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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.”
“...Is this why you won’t answer my emails? Is this why you screen all your calls?”Bookmarked by XSMILES
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
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Can she give you what I can't? (the things I cry for every night) by obsessedbaldie
Fandoms: The X-Files
03 May 2026
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Post-Arcadia, Mulder notices a certain tension between him and Scully, somehow everything always circle right back to Diana.
For both women, one truth is certain; Mulder is about to replace Scully as his partner in favor of continuing his work with Diana.
They could simply talk it out, but then again, when do they ever?
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18 Apr 2026
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What happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted?
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18 Apr 2026
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The Unauthorized FBI Guide to Seducing Your Platonic Colleague
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18 Apr 2026
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Mulder and Scully try their hand at online chat rooms, and each meet a compelling stranger who is perhaps no stranger after all.
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18 Apr 2026
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Scully's Friday night date sends a sharp, unpleasant shock through Mulder. How he reacts: three possibilities, three permutations.
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18 Apr 2026
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He could tell her that her prefrontal cortex was the revelation to the thief on the cross.
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18 Apr 2026
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Up through Emily (except Emily does not die. Please see author’s notes).
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18 Apr 2026
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The last chapter. Spring. Mulder and Scully leave the cabin to see what is left of the world beyond their four walls.
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07 Apr 2026
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**This is a repost of a story I originally published in 18 parts. I've carefully edited it and am posting it now as a single piece**
Over 99% of human life has perished because of a bio-weapon that was accidentally released from a military facility. Mulder and Scully survive, and learn that they have a very important role to play in ensuring that humanity survives.
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02 Apr 2026
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A series of canon-compliant missing scenes showing that some dynamics of Mulder and Scully’s relationship may have changed much earlier than previously thought.
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02 Apr 2026
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"The good news is, she isn’t dying. The bad news is, her brush with death seems to have inspired her to live her life more fully—with someone else."
What will Mulder do when he realizes that Scully won't wait around forever?
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02 Apr 2026
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"How long has he been thinking about this, she wonders. What exactly is he thinking? Her mind races, trying to reconcile this Mulder whose deepest desires are spilled out here in ink on worn and crinkled brochures with the one she’s spent nearly every day with these past several months.
She’d never have guessed…
After the events of Amor Fati, Mulder isn't quite ready to give up on a miracle. It just might take a little extra work to get there.
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- Part 1 of of our own making
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31 Mar 2026
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In this alternate take on "Never Again," Scully's encounter with Ed Jerse ends with her being stalked by a supernatural entity hellbent on killing her. When Mulder arrives, jealous and confused, they must navigate their tension while trying to solve Scully's terrible predicament. Apparently, the only way to stop the curse is to pass it to someone else by sleeping with them, and much to Mulder's chagrin, that isn't something Scully wants to do.
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- Part 23 of Do You Like Scary Movies?
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29 Mar 2026
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Handfasting by MSR_Pusher for peacenik0, Thanks for reading and all your fabulous feedback!!
Fandoms: The X-Files
13 May 2026
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Great Aunt Olive drops a four-million-dollar matrimonial bomb from the grave, and Scully is entirely prepared to stand on her fiercely independent principles. That is, until her partner points out that sticking it to the patriarchy via a Scottish handfasting loophole is just good financial sense. Strictly for the funding of unauthorized scientific research, obviously.
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26 Mar 2026
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What if Mulder actually tried to have a normal life—and what would it cost him?
Six years into their partnership, Mulder learns the truth: Samantha died in 1979. With the X-Files closed and his life's purpose destroyed, he retreats into the promise of normalcy—and into the arms of Lily Davis, a high school English teacher who laughs at his jokes and doesn't remind him of everything he's lost.
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20 Mar 2026