#tatooedlaura

[randomfoggytiger]

Collector's Edition: Reworking Requiem and Mulder's Return (Part IV)

More Requiem AUs!

Loose chronological order below~

Katherinexx1's Miracle

He didn't notice it right away, but she had created this heart-shaped figure on her belly placing her hand next to his.

Pre-Requiem: Scully finds out the big news before Mulder leaves for Oregon again.

JET's (mulderscreek, tumblr, freeservers) Snippet Fic

She conceded, "So our track record has been iffy at best during the most recent Decembers. But last year wasn't too bad."

"Yeah, I think the highlight of the month was when I was attacked by zombies."

Pre-Requiem: There is no baby, and no abduction-- only Scully picking up Mulder during the holidays.

XPhileChai's Life is like a new case - you never know what you're gonna get.

She opened her eyes and met his. He saw the change in her eyes go from "calm and happy" to "oh, yeah, I'm in a car on a stakeout".

Pre-Requiem: Mulder rushes Scully to the hospital, where they discover she miscarried one of two babies.

@alsoablankslate/tabulaxrasa 's (LJ, tripod) Things Outside

The sun was setting, and the sky was a wide swath of indigo out the kitchen window. Sometimes it was very beautiful here. Summer here was like springtime in DC, maybe. How you were always conscious of it, of the rightness of the season, the perfect fit of area and temperature and color and the smell of the air.

They couldn't find out about the baby.

Pre-Requiem: Mulder is never abducted-- instead, he and Scully are put under house arrest.

@myownsuperintendent (Ao3)

“Marry Me” (Ao3)

He hadn’t expected her to say that soon, but he knows she means it.  Her practicality makes him smile.

Pre-Requiem: Mulder recalls how he and Scully discovered her pregnancy before he left for Oregon; and decides to seal their partnership with a proposal. 

Fic: “No Secrets” (Ao3)

“You could have died if I hadn’t gone back and looked at your medical records from last year.  If I hadn’t figured out what was happening and how to reverse it.  And you…you weren’t going to tell me?”  Her voice is no longer even now, but she’s not yelling either; it sounds like all the air has gone out of her.

“I didn’t think there was anything we could do about it,” he says, but he realizes how stupid that is even as he’s saying it. 

Post Requiem: Scully not only finds Mulder after his return but also heals his brain disease. 

@drbedeliadumaurier/heartsfilthylesson's scully finds out she's pregnant before mulder leaves/isolated systems - Chapter 2

Beside her in a near-stranger’s living room, Mulder seems both somber and hopeful. He reaches for her hand and Scully knows his thoughts are filled with stolen ova and failed IVF and the child she lost and the one he’s not aware she’ll have. She needs to tell him.

Pre-Requiem: Scully knows, and decides to tell Mulder the news after her chills in Bellefleur.

Donna/donnah’s (Gossamer, mulderscreek) Alternatives

"I just, I just . . . I just hit the ground."

"Just lie still."

"Why is this happening to me?" He brushed a tear that escaped her eye and trailed down her cheek.

Requiem: Mulder drags Scully to the hospital.

Pattie’s Erlenmeyer Injustice

Not a day goes by that I don't think of the implications of this job, and especially this partnership. The knowledge that one or both of us might be killed or permanently injured in the line of duty hides in the backdrop, waiting to be cast and played out, by directors unknown.

Requiem: Mulder chooses to leave with the alien ship.

@tatooedlaura-blog/tatooedlaura/Laura Sprys's Oregon

The pull to go to them overwhelmed …

The need to join, to stand in the light, defied nature …

But he remained rooted in place.

Requiem: Mulder doesn't leave with the ship, and is panicked after receiving a panicked phone call from TLG.

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

Upon their arrival at Dulles International Airport in D.C., Mulder was fit to be tied and Skinner was ready to clamp the handcuffs on him and throw Mulder in the trunk of his car.

Requiem: Mulder rushes back to Scully’s side.

Maidenjedi's Would That I Could Travel Both

She held her breath as his arms wrapped around her, and felt his reluctance to leave her as much as his eagerness to go, to discover, to find the all-encompassing Truth.

Requiem: Amidst a selection of AUs, Mulder didn't get his answers but did have a happy ending.

Erin M. Blair’s The Blessing

He stood in the doorway of her hospital room and walked toward the chair by the bed. Pulling it as close to the bed as possible, he sat gingerly on the chair's edge, then gently held her hand in his.

Requiem: Scully floors Mulder with her pregnancy news.

bellefleur’s "Arms Wide Open"

I look over to see my partner's mother standing a few feet away from me, stock still and drained of color, with her hand covering her mouth. It's takes me a minute, but as I register the fact that her first sight was of me sitting in the hallway with my head in my hands, and then with obvious tear tracks on my face, I begin to comprehend her reaction. She must have immediately thought the worst.

Requiem: Mulder hears the news from Scully; and panics, fleeing the room. Maggie helps him get his head in the game. 

dmwones's Anagrams

"We can attempt to stabilize Dana for as long as possible. Give her blood transfusions, and corticosteroids. One to treat the low platelets, the other to help the fetus' lungs mature. But it's not a cure. Her body is under duress and HELLP syndrome is life-threatening. We can maybe buy a few extra days. But you're going to have to make a decision."

Requiem: In one of many AUs, Mulder is never abducted; but Scully and their baby still suffer complications.

Thanks for reading~

Enjoy!

[actual-changeling]

Hi! I'm doing a rewatch of the x files and this is the first time I got so invested in MSR and I was wondering if you had some fic recs? there are so so many online I have no idea how to find the best ones lol I'm okay with explicit content btw thanks in advance!

Give me a few days and I'll make a more comprehensive masterpost but I can give you some good starting points!

Self-promo first, you can find me on ao3 and any tumblr-only ficlets under the tag #alex writes x files. My bookmarks are public and I save every single fic I read on there, so you can have a look through those if you want.

@today-in-fic this is the account to follow to get fresh fics on your dash. they simply reblog any TXF fanfics they get tagged in, so they're somewhat of an archive in by itself.

Writers plus general amazing TXF accounts

@msrafterdark if you don't mind smut then this one is a must!

@bakedbakermom // @sisterspooky1013 // @thursdayinspace

@randomfoggytiger (an absolute goldmine concerning everything MSR and TXF, especially when it comes to meta posts)

@television-overload // @baronessblixen // @thescullyphile

@deathsbestgirl // @scullysexual // @numinousmysteries

@fine-nephrit // @scullysflannel // @fossilizedhearts

@not-aliens // @julmunne

More Additions by @unremarkablehouse

@phillippadgettwrites (smut warning!)

@tatooedlaura-blog // @agent-troi // @katy-kt-katie

@thatfragilecapricorn30 // @slippinmickeys // @skelavender

@freckleslikestars // @gaycrouton // @cassiopeia462

@lotsoforangesoutside // @spookydarlablack

(Live) Episode Reaction & Rewatches

@enigmaticxbee @mulders-too-large-shirt

Other Specializations

Dana Scully Lookbook Project The X-Files Script Archive

AO3 author & fic recs

Sareki (author)

Thirty Five Hundred Miles And A Lifetime To Go

Long hours on the road and in the skies, how will Dana Scully and Fox Mulder fill the silence? What silence?  A collection of road trip oneshots through their years together and the games they play..

The Modern Gateway Motel

After a traumatic experience, Mulder fabricated an X-file as a way to help Scully escape reality. Over the years, they returned to “investigate” that special place and take advantage of all it had to offer, exploring aspects of their relationship that they attempted to ignore in the real world. As time passed, it grew harder to confine the relationship they shared to that specific time and place.

Gradients

He didn’t want Scully in his bed so much as he wanted that last barrier gone. Sex seemed to be the demarcation for her, as she’d apparently decided that once that hurdle had been cleared, it would signal her complete surrender to him. As if she hadn’t already done that. As if he hadn’t with her a long time ago.

PLEASE feel free to leave your own additions (self promo explicitly welcomed) and I'll add them.

