Mulder takes a trip down memory lane that begins and ends in no man's land.
As season eight limps off into the forgettable distance, does anyone yearn for those good old days of UST between Mulder and Scully? I do, and this is my contribution in kind. As usual, this takes place in my Crossing Lines universe. More notes at end.
Sorta my ode to classic Star Trek. "All Our Yesterdays" was one of my favorite ST episodes, a tale of doomed romance for the stoic Mr. Spock. The phrase itself seemed fitting when I thought about putting together a selection of Mulder and Scully moments that our abducted hero relives in his mind as he's being prepared for testing. (October 2000 is the timing of Requiem in my view of things; I think it indicates more sanity than what 1013 ultimately came up with.) This is actually the "prequel" to the already released The Sum of My Tomorrows, and is also quite likely my last bit of TXF fanfic. To all who have read in the past as well as to all who will read in the future: my grateful thanks for making this a once in a lifetime experience.
This story represents my closure on TXF. Strange as it may seem, I've been trying to establish some sort of closure for myself since the end of season seven, when it was apparent to me that things weren't ever going to be the same again, especially not from a fanfic writing point of view. The "Mulder and Scully with child" idea would have been abhorrent to me on virtually any level, but the way CC did it was just too much to take. I had an idea last summer (of 2000) for how I wanted the Mulder storyline to be resolved and proceeded to write the second part of the story first, thinking that it would be easy to go back and write this one immediately after. Was I ever wrong. Overall, this story has occupied over ten months of my life, on and off. My detachment and dissatisfaction with what I heard about season eight almost doomed it to my — albeit small — pile of "stories that'll never see the light of day". In the end, I think it was my commitment to Mulder's character that made me "come back" to complete this.
Closure for me also entailed tying up a couple of loose ends. The necklace thing that I wrote about in Water's Edge has been "fixed" here... I had to get it back to Scully somehow. Another sore point for me — Scully's lack of interest in looking for Mulder beyond the opening two episodes of season eight — has been somewhat addressed with Mulder's "message" to her in this one.
According to my — and I'm just going to say it — better version of TXF time, the events of this story take place in the fall of 2000. (At least that makes sense for Scully's ludicrous pregnancy.)
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Mulder and Scully realize that they have to deal with the memory of Diana if they want to move ahead.
This is the final "missing link", the last remaining chapter in The Healing Waters series, which takes place in my Crossing Lines universe. It and its predecessor (Just Breathe) almost never saw the light of day, but not being the sort to abandon what I start and with absolutely nothing new in the TXF world to inspire me, I decided to go back and rescue these orphaned pieces. This one answers the lingering questions (and poses even more — I've learned how to be evil like CC) about Diana Fowley and her past history with Mulder. Anyway, let me know if it worked or if it should have stayed abandoned.
I started this almost a year ago, (along with Just Breathe) when I realized that I had raised some issues in Truths Untold that were never resolved. People who die on TXF aren't even given so much as a mention ever afterwards it seems, but I got the feeling that if Mulder and Scully were "real" (come on, play along), the Diana thing would not have been so easily swept under the rug. Not given Mulder's obvious significant past with her and not given Scully's tendency to be curious, jealous, and insecure when it comes to the other women in Mulder's life. So what would the inevitable encounter have been like? This is my version of tying up those loose strings. I personally was never a big fan of the Diana character but I think I've mellowed sufficiently over time to give her a realistic story. Of course, it wouldn't have the true X-Files feel if it didn't include a new question for every answer, so I've left it up to the reader to ponder exactly how dark Diana's past may have been. (Don't ask me, by the way — I don't know and I don't care beyond what I've written here. There will be no sequels to this other than what's already out there in Water's Edge.)
Once again, according to my version of TXF time, the events of this story take place in May of 2000.
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Scully finds it difficult to deal with a side of Mulder she's never seen before in the aftermath of her adventure with CSM.
Just one of two stops between the events of Acceptance and Water's Edge in my Healing Waters series, which in turn takes place in my Crossing Lines universe. This one begins to address issues that Dana Scully has still not dealt with properly, issues that stem from the time of Amor Fati. They don't get resolved here, though — that'll happen in the next one; you'll have to stay tuned.
