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[itstotallyaliens]

He hit one more ball hard enough to rattle the bungee springs that held the backdrop in place. The sound reverberated in time with his jangled nerves, the coiled up feeling inside him that he'd been trying to either ignore or stuff down for most of the day. It had usually meant his intuition was trying to tell him something, that something was wrong, that there was some oddity to be found or waiting to happen... but today, nothing had actually happened, save for the low-grade anxiety, the strange waiting, the constant wariness.

He'd thought Scully would have shown at least an hour ago - or at least, he'd been trying to will her to. So when he stepped aside and flexed his fingers in his batting gloves, his sarcasm bubbled up more strongly than was probably good.

"Oh, I don't know. You're the doctor, how long do you figure a trapezius normally holds out?"

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She understood the waiting, but it was normally waiting for results and diagnosis. When she waited for something it was to clarify and reason, that was the gulf between them. She still thought with an analytical mind.

Dana would have been there sooner had he left some clue of where he'd been. He'd made it a goosechase but in the end she tracked him down. She always would even if it took her a while.

"Given the force of your swings I'd worry more about your rotator cuff, if you've been out here all afternoon you've probably already strained it." Given with all the level tone her dry commentary back to him always was.

She pulled back and let her hands slide into the pockets of her overcoat. "You picked a good spot to hide, should I leave you to it?"