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"Blessed St. Leibowitz, keep 'em dreaming." -- James Michener, Space

Graphics courtesy of Brynna

a work in progress
by Brandon Ray & Narida Law
x-file ~ romance ~ angst
updated 11/17/01

Winner of the 2001 Spooky Award for
Outstanding Unfinished Work

a work in progress, too
by Brandon Ray & aka "Jake"
colonization ~ romance ~ angst
Received I Want To Believe's
"It's a Nightmare" Award (Best Post-Col)

TITLE: The Shortest MSR Series. Who'd a thunk it? This started as a joke, but it's taken on a life of its own.

TITLE: The A.D.
SPOILERS: None
RATING: PG
CLASSIFICATION: SA
WARNINGS: Character death
SUMMARY: The Assistant Director visits a pauper's grave.

TITLE: After Tithonus
SPOILER WARNING: Tithonus
RATING: R, for sexual situations
CONTENT WARNING: MSR.
CLASSIFICATION: VRA
SUMMARY: Tithonus post-ep. Alternate universe, in which Mulder was the one who worked the Fellig case. Based on the following quote: "I think I'd become a hermit, actually. That way I'd never have to deal with losing someone I loved." -- Fox Mulder, "But Ourselves", by Marguerite
Of course, any lameness is my own doing.

TITLE: All Which It Inherit
SUMMARY: "There's a storm building, a mighty tempest that will rock the foundations of the planet, leaving death and ruin in its wake. Few will remain standing once the gale has abated. This storm has been foretold for decades, but the preparations made by those who knew of its coming are pitifully inadequate."
CATEGORIES: X-File (Mytharc), Romance, Angst. Lots of angst.
KEYWORDS: MSR. MulderAngst. ScullyAngst. Colonization. Character death (not Mulder or Scully). Oh, and some MulderTorture for my dear friend Vickie Moseley, who begged *so* nicely, to wit: "Pretty please? Cherries and whipped cream? He's just so adorable when he's cross-eyed."

TITLE: The Alternatives Series, co-written with shannono.
What's it all about? Well, it's about smut. And mostly it's about ways of scratching where it itches in ways that do not involve intercourse -- although to be fair we didn't manage to stay away from that ALL the time. Oh, and it's also about NC-17 MSR, so if that ain't your bag now's the time to say so....
Check out this beautiful illo which Shannon has produced.
And while you're at it, check out the collage created by Rachel Lewis.

TITLE: Apogee
SPOILER STATEMENT: Honking big ones for Biogenesis/6E/AF. Smaller ones for Tempus Fugit/Max; The Red and the Black; Two Fathers/One Son; Sein Under Zeit/Closure; Brand X. Also: significant spoilers for VS8 episode "A Burden Shared", by Ten, and rather vague ones for "Devil's Advocate", by Vickie Moseley & Susan Proto. But see AUTHOR'S NOTE, below.
TIMELINE: Takes place in October of 2001. However, nothing after "Je Souhaite" has happened -- specifically, none of the events of "Requiem" ever occurred. Just assume that Mulder and Scully continued chasing ghosts and aliens and such during Season 8.
RATING: PG-13
CONTENT STATEMENT: MSR. Some bad language, including the "f" word. Religious content.
CLASSIFICATION: X-File (mythology), Romance, Angst
SUMMARY: When key evidence from an old case unexpectedly reappears, Mulder and Scully embark on an investigation that is literally out of this world.

TITLE: Becoming Dana
SPOILER STATEMENT: En Ami. Also, vague but important spoilers for issues reportedly raised in "all things". Smaller ones for Pilot, Memento Mori, FTF, Triangle, Milagro, Biogenesis/6E/AF and Millennium.
RATING: PG, by golly!
CONTENT STATEMENT: M/S UST -- but they're working on it! ;)
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: Post-ep for "En Ami". "Things are changing, inside of her and between the two of them. Those changes have been slow and gradual, almost as imperceptible as the movement of a glacier. They are also, like that glacier, overwhelming and inexorable, and impossible to ignore."

TITLE: The Bill Scully Files.
A series of loosely-connected stories featuring Bill and Tara Scully, and their growing friendship with Fox Mulder as the three of them cooperate to investigate a series of X-Files.

Rachel Lewis has really outdone herself this time: A spiffy new illo for the Bill Scully Files!

TITLE: The Book of Acts
This is a series of thematically-connected stories in which I attempt to stretch the limits of our heroes' sexuality. Just a little; not too much, and I am striving to stay at least within shouting distance of a reasonable extrapolation of character.

Note: Every story in this section is rated NC-17, and they are all MSR. If that sort of thing doesn't appeal to you, you'd best skip these tales.

