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[randomfoggytiger]

X-Files Collector's Edition: It's a Funny, Funny World in MSR Land

Not all is doom and gloom for Mulder and Scully; in fact, things can get downright knee-slapping. Scully catching Mulder in all his quirks (in his office on holiday, Bigfoot compilation tapes, and cranberry bog spiders) and Mulder seeing Scully unguarded (loopy or caught out on eating all the office chocolates) are fics worth reading.

Loose chronological order below~

@mldrgrl's  (Ao3) Wise Up

""Scully opened her eyes and stared blankly at the woman standing above her.  She sat up slowly with the nurse’s help and then Mulder crouched down and put a hand on her knee.  Her right cheek was puffed up, full of cotton swabs that poked out of the corner of his mouth. The size of her pupils caught him off guard, so dilated her eyes almost looked black.

“Muller,” Scully murmured.  “My mowf ish mishing.���

“Your mouth is missing?""

Set sometime after the Skinman name drop and the Lazarus Bowl movie disaster, Mulder takes care of a loopy Scully after her wisdom tooth removal surgery-- many hilarious moments are had, including "who's Queequeg?", prodding her mouth constantly, and Mulder trying to just get Scully to bed.

Jamie Greco's Truth or Dare

""...Now, who goes first?"

"I do."

"Why?"

"Beauty before age."

"Ouch.""

Scully is a taskmaster to Mulder during their Truth or Dare game while on a stakeout.

Juliettt's Verdict

""She swivelled in her chair to meet Mulder's eyes. He gazed at her for a moment and then lifted his eyebrows and nodded slightly. She flashed him a smile and turned back to the agent standing hopefully in the hallway.

"Okay, Halle. Come on in."

A wide grin broke over the agent's face and he swung the door open.

The next few moments were a flurry of activity as men and women dressed in suits poured into the room and took up positions around the small television set up on the light table.""

Agents from the upper floors swarm the basement to catch the OJ Simpson trial verdict. Even Skinner joins.

Dawn/sunrise83 (Ao3, Gossamer) Trivia Pursuits (Ao3)

""You know? Mulder, this has been missing for two years. It's the best one I've ever had; I turned my apartment upside down looking for it. The one I replaced it with cost twice as much and works half as well."

"Sorry, Scully. I intended to give it back, but I kept forgetting."

"What were you doing with it in the first place?"

"Remember when I broke my arm falling from that fire escape?""

Mulder is bored on a stakeout and Truths or Dares (without the Dare) Scully into confessing an embarrassing Skinner dream. But she gets extra delight from finding out he'd been beaten up by Winnie the Pooh. Much sad and sappy anecdotes are shared as well.

Pattie's

President's Day Ambush

""The best thing about this day in the office was that Scully wouldn't be shaking her head wondering why he was going through all those "outrageous claims and delusional, hysterical people mesmerized by science fiction." He thought after all these years and everything she had seen even under the microscope she would stop the remarks. Especially her "concern" that he was obsessed with "things that could easily be explained possibly by science, and if not in the present, some day when science became even more advanced." Finally, some time to be there and do what he had missed doing these past few months. Sometimes, he even did this on Saturdays.""

Scully drags Mulder out of the office, refusing to let himself sniggle out of his mandated holiday.

Mulder's Penance

""I have been regressed by a controversial therapist, bound and gagged, subjected to horrible experiments in Tunguska, taken to the far corners of the Earth and even slugged by someone who looked amazingly like my partner during a wild ride in the Bermuda Triangle, transported to the past.

Why is it that right now, as I shampoo the carpet of my car for the twentieth time, I feel I am truly in Hell itself?""

Mulder forgot to escort Scully to a wedding, and so gets obligated to a kid's birthday party instead. Much food poisoning and misery has both of them running for the hills.

Vice Verses 01

""Let's see how many vices I have. And since I have nothing else to do since Scully is visiting her brother and sister-in-law, and nothing new has crossed my desk, I may as well take stock. I'm sure Scully has taken them all into account and memorized them in that beautifully packaged brain of hers anyway. I'd better get this down on paper. Just to see what I can dig up. Might come in handy for my New Year's Resolutions.""

Mulder decides to write his quirks down. This will not end well.

Vice Verses Encountered

""Maybe she won't find it. She has the file. Good. She shoves the file drawer closed and she's turning to walk toward me with that case file. She's on her way and... Something just fell out of that folder, and I recognize it. I stand and begin to walk over to her... "I'll get that, Scully!" She can't see it. She can't. I have my pride.

"Relax. I'll get it. If you've got a headache, you sure don't need to bend down and make it worse." She's smiling and I am now dreading her reading that piece of paper.""

Scully tortures Mulder over his list for a bit until he threatens her with the dirt he has on her.

Skinner Meets Vice Verses

""Well, this was just too good to pass up, and the occasion called for a sit down. So, Skinner read away sitting in Mulder's chair.

"Good thing I don't answer to that cigarette smoking buzzard," he thought. "Mulder actually admitting his vices? Sure MUST have been a slow day."

As he read the heading, he started to chuckle.""

A bored Skinman and an incriminating list by Mulder are two combinations that poor old Spooky could only hope was a nightmare.

CSM Reads Vice Verses

""At this time of night, no one would be here. Besides, he knew that Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were both at home. It was time to see what the dear boy and his partner had been up to lately, without Skinner's help this time. That would prove somewhat harmful to Skinner later, but then it was business as usual for the Cigarette Smoking Man, as he had become known to Mulder and Scully.

He had no problem unlocking the office door. Again, "Access". The desk had actually been dusted! "Don't tell me you're getting domestic on me, boy. Maybe the cleaning staff took the opportunity since your desk is clear." Usually, there were files, pencils, 'post-it' notes and sunflower seed shells scattered over the top of the desk.""

The ultimate indignity, even if CSM won't do anything with Mulder's professions of inadequacies.

The Day Mulder Put Bill in His Place

""Boys? Are you being good?" I shouted, trying so hard not to giggle and wet myself.

"Yeah!" they shouted in unison.

Mulder added, "Just giving your brother a history lesson."

"Creative history!" Bill called back.""

AU-- Mulder and Scully have a family, the support of the FBI, and friends for Thanksgiving... and that, of course, isn't enough for big brother Bill. All ends swimmingly between the two guys.

veryygirlfriendfoxmulder/sohmer's Unnamed Florida Man fic (Alt.)

""Mulder shakes his head, snorting. “You mean to tell me that there are multiple men in Florida performing the same bizarre crimes? That the man who tried to rob the brother’s CVS with a water nozzle is a different person from the one who killed their husband with a squirrel?""

Mulder in convinced in the entity that is Florida Man. Scully remains unconvinced and incredulous.

@spookyscullies's (WBM) Scully finds one of Mulder's "tapes"

""The way his eyes had twinkled and the quick spread of his grin when she mentioned the loss of her keys made her suspicious.

His closing statement on the subject was “it’s our next X File, Scully”, to which she replied only with a playful glare. 

Nevertheless, here she was, fifteen minutes later, absolutely clueless to where her keys may have gone. Another realm? Maybe in Mulder’s world, but scientifically impossible in her own. They had to be here somewhere, but where?""

Mulder's tapes are more egregious than Scully thought-- it's a Bigfoot dance video.

Cornerofmadness's Just Another Night in a Cemetery

""I’m not digging up a grave, Mulder,” she protested. “And what does this have to do with disappearing pigs?”

“They can project their spirit self as a pig to drain others until they have managed the entire self-cannibalism.” He dug a river rock the size of her fist out of his pocket and handed it to her. “Here. I’ll dig. You keep the light on the grave.”

He made it sound so easy but it wasn’t of course. It took him well over an hour of back-breaking work to move the soft earth off the vault only there wasn’t one. Whoever this was had opted for a more green burial, just a coffin in earth and that meant no embalming. By now she should be able to smell the person but she couldn’t. The sounds of chewing had stopped but that only made her more nervous.""

Scully is, once again, surprised that Mulder deduced that magical pigs are a sign of a German, shroud-eating vampire. He gives her the honor or stuffing a rock in its mouth.

The Meet Up

""Do you know why Mulder called us here?” Frohike asked as he and the rest of the Lone Gunmen caught up with Dana in the hallway to Mulder’s apartment.

“Alien invasion?” Langly’s eyes glinted. “Wendigos in Central Park? The Green-clawed beast in Evansville?”

“It could be the Grassman in Gallipolis,” Frohike added.

Dana didn’t know how they kept all that nonsense in their heads or more importantly why. She guessed it was like medical school and memorizing all the muscles of the body. Only it was a lot more useless than knowing the origin and insertions of the sternocleidomastoid. Mulder and the Gunmen would argue that point.

“I’m more interested in why we had to pick up a bucket of hot wings and Doritos.” Beyers hefted a grocery bag.""

