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california-112 · 24 days ago

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Ying and Yang and Turning Corners for the fic titles ask game?

Ah, two hits on episode-style storylines! Both are styled as S1 MOTW episodes, and both of them I'm REALLY keen to write in full when I get the time :')

Ying And Yang

Plot

Whilst investigating what is alleged to be a recent UFO crash site, Mulder witnesses a car crash, and helps the driver, calling 911. Before passing out, the driver mentions seeing bright lights in the sky shortly before crashing. When Scully attends the scene, she and Mulder go over the crash site together, but find nothing.

Mulder goes to look for X files related to the case whilst Scully enquires after the crashed car's driver; he is still in a coma, and has been ever since Mulder touched his shoulder at the scene. She goes to see Mulder and check on his progress, and they do a day or so of office work. However, a night or two later, she learns that Mulder is completely unable to sleep, and hasn't done so for almost four days, despite actively trying to by taking sleeping pills etc.. Worried about his physical and mental wellbeing and that there might be something else going on, Scully takes Mulder to the hospital, where the staff are so concerned that he is put in a medically induced coma.

At the same moment that Mulder goes unconscious, the driver wakes up. He starts speaking about lights and a strange shape in the sky and everyone thinks that he just has a head injury but Scully believes him as it tallies with Mulder's reports. However, he has to be sedated again, and as soon as he is under, Mulder wakes up, despite the coma. He begins to join the timing dots and realises that his consciousness is somehow tied to the driver's: only one of them can be awake at a time. Mulder says that whilst he was out he was reliving the minutes before the accident and that he has new information, which he explains.

Meanwhile, the driver is having an operation for injuries sustained during the crash. It is touch and go, and he codes on the table. At the same time, Mulder begins to have a seizure. As there is no logical cause, this makes Scully believe in the tied consciousnesses theory, and she insists that the doctors delay resuscitating the driver until Mulder stops seizing. This seems to work, as Mulder and the driver then remain both unconscious but for their separate reasons.

Notes

The title is a reference to the general idea of light and shadow, sleep and wakefulness, balanced opposites, etc., and will probably get a one-line mention at some point in the fic

I got the idea for this fic from when I was researching sleep disorders because for the 65 hours after I started watching TXF, I only slept for 9, and they weren't even mildly in a row. I was a MESS ('was' lol). And so I thought, hey, let's project that onto my current favourite character. *Bill Wurtz voice* I could make a religion storyline out of that

The climax scene might get changed so that Mulder gets more whump, but I don't know yet how I'd fit that into the storyline properly.

I'm not a doctor so the medically induced coma thing is very much a guess at what would be the treatment for sleep deprivation but I need it for the plot so it's staying in :')

I was also looking at wacky clothing and found this shirt, so have executively decided that Mulder owns and wears it:

Snippet

This is part of the scene when Scully first comes to ask Mulder about his research into the case. Unfortunately, I have answered my door dressed in roughly the same manner before, so this is from experience. Featuring the shirt from above...

Mulder opened his front door only to temporarily blind himself with the bright corridor lights outside the dark of his apartment. At first, his only view was of two vague figures, both shorter than him and instantly familiar. It was only after a few long seconds of peering at them, though, that they resolved into one, and he recognised his visitor.

"Scully?"

"Well that's impressive," she opened, "inside out and back to front."

Following her gaze to his t-shirt, he felt around the neck for a moment with clumsy hands before finding the label to be sticking out a short way below his chin.

"Yeah," he murmured, smiling slightly, "I've got a talent for it."

"May I come in?"

"You don't have to ask." Mulder replied, stepping aside to let her pass.

She found a lamp to turn on just as the door was shut behind her, revealing the apartment to be cluttered but not dirty. Mulder had taken a seat on a couch just outside the circle of light, and was rubbing his eyes.

"What's the time?" he asked.

"Just gone four. Honestly I was hoping you wouldn't answer." She looked at him critically. "Have you slept at all?"

"Nah, I've just been going through the files. Nothing yet matches the MO of this…whatever it is." He yawned. "How's Sholenthal?"

"No change." Scully replied. "Sooner or later, though, he's going to need surgery. The coma is the only thing stopping them right now, they don't know the full extent of his injuries and what they can give him for anaesthetic. If takes much longer to come back then they're going to have to get an executive decision from somebody to take a chance."

Scully rubbed at her face, clearly exhausted. Mulder watched her for a moment before speaking. "You want coffee?"

"I want some sleep," Scully replied in a droll voice, "but given that you're awake, sure, why not. You can tell me what you've found in these files."

