"YOU THINK THE DEAD WE LOVED EVER TRULY LEAVE US? YOU THINK WE DON'T RECALL THEM MORE CLEARLY THAN EVER IN TIMES OF GREAT TROUBLE?"

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THE (INDEFINABLE) MULDER-SCULLY RELATIONSHIP

Alanna, "Burn"

"I think it's his skin I love the most. No, not his eyes or his hair, or that little mole on the side of his cheek -- the things I'm supposed to like -- but his skin. The way it contains his body, but doesn't." Rated PG13.

Alanna, "Cleopatra's Needle"

"Mulder, what do you think made my cancer go into remission?" Post-Orison, Mulder and Scully stroll through New York City and contemplate faith, science, and God.

Alanna, "Forecast of Rain"

She remembers his words: "There's so much more than this."

Alanna, "Lascala"

Sunlight, biology, and fifteen seconds of bliss. Rated PG.

Alanna, "Mezza Voce"

"The fourth time we touched like this, it was our own fin de siecle, our own beginning." Rated PG-13.

Alanna, "Million"

I am a million different people. Rated PG. (12 K)

Alanna, "Read in the Dark"

"As she spoke, Mulder made all the appropriate sounds of listening, although he wasn't quite sure where she was going with the story. After glancing over at him so quickly that he almost missed it, she stared at the window again. 'The power used to go out at least once a week. Whenever it did, Grandma made us sit around the kitchen table and tell secrets.'" Rated R. (80 K)

Alanna & Battis, Diana, "Eclipse"

"He is amazed that the creation of life makes him immeasurably sad." Rated NC17.

Sabine, "Body Parts"

"He sits down now, across from her. Something about his neck has gotten old, older, ruddy, stretching up beyond his tie. She recognizes him in it, coming up on forty and the truth revealed between strong chest and strong chin. There are bumps there above his Adam's apple, razor-burn, the chickenflesh of the no-longer-young. She averts her eyes and takes a bite of watercress on wheat with fat-free mayo." Rated G.

Sabine, "Everybody Having a Good Time"

'Waves of regret, waves of joy; I reached out for the one I tried to destroy and you, you said you'd wait until the end of the world.' Rated R.

Sabine, "Everything and a Kite"

Sunday night, 2:11 a.m. So, officially Monday. Mulder and Scully do phone repartee. Rated PG.

Sabine, "Flight #1539, Inbound from Denver, Will Be Delayed"

While waiting for Mulder at the airport, Scully meets a man who is just obnoxious enough to be her type. Rated PG13.

Sabine, "Moonshine"

Sequel to "Dance Card." Everyone is someone's road not taken. All it takes is a little moonshine to loosen lips. Rated R.

THE MSR FROM A THIRD PARTY POV

Alanna, "Going to Hell"

Krycek could give her everything, not that she will take it. Scully/Krycek. Rated PG.

Sabine, "Dance Card"

" 'Who was he?' Mulder asked. 'And don't say optometrist.'

I laughed despite myself. 'His father was an optometrist,' I said. 'He's an internist in New York; NYU Medical Center.'

Mulder spat a shell at me. 'Fine, don't tell me,' he said.

'It's not a big deal, really,' I said, possibly lying. 'He was a friend of mine in college. *Not* a boyfriend.'

'And therein lay the problem," Mulder clicked his tongue. "The road not taken.'" Rated R.

Sabine, "Sin"

" I am death; I am the child of twenty centuries of defeat upon defeat; I am the missing link; I am Neanderthal; I am angelic; I am extraterrestrial; I am superhuman; I am the king of assholes; I am one in five billion; I am an imp; I am a demon; I am the son of man." Rated R.

Sabine, "Thanks of a Grateful Nation"

I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States. 'The West Wing' crossover. Rated PG.

CASEFILES

Alanna, "Chips of When"

"What are you afraid of? That you'll find her? That you'll have to deal with it?" -- Harold Pillar in "Closure". When Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the mysterious appearance of a missing girl on a billboard, they deal with Scully's barrenness and Samantha.