Scully and TLG are invited impromptu-style to Mulder's for breadsticks and football. They all shrug and join good-naturedly.

@starbuck09256's (Ao3) Trick or treat?

""Mulder steps beside me and his glowing flashlight shines into a distant hallway that he surely doesn’t intend for us to go down. But then he grins that grin, the one that turns my rational and reasonable senses to mush and causes me to follow him into the darkness and search out its’ secrets. 

“Mulder, this doesn’t look structurally sound, at all” but his back is facing me and he turns and makes that face the one that dares me to back down and I can’t I can’t not go after him, not follow him.""

Scully is both amused and very NOT amused by Mulder's hijinks in a faux haunted house. Both are horrified that the rat was real.

syn's Halloween Confection (Gossamer)

""Yes, I do have a confession, Mulder," said Scully, logging off her computer and looking up.

Mulder crossed his arms over his chest with a smirk. "I'll bet you do."

"I confess that last night I made an amazing discovery."

"What? That Special Dark isn't as bad as you remembered it to be?"

"No, Mulder. Last night, as I worked late in the office, I discovered that aliens *do* exist," she said calmly.

Mulder blinked. "Excuse me?""

The missing chocolate is definitely not Scully's fault; in fact, she was witness to little outer space creatures fly in under her nose and steal them. Mulder listens to her proclaim her innocence with increasing amusement.

Ten's (Gossamer) Scully Gets Fed Up With Being the Ditch Witch

""Well?"

"Well..." He shrugged, turning off the heater, pulling his suit jacket and trenchcoat back on as she began angrily zinging it back and forth on the chain, "How do you feel about seeing what sort of meals they do here?"

Scully let go of her sign of faith. "Good idea." She came up beside him and took her other hand out of her pocket as he opened the door. Click!

"HEY!" Mulder jerked his arm away - well, as far as he could get. They were handcuffed together.

Her smile was triumphant, cat-like. "Not this time, Mulder.""

Sometime S3-4 Scully is NOT getting left behind by Mulder-- she straight up cuffs herself to him, forcing him to meet Marita with a plus one. She keeps them both interlocked through his mission; but, unfortunately for them both, she loses the key when the guns are pulled out to prevent the duo from breaking and entering a building. Skinner doesn't even want to know.

S3-4/INTP given tip by Marita/ISTJ cuffs herself to him to prevent ditch/break into building still cuffed/his badge caught bullet/ENTJ unamused to bail them from prison/ISTJ sneaked evidence into blouse/not ditching-- Gossamer | Story: "Scully Gets Fed Up With Being the Ditch Witch" by Ten 

myssbrokethefall's Unnamed Cranberry Bog Spiders

""She rolls her eyes, flicks a few more spiders off her, toddler-marches out of there after him with her dignity mostly intact, thanks the farmers for their time, takes their cranberry-jelly samples that they were given by the farmers who ... weren’t sure what the polite thing was, and lets Mulder explain emphatically to her in the car about how this lead is a dead end and it has NOTHING to do with the spiders, it’s just, he’s tired of being jerked around by these know-nothing sources, Scully, why do they want to keep the truth from him UGH WHAT IS IN MY HAIR oh it’s a leaf UGGHHH LET’S JUST GO STRAIGHT TO THE AIRPORT SCULLY, EVEN THOUGH OUR FLIGHT ISN’T TIL 7:30, I’VE HAD IT WITH THIS CASE."" 

Mulder NOPES out of a case involving cranberry bog spiders; and misses the bog monster while at the ren faire with Scully.

Ebonbird's

Cooking With Mulder 01 - Nuking With Mulder

""Cool, hunh?" Mulder said, proud of the look of disgust on her face.

"This is so, so---"

"Evocative of a fatter, less-culturally aware America?"

"Girly." Scully supplied, as she jumped down to the floor with an incriminating package in her hand. "What are you doing with five cartons of pink coconut covered marshmallow puffs in your cupboard?"

"Would you believe getting in touch with my feminine side?"

Scully snorted.""

Scully is horrified that Mulder thinks dessert is a microwaved Hostess dessert... but even more so that it tastes too delicious.

Cooking With Mulder 02 - Trifling Hero

""Whining a most masculine and understated whine, Mulder banged his heel against the coffee table edge until he shucked the remaining shoe off and away from him. Like its fellow, it fell to the rug with a dull thud (which was more like a sharp thwap, actually).

Mulder, content to wiggle all ten of his toes, sat there for several long moments, wiggling his toes.

As he sat, he realized that he could sit like that, wiggling and or wriggling his toes, for a very long time.""

Mulder wants Scully to admire his cool and casual couch slouch so much he invites her over. She brings ice cream to aid their culinary Poptarts.

Linda61's Buzz

""Walking towards Mulder's apartment, number 42, she suddenly heard a horrible, frightening scream. And that scream came from Mulder's apartment. Doors flew open, heads popped out, wondering what was going on. Some rude remarks were made by his long suffering neighbors.

"Oh no, not again", someone muttered, rolling their eyes. And then the doors slammed closed again.""

Scully races to Mulder's apartment after she hears his scream-- neighbors are highly unimpressed.

AUs

Ten's

A Chip Off the Old Fox

""I hurry for the door and undo the locks and open it to reveal that Mulder looks even worse in the flesh. "Hi," he manages quietly, shuffling past me, his head nearly slumped against his chest.

Langly is staring at his red-rimmed eyes and hair that is sticking out like the Statue of Liberty's crown. "...what happened - you get robbed? Or jumped by Scully as you headed out the front door, wanting a different kind of stick-up?"

Mulder stares at him vaguely, as if trying to place him, then a light goes on in his brain. "Danny's teething again."

"So you didn't get much sleep last night?" I ask.

"Tuesday," Mulder says with all seriousness. "I'm pretty sure I got ten minutes solid sleep on Tuesday. That was good."

Today's Friday.""

Mulder and Scully are new parents in the throes of their son's first round of teething. TLG greatly pity zombie Mulder during their guy game night; but are accidentally roped into sitter care after Scully drops the baby for an emergency.

The Joys of Boys

""THUD! THUMP! SLAM!

Of course, who needed an alarm clock with six boys in the house? And by the sound of things, they were all up and out of the game room and sitting room. In the kitchen... Which was right below the main bedroom.

He could only see the back of his wife's head, but he could hear her eyes snap open.""

Mulder is babysitting his rambunctious kids and nephews solo-- and gets injured because he's accident prone. Scully's panic dissipates when she's told that the boys are holding an unused diaper to his head as a "band aid."

Enjoy!

[lilydalexf]

Hey hey you are amazing and I love your fic recommendations. I'm on a facebook group and someone is asking about a fic where scully time travels back to mulder while he is working for vice. Do you know this one? All of us and stump and pretty eager to read it. Thank you so so much for any help.

That X-Files fic does not sound familiar to me. After a little searching the best I could come up with is Wicked Game by Mulderist1013 (@mulderist), but it's missing the big piece of time travel. It is a historical AU WIP with the summary: Washington, D.C - 1948. Fox Mulder is a detective on the top vice unit; scandal, corruption, and lies come with the territory. He is forced to investigate a fellow officer and finds the lies go much deeper than the truth.

If someone has another guess for what this fic might be, please let us know!

(And thank you for the nice words!)

[mldrgrl]

What happens after Mulder gets scully back in irresistible? For a fun prompt

Pretty much, this: That Was Then, This is Now

[leiascully]

@starbuck09256 replied to your post “@perplexistan replied to your post “@perplexistan replied to your...”

I love dearest Dana it shows another side that we as viewers didn’t get to see I think.

I mean,, there’s a softer side, and then there’s a bridge too far.  We’ve seen him be sweet with her before and it’s not “Dearest Dana”.  That���s just not how they interact.  I think this is all part of the long post I made yesterday about how they’re not a traditional couple, but that kind of super-saccharine language just isn’t them to me.  They operate on a different level.  They use phrases that are incredibly meaningful to them, but might not be to someone else.  Just “Dana” would tell us all we needed to know about how much he missed her.  “Dearest Dana” is something that’s so wildly over the top it feels out of character.

[fragilevixenfic]

My AO3 Fanfiction Links (Current)

“I’ve never really thought about making a “Master List” of my own work but I figured, now is the time to do so. If any of the links are incorrect just let me know. I fix. 

Adding in a “keep reading” tab because the list is starting to get long and intense.

Each fic is categorized and easily referenced. I’ll update as I go.

X Files

Series

Into The Shadows

XII (COMPLETE): A serial killer targets victims and leaves behind symbols of his affection -- but who is his intended target and what will it take to discover the truth? (This has a lot of trigger warnings)

Dance In The Dark (ONGOING Chapters 12/? Posted **UPDATED):  With the continuing murder trial of Miles, Mulder, Scully, and Max are confronted by the VCU with a case that seems to be mimicking the pattern by their, now infamous, psychopath on trial.

