Author: Laura Jacquez Valentine (laurav@stones.com)

Title: Seven Days, Seven Sins

Archive: Archive/X, Gossamer

Codes: M/Sk

Rating: R, for language.

Summary: Skinner is all angsty.  Slash.  No sex.

Disclaimer: Fox/1013/CC.  Not me.  Definitely not me.



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**Wrath**



Today, I am angry with him.  Today, I could kick his ass from here to 

Timbuktu.  Today, I want nothing more than to break him, break him into

pieces, send the pieces home to his mother in a cardboard box.



Today, the fantasies of how to hurt him run close to the surface.



Today, I give full vent to my feelings and watch him flinch from me--he

who never flinches.  Today, Scully scatters before me like leaves in the 

wind.  Today, she cannot shield him from me.



Today, I want to go after him with my fists, drive him bloody before me,

leave him unconscious on the floor.





**Avarice**



Today, I don't recognize myself.  Today, I am clutching at things which

will ensure physical comfort: sex, money, shelter.  Today, I can't think

of what else to do besides want.



Today, I covet.  Today, that is all that I am.



**Sloth**



Today, I don't give a good god damn.



**Pride**



Today, I don't need anyone's help.  Today, I can get through this on my

own.  Today, Mulder can take his offers of assistance and shove them

up his ass.



Today, I'm doing just fine on my own.  Today, I won't give in to the

nightmares.  Today, I won't jerk off in the shower.  Today, I won't

drink when I get home.



Today, I won't be tempted.



**Envy**



Today, I won't wish I was Scully.  Today, I can deal with their

adjoining rooms.  Today, I will concentrate on the conference and not

worry about whether they're fucking.  Today, I will not bite her head 

off because she's beautiful.



Today, I won't poison her coffee so I can comfort him.



**Gluttony**



Today, I won't stare at him for hours on end.  Today, I will simply

enjoy his company as we share the hotel gym.  Today, I will not notice

how good he looks naked.



Today, I could eat him for lunch.  Today, I could let myself go and

devour him.  Today, I wonder how he tastes.



**Lust**



Today, I swear I'm going to snap and fuck him on a conference table.



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The End.