This was an abandoned story from earlier this year, one of two that I had planned to deal with the Scully versus Fowley thing that both the series and my stories have sort of left hanging in the air. In Truths Untold, there was a flashback to a scrap of a conversation between Scully and Diana where the latter mentioned something about "still" being Mulder's wife if things had turned out differently. In Water's Edge, the implication is that M&S have since worked things out, but it had always been my intention that the "working it out" part would be a story in itself. So that's more or less the background of this story and the one that's meant to follow.
I was fascinated by the "feel" of the scene in En Ami where Mulder could barely look at Scully after she comes back with this CD that supposedly cures the world of its evils. It turned out to be the driving force behind this story, much to my surprise.
In my version of the TXF world, the events of this story take place in April of 2000.
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As he lies in a state of suspended animation, Mulder gets a vision of a future that involves Samantha.
No, this is not Amor Fati, part deux. This is the second of an intended set of two stories that follows Mulder as he looks into the past and the future while he is held captive post "events of Season Seven". (Events take place in my Crossing Lines universe, as usual, although it's not quite as "clear" in this case.) This one focuses on the future and plays with an idea that I've had ever since I saw Monday. Maybe fate pre-destines everything about us. Maybe it doesn't matter how many wrong turns we take. And maybe SUZ/Closure has the potential to be a great fairy tale, but I don't think Samantha is out there traveling through starlight saving other children from the clutches of evil.
DEDICATION: This story was written to celebrate the character of Fox Mulder and to salute the actor who gave him life as a unique, one-of-a-kind modern hero. At this writing, it's unclear what future Mulder will face in the revamped post-Season Seven X-Files, but there's a part of me that fears the worst. This was my attempt to give Mulder what he's really wanted all his life: to find his sister. Basically, if Samantha didn't die in Paper Hearts, then she shouldn't have gotten sucked up by starlight in Closure. Oh, and one final thing - thank you, David, for crafting seven beautiful seasons of Mulder memories. As the song goes, "Nobody does it better. Makes me feel sad for the rest."
So what was I thinking when I wrote this somewhat — and I admit it — cryptic piece? Creating an homage to Chris Carter's work over the past seven seasons of providing answers but leaving just as many questions in their wake? I guess I'm going to hide behind the fact that in essence, everything you read in this story is one big MulderDream. However, I wouldn't be too sorry if Mulder's life winds up like this, because it would mean that the Samantha storyline wasn't one big cheat that someone gave up on. It hasn't been twenty-some, thirty-odd years for me, but dammit, I wanted Samantha to be found. So this was my way of satisfying that need. Addressing the whereabouts of Samantha in any way consistent with the treatment of the series, however, meant that I had to deal with and hopefully put an end to that whole friggin' "aliens are taking over the world" scenario. I tried not to roll my eyes as I wrote those parts; I hope they sort of rang true to the reader.
I don't quite remember how long it took to turn this one out. I got the idea for this story and its yet-to-be-written predecessor during the summer just when I thought I had come to terms with disconnecting myself from the TXF world. With the start of Season Eight (at this writing, about three weeks away) looming on the horizon, I'm so not looking forward to the continuation of this series. Writing this piece has been a welcome diversion for me over the past three or four months, making me forget about the "reality" of Season Eight.
By the way, this one was also an opportunity for me to explore the "future" of the Mulder/Scully relationship. I'm not a strong believer in "happily ever after" (I'm more into "tolerance ever after" but that's a whole other story) and have always had doubts about where any such relationship would go in the long run. I guess I'm not saying yea or nay here, but I've had a bad year with the Scully character and decided to put her into exile for a couple of decades. (Okay, now I've done it to the Scullyists out there...! VBG going on...)
The main events of this story take place in and around October 2000, I guess. Mulder's thoughts take him all the way to August 2021.
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Original Posting: October 2000 |
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The end of the road finally arrives for Mulder and Scully.
This story was originally planned to be my swan song fic, but of course, with a season eight looming, now I'm not too sure. (I may be back, I may not; fortunately, I'm not DD so it doesn't matter!) In the spirit of what CC attempted at the end of season seven, this one is meant to complete my vision of what Mulder and Scully could/should be, regardless of whether I'm inspired to write any future stories. As usual, this takes place in the little world that I created in Crossing Lines; total timeframe covered is June through October 2000. (In my version of events, Requiem takes place in October; continuity be damned if CC and the boys decide differently.) By the way, the opening of this story picks up directly from the end of the "Prologue" portion of Truths Untold. (It's just a short little scene, but if you want to read it, go here.)
