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This is how I think the series should have ended
First chapter takes place as an extra scene amor Fati
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Harvard, 1890. Dana Scully trades corsets for coattails, posing as her brother Charlie to seize the education denied to women.
But secrets breed shadows—and some are watching too closely.
Enter Professor Waterston, a manipulative man with power and an unhealthy interest in his most unusual student, and Fox Mulder, a classmate whose charm masks sharp instincts and deeper suspicions.
As lies tangle with longing and danger draws near, Scully must navigate a world where discovery could destroy everything she’s fought for. -
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In this canon-divergent reimagining of Season 8, Mulder’s return marks the beginning of a painful and complex reckoning.
The world he knew has changed—his work has moved on without him, and Scully, now seven months pregnant, stands before him both familiar and achingly distant. Haunted by PTSD and unable to process the trauma of his abduction, Mulder retreats inward, struggling to find his place in a life that no longer feels like his own.
For Scully, his return is a miracle shadowed by heartbreak. She is overjoyed he's alive, but his emotional distance deepens the loneliness she endured during his disappearance. As both grapple with grief, change, and unspoken fears, they must learn to navigate this new chapter together—where patience, healing, and love will be their only way back to each other.
Note: This reimagining of Season 8, offers an alternative path in which Mulder’s emotional distance is explored with greater nuance—granting him the space to confront his trauma and better understand the weight of his experiences. At the same time, it allows Scully to articulate her own heartache and find validation in the profound grief she endured during his abduction, presumed death, and eventual return.
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She raised her chin again, but her eyes were as soft as her voice: “I heard some of... that.” She said, indicating out there.His nose twitched, displeased, embarrassed: “It won't happen again, Agent Reyes.”
She dismissed it with a wave of her hand. “Oh, I don't care.” She took a moment to collect her thoughts again. “But it is curious, Detective, wouldn't you agree?”
She put one hand on her hip, the other tapped the table absently.
“I'm not the only Fed who does monsters. Not by a long shot. But I am the only woman, specifically trained for it. Couple of guys I know have female partners but... they come as a pair, almost always, in such cases. I'm on loan to everyone. Just me. Just little ol' Monica."
Her smile was amused: “And where do they send her?”
John's scowl deepened: “To the wolves.”
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Sharp Edges, another of my stories currently a WIP, focuses on Mulder and Scully. Doggett and Reyes, both appear in that story... mostly apart. But for what reason?I hope I gave Monica Reyes the shot she never got in the show. Hell of a character.
Vamanos.
Thank you Evil_Irish_Batman for the beta, they are the reason this is even mildly coherent.
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When Byers’ new girlfriend invites Scully, Mulder, and the Gunmen to her lakeside house, Frohike encourages Mulder to tell his partner how he feels after six years of pining. But what was supposed to be a work-free trip gets upended when the group makes a gruesome discovery by the beach. And suddenly, Mulder’s fantasies of romance are met with new challenges.
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- Part 20 of Do You Like Scary Movies?
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you know i dreamed about you / for twenty-nine years before i saw you by JourneyIntoMystery513
Fandoms: The X-Files
23 Jun 2025
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On her couch, he curls up beneath a blanket that is too small. His feet hang over the arm of the sofa. “Cryptozoology is my favorite pseudoscience because of its ambition. These people basically play god, you know, redesign the Ark to invoke the unnatural.”
“You’re talking nonsense again.” Scully eats ice cream from the container and sits in the recliner across from him. “You’re sleep deprived.”
“Neither of those are anomalies.” But his eyelids are drooping. Scully waits for him to doze off, scooping the last of the melted chocolate from the bottom of the cardboard container.
~a collection of one-shots throughout the series~
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From the moment Dana Scully walks into Agent Mulder's office, the two are drawn to one another. No matter how much they fight it, the magnetic force pulls them back toward one another.
Basically an excuse for me to write a slow burn with a ton of steamy smut and angst.
