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headcanon that when Scully is suffering from motherly or brotherly pressure about her life choices or hears about another old med school or college friend meeting ordinary life milestones she missed, or Skinner's annoyed with them about something (like Mulder being behind on the paperwork which she refuses to do for him), she starts stress cleaning her apartment.

But because she's already neat and also not home a lot, there isn't a lot to clean, so usually after the second time she finds herself disinfecting the kitchen sink on a Satunday mid-morning, she goes to Mulder's place, lets herself in and stars stress cleaning there, too. Usually Mulder's still asleep on the couch with the classic movie station still playing, but she has blanket permission after the first couple of times trying to distract a tightly wound Scully at his place from his scrap file of tabloid cases turned into her trying to declutter his place while lecturing him about dust mites, tripping hazards, bacteria, eccentrics who live in danger of being crushed by their prized collections, which certainly was a distraction, so now she knows she's welcome to come over any time and disinfect and tidy and sort the mail etc as long as she doesn't try anything purge-like on his boxroom (listed as a bedroom on his lease). And she usually tries not to wake him unless his lackadaisical book keeping is why she's stressed. So some weekend late mornings Mulder wakes up to a spotless table and laundry bags by the door and the smell of lemon clorox and coffee and a manic-but-winding-down flannel shirt Scully sitting with her mug in the desk chair, not quite watching him sleep (she usually claims to be hypnotized by the fish).

Greetings are usually ridiculous Mulder guesses about what's got her on the boil ("Maggie signed you up for ballroom dancing classes with Engleburt from Sunday potluck and your Spanish heels are in the shop?" "Douglas from organic chem invented a new breed of hypoallergenic bio-luminescent guinea pigs and this singularly useful achievement makes you worry about measuring up, dr. Frankenstein-wise?") and complaints that she was going to make brunch but all he had in the fridge was former milk swiftly becoming yogurt and desiccated pizza of dubious provenance, both of which are in the trash bag she expects him to take out. So he usually goes out for bagels and cream cheese and eggs and chives and milk, and half and half for the coffee (he prefers real cream but she won't drink it, claiming it makes the coffee taste "slimy" so it would be a waste).

If she's still wound up enough to be running the vacuum when he gets back, he makes a project of cajoling until she talk about it and remind her she's on a different but still immensely valuable path, which isn't a bad way to spend a day together really. Or if she's re-entered his reality where she doesn't have to compete with Normal People (or doesn't need to remind him five more times to finish that report) and worked through the stress, she's usually curled up asleep on the couch when he gets back with brunch fixings. This is also fine because toasting and munching and wiggling onto the far end of the couch to watch a ball game while his partner naps is also a good way to spend an afternoon and they can have dinner together later. (And he can always spread those files back out across the table the same way after she leaves for the night.)

I was about to make a post abt how much i love triangle and then I remembered I already did that

This and detour were the little apology between cancer arc and emily arc and i called that bullshit

My happy place.

Was no one going to tell me there are 20 xf books!?

S08e20 Essence

I dont usually like those opening monologues but that was pretty good

Wtf is going on with the intro

I dont remember any of the stuff in the recap

Omg baby shower!!! How Scully doesn’t have any friends

Ewww Zeus genetics

Oh yeah, Mulder’s unemployed.

I heart John Dogget.

GERMANTOWN??? Thats from the episodes colony and end game in season 2

Doggets boston accent is perfect i love him (i hated him at first)

I don’t trust this bitch Lizzy, i feel like something happened when i wasn’t paying attention

“I think she trusts me” “we’re almost at the end” NO WAY DOG LEAVE SCULLY ALONE

I may have to dip after season 8 idk how much more of this i can take. What’s worse? Season 9 or the revival?

Oh shit that’s billy miles (im awful with faces)

Guess who’s back- back again- billy’s back- tell a friend

TENDING WOUNDS AAAA

HE READ THEM ALL

Friendly reminder that aliens bleed green and mulder is not color blind

I just accidentally turned the volume of my headphones all the way up and it was not pleasant

“My (our) baby is fine, Mulder.”

“Come on in we just need some space to talk” ?????

