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Title: If the Fates Allow
Author: yours_truly yours_truly this-is-surely-tru 
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 1364
Summary: As a case wraps up, Mulder and Scully are stranded in New York City due to a snowstorm. It looks like there's no way Scully will make it home for Christmas Eve dinner at her mother's, but maybe the two partners can enjoy some time together talking about holidays past... and future.
Notes: Originally written for gazeatscully as part of the X-Files Secret Santa exchange in 2015.

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Mulder pressed the END button on his phone and looked at Scully with a pained expression. “The storm’s already been over Washington, and it’s going to hit New York hard by morning. There’s no way we’ll get a flight at this point, but if we head down to Penn Station we might be able to grab seats on one of the overnight Northeast Regionals.”

Scully sighed. Malevolent apparitions in the fly system at Lincoln Center two days before Christmas? And a nor'easter coming up the coast? She should have known better than to expect to be home in time for dinner at her mother’s.

Read the rest at AO3. The original Tumblr post can be found here.