hello! I have a hankering for protective scully. Do you have any fic recommendations? Preferably against mulder's bullies?
Collector's Edition: Dana Scully, Partner and Protector
Couldn't include Bill Scully's bullying on this list because that's a category all its own; but tried my best to scrounge up fics specifically wired around your prompt.
Loose chronological order below~
Beshter’s X-files Seasons
"How was I supposed to know," he murmured in a low voice. "I mean, liver-eating mutants? Do you really still believe...?" She knew that his entire career at the FBI was flashing before Colton's eyes and that he was begging her to see the same reason he saw.
She glanced over at Mulder, who was now speaking with one of the other agents on the scene. "Well, Tom, if you had even considered the remote possibility that there might be something to Mulder's theory, I might still have a front door."
An in-depth fill-in from Scully’s perspective-- winding up to the Pilot and supplanting every loose end with a slice of her consciousness.
@leiascully's (Ao3) Squeeze
The other agents saw only gawky, crazy Mulder, the epitome of all they sought to avoid, dragging down one of their own. They liked Scully, or at least, liked what they could see of her, heedless of the depth of her. They invited her to work with them, as if the Bureau were a junior high microcosm of an adult world. Mulder, disgusted, played the fool. She slid her hand gently up his arm, gentling him with her touch. He was a rogue agent in their eyes. Scully was what kept him from lunging, fractious and unbalanced.
S1 Mulder takes in Scully, the first agent who views him as “more.” (Part of a larger series of ficlets.)
Solia (FFN) Smudge (FFN)
It was so not the time, but from the moment he rubbed his nose with his ink-stained fingers she felt the internal itch to wipe the dark smear away.
People were judging him harshly enough already. Their eyes bore into him like he was dirt; they said his name like it was unclean.
S1 Scully feels pressured to defend Mulder.
@contrivedcoincidences6/Spooky66/geektime66's Work Party
“Why aren’t you still up there? Still about a half hour left.”Mulder asks through a mouthful of cake.
Scully rolls her head back and stares at the ceiling, “I just wasn’t enjoying it. Figured I’d have more fun watching you get frosting on every surface in the basement. I’ve got my own little pool going about the most creative places I’ll be finding it for the next few days.”
S1 Mulder realizes Scully's reputation has been tarred with the same brush as his.
@suitablyaggrieved/ScullyLovesQueequeg's Fictober Day 10
“Sir, with all due respect… why can’t I have Scully back?”
“We’ve gone over this, Agent Mulder. We’re a little short on forensic pathologists. You’ll have Agent Scully back in no time. Now do you want to tell me why I’m getting several complaints that you’re making things down there a hostile environment?”
Post Little Green Men Mulder is alone.
Snits's Here, Now
"He's resting his ankle," Scully lied smoothly. A woman on her left, Laura, giggled suddenly, leaning into the conversation. "I saw him, hopping about earlier," she said wickedly, "how'd he do it?"
"Chasing ghosts," Jacobs supplied, provoking laughter. "Ruh-roh, Scully," a man across the table mimicked Scooby-Doo. "Nah, he probably just fell after the aliens let him off the space ship," another woman sniggered, reaching for the wine bottle. "Seriously, Scully, any time you want to be out of that nuthouse, you just mention it," the man beside Jacobs said solemnly, as though he were the voice of reason in the group.
Scully finally understands why Mulder never goes to FBI parties.
Philiater's The Stronger Monster
The strongest, that's what Mulder had said; the monster had taken the strongest of them.
For a moment that comment had dug at her a little bit; a part of her had automatically protested that *she* was strong. But she was a fish out of water in a deep forest.
Detour Scully is willing to be a monster for Mulder.
@starwalker42's (Ao3)
febuwhump day 23: "you'll have to go through me"
As the creature approaches him, creeping forward so slowly it’s almost like it’s biding its time, almost as if it’s enjoying toying with him, Mulder wonders how long it might take to bleed out from a bite wound. Maybe the pain will be strong enough that he won’t make it that long, anyway – maybe he’ll pass out before it gets to that point. Maybe those jaws will tear right through him, and he won’t feel anything but a flash of pain and the sensation of his body being ripped apart.
Bang! A cloud of dirt flies up into the wolf’s face, and it turns away, whining in surprise. After a moment of confusion, Mulder realises someone’s fired a gun.
Scully stares down a wolf.
