#spooky chatter

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I'm curious! When you think of The X-Files, what's the first image and/or quote that pops into your head? For me, it's Mulder crying in the church, holding the photo of Samantha, in Conduit

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Okay but I do love how Scully is fully just like "I am a medical doctor about to perform an unauthorized procedure on a body. The subject is a caucasian male. Age, uh... I don't remember at this particular time. His height is about six feet and his weight is quite possibly subject to change" and just starts slicing and dicing.

Season 8 and she is so done with this shit

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Fire, But Better

Summary: It's Dana's first day on the job and she hopes for a fresh start. WC: 425

Bingo square: Fire

Tags: @xfilesbingo @today-in-fic

In the grey hall, seasoned FBI agents pass her like minnows and Dana exhales. She rubs her sweaty palms along what she hopes is an appropriate and professional skirt and lets the ready-to-please smile drip off her face.

First ring of fire: cleared. Blevins seemed content. The strange man in the corner seemed non-plussed. Both fit her preconceived notions of what FBI higher-ups were like. Old, stand-offish, starchy, and, dare she say, predictable? Dana is used to bland men: soulless nurses and aides who seemed to give life and hope to patients from their own personal stores. Some salt-and-pepper doctors were exceptions. Her heart clenches as her mind whispers the name Daniel.

She shakes it off with a roll of her shoulders. I chose this.

She lets this assurance distill into confidence and begins walking down the hall, smiling and nodding at her new co-workers. They blatantly ignore her.

What had Blevins said? Basement. Fox Mulder. Right. Once again, she is starting at the bottom, and minus the formaldehyde (and the sordid love affair) she assumes it will be much the same.

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“Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI’s most unwanted,” a man says.

She blinks, deja vu knocking against her gently like a wooden wind chime. His voice, the cadence, the wryness: it reminds her of someone, somehow, though she swears she’s never heard a tone quite like it.

Shaken, Dana tries to summon her dinner-with-extended-family smile. She pushes open the basement door and the smile vanishes.

I WANT TO BELIEVE a poster proclaims. Her eyes drift past countless UFO photos before landing on the man, the myth, the surprisingly good-looking Fox Mulder.

Dana introduces herself, shrugging on politeness. He shakes her hand like a dead fish.

“So, who’d you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Scully?” he asks.

In that moment, she smells the ocean, hears waves lapping against the side of a boat. A sailor calling to her father, “Scully!” A quick, harsh conversation on deck. Her father would be tossed a rope. He would be turning the wheel, guiding them to exactly where he wanted them to be. Where they needed to be. He had been Scully, Captain Scully. Always.

Fox Mulder’s sharp smile strikes across Dana. She ignites, the flames spelling out her new titles: FBI Agent. Spy. Scully. Scully emerges from the fire, brushing the ashes of deference from her shoulder pads.

She looks down at Mulder, tilts her head, lets a new smile creep onto her lips.

“Actually,” she said. “I’ve been looking forward to working with you.”

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Leyla Harrison is like "I begged for this assignment. I worked in accounting. I saw Agents Mulder and Scully's travel expenses. I saw every filthy purchase that night Assistant Director Skinner gave them a Bureau credit card. I was just a desk away when Agent Mulder suggested he and Agent Scully share a room during cases. I know the X-Files, Agent Doggett inside 😉 and out 😘 and I'm just so excited to be a part of this 😍 Aren't you?"

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Can I just gush for a moment about that amazing moment at the end of The Gift when Mulder's "ghost" appears to Doggett? I know x-files can be dumb as fuck, but what better moment to show the complicated feelings Doggett has for this man? He wants to find Mulder because he can't leave a mystery unsolved. He wants to fill Mulder's shoes, to be let in on all those little secret glances between Scully and Skinner. He's jealous of him. He admires him.

And then there's Mulder, in the shadow, silent, just out of reach, as Doggett claws through his apartment, his trash, his mind, trying to keep up with the irresistible whirlwind he's been thrown into.

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since I'm getting close to the end of the original run of txf, I'm thinking of watching millennium + the lone gunmen to postpone the inevitable... Or maybe I'll finish season 9 and then before I watch the second movie, I'll watch the spinoff shows. I kinda want to write reviews for them a la @enigmaticxbee too...

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How is the season 9 intro even MORE of a shitpost than season 8's???

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Scully in the season 9 opener all like "idk mulder just disappeared...." girl, everyone can see his fishtank in your apartment