TITLE: Calm Before the Storm
SPOILER WARNING: Beyond the Sea; The End; FTF; Rain King
RATING: PG for language
CONTENT WARNING: A few bad words.
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: Post-ep for "Rain King". Mulder POV.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This story is based on the premise suggested in ATXC by Lynx Mulderite, who proposed that the main action in "Rain King" occurred in August of 1998, just before the events in FTF. I am also indebted to Shannon, who provided me with a transcript of one of the key scenes from "Rain King".

Cover by Rachel Lewis. She just keeps getting better and better, folks....

TITLE: The Canvas Bag
SPOILER STATEMENT: Small ones for Folie a Deux, FTF and Amor Fati.
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: ScullyAngst. Very mild sexual suggestions. MSR, if you look at the show the same way I do. ;)
CLASSIFICATION: VRA
SUMMARY: Surely she cannot pack everything she needs, everything that matters, into a plain, canvas bag.

TITLE: Cat Scratch Fever
SPOILER STATEMENT: "Teso dos Bichos". No, I'm not joking. Small ones for "War of the Coprophages" & "Little Green Men".
RATING: NC-17
CONTENT STATEMENT: MSR. Smut. PWP.
CLASSIFICATION: VRAH
SUMMARY: Post-ep for "Teso dos Bichos". Scully's pissed. Smut ensues.

TITLE: A Christmas Miracle
SPOILER WARNING: Ascension; One Breath; The Beginning; Drive
RATING: PG, for language
CONTENT WARNING: We are hereby issuing a Grade 3 sappy romance alert. Anti-shippers and Grinches are advised to take shelter immediately. You have been warned.
CLASSIFICATION: CRA, and finally MSR
SUMMARY: Crossover with "It's a Wonderful Life", which has been done to death, but I couldn't resist. If you've actually managed to avoid seeing that movie, just think Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed, and get out your hanky.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I would like to report that when I ran this sucker through my spellchecker it rejected the word "Kersh" and suggested "carwash" as a replacement. I was so tempted.... :)
Also, for some reason Mulder's apartment seems to be in the District in this story. Don't ask me why; it just happened that way.

TITLE: The Crusade
SPOILER WARNING: Lots of 'em, all over the place.
RATING: PG-13 for violence
CONTENT WARNING: Bill jr./Tara. Character death. Lots and lots of character death. Unlike most of my work, this is not a happy story.
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: "Kill Mulder and you risk turning one man's religion into a crusade." --The Cigarette Smoking Man, "Ascension"

TITLE: Dear John
SPOILER STATEMENT: all things
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: Sexual innuendo. Parody. MSR. Sc/O. M/O.
CLASSIFICATION: VRH
SUMMARY: post-ep for "all things" Time to start scratching names out of those little black books.

TITLE: Eddies in the Continuum
SPOILER WARNING: Dreamland I & II; Small Potatoes
RATING: PG, for just a bad word or two
CONTENT WARNING: None
CLASSIFICATION: VRA, MSR
SUMMARY: I've never written post-episode fic before, folks, at least partly because I only discovered the fanfic world in September, and they've only been showing new episodes for four weeks or so. So this is a first of sorts. I got to thinking about the fact that some physical objects remained in place at the end of Dreamland I & I, and the rest, as they say, is history....

TITLE: Estrogen Frenzy
SPOILER STATEMENT: First Person Shooter. Also for Biogenesis/6E/AF, as well as Millennium. Tiny one
for "Alpha" -- blink, and you'll miss it.
RATING: NC-17
CONTENT STATEMENT: MSR. Smut. PWP.
CLASSIFICATION: VR
SUMMARY: Post-ep for "First Person Shooter." You think taking up weapons and creating gratuitous virtual mayhem has any redeeming value? That the testosterone frenzy it creates stops when the game does?" -- Dana Scully, FPS

TITLE: Every Man Has His Price
SPOILER STATEMENT: Pretty much the entire Mytharc, and assorted MOTW's up to but not including Two Fathers/One Son (U.S. Season 6), which seem not to have happened in this universe.
RATING: PG-13
CONTENT STATEMENT: MSR. MulderAngst. Post-XF. Kidfic.
CLASSIFICATION: VRA
SUMMARY: A father watches his daughter at play.