Echoes and Whispers

Parallel (COMPLETE):  The aftermath of the three little words that Mulder says to Scully in his hospital bed after being rescued from the Queen Anne as it re-appeared in the Bermuda Triangle...and the strange connection that Scully starts to feel to a memory that Scully couldn't possibly have.

Only The Night (ONGOING):  Mulder and Scully begin their undercover assignment as an engaged couple with the assistance of Skinner at the University of Maryland to catch a serial rapist, putting their newly formed physical bond to the test in this sequel to “Parallel”.

Casefics

Falling Away (COMPLETE):  Kersh’s assignment partially splits the team as Scully goes undercover under the watchful eye of Mulder as they both assist on an operation with SWAT and FBI personnel. (A gift for Greta)

Veritas se revēlet (COMPLETE):  (The title is roughly translated to let the truth be revealed in Latin) An impromptu wild goose chase leads Mulder and Scully to the drifts of a winter-locked Tonopah, Nevada—where a little more than the embodiment of Mulder’s imagination takes shape between the walls of the Mizpah Hotel in the dead of winter. (A gift for @monikafilefan)

She Walks at Night (COMPLETE):  Mulder’s knack for getting himself and Scully into sticky situations leads them to the heart of NOLA at the tail end of Hurricane season after barely surviving a Floridian storm—to investigate a rumor of a notable Voodoo Queen and missing girls trying to bring her back. (A gift for @starbuck09256)

Intrigues in the Dark (COMPLETE):   A string of suicides leads Mulder and Scully to a sleepy, coastal town in Oregon for the second time—on their return to The X File—as tensions run high and nothing is as it seems. (A gift for @admiralty-xfd)

By Light, Unseen (COMPLETE):   A series of re-opened cold case murders with one link…they’d been drained of every drop of blood and wore the same, haunting stare toward the sky with their lips aghast as if they were still screaming. (A gift for @serahsanguine)

Post-Series

A House is Not a Home (COMPLETE):  The mere thought of raising a newborn in a world full of horrors has every part of Scully’s emotional irrationality over firing on a chilly, winter evening. Mulder wants nothing more than to show her that not everything is gray and grim. (for @danceswithcybermen)

Remember the Reason (COMPLETE):  Post Series (Part 1 of the “Little Redhead Series”). Mulder and Scully already knew that life with a newborn would be difficult but the first Christmas with their two-month-old daughter throws every curveball…some worse than others, some more humorous. (For @underworldobsessed)

Confectioners Sugar & Snow Drifts (COMPLETE):  Post Series (Part 2 of the “Little Redhead Series”). Mulder spends the morning bonding with Eliana by having a Christmas baking session while Scully is out shopping for gifts. Messes, mayhem, and a healthy dose of laughter ensue. No moment is ever dull as the snow falls outside.

The Easter Bunny was a Fox (COMPLETE):  Post Series (Part 3 of the “Little Redhead” Series). Scully has to pick up Bill, Tara, and a couple of surprise family from the airport, leaving Mulder alone with their 6-year-old daughter, Eliana, on Easter Morning. All she has for him are curiosities as Easter’s non-Christian ideology unfolds before her eyes…creating the most unique bonding opportunity for a father and his daughter. (For Flicked_Switch)

Angst/UST/RST

Caught in the Rain (COMPLETE):  A dark, rainy night leads Mulder and Scully to a hole in the wall bar where glasses of Scotch and unresolved tension is re-visited.

Or We Can Burn (COMPLETE):  Post Never Again - expansion and continuation of the aftermath surrounding what Scully has been hiding from Mulder.

It Lingers (COMPLETE):  The aftermath of trauma and the lingering effects of Mulder’s risky attempt to recover the truth about Samantha’s abduction leads to a revelation from Scully about her own coping mechanisms and flashes into a past she doesn’t fully remember...and the path to which they lead thereafter. (For @red2007)

Fluff/Humor

Nervous Laughter (COMPLETE):  It’s been two full days since their tender, albeit brief, moment at the stroke of midnight and Mulder decides to be brave and methodical by inviting Scully over for a little movie and popcorn night for a film that has stayed locked in his mind as her favorite—The Exorcist. (This is a gift for @rationalcashew)

Lamplight & Shooting Stars (COMPLETE):  It’s Spring-time in DC and spontaneous, mutually taken vacation time has become a personal mission of Mulder’s to surprise Scully with so much more than an escape from their norm—and the unseasonable, uncomfortable city heat. (For @underworldobsessed)

Into the Nightlife (ONGOING):  A little paid vacation time never hurt anyone, right? (Not giving anything away this time)

Smut

Insomniac (COMPLETE):  Another lonely, sleepless night, another dingy motel, and another town that isn’t home for Mulder…but, something changed, with the last gasp of the air conditioner as his partner, and best friend, chooses to walk through the adjoining door. (Expanded writing exercise)

Vultus in Speculo (COMPLETE):  The last of the paperwork on the Strickland case has been finalized and filed and Scully goes off for a drink at a known FBI watering hole. Mulder is invited but doesn’t show up until after Scully is halfway through a drink—giving him an opening to inquire about a whole lot more than her flirtations with the Sheriff in the booth of a rooftop bar. (written for @msrheadcanon

Phosphorescence (COMPLETE):  Still reeling from their experience in North Carolina, Mulder and Scully take a much-needed excursion to the coast of Oregon, where a flicker of light becomes more than a curiosity in the middle of the night. (Written for @anniexami)

The Darker Side of Love (COMPLETE): Mulder does not want to talk but he does not want Scully to leave, either. (This is for the MSR fanzine vol 3)

Ficlets/Drabbles/Short Prompt Collection

Affirmations and Protestations: “Fluff and Angst” Prompts (ONGOING):  

 Chapter 1 - "You Weren't Supposed to Hear That" - prompt #5, 61, 77

Chapter 2 - "Shout!" - prompt #19, 61 (From Valerie)

Chapter 3 - "Litost" - prompt #1, 85, 97 (From Monika)

Chapter 4 - "Ad Infinitum" - prompt #42 (From Minuete)

Chapter 5 - "Brick" - prompt - After Scully calls Mulder in the ep Emily, she asks him to bring her some things from home. Her journal falls to the floor and Mulder sees some things written about him that she has never allowed him to know. (from Monika)

Chapter 6 - "I'd rather be oblivious" - prompt #46 (from Annie)

Criminal Minds

Angst/UST/RST

Dulce Periculum (COMPLETE):  Maxine and Spencer have continued seeing each other, in spite of the interference brought to the surface by Cat Adams. Spencer continues to work closely with the BAU after it nearly dismantled, with signature members scattering to the winds, leaving behind only a few, including himself, to keep working on their caseload. After a long, intense case, Spencer returns home to a little more than a can of worms. (A gift for an anonymous prompter)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Angst/UST/RST

Chasing your Silhouette (COMPLETE):  They’d learned each other’s quirks and intricacies on the job—but when did it become over the line? When did physicality become a detriment to them once they’ve taken off their shields? When did they realize the line in the sand no longer existed? (This is meant to take place a couple weeks after “Zebras” – had to assume a timeline, I don’t remember actual dates)

Paternity Redux - Time Just Stopped (COMPLETE):  Her strength has always been immeasurable—but sometimes, something has to give and a string breaks. Nothing will ever be the same.“I’m trying my best, that is enough.” - UnknownThis is part of a challenge, to right a series of wrongs in an episode that has perpetrated many a discussion of “What Could Have Been”. WriterKC, Liv.Einziger, JustAnotherBookWorm78, MrsWellRested, EORocks, AlexisDawn, ChriskaPeach, and I have stepped up to the plate to do just that.

Oblivion (ONGOING 9/? Chapters posted ***UPDATED***):   The undercover operation in Oregon takes an unexpected, unpleasant turn for Olivia Benson as an injury turns her life, and career, upside-down leaving her with pieces of her memory scattered in the wind.

Humor

Unlock the Door (TENTATIVELY COMPLETE 2/2):   Olivia returns home from a celebratory series of shots with Kim Greylek and lets Elliot Stabler hear a little more than she ever intended to in the aftermath.

Series

Polaroids and Promises (COMPLETE):   The Special Victims Unit has undergone an enormous amount of changes in the past six months, to the point that they are drastically undermanned—until a transfer from the 13th precinct brings new life, and a little chaos, to the team. Will her addition prove to be a permanent shift or a flash in the pan?

Discarded Dignity (COMPLETE):   Elora continues to gain much-needed confidence as a member of the Special Victims Unit but an arrival booked for trespassing, assaulting an officer, and disorderly throws her progress into chaos as her past jumps to the surface. Will she be able to look beyond the misstep to solve one of the most convoluted cases she’s faced? 

