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Fox Mulder finds himself working in a bookstore and saving up to study at Oxford and leave his dark memories behind. He doesn't want to need anyone, ever.
"Head down, earn the money, get out. That’s all I wanted. Why the hell was I wondering what her name was?"*
Dana Scully is rebelling from her parent’s set path of medicine by moving away to Connecticut to study forensic science.
"In reality, what annoyed me most was the fact that I was even thinking about him at all. He should be a faceless, nameless bookstore employee. A man that I met once, in such unimportant circumstances that he faded into my memory, his face only to be deployed as a background character in my dreams, the way that the brain recycles old faces you won’t need again.
And I definitely do not need his face, ever again."*
They both keep an intimate secret, one that quickly comes to light as they feel themselves falling for each other. Though they try to fight it, hormones and curiosity get the better of them, and they end up finding a lot more than they ever could have imagined.
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04 May 2026
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This is about that painful moment in The End, when Scully sees Mulder talking with Diana in the psych facility and then sits, heartbroken, in her car.
What if Mulder went to look for surveillance footage to prove that Jeffrey Spender was conferring with the smoking man, and ends up witnessing Scully’s behavior in the parking deck instead? He has to figure out what led her there, and then he has to figure out what to do about it.
That’s the (contrived) premise here.
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02 May 2026
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What if Mulder returned to England after "The Erlenmeyer Flask"? And someone decided this was the perfect time to start stalking Scully?
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“They’re goddamn right you should’ve told me!” His voice thundered off eighteenth-century oak beams. “You could be dead, right now!”
She made a noise like he’d slapped her. Had he really just repeated their first fight? Yes. Of course. Because Fox Mulder was a sap and a fuckup and he’d left her all alone out there, and now- “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to yell like that. I’m just…”
“I didn’t think you’d care.” Her voice was the size of a lethal injection needle. It threaded neatly under his skin and into his veins and sent breathless death straight into his heart.
“What?” he rasped.
“You’d moved on. Or, away. You’d moved away. You have another life at Oxford, now, Mulder. Other goals. Other priorities. I should handle these things on my own. I need to handle these things on my own.”
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25 Apr 2026
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She sees the way that Fox Mulder looks at Dana Scully. Is it so wrong to want that same level of admiration and devotion for herself? And why try to recreate it with someone else when she can experience the real thing?
Mulder and Scully are asked to protect a woman whose sister is in a mysterious coma before she becomes the next victim. All is not as it seems, and soon Mulder and Scully are deeply entrenched in the case—which may be Scully’s last.
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25 Apr 2026
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A series of works recontextualizing the evolution of Mulder and Scully's relationship in season eight beginning from DeadAlive onwards. The series is written as a string missing scenes and missing context throughout season eight. Scenes not included in the series happened as broadcast.
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25 Apr 2026