13 Works in Post-Episode: s05e06 Christmas Carol (X-Files)
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Fictober Day 4 prompt: 'Can you hold me?'
Scully visits Emily in the children's home either during or just after A Christmas Carol.
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- Part 5 of My Fictober 2025
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With Emily cured and legally adopted, Dana Scully has left the X-Files behind, carving out a quieter life as a single mother and instructor at Quantico. In a new home and a new chapter, she’s committed to giving Emily stability, love, and a strong sense of identity. But old ties don’t sever easily. Despite his emotional distance and a life shaped by loss, Fox Mulder slowly begins to form a gentle, genuine connection with Emily.
As Emily pulls him in with innocent trust and boundless curiosity, Mulder is forced to confront questions of belonging, purpose, and the life he thought he’d never want. And for Scully, who’s worked so hard to build a life on her own terms, it becomes increasingly difficult to ignore the ache of wanting something more. Their connection with Emily doesn’t just shift the dynamic, it becomes the quiet catalyst for everything that follows.
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After Melissa Scully’s death, Mulder starts a tradition to remember her, and finds a subtle way to show Scully he’s thinking of her.
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A Christmas-day phone call from Scully brings more than just a respite from the Gunmen's bickering.
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Mulder had been steadfast in his support while Scully was fighting cancer, and it's undeniable their relationship shifted as a result of their shared experience. Having recently discovered her own infertility, being around all the happiness of her nephew's impending arrival a heaviness weighs on her more than she'd expected. So when she suspects that her dead sister has been calling her from beyond the grave to lead her to her daughter, Scully feels she has to step in, and step up. She feels a connection to that little girl and needs to make sure she's cared for, so when Emily is orphaned she knows she'll have to adopt Emily. Mulder of course is right there by her side, and together they explore adopting a three year old girl, finding out more about that girl's origins, and exactly what happened to Scully's stolen ova.
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Inspired by @cecilysass's prompt: Melissa appears as a ghost to Mulder, which I know you hate because it breaks the ghost rules. But maybe you can think of a very pressing and “logical” reason. (Cancer arc? As part of the Amor Fati dream sequence we didn’t see? When he’s in PTSD season 8?)
Took this in an Emily direction~.
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- Part 2 of Fictober 2024
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The night after Emily dies, Scully lies in bed and grieves; grieves everything that she’s lost, everything that she had wanted to be, and everything that she maybe should’ve been.
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Emily Sim lives.
How does this affect MSR, and how does the trio grow together?
How do they become a family?
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“Entwining your fingers, and pulling away when you realise what’s happening.”
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- Part 10 of 31 Days of Fictober (attempt #2)
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Emily: The little girl who wasn't supposed to be and how she changed the lives of Mulder and Scully.
*edited - Aug. 14, 2021: changed a little detail (check notes)*
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Mulder and Scully have mourned Emily every year on her official birthday as they remember the little girl who’d had such a short life. Meanwhile April Meeks tries to learn more about the past that was stolen from her. When their paths cross they find themselves once again on a journey that will bring back memories from the past.
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This was written for most days of December for the xmas files challenge on tumblr. This is a 'what if Emily lived?' AU. Each chapter is named after the theme. Most are very short and hastily written.
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- Part 54 of Prompts
- Part 2 of Emily Holidays
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One night, Scully deals with the grief over losing Emily and what could have been.