Title: The Seven Year Itch
Author: bugs
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 5,000
Genre: PWP-ish Domestic Secksy Times
Spoilers: post-IWTB: between the last scene and the credits roll.
Summary: Home is where the heart is.
A/N: Written to celebrate Dana Scully's 50th (gulp) birthday. Check out all the other great offerings at scully-fest!

( If you like it then you should have put a ring on it )

In the very old days, when I had a website for my fic, I'd offered single documents suitable for download of some of my fics.  Technology and time has passed us by, but I've kept the idea tucked away.  After a bit of practice, I'm reasonable confident that anyone can download this file and upload it to their device.  I used a Kindle and Aussie used ( Read more... )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Thirty-six
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 3,200

( She showed me the cell that had been her sole home for so many years. I saw dank stone walls, a metal cot, no hope. She saw the many roads she would take in the grout lines, a sturdy ship that she'd sailed in the bed, and all her hopes coming alive when the cell's door opened. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Twenty-nine ( Read more... )

Title: Turn the Page: Chapter Twenty-seven
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 2,500

( It's the crumpled pieces of paper forgotten in my pocket that hold the most important information. )

Title: Flip the Page
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 8,000

A/N: For bsg_aussiegirl's birthday, with a shout out to roslin33 on her birthday too. Thanks to frakcancer for her 'research' assistance. I didn't end up using a lot of details, but rather the spirit of the matter in characterization. Then there was lacklusterfic's help. She told me this would never ( Read more... )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Twenty-six
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 2,400

( She prayed like the rest of us ask about the weather. It was mundane, every day, but necessary. I think someone answered her prayers, but like the weather, wasn't always what she expected. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Twenty-four
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 3,100

( Night is the place to hide. To conceal our secrets, our unspoken desires, our triumphs of the flesh. Her dark blue suit is like the night, covering all this from the world's prying eyes, only the peek of a pale pink silk blouse teasing at our shadowed truths. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter 22
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 3,000

( She welcomed the rain. She could walk between the falling drops, silver bars that could never hold her again. She was free. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Twenty
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 4,700

( When the first rains came to California, the earth opened, absorbing all the water it could, but it overflowed quickly, gurgling in the drains and running in sheets down the streets. There was a smell, of damp loam and washed leaves, that had been gone for ages. Now it rose from the wet soil, coiling like smoke, to meet my senses. The first rain was always my release, cleansing my city and making it new. I raised my face to the deluge and was cleaned as well. )