F6: Chanukah

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Following on from the hotly discussed question: "Is Mulder Jewish?" here is the beginning of an X-file case that could form part of your programming:

Scully walked through the door, casually throwing her overcoat on a convenient chair that was already littered with mysterious odds and ends. Mulder's phone invitation to a Chanukah party had already peaked her curiosity to the highest level possible. It wasn't very much like Mulder throw a party.

"Happy Chanukah, Mulder" she said handing her partner a wrapped up present, containing a box of doughnuts. "Enjoy them". She grinned at him and walked into the kitchen to get a plate and serviettes.

One the table she noted a miniature candelabra that Scully thought looked vaguely familiar. She bent over to examine it closely. It was a menorah.

"What's this, Mulder? A menorah for your Barbie doll?"

"Nope. I've retired my dolls for tonight. This is for us!"

He opened a kitchen drawer and retrieved a box of equally tiny candles. "In keeping with our new interest in religion I bought this today". He picked up the menorah and held it two inches from his nose.

"It is small, isn't it? I think it's supposed to be a kid's menorah, but I thought it was cute. Anyway, tonight we light just two candles. You can pick the colours."

"Gee, thanks"!

He handed Scully the box. Inside were candles in various colours: blue red, green, yellow and white.

Scully laughed to herself at the notion of Mulder buying something "cute". She pulled one green and one red candle out of the box, picking Christmas colours deliberately to tease him, but then turned serious. "Can I light one?" she asked, looking up at his face.

"Scully, you can light my fire anytime." Mulder answered back, demonically raising an eyebrow at her. He placed one candle on top of the Menorah and the other on the far side. Scully listened patiently as Mulder gave her a whizz-bang explanation of the Chanukah Miracle. He handed her some matches and instructed her on how to light the candles.

"Do I say some type of prayer?" She asked hesitantly, as she put a match to the top candle.

"We'll skip the prayers. I'm not sure I remember them. Anyway, I want to show you something very curious about this candle..."

"Oh, there always has to be something, Mulder. Can't ever just nice and cute. Some mystery somewhere." She was annoyed becase she had genuinely thought Mulder had been creating a nice evening.

"Look, just light in the manner I instructed and you'll see what I mean"

"I Don't want to do this, Mulder"

"Special Agent Scully. This is your job. Light"

Scully lit the match and moved nevously towards the candle. Timidly she paced a match to the top when...

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