Well, after reading all this argument about the story I hadda go check it out for myself...
And Teand, I couldn't help but notice that you share a website with one of the authors, so is it possible there's some personal element there for you as well
Anyway...I have to agree that it needed more resolution. Not that it was a bad story...there were a lot of things I liked about it very much. The beginning was terrific, for instance, lots of tension and suspense. And I did like the K/Sc relationship, although IMHO there was a bit too
much resolution there. I mean on the show she can hardly stand him and now they're chatting away about boyfriends like Carrie & Mir on SATC?
You say it starts and ends with Krycek & Scully, so it's a complete cycle. Okay, yeah...that part
was complete. But there's a whole lot that happens in the middle that wasn't. A lot of the story was told in Mulder's POV, and there's a
lot that happens between Krycek and Mulder, too much not to be resolved in some way. What happens for instance with Mulder's sudden psychic ability. It disappears as suddenly as it comes...or as soon as
he comes
Also, this might sound harsh, but...this is slash. Nobody is coming to read it primarily to see Krycek and Scully become BFF. The title, the events in the story...it sets you up to think that something is going to happen between Mulder and Krycek. I didn't expect to see them picking out curtains togehter. But it needs something between them, some moment where you know things have changed.