In the fall of 1998, I put together my first fic, Crossing Lines, and in it are a couple of lines said by M&S that figured prominently in Requiem: the idea of "an end" and the concept of knowing when personal sacrifices are just not "worth it" anymore. That aspect of the season seven finale was so touching and appropriate that this would be a wonderful place for my personal foray into TXF fanfic to come to a close.
As usual, episodes and situations within episodes that I really don't like finally pushed me back to the keyboard. I really hadn't been inspired to write anything for several months until all things happened. I didn't know what to make of the idea that so many people were thinking that M&S had had sex finally. The fact that this was then reinforced in Requiem made me start working on this story in earnest.
I had three goals in mind when I wrote this. Number one, I absolutely had to nip the all things scenario in the bud. Sorry, GA and CC (whichever one of you was responsible for that teaser to end all teasers), but I don't care if M&S have been doing it since hour one, they did not do it within the confines of this particular episode. I can't even begin to describe how much I disliked the character of Dana Scully in this hour, that to think that they would have chosen that weekend to consummate their relationship is despicable in the worst way. The idea absolutely gags me, therefore....
Goal number two was to give them a much better "first time". No matter what you think happened in all things, I have given them a better scenario here.
Goal number three was to treat all of this with some modicum of realism. Even if I hadn't been required to deal with the potential of "the sex thing" by happenings within the show itself, in my world, M&S are coming up on two years of slowly building a relationship. It was already getting long in the tooth for something not to happen, whether it be sleeping together or making life decisions after the fact. (And the last thing I wanted to be was a constant tease like CC.)
Believe it or not, this story was started in the fall of 1999. (The conversation between Scully and Mulder at "the bench" was mostly set up last September; with a few adjustments, I was able to use most of what I'd written all those months ago.) So considering it took me until June 2000 to finish, this one has been the longest story of mine in more ways than one!
By the way, the locale I describe in Jasper is specifically The Jasper Park Lodge. Breath-takingly beautiful and exquisitely romantic, the area is full of gorgeous blue-green lakes and wildlife that won't hesitate to get up close and personal with you. It's become pricey in recent years to stay there, but those of you with American bucks won't feel the pinch as much. It's definitely worth the effort to go for a visit if you're looking for a unique getaway.... And no, I don't work there, nor do I have any friends/relatives that do!
The main events of this story take place around September, 2000. The primary flashback sequence goes back to June and the series epilogue moves forward to October.
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Original Posting: June 2000 |
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Mulder and Scully take a significant personal step forward after a severe blow to his psyche.
Yes, that's an R rating and yes, there's a certain part of me that cannot believe I actually wrote this. But then again, maybe I didn't write it, because most of it came to me in a dream-like trance (no, I don't normally have dreams this interesting) and just maybe I was channeling some other author. In any case, let this be my contribution to the inevitable outpouring of hurt/sex/comfort stories that will flood TXF fandom after SUZ. (As an aside, I wrote the first draft of this story long before I ever saw the eps, so even though it looks as though Mulder's mother has moved since we last visited her, I'm leaving her in the same house that we've seen in the past. I need those stairs!) Time frame for this one is about ten days to two weeks after the event in question. As usual, the "M&S history" behind this comes from my Crossing Lines story and beyond. By the way, this being a serious departure from the stuff that I've written to date — in a big way — I'd really like to know what you think.
The big M&S scene here was at least partly inspired by the movie, "The Big Easy". Every time I see it, I'm amazed by that hot make-out scene between Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin, where, for the most part, they remained clothed. I think ever since then, I've realized that I like the artful and somewhat subtle approach to so-called sex scenes. This was my contribution to the genre.
When I first heard of 1013's intentions to add this crisis to Mulder's life, my first thought was, "Why? Why does he need more and more tragedy?" As the spoilers unfolded, I knew that it was all becoming fodder for fanfic, so how could I resist? The fact was, I couldn't resist. Acceptance also turned out to be one of the fastest works that ever rolled off my assembly line. It took a little more than a week to complete, a good month and a half before I saw the actual episodes themselves (late December/early January). I did have to go back and revise it for content after I saw the eps, however, given that when I first heard about it, I wasn't expecting the entire Samantha storyline to be "wrapped up", so to speak. (I personally still don't think it is, but maybe that's just me.)
