Rating: PG-13 Classification: Story, MSR, Adventure, Post-Col Archive: Yes. Just let me know. Spoilers: Anything through "Requiem" is fair game. Anything after season 7 never happened. Keywords: Summary: DISCLAIMER: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and anyone else you recognize don't belong to me. They belong to Chris Carter, 1013 Productions, Fox Broadcasting, and, I like to think, the fine actors and actresses that have brought them to life. Anyone that's a complete stranger is mine. They are used without permission, but no infringement is intended, and no money is being made. Suing me would be a waste of time. I haven't got anything you'd want. FEEDBACK: Yes, please. This is my first fic. Good, bad, or indifferent, if you read it, I'd be thrilled to hear from you. lynnl10@comcast.com AUTHOR'S NOTES: During summer hiatus between Season 6 and 7, my husband was watching a rerun of Tithonus, when I came tromping in from a late softball game. While I *think* at first he was going to scold me for wearing my cleats into the house, instead he just said, "If Scully were alive in 200 years, she'd still play baseball." To which my first reaction was, "Well, that's not *all* she'd be doing..." It got me to thinking. This is the result. I'd like to give a belated (and huge) thanks to Duck and Bugs, who gave great advice as beta readers. Unfortunately, life intervened, and given the size this turned out to be, I never found time to do the end-to-end editing that it really deserves. Considering that while waiting to find the time to do the editing, over two years have passed without publishing this beastie, I finally just decided to set it loose as is.