LIFE WITHOUT MULDER

Alanna, "Etiolate"

"Doggett had been right: she had lost her edge. She had unknowingly slipped into depression, its hold dulling her senses and smudging the tactical defense skills she had learned at Quantico and honed to a sharp blade over the years. A year ago, she would never have trailed a suspect into a closed space such as this without properly securing backup." (Rated PG)

Alanna, "Foux"

"This is who Mulder was. This is who you will someday be." Rated PG.

LIFE WITHOUT BABY

Sabine, "Neither Moon Nor Earth"

He hadn't known there'd be so much blood. Rated R.

PRE-XF

Alanna, "Lone Star" 

"It's fatigue, John, he told himself. Not stress because your wife is pissed off at you, you might miss your kid's kindergarten graduation, and you ditched a perfectly good career in order to become a glorified secretary." Doggett/Reyes Rated R.

DREAMS AND INTROSPECTION

Sabine, "Chronicle of a Life Foretold"

"Joy to the world, the Lord is come. And as rapidly, he is losing his mind." Rated PG.

Sabine, "Fables of the Reconstruction"

"You think I'm some sort of saviour, Scully, and me and my ego couldn't bear to break the news; I'm just some guy who has no idea where he's been these last few weeks; I'm just some guy who remembers nothing but the wet itch of your salty tear on my cheek and waking up sterile on sterile, splayed like some Christ parody, and you know what my first thought was? I'm serious, though I'd never tell you." Rated PG. (8 K)

Sabine, "Hero Quest of the Science Messiah"

"In a bell-tolling moment of reckoning, two from alone perspectives - faith of faith, faith of science (blind alone faith of promised inevitability) - two in the moment met Truth. They met on demand. Circumstance, uninvited, invited the two to truth, together. Heads butting fury they rode in collision: she on foot of deskless body knew bodies, knew the magic method DNA equation of plausible, he, the wielding pursuer knew the unabashed, unembarrassed faith-truth of never-always, the shadow ghost of his own absolute possible. And he knew what he needed. Some value to attach to reason non-being, some credible eyes (what incredible eyes!) of lens to mirror." Rated R

Sabine, "Wood and Nails"

" There is nothing but us, Scully and I. We are not preordained, we are not predestined, and even so, in this enormous world of men we found each other, a colossal global coincidence causing earthquakes in Turkey and Mexico. We shook it up, she and I. We shake it up. And when the dust settles it's just her, and me, in the car, shifting lanes and she reaches down to turn the radio on, quietly, just enough to distract me, just enough to warm us up. Streetlights outside, and night. Cars and children. Wood and nails." Rated R.

"THIS IS NOT 'DRAMA' IN THE SENSE OF A STORY WITH A BEGINNING, MIDDLE, AND END. BUT THERE IS A BEGINNING, MIDDLE, AND END IN A SYMPHONY, AND OVER THE COURSE OF THEM, A KIND OF MOVEMENT IS EXPRESSED. IT IS ABSTRACT, BUT SUGGESTIVE, A TRACKING OF SOME EXPRESSIVE VOYAGE."

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CASEFILES

Selby, Jill, "Ever After"

"The past had caught her in its undertow and was pulling her away, allowing her to surface for gasping breaths of the present before carrying her below the black waves of oblivion. Every time she reappeared Mulder grabbed for her, held her until she faded into nothing more substantial than air. The sharp stone at the end of an invisible spear had become an anchor, dragging her downward, backward through the ages."

Selby, Jill, "Paper Saints"

"'When they found Randall Harper, he'd been nailed to the ceiling by his testicles."' Rated PG13.

Selby, Jill, "Rags"

"Skepticism is put to the ultimate test when Mulder and Scully investigate some bizarre and seemingly unrelated events in a small town." Rated R.

