Waiting (X-Files story)

Fanfiction
Title:	Waiting
Author(s):	Kipler
Date(s):	August 1997
Length:	29K
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Fandom(s):	The X-Files
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External Links:	online here
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Waiting is an X-Files story by Kipler.

Reactions and Reviews

The shortest and least well known of my favorites, Waiting is an eerie Post-Gethsemane fic that was actually written during the S4 hiatus (rather than long after the fact), which is something I love about it. Waiting just...I read it and it stunned me. It's spare, it's vivid, it's creepy, and it's fascinating. I love the way the fic plays with the perception of time and of reality. I love that despite themes of death and grief and dying, the fic's aim is evidently to unnerve you and make you think, rather than to make you cry. And I really love Scully's characterization. First person POV is hard to pull off in fanfic, but in Waiting, Scully's POV is spot on, and a big part of the strength of the fic.

My favorite Kipler fic is “Strangers and the Strange Dead,” which I love unreservedly. While I freely admit this fic doesn’t speak to me in the same way, every other reader I’ve conversed with loved “Waiting,” so here it is. I can only hope she’ll archive it at AO3.