Shes staring at his lips

Petition to save Dogget from third wheeling with MSR

Some body kill this Lizzy bitch

Ooooohhhh wtf how did his head just fall off like that

SKINNER

Dad!skinner being like Mulder wtf are you here and are you the dad

A POOL RUNNING AT THE FBI

Why do the keep using the term barren just infertile

Are you the dad, yes or no???

No no no no no leave Scully alone and stop tampering with her pills you freak

“Everything is fine” mhm. I believe you.

“This is all my fault.” Yeah Maggie, it kinda is

Human clones? Dawg? Fr?

Protective!Mulder ❤️

*buzzer noises* you are NOT the father

This isnt about txf scully, its only about you 😭😭😭

I just want this episode to be over the show should’ve ended around at season 5 (although i do love FTF)

“Docta parentayy” i love his fucking accent

Fucking fucking Billy Miles go AWAY

Scully finally wearing a fucking seat belt for once

IS THAT FUCKING KRYCEK NO DO NOT GET IN THE CAR

“You’re all listening to someone he tried to kill me” JOIN THE FUCKING CLUB DOGGET HE’S TRIED TO KILL EVERYONE

AGAIN WITH THAT WORD WHY DO WE KEEP SAYING BARREN

God is real??? That’s what we’re getting from this???

“Why don’t you just shut up?” I ❤️ agent dogget

THE PAKING GARAGE

“Your ass stays here” yeah you tell him skinner

Reyes 🤤🤤

This is shaving YEARS off my life

The only thought going through my head as Scully and Reyes drive away is “let’s go girls” (du du da da du du)

THEY JUST THREW BILLY MILES OFF A BUILDING INTO A TRASH TRUCK WTF

“Sir?” Mulder asked, when Skinner stopped walking as they arrived at the corner of the motor-lodge lobby.

“Do you want to explain who that is?”

“My sisters. Don’t you see the resemblance?”

“Mulder, you’re sister has been missing for-”

“I know, I know. But that’s her.”

“And you’re sure we can trust her?”

No, “She’s my sister.”

Okay I know better than to post my face on tumblr but i lowkey got a Scully-bob (i cut it today) so do with that information what you will

Rip Dana Scully you would’ve loved Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter

Maybe this speaks to how much more I like dogs than people but I was way more attached to Queequeg than Emily

He was so fucking adorable are you kidding me he looked like a muppet and had more personality

I need to settle and argument please reblog

I just saw this post and it made me remember that the first time i watched txf in the living room my step sister was like “why is the meme sound playing?” and i was so confused cuz i was sheltered asf and lived under a rock™️ so i never had vine and didn’t know what she was talking about 😭

So i’m near the end of season 8 (and potentially putting it off a little) and with all the spoilers I’ve seen… how tf do they not both kill themself? Like all the grief I hear that they are about to suffer and then “yeah and then Scully just goes to be a normal doctor in the revival and they don’t really talk anymore” WHAT DO YOU MEAN? How does that happen? Like i’m sure I’ll find out but i feel like the show could’ve ended at season 5 (i do love dogget and reyes tho)

So a while ago i was writing a “5 times scully was getting flirted with and mulder noticed and 1 time she did” but i never finished it and I never got to the part i really wanted to write but its pride month so I’m going to erite that singular scene right now ready go:

Carefully, after the car already started moving, Mulder said, “wow Scully, even women flirt with you.” Scully turned sharply, luckily he was the one driving.

“What do you mean?”

“That witness-“

“You mean the one in that white top?” Scully asked. Mulder nodded to her. “No.”

“Yeah, definitely.” Scully buried her red face in her hands.

“Mulder turn the car around,” she said. Mulder blinked in surprise… that had not been the reply he was expecting. He almost followed her instructions until his brain caught up with his body.

“What- no!”

“Oh come on! If it were you-“

“If it were me you would tell me I was being unprofessional!”

“Mulder.”

“Scully.”

“Please?”

“No, I want to get to bed.” That was a lie. Mulder didn’t care about going to sleep, he did, however, care about Scully going to flirt with someone else.

Idk what that was happy pride

The night she had returned from Philadelphia Scully’s nose bled again.

She wasn’t an idiot.

She knew the signs and resigned herself to booking a doctor’s appointment in the morning. She still, believe it or not, had some friends-turned-acquaintances from her med school days. Among them was Julia Oakes, leading oncologist at Holy Cross Memorial Hospital.

