#emily scully

[dumbassdumas]

[httpjupiterbby]

i hate it here so i will go to secret gardens in my mind (fictional women)

[jtt-033-1613]

Wuthering Heights x The X-Files part I

[louistonehill]

X Files but they got to keep the psychic children Emily and William

[minuit-blanche]

No no the best ship dynamic is actually the sweetheart who learns to be ferocious x the monster who learns to be gentle

[is-on-its-way]

a peek into mulders trauma re raising a little girl…

Inspired by this tweet:

He sighed as he put the key in the door, his face prereddening at knowing what was in store. Emily had been chattering the entire way home about telling mommy the exciting thing that happened at target. He had tried to smile along and be normal for her.    

She poked him in the chin with a tiny slightly damp five year old finger, bringing him out of his gloomy reverie.

“Poppa, are you sad?” She lifted her head off his shoulder and peered around to look at his face.

He couldn’t help but smile at her, she melted his heart. Every word, every gesture, and angle, so like her mother and yet so like her. Freer than Scully, untouched by the trauma and the heaviness of their world. His heart fluttered with the surge of adreniline he felt at what couldve happened to her if she wasnt just innocently lost and the store employee hadn’t found her. 

“No bub, I’m just a little shaken up at losing you in the store.”

“But it was fun!” She kicked her feet on his hip as they walked in. 

“What was fun?” Scully said walking out from the kitchen a spoon in her hand, her face lighting up when she saw her daughter’s smile.

The pang of guilt hit him hard.

She took Emily’s face in her free hand and kissed her cheek. ���Hi my baby” 

“I got lost.” Emily said proudly.

Scullys eyebrows shot up “Oh?” 

She glanced at mulder amused, but cocked her head when she saw him ashen faced. 

“Where did you get lost?” She asked jovially her eyes lingered on him for a moment, it felt like enternity. He was supposed to protect her, scullys only child. He almost… he couldnt think about it. 

“Target!” He heard her say through a tunnel.

“Well tell me all about it while poppa puts the stuff away.” She leaned forward to take emily from him. All he could manage was ‘Thanks’ quietly as he helped her into Scully’s arms. He pulled her ridden-up shirt down and then went to the bathroom with the drug store things they’d picked up. A new pink dinosaur toothbrush and equally jarring bright pink toothpaste with cartoon characters on the tube for Emily and some stuff the house needed. 

He stood in front of the sink and held the little toothbrush in his hand. So small the tiny bristles. Kid sized. 

She was so tiny for her age. Just like Scully had been, or so she’d told him at Emily’s first pediatrician appointment after they’d brought her home. 

He sank to the toilet and held the brush in his hand as tears blured his vision. He could’ve lost her. He had lost her. He could’ve really lost her. Just like Sam. Just like Scully. Her joy, and her innocence, and her fierce fearlessness lost. And it yet again wouldve been his fault. Having to come home to tell Scully. He sat up at the thought rubbing his face, trying to escape it.

Visions of fleeing sprang from deep in his psyche as they did whenever the universe made him aware of just how much of a fuckup he was. 

They’d be better off. He invited chaos into their lives. 

They didn’t deserve that. 

He didn’t deserve them. 

A soft knock on the door told him he’d been in here way too long. 

“Mulder” she called through the door. “Are you okay?”

He wiped his tears quickly but more came. “Yeah” his wobbly voice gave him away.

She opened the door.

And when he looked up at her blinking, life falling apart in his hands, she came to him and knelt between his legs and closed hers around them, holding him together. 

A hand to his cheek, her gentle soothing whisper “Its okay.” 

“No its not. What if she had…” His voice shuddered

“But she didnt, kids get lost in stores, it wasnt anything more than that.” She stroked his hair.

“I was so scared.”

“Oh mulder.” She squeezed his fingers in hers. “I know.” 

