Fleabag Motel
by Wildy and Starfish
Summary: Turns out Alex writes poetry when he can't sleep. Who'd have thought?
Author's Notes: Another offering for the poetry-lovers in the audience - Hi, SkinnerBox! As before, most of the work is Wildy's. She lets me post it.
Series: IM is a wonderful thing. This is a strange little detour on the Road Trip.
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If you will keep it to yourself
I'll promise in writing that I am stuck with him --
sleeping in the middle of the rather small bed!
I'll be up all fuckin' night
He's a very pretty boy with an incredible mind
but he can be a creep.
Unless you love him, that is.
I know, I went
truly bad
and I missed him there...
He was already gone when I came in,
gone, gone, gone.
I got a lot of nasty memories
but I couldn't let that count
because you die anyway.
All it takes is patience,
but the road not taken
wouldn't have got me here
with him.
Nevermind if my life is legal or not. I'm not proud.
Think about being proud and having to ask
for illegal help all the time when you work with a gun.
But people don't think about that ...
Why should they?
And needs are traitorous...
The world is not set up
to accommodate my kind of --
what is the word I want?
-- but I must ignore that.
Maybe that's good, you see, it makes me ingenious...
That's where the pride comes in,or should.
I'm not too proud to ask for help --
I'm too proud to need it unless I really do.
"Do you need help scrubbing your back?"
And I said no,
then realized Mulder had really been asking
"Can I take a shower with you?"
And I couldn't just go back out and say yes
But then he called me beautiful and it was --
It *was*.
how did I ever get along without any of it?
Like a pain that's so good
you don't want it to stop.
I never grokked S&M before
but now I think I almost do.
I can change a fuse,
I can shoot
and I can make explosives,
and Mulder is in the bed--
flowers I can't refuse
with a bomb in them
I cannot defuse.
It's powerful.
It will take down a wall.
See, I'm thinking I led a very sheltered life.
Finis
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