Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website: eclectic fictionWhy this must be read: Today being the anniversary of Mulder and Scully's very first meeting, I thought it ironically appropriate to rec a fic where it didn't happen. Well, sort of.
This is a post-Requiem AU, in more than one sense of the term. No events from season eight have happened, and Scully isn't partnered with Doggett--she's on her own. And on her own, she comes across an X-File that throws her into an alternate universe where she's a neurologist and married to Daniel Waterston, and her counterpart Dana Waterston has taken her place in her own world.
This is one of the better casefiles I've read--full of extreme possibilities and scientific explanations, with mytharc in one universe and regular X-File in the other. Scully gets to see Mulder again, but is faced with what she might have to sacrifice to be with him, while Dana Waterston walks awhile down the road not taken, and both versions of Scully come to a new understanding of themselves and their lives. It's wonderfully well-done.
( Excerpt )Mobius