Anonymous's (mulderscreek, annex-files) Silence, Sea and Sky
Dana Scully watched her partner closely but his face betrayed no emotion. If she didn't know him so well she wouldn't have noticed the tiny tremble of his hands, the dull look in his usually expressive eyes.
Mulder (and Scully) is invited onto a case where he has to work alongside an old VCU foe.
@o6666666's (Ao3) Phoebe takes a job at the fbi
“Mulder is incredibly passionate.”
“He’s myopic. Small-minded for anything that’s ever shown him tenderness.”
“I think he’s a genius.”
“Do you show him tenderness, Agent Scully?”
With that, Scully shoves her chair back from the table.
AU-- Phoebe Green is back, as an FBI agent.
@wendelah/wendelah1/avesuvianface’s (Gossamer, Live Journal) When light is put away
While Mulder stepped into his trousers, she walked over to the window and peered out through the shattered glass. "There's no sign of it—him—anywhere."
Mulder nodded. Whatever he was, man or monster, Pincus moved fast. He pulled a T-shirt over his head.
"This time—" Her voice was firm. "—I'm not leaving here without you."
Folie a Deux Mulder is rescued by one Dana Scully.
Dawn’s (Ao3, Gossamer) Broken (Ao3) and Restored
I turn around to face the now-thoroughly-irritated
officer. "Agent Mulder has been through quite an ordeal
tonight and is feeling under the weather. I'm taking him back
to the motel now. We'll come down to the station tomorrow
and you can finish asking your questions."
The kid can't be more than twenty-five, baby-faced and lacks
the self-assurance of Detective Webster. Still, he actually
scowls and opens his mouth to argue with me until I flash
him what Mulder refers to as "The Look."
Folie a Deux Scully and Mulder's thoughts after the bug flees and the cops show up.
Wylfcynne's Imagine
"You aren't getting free until we have a clear MRI," she said calmly.
Mulder exploded in rage, screaming, cursing, struggling violently. On the status monitor, everything began to escalate. Three Project doctors came running in, alerted by the system alarms, and stopped, awed at the violence they were witnessing.
Post S.R. 819 Mulder and Scully are captured while on a Kersh detail; and Scully must break out, somehow sound the alarm, and purge Mulder from a black oil invasion.
@baronessblixen's (Ao3) imagine some other agents playing a trick on Mulder
"I was getting coffee for us and then this one guy, Agent Peters, he said I didn't need to bother because, because," he stops, panic slipping back into his voice. Scully squeezes his hand to let him know she's here. "Because you were in a car accident and that... that you were... didn't look good." Tears fall from his eyes as he looks up at her. The way his bottom lip quivers breaks her heart.
Mulder rushes down to the basement, distraught.
Pattie's They Call Him AGENT Mulder
"I guess you're not too proud of me today, Scully. Sorry I reacted the way I did."
"Don't be sorry," I told him, as we got into the car. "He had it coming. It was a rotten thing for him to do to you."
S6 Mulder and the various methods of aggravation fellow FBI agents use.
LuminousPie's
Five Times Mulder Got Injured and One Time Scully Did
She looked up and frowned, debating whether to answer. She much preferred it when Diana didn’t speak. “I was just thinking about how many times Mulder has been in the hospital in the last 5 or so years.” She didn’t allude to her own ailments. She suspected Diana already knew.
Diana put down her magazine and crossed her arms, “Is it a lot?”
“I’ve lost count.”
“Mulder was never injured when I was with him.”
Various Mulder injuries through the years.
What Goes Up Must Come Down.
She whispers softly in his ear as she assesses him, “It's going to be okay Mulder, I’m right here.” She almost calls him ‘sweetheart’ but it’s not just Diana that stops her, it's the fact she also has to be a doctor now.
Mulder and Scully try to hide their secret relationship from Diana while all three are trapped in a malfunctioning elevator.
@seek-its-opposite (Ao3) nothing to hide (Ao3)
"Your irresponsible theories nearly got my officer killed, Agent Mulder.” The sergeant gestures at the crack house, the door splintered on the floor. “To say nothing of how my department looks on camera for taking you seriously.”
“But you did take him seriously.” Agent Scully’s voice sharpens to a stiletto point. Her partner absorbs chaos; she refracts it.
Post X-Cops Scully is incensed when the local cops lay blame at her partner's feet.
