Skinner's Briefs

New chapters on AO3! Dancing in the Moonlight (39763 words) by prChung Chapters: 12/? Fandom: The X-Files Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dana Scully/Walter Skinner Characters: Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, Walter Skinner, Original Characters Additional Tags: An X-File Case, Supernatural Elements, Romance, Humor, Peril, Were-Creatures, Investigations Series: Part 5 of Complimentary Mints Chapter Summary: Everything is brushing up against revelation— romantic, psychological, and literal danger— and the gravity is palpable. Under a harvest moon, truths begin to surface. Mulder grapples with the collapse of myth into something colder, more human, while Scully is swept into a night that feels disarmingly like fate, guided by Skinner’s steady presence and unexpected grace. Between candlelight, music, and distant gunshots, the line blurs between romance and reckoning— between what’s lost, and what might still be found.

Everything Changes (33497 words) by prChung Chapters: 11/11 Fandom: The X-Files Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Dana Scully/Walter Skinner Characters: Walter Skinner, Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, The Lone Gunmen, Marita, Orig - Character, Alex Krycek Additional Tags: Suspense, Science Fiction, Alien Abduction, Government Conspiracy, Angst, Native American Character(s) Chapter Summary: Trapped beneath a mountain of ruin, Skinner begins a solitary descent through the dark—while Scully races against time to find him. What they uncover deep below the New Mexico desert may finally bring them answers… but at a cost neither of them is prepared to pay. In the end, revelations echo louder than proof, and history may only be revised by those left standing.

The X-Couple (4454 words) by prChung Chapters: 3/? Fandom: The X-Files Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dana Scully/Walter Skinner, Skinner - Relationship Characters: Walter Skinner, Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, Cigarette Smoking Man (X-Files) Additional Tags: Alien Bounty Hunter Series: Part 1 of The X-Couple Summary: Walter Skinner, ex-Assistant Director of the FBI with a penchant for pressed suits and order, finds himself sharing his meticulously kept apartment with Cancer Man, a chain-smoking government operative with secrets darker than his coffee and a tolerance for the bizarre bordering on the extraterrestrial. Thrown together by a twist of bureaucratic fate (and possibly some alien intervention), these polar opposites are about to embark on a dysfunctional cohabitation unlike any witnessed on Earth, or possibly, off it.

 x-FBI boss Skinner's orderly life explodes when his new roommate, the shadowy Cancer Man, throws a wild poker game. Their apartment transforms into a chaotic alien nightclub, filled with cigar-chomping grays, furniture defying explanation, and a three-fingered cyclopean guest reeking of regret. As bewildered Agent Scully arrives to investigate prank calls, Skinner desperately tries to maintain order while Mulder prepares to crash the party – all amidst the cacophony of a poker game gone... extraterrestrial? The X-Couple Episode One "EBE's Are Wild" PR Chung & Victor Skynard Crystal City, Virginia Walter Skinner's Apartment 1:28 a.m. Skinner awoke to a blinding light filling his bedroom, the building shaking violently, and when a humanoid creature scurried across the foot of his bed he knew immediately what was happening— The Friday night poker game had kicked into full swing. Before he could get his pants up and zip them the sound of music began blaring from ...

Synopsis by guest writer Jose Chung: Ah, the Fourth of July, a time for fireworks, patriotism, and apparently, romantic entanglements amidst the chaos. Picture this: a bustling square, teeming with folks eager for the grand spectacle, but beneath the surface lies a whirlwind of emotions fit for a daytime soap opera. Enter Scully, a woman consumed by turmoil, and Skinner, a man with a penchant for authority and perhaps a dash of jealousy. Their heated exchange, set against the backdrop of exploding fireworks, is a symphony of passion and misunderstanding, punctuated by the crackle of gunfire—a plot twist that even I couldn't have scripted better myself. But wait, amidst the chaos, a moment of unexpected tenderness unfolds, proving that love, like fireworks, can ignite in the most unlikely of places. So, grab your popcorn and buckle up, folks, because this Fourth of July just got a whole lot more intriguing! Preface: If anyone is wondering about the reference to Arthur Murray, it’s a...

Synopsis by guest writer Jose Chung (written prior to his apparent death at the hands of the Nostradamus Nutball): Now, grab your Stetsons, conspiracy cowboys, 'cause we're moseying on over to Elmo, Wyoming. Here, amidst the questionable barbeque and dazzling fireworks of the 4th of July festivities, we find Agent Scully embroiled in a situation more perplexing than a malfunctioning weather balloon. In strides Sheriff Lawrence Durokoff, a man carved from the same government-issue granite as Assistant Director Skinner, only with a grin brighter than a chrome bumper on a brand-new pickup truck. Was it a case of cloning gone wrong? Or perhaps long-lost twins separated by, well, let's just say a misplaced birth certificate (we can delve into government conspiracies all day, but identical twins are a stretch even for this jaded scribe). The truth, as always, is stranger than the wildest fan fiction. The undeniable spark between Scully and Sheriff Durokoff has tongues wagging abo...