Story 223: "Local Boy" by Dryad
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mogster495. While it may be excellent, my mood is such that I can't read a gruesome case file fic. My favorite fic by Dryad is "Quiet, He'll Hear You," but I can't handle it right now either.
I read "Local Boy" a number of years ago, but I'd forgotten how much I liked it. The setting is Martha's Vineyard, where Scully and Mulder have traveled so that he might take care of some family business. "Local Boy" is part one of a series, "Country of the Crepescule," but I think it works as a standalone. If you do go ahead and read the entire series, please let us know what you thought of it, too. Dryad said she pictured this as taking place during season three, which makes sense in context, but I thought it had more of a season six vibe myself.
The link is to AO3 but all of Dryad's fic can be read at Gossamer as well.
Read "Country of the Crepescule: Local Boy"
Please send the author feedback, even if you only hit the kudo button. Then come back and let us know what you think. Don't forget to leave your suggestions in the nomination post.
mogster495. While it may be excellent, my mood is such that I can't read a gruesome case file fic. My favorite fic by Dryad is "Quiet, He'll Hear You," but I can't handle it right now either. I read "Local Boy" a number of years ago, but I'd forgotten how much I liked it. The setting is Martha's Vineyard, where Scully and Mulder have traveled so that he might take care of some family business. "Local Boy" is part one of a series, "Country of the Crepescule," but I think it works as a standalone. If you do go ahead and read the entire series, please let us know what you thought of it, too. Dryad said she pictured this as taking place during season three, which makes sense in context, but I thought it had more of a season six vibe myself.
The link is to AO3 but all of Dryad's fic can be read at Gossamer as well.
Read "Country of the Crepescule: Local Boy"
Please send the author feedback, even if you only hit the kudo button. Then come back and let us know what you think. Don't forget to leave your suggestions in the nomination post.
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Date: 2013-03-15 01:35 am (UTC)Dryad said she pictured this as taking place during season three, which makes sense in context, but I thought it had more of a season six vibe myself
It seems S6 to me as well, perhaps partly because there is a reference to Diana Fowley and she doesn't show up until the middle of S5. And a reference to "Triangle" as well, I believe. Still, the tentativeness between Mulder and Scully are a bit like they might have been in S3 - still not knowing a lot about each other
Regardless of the season, I like the story. Mulder's interactions with his former acquaintances (none of them really seem to be friends), and the casual way they all ignore Scully. The original characters are well-drawn.
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Date: 2013-03-31 08:17 pm (UTC)Mulder's interactions with his former acquaintances (none of them really seem to be friends), and the casual way they all ignore Scully. The original characters are well-drawn.
Yes, they are. I would have liked to have seen the young woman, who had been thrown overboard and kind of rescued by Mulder,make an actual appearance instead of just being gossiped about.
I have a weakness for XF stories set on Martha's Vineyard.
Me, too.
Edited for grammar...