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X-Files Collector's Edition: The Crack Fic Life of One Fox Mulder

The crack fic continues.

I love all of these so, so, SO much-- Mulder crashing in on Scully at all hours of the night with his portals of love, clawing up Skinner's desk when transformed into a fox, laughing with Doggett over the Beverly Hillbillies black oil case, baffling Scully with his atrocious hair care choices, Teletubby-suiting into Area 51 with Scully, having a cheapskate for a mother, troubadouring after his S8 return, and more-- that I cannot recommend them enough.

Loose chronological order below~

Ao3: holograms - Works | Archive of Our Own 

holograms's What the Fox

""Out of what she blames as compulsiveness to comfort, she pets him, taking special care to rub behind his ears.

He seems to like that. He lays his head in her lap, which is fine, it wouldn’t be the first time (she thinks of dark nights in forests while he sleeps with his head in her lap and asks her to sing), but he definitely didn’t purr before.

“This is weird,” she says, and he makes it even weirder by licking her hand.  “Gross, Mulder,” she mumbles, and wipes the fox saliva on his back.""

S5 Scully is stuck with a petulant Mulder (who's been cursed into fox form) while trying to locate the Greek goddess who cursed him (after he mouthed off to her.) The blend between real Mulder and his fox form is staggeringly impressive; and the belly rubs and subtle humor gets me EVERY time.

@spooky-nerd's (Ao3) You Send Me

""She questions him at length while they eat. "What were you doing when it appeared?" He notices that she seems to have conceded the point and wonders if she actually has come to believe him or if she is just biding her time until she's able to come up with an explanation that more neatly fits into the careful, rational confines of her worldview....

"Where did it appear?"

Right in front of him this time. All he'd had to do was slide his feet off the couch and jump in. That gets a reaction from her.

"You didn't think to investigate first before you just ... leapt right in?"

He shrugs and gets a devastating eye roll and head shake combination plus a mutter which is either 'some head of lettuce' or 'so impetuous', both of which he finds incredibly offensive.""

S5? Mulder is portaled into Scully's house over and over and over. Frohike tries to be intercessor; and Mulder uses his heartsick love for good by rescuing his grumpy lady love from a beast dog on a case.

syn's Careless Wishes

""Pendrell came in the room, with Melissa draped over his neck like a living boa. "Forget it guys," he sniffed disdainfully. "She's about a good a cook as she is a doctor."

Deep Throat and *X* winced.""

AU S5-- Scully decides it's a grand idea to bring her dead loved ones back to life with a wish potion; however, Melissa, Pendrell, X, Deep Throat, and Queequeg return to clutter up her apartment and insult her life choices.

eponine119′s Dreamland  

““Hundreds of people every year fall pray to all manner of delusions - believing they are Napoleon, Joan of Arc, Cleopatra...even Elvis.  And they believe in UFOs, too.  Mulder should not  be taking this seriously, I thought. 

"We're close to Dreamland," Elvis told us. 

"Is that your house?"  The sarcasm stung in my mouth.  Graceland, Neverland, Dreamland...why were they looking at me like that? 

"Area 51," Mulder said with relish. 

Suddenly, I wanted to go home.”” 

AU Pre-Dreamland Mulder drags Scully to Las Vegas and finds old man Elvis. She is promptly dumped as Mulder chases after his obsession, apparently losing 6 days when they’re both captured by Morris Fletcher and his goons; and Scully nearly loses it several times while being swamped by reporters and Yappi (who secretly terrifies her.) This is the one and only time Kersh, Diana, and Jeffrey Spender actually help the duo (and the Bureau) out of a pickle. 

Scully's-_laughter's Restricted Area

""How’s the autopsy going, Doc?” Mulder winced internally.

Scully proudly held up the metal blob, smiling.

“I was going for a human heart, but this laser is harder to control than it looks. It resembles Antarctica though, don’t you think? On the map?” She handed the piece of metal to him. “Might make a good key chain.”

Mulder looked like she just gave him an alien with a bow on top. Then he scrambled to put his key ring through the hole. He had no idea what Antarctica looked like on the map.""

AU-- Post Dreamland II Scully is dragged into TLG and Mulder's "raid Area 51" shenanigans... in Teletubby-tech bubble wrapped suits. There are, indeed, lasers; but what's more bothersome is Morris Fletcher's pee stream.

@wtfmulder's (Alt. Tumblr, Ao3) Neuro Nonsense (Ao3)  

""After he found Scully on the floor of his apartment, covered in blood but no wounds save for the psychological ones, everything else was kind of a blur. When he collapsed to his knees beside her, she clung to him so desperately he didn’t know what to do with himself. So he simply held her, urged her to wash herself off, and drove her to the hospital.

When she stepped out of the shower she gave him an odd look, almost judgmental and pitying, but he assumed it was just her processing what happened. She was understandably subdued on the car ride to the ER. She wouldn’t look at him. He decided to give her some space and let her come to him when she was ready.""