Vehemently, "Headlong"

"Mulder clutched his gun uselessly in his chilled hand, realizing that if he actually hit Krycek -- not entirely likely -- his target would fall several hundred feet to his death. He shifted in his seat uncomfortably as his chair glided upwards. Krycek's chair was approaching a support tower, and Mulder heard in his mind that curious thump-squeal a funicular makes as it passes a tower. He shuddered, watching as Krycek leaned forward." Rated PG13. (35 K)

Vehemently, "Rainbow Sign"

"Scully asked the military police working on the truck what model it was and what it was used for. Hairs did the Tarantula waltz up Mulder's neck when one of them wiped sooty grease onto his forehead and said it was probably a hospital transport, judging from the struts laid onto the frame. Extra support, for hanging stretchers against the walls. They went back to tearing it to pieces. It was so badly mangled it wouldn't even be very much use as scrap." Rated PG13. (25 k)

Vehemently, "Scatter"

Until recently epilepsy carried the stereotype of violent antisocial behavior. The brain is really not much bigger than a cantaloupe, and yet so many of its diseases are still largely a mystery. In no small part because it's unethical to cut open living people's heads to find out what's inside. Rated R. (157 K)

Vehemently, "Signals"

Frequency is wavelength divided by time. The same equation holds true for visible light, radio reception and the gamma rays which are the result of nuclear weapons. Dangerous thing, a little knowledge. Sequel to "Scatter." Rated R. (190 K)

Vehemently, "Starvation Angel"

So far Mulder had not advanced an alien-abduction theory, for which Scully was grateful. She did not want to argue with him when he was so moody; it drew out her rancor and her impatience. Mulder just sat on the neatly-made bedspread -- he looked absurd, a monster, on the rainbow print -- and touched the notebooks with his heavy hands. Rated R. (46 K)

INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY CASEFILES

Sasserbaum, Cecily, "Bloodline"

"A photo of a child's hand sends Mulder and Scully into a spiral of emotional blackmail, sacrifice and self-doubt." Rated R.

THE (INDEFINABLE) MULDER-SCULLY RELATIONSHIP

Sasserbaum, Cecily, "Above Minnesota"

"'I'm initiating the landing sequence,' Mulder said, 'after a long time being in a holding pattern.'" Rated PG.

Sasserbaum, Cecily, "Chess"

Friday night. Mulder and Scully play chess. Frank talk about sex and the nature of relationships ensues. Rated R.

THE MSR FROM A THIRD PARTY POINT OF VIEW

Sasserbaum, Cecily, "The Good Fairy"

"To Little Scully-Mulder, best wishes. From Your Evil, Evil Fairy Godparents. Marita and Alex." Rated R.

Vehemently, "Navel Gazing"

"There are lots of things he wants which are forbidden. He has learned to live with the strictures, or so he thinks. A shake, like a mongoose swishing dust out of its pelt, and our man notices that his thumb has come to rest in his belly button, feeling out the contours of that never-callused skin. He knows that silken feel of scars; he has touched it a hundred times, tentatively at first, later brusquely, in the keloids which stripe his shoulder. Scar tissue, softer skin than the real thing. He pulls his thumb loose and goes so far as to wipe in on his thigh, irritated at himself. " Rated R. (36 K)

LIFE WITH BABY

Sasserbaum, Cecily, "Opposition and Synthesis"

"Dream-Mulder had laughed, made a counter-argument, an argument laid out with beautiful precision. It was irritating, because she could almost accept such an argument. She felt it like a physical pain inside of her, this annoying nonsensical argument that was making too much sense. " Rated PG. (*cross-posted with "Life Without Mulder")

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"LOVE IS NOT LOVE WHICH ALTERS WHEN IT ALTERATION FINDS"

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THE MSR FROM A THIRD PARTY POINT OF VIEW

Oracle, "Outside/Inside"

He only looks up when she puts down the phone, but his eyes betray nothing. Probably because there's nothing to betray, she thinks. Peter has called their office five times now, and Mulder hasn't said a word. He hasn't even asked who her boyfriend is, or how her boyfriend is. Come to think of it, he hasn't even mentioned Peter's name. Rated R. (37 K)