Hard to put a concrete date on this one, so I'm going with "real time", maybe towards the weekend of February 19, 2000? (This is assuming that the events of the two-parter took place over a period of several days in early February.)
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A day at the beach and a story about a boy and his sandcastle spaceship.
This is a basically a continuation of my previous story in the Healing Waters series, Truths Untold. I don't think you'll get lost by not having read Truths, but you may gain some explanation as to the "dreams" theme that runs through both storylines if you read it first. (My website address is given at the end of the story if you're interested.) While TU was meant to be angsty, the closing segment in Amor Fati left me with such a wonderful feeling that I had to attempt a "feel good" companion piece. I don't know to what degree I've managed to tone down the angst, but it was my aim here! As usual, the events here take place in the little world that I originally created in Crossing Lines.
So what was the impetus behind this one? The most powerful images to me from The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati were the sequences with Mulder and the boy on the beach. I loved the surreal effect of the scenes, as well as the peaceful serenity and powerful impact of the many meanings that could be discerned from them. When I decided to close Truths Untold with the image of "the boy and his sandcastle spaceship", I was immediately taken with the idea of building a second story on that theme alone. However, I wanted to ease up on the angst and simply provide M&S with an innocuous little outing where they could "reconnect" after the events of The Sixth Extinction. Sometimes life is just to be enjoyed; no more, no less. This one was fast coming out of the chute; I started it after seeing Amor Fati (while I was still working on its predecessor), but the majority of it was written in about a week's time after Truths was released.
This one takes place a few hours after the end of Truths Untold, late October 1999.
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Original Posting: January 2000 |
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In the dark hours before the early morning, the greatest truths out there may well be the unspoken ones.
This is the beginning of my season seven writing project. I'm anticipating The Healing Waters to be a series of stories that will culminate with Mulder and Scully finally coming together in the fall of 2000. The events here take place in the same universe that I created back in Crossing Lines. Timeline for this one is a few days after the closing scene in Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati. I watched the season openers with great interest, as everything had pointed to awesome fanfic potential, but it was somewhat difficult to get a consistent focus on what I wanted Mulder and Scully to get out of their latest experience. What finally resulted from this story was a bit different from what I had originally intended, but I hope it worked.
Alec — one of my steady readers — is obviously a committed "shipper". She's been pushing since day one for me to bring our two favourite agents together, and may have finally convinced me with her last correspondence after Two Steps Back. She wanted me to take the story forward and have "Mulder and Scully set off for a real vacation and go to the healing waters of wherever the healing waters are!" Something about those words instantly appealed to me, and combined with a nasty little story idea that had been in the back of my head since I wrote the Scully line regarding that "resort with blue-green lakes", I thought that maybe the end of the series would be a good time for me to bring M&S "together". Before they do that, however, I suspect that the events of this year will necessitate taking them through a lot of healing! So therein lies the history behind the title of my season seven series of stories. Thanks Alec — sometime next fall you'll get your story. In the meantime, accept my sincere appreciation for the fascinating title that you've provided me.
Truths Untold was a bit of a challenging project. It officially began a few days after the airing of part one of The Sixth Extinction and didn't get finished until over six weeks later. Real life obligations and holiday planning entered into the equation, but I took many cracks at this one during an extended editing phase. I'm not a fan of the Diana Fowley character, but I felt that she was around long enough for her to have significance and have a real impact on where the Mulder/Scully relationship will ultimately go. I'm not quite sure how this particular history that I've written will eventually play out — gotta wait for February sweeps of course — but I'm prepared one way or the other.
This one takes place a few days after the final scenes in The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati, which — I believe by the New York Yankees reference — is sometime in late October 1999.
Postscript: I recently watched The Sixth Extinction again and discovered that I had placed the activities of that ep in South Africa instead of West Africa. Oh well...
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Scully and Mulder each reflect on an eye-opening night of discussion.
This is essentially a sequel to Crossing Lines, but I just couldn't see myself doing it justice if I approached it the way people were wanting. So while this is not a "next minute" continuation (sorry!), it does deal with the personal thoughts of each of our heroes after the events of that night. You won't have trouble understanding this story if you haven't read Crossing Lines, but I think — in my biased opinion :) — that it will be a lot more meaningful as to where M&S are coming from when they go through these self-revelations if you do read CL first. (My website URL is given at the end of this story if you want to read.) And yes, since the basic format and varied POV style is a distinct change of pace for me, feedback will be most appreciated and always acknowledged.
