👽 X-Files “Pilot” Fic Recs
Here are some fics involving The X-Files “Pilot” to keep you busy on September 10 in celebration of the day the show premiered in 1993. Although these stories are good to read any day. Enjoy!
9 Minutes by Helen Wills
So what *did* happen during those nine missing minutes?
Cataplexy by @discordantwords
“You almost looked yourself sometimes, there in the woods.”
Center Mass by @kateyes224
In the wake of their first case together, Mulder and Scully make a concerted effort to get to know one another…and end up uncovering more than they bargained for in the process.
Eight Things That Could Have Happened in Oregon by Stephen Greenwood
Eight ways in which events in the Pilot could have differed.
Fade Away by RM (Rocketman)
A rainy night and familiarity.
Happen at Once by tree
She wonders what Mulder tastes like.
Late Night at the Hoover Part 1, Part 2 by fran58
A late night encounter.
One Love by Rachel Lee Arlington
Missing scene from “Pilot”. Post season four story. Scully, her health failing badly, reflects on the first days of her relationship with Mulder.
Pilot by @leiascully
On day one, there was the dark and the light.
Pilot by @scullywolf
It’s the end of Dana Scully’s first full day in her new assignment, and already she’s seen things she’s at a loss to explain.
red robe by @how-i-met-your-mulder
Scully’s thoughts (and Mulder’s thoughts seven years later) on the mosquito bites scene from the Pilot.
Things You Said When We First Met by littlemisfit5290
She shakes his hand. She watches his slide show. She smiles when he tells her they’re leaving for Oregon at 8AM. She lets him call her Scully.
Tilt by Michelle Kiefer
It was as if the
planet had tilted and the ground had dropped out from under her feet.
The Two Percent Solution 01: Distraction by Lysandra
Scully is perfectly sensible, 98% of the time.
The Weaker Sex by @seepunkrun
The pilot, genderflipped.
a weatherman to know which way the wind blows by @becketted
These are not all the ways and whys and hows Mulder loves Scully, just some. In reverse.
It’s another anniversary of the first X-Files episode, so let’s celebrate with more “Pilot” fics!
Dana Scully’s Senior Thesis and Lift and Drag by Athene
‘I need you to find me everything you can on a Dr. Dana Scully, a
goddamned forensic pathologist out at Quantico. And I mean everything. I
wanna know what kind of toothpaste she uses, where she gets her hair
cut, and the name of her first boyfriend…’ He slammed the phone down,
leaned back in his chair, and fired off a Ticonderoga at the ceiling
with a snap of his wrist. It had been a hell of a day, and the evening
was not looking promising. / The physics of airplane flight and
interpersonal relationships.
impressions, first through fifth by @softnow
five times mulder revised his opinion of dana scully during their first year.
planetary courting by @wtfmulder
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