THE INDEFINABLE MULDER-SCULLY RELATIONSHIP

Feldman, Ensign, "The Money Shot"

"Mulder was convinced that the only real deviation from the standard bomber profile was the addition of artistic and/or sexual frustration, which may be the source of the bomber's destructive agenda. Perhaps a severe lack of social skills or a disfiguring injury, although the precipitating event may have been ten to fifteen years previous to when the bombing began. The bomber seemed to go out of his way to inflict only property damage, a pattern that may or may not continue, but which suggested that the bomber would likely have no prior arrests and therefore no prints on file." Rated NC17. Casefile, humor.

Howard, Rachel, "Point of Origin"

"He has us lie down, side by side on the cots, and roll our sleeves up. This procedure will not be as painful for Mulder as some of the others have been. After they found residue from the alien organisms in his body fluids, we reasoned that perhaps the residue alone would be enough. So I have had Mulder's blood and platelets - thank God he's type O - injected into my body more than once. It was only last week that they first hypothesized the necessity of fresh residue; thus, the patient-to-patient transfusion." (Rated R)

Nascent, "MetaRomance"

"Mulder recounts the experiences that led up to Antarctica. 'She's sleeping now, still and peaceful, as collected in repose as she is when firing a gun. Me--I can't get comfortable; I'm fidgetting and casting her glances which are alternatively stern and pleading, wishing she would wake. I keep settling for making noises--'accidental' scrapes of chair legs on tile, coughing, washing my hands again. Like some kind of fucking OCD case, as if I didn't have something better to do. Oh wait!--I don't."' Rated R.

Nascent, "Mulder, It's May"

Scully figures out a correlation between the time of the year, and the Agents' luck. "May. What was special about May? He tried to think of some special date and felt (to his extreme discomfort) like a man who may have forgotten his anniversary. Finally he just shook his head at her and turned his palms up. She'd have to give him more than that." Rated PG13.

Oracle, "It Is"

Only he sees the signs. From the muted terror of the first night, she knows it's started again, and the terror only grows. Of course, she never tells him. This is the way she is. But he knows, from less smiles and clouded eyes. He knows, from her tone of voice, from the way she touches him. Even the way she eats ice cream is a sure sign. He watches her do this, every day. During good times, she turns the spoon upside down to savour the taste. In the bad times, she barely notices she's eating. Her lack of interest in what she usually takes pleasure in, yes; this is the surest sign of all. Rated R. (9 K)

CASEFILES

Howard, Rachel, "Gypsy"

"While the agents are investigating a possible UFO sighting in Colorado, Mulder makes a decision about his priorities." Rated PG.

Howard, Rachel, "Swept Away"

A Colorado woman bleeds to death under bizarre circumstances. Was she murdered to keep a new piece of military technology from being built? Rated R.

Jane Mortimer, "Sin Eater"

Already saved. "'Time anomalies are common in encounter zones. I think that whatever happened to you was an accident. That you were pulled along in -- I don't know, in some kind of undertow -- that had nothing to do with you or with the aims of whoever was generating those effects.'" PG13

Jane Mortimer, "Spoiled"

"Nah... he's dead, Scully. We squished 'im." "'Squished'?" "Wasn't that what you gave as the official cause of death?" "I doubt I said 'squished,' Mulder. Massive internal trauma, possibly." Rated PG.

Nascent, "Compass"

A magic stone, a vengeful genie, and deadly curses. How Mulder and Scully get their groove back after the events of Two Fathers/One Son. Rated R.

Nascent, "Eye of the Beholder"

Mulder and Scully are called in to help track a serial killer whose victims have a guilty past. But the killer draws their personal lives into a high-stakes game of vengeance, where dreams and telekinesis is part of a strange M.O.

Nascent, "Pillar of Salt"

'"Though nerve cells die with bodies, consciousness--our souls--do not. This is widely accepted by almost all religions throughout time, though they may argue about an afterlife versus reincarnation.'"

INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY CASEFILES

Howard, Rachel, "Good Night Newton"

A bizarre case in Las Vegas leads Mulder and Scully deeper into the Consortium's secrets than they've ever gone before. Rated NC17

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"IF NATURE, SOVEREIGN MISTRESS OVER WRACK, AS THOU GOEST ONWARDS, STILL WILL PLUCK THEE BACK, SHE KEEPS THEE TO THIS PURPOSE, THAT HER SKILL MAY TIME DISGRACE AND WRETCHED MINUTES KILL."

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A CASE OF...(PSYCHOLOGICAL/MENTAL TRAUMA)

Grey, "Consent" & "Bound Determined"

When Mulder is raped, it takes help from his friends to make a recovery.

Katvictory, "The Damascus Files"

Mulder gains amazing and frightening psychic powers after suffering a debilitating, life altering head injury. The search for the truth, of where the powers come from lead the pair to Central America and some amazing discoveries about God, aliens and themselves. (Rated R)

Katvictory, "In the Interest of Science"

Scully becomes her partner's lover, nurse and savior after a tragic accident leaves Mulder severely handicapped.

LAAdolf, "Cursum Perficio"

Mulder faces death alone in an elevator shaft.

Oracle, "Two Months"

His body has already been carved with pain. His head is full of scars.

CASEFILES

Dawn, "Countdown"

When an unknown assailant injects Mulder with a deadly toxin, he has 72 hours to find a cure. Rated PG

Gerry Hill, "Into the Grave"

Mulder is charged with murder and rape, crimes he did not commit, but for which he is given extraordinary insight. (Rated R) *cross-listed under "MULDER IS FRAMED FOR MURDER/ETC"

Meredith, "Transition"

Mulder and Scully investigate a very different sort of witness--a psychic--to a series of murders -- and eventually discover they are more connected to the killer than expected. Or are they? (Rated R)

Oracle, "Energy and Light"

Four girls have vanished, each one on a different night. Each one by the light of a full moon. Is it just a coincidence?

INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY CASEFILES

Khyber, "Sokol"

A story about a boy and a girl, a girl and a spaceship, and how things end.

" 'There have been multiple corroborated reports of Elvis surfing near San Diego. I don't know if we could get a federal warrant, but..." She rolled over onto her back, her head still on his thigh. He felt her intake of breath, deep sudden inhale and exhale as her hands came up to cover her face. 'Oh, God, Scully...'

" 'Sorry, honey, my alien hybrid daughter from the first time I was abducted died in San Diego last Christmas. I don't know about San Diego.' He heard soft, bitter laughter rather than tears. It was terrifying and unfamiliar, yet fitting. "I just don't fucking know anymore.' "

Joyce McKibben, Meredith, and MCA, "Missing Voices"

Skinner, Mulder and Scully attempt to take control of their lives as they conspire against the Consortium in an all-or-nothing gamble.

"Mulder must be released to find the truth. Our only hope lies in his freedom to take desperate measures. As a dead man, he will be able to place the bastards in Skinner's hands, and perhaps buy Skinner's freedom from the deceitful bargain he made. I regret placing such a heavy burden on him, but desperate times call for desperate acts. I know in my heart that Mulder will eventually understand this and agree there is no other way."

DREAMS AND INTROSPECTION

Kestabrook, "A Christmas Peril"

Mulder is visited by ghosts of his past as he lays dying.

"Look." Jack sighed and held up the handcuffs. "See these? They're what I wore during my life, but I never realized it until I didn't have life anymore. I was a guy who knew what he wanted. A cop who loved the job and devoted himself to it. And you know what? I missed out on a whole bunch of 'could have beens'. Just like you, Mulder. Now I admit, this idea of yours--this vacation with Scully--was good. You might have found some happiness. But what happened? You were willing to delay it for a dead friend? You're willing to give it up now after a few opposing words? You never give up on a case when faced with obstacles. In fact, they intrigue you."

