Need something to read while waiting in an unremarkable house for your hot doctor (not) wife to get home from work? I don’t read much IWTB-era fic but here are a few I can recommend:
A Bed Made of Cropcircles by Innisfree- probably the only directly post-IWTB fic on this list, NSFW, a favorite.
Gravity by @malibusunset-xf-blog - Schmoop and sex. That's pretty much it. Don't say you weren't warned. A series of vignettes set around the time frame of I Want To Believe.
home, home by @onpaperfirst - unremarkable house vignettes, building a new life.
The Wrong End of the Telescope by @agirlcallednarelle - pre-IWTB on the run, painful look at their on the run struggles but with a lovely resolution.
soft by @i-am-alittle-on-edge - pre-iwtb ficklet, Mulder imagines another life.
Old Habits Die Hard by @agirlcallednarelle - Unremarkable House vignette. Scully returns from a run and finds the house eerily empty. Instincts sharpened from years of being a fugitive immediately surface.
Skybound by @o666666 an IWTB era pregnancy what if that makes my heart clench. She could not imagine another child, what it might look like, its little curls and hooded eyes. She could not imagine explaining herself to William.
The Second Law of Motion by @seek-its-opposite - moving into the unremarkable house. What she’d like to tell herself is that she wouldn’t have believed it, 10 years ago, if you told her this would be how she and Mulder would fall off the edge of the world: watching paint dry.
my lover loves the water by @wtfmulder - family reunions are hard. Also asshole Bill walks in on Mulder and Scully while they’re having the time of their lives, NSFW.
if I had to perish twice by @seek-its-opposite - He thinks maybe they’re working backwards to something like new love. Love, love, love.
Weightless by @all-these-ghosts - post-IWTB vacation fluff, yes please. This isn’t real life either, the two of them curled together at the water’s edge, so she lets herself imagine a life where they’ve run far and fast enough that the shadows never catch them.
Somebody’s Kin by pinebluffvariant - Mrs Scully visits Mulder at the unremarkable house.
white winter hymnal(s) by audries- 12 years of Christmas in the unremarkable house.
turn, turn, turn by @leiascully - pre-IWTB. Maybe this unremarkable house will become remarkable, become their sanctuary, a home without a history of blood or prying eyes.
Residency by @dashakay - The house is old, half-falling apart. There’s nothing particularly remarkable about the small white house, besides needing a coat of paint. But it’s their house. Theirs. Home.