Story 162: "Inventing the Mulders" by prufrock's love

[wendelah1]

Last year, something remarkable happened. Prufrock's love, a beloved but famously reclusive author, started re-posting her fanfic to archive them at Gossamer. Understandably, this caused quite a stir. In the wake of losing so many XF fanfic sites over the past several years, a process accelerated by Yahoo's closure of Geocities, it showed a lot of love for a fandom she had presumably left behind long ago. Well, that's how I choose to interpret it, anyway. She hasn't re-posted everything by any means, but hey, it's a start.

"Inventing the Mulders" is one of the stories she hasn't archived yet, or at least it hasn't shown up on her page at Gossamer. This is a shame since I think it's one of her best. It's an unsentimental look at how season nine might have played out, had it been better written and still had David Duchovny making an occasional appearance. Do I betray my biases? So be it.

Besides archiving her fic, she's posted an email address. You can send feedback now to prufrockslove [at] yahoo [dot] com. Please do so, then come back and let us know what you think.

The story is PG-13, no warnings. Read Inventing the Mulders.

Comments

[tiger-bay.livejournal.com]

Sorry, butting in here, very rude but can't resist. But....as far as I recall you see her zipping up her skirt, not exactly getting dressed. She could have had a pee!

But the one thing that made me always question whether or not something DID happen in All Things is the fact that at she leaves she never so much as glances at Mulder. It just seemed so odd to me....even if she had had sex without being madly, passionately in love, she still would have had sex with her best friend which surely would warrant SOME departing expression: a look at least?

Plus I am in denial about the whole episode because if it WAS supposed to have been their "coming together" it was hideously manipulative to be so coy about it. I am not the biggest fan of riotous sex on the telly (well, depending....) but we could have had SOME chance to feel the action.

So really the only times I believe it is when good authors write good stories about the whole damn episode....

[wendelah1]

Actually she's pulling on a sweater. You can see her bare stomach and everything. Looking at this on my computer, which makes everything crystal clear compared to my TV set, I can even see a point where she turns to look at Mulder and her face softens a little (there is even the beginning of a smile in the corners of her mouth--Gillian is such a subtle actress), then the camera pans over to follow her gaze. Watch it again.

I'm not fond of "All Things" either--obviously--but I accept it as canon that they had sex that night. I'm not convinced it was their first time, however. I firmly believe she would have spent the night if it was their first time, rather than leave him to wake up alone.

[tiger-bay.livejournal.com]

mumble, mumble, you must be right. I'll have to watch it again, it's been a long time.

Still, I found it manipulative but no surprise there. And I did enjoy it anyway even as I threw my slippers at the screen shouting my little head off...