Scullyfan, "Cacophony"

In one moment, silence closed over her like murky river water. Until that pregnant second gave birth to never-ending hours, she had no idea silence could be loud, threatening to deafen her with its clatter.

PRE-XF

Oracle, "London is Drowning"

Mulder lays eyes on the woman of his dreams. Rated R. (9 K)

THE (INDEFINABLE) MULDER-SCULLY RELATIONSHIP

Cathleen Faye, "Regular People"

Thwarted plans, impulsive decisions & unexpected visitors can sometimes make two FBI agents into regular people.

Meredith, "Boundless"

"Mulder's complete and utter paralysis had been a shock. She expected rage. Joy. Confusion. Hell, even Kubler-Ross' 5 stages of death and dying. But not this... this absence. This boundless expanse of nothingness." Rated R.

Meredith, "Brave New World"

Mulder is abducted. Scully remains behind, searching.

"Rice Krispies. Cheerios. Fruit & Fiber. Count Chocula. Malt-O-Meal. If she were back in D.C., the decision would be easy. Frosted Mini-Wheats, bite-size, then on to the canned soup.

"But Scully seemed to have used up all her decisiveness in the flurry of packing, moving, and settling into her new apartment in Portland, because the simple task of picking a breakfast cereal was currently an exhausting decision. Had there always been this many brands? The past week had been a whirlwind of change. Waiting 72 hours for the results of chorionic-villus sampling to tell her what she already knew -- the child she carried was purely hers and Mulder's. Plowing through all Mulder's files on abductions to digest the statistics and plan her next move. Convincing Skinner that moving here temporarily was the best thing for her now. Running away, in all actuality, from her former life."

Meredith, "A Show of Strength"

"What a cruel fate to hate the way you look. To despise the mudded, rusty hair, the brittle-cool gaze, the ivory skin -- you're not beautiful when you're just an imitation of the almighty Her. A pale carbon-copy. A flawed mirror image. When it gets too bad, I take a swing at myself. "

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"OH, REASON NOT THE NEED! OUR BASEST BEGGARS ARE IN THE POOREST THING SUPERFLUOUS. "

CASEFILES

Wintersong, "Fire Command"

Mulder and Scully are back in the woods and chasing down fire breathing dragons. The intersection of their lives and those of the fire control team as overheard by those caught on the outside, looking in.

Wintersong, "Games We Play, The"

"The CIA was ecstatic, law enforcement beta testers-local, city and state - were in a state of psychological shock and the military was making grabbing noises. The FBI just grinned and booked out the next six month segment of the program while the bean-counters stared in disbelief as cost- recovery began to look more like ( gasp!)- profit. The FBI, the website and the official letterhead called it the National HRT Psychological Testing and Training Program. Survivors just called it The Maze."

THE (INDEFINABLE) MULDER-SCULLY RELATIONSHIP

Ocks, Maureen B., "After Dinner Conversation"

Mulder brings Scully Italian take-out to redeem himself for being a royal jackass in "One Son." Witty repartee ensues.

Ocks, Maureen B., "Club Car Lounge"

I think she's playing with me. I hope she is. 'I just...are you happy?' The waiter, who gives a new meaning to bad timing, comes back to check on drinks. I order another beer since this is probably going to be a long night. Scully is at least happy with her scotch. "

Ocks, Maureen B., "Office Politics"

"Right before I got sick, I was sitting in Mulder's office behind his desk. He seemed surprised to see me behind it. He really looked out of place when he plopped into the guest chair. He thought it was about the desk, but it wasn't. On some level I guess I knew I was sick. On another, I saw pieces of Mulder's office, of Mulder's life creeping into mine. I saw nothing in that office that suggested I was ever there. Nothing. In hindsight, I was dying, I spent 4 years with the X Files and I thought I never made a mark. "

Ocks, Maureen B., "Pass Fail"

The night after IVF failed.