Contract Corruption (ONGOING 10/?):   Dickie Stabler and Justin Andrisani are in over their heads--and the members of SVU and the Organized Crime task force must come together in order to set things right.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit/Organized Crime Crossover

Series

Words of love, words of lies, words of loss

Age of Regret (COMPLETE):  Elliot Stabler has never been good with words but ten years and a double on the rocks in a lonely room will make a man pour his heart out…in any way that he can.

Infidelis (COMPLETE): Elliot had been haunted by too many ghosts; expectations, fantasies, and a promise that he knew should never be kept. It was time to lay them all to rest. “I do not regret you…I regret what you did to me.” - Unknown

[skullsmuldon]

whats happening with the diana fowley writing prompts? is the list ready ir are you still accepting prompts?

Hey anon ! Still accepting prompts because tumblr pulled a stunt on my inbox and deleted my complete inbox at the time before I could save it all.

If people are still interested in it I can for sure put up what I could save and also add new prompts…

So what’s the verdict? are any fandom writers interested? @baronessblixen @scullysexual @r00m203 @allyinthekeyofx @edierone @ofmulder @danadeservesadrink @thatfragilecapricorn30 @kikocrystalball @nowwhateinstein @suitablyaggrieved @lokisgame @alienbaby-babymama @aliendyke @crescentmoon223 @cultureisdarkbeer @slippinmickeys @purrykat @sarie-fairy @serahsanguine @sandymans-world @monikafilefan @damn-mulder @ms31x129 @softnow @soft-thrills @kyouryokusenshi @poeticsandaliens @alwaysforyouscully @starbuck09256 @starwalker42 @o6666666 @queequeg0925 @admiralty-xfd @markwatneyandenesemble @fragilevixenfic @sisterspooky1013 @lotsoforangesoutside @silhouetteofacedar @emily--sim @iconicscullyoutfits @freckleslikestars @rationalcashew I’m sure I forgot soooo sooo many peeps and I apologize in advance so tag all the writers you can think of ! 🥳🥳

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“Firewalker” Fan Fiction Reading List

Dormant by @lokisgame

Perhaps she was healing, but did anyone care if Mulder did, too?

Hot Zone by greycoupon (Ao3)

All the white was hurting Mulder's eyes and he just wished Scully wasn't so upset about the situation.

Quarantine Cuddles by @starbuck09256

They had to spend an entire month in quarantine after the events of Firewalker. How did that work? What was their relationship like? She had just gotten back from Duane Berry and now she is faced with Mulder in a confine space for 30 days. Empty Spaces by @lokisgame

There was someone hovering over her, unidentified presence in the darkness. day after tomorrow by skuls

She almost died a few weeks ago. But she is here, alive. And her partner has kissed her.

Quarantine by Deannie

Mulder and Scully get locked in quarantine after possible exposure to the parasitic spores in Firewalker and have a serious discussion about Scully's well-being.

Firewalker by@30xf

One Shot

Firewalker by @scullywolf

This was the only way I could reconcile the "month-long quarantine" at the end of Firewalker (starting on 11/13/94) when in Irresistible, Scully performs an autopsy and says, "The time is 11:14 AM, Monday, November 14th." 

Firewalker by @leiascully

There were mysteries in the earth from beyond his comprehension of time. Persistance and Playing Cards -or- A Quarantine Snippet by @shetriedtofly

It's Scully's first case back after her abduction and immediately this one almost kills her again and ends with Mulder and her in quarantine for a month. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26419912

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✖️✖️✖️✖️ 5x02 Redux II

The one where... Scully’s cancer is cured by putting a new chip in the back of her neck. Part 3 of 3.

Best: Scully: Then why’d you come here if you’d already made up your mind? Mulder: Because I knew you’d talk me out of it if I was making a mistake. Their love and affection for each other... throughout this episode but especially in this scene. They value each other’s opinion so highly. Arguing things out is their joint love language. Honestly, this episode’s all about the MSR for me.

Worst: I’ve never liked this meeting with Samantha. Almost 45 minutes pass and yet we seem to be coming in at the beginning of their conversation. Why wouldn’t he suspect that she’s a clone? He’s seen her clones before - both the child version and the adult. He reacts and talks to her as if he believes it’s really her. But because it’s so clearly not, I’ve never been sure what he thinks about it, or whether it matters moving forward.

❌ Flashlights

❌ Woods

❌ Slideshow

❌ Autopsy

❌ Evidence Disappears

❌ Scully Misses It

❌ Mulder Ditch

❌ Sunflower Seeds

❌ Voiceover

❌ Catch Phrase

❌ Scully is a Medical Doctor

❌ Mulder is Spooky

❌ Scuuullllaaaaayy! Muullllderrrr!

❌ Fox/Dana

✔️ Inappropriate Touching (that I am here for)

❌ Casual Scully

❌ Casual Mulder

❌ Trench Coats

✔️ Bad Tie Watch

❌ Glasses Watch

✔️ Taking! It! Personally!: Mulder & Scully

50 States: D.C. x39 (34/50)

Investigate: Together & Apart

Solve Rate: 62%

✔️ Bechdel Test

MSR: 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Goriness: 👽

Creepiness: 👽

Humor: 👽

Rewatch Thoughts:

The way they touch each other this episode... Mulder’s so gentle with her. And when she clings to his hand, not wanting to let him go, not knowing if she’ll ever see him again... My heart!

Scully telling Mulder to let her take the fall. The look on his face as he tells her he can’t do that. 😭 Scully: Mulder, if I can save you, let me. Let me at least give some meaning to what’s happened to me. I think he was almost persuaded by what she said. He trusts that she knows her own mind, wants to give her death meaning. But then f***ing Bill says that about letting her die with dignity and he knows he can’t do that to her family.

Mulder in AGONY at Scully’s bedside in the middle of the night 😭😭😭

Mulder would never throw Skinner under the bus to save himself.

Why is this FBI conference room so dimly lit? This scene is so overly dramatic.

CSM should have died here. That’s all I’ve got to say on the mytharc. Oh, and I do like that they bring Blevins back from the pilot. Love to see that continuity!

Mulder: Its the best news I could have ever heard.

I can’t decide if the fact that we don’t see Mulder and Scully find out that her cancer is in remission is a feature or a bug. On the one hand: WHY would they not show us this critical and emotionally important moment they’ve been building to for more than half a season? On the other hand: the fact that so many of these key moments happen off screen in this show and we are compelled to fill the blanks ourselves is part of what has led to the rich fanfic culture that lasts to this day in this fandom, and which I love. But still... whyyyyy?

Episode-Related Fanfic Recs:

There are SO many Redux fics on Gossamer! I don’t have any bookmarked. Please let me know if you have favorites!

Borrowed Time by @starbuck09256 - sweet little post-episode ficlet. We’re both alive.

Incrementum Ch. 11 by @lepus-arcticus - missing scene, Scully tells Mulder she’s in remission. Love both their reactions and Mrs. Scully’s.

Redux II Alternate and Two Days, Two Paths by @scullybuck - missing scenes during and after the episode. Bill gets what’s coming to him!

He Hadn’t Dared Dream of Her by @sarie-fairy - He’s so relieved she’s alive. Kisses that start on their fingers and run up their arm, eventually ending on their lips. Lovely.

In the Hospital Room by skuls - Another missing scene where Scully tells Mulder she’s in remission. So sweet.

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X-Files Collector's Edition: Pranks and Other April Fics

April's Fools rarely make an appearance in fic; but there are excellent prank fics and fics where April-- the month-- makes an appearance.

Loose chronological order below~

Sneaker's (Alt. Gossamer) The Skeptic of Bracken Lake

""Dana shone her flashlight around the lower ground. Determined to prove or disprove the ghost theory, she continued talking. "How can you be so sure it's too light, if you ca-- "

"Just trust me. It's too light."

Dana stood up suddenly, grasping Nancy's arm. "C'mon, lets go down there and find out.."

"Are you *nuts*?" asked Nancy

"You yourself said he wouldn't come out . . . so he won't. I just want to see what it's like down there . . . I mean, if he's gonna spend an eternity down there, he's got to have left some mark of his presence. Bad vibes or something.""

Pre-S1 Scully is a sensible little skeptic, avoiding fights and calmly taking on dares-- be they ghosts or nettles-- while cheekily waiting for an opportunity to prank the opposition back.

aka Jake/aka 'Jake'/aka_Jake's How Do You Know Whaen a Flukewoman is Having Her Period?

""Rather than count mile markers, she reached for the bag of fur trade souvenirs he'd bought at the museum gift shop: a copy of "The Mountain Man Sketchbook" and a reproduction beavertail knife. She withdrew the book and, tilting it toward the dash lights, paged through it without interest.

