#rewatch series

[scullysexual]

X-Files Rewatch Series: Duane Barry

ao3 | @today-in-fic | The Host

Little snippets, missing scenes, post eps and in-scene fics I will be writing as I make my way through the series one episode at a time.

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He lets the answering machine pick up the call, making no attempt to rush his post shower shave but when he hears Scully’s voice his ears do perk up to listen. Answering machines were just another way they communicated, he’ll ring her back after she’s finished.

It’s only when Scully trails off and everything is silent that his attention is grabbed again, Maybe the message was simply finished, though an interesting place to end on, Scully. Mulder wipes his face with a cloth and ventures out towards the phone. He doesn’t make it another step before there are the sounds of commotion coming from her end; a window smashing, Scully’s surprised gasp, and the most terrifying part of all- Duane Barry’s voice.

Mulder picks up the phone hoping it might do something, anything. Instead there are just sounds of a scuffle as Scully fights and fails to get away.

Then there is nothing.

Just the sounds of an empty apartment and the echo of his partner’s cries for help.

[earthshipvoice]

have you rewatched kotaro lives alone?

there's a tweet circulating on twitter today about Kotaro Lives Alone. it's a show i've watched before. have any of you rewatched it, and what was your experience like? i've recommended it because I enjoyed it, and honestly speaking, i bawled maybe in every episode. i'm hesitant to rewatch it because I know how real my emotions were during the first viewing, and maybe the second time my memory will dilute the experience.

[bigfootwrites]

| every wednesday | rewatching the series | season 1 | scully’s diary | squeeze | words: 365 | click the title for the ao3 link | doodles by @burritoscully​ everything else belongs to me | in a collaboration with @burritoscully​. Please check out her addition to this episode when posted | 01x02: Deep Throat |

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EPISODE THREE: Squeeze (Always Have Your Back)

Her fingers soothe over the spot where the bile had fallen on her wrist, the faint yellow stain making her stomach turn.

A bag half-packed sits beside her. Outside, she can hear the commotion of officers as they take Mulder’s statement, similar to the one she gave them a few minutes ago.

It was Scully’s first experience having her home be violated and invaded like that. It made her skin crawl to recall it.

A soft knock against the bedroom door has her standing from her bed, continuing with her task of packing.

“Come in,” she gently calls.

Mulder appears looking around sheepishly, looking out of place.

“They’ve arrested Tooms,” he tells her. “He’s been charged for all the murders; 30s, 60s, now and he’s been charged for assault on a federal officer.”

Assault…the word rings in her ears.

“Good,” Scully says flatly.

She wonders if she should thank him. Is it expected of her to thank her partner for having her back or is it just a given?

“Mulder,” she calls, turning around and catching him before he leaves. “I’m glad I now know I can depend on you to have my back.”

He smiles, looking slightly bewildered.

“Of course, Scully. Your my partner, your safety in these investigations are paramount to me.”

She smiles, warmed by the confession.

“As is yours,” she responds in kind.

“Well,” says Mulder rubbing his hands on his pants. “Baltimore PD wants to take our official statements at the station. You ready?”

Scully nods, packing the final few items into the bag.

“I just need to change.”

“Of course.”

Mulder leaves, closing the door behind him. Scully peels off her clothes, shoving them into a plastic bag and hiding them from sight in her closet.

When she exits, Mulder is waiting for her. She eyes the area of the attack wondering if she’ll ever be able to stand there against without associating it with that event.

Mulder catches her staring.

“I promise to do all in my power not to make this a regular thing.”

Scully smiles, thinking if that is really something he was capable of promising but she says nothing, simply following him out the door.

[nawornah]

Rewatching Game of Thrones makes you realize there was never enough Robb Stark

[scullysexual]

X-Files Rewatch Series; Little Green Men.

ao3 | @today-in-fic

Little snippets, missing scenes, post eps and in-scene fics I will be writing as I make my way through the series one episode at a time.

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The flashing, the shaking, the noises from above- they were here, they had come for him.

His voice replayed back to him; slowed and distorted- Trust no one, Trust no one.

The door flies open and he almost trips over Jorge’s body in his attempt to hide. And then it stops. The flashing, the shaking, the storm- all of it just stops. Heart hammering against his rib cage, Mulder trepid creeps towards the door, to peer outside when suddenly a bright, burning, white light almost blinds him. Just like in his memory he runs to his gun and just like in his memory he freezes in place; unable to protect Samantha, unable to protect himself as the alien-like figure reaches out towards him.

Later he will sit in his new office and listen to a blank tape. Scully will tell him that an electrical surge in the outlet storm might have caused the erasure. “You still have nothing,” she adds though that is not true. He has his work and the effort he put in, he has Scully and her unwavering loyalty and he has himself. What he witnessed that night in Arecibo- that they can never erase.

[scullysexual]

X-Files Rewatch Series: The Host

ao3 | @today-in-fic | Little Green Men

Little snippets, missing scenes, post eps and in-scene fics I will be writing as I make my way through the series one episode at a time.

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He sits in the same place he once sat with Deep Throat, where access to his answers were in reach, when X-File cases were jus that- X-Files, plain and simple. Now there is a new voice at the end of the line, another who calls himself an ally.

Yet it’s another who dangles half-truths in front of him, another who speaks in riddles. Just how did anyone expect Mulder to succeed in a department that people now choose to ignore? Not for the first time since Deep Throat’s death does Mulder yearn for the ease it use to be.

[scullysexual]

X-Files Rewatch Series; Shapes

A new entry will be posted every Wednesday and Sunday*.

Read previous entry. Read on ao3. [@today-in-fic] In collab with @burritoscully as she makes her way through her journals- please check these out when posted.

Lycanthropy.

They call it lycanthropy; when the patient believes they can turn into a wolf- or any type of animal for that matter. Only this patient did. Dana couldn’t explain it- staring at her blank report as she tries to find a rational answer for an irrational outcome. It couldn’t be and yet here it was. Dana sighs and picks up the old X-Files for reference. She types what she can- the truth.

Entry 19; Lycanthropy.

I kept the bracelet Gwen gave me. It hangs off my keys. It was in my pocket when Lyle Parker attacked. I’ve yet to look up it’s significance within Native American culture but did it maybe protect me? I’ll keep it there, just in case.

[bigfootwrites]

| every wednesday | rewatching the series | season 1 | scully’s diary | deep throat | words: 212 | click the title for the ao3 link | doodles by @burritoscully​ everything else belongs to me | 

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EPISODE TWO: Deep Throat (Lights in the Sky)

They dance in the sky. Two of them. Soaring around the black canvas in ways Dana had never seen aircraft manoeuvre before. It was unreal.

Lasers, she thinks, her stomach dropping with a feeling she rationalises as disappointment. They have to be lasers.

The lights shoot off overheard, disappearing into the clouds. A flash above. Dana’s mouth drops open. A brief glimpse of something circular hovering silently. She looks to Mulder who confirms what they both saw, his own eyes wide with awe.

Dana wonders how she would explain this one.

Another light flies towards them, lower to the ground, seeming bigger than the other two. It’s light is controlled, searching. Dana comes to understand that that might just be a helicopter, that this is technically private property and they are the trespassers about to be in trouble.

Mulder’s hand on her arm, about to pull her away, there is a rustle of leaves and a bush. Two teenagers run out, the helicopter is looking for them. Relief Dana feels before Mulder yells, sprinting off towards the two kids and she is forced to follow.

The helicopter searches.