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"Above Rubies" by Rachel Howard (NC-17)
Fandom: THE X FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully (Scully/Krycek UST)
Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website: http://members.aol.com/xfileluv/RachelMain.htm
Why this must be read:
Mulder and Scully are investigating a terrorist cell in New York when they discover connections to the Consortium. (This was started in S5 and goes A/U from there; any resemblance to later canon or perceived resemblance to later real-world events is coincidental.)
This is a long, satisfying thriller, well-plotted, with clean and straightforward prose. My main quibbles are that it doesn't start in quite the right place--possibly an artifact of being posted as a WIP--and the last chapter seems slightly anticlimactic, but these are minor complaints given all the virtues of the story. I haven't selected an excerpt from it here because it's hard to find a single quote that does justice to all Rachel Howard's strengths: the suspenseful plotting, the graceful prose, the plausible and complex characterization. Rachel is just as good at hot sex scenes as she is at slam-bang action as she is at quiet character moments. Her main characters here are Mulder and Scully, but Skinner and Krycek also make significant--and well-done--appearances.
"Above Rubies"
Pairing: Mulder/Scully (Scully/Krycek UST)
Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website: http://members.aol.com/xfileluv/RachelMain.htm
Why this must be read:
Mulder and Scully are investigating a terrorist cell in New York when they discover connections to the Consortium. (This was started in S5 and goes A/U from there; any resemblance to later canon or perceived resemblance to later real-world events is coincidental.)
This is a long, satisfying thriller, well-plotted, with clean and straightforward prose. My main quibbles are that it doesn't start in quite the right place--possibly an artifact of being posted as a WIP--and the last chapter seems slightly anticlimactic, but these are minor complaints given all the virtues of the story. I haven't selected an excerpt from it here because it's hard to find a single quote that does justice to all Rachel Howard's strengths: the suspenseful plotting, the graceful prose, the plausible and complex characterization. Rachel is just as good at hot sex scenes as she is at slam-bang action as she is at quiet character moments. Her main characters here are Mulder and Scully, but Skinner and Krycek also make significant--and well-done--appearances.
"Above Rubies"