O Samuca!

why would God give a child, just to deny motherhood?

my close friend Dana Scully wonders this often, im sure

Scully, Mulder, and William, on vacation in North Carolina.

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Chapters: 8/9 Fandom: The X-Files Rating: Mature Relationships: Fox Mulder/Dana Scully Characters: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Holman Hardt, Sheila Fontaine Additional Tags: MSR, Post-Episode: s06e08 The Rain King, Friends to Lovers, Tornados, Slow Burn

Following the trunk of the tree with her eyes, Scully saw it ran down into the rocky clay face of the gully wall. Its limbs were ancient, splintered and dry. And below where the dead tree reached out like a skeletal hand, the gully dropped away in a sheer plunge to a long-dry creek below, its bed littered with black boulders and scrubby weeds.

“Sheila!” she called. The air was suddenly eerily still, the wind no longer even stirring the branches. But there was no sound from the car. 

Beside her, Mulder was tearing off his jacket. Scully felt her heart drop as she whirled around to him and saw the intent on his face. 

“I can get to her,” he said. He pointed to where one of the dead branches fanned out from the trunk, jutting above the lip of the gully wall. “I’ll climb down, and get them out of there.”

“Oh God, Mulder…” Scully breathed. 

She couldn’t ask him not to try. 

She wouldn’t attempt to stop him. 

But her stomach heaved as she took in the open space below the tree’s feeble branches, and saw how precariously the car was settled among them.

Mulder looked at her, and she realised that until then, she’d never truly understood the notion of someone’s heart being in their eyes. In his gaze she saw emotion so pure it lifted something within her, even as she shrank from the thought of what he was about to attempt. There was hope there, unwavering determination. And love that blazed like a flame.

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In the great tradition of @gaycrouton (my favorite exchange organizer), I'm putting together a X Files Summer Exchange.

Details: Sign Up is between now and July 10th if you want to receive a fic gift. Add your details to the sign up sheet pick your summer themed prompt (there is a tab with some prompt suggestions, but feel free to write your own) and add any important notes to help your author (e.g 'no major character deaths', 'I like to see Mulder cry'... normal stuff). It works like Secret Santa, where once the sign up is closed you will receive a private message with your recipient and fic prompt.

July 11th I will individually send out the details for the exchange recipient and more detailed instructions.

Publish Date: August 9th

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How to use Musical Prompts: Song lyrics and melodies can be a fun challenge for writers and the idea is to use the song however it inspires you; whether it be using the themes of a song for your story, or even finding a way to incorporate the actual song into your fic.

Have an idea for an additional fic, no problem, feel free to write and tag additional Summer themed stories you come up with if you want.

Alternative take from The X-Files: Fight The Future | Scully dropping the F-bomb

In honor of National Video Game Day (July 8) :D

Write a scene about:

William (Jackson) playing a video game with his little brother or little sister.

Please tag @mulderscreek when you post your scene on your own tumblr, post here on our submissions Tumblr, or send me a message with a link to your fic on Tumblr to reblog.

Tagging @today-in-fic

Chapters: 7/9 Relationships: Fox Mulder/Dana Scully Characters: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Holman Hardt, Sheila Fontaine Additional Tags: MSR, Post-Episode: s06e08 The Rain King, Friends to Lovers, Tornados, Slow Burn

Scully watched the streams of water pouring down the windscreen, down the passenger windows, reducing the world to misty grey whorls and rivulets. She looked at Mulder, his hair now spiked up all over the crown of his head, and realised that her love for him felt like a wonderful madness. Hiding from the rain as they chased a stormbringer today, chasing shadows and ghosts and aliens the length and breadth of the country tomorrow. Her life would never be quiet, never be boring, as long as their quest continued. 

And at the centre of it all, of everything that had painted her universe with stars and lunacy and adventure was Mulder, wanting to spend each moment of it with her. 

Reaching across the space between them, she curled her hand around the nape of his neck. He turned to her with a little questioning sound, smiled, and met her lips with his as she pulled him towards her. Scully sighed against his mouth, feeling the slight rasp of his light stubble graze her chin, the tensing of his muscles under her hands as their kiss heated and she drew him closer.

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