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Disease / Dis-Ease | |
| "The Truth may be 'out there'...but the alien (the other, the unknown) is found in or in relation to the body, albeit the body in multifarious and fantastic manifestations: decomposed, regenerated, transgendered, mutated, hybridized, implanted, cloned or doubled, invaded, possessed, colonized..." (Badley 1996, 148) | ||
| Crowning Glory | CiCi Lean Scully is forced to contemplate her cancer and its affects on her body. This story is set during Scully's chemotherapy treatments in seasons 4-5, although not precisely within the television canon. |
Scully looked in the mirror as her mother spoke, at cheekbones that were sharp and stark underneath a furrowed brow. Her face was thinner than it ever had been, all angles and smooth, translucent planes of skin stretched over the bones. She noticed the tiny veins in her scalp, and the whites of her eyes were becoming rheumy; slightly tinged with a blue-grey tint. Everything appeared deprived, lacking some force, either soul fire or red blood, those intangible determinations of health. |
| Loss of Yesterday | Jintian Set after Scully's first abduction in season 2, she finds her post-abduction body disorientingly unfamiliar. In real life, of course, Gillian Anderson had just given birth to her daughter; on The X-Files, that pregnancy was masked by alien abduction. |
It wasn't just buildings and signs that were new. It was her body, as well. She had been putting on weight before Duane Barry. The thought had been nagging at her that she really ought to get back into shape. But then she opened her eyes in the hospital and it seemed she had become transparent, that her body had lost all presence. |
| Anger | Jennifer Maurer and Leyla
Harrison In the aftermath of her three-month absence due to her abduction, Scully develops an eating disorder. |
I swept my hair back off my face and brought my hands down to cup some water from the faucet. Slowly, unable to believe what I was seeing, I spread my fingers wide. Strands of my red hair were caught in my fingers, more than there should have been. My dry, limp hair was coming out in my hands. Disgusted, I shook my hands over the trash can and watched the bright strands fall. |
| When Devils Tell the
Truth |
Jennifer Stoy Set during Scully's fight with cancer in seasons 4-5. She encounters Krycek at a bar and brings him back to Mulder's place. |
I
push her up against the elevator wall. "You've gotta
be kidding me," I hiss at her. "You're
nuts." "Maybe the brain tumor's driving me crazy," she whispers back. She's not afraid. "What's wrong about it?" "Gonna scream his name?" Her eyes narrow. "I don't scream." |
| Abort,
Retry, Fail | Tallulah Wolf
A case file set in the early days of Scully's fight with cancer, in which Mulder and Scully investigate high tech crime in Silicon Valley. Note to Stanford area readers: This story is set at the Glass Slipper Inn on El Camino Real. |
"You
know what's funny?" Scully said at last. "When
I got the test results, I had this thought that maybe the
cancer would make things easier between us." His face tightened on that, tense with what she hoped wasn't guilt. "Easier how?" "I don't know," she said honestly. "Maybe I thought we would be able to share things more easily. Be able to talk about things not related to work. We would just be able to talk." |
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