[baronessblixen]

Saw your request for tucking/blankets fic, and I rummaged some up as quickly as possible:

AU/Scully prevents Mulder's suicide in Gethsemane, tucks him in so he can sleep: Fortune's Fool - Pares (kormantic) - The X-Files [Archive of Our Own]

Mulder caring for Scully after bullet shot, rough case/he ends up barreling her off the bed while thinking Maggie is an intruder: Your place or mine - Chapter 3 - tatooedlaura - The X-Files [Archive of Our Own]

Mulder used Samantha's security blanket for comfort; Scully became his replacement: Gossamer | Story: "Blanket of Dreams" by Piper

Post Orison Skinner finds Mulder cuddling with a sleeping Scully on the couch: Gossamer | Story: "Simple" by JourneyToX

Last part in 3 part series: Mulder escapes captors and collapses back at his apartment. He wakes to find himself cozily tucked in by his resourceful Scully, who dragged him to bed with a blanket: Gossamer | Story: "Fox's Den III - Home Sweet Home" by D'Muse, Thalia

Post Lamaze couch cuddles: Gossamer | Story: "More Perfect Fit, A" by DM

These are just a few, but hope you like! :DDDD

Thank you so much!

Your Place or Mine is one of my all-time faves. Still hoping it will one day get updated 😁

[randomfoggytiger]

This deserves some bug fic reccs, though Scully seems to keep saving Mulder in these fics (except for Of Webs and Flames where Mulder uses spiders for... romance??)

Cornerofmadness’s Of Webs and Flames 

@fbi-angel-in-a-trenchcoat​​/DanaFox1013/easyqueenie’s Monster 

FountainofGeek’s Late Night Request 

@tatooedlaura-blog​​‘s (Ao3, Gossamer) Spider Babies (Ao3) 

in which dana scully must deal with her partner’s (canon) hatred of bugs

[lilydalexf]

Old School X is a project interviewing X-Files fanfic authors who were posting fic during the original run of the show. New interviews are posted every Tuesday.

Interview with tatooedlaura (Laura Sprys)

Laura has 28 fics at Gossamer, but the big treasure trove of her stories is at AO3, where she has 193 fics. Thank goodness for the richness of the X-Files and for talented, creative people like Laura who can find so many interesting ways to tell tales in the show’s universe. Big thanks to Laura for doing this interview.

Does it surprise you that people are still interested in reading your X-Files fanfics and others that were posted during the original run of the show (1993-2002)?

Maybe reading mine but reading older fic in general is something I still do and something I still find entertaining. I do wish i could get into my old fics and post a warning that some of those were written before the author: ever had a drink, ever had sex, ever had a boyfriend, ever lived on her own, ever had a real job, or ever experienced much of anything in the real world.

Then again, fanfic is a perfect time capsule for the age and it’s always fun to see where the originals started and how they’ve grown.

What do you think of when you think about your X-Files fandom experience? What did you take away from it?

Back in the day and up and through today, it has always been a fun experience. From it, I’ve learned to love writing. I’ve learned that fans are crazy, weird, wonderful, generous, talented, committed, passionate, and imaginative. In a fandom, you can think whatever you wish and write about anything you like and because I’ve been around so long, I’ve gotten to watch the storylines shift and the relationships change ...

Social media didn't really exist during the show's original run. How were you most involved with the X-Files online (atxc, message board, email mailing list, etc.)?

Originally, I never had much interaction with people other than ones who sent emails commenting on my fanfic … the internet at my parents house was dial-up and I had to access through the AOL free disks that arrived in the mail so, for the most part, I didn’t have the bandwidth or the connection speed to do more than upload stories and download episode guides.

Good lord, I remember submitting a story and having to wait upwards of two days to two weeks before the new batch of stories was posted ... then ephemeral came around and you could actually have your story up in under a day ... all ya'll who started on tumblr and ao3, you have it great, let me tell you :)

One thing that stands out in my mind still (and I’m still friends with her on Facebook) was a woman from western Canada who I stumbled across somewhere while looking for the blooper reels. She offered to send me her copies on VHS for my collection. I don’t think she asked for payment and one day, a package arrived from a lovely woman near Lethbridge, bloopers playable, tapes labeled in clear printing. I still appreciate that 20 some odd years later :)

What did you take away from your experience with X-Files fic or with the fandom in general?

Fandoms are crazy places. Tread lightly at first but enjoy what you want, ignore what you don’t, rewrite what you hate, and write what you love. Don’t be an asshole when you don’t agree with someone … when you do, tell them …

What was it that got you hooked on the X-Files as a show?

I was on board from the first episode. It was a show about two people who you felt were destined to be together but weren’t, and wouldn’t be for years. It was a cop show about aliens and a monster show with cops. I was in the right place at the right time in the right frame of mind and there was just something that clicked and I never looked back. Friends were not allowed to call me on Friday night and once it switched to Sunday, I made sure that my parents got us on early evening bowling league so we’d be home in time to watch. Even my boyfriend (eventual husband) knew to shut the hell up from 9-10pm, even if he was sitting next to me on the couch (with my parents in their chairs watching as well)

Also, my 56-year-old dad had a crush on Scully from the start so that was entertaining as hell as well

What got you involved with X-Files fanfic?

I have been writing stories in my head for literally as long as I can remember. Watching some episode, I honestly don’t remember which one, I suddenly had an idea for a story about Mulder and Scully. I had never written a story with pre-existing characters before and it was totally foreign to me. How do you write a character with a current storyline. It was weird, it was difficult, it was some of the most fun I’d had writing up to that point.

Suddenly, I didn’t have to explain or describe the characters, think of jobs and mundane things … they already had those … and it was great.

Honest-to-God, my first fic was written, in pencil, on a yellow legal pad by flashlight while lying with my head at the foot of my bed so I could see my parents coming down the hall if they happened to wake up at midnight to go to the bathroom. Later fics were written by the light of an 10” TV/VCR combo with me still lying with my head at the foot of the bed. I still have those old legal pads somewhere and I remember having to type them in secret, having to wait until the house was empty for 20 minutes to an hour at a time. Uploading them was always unnerving because of the slow dial-up and the fact that I didn’t have my own email address, but had to use my dad’s. I’d have to make sure to check it whenever I could, intercept the feedback I’d get off gossamer.

I was such a damn rebel.

What is your relationship like now to X-Files fandom?

Well, I now know how to interact with people given tumblr and AO3 but it hasn’t changed much. I contribute a little more now that I understand posting on social media but mostly, I still just write like a fiend and post, read voraciously and give kudos and likes often, comment some and reblog.

Were you involved with any fandoms after the X-Files? If so, what was it like compared to X-Files?

I dabbled and have a favorite ‘Fringe’ fic … I tried to read a Harry Potter fic once … I type ‘West Wing’ occasionally in ao3 and tumblr ...

And nothing, absolutely nothing, has ever caught me like the X-Files did in regards to the fandom experience.

I have shows I watch and re-watch and re-watch but no two characters have ever had me writing and thinking and planning like Mulder and Scully. No other combo has ever made me write upwards of 300,000 or more total and still have plenty of stories to tell.

I’m okay with this.

Who are some of your favorite fictional characters? Why?

Aside from Mulder and Scully and the gentlemen three of Frohike, Langley, and Byers … I love all Scully’s nieces and nephews in my ‘Life’ series … I also love Corduroy (picture books), Harold (purple crayon fame), Neville Longbottom, the characters from my own novels, Katniss (book not movie), Anne Shirley, Elnora (from the Limberlost), Will Stanton/Merriman/Barney/Jane from ‘Dark is Rising’ and 10,459 others …

I’m a children’s librarian so most of my favorite books are those written for the younger and YA crowd. I like my job :)

Do you ever still watch The X-Files or think about Mulder and Scully?

I watch this show all the damn time. I will think about Mulder and Scully when I have nothing else to think about, normally writing and editing whatever story I may have in the hopper at the time about them.

My husband laughs when I have the show on. He knows all the episodes with me and it’s one of my comfort shows that I don’t have to pay attention to when it’s on. During it, I have edited books, decorated cookies, been sick, been recovering, simply wasted a perfectly good day because I could.

My 17-year-old daughter keeps it on while she does homework and works out.

