#Three Words

[promptsbytaurie]

dialogue prompts: three words

!!please credit/tag me if you use any! I'd love to see what you write!!

"Power breeds corruption."

"Come here, dumbass."

"Did you care?"

"Hey, it's fashion."

"I can't die."

"You love me?"

"Sir, you're dying."

"Yep, three masters."

"You ignored me."

"I'm very concerned."

"Come on, dance!"

"You were... lying."

"Shhhh, come here."

"Three more hours."

"I was yours."

"Everything ends, eventually."

"Cereal is soup."

"Can't you see?"

"I wanted everything."

"You didn't listen."

"Can I sit?"

"Let me talk."

"Woah, you're dead?"

"Hold onto this."

"She clouds judgement!"

"Don't love me."

"One more chance!"

"I suffered alone."

"Could we try?"

"She was mine."

"You. Are. Disposable."

[is-on-its-way]

The moment Mulder quits

A point in which Mulder was ready to quit the minute he saw Scully hold a baby in season 7 and its effects in season 8

*this is my headcanon, its not gospel obviously Firstly, two scenes that are very linked in my head

Season 7 Ep 22 Requiem and Season 8 Ep 16 Three Words

Look at that face. That dead serious, at all costs face.

Season 7

Requiem. The culmination of Scully and Mulder's secret yearish? long quest for a baby. They've tried for a baby with IVF already. Mulder has promised her he wont give up on a miracle for her and they're well... trying basically, throughout season 7. Perhaps I would call it "hoping" for a baby. Maybe Mulder is hoping and Scully is characteristically ambivalent? Fully not using any contraceptives and I know there's a fic in there somewhere, anyway

The first scene above is why Ive never watched past the season 8 finale. nothing past them agreeing to be a family makes any sense because of Mulders face here. People knock Duchovny for not showing out when acting, but I will always be a defender of subtle acting. The way he can say an entire monologue of dialogue with the minute expressions on his face is quite breathtaking here.

Hes goes from sorrow at Scully not being able to have a baby, sorrow at her loss, sorrow at not being able to give her that; to regret at what he thinks is all his fault, at dragging her into this life; to pure love and affection for her seeing this baby in her lap and how good she is with him; and then a smile peaks out. A smile of hope that could compete with the Mona Lisa. Hope for their future and the certainty with which he knows what he wants so clearly, maybe for the first time in his life. His own family.

Like for the first time hes really deciding the cost is too much and he chooses her over the mission. He chooses their future over everything. And he's hopeful and perhaps even happy about it. which for someone with his amount of family trauma is a seismic shift. For so long he's chased the past in hope of fixing it, completely discombobulated and reckless in his search for well, his family.

Though, from the beginning of that moment in the rainy graveyard, he has slowly unconsciously coming to regard Scully as his family. In small gestures, a hand on her cheek or voicing out loud how important she is to him; to big gestures, giving up who he believes is his actual sister to save her.

We are lucky here, to be able to witness the moment the sparks of unconscious thought bloom into the flame of certainty. He follows up as well. Tells her she has to stay, that the cost doesn't outweigh the price anymore. Sure he wants to finish out this case, but he doesn't work without her, thats been established. Him telling her to stop, is his resignation as well. (There's a fit there too, with Skinner and him on the plane probably Skinner already knowing he's done.)

Thomas Flight praises subtly in acting better than I could ever articulate here:

Season 8

Mulder was weird and the PTSD was implied, but I choose to see it everywhere. After the moment in three words where Mulder tries to let them go gently because he thinks he's too damaged to be a father (Thanks @randomfoggytiger for the meta on that) (there's a fic here obviously where Scully gives him the space to be broken and also hers) After this though, he's not the Mulder as we've seen, ever. He's not the Mulder who

cares about exposing the government so he can say I told you so

cares about saving the public from the invasion

cares about finding the ultimate truth that has driven him since he found the X files

cares about solving cases and one upping the FBI, trying to force them to admit the truth out loud.

Mulder is fighting the entire season for his family.

he cares about exposing the conspiracy so everyone including his child will be safe.

he cares about saving the earth for his child's future

he cares about his childs and his families safety

he has zero concern about the FBI and what they do anymore.

In the second scene above, he's about had it with the entire conspiracy and he's downright pissed. He wants it all to end he doesn't care how. He wants to protect his child above everything. Sure he's usually reckless but this isn't for him and his self involved cause anymore, it's for his family, his wellbeing be damned at some points along the way. He states his thesis in three words while breaking into FBI files in an astonishing show of recklessness

"Look, Scully, I need to make sense of what happened to me. So that I can stop it. Because if I can't stop it, it could happen to anyone. It could happen to you. And who's to say it's going to stop there?"

