u/Salty_Astronomer_697

Can’t remember where I read it but Mulder is ill and doesn’t want to wake Scully because she was pissed off. He nearly dies from a burst appendix.

Help me find it, please!

Mulder and Scully are no longer together and it’s because he believes she betrayed him in some way AFTER they were in a relationship while still working on the X-Files. They have a child and share custody. They coparent but he is cold and not friendly to Scully. All contacts revolves around their child. Scully and the child are threatened and have to go into hiding because of Mulder’s work on a recent case. They are attacked in Scully’s home when their child calls Mulder crying about bad guys hurting mommy. (Scully still works for the FBI but at Quantico.) Mulder is placed with them for protection at his insistence to stay with his child. They are placed in a house in the middle of no where together for the first time in a long time. They are there for an extended period. Mulder somehow comes to realize he was lied to about her betrayal and begins to see the error in his ways and the family he could’ve had. Somewhere in the story Mulder accidentally sees a small kit (baby fox) tattoo that he didn’t know she had in honor of Mulder and their kid. Give ANGSTY ANGSTIEST OF ANGST to MSR.