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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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18 Jul 2026
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Following her kidnapping by Donnie Pfaster, Scully is still struggling in the aftermath of it all. She can't eat, can't sleep, and hiding it from Mulder is only growing more difficult as the days pass. Finally, she breaks, and the only comfort she can get is from him. Scully, navigating the turbulence of healing, journeys through the realisation that to be supported by Mulder, she must forsake her fears of being seen as someone to be saved—to allow herself to be vulnerable where it is safe to be. In this, Scully asks herself: How can she emerge from this darkness, how will this change the dynamic between her and her partner, and what will become of them?
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18 Jul 2026
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A canon-compliant, internally consistent episode-by-episode exploration of Mulder and Scully’s interiority, usually accompanied by a little vignette, before or after. (Digging into the on-screen *and* the off-screen, one ep at a time.)
I've tagged it Explicit for future-purposes; explicity comes to those who wait, or something.
Though I’m writing these because I feel compelled to do so, I hope that you enjoy them! That would be lagniappe.
Currently taking a break between seasons, but I’ll be back soon. If you're interested in an update, check out my bio/profile; I've added one there.
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- Part 1 of Blessed and Stricken
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“Sleeping together with other individuals offers a variety of advantages, including protection from predators and buffering against cold nighttime temperatures… The availability and quality of each position within the sleep site depends on the choices made by other group members.”
-the Max Planck Institute of Animal BehaviorOR
In which Scully and Mulder begin sleeping over to provide comfort, and then begin sleeping over for other reasons.
(Updated to add a tag or two and lyk that it's complete.)
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16 Jul 2026