He kept his eyes on the road. "Some parascientists believe that menstruation, menopause and sexual frustration intensify subconscious psychokinetic energy."

Under ordinary circumstances, she found Mulder's interest in the unusual a positive trait; it served them well in their work and at times could be endearing. But did they have to go through this every... month? She closed the book and tried to rein in her annoyance. "Ah, but which came first, the poltergeist or PMS?""

Mulder recycles (hah) the same period jokes and theories when it's Scully time of the month. She ends up amused in spite herself.

@lotsoforangesoutside/@lotzzoforangezoutside‘s (Ao3)

What to Do with April Showers

""She looks apologetically at him, soft and indulgent. Mulder wonders if she’s learned that look from her mother. He swears that’s how Mrs. Scully looked at him last Autumn.

“Fine, we’ll take an hour off.” He says in his senior-agent-knows-best voice as he stands up to grab his coat, ready to head out and play hooky.

“I don’t plan to go out in the rain.” She pauses, but her eyes are twinkling, “and I don’t want to spend an hour of your driving us nowhere in the pouring rain. April showers, Mulder.""

Post Calusari Mulder ruminates on Scully's near deaths, leading them to an impromptu basement dance sesh.

The King of the Castle and the Dirty Rascal

""The door of their office is opened slightly, but the lights are off. A spaceship-shaped lamp on Mulder’s desk is emitting an eerie green light. Pushing the door wide opened, she turns the light on. “Mulder?” she calls.

No respond.

“Mulder?” She repeats again, concern written all over her face. “Are you alright?”

Scully sees him sitting in his chair, his mouth moving. She wonders if her mind is playing a trick on her, but it looks like he’s mouthing the words help me, over and over again.

The hair on the back of her neck stands and she rushes over to her partner immediately. She recalls her recently weekend getaway where people walked out of a supermarket with bloody eyes, a talking doll that wants to play melting in the microwave, and an angry little girl who just wants to have her way.""

Post Chinga Mulder pranks Scully by faking a severe injury. She repays his April Fool's joke with an excellently executed (but almost regrettable) nosebleed prank.

3X -5

""Scully: Wait, what?

Mulder: Yes, and I'm going.

Scully: You are? What you gonna bring?

Mulder: I'm told to bring a dish called Dana Scully.

Mulder likes reusing his same "Dana Scully" joke.""

@baronessblixen’s (Ao3)

Cruel Jokes

""Accident," he sobs. "Car. Car accident."

"What?" she asks, not understanding a word of what he's saying, of where his mind is. "Were you in an accident?" When he cries harder, her own concern increases. What if he's hurt? Or if he's hurt someone else?

"You. Car accident. They said." It's as if she's talking to a child.

"I'm fine, Mulder. There was no accident. Who said that?" He doesn't answer, continues to hold her, but relaxes. She slips down his front, her feet finding ground.""

Mulder is the victim of a cruel prank-- that Scully had died in a car accident-- leaving Scully incensed and ready for war.

Unnamed (Ao3)

""There have been accidents. Only two months ago a young couple stepped on rotten wood and fell down three stories. Both of them are dead.”

“It’s an old place.”

“When the police came to inspect the scene, they examined the wood. It wasn’t rotten. It was the ghost, Scully.” He whispers the last part into her ear.

“Mulder, do I have to explain to you once again about ghosts?” It wouldn’t be the first time.""

Mulder and Scully are enjoying their dating life by pranking each other with ghosts, wet willies, and glittery revenge. Skinner is not amused.  

Bloody Hll (Ao3)

""I'm truly sorry, Scully." His face is vulnerable and full of regret. Tears pool in his eyes and she watches them fall as she sobs silently. She catches one of his tears and as she wipes it away, she leaves a red stripe across his face. "I didn't mean to make you cry. I thought it was funny. You don't mind fake blood at Halloween."

For a man as smart as he is, Mulder can be incredibly dense.

"I don't mind the fake blood," she says, smearing more of it all over his face, finding herself unable to keep herself from smiling any longer, "I mind the possibility of you being dead. You will pay for this." Her words lose steam when she accentuates them with yet another sob.""

Post Revival Scully finds Mulder covered in blood on the floor of their basement. After pulling his tie and sobbing all over him, Mulder pops up-- unharmed. He has to calm down Scully, who plans for revenge.

@starbuck09256​‘s (Ao3) Just a Nic (Alt. Just a Shave)

""She sighs as he continues carefully with each stroke checking and making sure he hasn’t blemished her porcelain skin. He grabs a towel and dampens it to rinse off the remaining cream on her first leg. Smiles as he moves her leg to each side checking his work. She shakes her head. He starts on her other leg and his smart look of satisfaction gives her an idea. It’s mean, but at the same time fair. She hisses and he looks at her in horror. His clear panic face with his eyes and mouth open as his fingers brush along her calf. She grins that wild grin that he loves with its mischievous hint of dark blue eyes. 

“I had you.” she whispers, her eyes twinkle towards him and he chuckles.""

Post Tithonus Mulder helps Scully shave her legs. She decides to get his goat by momentarily faking a yelp. It leads to a sweet moment.

Girlie_girl7’s Halloween Eve  

""Don't you think she looks like Eve 6?"

Scully whipped her head around to look at the woman who was currently scanning a case of Yoo-hoo. "No, I don't think she does," Scully whispered while she placed the last of her groceries on the belt and began to dig out her coupons.

"Scully! She looks exactly like her." Scully laughed, "She does not."

"Scully look again, she's even chewing her gum in the same manor as Eve did, when she showed us how she bit that poor guards eye ball."

Scully stared at her partner, "Mulder, are you sure the spirit of the holiday isn't getting to you?""

Mulder suspects their checkout clerk is an Eve. He leaves Scully in the car to double back and subtly interrogate her; but the only thing strange about this woman is that she's related to Skinner.

@foreheading's Her Laugh

""Not laughing at his jokes had clearly been a means of keeping him at arms length. But once they became physically intimate, he saw a side of her he’d only caught glimpses of before. She relaxed…completely. So completely. And she would give him these hearty belly laughs that he’d never heard before then.""

Mulder recalls trying and failing to make his mother laugh; and is moved that much more whenever his girlfriend, the enigmatic Scully, lets loose and laughs heartily.

stellar_dust’s (Ao3) Cause and Effect (Ao3)

""She tilted her head to the side and raised an eyebrow. "Now, Mulder, this whole case has been one long misdirection, right? I make you look over *here*" - she snapped the fingers of her right hand beside his face - "which makes you completely ignore what's going on over *there*" - she handed him his badge with her left hand - "Am I right, Mulder?"

His jaw dropped.

"So it seems to me, Mulder, that misdirection, at heart, is all about" - she produced a brand-new bag of sunflower seeds from his jacket pocket and handed it to him - "cause" - she pulled his tie out from behind her back and looped it around his neck - "and" - she held up the car keys that, to the best of Mulder's knowledge, hadn't left his possession since he'd signed the rental agreement - "effect, Mulder." Scully tossed the keys up and caught them again. "Let's go. I'm driving to the airport.""

S7 Mulder ponders on pranks and magic tricks after the events of The Goldberg Variation. Scully listens to his evolving thoughts while keeping one step ahead of him by performing magic, stealing one of the vests in First Person Shooter, needing his help to dismantle the Theef poppet, and reaching a full conclusion by All Things.

@broadcastnews1987/audries/@kennedyandheidi/inkspl0tchess's (WBM 1/2/3)

housekeeping - in spring

""Mid-April. He drives one last stolen car with a hand out the window, and as he moves into Virginia the air stops smelling like the Bay’s primordial preserves.

It takes him three miles past the state lines to realize the new smell is dirt and rain. The dead come alive. In spring, things rise again. Glory, glory, hallelujah.""

Post Revival Jackson finally wanders back from the road, awkwardly readjusting with his family, including Mulder who wasn't told that his son was still alive.

@leiascully's (Ao3) Bless This House

""They turned the spare room into a nursery together, everything in shades of green and yellow. The baby would be born in the spring. Scully wanted something cheerful. Mulder spent hours shopping online as she worked at the hospital, comparing different gliders and bottles and swaddles. He combed through the children's section at the bookstore for the best baby books, and read as extensively on infants as he'd ever studied cryptids.

She was tired and nauseated and uncomfortable, but she was so happy. They were so happy together. It was everything she'd always wanted.""

AU-- IWTB Mulder and Scully christen their new house, which eventually leads them to the birth of their very own "April Fool."  

Christine Leigh's (Alt. Ao3, LiveJournal) The Color of April

""What's going on?"

"I just missed you, and for some reason even more today."