It’s a staple at our house and no one is allowed to make fun of it, even though we all know that parts are completely ‘make fun-able’

Do you ever still read X-Files fic? Fic in another fandom?

I read fic all the time … I have worked my way through AO3 starting from the beginning and if it was more easily readable on a phone, I’d work my way, once again, through gossamer.

Restated from above: I dabbled and have a favorite ‘Fringe’ fic … I tried to read a Harry Potter fic once … I type ‘West Wing’ occasionally in ao3 and tumblr ...

Do you have any favorite X-Files fanfic stories or authors?

I have all kinds of favorites on tumblr but right now, I honestly don’t remember most of the names … I pretty much read everything that comes through my dashboard and every few days, i read through the newest posts on AO3 … I love you all!!

What is your favorite of your own fics, X-Files and/or otherwise?

Of X-Files fics, I love my newer stuff … I read “Life” and its sequels every few months … ‘Your Place or Mine’ is another one I will read … actually, I’ll just say it .... I read all my own fic over and over again …

With fic, you get to write the characters as you want to see them and write situations that you want to see … I write for myself most of all and I love to read what I wrote :)

Do you think you'll ever write another X-Files story? Or dust off and post an oldie that for whatever reason never made it online?

I write them all the damn time. I have tons of snippets and half-finished that I occasionally glean things from but while sometimes, old stuff morphs into new, sometimes, it just needs to gather that dust and live a quiet little forgotten life in some backhand folder on my dropbox account ...

Do you still write fic now? Or other creative work?

First question is answered above.

As for other creative work, I have published two YA novels, have the third in that series in editing … I have five other novels in the hopper in various stages of ‘good lord this needs an edit or twelve’ …

I am writing things constantly in my head or on my laptop … most is crap … stome sticks … some turns into fic and some turns into books …

But the point is, I am writing, in some form, at all time :)

Where do you get ideas for stories?

Some two sentence conversation will spark an idea … the line of a song will inspire an idea … a word will start a sentence which will turn into a paragraph which will tumble straight into a story … and sometimes, stuff just pops in my head for no damn reason at all ...

What's the story behind your pen name?

On gossamer, I am L. Sprys because that was my name at the time :)

On tumblr and AO3, I’m tatooedlaura because my name is Laura and I have, now, six tattoos (yes, I spelled it wrong in my handle but that’s life) … when I decided on the name, I think I only had two

Do your friends and family know about your fic and, if so, what have been their reactions?

They do now … it took me years to crack and tell them … my husband has never read them, nor have any of the people I have told (as far as I know)

Now, I don’t really care who knows … I’ll tell them I write smutty X-Files fanfiction and family-friendly X-Files fanfiction …

I am too old at this point to be embarrassed by what I like to do. If they laugh at me, I tell them they only get to laugh when they’ve published a book and I pull up my books on Amazon … I’ve only had to do that once and it shut them right the hell up …

Is there a place online (tumblr, twitter, AO3, etc.) where people can find you and/or your stories now?

Gossamer: L. Sprys

Tumblr and AO3: tatooedlaura

Is there anything else you'd like to share with fans of X-Files fic?

I love you! I see you! I appreciate you! I hope you enjoy! Don’t judge me for my grammar issues! I will never be able to spell the word ‘excersize’!

(Posted by Lilydale on April 27, 2021)

[lokisgame]

mood: still not over that fanfiction i read 3 years ago

[scenes-in-between]

tatooedlaura-blog replied to your post “Bit of admin and a heads-up”

I shall wait pleasantly in the corner hitting refresh ... Waiting .. and waiting :)

Wednesdays. ;) For the forseeable future, new fic will be posted every Wednesday morning. If I build up enough of a buffer, I might eventually switch to posting two times a week, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Hehe. ;)

[allyinthekeyofx]

I came pretty late to the Tumblr party and a friend advised me to steer well clear as it was 'full of fucking crazies' (her exact words).

And in part she was right.

But much more than that, this place is packed to the gills with some of the most intensely passionate people I have ever had the pleasure to 'meet'.

I'm dreading Wednesday - not just because of the season end, but because I'm afraid that people will drift away from the fandom never to be seen or heard from again.

It's a strange time to be a fan atm and although we may not always agree with each other, my hope is that we will carry on doing our fandom thing until we are all pushing each other's wheelchairs with our own wheelchairs.

I've only been here for two years. It seems so much longer and there are so many bloggers who have brightened my days, made me smile, given me insight and entertained me more than I can say.

@baronessblixen @scully-loves-ruthie @skullsmuldon @inkcollectorus @justholdinghandsok @ifitrainssleepingbags @whoisbillymiles @wheres-mulder @sandymansworld @tatooedlaura-blog @mulders-boyish-enthousiasm @ddismyguiltypleasure @iva69s @edierone @scullyloves-science @frangipanidownunder @defnotmeyo @mangokiwitropicalswirl @storybycorey @frizzyhairedbitch85 @muldertxf @amorfati3215 @therewillcomesoftrain and probably so many more my aged brain has forgotten - thank you for brightening my dash for the past couple of years and I hope, when everything is all wrapped up, you will stick around for many more.

[randomfoggytiger]

@thursdayinspace, you wanted multi-chapter fluff; and I tried to deliver! >:DDD

Picking up from Part 5 of @tatooedlaura-blog/tatooedlaura/Laura Sprys's Our Moments series, Scully's medical decline pushes her and Mulder past their pretense, comfortably crossing boundaries and spending precious moments basking in each other's company: sharing a bed, shopping for groceries, cooking a meal, and spinning sweet, sweet banter.

And, of course, after her remission they go for round two.

Shadowed Grey Eyes

“I’d like to drive through Ireland.... We’d look for leprechauns and rainbows... and never come home.”

“Would you find a nice Irish girl to settle down with? Have eight or nine kids?”

Kissing the back of her head, “I’ve found a nice Irish girl already and I don’t need kids, just her.”

“What if I find a nice man in a kilt?”

“That’s Scotland.”

“Sorry. I think I’m almost asleep. Would you wear a kilt if I asked you to?”

The Warmest Thing I Own

 He felt her and opened his eyes, finding the room grey but light, “what time is it?”

Her voice scratched out an, ‘I don’t care’ before burying her head back in the pillow.

“Are we not caring today? ‘Cause I can get behind not caring today.” Reaching out to poke her side, “how are you feeling?”

Rolling in his direction, she gave him a smile that could have lit the city had she come with plug and adaptor, “I actually feel okay. I don’t think I’ve slept like that in weeks.”

Fancy Paper Napkins

Finally in the kitchen, he opened the crockpot, stirred with the big spoon, and glad to see the mushrooms soft and unburned, offered Scully a taste. Refusing with an, ‘I’d like to wait for dinner,’ he nodded towards the fridge, “go grab the steak, would you?”

They ate like civilized people, at the kitchen table, forks, knives, fancy paper napkins …

End of the Road

His mind was open and slow, filters off, walls down, and in that very moment, the only thing he had left in the world to say was “I love you.”

Post Moments

You sat through a steak, my famous garlic mushrooms, six tubs of ice cream, and all those M&Ms I kept feeding you and you couldn’t taste a thing? The amount of money I could have saved during those months I tempted you with anything I could find while, really, it all tasted like sawdust...."

“I got …” being generous for his sake, “hints of flavor.”

Hope you enjoy~

[unremarkablehouse]

you guys got some of my favorites in there! I’ll add @tatooedlaura-blog has a series called Life and other fics that are so awesome. Some other writers with some of my fave MSR fics of the past few years (in no particular order):

@agent-troi @katy-kt-katie @thatfragilecapricorn30 @slippinmickeys @skelavender @bakedbakermom @freckleslikestars @gaycrouton @cassiopeia462 @lotsoforangesoutside @spookydarlablack

Sareki

@phillippadgettwrites (smut warning!)

(plus I love OPs writing and taste in authors!)

I was going through my AO3 and I’m calling out these specific fics too:

Thirty Five Hundred Miles And A Lifetime To Go Long hours on the road and in the skies, how will Dana Scully and Fox Mulder fill the silence? What silence?  A collection of road trip oneshots through their years together and the games they play...