Post Milagro Mulder misreads Scully's shock for PTSD. Days later, his 7-in-1 hair treatment is mysteriously replaced.

Alelou's (Xanadu) Continuity Serier 01

""SCULLY: Mulder, I didn't think you were all that fond of your family.

MULDER: It's really strange, Scully. Ever since Mom died, I feel much closer to her. I'm not sure why. I'm beginning to think it was really Connecticut I didn't like, not her. In North Carolina I feel much more connected to the whole family thing.

SCULLY: Mulder, why is your mother buried in North Carolina when your family never lived outside New England?""

AU-- Post All Things Mulder can't reciprocate, revealing his brain disease. Scully immediately turns it into an IVF discussion; and the transcript-style fic continues dissing and lampshading all the other horrendous S7 decisions.

Sab/Sabine/iamsab's Spooky Action At A Distance

""I'm Fox Mulder.

"Agent Mulder, I'm Dana Scully. I've been assigned to work with you," she said, in that way she had of refuting all of my hard-fought beliefs with one toss of her green hair. But I wasn't going to back down, not now, not ever. I'm a private eye. And I'm red-green colorblind, which is part of the reason my eyes are so private. One's red. The other's green. I think. How should I know? I'm colorblind.

"Mrs. Stevens, bring me a cup of coffee, and a towel so the lady can dry off from the rain," I shouted through the misted-glass door, forgetting that I didn't have a secretary or a misted-glass door. Mrs. Stevens returned seconds later and handed me an iced tea.

"Thank you, ma'am," I said, with a tip of the fedora. Mrs. Stevens straightened her stocking and exited through the misted-glass door I still didn't have. I gestured for the dame to sit down.""

Mulder is a quick talkin' noir detective-- slick and cool, living in grays and blacks-- while Scully lives in reality and observes his insanity.

Part 2 is below--

@seepunkrun/Punk Maneuverability (Ao3, Gossamer, DreamWidth)

Spooky Action Bonus Fun Hour

""The case was just like all the others except it involved time travel. I wore my best red/green, green/red, red or green tie. It was the same color as Scully's red-green hair, but it was all grey to me.

The rental car was black. It was a convertible. At the airport I pulled up to the curb alongside the dame in the skirt. Scully frowned and told me not to call her a dame, but she got in the car all the same. I knew she would. She's Scully.

Scully told me she knew who she was.

I told her I wasn't talking to her.""

Part 2 to Mulder's noir detective insanity: Mulder tries to convince Scully they are in the grips of alien time travel shenanigans, dragging her back to Oregon to get revenge on CSM. No revenge is had (or any clear goal or plan for that matter.)

jeri's (mulderscreek) X-Fools 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/

""The head honcho, whose human form reminds me disturbingly of Bill Clinton, speaks up. "Your skills are not needed presently, that is true. However, there's always the possibility that they may be needed in the future." Great. Happy happy joy joy....

^*^*^

I'm led to the control area of the ship; the bridge, I suppose Trekkers would call it. PseudoClinton motions for me to sit in Kirk's chair. I do, though I'm very wary right now.""

Within AU-- The Alien Bounty Hunter did not, in fact, want Mulder; but they form a nice little alliance by using Mulder's reinvigorated brain powers to spy on Krycek's plans. The aliens have a lot of compassion for Mulder, getting him in touch with Scully and FINALLY getting him to clue into his impending fatherhood. Oh, and the head alien, in payment for Mulder's good behavior, asks only one more thing from him: a shrubbery.

Alicia K. s (Alt. Gossamer, FFN) Guitar Hero

""Why does Mulder have a guitar?"

Skinner sighed. "He brought it with him. When the admitting nurse tried to take it from him, he protested. Violently."

Scully watched as Mulder competently strummed the acoustic guitar and sang. He looked happy as a clam.

"That's not Mulder," she announced. "Mulder couldn't play the guitar if his life depended on it.""

S8 AU-- Mulder is returned from his abduction unharmed but armed... with a troubadouring guitar. Scully's annoyance grows when he celebrates her announcement with a song; but it grows even stronger when he keeps TALKING in verse.

David Stoddard-Hunt's Pret' Near Midnight

""Mulder," Doggett said, taken aback by a sudden thought, "if Ms. Drysdale's uncle was like those men we encountered on the oil rig in the Gulf, then he woulda had the ability to infect other people without losin' the contagion himself, like with, uh, like how you found, early on."

"With Krycek," Mulder supplied sourly.

"Yeah," Doggett said mildly, "like with him. That would help to explain a lot of things, for me anyway, about, uh, out west."

"Hollyweird," Mulder snorted.""

S9-- Ellie Drysdale of 'The Beverly Hillbillies' fame calls up Monica and Doggett for help. Doggett and Mulder nearly split their sides laughing until Scully shuts them up with the fierceness of her wrath. Once they're sorted into better behavior, the gang realizes that the black oil was behind old man Drysdale's success the whole time.

Enjoy!