Hide and Seek by SpearmntXP (PG)

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Fandom: X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Author on LJ: nope
Author's website: nope
Why this must be read:

Another distinct genre of X-Files fic is the mytharc story, where the ficwriter takes on the almost insurmountable task of making a coherent story out of the mess which is nine seasons of incompatible plot elements involving alien abductions, smallpox, bees, cancer, cloning, alien invasion, the black oil, faceless rebel aliens, aliens breeding inside human beings, Antarctica, and other wacky things. It's almost impossible, but when someone manages to tell a big story that incorporates a lot of the canon plot and make sense out of it all, they deserve our respect.

Hide and Seek was written a long time ago, round about season 5, so the characterizations of Mulder and Scully aren't as complex and angstful as you'd get now. It starts a little overwrought, but the plotting and the epic sweep of this story more than make up for that. Once you get moving you won't want to stop reading. It's great fun. Set aside some time this weekend to read it.

"You know," he blurted, "sometimes I'm a prick."
It was the way he said it, as if he'd just had an epiphany, that made her laugh, softly but uncontrollably.
"Did you just open yourself up to that extreme possibility?" she asked.
"Isn't your line, 'No, you're not?'" he asked with a half-smile.
"No, it's not."
"So I am a prick."
"Sometimes."
"On the prick-meter, where do I rate?"
"Is there a prick-meter?"
"Sure. I just invented it."
"How does it work?"
"It rates from zero to, let's say, four."
"Only four? That's not much of a prick, Mulder."
He chuckled. "Twelve then."
"Is twelve good or bad?"
"No one's complained."
"*Mulder.*"
"OK. Zero is a saint and twelve is, twelve is I'd-laugh-at-your-execution prickdom."
"Most of the time," she said quietly, "you're a negative number."
"But--"
"But you can be a six," she finished.

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