X-Files AU in which Mel gets assigned to Frank's "unit" (i.e., a room in the basement) by Robby who expects her to write a report about how this unit is a waste of time and funding (i.e., Frank's salary and like...a bit of gas to get him from case to case).
Frank's "office" looks like an insane person lives there. It's got the whole nine yards of papers pinned to the walls and red threads connecting them, and also orange thread because he ran out of red and the craft store didn't have any more.
He's erratic and absolutely overflowing with the joy of having someone there with him, someone who he can tell everything to because no one upstairs listens to him. His wife has long divorced him. She also thinks he's insane. The department thinks he's gone off the deep end since his divorce, and the rumours that he sleeps in his office are definitely true.
For all intents and purposes, he's exactly what Robby warned her about... and yet, Mel sits and she listens and she goes into the field with him, and very very strange things happen, to the point where she can't deny he's onto something.