Ocks, Maureen B., "Pocatello"

"I watched her today read the riot act to Jimmy John about screwing around with chemicals he could barely pronounce. She was in rare form. She got to use some of her vast medical knowledge to explain to Jimmy John what Anthrax would do to him, his well fed heifer and about half of Pocatello. "

Ocks, Maureen B., "Scenarios"

"Forget that it just isn't her. Forget that if she did, I'd probably actually have a moment of gentleman zen and ask her why she was doing it. Forget that right after this happened, Satan would be handing out Polartec Mittens because hell had officially frozen over. It was a nice fantasy, complete with visual aides from our first case together that made it work. "

Ocks, Maureen B., "Worst"

"Much of the time, I think Dana Scully is the smartest woman, skip that, person I've ever met. There are other times I'm convinced she's absolutely clueless. I'd ask her if she remembered that my desire to quit my life in general and the FBI in particular lessened when I started meeting with her again but then we get back on abductions, cancer and the rest. 'We'll get it back. Spender's not up to the job.' "

THE MSR FROM A THIRD PARTY POINT OF VIEW

Wintersong, "Blood-Stained Banner"

"It was, he thought morosely, sort of like the homosexual telling the hetero that it was okay to be gay. No bloody credibility. Mulder could spout his scripture to the people and the congregation would nod their heads gamely, give rousing cheers of support and maybe throw a little money in the collection plate. But that's as far as it would go. Because in the end, Mulder was one of them and he was preaching to the converted. But Scully belonged to the masses. "

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CASEFILES

Beduini, "An Alluring Indiscretion"

"Mulder had gone upstairs to question one of the working girls. As he ascended the staircase, Scully looked up at him bemused. She was thinking he pulled this assignment just so he could interview the girls. The look on his face was one of a boy entering a candy shop with a credit card and told her what he was thinking about the duty he pulled while she stayed downstairs to question "Madam Freezer Burn". But she really couldn't have been further from the truth. He had the distinct impression when he entered the house that these women held all the answers they needed to solve this puzzle. If only they would stop disappearing long enough for them to ask the questions of the right girl." Rated NC17.

Kel, and Kiefer, Michelle, "Out of Everywhere"

A missing child and a family with something to hide. In the aftermath of "En Ami," Mulder and Scully investigate a "classic alien abduction." (157 K), Rated R.

Michaela, "Unnatural Disaster"

It's hard enough when your mistakes come back to haunt you. Harder still when you're a federal agent. Hardest yet when your partner's help is the first thing you need, but the last thing you want. (599 K), Rated R for language and adult situations.

Partous, Madeleine, "Cruise"

A series of mysterious deaths aboard its ships leads a cruise line to contact the FBI as rumours of a vengeful ghost begin to fly. Is the killer striking from beyond the grave? (219 K), Rated NC17.

The Pen and the Brain, "Faeries"

"She sighed. 'So what exactly are you suggesting happened that night? Faeries came through the window of Kate Winslow's bedroom, spirited her away and left a faery baby, a changeling, in her place?' " (237 K), Rated NC17.

THE (INDEFINABLE) MULDER-SCULLY RELATIONSHIP

Ocks, Maureen B., "Woven Deep"

Mulder on the mend after the events of Sixth Extinction. They talk about his visions, and discuss their evolving relationship. " How does she go from 'our son' to being surprised by 'we'? 'Dammit, you seem stuck on this imaginary family I had with Diana. I'm not marrying Diana. I'm not sleeping with her. I'm not going to be the father of her children. I never thought I'd be the father of anybody's children until you asked me and I haven't wanted anything else since you asked.' " (50 K) Rated PG13.

A CASE OF...(PSYCHOLOGICAL/MENTAL TRAUMA)

Wintersong, "Soldiergirl"

Bill Scully suddenly sees the shadows, and believes the paranormal. "It was when I started guiltily praying that Dana and her partner could keep us safe that I knew my life had changed forever. That I had changed forever. And maybe these things were the closest I could come to an apology. " (24 K), Rated R.

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