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[melannen]

Okay, narahttbbs asked if about X-files fics I still had on the back burner (Offer still open for other fandoms.) It didn't fit in one comment. So, uh:

Here's the four I still really want to finish someday:

1. (Old Familiar Carols Play)
TEENA: Get away from me or I'll shoot you.
CSM: Would you think less of me as a man if I told you I find you
extremely attractive right now?
CSM: *saves Teena's life from Consortium assassins*
TEENA: *Saves CSM's life from heroism-induced heart attack*
CSM (in hospital bed): You're my only weakness, and they know that now. This is my worst fear. I can't always be there to keep you safe.
TEENA: So marry me, silly.
CSM: ...that could work.
FOX: This is not happening.
MELANNEN: Not until I get around to watching all the Teena episodes again, it's not.

2. (A Last Illusion)
MULDER: Now that the kids are off with my sister, we have a whole week to be sickeningly romantic together!
SCULLY: Just think how lucky we were that we met in college and fell in love so fast. Our lives have been so amazingly boring and perfect for the past 25 years.
CALENDAR: Oh look, it's December 21st, 2012!
WASHINGTON DC: Goes boom.
MULDER: ... something's not right here.
MELANNEN: But I don't want to kill your kids! And apocalypses are hard to write!
GENIE: Here, have a happy ending.

3. (A Time of Dark, Dark Despair)
KERSH: Fine, fine, go collect your army of superpowered freaks to fight the aliens with.
DOGGETT: Yes sir. Okay, who wants to come help me save the world?
EDDIE VAN BLUNDHT: I'm not coming until she watches my episode again.
HOLMAN HARDT: Same here.
HENRY WEEMS: Same here.
LINDA BOWMAN: Same here.
TONY REED: Same here.
IZZY BERKOWITZ: Same here.
RONNIE STRICKLAND: Same here.
CECIL L'IVELY: I will BURN you.
LINDA BOWMAN: Besides, what were you planning to do with us once you've got us?
MELANNEN: Um.
CECIL AND LINDA: *snog*

4. (Fox Hill)
1121 E: Sam, this Steward was clearly destroyed by an ancient bioweapon resurrected to defend the Goddess's beloved.
1013 S: You aren't even a doctor, Emily. I say it was murdered by humans who tried to burn it to destroy the evidence.
MELANNEN: How are you two different from Naraht's Sam & Scully AU again?
1013: We're hybrid clones living in a post-conquest far future.
1121: Searching for the Truth about the old legends of the Immortal Mother Goddess, Dana, and her resurrected consort, Fox the Monster-Slayer.
1013: Except for how there is no Truth because it's all made up to justify the resistance movement, as any student of Human psychology could tell you.
1121: Try having an open mind for once, Sam.
1013: *I* do, Em. You're the one who doesn't want to believe that Humans are capable of doing it all on their own.
MELANNEN: Right. Um, you can stop talking now.
1013 & 1121: *snog*
MELANNEN: ... But not that! We're supposed to be paralleling the series. UST, guys, remember UST?
1013: We don't believe in human emotional rituals.
MELANNEN: *facepalm*

...and there's some random casefiles and crossovers that I'd love to get to someday. Oh, and back in the ranks of "Stories I wish *someone* would write", there's this one:

TEENA: *in coma*
CSM: Fix her.
ALIEN GUY: The damage is too widespread; I cannot reconstruct the network. In order to repair it, I would need to take a patterning from another human mind.
CSM: Use mine.
ALIEN: There might be consequen-
CSM: Do it!
ALIEN: *shrug*
TEENA: *Wakes up*
CSM: (god, she's so beautiful)
TEENA: I'm flattered, but uninterested. (How sweet!)
CSM: ... I didn't say anything.
ALIEN: Did I mention that sometimes it causes an unbreakable telepathic soulbond?
TEENA & CSM: Crap.

