headcanon that when Scully is suffering from motherly or brotherly pressure about her life choices or hears about another old med school or college friend meeting ordinary life milestones she missed, or Skinner's annoyed with them about something (like Mulder being behind on the paperwork which she refuses to do for him), she starts stress cleaning her apartment.
But because she's already neat and also not home a lot, there isn't a lot to clean, so usually after the second time she finds herself disinfecting the kitchen sink on a Satunday mid-morning, she goes to Mulder's place, lets herself in and stars stress cleaning there, too. Usually Mulder's still asleep on the couch with the classic movie station still playing, but she has blanket permission after the first couple of times trying to distract a tightly wound Scully at his place from his scrap file of tabloid cases turned into her trying to declutter his place while lecturing him about dust mites, tripping hazards, bacteria, eccentrics who live in danger of being crushed by their prized collections, which certainly was a distraction, so now she knows she's welcome to come over any time and disinfect and tidy and sort the mail etc as long as she doesn't try anything purge-like on his boxroom (listed as a bedroom on his lease). And she usually tries not to wake him unless his lackadaisical book keeping is why she's stressed. So some weekend late mornings Mulder wakes up to a spotless table and laundry bags by the door and the smell of lemon clorox and coffee and a manic-but-winding-down flannel shirt Scully sitting with her mug in the desk chair, not quite watching him sleep (she usually claims to be hypnotized by the fish).
Greetings are usually ridiculous Mulder guesses about what's got her on the boil ("Maggie signed you up for ballroom dancing classes with Engleburt from Sunday potluck and your Spanish heels are in the shop?" "Douglas from organic chem invented a new breed of hypoallergenic bio-luminescent guinea pigs and this singularly useful achievement makes you worry about measuring up, dr. Frankenstein-wise?") and complaints that she was going to make brunch but all he had in the fridge was former milk swiftly becoming yogurt and desiccated pizza of dubious provenance, both of which are in the trash bag she expects him to take out. So he usually goes out for bagels and cream cheese and eggs and chives and milk, and half and half for the coffee (he prefers real cream but she won't drink it, claiming it makes the coffee taste "slimy" so it would be a waste).
If she's still wound up enough to be running the vacuum when he gets back, he makes a project of cajoling until she talk about it and remind her she's on a different but still immensely valuable path, which isn't a bad way to spend a day together really. Or if she's re-entered his reality where she doesn't have to compete with Normal People (or doesn't need to remind him five more times to finish that report) and worked through the stress, she's usually curled up asleep on the couch when he gets back with brunch fixings. This is also fine because toasting and munching and wiggling onto the far end of the couch to watch a ball game while his partner naps is also a good way to spend an afternoon and they can have dinner together later. (And he can always spread those files back out across the table the same way after she leaves for the night.)
Ficlet based on this post by @unremarkablehouse speculating about conversation between never again and memento mori. In this they didn’t talk at all between.
Mulder was about to leave for work when his phone rang. “Mulder.”
“Hey, Mulder, it’s me.” Scully said on the other side of the phone. He was still a little mad at her for putting herself in danger and bailing on the case. He knew she was still very mad at him for sticking his nose where it (arguably) didn’t belong.
She was probably already at the office, calling him to tell him that he needed to hurry up. “What?” He asked harshly. Maybe too harshly. Her heard Scully draw a shallow breath on the other end but she remained silent. “Scully, what is it?” He prompted a little more gently. Maybe she was going to apologize, which would give him a perfect chance to do so in turn.
He hated fighting with her. Not initially, not when the adrenaline was coursing through his body and his head was light with anger. Afterwards though, he felt hollow. Felt a pang when he stopped himself for reaching for the phone to tell her about a world war two documentary she should watch, or a tip he just received, or just to say hello. “Can you-“ she started, then he heard a rustling as Scully pulled the phone away from her ear. He heard someone else talking in her side.
“Dr. Scully, we have more scans, if you’d like to speak with Dr. Andrews abouts treatment plan she’s available now, your belongings are in the other room. He heard more rustling.
“Hey. Sorry.”
“Sorry? Scully what treatment plan? Whats going on?” He was frozen next to the door of his apartment, hand on the door knob, as he became vaguely away of the sound of beeping and buzzing florescent in the background.
“Mulder, can you meet me at the hospital?” She said suddenly after remaining silent for another handful of heart beats. His keys nearly slipped from his hand.
“Is this about a case?”
“No,” she responded tersely.
“I’ll be right there, Scully,” he said, opening his door and not bothering to lock it behind him as any feelings of animosity for her melted and drained through his feet back into the ground where they belonged. “I’ll be right there.” And then she hung up on him. Flowers, he needed flowers.
I wish i could magically know if i like girls or not
I love Mulder, but my english teacher is ranting about his conspiracy theories and its making me realize if i was Scully dealing with Mulder I would’ve strangled him or quit
“No, for some reason I don’t think that would work. Hasn’t your landlord always hated you?”
“Yeah, I have no idea why.” Mulder watched as Scully made a show of looking around his apartment, first at the basketball on the floor, then to the collection of porn tapes in the cabinet under the T.V., then to the half open door of his “bed room” where a cardboard box filled with manilla files was wedged in the door.
“Yeah. I wonder,” She responded flatly, “There’s no way he’s letting you stay. Listen,” she was going to regret this, “You can stay with me until you find somewhere else.”
Mulder stared at her in awe like she’d grown white wings and there was suddenly a halo floating above her head. “You mean it-”
“Just until you find a new place,” She said firmly, more to herself than him.
New Chapter of my canon divergent Emily fic is UP
(Basically what if they’d fucked up and Scully was pregnant with Emily after being returned to dc after her abduction in season 2)
Please give it some love if you feel so inclined
please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts
I think it starts as sarcasm. Like when you call someone “hon” to be condescending. Lucy says something so outlandishly dumb at 3:30 am when they’re having toast after a case it prompts Lockwood to say “Lucy, my dear, i think it’s time for you to go to bed.”
And it’s just that one time, a fluke, till the next day. Lucy is listen during a case and hears something particularly jarring. She presses her hands to her ears and starts mumbling “stop. Shut up. Shut up shut up stop-“ Lockwood gently pries her fingers from her head, knocking her out of the trance like state.
“Hey, Lucy darling, it’s ok we’re here.”
Im sure i could think of more but phone typing sucks bye
new hc that lockwood starts to call lucy a bunch of different endearments and neither one of them notice at all. accidentally oblivious to the fact that lockwood will say “lucy, dear.” or “lucy, darling.” without thinking. it’s a lot of saying her name first and then adding the little endearment whenever he starts out a sentence or a question. “lucy, dove.” “luce, sweetheart.”
george is so close to sticking his own head in the oven when he hears lockwood call her love and neither of them blink. how can two people worry so much about if they’re staring at each other too much but once pet names are involved it’s as if they’ve been married for years? please get him some help.
Litterally screaming crying throwing up, wishing i had something like they do. Screaming. Crying. And throwing up.
I have done that thing
reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something
Ok, what if the skull in kaz's cane is real and then it was covered in silver so people don't know it's an amplifier because he's secretly tidemaker and he had the amplifier before but her encased it in silver because the water took his brother from him (in a way)
If youd like to listen to me ramble about it I do that now and also i write fanfiction (a HeavyOnTheTragedy on AO3)
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