"Well, then bless Tom's stomach and the weather forecast." He turned and led her back outside. They had a clear view of the evening star in the western sky, and for a few seconds they were just Mulder and Scully, having a moment together standing on their front porch. Friends, lovers, parents, those things were all part of their package, but for now they were just them, as they always had been. The sky had turned a brilliant violet and Mulder looked at Scully watching it. She seemed mesmerized.""

AU-- Happy family Scully is alone for a few days while her boys go camping. Rather than enjoying the solitude, she finds herself teary and alone.

Honorable mention to @cock-holliday/biggyyeehaw’s Thirty Five Hundred Miles And A Lifetime To Go - Chapter 2 (Post One Breath Mulder trying to pick up Scully's mood, since she can't be with her family for Christmas. A game of prank gifts begins.)

Enjoy!

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I get it but at the same time her journal to him, the way they express themselves about their feelings. He calls her honey later. I don’t know. Most likely I’m just a horrible romantic who wishes for an intimacy beyond measure.

Yeah, but a journal isn’t usually wrtten for someone to actually read and be able to respond to.  She was writing to him like that because she expected to die.  Those letters were for posterity.  She bled out on the pages because she wasn’t going to have a pulse anymore.

If he’d just called her “honey”, that would have been fine.  But “Dearest Dana” is so ridiculously formal and unlike them.  That doesn’t speak to the intimacy beyond measure which I agree that they have.  An intimacy beyond measure doesn’t have to be expressed in traditional ways.  That’s why they can call each other by their last names and have it sound like a love song.  

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Bold the Facts

tagged by @gladlybeyondanyxperience

Rules: Bold everything that applies to you and tag 10 people you’d like to get to know better.

appearance:

I’m over 5’5” // I wear glasses // contacts // I have blonde hair (bleached, not natural) // I prefer loose clothing to tight clothing // I have one or more piercings // I have at least one tattoo // I have blue eyes // I have dyed or highlighted my hair // I have gotten plastic surgery // I have or had braces // I sunburn easily // I have freckles // I paint my nails // I typically wear makeup // I don’t often smile // I am pleased with how I look // I prefer Nike to Adidas // I wear baseball hats backward

hobbies and interests:

I play a sport // I can play an instrument // I am artistic // I know more than one language // I have won a trophy in some sort of competition// I can cook or bake without a recipe // I know how to swim // I enjoy writing // I can do origami // I prefer movies to TV shows // I can execute a perfect somersault (not quite perfect, but close) // I enjoy singing // I could survive in the wild on my own // I have read a new book series this year // I enjoy spending time with friends // I travel during school or work breaks // I can do a handstand

relationships:

I am in a relationship // I have been single for over a year // I have a crush // I have a best friend I have known for ten years // My parents are together // I have dated my best friend // I am adopted // My crush has confessed to me // I have a long-distance relationship // I am an only child // I give advice to my friends // I have made an online friend // I met up with someone I have met online

aesthetic:

I have heard the ocean in a conch shell // I have watched the sunrise // I enjoy rainy days // I have slept under the stars // I meditate outside // The sound of chirping calms me // I enjoy the smell of the beach // I know what snow tastes like // I listen to music to fall asleep // I enjoy thunderstorms // I enjoy cloud watching // I have attended a bonfire // I pay close attention to colors // I find mystery in the ocean // I enjoy hiking on nature paths // Autumn is my favorite season

misc:

I can fall asleep in a moving vehicle // I am the mum friend // I live by a certain quote(s) // I like the smell of Sharpies// I participate in extracurricular activities // I enjoy Mexican food // I can drive a stick-shift // I believe in true love// I make up scenarios to fall asleep // I sing in the shower // I wish I lived in a video game  // I have a canopy above my bed // I am multiracial // I am a redhead // I own at least three dogs

Tagging: @enigmaticxbee @iconicscullyoutfits @starbuckthirteen @starbuck09256 @agirlcallednarelle @suitablyaggrieved @mypanicface @tinglingworld @electric-skillet @foxscully

[bevh78]

Ok u beautiful fandom. I have no idea if this fic exists or it maybe a moxture of a few but is there a fic out there where krychek makes scully have Sex to keep mulder safe and alive and blackmails her with a video. She leaves the x files and mulder after engaging in sex for a while but then krychek says the consortium have a new plan she is no longer barren and he threatens to impregnate her if she doesn’t stop mulder following his lead as he’s too close to the truth. He said he would edit the many times she has willingly had sex with him to make it look like she was participating more he tells her she has three months to get pregnant by mulder as that’s the only way he’ll stop chasing for answers. Krychek says the plan is to rough her up by beating her making her apartment look like there was a struggle and she gets away then she goes to mulder and has arc with him all whilst feeling guilty for why they have come together they have unprotected sex and the next day she vanishes. Fast forward a few years and he finally finds her name change and with a child his child it’s ugly and angst but they eventually get together after she tells him the truth about the video that he received after she vanished. He believes originally that the child is krychek

Any ideas I’lltag as many is I think can help

Please tag anyone who I may have missed

Mira an old fic our mixture of old fic I think but there are some vivid writing of how krychek defiles scully the only position he says they haven’t down is anal and he threatens to do that if she fails to get pregnant. Also at last sexual encounter he removes condom and threatens to just impregnate her anyway but the second is rough and he always makes her come several time’s and very easily whilst talking to her about how mulder isn’t man enough for her anyway and she’s mortified by ithis may also be what comes across on the video mulder gets sent to him

After she leaves

Mall help appreciated even if it’s not entirely this fic but similar

Thanks

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Taking Liberties

Author: @baronessblixen

For: @starbuck09256​ 

Story: One night while on a case, Mulder and Scully find themselves in her motel room, just talking and maybe - just maybe - taking the next step in their relationship.

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#XFFluff2020 [14/27]

[postmodernpromartheus]

Bingo Bash

This is my first ever fic of any kind. I’ve actually never even completed a fiction story before. I always write non-fiction so this is a big stretch for me. This came to me yesterday while I was playing Bingo on my phone for the first time. All I could picture was Mulder bugging Scully while she was trying it out for the first time. This is all fluff! Set in season 10 or 11.

Special thanks to @greycoupons for letting me play in your sandbox and giving me the courage to try.

The flight from DC to Boise, Idaho was long and boring. Mulder was restless and none of his usual distractions were working. Enter Scully. She was sitting next to him doing something on her phone. He nudged her shoulder trying to get her attention. It didn’t work. Scully just pulled away in frustration trying to keep a handle on her phone.

“Stop it, Mulder.”

“What are you doing, Scully?”

“I’m playing a game.”

“Can I watch?”

“No. Stop distracting me, Mulder. Crap. I missed another one.”

“Missed another what?”

“Mulder,” she said with a growl.

“I’m boooorrreeed Scully. Pay attention to me.”

“Damnit, Mulder, stop distracting me. I can’t find the numbers.”

“What are you playing?”

“Fine. I’ll let you see, if you promise to help me.”

“Sure!”

She shows him her phone.

“Bingo, Scully? You’re playing Bingo?!”

“Shut up, Mulder! I can’t find N32.”

“It’s right there, Scully. On the first card.”

“Mulder, move your hand! Why do they have to go so fast?!”

“Here. Scoot closer to me.” He lifted the armrest and gathered her close.

“Mulder, what did we miss?”

“G56, Scully. Hit G56. Where are you even looking?! It’s right there! In row G!”

“Stop yelling at me, Mulder! It’s not helping! Crap, we lost.”

“Ooh, look, we can get more cards. We can get four, Scully”

“We can’t even handle two, Mulder.”

“Cheryl can handle four.”

“Who’s Cheryl?”

“The woman who beat us in the last game. She got four bingos in a row. How is that even possible?”

“Mulder, quick, I 16. Do we have one? Ugh. And G59. We’re missing them. They’re going by too fast. Don’t they have a slower option?”

“They probably have a senior citizen version.”

“Be quiet, Mulder.”

“Maybe you should have bi-focals. I bet you’d see the numbers better.”

“I can see the numbers. Crap! Where the hell is O66?! Do we have one?”

“Scully, you just have to go to the O row and scan down. I can’t believe it.”

“What?”

“We finally found something you’re not good at.”

“I don’t need to be good at Bingo, Mulder. Where’s I 22?!”

“B 3. Hit B 3. No, honey, it’s on the left card, first row.”

“Ugh. I’m still looking for I 22.”

“Cheryl is back. She’s already got two bingo’s. I’m on to you. You cheater!!”

“Mulder, keep your voice down. You’re disrupting the other passengers.”

“There are no other passengers over her, Scully.”

“Well, you’re disrupting me. B 7. B 7. Damn this is stressful.”

“It’s right here, sweetie. Now look for G 48.”

“Mulder, what number are we on? I think they are disappearing before we have a chance to look for them.”