TITLE: Fin de Siecle
SPOILER STATEMENT: XF: Millennium (Season 7); Millennium: The Time is Now (Season 3)
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: Character Death (not Mulder or Scully). MSR. MulderAngst. ScullyAngst. A wee bit of MulderTorture for my dear friend Vickie Moseley, who hasn't written to me in *much* too long... ;)
CLASSIFICATION: CRA
SUMMARY: Based on reported spoilers for the Season 7 episode "Millennium". Crossover with the late, lamented TV series, "Millennium". The final scene in that episode, as processed through my fevered, shippy imagination. ;)

TITLE: Foreshadowing
SPOILER STATEMENT: FTF; Little Green Men; The End, I guess -- if you've managed to avoid finding out about Diana Fowley.
RATING: PG-13, for a few bad words
CONTENT STATEMENT: Mulder/Fowley; M/S UST; PreXF. Got it? ;)
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: Sometimes the ability to see the future isn't all it's cracked up to be.

TITLE: Forever Etched
AUTHORS: Brandon D. Ray & Brynna
SPOILER STATEMENT: Never Again
RATING: PG-13
CONTENT STATEMENT: MulderAngst. ScullyAngst. M/S RST, but we wouldn't really call it MSR. A few bad words, including the "f" word. Allusions to sex.
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: Post-ep for Never Again. Mulder & Scully try to put the pieces back together in the aftermath of the episode.
THANKS: To Robbie, for the uberbeta!

TITLE: Ghosts
SPOILER WARNING: None.
RATING: NC-17 for emotional content and sexual detail.
CONTENT WARNING: **Rape.** Scully/Skinner friendship. Scully/Mulder friendship.
There is nothing light or amusing here, friends. I wound up traveling to a very dark place as a result of the recent discussion about rape on ATXC. Enter at your own risk.
CLASSIFICATION: S,A. Especially the latter.
SUMMARY: An unexpected encounter exposes Scully to memories she had thought safely buried.

TITLE: Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!
SPOILER WARNING: Oh, geez...none, I think. I hope. Please, CC...don't even THINK about it....
RATING: NC-17
CONTENT WARNING: PARODY. How do I violate your sensibilities? Let me count the ways.... Slash, both m/m and f/f. BDSM. Incest. Hetsex. Voyeurism. Twosomes. Threesomes. Foursomes. Fivesomes. Zucchini, and also a turkey carcass. And dear god help me....a fruitcake.
CLASSIFICATION: SRHA
SUMMARY: Sweet suffering Jesus...do I have to? This is a half-assed response to a challenge CathyLex posted to ATXC, to wit: "I want someone to write me some humor involving a Consortium gift exchange, and I want a Spender in flannel pajamas involved. Don't ask me why. It's just this image I have running through my head...."
I may never be able to show my face in ATXC again, and it's all her fault.

TITLE: Have You Looked For Him Here?
RATING: PG
CLASSIFICATION: VA
CONTENT STATEMENT: Heavy religious content. M/S UST.
SPOILERS: Sixth Extinction - Amor Fati
SUMMARY: Scully prays

TITLE: The Heart of the Mystery
SPOILER STATEMENT: The Unnatural; FTF; How the Ghosts Stole Christmas; Tithonus; Milagro
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: Nothing I can think of. Not even a single bad word.
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: What was Arthur Dales thinking during "The Unnatural"?
THANKS: To Lena and Robbie for yet another midnight beta session

TITLE: Hot FBI Woman
SPOILER WARNING: None. Really.
RATING: NC-17 -- at least.
CONTENT WARNING: Sex. Lots of sex. Lots and lots and lots of sex. In fact, you could say it's pretty much ALL sex. Did I mention the sex?
CLASSIFICATION: V, also H (I hope); also M/S, um, I guess the word would be lust.
SUMMARY: You knew those letters were all written by real people, didn't you?

TITLE: I Can't Bear to Look
SPOILER WARNING: Tithonus
RATING: PG
CONTENT WARNING: ScullyAngst
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: Tithonus post-ep (more or less; actually it's a fill-in-the-blank, I guess).

Hey, look at this! A gorgeous illustration, created by Julie Jekel.

TITLE: I Guess She's Mine
SPOILER WARNING: Never Again, Triangle
RATING: PG for a little bad language.
CONTENT WARNING: MulderAngst. ScullyAngst. Scully/other alluded to. MSR.
CLASSIFICATION: VRA
SUMMARY: Sequel to my story, If She Does Not Return and Vickie Moseley's She Never Really Left. The morning after....

TITLE: I Love to Watch Your Hands
SPOILER WARNING: None.
RATING: PG
CONTENT WARNING: MSR. Sap?
CLASSIFICATION: VR
SUMMARY: Mulder muses. Inspired by a collage created by Rachel Lewis...and then Rachel turned around and made a new collage based on the story. Go figger... ;)

You can view the original collage here.

You can view the second collage here.

TITLE: If She Does Not Return
SPOILER WARNING: Gethsemane/Redux/Redux II
RATING: PG-13 for sexual thoughts and situations, and also for language and emotional content.
CONTENT WARNING: Scully/other. MSR, but not your standard MSR. Major MulderAngst.
CLASSIFICATION: VRA
SUMMARY: If you love something, set it free....