Yes, this one took a long time in coming. But I suppose with close to ninety-nine percent of my feedback email for Crossing Lines asking me whether or not I had a sequel planned to address those troublesome "questions", it was only a matter of time! I don't remember exactly when I first tackled this, but the first few paragraphs (Mulder's initial thoughts) were written before I started work on Soul on Soul. The so-called "next minute" continuation to the end of Crossing Lines was attempted and ultimately discarded when I just couldn't get it going anywhere. (So I decided to take off in a totally different direction with the first person format, which was surprisingly difficult.) The truth is, when I ended CL the way I did, I had no idea what questions they would ask each other. And I wasn't too thrilled with the prospect of coming up with any of them. So I admit, this was a bit of a cheat!
I also didn't plan on this story having an official title other than Crossing Lines: Epilogue up until its final few days. As I finished the final paragraphs of Scully's thoughts, this single word kept coming up in my mind as an appropriate name.
This one takes place a couple of hours after the end of Crossing Lines, which as I sort of established above, occurs sometime in the fall of 1998?
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Original Posting: September 1999 |
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The strange wackiness of the Rain King encounter takes a serious turn when Mulder and Scully are faced with revisiting an old fear.
Those of you who have demanded some sort of physical relief for our two from me will find that I've raised the temperature a bit in this story. :) Otherwise, this mainly started out as a response to my utter dissatisfaction with The Rain King episode, which — to me, anyway — implied that almost a year after their hallway encounter, M&S still had their heads in the sand. (Note about timelines: no specific year was ever mentioned, but the main events of Rain King occurred six months after Valentine's Day, which places it in mid-August, and I'm going with 1999.) Part of the first half of this story is my take on explaining away the silly posturing in that show; the rest of it is yet another installment to what has become my "Crossing Lines" series of stories.
Only one way to describe this experience — frustrating! Writing this story was a painful exercise in near futility, but the more I wanted to abandon it — and I wanted to abandon it many times — the more it demanded to be completed. I'm aware that the subject matter is hardly original, but for the fact that my version of M&S are just about to move beyond the first year of their "relationship", it was something that I felt had to be dealt with realistically. The show itself has made it seem as though Scully's cancer has just "gone away", but unfortunately it's never that simple in real life.
Somewhere at some point I knew that I had to address the cancer thing again, especially given that it was such a central part of Crossing Lines. Once I decided to link the main idea to the aftermath of the strangely out-of-sequence Rain King episode, I came up with a so-called "plot twist" and started writing what I thought would be a fairly straight forward "no brainer" kind of story. It was not to be! Aside from it growing totally out of hand — I had to be brutal in bringing the story to an end, but that was the least of my difficulties — I had the worst time deciding what was "in character" and what wasn't. In real time, I only fussed with it for about a month, but it felt like an eternity. Suffice it to say, this one is not a favourite child of mine.
This story takes place on the weekend of August 14, 1999. And by the way, if there are any nitpickers among you, I now know that there wasn't likely to be any moonlight that weekend!
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In the immortal words of Eddie Van Blundht, "What's stopping us?"
Apparently some folks have been quite disappointed with the lack of real movement in the M&S relationship over the course of Season Six. I don't feel that way myself, although I can see how certain things could be seen as moving backwards when they should be moving forwards. However, knowing that CC will never let the relationship go where some viewers want it to go, I think we can interpret some of the snags as just normal potholes in the relationship road of life. (And I promise that the writing in this story will be a lot less corny than that previous sentence!) As usual, the events described here occur in my "Crossing Lines" universe. I've played a bit with the timeline of events — dates have been hard to establish this season so I'm tying the Field Trip episode closer to the time of Milagro and I'm placing both well after March, likely late April, early May. ("Officially", Milagro seems to occur sometime in early February, but other events have placed M&S getting the X-Files back in late February and their first case back was, of course, Arcadia.)
This one's for my cyber pal Eliza, whose miles and miles (not to mention kilometers and kilometers) of email "conversation" regarding our favorite twosome provided much food for thought for this story. Thanks Lize — TXF (and technology) brought us together, but something tells me we'll be sending and receiving long after the 'Files have gone to TV heaven!