“N 40, babe. Right there. Ok, got that one.”

“I 18?”

“Nope. No I 18. What about G 50?”

“Ugh. Where are the G’s? I can’t find anything under this much pressure.”

“It’s here, sweetheart. Damn. We’re missing numbers because we’re too slow.”

“We’re supposed to hit the upper thing.”

“What upper thing?”

“Quick, Mulder. Hit it!”

“What?!”

“The rectangle that gets smudgy.”

“What?!”

“It gets motion-y and lights up.”

“The rectangle that has arrows around it?”

“Yeah. Hit that.”

“That’s seriously how you describe it?”

“Who cares, Mulder. Quick, B 1. Did we look for N 31? UGH!!!”

“The rectangle thing gives us free spaces!”

“Yeah, I know. If we can find enough matches, we get that thing to light up. We have to wait to hit more numbers until the cooling off period is up.”

“I don’t think there’s much threat of that happening.”

“Very funny, Mulder. O 67! Where is it? Oh, we have one.”

“It’s here, love. B 15.”

“Bingo!”

“We won one! In your face, Cheryl.”

“No, Mulder, two cards. Ok. Ready to play again?”

“Hell yeah. Crap it’s already too fast. I 23. I 23.”

“Mulder, just so you know, I’m aware that you are using this game to take certain liberties.”

“Like what?!”

“You’re counting on me being distracted…N 41…so that I don’t call you out on your terms of endearment.”

“I 24. I’m just trying them out to see how they fit.”

“They don’t, Mulder.”

“I think deep down you like them all.”

Scully ponders this thought for a moment, silently, with a slight smile she responds…

“Shut up, Mulder. I’m playing Bingo.”

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X-Files Collector's Edition: Requiem AUs (Poll Results 4th)-- Mulder Didn't Leave

Part 2 of the Requiem AUs (from this poll): Mulder returns in Requiem whether before, during, or after he finds out about his and Scully's miracle.

Loose chronological order below~

Requiem AUs

@mihosayuri/neytirijade’s This was in response to a prompt

""“I, uh… I’m actually here—we’re here—because I’m about two months late, and um… I took two at home pregnancy tests, and I know those things aren’t always 100%–""

Pre-Requiem Mulder and Scully are back in the IVF office, waiting with bated breath to see if they have surprise, miraculous, positive news.

@drbedeliadumaurier/heartsfilthylesson‘s

isolated systems - Chapter 2 (Tumblr)

""In Bellefleur, shock and dread give way to anticipation, to delight almost. She holds Theresa Nemman’s baby and remembers the one growing inside her, wonders.... She needs to tell him.""

Pre-Requiem Scully finds out about her pregnancy before she and Mulder leave for Oregon. She mulls over the news during their investigation; finally tells when they end up back where it all started: his motel room.

@starbuck09256​‘s (Ao3) Back to the Beginning to find the Truth

""Everything in his search had just been leading him back to her. She whimpers in his arms and he feels a sudden gush on his chest[.] [L]ooking down as he gently strokes her bare back he see bright crimson.""

Scully's nose bleeds in Bellefleur; and Mulder zips her to the ER to get a checkup. Both are overjoyed.

@gilliansanderson/spensierata's Strange Trails (Tumblr)

""It was quiet in the car. It was a comfortable quiet. They were comfortable being quiet, it was how they processed the inevitable. The radio crackled and screeched in search of a signal, it reminded Mulder of when they’d lost nine minutes, they’d gotten soaked, he’d marked the ground with an X. We Were Here. He’d screamed it at the sky. Mulder turned it off in frustration so all that was left to fill the silence was the rhythmic pounding of the rain against the roof.... It was nine minutes to the hospital. He reached over to thread his fingers through hers. She only barely squeezed back.""

Mulder and Scully sit in the waiting room in Bellefleur, their absorptive silence morphing into peaceful joy at the good news.

@lokisgame​’s (Ao3) Late

""Mulder,” she whispered..., calling him back from the edge of sleep, “I’m late.” “For what?” He mumbled, half conscious, “we just got back.""

Mulder and Scully return from Oregon, dozing on the couch... until Scully drops the gentle "I'm late" bombshell. (I adore this fic.)

a_steady_wish's Alternative Ending to Requiem - Chapter 1

""It’s only three minutes later but seems like an hour when the lines appear, clear as day, and you exhale loudly. You close your eyes for long moments, open them again: it hasn’t changed. You begin to pad back out to the bed, suddenly think you were mistaken, and go back to the bathroom to check again. You were not mistaken: two pink lines. You check the box a fourth time. Making sure you have read the results properly: You have. You are. You are pregnant.""

Scully takes a pregnancy test after their return from Oregon, unable to sleep with her suspicions. Mulder notices her mood when she comes back, teary and happy. (I adore this fic, too.)  

TheAddict4Dramatics's Untitled Requiem Ficlet

""The banging continued until it was starting to echo inside her skull. She wiped her eyes and checked her face in the mirror before opening the door. Clearly she did not do a good enough cover-up job and he frowned as soon as he saw her.

“What’s the matter?” There was such sincere worry in his face as he stepped into the bathroom and relocked the door behind him.

“I’m…” But the fine died on her lips and to her utter horror she felt her face begin to crumble in on itself.""

Requiem Scully leaves the conference room where Mulder, TLG, Skinner, Krycek, Marita, and Diana all game plan about Oregon. Mulder insists on joining her, reiterating his loyalty; and is there to catch her when she faints.

@frogsmulder​​/Brynstein‘s 1. “I love you, please don’t go.”

""I love you,” she murmurs from a distance. 

He looks up at her with wide, mossy eyes, flecked golden in the orange light of the lamp. In earnest, his innocent gaze captures her heart in a fist of fiery iron, melting her final resolve. “I love you too,” he answers simply, letting the weight of his affection carry his words."" 

 Requiem Mulder only wants Scully; and Scully finally admits to wanting him to stay. both are happy to be together for the news.

@mldrgrl’s (Ao3) 

MSR 38

""Skinner was already on the phone calling for an ambulance.  The gunmen hovered, giving orders to each other to give her air, get her water, find a pillow.  Marita knelt down next to Mulder and put a hand on Scully’s ankle.

“Alex,” she said.  “Find a blanket.""

Requiem Scully passes out at the Bureau; and Mulder, TLG, Skinner, and Marita all jump into action to take care of her until the ambulance arrives. (I adore this fic, too.) Mulder's intent doesn't end there, dropping a bombshell of his own.

Resignation

""He’d never been so glad about trusting his instincts as he was in that moment.""

Requiem Mulder resigns on the plane (to Skinner's own resigned frustration), returning to Scully's side and happily soaking in her announcement.

Not Again: Part 1 - Gone (Tumblr)

"" The Scully imposter cocks her head to the side and then almost with a shrug, turns and steps off the edge of the cliff.

“No!”  Mulder screams, knowing full well it isn’t Scully who’s just fallen, but it looks like her, and he knows it’s an image he’ll never be able to shake.  He stands rooted to his spot while Agent Doggett runs to the drop site and peers over the edge.""

AU-- Requiem Scully is abducted instead of Mulder. He carries on through the events of S8, trying his best to find her and finally accepting the help of Doggett and Reyes as well as Skinner and TLG.

XScribe/Red's (Ao3, Gossamer) The End of Time

""He is silent. The echo of her words dies away into the walls. His eyes open wide and he draws his bottom lip between his teeth, biting on it. He releases her from his grasp to run a hand over his face as he closes his eyes. She waits patiently for him, feeling suddenly very peaceful and calm, all panic draining out of her. She listens to the ticking of his watch in the quiet hallway, second by second dragging past them both.""

Requiem Scully tells Mulder in the FBI hallway. He wants to stay, but she insists he go.

Lapsed_Scholar’s Variations

""Mulder had sounded giddy and distracted over the phone.... This, though, was in an entirely different category. Mulder, of all people, Mulder was having obvious difficulty paying attention to a case full of shady conspiracies, paranormal phenomena, abductions, and UFOs. If Skinner had been forced to classify the look on his face, it would have been lovedrunk.

Scully was better at hiding it, but she was also remarkably non-productive and was prone to gazing off into space...at her partner. She would periodically come back to herself, whereupon she at least had the decency to blush and look back down at the papers before her.""

The best-- the best-- collection of Requiem unfolding in many more satisfying ways. The humor is unparalleled, the characterization exquisite, and the different stories gripping and heartwarming. Perfection. (I adore this, too.)

@allyinthekeyofx’s (Ao3) Finding Miracles

""And as I led her to the bed to properly take a look at her, I had to face the fact that she looked sick.  Not sick like she looks when she has a cold or the flu or a stomach bug.  The way she looked radiated from somewhere deep inside her, reflecting from those limitless blue eyes, the way her expression had faded, chasing away the essence that was Dana Scully as she battled with unfamiliar territory that had laid her emotions bare.  Right there for me to see.