There is a sequel: She Never Really Left, by Vickie Moseley, and another one after that, by me: I Guess She's Mine.

TITLE: Impressions
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT: I'm normally pretty easy about archiving, and I don't want to create more obstacles than necessary. However, this piece is something of an experiment, and I'm going to ask that it not be archived anywhere UNLESS the hotlinks I've embedded in the text remain intact. Don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions about this requirement.
SPOILER WARNING: Tithonus. Also, "Two Fathers" hasn't happened.
RATING: PG, for language
CONTENT WARNING: A few bad words; M/S friendship, with a bit of UST, I guess
CLASSIFICATION: SA
SUMMARY: Scully drops by Mulder's apartment unexpectedly, and finds a surprise waiting for her.

TITLE: In the Jungle
SPOILER STATEMENT: Orison. One Breath. The Blessing Way/Paper Clip.
RATING: PG-13
CONTENT STATEMENT: Bad language, including the "f" word. Violence. SkinnerAngst
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: Post-ep for Orison. "Those are the only people who live in the jungle: Us and Them. There are no neutrals; there are no non-combatants; there is no middle ground. Just Us and Them. And the monsters, of course. The monsters are always there."

TITLE: Internal Affairs
SPOILER WARNING: The Blessing Way/Paperclip
RATING: PG
CONTENT WARNING: Language
CLASSIFICATION: SA, MSR
SUMMARY: Mulder and Scully aren't speaking to each other. Skinner wants to know why.

TITLE: Introit in E
AUTHORS: Brandon D. Ray & shannono
shannono@iname.com
CATEGORIES: Vignette, Mulder/Scully UST, Angst, Humor (a bit)
RATED PG
SPOILERS for "Alpha", and also for "One Son"
SUMMARY: Post-ep for "Alpha." Mulder, Scully, and the Information Superhighway.

TITLE: Johnny Lee
SUMMARY: A meditation on love and dragons.
CATEGORIES: X-File (MOTW), Romance
KEYWORDS: MSR. Is Vacationfic a category? If it isn't, it should be.
SPOILER STATEMENT: FTF & The Beginning
TIMELINE: No particular time, although the events of "Requiem" and "Existence" seem not to have happened. M & S are together, and they're pretty content -- at least for the moment. Place it where you will.
RATING: PG-13. I know. I can hardly believe it, either.
CONTENT STATEMENT: Nothing really alarming that I can think of. If you're bothered by baseball, or by 17th Century English literature, you may want to exercise some caution. ;)

TITLE: Jump
SPOILER WARNING: Never Again; Triangle
RATING: PG
CONTENT WARNING: Some of the imagery might be disturbing to some people.
CLASSIFICATION: MSR
SUMMARY: VRA

Ms_X has composed a wonderful cover illo to go with this story! Click here to see it.

TITLE: Lacrimae Mundi
SUMMARY: In the aftermath of the events of Sein und Zeit and Closure, Mulder has been set adrift, and is unsure of how to proceed with his life. Will investigating a series of brutal murders help him find a new focus? And will Scully's caring and concern be enough to hold him together while he tries?
CATEGORIES: X-File (MOTW), Romance, Angst
KEYWORDS: MSR. MulderAngst. ScullyAngst. Mulder/other (past)

TITLE: Lasagna
AUTHOR: shannono
shannono@iname.com
CATEGORIES: Vignette, rated PG, no spoilers, no angst, no editing, no nothin' ...
SUMMARY: Cooking a favorite dish.

There is a companion piece by, well, me: Raisin Pie

TITLE: Like a Switch Has Been Flicked
SPOILER WARNING: Rain King
RATING: PG
CONTENT WARNING: One or two bad words. MSR.
CLASSIFICATION: VRH
SUMMARY: Another Rain King post-ep. Scully POV. Not related to "Calm Before the Storm". As to the timeline, this one takes the position that RK occurred -- or will occur -- in August of '99. Scully tries to explain to us when and how her switch was flicked.

