X Files What Becomes of the Wounded Collection
LAST UPDATED: 2003
Krycek and Marita, conspirators who want to save the world or damn themselves and each other trying, have a special blend of love and ideology that's such a joy to work with. Their bond is a medley of love and pain, dark yet rich, a beacon of light in the darkness of their world. I love writing them and reading them, and hope that you will too.
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Vignettes/Short
Tell Me A Story
"They told each other stories, little lies to make it all okay." Primarily Krycek/Diana hurt/comfort, grounded in Krycek/Marita and Mulder/Diana.
The Cold White Room
Angsty Season 6 vignette. Christmas is cold for the lonely. Primarily Krycek/Diana hurt/comfort, grounded in Krycek/Marita and Mulder/Diana.
I Believe
Post-col PG vignette. On faith, friendship, love, loss, grief, fear, honour, dignity, and truth. A speech about the fallen, delivered to the tattered remnant. Krycek/Marita, others.
The Visitor
Post-col PG vignette. Skinner, serving time after the war, has a visitor. Existence spoilers, shades of Krycek/Marita.
The Anointed
Missing scene, Patient X, PG. Krycek wants to rest. Marita wants to make the hurt go away.
Strange Bedfellows
Post-episode, The Red And The Black, PG. War makes for strange bedfellows. WMM POV.
About The Maimed
Missing scene, The Truth, PG vignette. Waiting to testify, Jeffrey meets an old acquaintance. Two maimed people and the memory of a third.
Christmas Reunions: St Petersburg
PG. It's Christmas 2001, and Alex and Marita come to terms with the past, and face the future together. Krycek/Marita.
Searing Snow
PG, post-Requiem. For Christmas 2000, Krycek and Marita want the thing they fear the most: each other.
Walk In Darkness, Not In Light
Post-episode, One Son, R-rated vignette. Sometimes, when the world is upside down, you have to take whatever comfort you can get. Primarily Krycek/Diana hurt/comfort, grounded in Krycek/Marita and Mulder/Diana.
Denial
PG13 vignette. "I don't love her. She's just a warm body in the night." Krycek practices denial.
Waiting In Tangier
Post-episode, Existence, PG13. "He says that he loves her, but maybe it was just the breeze." Krycek/Marita.
The Traitors
Post-episode, TINH, PG. "TIME takes an inside look at the secret life, and the private world of this real-life Boris and Natasha, who never came in from the cold." Krycek/Marita.
The Wrong Man
Post-episode, One Son, PG vignette. "The only things betraying her calm facade are those compulsively twisting hands." Jeffrey, Krycek/Marita.
Hands
Missing scene, Patient X, NC17 vignette. Marita reflects on what the loss of Alex's arm means to her. Krycek/Marita.
Long Stories
Restitution 1 2 3 4
R-rated Krycek/Marita backstory, spanning the period from Herrenvolk through to The Truth. Sometimes, to face the future, you have to face the past. Content advisory: references to rape.
Healer 1 2 3 4 5
PG Season 8 mythology tie-in, spanning the period from TINH to Existence and beyond. Four factions. Three species. Two men. One woman. Krycek, Marita, and Jeremiah Smith take to the road in search of others like Mulder.
Not My Lover 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Afterword
NC17 Krycek/Marita backstory, spanning the time from Anasazi to Requiem. There are many ways to lose a wife. This one is pretty dated - it's several years old, and it shows - but still a good long read.
Not My Lover: Enigma 1 2 3 4 5
WORK IN PROGRESS. NC17 Krycek/Marita backstory, spanning the period from The Erlenmyer Flask through to Apocrypha. The death of Marita's protector and a shocking revelation about the Project leads her to the brink of darkness in her search for the truth. But can she let in the one man who would stand at her side? This is a Not My Lover prequel, but intended to be read second.
Companion Stories
Signs Of Life
Post-episode, One Son, PG vignette. Allies in war share a companionable moment along the way. Krycek/Diana friendship.
Can't Outrun The Dark Man
Missing scene, Amor Fati PG vignette. How can she sleep? Who knows? Maybe she just knows you can't outrun the dark man. Krycek/Diana friendship.
Dream A Crystal Moon
R-rated vignette. Alex and Marita are caught in a dance that can only lead to one outcome.
