From: Josephina Chang Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:50:03 -0400 Subject: No Vacancies (1/1) by Eisoj5 Source: direct No Vacancies by Eisoj5 Rating: G Category: V Spoilers: 8th Season Archive: Ask me :) Summary: Scully muses about the difference(s) between Mulder and Doggett. Disclaimer: They're not mine, not mine not mine not mine not mine...I really want them to be...but they're not... "No Vacancies" Doggett has good taste in hotels. With Mulder, it was always some run-down, vacancy sign piercing the empty darkness crap motel with maybe two cars in the parking lot. The motel owners usually had a shotgun behind the desk and sometimes only took cash, cash Mulder handed over courtesy of the FBI expense department. Two rooms, always, two rooms joined by a door that we usually left unlocked. Hopefully there would be no roaches and a TV that worked (and to Mulder's delight, featured a porn channel or at least HBO.) Usually the water ran clear. Sometimes brown. But I packed a bottle or two of my own anyways. Never had anything to eat at these motels, not even those horrible things some places call a Continental Breakfast but is really a couple of hard danishes and a cold cup of coffee. Most often breakfast was a Snickers bar bought for 70 cents out of a vending machine down the hall and a swig out of the aforementioned water bottle, dinner a pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese. Mulder ate most of those pizzas, leaving me a few slices and some of the extra, cold, congealing cheese. But now Doggett, he picks nice places, with carpet that looks like it's actually been cleaned in the last century, moderately friendly hotel managers and, best of all, room service. Two rooms, of course, not always adjoining though. He knows where I am, but I don't have the same sense of needing to be close by that I did with Mulder. I worried about Mulder's sleeping habits, wanted to be there if he awoke after nightmares. Doggett . . . well, I get the feeling if he has nightmares he wouldn't want me sitting there holding his hand through them. We don't order pizza together, and I've certainly never run into his room wearing just underwear and a robe. But despite our lack of closeness, of the intimacy I had with Mulder, Doggett is really a good man. Who has good taste in hotels. It's just . . . he's not Mulder. And there's really something to be said for crappy motels with neon vacancy signs and adjoining doors that never lock. end Author's Note: (Constructive) feedback welcome at jscz@umich.edu, Doggett-bashing emails will be fed to my dragon. Thanks for reading!