ScullyLikesScience's He is the Master of His Fate, She is the Captain of Her Soul
Mulder and Scully sat in their rental car in the parking lot of the Sheriff’s department. She sat, shaking her head. What a waste of a perfectly good weekend. He cleared his throat. “Okay, so he was actually crazy. For real crazy. Do you think the Phoenix bureau called me as a joke?”
Scully sighed, clicked one of the overhead lights, and opened the file on her lap.
Spanning from Amor Fati to IWTB, this series tracks the growth Mulder and Scully experience as they come into their own.
@neednottoneed/neednot's Unnamed
What she can't get over is the staring.
Mulder keeps tapping his fingers on the table. They sit across from each other, her foot occasionally brushing his, and it really does feel like everyone in the building is watching them.
Post all things Scully decides to hold Mulder's hand at the FBI.
@brenayla's (Ao3) midnight gold and moon shadows
Scully brushes past the group to get to the trash can, where she tosses a paper takeout coffee cup.
Agent Chang nods at her in greeting. “Agent Mulder,” he says with all the confidence of a recent Academy grad.
The being before him gives a wary look.
“It’s Scully, actually.” Not cold but certainly not friendly either.
Mulder and Scully, cryptids.
@mldrgrl's (Ao3) Tumblr drabble prompts of various shades of MSR
She heard laughter as she approached the door to the office. A cluster of agents surrounded Mulder’s desk with handfuls of files, laughing together. One of them was wearing a hat that was clearly not his own. Scully bristled. Her heels struck the ground with angry blows as she strode across the room.
“Take it off,” she said, holding her hand out to the agent with a withering glare.
S8 Scully will not stand for Mulder mockery in his absence.
Gina Rain/gina rain's Circular File
They were all assembled around the conference table. Creative bookkeeping couldn't solve some of the problems that appeared in the past year's budget. Explanations had to be given. Even Agent Scully had to attend to justify costs that were incurred during her time with the X-file division. She entered the conference room and some people stopped talking and looked up at her and then, with small smiles or sidelong glances, resumed their rapt attention of the closed files in front of them.
But Agent Scully did not sit down.
AU-- S9 Scully is having a hard time letting the FBI go (or, as she realizes, go without speaking her mind.)
@slippinmickeys/SlippinMickeys/Slippin' Mickeys's Three Part Harmony (Ao3)
“ --der ,” he heard, in what was unmistakably Scully’s voice. But he didn’t hear her voice with his ears, but rather in his head, where the buzzing was emanating. It was remarkably similar to when he could hear others’ thoughts, pushed into what bordered on madness by an alien craft. But this didn’t feel like lunacy; it was warm and euphoric.
“ Mulder, ” he heard again in Scully’s voice, this time more clear, the buzzing lessening. “ Is that you? ”
AU-- Mulder and Scully save their son while on the run; and the three of them continue perpetually forward with the FBI on their heels.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
@scenes-in-between/scullywolf's TXF: Scenes in Between (Tumblr)
One scene per episode: Mulder and Scully and the mysteries they encounter.
@cecilysass's (Ao3, Gossamer) The Boy on the Beach (Ao3)
Post Amor Fati Scully is trapped in the past-- and believes she can save Mulder's future by sacrificing her own.
Keleka’s Gray Ghosts
Post Theef– Mulder, Scully ,and TLG investigate the violent deaths of the 47th Brigade. As Mulder plunges headlong into the alternate dimension of a vengeful demon (undeterred by his earlier proposal and recent injury at the hands of a possessed soldier), Scully grapples with her faith in religion, her father, and her military-- all of which comes to a head when she witnesses a cathedral full of praying ghosts.
Jenna Tooms/misslucyjane’s (Ao3, mulderscreek)
An Acceptable Level of Happiness (Site)
AU-- Post Requiem Scully is helping Mulder adjust to a world post-trauma. Fatherhood may be a breeze, but ptsd, triggers, and others' judgments are not.
Shooting Star (Gossamer, mulderscreek)
AU-- Post Requiem Mulder is returned to "his angel" seventeen years later, waking to an addled brain, clone confusion, and a distant son.
And last but not least: long-form fic series spanning the first nine seasons of the show.
Harry Quinn’s black dragon from AD&D Monster Cards Set 4 (1982) is obviously based on David Sutherland’s B&W version from the AD&D Monster Manual (1977). I’ve been looking at Sutherland’s art for over 40 years and only today noticed the 3rd clump of grass at the bottom actually is a Snit, all nose and legs, and it seems to have caught the attention of this dragon.