The Modern Gateway Motel After a traumatic experience, Mulder fabricated an X-file as a way to help Scully escape reality. Over the years, they returned to “investigate” that special place and take advantage of all it had to offer, exploring aspects of their relationship that they attempted to ignore in the real world. As time passed, it grew harder to confine the relationship they shared to that specific time and place.

Gradients He didn’t want Scully in his bed so much as he wanted that last barrier gone. Sex seemed to be the demarcation for her, as she’d apparently decided that once that hurdle had been cleared, it would signal her complete surrender to him. As if she hadn’t already done that. As if he hadn’t with her a long time ago.

Hi! I'm doing a rewatch of the x files and this is the first time I got so invested in MSR and I was wondering if you had some fic recs? there are so so many online I have no idea how to find the best ones lol I'm okay with explicit content btw thanks in advance!

Give me a few days and I'll make a more comprehensive masterpost but I can give you some good starting points!

Self-promo first, you can find me on ao3 and any tumblr-only ficlets under the tag #alex writes x files. My bookmarks are public and I save every single fic I read on there, so you can have a look through those if you want.

@today-in-fic this is the account to follow to get fresh fics on your dash. they simply reblog any TXF fanfics they get tagged in, so they're somewhat of an archive in by itself.

Writers plus general amazing TXF accounts

@msrafterdark if you don't mind smut then this is a must! @bakedbakermom @sisterspooky1013 @thursdayinspace @randomfoggytiger (an absolute goldmine concerning everything MSR and TXF, especially when it comes to meta posts) @television-overload @baronessblixen @thescullyphile @deathsbestgirl @thescullyphile @scullysexual @numinousmysteries @fine-nephrit @scullysflannel @fossilizedhearts @not-aliens @julmunne

(Live) Episode Reaction & Rewatches

@enigmaticxbee @mulders-too-large-shirt

Other Specializations

Dana Scully Lookbook Project The X-Files Script Archive

My brain fog is pretty bad today and I probably forgot a lot, so PLEASE feel free to leave your own additions (self promo explicitly welcomed) and I'll add them.

[enigmaticxbee]

✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️ 6x03 Triangle

The one where... the Bermuda Triangle takes Mulder back in time to a Nazi occupied cruise ship in 1939 and Scully saves the world.

Tagline: Die Wahreit Ist Irgendwo Da Drauben (aka The Truth is Out There)

Best: The long tracking shot following a fully unhinged Scully through the FBI hallways as she threatens and begs for the information to save Mulder’s life. I’ve never loved her more.

Worst: This episode is so DARK. I mean, the show is always dark, and I know they’re experimenting with the long takes and trying to hide cuts but it’s SO F***KING DARK. Don’t even get me started on the lighting of that kiss, I will cry.

✔️ Flashlights

❌ Woods/Desert

❌ Slideshow

❌ Autopsy

❌ Evidence Disappears

✔️ Scully Misses It

✔️ Mulder Ditch

❌ Sunflower Seeds

✔️ Voiceover: Crewman (TNO)

❌ 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!: Scully

50 States: Florida x5, DC x52 & Bermuda (37/50)

Investigate: Apart

Solve Rate: 58%

❌ Bechdel Test: The only women Scully speaks to are unnamed, including AD Kersh’s assistant.

MSR: 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

Goriness: 👽👽👽

Creepiness: 👽👽

Humor: 👽👽👽👽

Rewatch Thoughts:

It was all a dream: This is the first of so many episodes this season where everything is undone by the end of the episode. All Mulder is trying to do is make sure he doesn’t change the world - to set historical events back on track and get back home.

I just noticed on this rewatch that Mulder’s smashed up boat in the cold open is named Lady Garland. Love all of the Wizard of Oz references in this episode.

1939-Scully looks fantastic in that red gown. Her arms...🔥

Scully: I want you to do me a favor. It’s not negotiable. Either you do it or I kill you. You understand? Can you imagine your coworker coming in and accosting you like this? I don’t even blame Spender for going straight to Kersh 😂

Never forget that we see Scully kiss Skinner before Mulder and that it’s 100x better lit. She’s SO relieved.

That whole sequence set to swing music where in 1939 they’re running through the corridors holding hands and in 1998 Scully’s searching the corridors with the LGM and the Scullys sense each other - it’s so much fun.

Mulder: So, in case we never meet again... The way he grabs her by the neck and pulls her in for the kiss... Even in silhouette you can tell it’s a good kiss. In general I’m against surprise kisses but I’ll make an exception since she immediately punches him (and it’s, you know, a dream).

His little tap on her hip while she’s standing at his hospital bed and he’s telling her she saved the world... That hip tap makes me INSANE.

Mulder: I love you. Scully: Oh brother. She knows he loves her. She also knows he’s not ready to do anything about it and wouldn’t say it if he weren’t drugged up or about to lose her.

His little smile when he feels his black eye and remembers that she gave it to him for kissing her... He’s got it bad guys. Just imagine 13-year old me squeeing and then extrapolate out to 30-something me thinking about this moment for 20+ years.

Episode-Related Fanfic Recs:

far away to the west and south by audries - I absolutely adore this Thanksgiving fic set just post-episode, where Mulder and Scully spend the holiday with the Lone Gunmen. It’s perfect.

Dividends by Suzanne Schramm - a late night motel room conversation. The FTF almost-kiss is finally addressed. Also the perfect oh brother follow up. (On Gossamer so if link doesn’t work you can search for it there.)

Geometry of a Triangle by @tatooedlaura-blog - sweet little post-ep where Scully turns around and goes back into Mulder’s hospital room.

Submersion by Oracle - Scully’s having a harder time than Mulder getting over his almost drowning. Mulder recites The Owl and the Pussycat to a sick Scully. This description isn’t doing this fic justice, it’s lovely. (On Gossamer so if link doesn’t work you can search for it there.)

[randomfoggytiger]

Here ya go!

All IVF Arcs Must Come to Their End

Most of these aren't NSFW, but they kinda fit the bill. :DDDD

Loose chronological order below¬

LONG FICS

@sunflowerseedsandscience's Someday Your Child May Cry

Mulder and Scully forge their IVF journey-- from S5 through Millennium-- despite Diana Fowley's machinations and Dr. Parenti's interference.

@cultureisdarkbeer's

**Note**: I'm pretty sure these two series intertwine.

When Two Women Collide

In a larger series featuring Mulder's history with Diana and Scully, Chapters 7-11 work through early Season 6 and the IVF arc.

Rooted in Friendship - Chapter 17

Dark AU warning: Scully locks herself in the bathroom to miscarry, not wanting Mulder to see her pain. He hears her, regardless.

@ghostbustermelanieking's auld acquaintance

S7 Mulder and Scully work through the IVF arc after he wakes in Amor Fati.

@scully-eats-sushi's You're Not Alone

Part 1 of a longer slow-burn after Millennium: Scully navigates her complicated feelings with the IVF arc and S7 casefiles.

BellyUp's Blood of Eden

Scully and Mulder support each other through S7's IVF arc (and other assorted trials and tribulations.)

I_cant_find_a_name's Left of a Miracle

Mulder and Scully work through the years, through the seasons, and through the episodes during the IVF arc.

@darwin-xf's Fox Mulder: Fired and Wired

AU: Mulder works through the IVF arc while suffering from brain disease.

Joan Humby's The Pattern

AU: Mulder and Scully investigate a Monty Props casefile while their IVF attempt and his past with Diana looms quietly in the background.

SHORT FICS

@alsoablankslate/tabulaxrasa's Things No One Notices

Skinner notices his agents' behavior during the IVF arc.

@agent-troi's What Only He Could Give Her

AU: Post Terms of Endearment Mulder is shocked Scully picked him to be a dad as well as the father.

@freckleslikestars's Jellyfish

In a followup to The Road to Family (Ao3), post Agua Mala Mulder slips Scully some encouragement (and a Snicker's bar.)

@iloveurscratchybeard's Snow in September

Mulder keeps Scully's hope alive.