Because this woman, my perfect other and centre of my world was afraid...""

Requiem Mulder is called by Byers in the airport; and Skinner has to steady him as he sways from the potentially bad news.

Forte's (The Basement Office) Half an Hour

""He is breathing heavily himself, probably more from panic than from the four-block run, and slaps his palm against the wall as though that will make the elevator rise faster. He is too manic, even for him, and I remember all the caffeine he's ingested in the last several hours. I wonder if I should take his weapon away from him.""

 Requiem Mulder creates havoc and mayhem after panicking in the airport; and Skinner corrals him (and later TLG) into orderly behavior all the way to the hospital.

@moonprincess92's (Ao3)

Are you up for writing some season 7 fluff?

""He’d agreed to swing by her apartment and collect the things she’d scribbled down for him on a hospital note pad. The only comforting thought he’d had on his drive was that she’d asked him to go ‘home’, rather than to ‘her apartment ’.

At least any news would be broken by her, and not another faceless doctor.""

Requiem Mulder leaves the airport, afraid Scully's cancer is back. Her joy and muddled responses comedically further this thought.

xphilernj's (Ao3, Two Close for Comfort) Find the Future - Chapter 1

""And, Scully, I wanted the IVFs to work. I truly *did* have those hopes and dreams ... but with you. Only with you. You ... you never knew it, but I grieved with you, for you, for us..." Mulder squeezed her fingers lightly, and reached up to wipe a stray tear away...""

Requiem Mulder rushes back to Scully's side; and Skinner leaves them both happily bantering about monkey babies.

HumphreyWrites/sure-fine-skullz/spookysadsophie/s-humphrey/sophie-writes-things/sophiewrites/SophieRobbins’s (Alt. Tumblr , Ao3, WBM)

Requiem Redux

""Her breath hitches, and she smiles. “I’m fine, Mulder.”

He raises an eyebrow, “You know what’s wrong?”

She bites her lip. “In a manner of speaking,” she begins, as he looks at her curiously.""

Requiem Mulder left the airport, too worried about Scully to leave with Skinner.

@tatooedlaura-blog/tatooedlaura/Laura Sprys​’s Oregon

""...I will punch you if you do not take your hand off that door right now.”

“Then drive faster.”

“I drive any faster and we’re both going to die long before we reach the airport.""

Requiem Mulder chooses not to leave with the ship, stepping out of the woods to a flood of texts from TLG. Skinner gets him back ASAP; Scully assures him over the phone that everyone has prematurely panicked.

@cutelilcurtain/cutelilscully/cutelilwanda's (Ao3)

For the headcanons prompt: Mulder isn't abducted?

""He cannot process or read the expression on her face, and nothing could have prepared him for the softness of her voice, the hope that filled her watery gaze.

“Mulder, I’m pregnant.”

He freezes and she has to pull him into a sitting position on the bed for fear that he’ll collapse right there.""

Requiem Mulder finds nothing in Oregon but everything back home with Scully (who forgot to ask him about his trip until months later, wrapped up as they both were in their baby.)

Erin Blair/Erin M. Blair’s The Blessing

""Mulder sat stunned for a moment, certain he had misunderstood her words. This was *not* possible.

"You're what?!" he asked.""

Requiem Mulder is shell-shocked by Scully's good news in the hospital.

bellefleur's Arms Wide Open

""I open my eyes and for the first time take in the speckled gray linoleum at my feet. The lifeless tones are such a contrast to my spirits that I can't help but laugh to myself, and with the laughter comes a fresh round of tears. It seems I just can't stop them from streaming down my face, and right now, I don't care. With my head bowed, my hands buried in my hair, and my elbows propped on my knees, no one can really see my face anyway. I need what privacy I can muster, here in this public hallway, to come to terms with this all.

I still can't believe this is happening. I'm going to be a father.""

Requiem Mulder bolts after he and Scully are told she's pregnant. Maggie finds him in the hospital hallway, relieved he is just overwhelmed with happy, anticipatory nerves.

isamariposa's Bullfrogs and Jello

""He feels like throwing up when he steps into the hospital. Maybe he's allergic to the smell, whatever. He walks to the reception and swallows hard not to choke when he asks for Dana Scully. How many times has this happened, how many near-misses? She's on the third floor, they say. Mulder punches the button on the elevator, startles a child holding a balloon shaped like a bunny. He still thinks he's going to throw up. At least the ward is not the one for the terminally ill. He remembers that pain. It had toppled him in half.""

Requiem Mulder is replaced at the airport by Doggett, getting back to Scully as fast as he can. He, however, does not react positively to the pregnancy news, afraid it might be caused by CSM tampering.

@all-these-ghosts/all_these_ghosts’s Say Yes (Tumblr)

""I told you I love you,” he points out.

A smile flirts with the corners of her mouth. “Once,” she says.

“Now it’s twice. You haven’t even said it once.”

The smile fades, and her eyes are dark and trained right on him. Scully says, “I love you”, and his heart does this thing that makes him feel like he’s sixteen years old, even though of course he’s known all along.""

Post Requiem Mulder is not abducted in Oregon; but he does almost scare Scully to death, barging in gun drawn and frightening her into dropping her beloved watermelon.

@frangipanidownunder’s (Ao3) Already Special

""Scully’s news is a thunderbolt. That the impossible truth of their quest is revealed as a collection of growing cells in her uterus. It is both absurd and entirely right. The tears he cries with her are hard to quantify....

So, when Diana makes an appearance at the basement, it’s like the door to their secret world is blown off, leaving them exposed.""

Per Manum Mulder was never abducted; and he and Scully tackle the Lizzie Gill saga with a special addition... Diana Fowley.

@rationalcashew/RationalCashew's

Dark is the Way; Light is the Place - Chapter 26 (Ao3)

""As though it had a mind of its own, his hand reached out to cover her flat stomach. Her eyes, however, never left him; her smile didn’t wane.

“You okay over there?” She asked, after allowing him his moment. Her voice jolted him back into the room.

“Yeah,” he said, awkwardly removing his hand from her body. He let out a breath that he hadn’t realized he’d been holding. In disbelief, he said, “We’re having a baby.""

AU-- Mulder and Scully are sinking into domestic bliss when a serial killer case pulls them out of town. Mulder's paranoia for Scully and their baby's safety begins to put a wedge in their relationship, finally driving Scully back to D.C., trying to give them space while he gets into deeper and deeper trouble.

@cecilysass/cecily_sass/Cecily Sasserbaum's Pause

""Home pregnancy test. 99% Accurate. Results in minutes.

For thirty seconds the box sits there in Scully’s hands. She stares at it.

This box that her mother bought. This box that she put in her daughter’s bag. Her daughter whom she knows is infertile.

Somewhere in the apartment is the sharp sudden sound of Mulder turning off the shower.

Like a ghost, Scully stands up.

She takes the box and holds it under her arm, crosses the room, and steals Mulder’s keys from the entry table.

Without a sound she leaves the apartment.""

AU-- Scully wakes in her car, amnesic and unknowingly pregnant. Mulder at first doesn't believe it's her; and it's not until Maggie verifies and Diana Fowley leaves evidence for the duo to find that he can fully accept that his partner, who was "dead" for a year, is back.

DKSculder's Sweetest Devotion

""I, I had hoped you would be here, when the baby was born. So I put these in my hospital bag, to give to you here.” She took a deep breath, staring at the frayed pages in her hands. “These are my notes, on the x-files, on you. This is a documentation of every case we’ve worked, before I typed them up in reports. It’s mostly shorthand, just my own jotted down notations...."

“What’s the other one?”

“These, are my personal notes. More of a diary, if that’s how you want to look at it. The dates all coincide with the other.” She said softly, handing him the second binding of tattered pages.

He stared at them for longer than he probably should, she had just handed him the truth, her truth."" 

AU-- Scully has been a spy since the Pilot; and she finally confesses it to Mulder after she gets pregnant with their child. Mulder MIA, Mulder returning for a case then ghosting, Mulder arriving in time for the birth of their son, and Mulder crawling back to a form of trust in Scully unfolds painfully slowly.

Thank you for reading~

Enjoy!

[fragilevixenfic]

Chapter Two of "She Walks at Night" titled "Darkness is Light" is finally up.

The story continues as All Hallow’s Eve marches on – from first spill of blood to the seconds ticking toward the witching hour as Mother Nature begins to churn in the not- so-dead of night.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21118628/chapters/55910212

Tagging @starbuck09256 I believe the original story was for you...it has been expanded

Tagging @piecesofscully @poolsidescientist @reasonandfaithinharmony @frangipanidownunder @suitablyaggrieved for the love?