I always wondered why he was putting Scully through all that, without realising this was the reason. Poor guy. There's nothing else in his purview anymore besides that baby who's in danger, and his family, so much so, when he is ultimately fired from the FBI, he's positively giddy at his newfound freedom.

If he had then gone down a path temporarily where he murdered his way through the remnants of the syndicate to assure the safety of his family John Wick style, I would've absolutely believed it.

It would've been insanely intriguing look at an evolving dynamic between Scully and Mulder. Scully law abiding Mulder reckless as always but with a different motivation. Becoming what he's always feared, to protect the family he has never had. A family he feels like he's only grasping at, as they're slipping through his fingers due to the danger and his recent and past traumas.

There's a reason a lot of the fandom sees Mulder as a happy stay at home dad post wherever they decide to end watching. Thats what he's been searching for his entire life. A happy family with loving parents. When he let go of that dream for himself in Closure, he found he could want that for his future family whatever that looked like (adoption, a miracle, etc.) in Requiem. And I personally don't believe he ever would let that dream go once he realised, I mean we all saw the devotion he had to his sister right?

In other words these are my reasons season 9 onwards make zero sense and I regard them as AU

[erensfeed]

guys what if i surprised you with a 2 or 3 part yandere caleb fic…

would you marry me & let me hide u away from the rest of the world 👹👺

update: wait i posted it….. wait..

[divinemissem13]

"Don't you dare" for Brenda/Sharon (if you're still up for prompts)

I can’t promise to always answer promptly (🥁) but I am always up for prompts! Thanks for another fun one! Tried to be a little less fluffy for a change… with middling success.

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Sharon smiles as she watches Rusty run around the picnic with the younger kids. He might be a little old for this sort of thing but he didn’t exactly have a lot of normal childhood experiences and it warms Sharon’s heart to see him so carefree.

In fact, she is certain she’s never enjoyed a “loosely required” LAPD social event this much — not even when her own children were young.

Until, that is, she feels a presence next to her and hears the all too familiar drawl. “Amazin’ how much he’s changed. Hard to believe that’s the same kid who was turnin’ tricks in Griffith Park.”

“Chief Johnson — oh I’m sorry, it’s not “Chief” any more is it? What do I call you know? Mrs. Deputy Chief Howard?” It’s a low blow and Sharon knows it, but the two hadn’t exactly parted on the best of terms and now she’s insulting Rusty, so Sharon really doesn’t feel too bad about it. “Well, whoever you are these days, Rusty is not a product of the circumstances that were forced upon him in the past and I will thank you not to bring that up again.”

“I’m sorry. For… everythin’,” Brenda says, and it actually sounds like she might mean it. “And whatever you wanna call me, you can drop the ‘Mrs.’” she adds timidly.

Sharon finally turns to look at Brenda and she’s met with those same big brown doe eyes that haunt her dreams. “Fritz?” she asks in a hushed voice.

“Over,” Brenda replies. It is only one word but it carries the weight of the whole dictionary.

Sharon assumed that Brenda had come with Fritz but if not… “What are you doing here?” she hisses, still not willing or able to let herself hope.

“You won’t answer my calls. And I wanted to see you. I… I needed to see you,” Brenda says, fidgeting with her earring.

“Brenda Leigh Johnson, don’t you dare fuck with me again,” Sharon says, a little louder than she intended, drawing curious looks from the people nearby. Sharon grabs Brenda’s arm and pulls her to the relative privacy of a large oak tree. “Don’t. You. Dare.”

“I wouldn’t… I couldn’t… Sharon, I love you. I’ve been miserable these last few months without you and if you’d have me… I swear to you, to me, you will always come first.” She’s crying by the time she’s finished, silent tears streaming down her cheeks which Sharon gently wipes away with her thumbs.

“I want to believe you,” Sharon whispers. “But how can I trust that you’re not going to run away again? I can’t — I won’t — be your dirty little secret. No more.” Her voice is still soft but there is some steel in it now. She will not cave. Not this time.

Brenda looks up at her, the wheels clearly turning behind those chocolate eyes. “No more,” she agrees, draping her arms over Sharon’s shoulders and pulling her closer. “How’s this for not running away?” she asks.

Before Sharon can respond, Brenda is kissing her. Right there, in front of God and the entire LAPD. No hiding, no secrets. Sharon laughs against Brenda’s lips and her hands go to the blonde woman’s slender hips and pulls them flush against her own. (God how she’s missed this feeling!) “It’s a really, really good start,” she murmurs before deepening the kiss.

All around them, nosy spectators (who weren’t deterred at all by their move behind the tree) begin to clap and cheer. Brenda and Sharon barely even notice.

[cecilysass]

Saw your Three Words tags! :DDD

I always read that scene as a sort of joke between them (which I covered in this post, but it's not necessary to read over.)

The play-by-play, according to my theory:

Langly makes his statement.