TITLE: Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma
SPOILER WARNING: None, really. A rumor from season 6, right at the end.
RATING: NC-17
CONTENT WARNING: Hmm. Sex. Yup. Some of that. Quite a bit of it, in fact.
CLASSIFICATION: SRH; MSR
SUMMARY: The songfic to end all songfics. Don't I just wish... ;)

TITLE: Making It Personal

A series of stories in which we trace the changes in Mulder and Scully's relationship between "One Son" and Biogenesis". Based on the following line from "One Son":

SUMMARY: "Because it is personal, Mulder. Because without the FBI, personal interest is all that I have. And if you take that away then there is no reason for me to continue." -- Dana Scully

TITLE: The Man Who Traveled in Elephants
AUTHOR: Brandon D. Ray
SPOILER WARNING: Avatar
RATING: PG; a few bad words.
CONTENT WARNING: There is a **rape** in Scully's past, which is part of the background for this story, but the references are not explicit.
CLASSIFICATION: SRHA, a suggestion of MSR in the future; Scully/Skinner friendship
SUMMARY: Skinner tries to help Scully deal with her feelings in the aftermath of her flashback. Sequel to Ghosts. It is not absolutely necessary to read that one first, but it probably helps establish the circumstances behind this story. However, Ghosts is a much darker story than this one.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The title of this story is a tribute to Robert A. Heinlein's short story of the same name. It's really a wonderful, touching story, and you ought to read it, but THIS story is NOT a crossover, and there is no need to have read RAH's work in order to understand this one.
Also: I still haven't got a handle on what's going on with Season 6. (That doesn't mean I necessarily don't like it; I just haven't got my emotional bearings on it yet.) So let's assume that this takes place sometime towards the end of Season 5 -- but definitely BEFORE "The End".

TITLE: March 5, 1993
SPOILER STATEMENT: "Pilot"; "Lazarus"; eentsy ones for "Milagro", FTF and "Triangle"
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: M/S UST, or MSR. Somewhere in that range. The "L" word is used. You make the call.
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: He comes to her in the still of night, after she is sound asleep.
THANKS: To Robbie & Shannon

TITLE: Milkshakes at Midnight
SPOILER STATEMENT: Millennium; small ones for "Milagro", "The Unnatural", "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" and "Fight the Future"
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: MSR. ScullyAngst.
CLASSIFICATION: VRA
SUMMARY: Post-ep for "Millennium". Yeah, yeah, everyone's writing Kissfic, and I had to get in on the fun. :)

TITLE: Mortal Stakes
SUMMARY: "Duty calls," Mulder said, reaching down and pulling her up after him. "There's been an explosion and fire at the Watergate."

"And?" Scully followed him down the hall towards the bedroom. "Why did Skinner call us?"

"This is big," her partner replied. "They've already recovered thirty bodies, and it's sure to go higher. He said it could be another Oklahoma City."

CATEGORIES: X-File (Mytharc), Romance, Angst.
KEYWORDS: MSR. MulderAngst. ScullyAngst. Mild MulderTorture. Slash (f/f).
SPOILER STATEMENT: Anything up through "Je Souhaite" is fair game.
TIMELINE: Set sometime after "Je Souhaite". "Requiem" hasn't happened -- yet, or at all. Take your pick. ;)
RATING: NC-17
CONTENT STATEMENT: Explicit sex -- always between consenting adults. Graphic violence. R-rated depictions of and references to sex acts that some people might consider to be non-consensual, and also to people under 18 having sex with adults (which may constitute statutory rape, depending on where you live). R-rated depictions of and references to incest and slash (f/f). Ugly little bugger, isn't it? It's not that bad, I swear -- I'm just trying to be inclusive. ;)

TITLE: Not a Hallmark Kind of Guy
SPOILER WARNING: The Ghosts Who Stole Christmas; Redux II; Christmas Carol; Emily
RATING: PG-13, for language and implied sexual situations
CONTENT WARNING: MSR; Bill jr./Tara; Charlie/other
CLASSIFICATION: SRA
SUMMARY: Post episode. What happened after the end of "The Ghosts Who Stole Christmas", or whatever the hell the title actually was.
NOTE: This story is not related to my other Bill Scully stories, nor is it a Silver Bracelet story.
DEDICATION: For Rachel Lewis, whose new Bill Scully archive made me want to write another one about that lovable curmudgeon.

TITLE: The Note
SPOILER STATEMENT: Sein Und Zeit
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: TeenaMulderAngst
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: Fill-in-the-blank for Sein Und Zeit. Apparently there was a Scullyfic challenge a while ago where you were supposed to have one character write a letter to another one. I'm not on Scullyfic, but since all the cool kids are doing it, I had to write one, too. ;)

TITLE: Nothing to Say
SPOILER STATEMENT: Small ones for "Detour"
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: Character death. ScullyAngst.
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: Sometimes it's hard to find the words.

TITLE: Now and in the Hour
SPOILER STATEMENT: Requiem. Revelations.
RATING: PG-13
CONTENT STATEMENT: MSR implied. Character death (not Mulder or Scully). Religious content.
CLASSIFICATION: VRA
SUMMARY: Requiem post-ep. "Sometimes I dream about a bright, white place."

