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randomfoggytiger · 1 year ago

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Tumblr's being weird, so I'm reposting! :DDD

@dd-is-my-guiltypleasure submitted:

The main flavor was breakup; but I took that idea and stretched it out for more flavor wiggle room~.

Here's some selections:

Breakup

@crossedbeams/CrossedBeams's Misty Blue (Ao3)

""There aren’t words for the misty damp of a London morning in October, for the peculiar glow of shining, uneven pavements or for how the low-hanging sun burnishes the leaves to brazen gold against the grey sky. You can’t prepare for a city so steeped in its ways that it’s forgotten how idiosyncratic it is. For the first time in forever, Mulder regrets not having a camera ready to capture Scully turning slowly in the sepia sunlight, admiring the red-brick terrace of the hotel, the higgledy run of buildings older than their home country, her smiling and blushing when she catches him staring.

Instead, he’d taken her hand, pulling her into the past, into a maze of winding corridors and brass doorknobs, a past without alien conspiracy or men lurking in the shadows and with every twist of the panelled hall he’d felt her joy push back against the hollowness Mulder had thought might swallow him from within.""

Post IWTB Mulder is slipping into a deeper depression while on a London trip with Scully. She picks up that something is wrong, but doesn't know how pervasive the problem is.

@keatingscully's Broken Puzzle

""The house was still and dark, no decorations in sight and no sign of living. His car was parked in the driveway and he was nowhere to be seen, hidden away in the dark like the monsters they used to chase together.

The porch creaked underneath her high heels, the wood in the need of a carpenter that he could afford but refused to pay. He was stubborn, hardheaded, and inflexible. From the way he would not budge on how he refused to use a separate shower poof and how he would not give up on loving her. Maybe it was all he had left to hold onto, wrapping the gift in the paper he had been buying from the dollar store for nearly two decades.""

Post Breakup Mulder sends a box to Scully for Christmas. She decides-- amidst Bill's jeers and Maggie's support-- to at least check-in with him. They both know she won't stay... but maybe someday.

@oceanofthesky/noifsandsorbees's open door. - Chapter 1- (Ao3)

""she’s not ready to walk out the door, either. not ready to sleep alone and surround herself with silence, deprive herself of the debates and banter that had been second nature from the moment she met him, but he took away that option months ago, turning their relationship into something she didn’t recognize – or maybe that she recognized all too well, as she watched him get lost inside his own head and the endless reaches of the internet.

so she leaves the key, leaves a way for him to know that if he can ever do what she couldn’t, if he can pull himself out of his head, that she is still right there.

it’s three months before he uses it.""

Post Breakup Scully leaves Mulder with a key to give him someplace else to come to whenever he has better or worse days.

vulcanscully's Hello, it's Me

""Dana Scully did not know why she was here. This was not her home anymore. It had not been her home for many months. The last time she had seen Fox Mulder, it had been from her rear view mirror as she drove away from this place. His expression--shattered, silent, resigned--was the last memory she’d captured of him.

She sat there, in what was supposed to have been their new start, their forever. Tears she’d kept behind her throat for over a year came stumbling down her face, and she held her cell phone to her ear with trembling fingers, listening to the ups and downs of his speech over and over. She recalled their last conversation. Piercing hollers followed by quieter, somber syllables which were almost worse—words comprised of regret, of unmasked grief for what had been and what neither of them could have.

(MulderdontmakemedothisMulderpleaseMulderletmehelpyouMulderstopMulderMulderMULDER GOODBYE)

And then, his voice. Ringing not through the speakers of her phone, but through the room, with a slight echo:

“Scully.""

Post Breakup Mulder stops leaving random voice messages; and Scully, too worried to overthink her actions, zooms over to see if he's alright, realizing her own faults while she waits and reflects. (I adore this fic; but I'm biased.)

Assorted

lea-nicci/Lea Nicci's West of Sunrise Part 1/2, Part 2/2

""It was chilling, the dead look in his bloodshot eyes. Even more frightening were his next words: "I feel like I'm drowning, Scully," he whispered brokenly and her breath caught in her throat.

Impulsively, she reached out and squeezed his hand. He closed his eyes at the touch and it was all she needed to see.

Quietly, she left the room and began making phone calls.

It was going to be a long day.""

AU-- S5 Scully realizes Mulder has sunk into a depression... and that she hadn't noticed. She moves in, determined to help him heal at his pace. Of course, his adversaries aren't going to leave him alone when he's at his most vulnerable.

RocketMan's Lemon Trees

""But he survived. With Scully's help he dodged the carefully aimed arrows of fire; she looked out for him. He hated having to constantly watch what he said and did so that it would not be used against him. He hated sitting at home alone, wondering when Cancer Man would start the battle all over again. It was pure politics and Mulder was getting sick of it. But he had to keep fighting it and the only one who could strengthen him, keep him from giving up completely was Scully.

Until they attacked her.""

AU-- Scully reflects on the past rollercoaster of events-- Mulder put on trial to lose files and almost committing suicide, losing her credibility and meeting CSM's terms to get Mulder's work back, their marriage-- leading up to her S4 cancer emergence and infertility knowledge. Mulder won't give up, tracking down the Crawford clones to find a possible cure (which leads to IVF.) Both learn how to live.

Hope these do the trick! :DDDDDD

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