Comments

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

I want to drool, squee and flail simultaneously. Which is very difficult! And I want to read all of them! At once! *sigh*

I may be soppy but I really want to read some lovely fluffy story where CSM and Teena have a happy ending. Or at least get to go out for, I don't know, dinner and an evening at the opera. I was trying to figure out whether I could manage it in my universe, but concluded it was too self-indulgent. Needless to say I would die with joy if someone else wrote it, so that I could enjoy without guilt. Marriage! Late-middle-aged love! Fox freaking out! What's not to love?

The telepathic bond idea is cool too... like Picard and Crusher in "Attached." What would Teena do if she knew all of CSM's nefarious plans? Would he have to change his tack if she knew everything that he knew? Would she tell Fox anything, or continue being her unforthcoming self?

And as for that far-future plot... oooh. 1013/1121 for the win!

More, please...

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Yes, #1 is basically just completely unexcused AU fluff, in which old people have adventures and fall in love and embarass the heck out of their grown children. I make no apologies for this. :D

The last one ... if I actually wrote it, I would write it as being completely in continuity - which is to say, CSM deals by making increasingly desperate attempts to break the bond, from isolating himself in the Arctic to finally experimental brain surgery that leaves him dying. Teena deals by repressing even harder than ever before, pretending nothing is happening, taking lots of psych medication, and eventually killing herself as the only remaining way to get away from it.

That would be *way* too depressing though, which is why I kind of want somebody else to write it as happy crackfic instead.

[mushfromnewsies.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahaha.

I will be waiting on pins and needles for #2! ;) You don't have to kill the kids if you can make them wizards, or something!

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Old people should definitely get to have adventures once in a while. Cool adventures, rather than just standing around smoking a cigarette and looking threatening, which is not really a suitable occupation for one's declining years.

On reflection I see your point about the last one. Yeah. That would be the way to play it, depressing as hell. I can just see CSM sitting in the arctic alone, listening to Teena's thoughts in his head. Listening to her suicide, even. It would fit with Teena's general role in the series, wouldn't it? I bet she wouldn't even tell Fox what was going on. He would just think that she'd finally gone off the deep end. You've sold me on it. Now you have to write it. :)

[melannen.livejournal.com]

But the story's premise is that they have to change the past so that canon happens after all! Either way the kids are toast. Killing them at the beginning will make it a lot easier for them to make the choice to go fix things. (But it also means having to write weeks of angst and grief because dude, the kids (and the sisters) are dead.)

Hmm. Maybe I *could* write it so they last to the very end ... I will have to think about this some more.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

No, no, no! Darkfic, fine, that's one thing, but chapter after chapter of grinding unrelenting hopelessness and despair as my OTP slowly self-destructs? If I wrote that, *I'd* be the one needing psych medication! (Besides, if I want that I can just watch canon again.)

Not that I wouldn't read it if someone else wrote it...

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

You could have them still exist in an alternate dimension!

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Doesn't have to be chapter after chapter! Make it a series of vignettes, set something drabble-length between or in each of the eps where we see Teena or CSM, so in total it's a short story. You could do it in a weekend! :D

[melannen.livejournal.com]

That sounds like something that could be done very well by someone with all the episodes in her living room!
(He still looks like he's balancing a ruler on his nose in that icon.)

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously, they eventually get born in actual!continuity too. But still.

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

I can arrange for you to be sitting a room with all the episodes for a weekend! ;D

(Seal-S-M?)

[melannen.livejournal.com]

oh hay, I bought you a gun!

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Does it have a single bullet remaining having the intention and foresight with which to kill the undead mutinous bastard what stole me ship?

Otherwise, .... whut?

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

(dude, add me on IJ already.)

[melannen.livejournal.com]

yes (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000BDAYPM/sr=8-1/qid=1182552180/ref=dp_image_text_0/002-0065950-8602419?ie=UTF8&n=165793011&s=toys-and-games&qid=1182552180&sr=8-1).

(It was at Ollie's, cheap.)

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

AWESOMESAUCE.

The belt's not gonna fit me, is it?

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

I like the way you think. :)