ThexInvisiblexGirl's Under Cover of Darkness - Chapter 1

In a loose followup to Not Too Late, post Orison Mulder is there to comfort Scully when the IVF fails.

@gaycrouton's xfiles, 47

A short peak into Mulder's mind through Scully's request and early miscarriage.

@13starbuck42's What Comes Next (Ao3)

Scully changes her mind, allowing Mulder to come back to her apartment and help her grieve.

@storybycorey's This Is What It Tastes Like (Ao3)

Mulder soaks in the joy of possibility and pain of tragedy.

@allyinthekeyofx's Affirmation 2/5 (Ao3)

Part 2 of a longer lead-up to all things: the shock wears off, and Scully breaks down.

Singing_Violin's This I Can Do

Mulder can at least hold Scully through their worst moments.

@baronessblixen's

May All Your Dreams Be Bright (Ao3)

Mulder refuses to give up.

Unnamed

Scully is discouraged after seeing the Phoebe Green, once again.

The Deepest Cut (Ao3)

Diana Fowley trails after Scully to twist the knife.

Name Calling (Ao3)

Scully finds Mulder's list of baby names.

Unnamed

Mulder believes his Amor Fati dream was of their son; and begs Scully not to give up hope.

@jodithann827's Broken

Scully feels like a pretend woman.

@oceanofthesky/noifsandsorbees per manum

Scully realizes she can weather any storm with Mulder by her side.

Donna's

Miracles Await (Gossamer)

Mulder holds Scully while she cries, determined to address their new lines tomorrow.

Imagining a Life

Mulder and Scully wallow separately in their personal failures.

@peacenik0's In All Things - Chapter 1

Mulder and Scully take comfort by reestablishing their familiar banter.

@sixhours's Remnants (FFN)

Mulder and Scully discuss the "what ifs" they planned to do.

@softnow's marked maybe

Mulder will support Scully, even if-- he hints-- she adopts.

@mulderwantstobelieve's I Don't Want to Go Home Tonight (Ao3)

AU: Scully asks the ultimate question.

@tatooedlaura-blog's Done Pretending

AU: in the aftermath of failure, Scully and Mulder pick their pieces back up together.

Jaime Lyn's Full Moon, Near-Death, and Things Left Unfinished

Mulder and Scully are smashed in a car wreck and forced to confront their IVF failure while caught in limbo.

@i-gaze-at-scully's Words, Words, Words

Mulder finds Scully in her apartment crying, clutching a baby blanket.

@catarinquar/catarinquar's sportstar

Amidst a collection of memories, Mulder invites Scully out to the ball field to cheer her up after the IVF.

@alienqueequeg's Truth in the Dark

AU: Scully can no longer keep her distance after her period returns.

AngelsFallFirst's Nightmares Are Dreams Too - Chapter 1

AU: Scully calls after a nightmare, admitting she gave up and asking Mulder to move their relationship forward.

ML/ML_is_me’s (Ao3, Gossamer, DW, Invidiosa) Because It's Scully

AU: Mulder clings to hope, even with brain disease, even after failure.

@rachg82's Three Wishes

Late S7 Mulder and Scully work towards dating after IVF.

@adrianne68/2momsmakearight's All Things Plus One

AU: Mulder and Scully have a Plus One conversation after the IVF failure.

@purrykat/mylifeinshadow's Unnamed

AU: Mulder and Scully solidified their relationship during the grief period; but carried on quite well, afterward.

@lotsoforangesoutside/@lotzzoforangezoutside's Five Boxes (Ao3)

Scully invites Mulder to clean out Maggie's backroom.

gwinne/Gwinne's Domestic Inclinations (Ao3, Gossamer)

Mulder and Scully discuss their journey and its failure after their relationship shifts.

@television-overload's of our making (Ao3)

AU: In part one of an adoption fic series, Mulder and Scully briefly (and awkwardly) discuss their failed IVF procedure.

OFF-TOPICS

ulstergirl/ndnickerson's Abandoned Gardens

Sein und Zeit Scully angrily ruminates on the wreck Tena left in her son's life.

XPhileChai's There's Gotta Be More...

AU: Right as Mulder and Scully are recovering from their failures, a secret Diana Fowley daughter pops up in their lives.

@lyndsaybones's AU where Mulder and Scully move in together

AU: Mulder convinces Scully to still buy a house together after the IVF fails. (Follow up AU is, indeed, a followup.)

@msrafterdark's

Unnamed

AU: Mulder perseveres even after failure.

5 AUs Headcanon Fics

AU: Mulder and Scully marry post IVF failure... and are surprised not soon after.

Zoonr's (Ao3) Mesabi Ferrum

AU: Buried in Chapter Twenty-Nine of a longer Colonization fic, Mulder and Scully discuss their recklessness IVF pursuit.

Alelou's Continuity Series 01

Crack: For the fun of it, here's some lampshading at the IVF arc.

hi! could you please give your fic recs on the failed ivf but have sex to conceive naturally storyline 🥹

Hi, anon! I'm awful with recs, but maybe @randomfoggytiger and @lilydalexf can help with this?

[lilydalexf]

hello, sending this ask because i can't find a fic. i don't remember it so clearly but in it scully was in her parents house and all her family was worried about her for some reason, so mulder comes to her room and they sleep together. later in the middle of the night they wake up and go downstairs to the couch, where scully tries to make mulder appreciate a state of sort of, not knowing the time? (i know it sounds weird but it was something like that) and then they fall asleep again there. i read this fic here in tumblr, i'm not sure if it was anywhere else. hope this isn't hard to find, ty!!

This fic sounds like Narrow Beds by @tatooedlaura-blog​. It is also at AO3, where its summary is: Learning to love liminal spaces ...

If someone has another idea of what this fic might be, let us know!

[carrie11]

Tagged by the gorgeous & outrageously talented @c0nversationinthehallway. Thank you, love!

Rules: Bold what you prefer and tag 10 people.

01. coffee or tea

02. early bird or night owl

03. chocolate or vanilla

04. spring or fall

05. silver or gold

06. pop or alternative

07. freckles or dimples

08. snakes or sharks

09. mountains or fields

10. thunderstorm or lightning

11. egyptian or greek mythology

12. ivory or scarlet

13. flute or lyre

14. eyes or lips

15. witch or fairy

16. opal or diamond

17. butterflies or honeybees

18. macaroons or eclairs

19. typewritten or handwritten letters

20. secret garden or secret library

21. rooftop or balcony

22. spicy or mild

23. opera or ballet

24. london or paris

25. vincent van gogh or claude monet

26. denim or leather

27. potions or spells

28. ocean or desert

29. mermaid or siren

30. masquerade ball or cocktail party

Tagging (if you want): @kateyes224 @crossedbeams @tatooedlaura-blog @baronessblixen @datanullyx @contrivedcoincidences6 @sunflowerseedsandscience @albanyparkavenue @viceversawrites @dangerscully

[jamofappreciation]

Fan Fic Rec List Part 4

I love fic. I love all the writers on this list (and not on this list) and I want to thank them for continuing to write and give us amazing stories to read over and over. I’ve chosen this list based on the writers and stories that have stood out to me over the last months, though I love literally everything I reblog, so if you need more to read then definitely look there (under the ‘fanfic’ tag). 

- By the Dim and Flaring Lamps by @sunflowerseedsandscience​ - If you’re not reading this...well, I just don’t know what to say. It isn’t even finished yet but it’s already one of my favorite stories ever. Please, please, give this a read so you can wait with me in agony for each new chapter. :)

- Unquiet Grave by mimic117 - (15K, Rated NC-17) Basically a glorified one-bed fic where Mulder and Scully are caught in an abandoned house (or is it?) during a snow storm, forcing them to deal with “them.”

- Tiny by @baronessblixen​ - Written during the December fic challenge, this is a super sweet story involving William. It just leaves you warm and fuzzy and convinced that this is real life. 

- Phantom Pains by @skepticalshoulderpads​ - (M) Some seriously sexy phone action while Scully is missing Mulder.

- Imperfectly Perfect by @allyinthekeyofx​ - It takes something special to make All Things fic stand out since it’s been done so much, but this is just that. So special and sweet.

