullyfic challenge
Summary:  Truckfic, unbeta'd
Notes:  Life During Wartime, a special gift for the truckfic fans.  
The full series can be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Derby/5520/Wartime.html


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To Grandmother's House
by cofax
December 2001


Scully handles the Jeep deliberately, leaning forward over the steering
wheel.  They're running slowly in complete darkness, creeping southeast
through the West Virginia hills.  Pine branches bat at the windows and
sway in their wake.

For reasons known only to their guide, they must take 340 through Harper's
Ferry.  They will be completely exposed as the road sweeps down through
the Park and over the bridge.

Mulder loads the shotgun and wedges it upright between the seats.  Scully
hands her sidearm to him; he checks the cartridge, snaps it closed, hands
it back.  Then he smooths his hand up her arm, rubbing the back of her
neck with rough fingertips.

She twitches, glances over her shoulder at the sleeper in the back. 
Mulder shrugs; he doesn't much care about privacy now.  But it's one of
the few things she clings to.

Over soon, she thinks.  Over the river and through the woods to the end.


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END

Notes:  many thanks to Sarah Segretti for geographical advice.