TITLE: One Sorry Son of a Bitch
SPOILER WARNING: One Breath; Memento Mori; Redux II
RATING: PG
CONTENT WARNING: MSR or M/S friendship; should be safe for Shipper and non-Shipper alike.
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: Let's rewrite the scene where Scully's brother confronts Mulder in the hospital hallway, shall we?
DEDICATION: To mad martha, from whom I stole the title for this piece. You really ought to check out her story by the same title. It's really cool. :)

TITLE: Past is Prologue
SPOILER WARNING: Pilot; Synchrony
RATING: PG-13, for language
CONTENT WARNING: Character death. Sort of.
CLASSIFICATION: CA, MSR implied at the end, but not overt. Crossover is with "The Manchurian Candidate," by Richard Condon, but you don't have to have read the book or seen the movie in order to "get it".
SUMMARY: An encounter with two strangers changes Dana Scully's life forever.
NOTE: Yup. In 1980 HILL STREET BLUES was on Thursday nights, not Friday nights. Sue me. Er, no, wait...heh heh.

TITLE: Playback
SPOILER STATEMENT: Three of a Kind
RATING: PG-13
CONTENT STATEMENT: M/S UST. Scully/other UST?
CLASSIFICATION: VH
SUMMARY: Fill-in-the-blank for "Three of a Kind". Anybody but me wonder what Scully was doing between the time she left Langly at the morgue and Frohike found her in the hotel bar? Based on a challenge posted to the MSR-SMUT list (although this story actually fails to meet the challenge, since it isn't NC-17).
THANKS: To Robbie and Brynna for the quick beta read.

TITLE: Playing House
AUTHOR: shannono
shannono@iname.com
CATEGORY: Vignette(s?), Mulder/Scully UST, Humor
RATING: PG
SPOILER STATEMENT: Spoilers for (duh) "Arcadia."
SUMMARY: Fill-in-the-blanks for "Arcadia," Scully POV.

TITLE: Playing House 2
AUTHOR: Brandon D. Ray
SPOILER STATEMENT: Arcadia
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: M/S UST
CLASSIFICATION: VH
SUMMARY: Mulder's thoughts during the episode. Frightening idea, isn't it? This is a companion piece to Shannon's "Playing House".

And this is a lovely piece of artwork Shannon created to go with these two stories!

TITLE: Raisin Pie
SPOILER STATEMENT: You've GOT to be kidding. None. Well, except for some of the stuff in Mulder's sink...
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: A few bad words.
CLASSIFICATION: VH
SUMMARY: Response to Shannon's Lasagna. Mulder's loose in the kitchen -- everybody duck! And any resemblance between this story and the author's first attempt to bake a pie, back during the Carter Administration, is strictly coincidental.... ;)

TITLE: The Road not Taken
SPOILER WARNING: Pilot
RATING: G
CONTENT WARNING: None
CLASSIFICATION: V
SUMMARY: Every time a choice is made, an alternative is discarded.

TITLE: Rose
SPOILER WARNING: None
RATING: PG, I think. Nudity, but not in a sexual context
CONTENT WARNING: MSR implied but not overt.
CLASSIFICATION: SR
SUMMARY: An artist reflects on a remarkable commission.

Rachel Lewis's beautiful illo. Need I say more? :)

TITLE: Safe House
SPOILER WARNING: Avatar; Drive
RATING: PG, I think. Suggestion of sexual situations; nothing overt
CONTENT WARNING: None
CLASSIFICATION: SRA, MSR, Skinner/other
SUMMARY: A friend in need is a friend indeed.

The Seduction of Fox William Mulder (WIP)
TITLE: Cover Memo
SPOILER STATEMENT: Unusual Suspects; Travelers; Paper Hearts
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: Pre-XF; Mulder/Fowley (implied)
CLASSIFICATION: V
SUMMARY: Diana Fowley sums up her relationship with Mulder, for the edification of her superiors in the Consortium.
THANKS: To Brynna, Lena, Lisa & Shannon

This time it's deliberate. This is the unabashed beginning of a series, and I'm making no bones about it. The working title is "The Seduction of Fox William Mulder", and it will follow the personal and professional relationship between Mulder and Fowley from start to finish -- with plenty of angst and betrayal along the way, as well as a healthy dose of mytharc. And the cherry on top? It's all Fowley POV.

Note: I may as well admit at this point (8/28/99) that this project seems to be on indefinite hold. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do with it, but I seem to be distracted. Sorry, guys.

TITLE: She Never Really Left
AUTHOR: Vickie Moseley
SUMMARY: Scully approaches a problem using the scientific method, but finds it doesn't really apply.
RATING: PG
CATEGORY: Scully/other, MSR, H, A
DISCLAIMER: Yeah, right . . .
NOTES: The 'actual' and authorized sequel to If She Does Not Return. Brandon told me I could, so I did. Thank you, Brandon!
And then there's the sequel to Vickie's story - I Guess She's Mine.