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AU with flashes from canon. Set around season 7 (Diana arc) Frustrated with Mulder’s inability to see Diana for what she really is, Scully leaves the FBI. Mulder falls apart. Can they find each other again?
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This is my take on "What if the bee had not stung Scully in the Hallway Scene?" In Fight the Future.
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This chapter opens three months after a deeply traumatic case that left both Mulder and Scully with lingering emotional scars and an unspoken tension in their partnership. Mulder and Scully arrive in Virginia Beach for a new investigation into unusual neurological symptoms. Their car ride is filled with familiar banter and subtle emotional tension. Upon arrival, Scully unexpectedly encounters Dr. Danny Potts, her charming childhood neighbor and the trauma surgeon who called the FBI. Potts's open admiration for Scully sparks intense jealousy in Mulder, who grapples with the idea of Scully finding a "normal" life.
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- Part 2 of For the Best
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When Dana is cast out of her village for suspected witchcraft, she’s followed by a silent fox who shifts into a man after sundown. Bound by a mysterious curse and a connection neither of them understands, the two journey through a landscape steeped in forgotten magic. As Dana’s powers begin to stir and the bond between them deepens, they must decide whether to run from the fate that hunts them—or face what’s waking in their blood.
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What happens to a woman when her actions conflict with everything she holds dear? And what can she turn to to cope, when she can't turn to anyone else?
---There is a companion piece to this story: Amiga, Amante. When I say I went a little overboard on the angst, for MSR and others, Amiga, Amante is a big part of that, and the two stories will merge at the same point.
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There is no self harm with weapons.
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Mulder and Scully try to investigate the Haunting of Hill House but find themselves more haunted by the ghost of sexual tension.
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Coming to terms, forgiving, letting go.
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Interlocked: Verb. To fit together securely.
Scully comes back to the motel room she shares with Mulder after a long day of work.
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What was supposed to be a night of drinking and escapism starts dripping sexual tension. Things escalate when Mulder starts to profile Scully. She, in fact, does not take this lightly. He, of course, knows this, because he’s an Oxford man.
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All Eyes Lead to the Truth by admiralty, FridaysAt9, MonikaFileFan, OnlyTheInevitable
Fandoms: The X-Files
20 Jun 2025
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A chronological compilation of one-shots through different character perspectives in each episode of the series.
NEW CHAPTER: Per Manum (8x13)
Fox Mulder extends a hand, and Parenti shakes it. But the man doesn’t take his eyes off Parenti, and the doctor wonders, is it nerves, or something else?
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Eddie Van Blundht, or rather, the tree that fell in the forest that both he and Scully had been pretending they hadn't heard... but it had definitely made a noise. A loud one. One that left a deafening echo, really, that lingered in the air between all of their interactions since. Some unspeakable sonic boom that made Mulder's ears ring so bad it had been keeping him up at night. He watched her now, across the office, the slant of the late afternoon light cutting her clean through the middle, only to be seemingly absorbed into its own wound. Scully wouldn't use a word like cleave to describe it, but it's how it looked to Mulder -- how it felt.
(Follow up to Small Potatoes because if they're never going to talk about it again, I WILL)
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Melissa Rydell is dead. Scully is concerned about the toll that the loss of this stranger, and his supposed past life experience, will have on Mulder. She is also trying to process what any of this might mean.
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When a family Christmas in California becomes the backdrop for a personal upheaval, Mulder and Scully find themselves unexpectedly responsible for young Emily, a girl with a mysterious past. As Emily's sweetness melts hearts and the Scully family tries to assimilate her new presence, the truth begins to surface. Guided by an instinct (and an enigmatic phone call), Scully becomes convinced that Emily might be the biological daughter of her late sister, Melissa. This discovery unleashes a whirlwind of emotions, raising doubts and skepticism within her family. As Christmas gives way to a new year, Scully and Mulder delve deeper into the search for answers about Emily's identity and the secrets surrounding her, knowing that this unexpected connection will change their lives forever.