- Paracelsus by Prufrock’s Love - (~900K, NC-17) I needed something to satisfy my AU cravings in between chapters of By the Dim and Flaring Lamps, and @kateyes224 recommended this. It is another Civil War-era AU and it totally delivered. The tone and plot are completely different, but it’s amazing in its own way. It’s a long one, and tumultuous, and made me yell at our favorite characters several times, but in the end I loved it. (This link takes you to the first part, and there are three others).

- Chocolate Glazed with Sprinkles by @tatooedlaura-blog​ - This is short, a ‘Mulder coming over to veg at Scully’s’ story, and the details feel SO complete and right and cozy. It’s just one of those perfect glimpses at a day in the life of Mulder and Scully.

- How He Asked by @mangokiwitropicalswirl​ - (7 ch., M) All about wifegate up in here. :) I absolutely love this story!!

- Tabulae Anatomicae by @lepus-arcticus​ - (M) Okay so I was not convinced that I’d buy an art school AU, but now I’m shamelessly asking for a second chapter, event though I think I saw you say that you don’t generally do continuations. But please?? ;)

- Embers by @syntax6​ - I was sure I had rec’d this story before, but I can’t see that I have, so here you go. Seeing who the author is should be enough of an incentive to read, or read again. :)

[randomfoggytiger]

X-Files Collector's Fic: Injured but In-Charge Scully (Poll Results: 1st)

This list was inspired by this poll, winning by a ~3% margin.

**NOTE**: I have a ton of Scully-In-Charge fics in my other fic list Creepy and Cozy Cabins, which includes the works of @discordantwords, @sarie-fairy, LuvTheBeez’s Snow (a personal favorite), and Karen Rasch’s By the Wind Grieved. Anyway, onward!

Loose chronological order below~

30xf's Young At Heart - Chapter 1

""How's the ribs?" Mulder asks, returning from the door with a large pizza box in his hands and setting it on the coffee table.

"Better," Scully sighs, stretching out and making herself comfortable on his couch. "I can almost take a deep breath without it feeling like someone's stabbing me."

"Well that's progress," he allows before disappearing into the kitchen. He had intended to grab plates and cutlery, but of the three plates he owns, only one was clean. And not having plates makes the cutlery a little useless. After a quick search for napkins turns up nothing, he remembers why they usually eat at Scully's place."" 

Post Young At Heart Scully is recovering and fending off Mulder from further poking her bruised ribs.

@spooky-nerd’s (Ao3) A Minor Inconvenience

""He is afraid to touch her and yet, illogically, touching her is the only thing that will quell the panic that is slowly building inside of him, bubbling up into his throat and making it hard to breathe. His fingers brush the side of her face gently, and her eyes flutter. His heart does a nauseating flip.

"Hey," he says, in case she can hear him, rubbing her cheekbone lightly with his thumb. "Hey, you're okay. You're gonna be okay," he says as much to himself as to her. He hopes she can't feel how hard his hand is shaking.

Her eyebrows draw together, etching painful lines into her forehead. She inhales sharply and cracks an eye open. "Ouch," she rasps.""

AU S3? Mulder realizes he loves Scully after she gets rag-dolled by a psychic. She wakes up, asks if he's okay, then starts listing her symptoms. He drops an "I love you" after that.

Donna’s Without a Trace

"I'll get a rock. I don't think that lock will be too much trouble."

She nodded and stepped onto the porch to look closer. "I think it's already broken," she said over her shoulder and tried the door. The sound of the gun going off paralyzed him for an instant, then he was racing to her as she lay on the weathered wood of the porch.""

AU S3? Mulder and Scully wake up on isolated train tracks with amnesia. They quickly rebuild trust and scavenge for a way back to civilization-- unfortunately, the first shelter they find is very booby-trapped; and Scully has to guide Mulder through a bullet retrieval.

@tatooedlaura-blog/tatooedlaura/Laura Sprys's

Lucky Ones

""Slowly opening her eyes, she searched the room for some kind of clue that she was actually alive. A moment late, she focused in on the body wedged painfully in a chair against the wall.

Choosing that moment to check on Scully, Mulder met her gaze and held it for a moment before sliding out of the chair, trading for a more comfortable spot on the side of the bed. Lowering himself carefully onto the mattress, he spoke softly, "sleeping beauty awakes."

"More like came off the pain medication," she answered back in a hoarse whisper.""

Scully is shot cleanly through the shoulder while protecting a little boy. Miraculously, his head was never hit-- though it should have been.

Your place or mine - Chapter 3

""Did they really have to end the case with a dead kid, a burned out house, a bullet wound and a desperately long de-briefing?

By the time they stumbled up to Scully’s door at half past three in the morning, they hadn't slept in three days and Mulder was so stressed and tense, he threw their bags to the ground and slammed the door shut hard enough to knock the mirror hanging beside it to the floor. The resounding smash left mirror shards strewn from the front door through to the kitchen. Scully would have yelled at him if she hadn’t been wincing at the pain in her upper arm from the through and through gunshot and if she had the energy to care.

She did not.""

Mulder hunkers down with a recovering Scully, continuing their inside joke of "love is--"; and barrels her out of the bed when Maggie drops in unexpectedly.

Foul Ball

""You don’t want to hear the story?”

Wincing when she shifted her shoulders, “first I want out, then you can tell me all about your time in the slammer and why baseball games are fun to go to.""

Dating-- Scully is knocked over by an aggressive baseball fan; and is driven home later by Mulder (after he pummels said fan, gets jailed, then bailed out by Frohike.)

@baronessblixen’s (Ao3)

Unnamed

""Mulder reacts before he even knows what is going on. There against the wall, pinned up high, is Scully. A large, fat hand around her throat keeps her there, strangulates and chokes her. Her feet dangle in the air, try to kick and fight. 

“Let her go!” Mulder’s yell reverberates through the room and the intruder turns to Mulder, bares his dirty, yellow teeth like an animal. His hand opens, lets go of Scully, who slips to the ground. Thump, only once; a sad sounds swallowed by the carpet.""

S5 Mulder is horrified that Scully was attacked and almost killed by a random serial burglar in the motel room right next to his.

Fine (Ao3)

""You’re not carrying me.” The way she says it leaves no room for negotiation.

“Then how are you planning on getting back?”

“I’ll walk,” she says, hopping on one foot.

“Let me help you, please,” he begs her. “Just… let me make sure you don’t break your other ankle, too.”

“It’s not broken, Mulder.”

“Potato, potahto.""

Mulder and Scully are still dating, and Scully still gets another leg injury.

Twisted

""Scully!" She hears the breathless desperation in Mulder's voice and the rustling sound his boots make, running through the leaves surrounding them.

"I'm fine," she yells back, hoping he'll slow down. If they both fall and hurt themselves, then how are they going to get out of here?""

Scully falls down a hole and twists her ankle; and Mulder ditches the search party to carry her back to the car.

"You're okay, I promise" (Ao3)

""It hit her,“ Mulder screeched, “He hit her!“

Scully didn‘t know what ‘it‘ was, or who ‘he‘ was. Maybe ‘it‘ was the thing that was gripping her head violently, squeezing it as if it were an orange.""

Scully, dazed, falls to the ground after being clubbed with a baseball bat; and listens to Mulder make a big racket until he is allowed to run over and provide moral support.

Fictober Day 26 (Ao3)

""I’m too heavy for you. Let me down. I’ll try to walk myself.”

“Scully, you weigh next to nothing,” he assures her. “Good thing I didn’t hurt myself this time, huh? Though you’d probably try to carry me anyway.”

“I would,” she says, smiling softly.""

S6 or S7 Mulder and Scully may be dating, but that won't prevent her from getting a leg break in the forest.

Prove It

""I have a headache,” she says, swallowing her standard ‘I’m fine’.

“Let’s get you back to the motel.”

She should have known he wouldn’t leave her alone once they get back. His hands are on her as soon as she’s out of the car. His concern, while exaggerated, is sweet, and she smiles up at him.

“Now that’s what I like to see,” he mumbles, his own lips curling into a smile."" 