TITLE: The Silver Bracelet Series
SUMMARY: The Silver Bracelet stories started as a standalone (Transfiguration) in which I tried to explore one possible barrier between a Mulder/Scully romantic relationship. It rapidly devloped into a series of stories as we gradually took our two favorite agents to the logical conclusion.
COOLNESS ALERT: Rachel Lewis, whose kind and thoughtful prodding caused this to become a series rather than a standalone, has produced a truly awesome illustration to accompany the first three stories. Click here to see it.

Rachel Lewis strikes again! A wonderful, touching illo to accompany "Consummation", the eighth story in the series. Click here to see it.

TITLE: Some Like It Hot
SPOILER STATEMENT: None whatsoever. CC will never in a million years allow anything remotely like this to happen on his show.
TIMELINE: Oh, put it wherever makes you happy. It's written with the thought that it takes place mid 7th Season, but there are no spoilers, and it probably fits reasonably well anywhere outside the 1st season or the cancer arc.
RATING: NC-17
CONTENT STATEMENT: MSR. PWP. Smut. Crossdressing.
CLASSIFICATION: SRHA
SUMMARY: Inspired (if that's the word), by the following exchange from an interview with David Duchovny. Q: What's the stupidest thing you ever did to impress a woman? DD: I wore a dress. I just thought a man with my figure could wear one and get away with it. I was going to wear a bikini, but I'm all for form and function. (New York Post, 3/4/00)

TITLE: Straight on 'Til Morning -- an X-Files Fantasy
SPOILER STATEMENT: Anything through "The Goldberg Variations" is fair game.
RATING: NC-17
CONTENT STATEMENT: MSR. Explicit sex. MulderAngst. ScullyAngst. Character death, sort of (not M or S).
IMPORTANT NOTE: Several of the most important characters in this story are children. However, *all* NC-17 content involves ONLY consenting adults.
CLASSIFICATION: Crossover, Romance, Angst
SUMMARY: All children have to grow up, eventually.

TITLE: The Subtext Series

A series of paired vignettes, in which Trixie and I attempt to follow the ups and downs of a romantic relationship between Mulder and Scully, as demonstrated by our reading between the lines of various episodes.

TITLE: Summer's Lease Series
RATING: NC-17
CONTENT STATEMENT: MSR. Explicit sex. MulderAngst.
ScullyAngst. Sc/O (past)
CLASSIFICATION: Story, Romance, Angst
SUMMARY: Just as Mulder and Scully have finally consummated their relationship, a man from Scully's past reappears. But will his intrusion bring the partner's closer? Or drive them apart?
THANKS: To Brynna, Robbie, Sharon & Trixie, for beta etc.

TITLE: Swinging for the Fences
CATEGORY: Vignette, Mulder/Scully UST
RATING: PG
SPOILERS: The Unnatural; Small Potatoes
SUMMARY: What was Scully thinking during that final scene?
THANKS: To Shannon, for beta-reading, and for arguing with me about punctuation.

TITLE: Synchronicity I
SPOILER STATEMENT: Millennium
RATING: PG, but only because it can't *possibly* be G.
CONTENT STATEMENT: ScullyAngst. MSR/UST
CLASSIFICATION: VRA
SUMMARY: Scully muses on the damage done to her belief system by her work on the X-Files.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is not songfic, in the conventional sense. Nobody listens to the radio, and you will not find song lyrics broken out between the paragraphs. But it is inspired or informed or something like that by the song of the same title by The Police, and if you're familiar with that song, you may hear echoes of it here and there. Hopefully, you'll find it interesting even if you *haven't* heard the song. Is it a successful experiment? You tell me.

TITLE: Walking in Your Footsteps
SPOILER STATEMENT: Small one for "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man"
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: CSM. Post-Colonization. Character death.
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: They all were cogs, in the end, each turning in his own predestined way; each contributing helplessly to the completion of a plan that had long ago passed beyond human control. A plan that held no hope for humanity, but only deluded its authors, and pacified them into acquiescence.

TITLE: O My God
SPOILER STATEMENT: Requiem. The cancer arc. Small Potatoes. Milagro.
RATING: Let's call it PG-13.
CONTENT STATEMENT: MSR. ScullyAngst. Sex, brief and not *too* explicit.
CLASSIFICATION: VRA
SUMMARY: Post-Requiem, done somewhat under duress. Scully seeks solace under the stars, and remembers another night when she was not alone.