Trace A Random Star
R-rated vignette. A stolen moment in the eye of the storm. The timeframe for this is non-specific but is probably post-Requiem. Krycek/Marita. See also Dream A Crystal Moon.
Silent / Mark Of Cain
Missing scenes, Requiem, R-rated vignettes. Alex contemplates Forj Sidi Toui, Fort Marlene, and Marita, then gloves, hands, and deeper things.
Not My Lover 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Afterword
NC17 Krycek/Marita backstory, spanning the time from Anasazi to Requiem. There are many ways to lose a wife. This one is pretty dated - it's several years old, and it shows - but still a good long read.
Not My Lover: Enigma 1 2 3 4 5
WORK IN PROGRESS. NC17 Krycek/Marita backstory, spanning the period from The Erlenmyer Flask through to Apocrypha. The death of Marita's protector and a shocking revelation about the Project leads her to the brink of darkness in her search for the truth. But can she let in the one man who would stand at her side? This is a Not My Lover prequel, but intended to be read second.
Defies Description
A Family Affair
Humour. "Do come in," Morticia said. "Mind the booby-traps." Alex and Marita looked at one another and shared a moment of understanding. Clearly, their neighbours were their kind of people. Addams Family crossover.
Something About The Way You Look Tonight
Humour. Marita comes home. Alex and his alien buddies have been drinking. Why is the Bounty Hunter worried about cooties? Why is he searching for an Elton John MP3? And what is the stiletto doing in the sponge cake?
Take Thy Only Hand In Mine
Poetry, set during Requiem. Life and love in ten stanzas. An experiment in traditional poetic forms.
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14 October 2012: In Under Your Skin, a small piece of unashamed Hallowe'en fluff, seventeen-year-old Tonks flirts shamelessly with her Potions Professor. Snape gives as good as he gets. Also added Want You To Want Me, a standalone Sons of July missing scene, in which Tonks seduces a willing Lucius for her own ends - but both get more than they bargained for.
22 September 2012: In Of Vials Blue and Shades of Grey, Narcissa knows there is another woman, but learning who and why makes for hard choices to bring them all through. Narcissa POV on The Blue Vial. Also, in Spoken For, we meet the Pureblood children of Hogwarts whose marriages have already been arranged when they arrive.
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12 June 2012: In The Substitute, Lucius and Tonks enter a marriage of convenience to facilitate Narcissa and Draco's escape, and facilitate her infiltration of the Death Eaters. It soon becomes a folie a deux - for them, and for Snape as well. Tonks is torn between who she is and who she pretends to be.
8 May 2012: In Sons of July, the arranged marriage and deep friendship between Lucius and Narcissa sets the scene for the Dark Lord's last stand. They and their private loves, spies Nymphadora and Severus, all have secrets, and sacrifices will be needed along the way. Meanwhile, in Awake, Narcissa draws on her every reserve to help her imprisoned husband hang on to his mind.
7 April 2012: In Kill To Be Kind, an AU battle scene set at Malfoy Manor, Lucius and Tonks debate the relative merits of loving and killing one another. Also, I've revived an old story, Between Worlds, which I took down at one time in response to fandom developments that no longer appear to be at issue. In this crackpot Chamber of Secrets missing scene, Moaning Myrtle meets a ghost who isn't quite dead yet. Non-explicit underage fumblings and humour ensue.
4 January 2012: In Two Of A Kind: A Yuletide Interlude, Andromeda comes to terms with her flight from her family of origin, against the backdrop of Nymphadora's and Lucius' growing attachment. Meanwhile, in Fair Fight, a humour SSHG piece, Snape is a reluctant war hero, and the witches come a-courting. To his bemusement, Hermione is one of them.
8 December 2011: In Part 4 of Two Of A Kind, Tonks allows herself to see who Remus really was, while the final chapter sees both Lucius and Tonks make their peace with their lost loves and face their future together.
15 October 2011: Part 3 of Two Of A Kind sees Harry Potter's Lucius torn between the wife he lost and the woman he loves now.
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26 September 2011: In the postwar ficlet I Enjoy You, Hermione uses a willing Snape to make Ron jealous, only to find she's happy right where she is. Meanwhile, Two of a Kind Part 1 and Part 2, an AU postwar novella, sees Lucius and Tonks widowed and finding their way through grief together. (Work in progress).
28 August 2011: In Vigil, Hermione takes a moment by a lonely grave, to reflect on the schoolgirl crush who became her hero.
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