This week, we're doing a rerun, while I'm waiting on a friend to finish editing her podfic of "Ingenue" or for so-kiss-me-goodbye to complete "The Lambs," whichever comes first
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When I started reading it I realised it wasn't the story I was thinking of after all.
The one I was remembering has Dana married to someone who isn't Mulder who is married to someone else. She does find Mulder and it starts triggering flashbacks for both of them.
It turns out that everyone is post colonisation and everyone's minds have been wiped, but most people don't care.
I haven't finished reading this one yet but will tonight.
You're thinking of "Blinded by White Light." By Dashakay. It's almost a post-post colonization fic. The human race was dying from the bad aliens' plague and the good aliens' cure mind-wiped everyone who survived.
I don't think the little coda makes it any better either. Dammit.
It does and it doesn't. "Devoutly to be wished" does get Scully up off the floor where rivkat left her at the end of "Fugue." It does make it clear that whatever line of malarkey the Smoking Man was selling, after time to reflect, Scully wasn't buying it. It shows that even without her supporting memories, Scully had the intelligence, strength of character and integrity to pursue justice for herself and for the other victims of the Consortium.
It doesn't give Scully back her memories, or her previous life, and it doesn't fix her broken relationship with Fox Mulder. Maybe rivkat didn't believe those outcomes were possible, or even desirable in the case of the latter, not within the story's universe.
When I clicked the link I realise I remember the story but I don't remember how it ends. Looks like I need to reread.
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The one I was remembering has Dana married to someone who isn't Mulder who is married to someone else. She does find Mulder and it starts triggering flashbacks for both of them.
It turns out that everyone is post colonisation and everyone's minds have been wiped, but most people don't care.
I haven't finished reading this one yet but will tonight.
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Dammit.
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Dammit.
It does and it doesn't. "Devoutly to be wished" does get Scully up off the floor where rivkat left her at the end of "Fugue." It does make it clear that whatever line of malarkey the Smoking Man was selling, after time to reflect, Scully wasn't buying it. It shows that even without her supporting memories, Scully had the intelligence, strength of character and integrity to pursue justice for herself and for the other victims of the Consortium.
It doesn't give Scully back her memories, or her previous life, and it doesn't fix her broken relationship with Fox Mulder. Maybe rivkat didn't believe those outcomes were possible, or even desirable in the case of the latter, not within the story's universe.
This story haunted me for years.
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:)
Thanks for introducing me to this little universe - I think.
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