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how to say "I love you" in x-files [175/?] ⤷ 3.14 — “Grotesque”

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Scully does not approve.

(The X-Files “Within” promo photo)

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Dana scully & Fox mulder ❤️

THE X-FILES | 4.24 “Gethsemane”

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Do you have a significant other? Um...not in the widely understood definition of that term. DANA SCULLY and FOX MULDER | The X Files, Season 7

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hey I am trying to find a revival era AU where Mulder and Scully are estranged and Mulder finds out from Skinner that Scully’s cancer has returned. Ends on an unresolved note. TIA!

This description reminds me of Where The Vines Cling Crimson by Aloysia_Virgata (@aloysiavirgata). It's an AU in the revival era with the summary: “She’s been out of remission for almost three months,” Skinner says, his eyes infinitely sad. From the prompt: Mulder finding out about Scully being sick again, months after she finds out. He finds out from someone else, 'cause they don't really talk after they separated. Make it angsty.

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The X-Files Herrenvolk | 4.01

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Damsels by @sisterspooky1013 is probably a better guess since this one does have Scully going to Philadelphia (thanks for the help, @scullyismyqueen!). Its summary: A Scully-centric case fic set in season 7.

Hello, lovely! I was wondering if you could possibly help me find a fic? Scully is sent off to work undercover at a strip club. Mulder isn't told anything, but eventually finds out that she's in Philadelphia, and starts driving there nightly, searching different strip clubs until he finds her. A03 search engine isn't helping me!

Maybe you're looking for Deep Red by mommieburger. Scully does not go to Philadelphia, but this fic is otherwise similar. Its summary: Scully goes undercover as a stripper, but keeps Mulder in the dark. Mulder’s new temporary partner finds out and the hunt is on. Skinner gets a little touch/feely with Stripper Scully and Mulder may have to confront his boss and several other men over the delectable Agent. Who knows how this will end? Only time will tell.

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Hello, lovely! I was wondering if you could possibly help me find a fic? Scully is sent off to work undercover at a strip club. Mulder isn't told anything, but eventually finds out that she's in Philadelphia, and starts driving there nightly, searching different strip clubs until he finds her. A03 search engine isn't helping me!

Maybe you're looking for Deep Red by mommieburger. Scully does not go to Philadelphia, but this fic is otherwise similar. Its summary: Scully goes undercover as a stripper, but keeps Mulder in the dark. Mulder’s new temporary partner finds out and the hunt is on. Skinner gets a little touch/feely with Stripper Scully and Mulder may have to confront his boss and several other men over the delectable Agent. Who knows how this will end? Only time will tell.

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MTV News 1515 visits the set of the X-Files for the season 5 finale, "The End." Includes interviews with David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mimi Rogers, co-executive producer R.W. Goodwin, and crew members about the finale, the upcoming movie "Fight the Future," and the show's season 6 move to filming in Los Angeles. (May 1998)

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Oh he knows that look 🫠

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Should Never Have Come

Missing scene in 'Never Again' looking at what happened in the hospital to make Mulder so angry in the final scene, and Scully so detached.

Word count: 1,015

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Tagging @today-in-fic

Another call to another hospital to witness another injury. There’s never enough adrenaline to cover these moments and he arrives abruptly, exhausted. His relief at the sight of her, solid against the thin hospital pillow, is tempered by a twinge of doubt. 

‘Scully.’ She opens her eyes, face hardening. Locking him out.  

‘Mulder.’ 

‘How are you feeling?’ The angry bruise on her cheek answers for her. It scolds him for asking her to go. She hadn’t wanted to, but he knew she wouldn’t let him down. 

‘A little sore. I’m ok.’ 

‘Concussion?’

‘Unfortunately. They’re keeping me in overnight for observation.’ 

‘Really? Is it serious?’

‘No, it’s just… there are some things they want to keep an eye on.’ The plastic water cup trembles as she takes a sip. Cold spreads to Mulder’s stomach. 

‘What things?’

‘Nothing major. Headaches. Some vomiting.’

‘But you’re ok, aren’t you?’

‘I just said that I was.’ Her eyes are shrouded and evasive. It’s not like he wants gratitude. Scully never accepts her vulnerability easily. And she didn’t ask him to drop everything to come to her bedside. But his hackles rise at this deliberate antagonism. ‘I didn’t think you’d come.’

‘Of course I came, Scully. You were attacked. On a case that I assigned to you. I wanted to make sure you’re ok.’

‘Assigned to me?’

‘You know what I mean. I didn’t mean it like that. I asked you to go because I couldn’t.’ He takes a breath. The room is too small with him in it – it would be better if he left. But he can’t leave while the bruises are so fresh. Can’t bear the thought that she will get a cab alone from the hospital. Can’t shake the fear that something dark is stalking her which pounced yet again as soon as his back was turned. 

The clock’s ticking bounces around the room. Sentences from the police report flash through his mind. The victim reported that she had stayed at the suspect’s apartment the night before… pushed against the wall with force where she hit her head and lost consciousness…woke in the cellar wrapped in a sheet… Don’t ask, he tells himself. Don’t ask, just leave it. 

‘How did you even meet Jerse?’ Asshole. But if he doesn’t ask, the words will rotate in his brain faster and faster until their tornado creates more even damage. 

Scully exhales slowly. ‘I met him at the tattoo parlour… where Pudovkin was meeting a contact.’