Scully would make arrangements in the morning, go sometime in the next week before work, but for now she laid against her pillow and let the blood pool under her cheek, she’d toss the pillow case in the wash when she got up.

She considered calling someone, expressing her fears, but who would she tell? She couldn’t startle her mother with mere suspicion. Melissa was dead. Charlie was out following in their father’s footsteps and would not be home for several months, as far as she knew. Billy- well. Forget about Bill. And don’t even start about Mulder.

She didn’t think that she would even be able to look at him in the morning. Not out of embarrassment, because Scully wasn’t embarrassed. No. Scully couldn’t face him at the risk of spontaneous combusting from the rage that was coursing under her skin.

And congratulations for making an personal appearance in the Xfiles for the second time. It’s a world’s record.

How dare he. How dare he look at her like he was better than her. Like she was the villain for wanting something and having it go south. Wasn’t that his life story? He wanted to investigate an x-file and ended up getting injured. He wanted to find his sister and only got laughed at.

She was done. Not done with the x-files, she was fairly sure she was about to go down with that particular ship.

No.

She was done with him. She was done trying to be his friend, to help, to be his- something more. It was exhausting and quite frankly he didn’t deserve it and god dammit the blood was leaking in her mouth.

The coppery taste reminded her of rage.

She hated him. She vowed to herself that she would hold onto that rage in the coming months. That she wouldn’t let his akward, soft smile and apologies weaken her resolve,

But as the blood trickled down her neck she disdainfully admitted to herself that it wasn’t likely a promise she would keep.

Scully feels awful. She knows she looks it too, dark shadows under her eyes, all but skin and bone propped up in her hospital bed beside a laptop. Scully had sent her mother home, there was no need for her to be there when she had other things to do, she had to go to church. Scully knew this wasn’t the end for her. Not yet. She had another month at least. She was counting the. She wasn’t sure when she gone from fighting it, to dreading it, to reaching for it. Reaching for that handsome angle of death who would take her somewhere sweeter.

It was selfish, but she was tired.

Mulder had left the room to grab a coffee and Scully seized the opportunity. She knew better than to do it in bed, so she pushed herself up and leaned against the wall for support as she looked through drawer of the bedside table. Her brittle nails skimmed the paper, then her finger tips found purchase against the pack and she pulled it out. The cool press of the lighter against the dry skin of her palm was a comforting weight.

Scully drew a cigarette out of the box and took it between her lips. Her thumb struck the lighter and she held the flame to the end, almost exhaling in relief when it caught. There’d be time for that after, first she wanted to take a long drag. The nicotine flooded her system and for a moment made her feel a little more alive.

She was so engrossed in the feeling that she didn’t hear the snick of the latch moving from its spot and allowing the door to open. “Would you cut that out?” Asked an annoyed, neigh, enraged voice. Mulder stood in the door way, cheap styrofoam coffee cup in his hand. “You’re a doctor, don’t you know what that stuff does to you?”

Scully rolled her eyes and turned her head, exhaling the smoke away from Mulder. She didn’t tell him that it didn’t matter. He was so sure that he was so close to finding someone, to meeting the right person with the right tech or magic or whatever. She couldn’t burst his bubble, she could let him have his hope at least, even if she had abandoned hers.

Mulder placed the coffee cup down and crossed the room to pluck the cigarette from between her lips, tossing it on the ground and grinding it under his heel until he was sure it was out. While he cleaned up the debris, Scully lit another.

He gave her an incredulous look as she savored the taste of stress relief and college parties and rebellion on her tongue. “This,” she tapped the cig, “isn’t what put me in here, Mulder.”

I love Mulder, but my english teacher is ranting about his conspiracy theories and its making me realize if i was Scully dealing with Mulder I would’ve strangled him or quit

I feel like if ellen (the mother of Scully’s godson s1e5 Jersey Devil, obviously a close friend who encourages her to go after Mulder literally in the FIFTH episode) had been in the series more, or Melissa for that matter, either Mulder and Scully’s relationship would’ve progressed 10x more quickly or we would’ve at least gotten a few “yeah i was telling ellen about y- about this case we’re working on.”

“Missy thinks you’re full of shit.” “And why does she thinks that” “well i was telling her about- never mind”

Ellen meeting Mulder with the “i’ve heard a lot about you.”