Post Theef Scully lets Mulder care for her.

There's No Place Like Home

""You should get checked out at a hospital. I can drive you.”

“No,” she says, picking up speed to prove her point to him. “Look, I’m fine. I just need to walk it off.” He loves her stubbornness. Once, she told him that she fell in love with him because he was stubborn. Well. That was the pot calling the kettle black. No one is as stubborn as his Scully. Any other day, he finds it cute. When she refuses to budge because she knows how things should be done, he admires it. But when she’s hurt, hobbling away from him, holding her side and grimacing, just so she can appear invincible, he can’t accept it.""

Revival Scully is banged up from her garbage chute tumble; and Mulder is thrilled when she asks him to drive her home. This leads to a discussion about how much they missed each other.

Jodithann827/DrDanaScullyX's How to Save a Life

""It hurts to breathe Mulder. Short. Of Breath.”

“Do you think you can make it to the entrance? I wasn’t kidding about carrying you,” he replies.

“I… Mul…,” is all she’s able to get out before shaking her head, suddenly knowing something is very, very wrong.

“The bullet didn’t penetrate the vest, did it, Scully?” He's already moving his hands back to where the bullet hit the vest. She shakes her head. “No blood,” she replies. Mulder lets out a deep breath for the both of them and looks longingly in the direction they came.

“Mulder, something isn’t right,” she whispers, and Mulder snaps his head towards her."" 

Post Folie a Deux Scully's vest stops a bullet; however, the impact causes air to build and pressurize in her lung. Mulder has to perform an emergency "puncturing" procedure (with her guidance) to save his partner's life.

Vickie Moseley 's Split Seconds

""Why wasn't his door locked? He pushed it open cautiously, his gun already in his hand. He saw movement and the flash of metal. Whoever was here was armed. He saw the movement toward him and the sight of metal being raised. No! He fired two shots as he threw himself to the side. Mulder heard him fall and rose carefully to his feet. He flipped on the light and froze.

"Scully?" A whisper, then he was beside her, frantically searching for her vital signs. "Scully!" This time was a cry as though to call her back to him. No pulse, he ripped her blouse open. Blood, too much blood. ...what had he done? He was performing CPR, nothing. Nothing! "Scully." This one was a sob. She was gone; he'd really killed her time. No dream. He pulled her up against him, but her arms didn't go around him and never would again. Never. Time disappeared as he held her.""

AU-- Post Tithonus Mulder shoots Scully, kills her, and goes crazy. Scully is able to heal anyway and talk him down from madness despite her injury.

Oracle's (TheOtherSide) Deluge (Gossamer)

""She is trembling, shivering, and doesn't speak. He stands quickly and pulls her to her feet, trying to make sense of the situation.

"Scully?"

When she looks up her face tilts towards a streetlight, allowing him to read a bleak horror in her expression.

"Scully," he says, clasping her shoulders, leaning close to her. "Scully, it's okay. I'm okay." He hears a dull, shaky edge to his voice when he speaks, but can't help it.

"I know, Mulder," she replies, seeming calmer, the pain fading from her eyes.""

AUish? Post One Son Mulder almost loses himself in a brutal case, barely being saved from traffic by Scully (who had flown in last minute after recovering from a recent injury.)

@mappingthexfiles/Apostrophic’s Agua Mala

""The infection wasn’t severe, it should only last a few days, but it meant Mulder trailed after her into the kitchen, a shadow she’d acquired with her temporary impairment.

He folded his hands and laid his head atop them, then pointed at her. Had she slept, or would she sleep? One or the other.

“I’m fine,” Scully said, covering all the bases. “And I can still hear you. Mostly.""

Post Agua Mala Scully has a bad cold resulting in hearing loss. Mulder brings a bad movie and jokes to ease her recovery.

@ghostbustermelanieking/skuls's

mondays on an endless loop (Ao3)

""She doesn’t speak, but her eyes are surprisingly alert; her leg is moving, off to the side, and he’d like nothing more than to hold her, to try and help her. “Don’t move too much,” he tries, moving a few inches closer, hoping Bernard isn’t watching. “It’s okay.”

Scully grunts, very pointedly, and he sees her leg moving again. He looks down to her foot and sees what she is doing: she’s sliding her gun over towards him with her foot. Bernard forgot to get it.""

Monday-- Mulder and Scully alternate "getting shot" days; when it's her turn, she uses quick thinking for his sake even though she's dying.

bearing north

""She tastes blood in her mouth, maybe from where she fell. She drags herself off of the ground, wincing at the pain in her head. The suspect’s footfalls are far away now, from where she was shoved down into the empty pool. She touches the sore spot where her head smacked the concrete and hisses with pain.

“Scully!” Mulder’s voice, echoing frantically from somewhere above her. His dress shoes pounding the stairs of the pool. “Scully?”

“I’m here,” she croaks, pushing herself into a sitting position. Nausea clogs up her throat and she swallows it back, blinks owlishly in the dark as Mulder approaches her.""

Revival Scully is banged up while pursuing a bad guy. Mulder helps her out of a pool, and takes care of her back at the UH.

Athene's Learning to Share

""Scully inhaled deeply, and then resolutely met his eyes. "I have a low-grade concussion, and a horrible headache." She paused, then went on, voice just slightly rougher. "If it hadn't been for you, Mulder, I think I'd be dead." Forcing back a reflexive dread at disclosing weakness, she kept her gaze on his eyes, and saw a glow begin in his eyes as her answer registered. She reminded herself again that the reward for her unaccustomed emotional transparency was greater intimacy with this man.

Mulder quite obviously reveled in her newly overt trust. He slowly extended his left hand, touching her forehead lightly with his fingertips, and gently swept a few strands of stiff, blood-sodden hair away from the cut.

"That would have made two of us dead," he whispered in an odd, hoarse voice.""

Post Millennium Scully blocks most of a baseball bat weapon, but still has a concussion. She is amused that Mulder is ogled by the patients and nurses in the ER; but her amusement dries up when Maggie nails her on the relationship she shares with her partner.  

@alienbaby-babymama/ABBM515‘s Smart Enough

""It came in threes this month. Not only was Scully down for the count with the flu and a sprained ankle from running after Mulder who was chasing an unknown entity through the dank woods in the early morning hours, but it was also her time of the month.

Dana Scully was miserable."" 

Dating-- Scully has a triple "injury"; and Mulder is both amused and mother-henning her at the same time.

@wexleresque/hllsteeth’s Fictober 2021 - Chapter 16

""Her injury isn’t his fault, per se, but it feels like it is since he’s the one that opened the case that had sent them out into the forest in the first place. Scully had been climbing a tree, ascending higher and higher and wiggling between branches in search of evidence she’s suspected a killer had been hiding at the top.

It might have been her shoes- heels that were admittedly impractical for tree-climbing -or a distraction in the form of an animal making noise in a nearby tree. It might have just been a plain old accident. Regardless, something had caused Scully to miss a branch by just a fraction of an inch, sending her crashing through the canopy of the forest. She’d landed with a crunch and a scream, a sound that has brought bile to the back of Mulder’s throat every time he’s remembered it in the last twenty-four hours.""

Dating-- Scully breaks her leg after a fall from a tree; and Mulder helps care for her cantankerous self, using saran wrap to cover her cast so she can shower.

@jewish-mulder/@anders-hawke/@iwtbscully/BananaChef‘s 

Us

""He rushed into her hotel room with the force of a tornado, per Scully’s words as she relays his mindless pursuit of her beside.

“You could’ve died!” Mulder says, a tortured look on his face.

She rolls her eyes and looks at the stark white ceiling. “I’m fine, Mulder.""

Dating-- Scully's newest injury require forehead stitching. It rattles Mulder more than her.

@scullyphile​‘s (Ao3) Unnamed

""I’m OK, Mulder, really,” she offered in her calmest voice, but her hand was still touching the spot where the ball had struck.

“Josh,” the young male teacher called, “what did I tell you? Go get the ball and apologize to the lady.""

Dating-- Scully gets hit in the head with a tennis ball while on a museum date with Mulder.

