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  1. Public Bookmark 43

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    Mulder will break his own heart before he lets Scully do it.

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    07 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    When FBI agent Dana Scully requests a transfer to escape a marriage that’s quietly destroying her, she’s assigned to the last place she expects, 'Spooky' Mulder and his basement of impossible cases. Mulder is intense, brilliant, and sees far too much, including the bruises she swears are accidents. As her husband’s control tightens and the work grows more dangerous, Scully finds herself drawn to the partner who treats her with a gentleness she forgot existed. But getting out won’t be easy. In a world of shadows, conspiracies, and fragile trust, Scully must decide whether to stay silent… or finally save herself.

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    07 Dec 2025

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    They’re just worked up from the case, he tells himself. They’re just blowing off steam. Just this once.

    **On temporary hiatus**

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    06 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 20

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    In which, following the high school reunion in The Rain King, Scully decides she's waited long enough.

    (This starts fluffy and gets smutty. There's dancing and there's teasing and there's more than one happy ending.)

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    04 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 99

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    Following the end of war, Hermione and Severus find themselves both in search of what they want and desire out of life now that the heavy cloud of oppression that has darkened their lives for so long has lifted.

    In a sandy bar in the South Pacific, they meet once again--he beginning work on a two decades long list of things he thought he'd never get to experience and she simply partaking in days of leisure without the weight of someone else's destiny resting on her shoulders.

    Drinks and conversation give way to dinner and flirtation. Dessert carries into the small hours of the morning. And when one night of explosive connection isn't enough, things heat up under the island sun as they embark on a holiday fling.

    But when the real world beckons them back, they part on amicable terms neither willing to ask for more than what was promised. That is until their paths once again cross--this time inside the walls of Hogwarts--offering up a chance at something more.

    🎀 This work was inspired by the one-shots it's linked to. You do not need to read them prior to beginning this fic 🎀

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    09 Nov 2025