Oh, it's rainy and colder here today and this fit so perfectly.

It's strange, how we don't really come to know our parents until we're much older. It's like... we think they didn't exist until we did. It's hard to imagine a world before us. But they had lives before we came along, with all the dreams and struggles and joys life brings.

I'm watching the series over and watched BtS not too long ago. (I'm on the Duane Barry S2 eps now.) But yes, 'Beyond the Sea' remains one of my favorite hours of television, ever. I love Scully's parents and wish we could've seen more of them.

Thanks also for giving a window into what he really did think of Scully's path. Her desperate longing to know in the episode still moves me and tears at my heart.

But everything you've said here? Even if he didn't, couldn't say it, we knew. And so did she.