TITLE: Tebori
SUMMARY: In the aftermath of the Gibson Praise case, the X-Files have been turned over to Spender and Fowley, and Mulder and Scully's relationship is close to its nadir. Scully is sent to Iowa to assist in tracking down a serial killer -- but she may have more at stake in the case than either she or Mulder realize.
CATEGORIES: X-File (MOTW), Romance, Angst
KEYWORDS: MulderAngst. ScullyAngst. Profiler!Mulder. MSR
SPOILER STATEMENT: Anything up through "The Beginning" (including the movie) is fair game.
TIMELINE: This story occurs early in Season 6. The Prologue occurs shortly after the events of "Fight the Future", while the main body of the story begins within a few days after the last scene in "The Beginning".
RATING: PG-13, for the most part. Chapter 13 is rated NC-17, but it can probably be skipped without missing too much of what's going on.
CONTENT STATEMENT: Explicit sex (chapter 13 only). Bad language, including the "f" word. Allusions to some rather horrible crimes, but nothing too icky happens on-stage, so to speak.

TITLE: Thank You For Shopping at K-Mart
SPOILER STATEMENT: Arcadia
RATING: PG
CONTENT STATEMENT: M/S UST. Bill jr/Tara romance
CLASSIFICATION: VRH
SUMMARY: Fill-in-the-blank for Arcadia. You gotta figure that the FBI evidence room wouldn't have been able to provide Moose and Squirrel with quite *everything* they needed for playing house together, right?
THANKS: To Brynna, Robbie and Shannon, for the beta read.

TITLE: There's No Place Like Home
SPOILER STATEMENT: Never Again; Leonard Betts (a little); Triangle (maybe)
RATING: PG-13, for language (the "f" word, among others)
CONTENT STATEMENT: M/S UST; should be safe for Shippers and Noromos alike. Also, if you like "Never Again" you probably WILL NOT like this story. This one has a bit of a bite to it, friends; you have been warned.
CLASSIFICATION: VAH
SUMMARY: Post-ep for "Never Again".
DEDICATION: For Stacey. She knows why.... ;) And many thanks to Shannon, for helping me parse the aforementioned "f" word and work in the "c" word....

TITLE: Transmigration
SPOILER WARNING: Redux II
RATING: Oh, let's call it NC-17, just to be safe.
CONTENT WARNING: Character death (no, it's not M or S, if that makes any difference). Also, it is possible that some might feel this qualifies as baby fic.
CLASSIFICATION: SRA; MSR
SUMMARY: Nothing vanishes without a trace.
NOTE: Despite the similarity in titles, this story is in no way related to "Transfiguration".

Rachel Lewis is branching out. No longer content with producing wonderful illustrations for the Silver Bracelet stories, she has now turned one out for this story. Click here to see it.

TITLE: Ummers
SPOILER WARNING: Little Green Men (very oblique; a virtual cookie to the first person who spots it); Small Potatoes; The End; FTF. I think that's it.
RATING: PG-13, mostly for language (the "f" word).
CONTENT WARNING: None
CLASSIFICATION: SRHA; UST, then MSR
SUMMARY: Mulder can't get Diana Fowley to leave him alone, so Scully pitches in to help.
NOTE: *sigh* I hate it when the characters take over the story. I was all set to do a short, comic hit piece on Diana Fowley, but she insisted on morphing into a human being instead. Hopefully this will still entertain. I guess you can chalk this up to the same impulse that has made me try to humanize Bill Scully, jr.

And yet another visual treat from Rachel Lewis. Click here, and feast your eyes.

TITLE: Unusual Liaisons
SPOILER STATEMENT: Anasazi/The Blessing Way/Paper Clip; Gethsemane/Redux I/Redux II; small ones for Pusher, The Field Where I Died, Paper Hearts, Never Again and Detour.
TIMELINE: This story takes place sometime between Redux II and Detour.
RATING: PG-13, mostly for language
CONTENT STATEMENT: Scully/Frohike friendship. M/S UST. ScullyAngst, FrohikeAngst
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: Sometimes it gets to be too much, and you just have to have someone to talk to.

TITLE: Useful Idiots
SPOILER STATEMENT: The Blessing Way; Paper Clip; the cancer arc; S.R. 819; The Beginning; Two Fathers/One Son; Amor Fati.
TIMELINE: Takes place during the second half of Season 6.
RATING: PG-13
CONTENT STATEMENT: Alternate Universe. Character death, but it's one you saw happen on the show. Some bad language, including the "f" word. ScullyAngst. KrycekAngst(!!!!).
CLASSIFICATION: VA
SUMMARY: He or she will be someone close to you. Someone you trust. They'll arrange a meeting or come to your house unexpectedly. Do you have someplace else you might stay? --The Well-Manicured Man, "The Blessing Way"

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