Lapsed_Scholar’s Variations - Chapter 3

""If only her body would be so acquiescent. Her nausea was better, but she was starting to feel light-headed again. This ultimately annoyed her. There was nothing wrong with her (there wasn’t), and she expected her body to obey her.

She walked (only a bit unsteadily) over to a chair at the terminal and sat down. Oh, yes, much better. She took deep, calming, surreptitious breaths. She could do this. Just wait for the darkness encroaching in her peripheral vision to pass....

The floor was at an odd angle. She tried to make sense of this, opened her eyes a little more. Oh. Must have passed out. Again. Fantastic. How humiliating.""

AU Requiem Scully INSISTS on going back to Bellefleur with Mulder, ignoring his mandates and silent pleadings. Unfortunately, she embarrasses herself by collapsing in the airport and scaring her partner to death. (This is a comedy; and it is amazing.)

WildwingSuz/Suzanne Feld's Existessence

""I glared over at Mulder, who had set his gun on top of the dresser and was leaning against it. “I don't believe you,” I snapped at him. “You kidnapped this poor woman out of her house?!”

“What was I supposed to do?” he said plaintively. His eyes followed Alma Jackson as she went into the small bathroom then we heard water running, and she returned drying off her hands with one of the cheap white motel towels which she tossed back into the smaller room. “I can't deliver our baby alone, Scully, I was terrified that I'd screw it up and hurt either or both of you.”

“Ya coulda just come told me you needed a midwife, ya didn't need t’shove that gun in m'face,” Alma said succinctly. I found myself liking and trusting her more and more by the minute.""

AU Essence Mulder swipes Scully from her apartment and drives them out to a motel in the middle of nowhere. His next brilliant idea: kidnapping a midwife last minute.

TheAddict4Dramatics's Enough

""I couldn’t stop thinking about this morning.” Scully said suddenly, breaking the gentle silence that Mulder had been enjoying. Her voice was tight now and her eyebrows were drawn low over her eyes. “When he pulled the gun and I thought he was going to shoot... I couldn’t stop thinking about this morning and you and Will waving me off from the doorway.” 

“It’s okay.” He soothed, stroking his fingers over her hand. She’d started crying again and it was breaking him. 

“It’s different now than it was before. I have so much more to lose!"" 

AU S9 Scully is injured while on duty with Doggett; and she sorrowfully recounts the events and her realizations to Mulder (after peeking in on her little baby boy.)

Girlie_girl7’s Day in the Life 39 - Super Bug

""She seems to have developed a blister on her heel."

Mulder frowns behind the mask and looks at the broken blister. "The first time I talked to her she mentioned that she was going to change her shoes.

"NF can enter through a wound or weakened skin. This is no doubt the point of entry." ...

"Will it continue to infect her?" Mulder questions as he looks at Scully's face.

"We hope not but NF does tissue damage at the subcutaneous level and it's hard to judge just how much damage there actually is.""

AU S9 Scully has a big family with Mulder; but tragedy still strikes-- this time in the form of an infectious blister that turns deadly rather quickly.

Nonspecific Timeline

@purrykat/mylifeinshadow’s Prompt #6: "I can't breathe"

""All at once, it comes back to you — the suspected psychic who turned out to be just your garden variety psychopath, the pursuit, your partner’s voice sounding far away as a gun appeared in your peripheral vision, the bulletproof vest you’d had the forethought to strap yourself into. The sigh of relief leaves you sputtering against warm, wet lips. Mulder. His body covers yours as he attempts to resuscitate you needlessly. You’d blacked out; clearly had the wind knocked out of you, and in typical Mulder fashion, he’d panicked.""

Scully is knocked down on duty; and Mulder almost comedically crushes her trying to help.

@ghostbustermelanieking​/skuls‘s (Alt. Ao3) 

Unnamed 

""Mulder lay on the floor inches away from her, his mouth half-open, gasping on air. His mouth formed the first syllable of her name, soundlessly. Near them, the feet of strangers pounded the carpeted floor, every footfall reverberating through her body like nails on a coffin.""

Scully and Mulder are gravely injured; and she reaches for his hand just before they pass out.  

in another world - Chapter 7 

""A smile spreads involuntarily across her face. “Mulder, you’re an idiot,” she rasps, and he laughs so hard that he cries."" 

Dating?-- Scully shoves Mulder out of harm’s way, taking a bullet for him. During her recovery, she keeps the mood light and teases Mulder out of his guilt.

Lovesfox's Close Call

""The liquid that had dropped on him, and most likely what he had thought was condensation on the rungs, wasn't water or oil.

It was blood.

"Scully?" Mulder gasped out, and stopped in his tracks, clinging to the ladder. The word echoed slightly in the shaft, for he had spoken louder than he had intended to with his shock. He cringed - expecting to hear a barrage of gunfire, or perhaps a voice shouting out detection.

"Scully, you're bleeding," he tried then, in a voice just above a whisper, when nothing happened.

"I know," Scully replied faintly, and sucked in a noisy breath. "Not much...we can do about it right now," she said next. "We've got to...get out of here.""

Mulder and Scully are escaping from a set up-- unfortunately, Scully has been shot in the side. She fades on their journey back through the woods, and Mulder puts his spare medical techniques to use.

@scullysexual/PostApocolypticAlien's

100 days of 100 word - Chapter 31

""Scully is trying to yank her arm out of his grasp.

“Mulder, it is fine,” she is insisting through clenched teeth.

“Just humour me, Scully.""

Mulder makes sure that Scully gets her injured arm tended to by EMTs (despite her protests.)

the_eternal_optimist’s Distraction

""I don’t like them on in the middle of the night,” she told him petulantly, but he knew it was a lie because she usually left a few lamps on in her living room and kitchen. “And I didn’t know you were back in town,” she added slowly. 

He could tell Scully was trying very hard not to fumble over her words. His delight faded at the thought and he reached towards her, beginning to grow concerned. But she took a step back, towards her bedroom. Because he was overtired and prone to dramatics when he’d been away from her for a while, a wave of panic crashed over him. Why was Scully trying to get away from him? Was she mad? Had he overstepped too much this time, showing up in the middle of the night? Had Skinner found out he was MIA and asked Scully to rein him back in?""

Mulder returns from a mandated trip, realizing that Scully hasn't called because she'd been injured on the job. He reiterates her importance in his life.

LuminousPie’s

Five Times Mulder Got Injured and One time Scully Did

""She feels like a rag doll at the moment, all loose-limbed and pulled in too many directions. She was sore too, her skin burning for an ice pack. She knew her hair was matted, coated in blood.... She sniffed it and recoiled. Someone placed a small bandage to the laceration on her chin. It wasn’t big, probably wouldn’t even scar but it was another war wound. One to add to the many she already carried.

She batted away an EMT and an overly fussy Mulder. It wasn’t that she didn’t appreciate him here, she did. Familiarity oozed out of every pore and she welcomed his comforting aesthetic. But she didn’t need his grief or his worry. She needed to patch up her walls and build them higher.""

While Mulder gets most of the injuries in this fic, Scully gets a small one at the very end. She's more annoyed with the EMTs than concerned about a possible concussion.

trustmescully's Bang Bang

""She's a fighter. Dana will make it. Just as she has always managed. She's not dead yet, Fox. Dana is alive. She lives and fights. Even if their injuries are severe and we can't do anything for them at the moment. You are absolutely not to blame. Don't blame yourself, please."

Images flashed in his head. They were images of horror. Blood.

Blood everywhere.

Scully's blood.""

Scully saves Mulder, getting shot in the process. Maggie comforts Mulder during surgery; and Scully banters the tears away when she wakes.

sixthfinger/spookyanthropologist/shadowkissedsoulmate's

I Think He Knows

""—lly! Scully! Can you hear me? Come on, Scully, wake up. Scully!”

There’s a hand pressed up against the side of her face. 

“Scully! Come on, come on!”

It’s definitely not her hand.

“Please, Scully.”

Oh. Mulder. It’s gotta be Mulder’s hand.""

Mulder and Scully suffer various injuries throughout the years; but in section iii, Scully is attacked in her autopsy bay. Mulder doubles back and helps her out.

Enjoy!