Mulder hears Langly and becomes suspicious of Scully's involvement, wondering if she'd "set him up" in a One Son do-over.

Scully keeps her face relaxed and neutral, seeking eye contact rather than breaking it-- a sign of her innocence. (Scully can't maintain eye contact if she has something to hide... which she proves, later, after Mulder calls her out for "campaigning.")

We see Mulder's face a second before he registers her uninvolvement (a little bit of panic, a little bit of betrayal)--

--but when he does, his eyes become twinkly as he tilts his head and mockingly squints at her (an unspoken tease over the baby's paternity-- the same as his expression in Empedocles.)

Scully teases him back-- raising her eyebrows and lightly quipping, "So much for playing a hunch, Mulder"-- before transitioning them to TLG's research.

I'm quite passionate about this subject; but, then again, my speculations rest on the fact Mulder already knew the baby was his but wasn't ready to face impending fatherhood. Not a rejection of the baby so much as a protective measure for them... and himself (wracked, as he was, with hidden PTSD.)

I’m with you that Mulder knew he was the father. I mean, I admit I like fanfic where he’s so out of it and confused that it takes him a moment to put it together, and I can go with some “he becomes jealous and suspicious” fanfic if he is characterized as traumatized enough to not be thinking straight.

But in my actual interpretation of the show, he knows and is just in too much numb trauma to act like we think he would right away. I have read your takes on this before, and I think you and I agree.

Now my beef with this little moment (and a few others in this arc) is that it seems written just to string along audiences, to keep them wondering if Mulder is the father, not for coherent storytelling in its own right, to stand on its own and make sense. Everything season 8 until the last possible minute had to be able to be interpreted as either (a) Mulder isn’t the father, and Scully doesn’t think he is; or (b) Mulder is the father, and Scully does think he is.

(I think this was a goofy writing decision because it meant they couldn’t fully push the plot or character implications of either interpretation. Like: If Mulder isn’t the father and Scully doesn’t think so, who tf is the father? We have no info on that. Shouldn’t Scully be worried about that all season long if she doesn’t know? Wouldn’t that be a major plot point? I would sure be worried. Or… if Scully believes Mulder IS the father and starts to have alien baby doubts, did she have an amnio and run DNA or no? Seems like she sure as fuck would have. And it turns out that was relevant. But this is all a side quibble.)

I’m trying to understand what you mean by Mulder could be suspecting Scully has discussed this with the Gunmen in advance, One Son style. You mean that he’s worried she’s trying to pin him down about his role with the baby? Like he’s a little anxious about this? It’s hard for me to get that in DD’s expression there, but maybe?

I can definitely see that maybe he is checking with her because he doesn’t know what she’s told people, or because he’s specifically surprised she hasn’t told the Gunmen. That makes sense, but I don’t know if I think that reads very clearly here. It would have more if Scully had given him a more intentional look back—she almost seems to just cast her eyes his direction—but of course they couldn’t do that, because that would confirm too much.

It sure looks like he’s confused about what Langly means, or even that he’s like, “heavens, why would I be involved in my co-worker’s pregnancy!” And of course I think they wanted it to look like that, so that they could continue the frustrating season 8 plan of making sure people could also possibly interpret this scene as Mulder not being the father. And I think this is why this scene sends people in all kinds of directions on what Mulder’s thinking is.

I do like your take, though. I can headcanon that. I probably would have written him more obviously spacey and traumatized in all of these scenes. I think you have written about wanting to see more of him dealing with this, and I agree. (I wrote a fic about this actually lol.) If Mulder had been having a more visibly difficult time, they could have had him absent-mindedly change the subject or look off in the distance or something. But I know they also wanted him to get to have the jokey, playful dynamic with the Gunmen and that the show hadn’t had that for a long time. And it is fun to see. So I get it.

If I haven’t said it before, though, I looooove these photo by photo interpretations of scenes.

[earhartsease]

love that moment when Mulder is in his flat for the first time after coming back to life and he's like "something's different here" and Scully replies "yeah - its clean" and he chuckles

[aaandbackstabbed]

Stop what you’re doing!! And give me three words to describe Goldie O’Gilt —I’m trying something— pretty please <3

[promptsbytaurie]

dialogue prompts: three words

!!please credit/tag me if you use any! I'd love to see what you write!!

"I don't see?"

"Can you move?"

"We can't die."

"Slow down, tiger."

"I don't kneel."

"Where is she?!"

"This is awkward."

"Hush, young one."

"Is this home?"

"What went wrong?"

"I'm not sorry."

"He can't run!"

"Are you afraid?"

"Maybe I'm evil."

"...She was lying?"

"Don't you understand?"

"Darling, calm yourself."

"Eat my dust."

"Nope, no way."

"I'm not mad."

"Did you die?"

"You are nothing."