Five minutes later, Mulder emerged from the kitchen with two cups of steaming hot coffee, some case files tucked under his arm, and his t-shirt the right way out. It showed an incredibly cheesy picture of three stereotypical green aliens underneath a flying saucer, surrounded by green lightning and headed by the words 'WE ARE AMONG YOU'. Scully snorted when she saw it.

"Really, Mulder?" she asked, taking the proffered cup of coffee, "I mean, I can't say I'm exactly surprised, but really?"

"Saw it at a yard sale in college," Mulder replied, putting the files on the table next to his own drink, "for a dollar, how could I resist."

His partner merely shook her head, well able to imagine a younger version of her partner making such a purchase. Screw it, she could imagine him as he was now making that purchase. Some things never changed.

Turning Corners

Plot

Mulder and Scully are called to the scene of a subway train crash in Chicago. However, when they arrive they learn that the train hasn't crashed at all- it's completely vanished. There are also two missing subway maintenance workers.

Mulder quotes a handful of related X files of vehicles disappearing then reappearing in the same position six, twelve, twenty-four or more hours later, notably all multiples of six. He decides to review the files and the new case information whilst Scully follows her own scientific approach. She discovers that anything moving in one direction disappears, but things going in the other direction are fine. Once this is established, there is an extremely careful search of the tunnel, moving only one way, and find that there is a recent repair at one point at the single bend in the route between the two stations.

When Mulder reports back, it's to say that the only common element seems to be the presence of roadworks at each of the sites. Scully tells him what was found in the tunnel and also that the missing train was the first one through after the repairs; they suspect that the missing and reappeared vehicle was also the first to pass the roadworks in all the cases. Tracing the repair companies is inconclusive. Interviews with the workers who worked on the tunnel that evening give them a time for when the two missing workers vanished, and they set a watch for them at the station they were meant to gave got to, but there is nothing at the six or twelve-hour mark.

At twenty-four hours after their disappearance, though, they reappear, with no idea about any missing day; as far as they were aware, they just took two minutes to walk to the platform. They are medically ok and pass polygraph tests. The missing train reappears twenty-four hours after its disappearance time as well, and the people who went looking for it. When there is definitely nobody else expected to come through, the repairs are very carefully undone/redone, and Mulder volunteers to walk the line in the danger direction to test it (he is vaguely hoping to experience it for himself). Scully is against this but he goes anyway.

He gets through without incident, and there is a sweet hug moment of relief/adrenaline running out. The transit authority don't allow any more investigation as they need to get trains running again and blow off the public/press. It remains basically unsolved.

Notes

I actually am still hoping for a better title for this one, but it is what it is for now. I think it needs more justification within the plot...the only corner turned is in the tunnel where the subway train disappears, but maybe there could be some meta elements mentioned.

This was my second ever TXF fic idea!

It precipitated this meme:

Like I say, I'm very keen to write this, particularly as it has a solid plan and also some snippets! Speaking of snippets...

Snippet

A bit shorter this time, but hopefully one day it will grow! This is during the opening scene. And no, I haven't named all the characters yet :')

"There's been a train crash in the subway," [] explained, "looks like it could be a simple derailing, but there could be something more sinister involved, possibly a bomb."

"Yeah, that's what I read," Mulder said, "but surely you could've called anyone from the Bureau, got the local guys to have a look."

"Why request us all the way from Washington?" Scully asked, not doing much to hide her annoyance at being pulled out of bed in the middle of the night for something that wasn't even appearing interesting, let alone relevant to the X files. "A train crash is not a sufficient reason to involve the Bureau," she continued, annoyed, "not unless you've got definite evidence of this bomb theory or a strong suspicion of a federal-level threat."

As they moved through the flood door, [] allowed it to swing shut behind him, booming in the silence and echoing away down the corridor. He fixed both agents with a hard and slightly rattled stare.

"There's no crash."

"What?" Scully said, "then why are-"

"Because there's no train." [] continued gravely.

"What?" Mulder asked, suddenly seeming interested.

"The whole thing's vanished, like into thin air." [] said, beginning to sound more afraid. "Left Jackson and never arrived at LaSalle. A couple of our guys that we sent to take a first look reported that the tunnel was clear all the way to LaSalle, no train anywhere. A little bit after they said that…they vanished too." He swallowed reflexively. "Those were my sufficient reasons to get the Bureau involved."

Scully glanced at Mulder incredulously, only to find that his eyes were alive with enthusiasm.

"And the right section too." he replied, already hurrying on down the corridor towards the platforms. "Southbound, right?"

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