Or better yet Mulder greets Missy (if they hadn’t met for the first time during abduction arc) with “i’ve heard a lot about you” and Missy gives him the you’re-not-good-enough-for-my-baby-sister stare and responds with “Really? Because Dana’s told me absolutely nothing about you (lie).”

Just saying Scully needed more friends, Mulder got the gun men and Scully got be the only consistent female character for at least five season

I think everyone has their “this should’ve been the canonically get-together” episode, mine is Detour.

Its right after cancer arc and I don’t think they would’ve gotten together during is because there was to much of a possibility for Mulder that she would be ripped away from him and it would feel too much to Scully like he was only with her out of guilt or pity because she was sick. But in detour they’ve both already realized what they are to each other, they have all these cute moments and god the motel room scene and the scene at night in the woods- don’t even get me started!

Anyway drop your “get together episode”

I feel like i should clarify that canon would be different after this, like they definitely weren’t together yet in ftf, but if they got together in detour it would be different, y’know?

Brb im going to write a fic about Mulder seeing scully going through it™️ in the early seasons and seeing someone else trying to comfort her and she is having absolutely none of it then realizing that hes the only one she lets comfort her

Happy pride month to my favorite queer couple Mulder and Scully from txf

Season 4… save me..

Save me

Save me season 4

FOX MULDER and DANA SCULLY in TELIKO (4.03)

Chapter 8 of A Muse, A Myth, A Mortal!

“Who was that?” Sam asked.

“My boss.”

“You have your boss on speed dial?”

“I get in trouble a lot.”

“So nothing has changed?” Mulder grunted in assent. “What about the other two numbers you tried?”

“The first one is Scully’s cell phone and the second is her home phone."

“You really like your partner.” It wasn’t a question, but Mulder confirmed it anyway.

“I do. She tries her best to keep me out of trouble.”

“Then I guess we have to get there before he does.”

One of my biggest fandom pet peeves is in (scully) abduction arc fics when people say how long she gone and its wrong. She was canonically missing for four weeks. 1 month. Not 3 or 5 or whatever else. Its said multiple times and it on the wiki and tbh im not sure why this pisses me off so bad sorry guys i had to let that out

Double it and pass it to the next person

mulder and scully in their slutty little 90s glasses >>

Chapter 7 of A Muse, A Myth, A Mortal is up!!

“Wow Scully,” Mulder said as he sat down, “Remind me what year you graduated from Oxford Psychology?” He asked sarcastically.

“Nineteen Eighty Four,” Scully responded dryly. “I wasn’t trying to steal your thunder Mulder, I’m just saying our investigation here shouldn’t be about magic because magic isn’t real.” Mulder gave her a sly look and she could only guess at what he would say next.

“Wrong! I graduated in nineteen eighty six. I’m insulted that you think I’m thirty two,” he said with a sarcastic smile, “You’re just scared.”

My lacrosse coach asked me my favorite movie the other day and i said “the x files, the 1998 fight the future one” and he looked at me like I was crazy and told me he saw it when it came out in theaters

I love confusing adults by liking tv shows “from their time”

THE X-FILES (1993-2018) | Fight the Future (1998)

“Thank every god he doesn’t believe in” ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THIS SHIT (this is everything i didn’t know I needed)

One breath, but Mulder shows up in Scully's hospital room with tear tracks still drying on his face and his first real smile since she was taken. He's out of breath, probably broke several dozen traffic laws on his way back to her, but she's awake.

Not Fox, Mulder, Scully corrects her mother, and she is reaching for him before she can think better of it. His hands are warm and shaking and familiar, and he sits down next to her like she's made of glass. Like he is going to break her if he allows his fear to spill out onto the floor.

His mouth opens and closes repeatedly until he finally manages a hi, watching her lips move into a smile. hi. Mulder tentatively lifts their intertwined hands and kisses her knuckles while squeezing his eyes shut.

He wants to fall to his knees and thank every god he doesn't believe in for bringing her back to him, he wants to hold her and press her to his chest until he no longer feels empty inside, he wants to bury his face in her hair and fall asleep with her safe in his arms. At some point during the last few weeks, he must have slept, even if only for a few horrifying hours, yet all he recalls is suffocating darkness and her screams echoing in his mind.