"We won't survive."

"I'm never enough."

"If we lose?"

"What a day."

"Um, maybe don't."

"Listen to me!!"

"I see everything."

"Calm down, love."

"This is war."

[yourlovelyspace]

Which ones would be yours? 💝

[precedex-files]

Sometimes the X-Files has some really dated dialogue (Mulder saying he felt like Austin Powers when he came back to life, for example). This snippet SHOULD be dated and referring ONLY to the controversial 2000 election. But we all know how that story goes....brother...

Once again Mulder is right lmao

[soufflegirl]

in je souhaite mulder and scully are finally in a place where they can drink beer together and watch a bad movie and just be. they've closed samantha's chapter and scully is fairly happy and mulder is finally at peace. and then requiem happens and mulder disappears and scully is pregnant and alone. and then mulder is dead and she has to bury him and move on without him while carrying their child and she is alone, alone, alone. and then mulder comes back and the world went on without him and what is his place in a world where scully is pregnant and has a new partner and the x-files weren't shut down because he wasn't there? and so his paranoia comes back and he can't sit still, he can't stay in a place, he has to move and prove that the world still needs him. and scully doesn't know how to be around him and how to communicate with him and tell him that she's carrying their child, their child! and it makes me so sad, because scully was fairly happy and then she's suddenly so alone and mulder was finally at peace and then he doesn't know where he fits in anymore

[x-files-scripts]

The X-Files - “Three Words”

Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz

April 3, 2001 (GOLD)

Scully sees that Mulder is deeply troubled despite his humor...

Mulder’s homecoming...

Deleted scene:

[fringephile]

Dumb question - I'm watching three words. When Scully meets up with Doggett outside and then takes the password back inside to Mulder he says "why are you back?" Isn't it her apartment???

[divinemissem13]

"Give me that!" for Brenda/sharon

Yay! More prompts = more B/S for everyone!

Brenda turns around quickly and just catches the FID Captain as she drops her little notebook to her side. Even if she hadn’t caught a glimpse of the notebook, Brenda would still know something was up, due to the over exaggerated look of nonchalance on the woman’s face. Maybe the reason she is such a stickler for the rules is because Sharon could never in a million years get away with breaking one — not with that poker face.

“What are you writing in that little book of yours?” Brenda demands.

Sharon straightens her back and fixes Brenda with an icy glare. “Nothing you need to worry about, Chief.”

Brenda stares the other woman down for a moment and then huffs, “Fine,” before turning back to what she was doing. Her focus remains on the captain, however, and the moment she hears the scratching of pencil on paper, she pounces, snatching the notebook out of her hands and spinning around in her chair to use her desk as a shield.

“Give me that! You have no right!” Sharon exclaims. She tries to reach around the blonde to retrieve the book but it’s too late, she is already flipping through the pages with a silly smile growing on her face.

“I didn’t know you could draw,” she says, half teasing and half reverent as she studies the most recent sketch.

“I can’t,” Sharon protests. “I just like to doodle you… sometimes,” she shrugs weakly.

Brenda tosses the book aside and leans across the desk, resting her chin on her hands. “Mmhmm, and just how long have you been doodlin’ me, Captain?” she asks with a mischievous grin.

Sharon reddens slightly as she leans forward so that she is eye to eye with the chief. “Oh, I’d say going on about three months, don’t you think?” she asks casually, as if she hasn’t been counting.

“82 days,” Brenda confirms, leaning even closer. “You’ve really got a talent for it, I’d say.”

“Brendaaaa,” Sharon whines breathily, their faces only centimeters apart, “we’re at work!” It may be after hours, but they are still in Brenda’s office and the blinds aren’t even shut.

“You are so right, Captain. I am so sorry if I’ve crossed a line.” Brenda straightens up and sits back in her chair, leaving Sharon glassy eyed and flustered as she sits back into her own chair.

Brenda tosses the book back across the desk and smirks, “Keep practicin’. Then maybe later tonight I can doodle you.”

[raspberrybluejeans]

my one flex is that i have never had a problem spelling restaurant. i have trouble with a lot of other random words but not restaurant

[multiversewatchpost]

Chat...here to inform you that you all may do whatever the fuck you want with my mythology au....

You guys can make up whatever headcanons and shit you want...if I like them enough I may even make them canon.......

Just don't tag me in any potentially nsfw posts (I don't want to see those because I'm still a minor and don't want to interact with that kind of content but youre allowed to make it, just keep it away from me) and we're good

(also...this should be obvious but like....don't make any incest or pedo ships with any of these characters....that's gross and i dont want that stuff associated with my au)

...you are all infact encouraged to interact with my au, if I came across something about it I would literally start foaming at the mouth, I'm so obsessed with my au i want more content but im the one that needs to make all the content for it..... 😔😔😔😔😔