This story's title was inspired by Amy Sky's duet with her husband that was playing on the airwaves at the time. I'm not one for songfic, but I did eventually see the appropriateness of the title for this discussion piece between M&S. Oh, and for those who have commented — the french vanilla cappuccino that was "to die for" was an actual discovery of mine at the time! On my way back home one evening with a cup in hand, I suddenly had this M&S conversation come into my mind. That was in April and it basically started this one rolling, although I left it for quite some time and never had the right inspiration to finish it until three months later. Soul on Soul seemed to hit quite a few different chords among readers; the feedback for this one was particularly varied and interesting. I was quite vividly introduced to the warring factions of Mulderists and Scullyists out there!
I'm saying this one takes place about a week after their release from hospital following the events of Field Trip, which for my purposes (and in my universe), makes it mid-May 1999.
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Mulder celebrates life with Scully on a very special day.
My last two stories hit the high end of the angst scale, so I'm trying to let our heroes share a happy moment here, with just a teeny bit of angst. (I can't help it, it just comes out!) From Arcadia's date, it can be deduced that the X-Files were reassigned to M&S prior to their 7th anniversary. And yes, sometimes it is the guy who remembers the anniversaries! (My hubby most likely won't be reading this, but this story is dedicated to him for always remembering.)
For those who have followed me through my previous two stories, the trilogy is complete! Crossing Lines established a new future for M & S, Reparation saw them deal with their first crisis, and now In My Life is a confirmation of their willingness to go the distance.
Therefore, to paraphrase Fox Mulder (from Dreamland I): "My work here is done." :D
Was driving up to a mountain resort town for a conference when I happened to notice the date and was thus inspired to write Mulder and Scully an anniversary story. This one took about a month to whip into shape, although I was not working steadily on it. At the time that I finished, I was of the impression that my foray into fanfic was basically done, having sent M&S on their way, so to speak.
This, of course, takes place on the weekend of March 6, 1999.
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After being a big-time jerk to Scully, Mulder must make amends.
Didn't intend to go into either mythology-fic or Diana-fic and ended up touching on both. However, I needed to have Mulder make good to Scully after his atrocious behavior to her in One Son, so the rest of it had to be dealt with also. (By the way, I chose to ignore the fact that Scully apparently sacrificed her car in that ep; what's up with that?) Important background info: "my" Mulder and Scully have already acknowledged the existence of a relationship beyond their working partnership. Therefore, some of the conversation indicates more intimacy between our two than is apparent on TV, although I hesitate to go so far as to call this a romance (maybe we need something stronger than UST but less than R, sorta like PFR for Promise of Future Romance/Relationship!). My previous fanfic contribution, Crossing Lines, established this situation but it is not needed to understand this story.
This was "inspired" by the big revelation of Season Six. While I wasn't too impressed overall with the events of Two Fathers/One Son, I was even less impressed by the personal schism that occurred between M&S. In a space of about three days, I completed Reparation and then decided that with two stories sitting around, I would take some advice and post them.
This is a post-ep story, taking place immediately upon the conclusion of One Son, which makes it sometime in February 1999.
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Original Posting: March 1999 |
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Our favorite long suffering couple deal with their continuing and changing relationship after the "events in the hallway" and finally acknowledge the existence of the "L" word. Along the way, they establish closure on some important issues of the past year, including Mulder's unresolved guilt over Scully's illness.
While most people have generally interpreted the hallway scene between our heroes as a springboard to instant gratification, from personal experience in a situation not unlike theirs (although it certainly did not persist for six years!), I just don't see it as being that easy without doing some real damage. So, the Mulder and Scully that I have presented here are really not as comfortable with their new-found intimacy as other stories might have us believe. By the way, many years of writing assorted fanfic, first released effort; send constructive feedback, please.
Crossing Lines was written over a three week period in September-October of 1998. It was the first story that I had finished writing since ninth grade, and had been prompted by, of course, the X-Files movie. After watching it several times, and with Season Six looming, I had doubts as to CC and Co.'s ability to resolve the scene in the hallway, so I wrote Crossing Lines to bridge the gap. Although I submitted it to Gossamer as soon as I finished it (whereupon for some reason, it totally got lost in the shuffle; the long journey to Gossamer eventually took sixteen months!), the story stayed basically hidden for the next six months until I finally made my first ATXC posting. And therein marks the beginning of the madness... :)
This takes place about three weeks after the events of Fight the Future, which is what? Sometime prior to the fall of 1998?
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