‘Jesus, Scully. He was literally a stranger off the street.’ His teeth grind at her irresponsibility. Always so difficult, teasing the answers out of her is as slow and painful as combing the knots out of hair. ‘You know, I thought you were joking about the whole date thing.’

‘The idea of me having a date is so outlandish as to be comedic?’

‘Of course not, Scully. But surely you can admit that it was reckless.’

‘Reckless and a joke. I’m so glad you’re here to lift my spirits.’ She spreads the sheet taut across her lap and looks at him, eyebrow arched.  

‘You are my partner,’ he says slowly. ‘You were injured in the line of duty, and I really want to see how you are.’

‘I’m fine, Mulder.’

‘Good.’ The clock dominates once more, keeping time on their stalemate. Mulder can’t look at her, but her delicate fingers folded on her lap signal how she fought. One nail is bleeding, and another is half ripped off. Anger flames in his own fingers as he remembers just how close she came to death.

‘Though, it’s not a work injury,’ she says with adolescent defiance, bursting the silence that had ballooned between them. 

‘What? What do you mean?’

‘You said I was injured in the line of duty. I wasn’t. This happened on my own time.’ 

‘You gotta be kidding me,’ he growls. ‘Do you realise what this guy did to you? What would have happened if you hadn’t regained consciousness? You’re a Federal Agent. You’re – ‘ He stops, unsure of what would have tumbled out.  

‘I’m what?’ Her defiant lift of the chin dares him, but fear glistens in her wet eyes. 

‘It doesn’t matter. Anything could have happened, and it very nearly did. No one knew you were in Philadelphia.’

‘You knew. Even down to where I would stay.’ 

Cracking his knuckles doesn’t save him from meeting this petulance with quiet rage.  ‘You were on a case at my request and inadvertently found yourself in an X-File. He got you because you’re a Federal Agent. I don’t care what you say, Jerse deserves everything he has coming at him.’

‘No, Mulder. There’s nothing remotely paranormal about hallucinogenic ergot. I met a guy, and it ended tragically.’  Embarrassment, hurt, melancholy flood her face before she pulls the shutters down again. ‘But it’s not an unexplainable phenomenon.’ 

Suddenly her throat convulses, and as she gags, Mulder slips an emesis basin under her chin to catch it. Rubs her back as she heaves. Her skin is clammy. 

‘Scully…. It’s been hours since ... Are you sure there’s nothing else going on?’ In the seconds before she answers, Mulder steels himself. It’s ridiculous to think of Scully as anything other than formidable, impervious, but this is being tested too frequently.  

‘How many times do I have to say it?’ She coughs. ‘It’s just a side effect.’

‘Let me help you.’ He reaches across for her water. It spills over the bed as she knocks him away. Sighing, she reclines with her eyes closed. 

‘Please, Mulder, it’s done. It’s all done. I just need to rest and then I can get out of here.’

‘But –‘ He’s silenced by the strength of her dismissiveness when she opens her eyes. ‘Scully, I came all the way here.’

‘I didn’t ask you to. Nothing needs solving here,’ she says with low resignation. ‘I’ll be at work on Monday. We can talk then.’ 

‘Got it Scully.’ He stands, yanking on his jacket in defeat. His instincts were right: he should have left.  Should never have come. ‘Message received. Loud and clear. See you on Monday.’

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👽🎬 “I Want To Believe” X-Files Fic Recs

Here are some I Want To Believe fics to keep you busy on July 25 in celebration of the day the movie was released in 2008. Although they are good to read any day. Enjoy!

Everything and Nothing at Once by @enigmaticdr

Gas Station Coffee by @puzzlingpeace

Home, Home by @onpaperfirst

if i had to perish twice by @seek-its-opposite

in the vacant places, we will build with new bricks by @becketted

​melting snow by @how-i-met-your-mulder

Photograph by @thisisstarlight

six years ago will stay beside them by veils

The Thing They Left Til Last by seeyoustandingthere

These Things Keep Us From Sinking by anythingbutgrey

The Tourists by @discordantwords

Weightless by @all-these-ghosts

white winter hymnal(s) by @foxmulders

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👽🎬 “I Want To Believe” X-Files Fic Recs

Here are some I Want To Believe fics to keep you busy on July 25 in celebration of the day the movie was released in 2008. Although they are good to read any day. Enjoy!

Everything and Nothing at Once by @enigmaticdr

Gas Station Coffee by @puzzlingpeace

Home, Home by @onpaperfirst

if i had to perish twice by @seek-its-opposite

in the vacant places, we will build with new bricks by @becketted

​melting snow by @how-i-met-your-mulder

Photograph by @thisisstarlight

six years ago will stay beside them by veils

The Thing They Left Til Last by seeyoustandingthere

These Things Keep Us From Sinking by anythingbutgrey

The Tourists by @discordantwords

Weightless by @all-these-ghosts

white winter hymnal(s) by @foxmulders

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X-Files season 10 official countdown

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The most terrifying thing about The X-Files is what a day in the life of Assistant Direct Walter Skinner must look like. He has to live in fear of both the Syndicate and Mulder and Scully. He’ll get shot or infected with remote-controlled nanobots and then he has to go back to his office and deal with case reports that are written in the style of experimental prose poetry.

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THE X-FILES | 1x02 'DEEP THROAT'