I missed you, Mulder whispers against her skin, but she hears him—she always does.

I heard you, she responds, tugging on his hand to pull him closer. I heard you, Mulder. I felt the strength of your beliefs.

Maggie and Melissa are silently watching the exchange, but they've never cared less about prying eyes and unsatisfied curiosity. Scully's gaze catches on something, and Mulder follows it to the glinting gold cross around his neck. The chain runs through his fingers like water, thin and fragile, and the only thing that helped him stay sane enough to keep going.

Kept it safe for you, he tells her, and takes it off to fasten it around hers instead; it's finally back where it belongs. Tears burn new, glistening paths down his cheeks, and he doesn't bother wiping them away.

I was so scared. It's a confession, it's an apology, it's a promise, and he shuffles closer and closer and closer.

I was so fucking scared, Scully.

Her fingertips are cool against his flushed skin, and he closes his eyes at the contact, fearing that if he moves, she will disappear again. For so long, nothing in his life mattered more than the nebulous truth hiding the fate of his sister. Then she walked into his office with a smile and trust in her heart, and suddenly she wasn't simply helping him discover the truth—she became the truth.

Scully squeezes his hand and traces the line of his jaw, and two warm pairs of eyes look away when she tilts her head upwards, meeting Mulder in the middle as he leans in close, closer, touching.

She kisses him softly because she wants to. Because she can. Because she can taste salt, relief, and light on his tongue, a sunrise swallowed and hidden away throughout the night.

Thank you for not giving up. He couldn't have lived with himself if he had, and it's written across his face and woven into his soul. Losing her would have meant losing himself, and there is nothing that could have stopped him from following her to wherever they would have gone. Together or not at all, and he has no idea why she stayed, why she is still staying after everything he put them through.

You found me, he cannot say; you found me and brought me home. You found me and you saw me, and I don't think I will ever know why you decided I was deserving of your grace and your presence in my life.

They press their foreheads together, and a by now familiar hand lands on his shoulder as Maggie reaches for both of them—family, she had called him, over and over—and there is nothing but warmth offered to him.

Thank you for coming back.

Somtimes I think about how Scully and Mulder could’ve just stopped talking. Because the thing that connects them is work. They are more than coworkers, they are true friends and have all the kinds of chemistry but they are connected through work. It’s their excuse. Both of them are so deep in self denial about their feelings but they have an excuse to keep seeing each other “because of work”. They totally just could’ve stopped after the x files was shut down the first time and theres a world where that might’ve happened- and I know your saying that the quest for the truth and their bond keeps them together and you’re right BUT theres a world where it doesn’t. They could’ve been each other’s one that got away. That makes me sad to think about.

Before i watched fight the future i saw some spoilers, just vague things like “hallway scene” and “Antarctica” and “that fucking bee” I said to myself “surely, SURELY, its not that deep.” IT IS THAT DEEP. I rented this movie and i watched it over two days, and it lived rent free in my head forever. If my friends ever ask why I’m so into the xfiles (because im totally normal about my interests all the time) I show them the hallway scene. When it ended one if my friends goes “why do I feel like I just watched them have sex?” BECAUSE THEY BASICALLY DID, THEY EMOTIONALLY HAD SEX. That’s a canonical kiss to me because they totally would’ve if not for an outside intervention. Also also also the Antarctica escape scene. I am a SUCKER for the night in shining armor trope and the way she said something like “gotcha” after he gave her cpr sent me

So yeah, it is that deep and I will probably be buying that movie so i can watch it whenever i want cuz pirating websites are sucky

Can you guys imagine season 4 or 5 Mulder and Scully watching Buffy the vampire slayer? It came out in 1997 and I’m doing a rewatch of Buffy right now and all I can think is that it is right up Mulder’s alley and that Scully would love Willow. It might’ve been a comfort show for them especially during cancer arc. Maybe Scully has a particularly bad headache and Mulder insists he takes her home. He closes all the blinds for her and turns the tv on low while they sit on the coach together because she insists she doesn’t need to go to bed and slowly, as the headache ebbs, Scully and Mulder end up tucked together on the couch. They’re spooning like little baby cats and then the first episode of Buffy comes on and they just get sucked in. Mulder calls her when he sees the next episode is on and invites her over and it because a ritual for them.