10 Works by subtlealchemy
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still, he says, eyes cast to his hands because it’s true, and what is one supposed to do with one’s hands when confessing the truth, “yeah. okay. maybe you’re meant for me, scully. i'd sure like to think you are.”
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prompt: Scully tells Mulder what happened during All Things. She's not sure if he believes her or thinks she was high so she takes him to the temple.
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- Part 3 of fic exchanges
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a trick of the light by subtlealchemy for Characteristically_Exuberant
Fandoms: The X-Files
02 May 2023
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hours later, in the early cotton-candy-pink morning light, she watches him sleep, in the exact same position she'd left him: on his back, because both sides of his body ache and bruise like they shouldn’t be allowed to be part of him at all, and scully wishes she could share his bones the same way she’s sharing her pajamas.
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prompt: mulder and scully go undercover at a hippy commune. due to the nature of the commune (no privacy, free love, etc, etc) they have to share a bed.
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- Part 2 of fic exchanges
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the last lingering caution in their public demeanor disappears the moment they find themselves alone. wherever they happen to be.
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- Part 2 of those glimpses, those glances
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mulder hesitates, and she knows what he’s going to say and silently urges him not to say it because it will bruise her. and desperately hopes he does, because it will save her.
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Prompt - Sometime in late season 2, Scully finds out about Mulder sleeping with Kristen in “3” and is high-key jealous! Mulder has to confront her about it with a little teasing and a lot of reassurance of what she means to him.
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- Part 1 of fic exchanges
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she thinks he has beautiful hands. a small, subdued smile at the realization that this is not the first time the thought has entered her mind.
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- Part 1 of those glimpses, those glances
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something about this feels reassuring – that as he edges closer, there is no escape from the urge to take her face between his hands and pull to fuse them together. to offer her this fever-driven need as a substitute, or an apology, for failing to whisper his secret love to her years ago.
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he had carried her up the stairs and into the bedroom, and she had drowsily buried her face in the crook of his neck. an almost imperceptible shudder to his spine. all of him becoming incandescent.
after 'playing house' in arcadia, mulder struggles with his persistent feelings for scully.
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he does that often, in the new millennium - pulls her close without warning, with unspoken stout heartedness. into hands and arms that sometimes hold hallowed things.
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it feels familiar, in the way a single ray of sunlight might feel after a week-long deluge and impervious gray skies: lying quietly, spine-to-sternum, in a bed that smells like love.
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she moans, and he knows she’s calling, crying out “fox”, but in his newfound delirium he can hear nothing spilling from her lips that isn’t akin to the spelling of his own name. john. softly. john. urgent. john.