And he was bending over to bury his face in her shoulder as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He pulled her onto his lap from her kneeling position. And she breathed an “Oh” in surprise, but only hugged him more firmly, as he tried to calm himself down.

When the tears stopped falling, he asked quietly “Where is she now?” 

“Watching Mr. Rogers or…” She checked her watch. “Lamb Chop probably by now.”

He looked up at her bleary eyed “I’m sorry.”

She shook her head slightly with a sad look on her face. “Theres nothing to forgive, except maybe yourself.” She brushed her fingers on his chin. 

“I don’t deserve you. Either of you” He wanted to give her an out.

She leaned her forehead to his. “Of all the people in the world, you are the only one who deserves us.”

He pulled her fingers to his lips, but couldn’t meet her eyes.

“I’ll say it until you believe it.” She whispered, lips at his ear.

He sighed into her collar bone.

@today-in-fic if this qualifies…

[pookie-mulder]

The first Mother’s Day after Emily dies, Mulder gets Scully a card. Not even a Mother’s Day card, just a vague “I’m thinking of you” card that caught his eye at the grocery store.

He writes a short message on the inside, signs his name Love, M, and puts it on her desk the next day, too nervous to hand it to her directly.

She never mentions it, much to his relief. But she can tell he’s grieving, too, despite his attempts to hide it. So the following Father’s Day, she does the same for him.

Dear Mulder,

I know you weren’t her father, but I don’t doubt that with time, that’s who you would have become.

Love,

S

[saintskeptic]

tw: sexual assault

I'm sure this has been discussed many times before (and not just in txf, but in any alien abduction fiction) —but I was struck by Scully's regression hypnosis scene in The Blessing Way, and how clearly it paints alien abduction as a metaphor for sexual assault.

I think it can be easy to imagine "being abducted by aliens on TV" through a lens of fantastical campiness, but at its core, the terror that alien abduction explores in fiction is the fear of assault: a complete loss of control over one's body.

The regression hypnosis scene was interesting and effective at not only exploring Scully's feelings about the event, but characterizing her as a survivor. Scully painfully recalls feeling powerless, unable to resist what was happening to her.

Seeing her distress, Scully's therapist reaches out to touch her, causing her to flinch back and exclaim "NO."

It's a heartbreaking scene. (and one that makes me un-excited to re-experience the disrespect the writers will continue to hurl at Scully in the form of even more trauma and gender violence as the show continues... sigh...)

[katebeckets]

I finished The X-Files. I am crying in so many ways for many different reasons. I love you Dana Scully. I love you Fox Mulder. I will be actively erasing parts of this experience from my memory. ♥️

[seapotty]

Emily

[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

My headcanon is that Agent Dana Scully from the X-Files was Emily Prentiss’ gay awakening…

…like every other baby lesbian who watched this show in the 90s.

Can so clearly picture a younger Emily staring at her boxy TV and drooling over this woman.

[flappielxx123]

I just recently watched the Emily episodes and can we just talk about how Mulder Immediately went protective father mode the second he met her?!

He was like you're the daughter of the woman I love so I'll love you with my whole heart to

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Wuthering Heights x The X-Files part II

[hvnniedraws]

emily (closeups)

[unremarkablehouse]

It occurs to me that Mulder could have easily provided his character reference for Scully’s adoption bid over the phone when she was going to court to get custody of Emily. This is standard practice (even back then), especially when the reference is in another state and it’s over the holidays. This is probably what Skinner was required to do (they verify your employment etc.)

I love that Mulder literally received Scully’s call and went straight to the airport to be there for her. Being separated for 3 days was too hard on the poor guy, lol.

[dunhamhairograpy]

'Emily' Draft Script: Scully and Kresge Were Attracted to Each Other 👀💦

In the draft script for Emily, Detective Kresge and Scully were attracted to each other. There were very, very subtle hints in the aired episode (unbuttoning his shirt) but in the draft script he kissed her.

I'm here for it. She needed to turn Mulder's head from time to time.