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1. Polar Dawn by Mardou

   Fandoms: The X-Files  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   03 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Fox Mulder/Dana Scully
   • Fox Mulder & Dana Scully
   • Dana Scully
   • Fox Mulder
   • Walter Skinner
   • Original Characters
   • Case Fic
   • Sexual Tension
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • First Kiss
   • First Time
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Angst
   • Slow Burn
   • Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in Love
   • Canon Universe
   • Resolved Sexual Tension
   • Resolved Romantic Tension

   Summary

   Three dead women. One ship. Fifty passengers who don't know they're on it with a killer.
   Mulder and Scully go undercover on an Alaskan expedition cruise in April 1998. The case is complicated. The cover is worse. Of all the covers Skinner could have given them, he gave them this one.

   A murder mystery. A slow burn.
   In that order, more or less.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   86,248

   Chapters:

   16/?

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