No joke, here are some very good X-Files fics involving April Fools' Day. Enjoy!
April Fool's Day Series by GirlGone
OK, someone challenged me to write a story that wasn't an X-File, a serial killer study, a girlfriend story or a mushy Scully-Mulder romance. I thought about it for awhile and this is what I came up with.
April Fools? by A. Dean
Written in response to Deb's picture challenge from the US magazine.
April Revolution by Foxie Meg
"The streets of Paris are burning once more."
bad ideas in bed by @wtfmulder
Drabble; R; fluff, smut; Scully x Reyes; Prompt: “It’s called a prank.”
Bloody Hell by @baronessblixen
Happy April Fools’ Day! Mulder is just trying to pull a little prank on Scully... it doesn't go well.
Fifth Day in Paradise part 1, part 2 by Kate Rickman
En route to the scene of an X-File, Mulder and Scully are stranded in the snowy wilderness after their rental car breaks down on a deserted road. Instead of finding their way back to civilization, they stumble into a treacherous plot that could cost them their lives. Through it all, Scully struggles to accept her deepening relationship with Mulder.
Folly by @rivkat
Starts in early Season Four; after TFWID, Season Four doesn't happen; instead we take a strange journey into conspiracy, experimentation, and speculation.
Leave A Message by Amanda Finch and Tim Scott
Our favorite agents' terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day or "When Good Pranks Go Bad". (Check your local FOX listings.)
The Man Without A Trace by @syntax6
Insanity
Outrunning Moirae by Jennifer Oksana and FirePhile
Mulder gets his usual vague information from an informant. It leads him across the country into unbelievable government mischief. Meanwhile, as Scully tracks the case from DC, she starts to question everything, including her own identity. Set around season 5.
Wrapped in the Wind Series by RocketMan
This is a Romance with Mulder and Scully and a little baby girl. Much like The Emilys, if you liked those.
This poll is a celebration of fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.
Not expecting much reach on this - I'm not really in the X-Files fandom, but I want to know what the fandoms consensus on Agent Doggett
Note: I'm only at the start of Season 8, so I don't know much about him at this point but I've never seen anything about him from what little X-Files content I end up seeing. Thus, curiosity. I'm assuming most people just ignore him
Celebrate Scully’s birthday with some fics! They’re perfect for reading on February 23 (or any other day, tbh). Enjoy!
Another Year by @how-i-met-your-mulder
Mulder celebrates Scully’s birthday vs Scully celebrates Mulder’s birthday.
A Cabin in the Woods by leiascully (@leiascully)
Mulder and Scully, on the run, stay for a while in a cabin in the mountains in Montana. A series of interlacing vignettes.
Counting Kisses by Lilydale (@lilydalexf)
Mulder and Scully go on a journey of discovery and escalating recognition in season 7, starting with Millennium and running through Je Souhaite. The journey involves a lot of kissing.
The Discount Aisle by Circe Invidiosa (@invidiosa)
a post-Valentine’s ficlet
February 23, 2004 by @spookydarlablack
It’s Scully’s birthday, but she’s not very happy about it. Mulder has a surprise for her.
February 2000 by starwalker42 (@starwalker42)
Mulder and Scully go for a walk. And this time Scully’s birthday present is a bit better than a keychain.
Happy Birthday, Red by @viceversawrites
Mulder drags Scully to the Gunmen’s on a rare Saturday off.
January 7-9, 2000, Part 1, Part 2 by @o6666666
The weekend after Millennium, Mulder gives Scully a very early surprise birthday present. UST, essentially first date fic. General knowledge of Moby Dick recommended but not required.
nereid by @catarinquar
In the cab, she twines her fingers with his. Runs her ice cream-sticky lips over his knuckles, keeps their hands safe in the floral lap of her dress. San Diego like this is all shallow waters, uncharted. / post-orison. mulder takes scully to san diego for her birthday.
Parabiosis by Penumbra
Science and Mysticism conjoin
Scully’s Birthday, Through the Years by @enigmaticdr
A list of Scully’s birthdays from s1 through to s10. Some happy, some angsty, some NSFW - some all three
Snakebitten by onpaperfirst (@onpaperfirst)
season 5. redux ii through pine bluff variant. a chip, a bridge, lies. / Sure, he said. We get along. I would tie a brick to my toe and jump off a bridge without her. We get along.
Straightforwardly by V. Salome (Punk (@seepunkrun) and Sab)
The short version.
Thirty by a_steady_wish
Thirty years since she walked into his office, and he is still in awe of her.
thirty-six by @softnow
scully gets a year older.
Trust in One by Narida Law
Some choices are difficult to make; others just come naturally.
White Winter Hymnal by @aloysiavirgata
She smiles thinly, tightening her scarf. She is thirty four now, older than Christ.
The Winter Vein by Punk (@seepunkrun)
A sliver of ice in a lonely heart.
“Time passes in moments. Moments, which rushing past, define the path of a life, just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop the examine that path? To see the reason why all things happen? To consider whether the path we take in life is our own making, or simply one into which we drift with eyes closed? But what if we could stop? Pause to take stock of each precious moment before it passes? Might we then see the endless forks in the road that have shaped a life, and seeing those choices choose another path?”
Dana Katherine Scully, born February 23rd, 1964 | in/sp