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1. as common as it is unkind by x_etoile_x

   Fandoms: The X-Files  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   25 Dec 2024

   Tags

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   • Alex Krycek/Fox Mulder
   • Alex Krycek
   • Fox Mulder
   • Christmas fic
   • Light Angst
   • Pining
   • Sad Bastards on Christmas
   • Eventual Smut
   • Fox Mulder's Apartment Gets Broken Into Like Grand Central Station
   • POV Alternating
   • Hand Jobs
   • Oral Sex
   • Canon Disabled Character
   • Discussion of Amputation
   • Krycek is Such a Sub
   • alcohol use
   • maybe a little more than is Canon Typical
   • but hey its christmas
   • i'm back and forth about whether to tag this as internalized homophobia
   • whatever that tells you
   • we're pretending its not gay for a minute though
   • Mulder's porn collection
   • discussion of past Alex Krycek/Marita Covarrubias
   • mention of HIV/AIDS existing as a scary possibility
   • Choking
   • Bad BDSM Etiquette
   • Weird flirting

   Summary

   Set after The Red and the Black. Thinking Mulder is out of town, Krycek breaks into his apartment on Christmas in search of information. Mulder is not, in fact, out of town.

   Series

   • Part 1 of like the western front

   Language:

   English

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   12,574

   Chapters:

   4/4

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