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Secret Mission: Baby Spooky
Posted originally on the Archive of Our Own at https://archiveofourown.org/works/48569344.

Rating: Not Rated
Ship: MSR
Category: F/M
Fandom: The X-Files
Relationship: Fox Mulder/Dana Scully
Characters: Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, The Lone Gunmen (X-Files), Richard "Ringo" Langly, Margaret Scully
Language: English
Words: 17,598

Chapters: 8/8
Secret Mission: Baby Spooky

by believeinluck
Summary

CW for discussion of pregnancy, cancer, IVF, infertility, and the general barbarism of OBGYN procedures.

This is an IVF story set sometime in seasons 5-7. Basically, it's Mulder and Scully working together to have a baby while they aren't in a relationship (yet) and them growing closer, but also struggling with how difficult IVF is. 

Sort of canon-compliant except in my version of events a) Emily never happened, b) Mulder told Scully about her eggs the second he found them, and c) Fox Mulder is that baby's dad.

This was my first ever fanfic. It's on AO3 still if you want to comment over there. 

Scully sat rereading the same line over and over, trying to relax. It was some Oprah’s Book Club pick that her mother had dropped off last week in an attempt to get her daughter to think about something other than work. It was not holding her attention, but just the show of normalcy was necessary, for Mulder’s nerves if not for her own.

“Knock knock,” Mulder peaked his head around the door.

“Come in.” She sat the book down on her nightstand.

“Here’s some more water and your hot water bottle.” These joined the book on the nightstand. “Do you need anything else right now?”

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