For the past four years The Nursery Files has strove to bring to you all sorts of X-Files baby and kid fics. Each fic archived here has one thing in common: a character within it is a baby, child or teenager. Many of these fics feature Mulder and Scully with children, but Doggett, Reyes, Skinner and other characters have children here too. A few fics include slash pairings as well(any fic listed in blue is a slash one). Some fics include child relatives, or children not related to a character at all. William and Emily have a healthy representation here, but original child characters abound too. Samantha Mulder, Luke Doggett and Matthew Scully make appearances too.
There are fics for all tastes, and the genre lists, as well as the Acronyms Key - both linked on the left- should help you find just the sort of fic you crave.
- Your achivist, NeoX
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News and Challenges
This Month's Featured Challenges
Let's see your name added to the listings here! Anyone, not just authors already archived here, is allowed to submit fic for challenges. And once you do, you'll be a TNF author too! All you need to do is write a fic. Short, long, whatever makes your muse happy. First time writers more than welcome to participate. E-mail your completed fic, or a link to your fic on your site (either completed or a wip in that case,) to nurseryfiles@mulderscreek.com
Long Gone Challenge
Make a kid the reason Doggett and/or Reyes weren't in IWTB
One Each Way Challenge
To celebrate the site's move, write a fics with Mulder and Scully aquiring kids in all the six (to nine!) common ways they do in stories
Project Midnight Challenge
If writing happy family-oriented stories isn't your thing, give one of the other challenges a dark turn instead.
News
2/23/10
The good news is that this update is complete, and there are 209 new fics! But the bad news is that I'm probably not going to do another big update until the fall. I'll add fics that people submit (you writers all know you don't need to wait for me to contact you, right?) and any challenge fics that appear in my in box between now and September, but that's about it beyond new challenges and new genre lists.
Long Gone Challenge - explain that Doggett and Reyes weren't in the second movie, due to their involvement with a child (DRR, Doggett/other and Reyes/other fics are all acceptable). My birthday is the second week of April, if anyone wants to write a fic for one of the unanswered challenges to suprise me. j/k :)
11/22/09
Thanks for voting in the teenfic poll, folks! 76% of voters would like stories about kids 18 & 19 too, so look for some fics about characters in their late teens in 2010.
you're going to write a fic for the Christmas List Challenge, right? It should be new writer friendly for those who haven't yet taken the plunge. And old hands are always welcome too, of course.
10/28/09
Hope everyone found us okay after the move!
Check out the Halloween Trick Challenge
7/24/09
Here's the deal: this geocities site is going to become a yahoo site on October 26th. I won't have to move any files, BUT the url for this site is going to change. Please send an e-mail with the subject line "Mailing List" to nurseryfiles@yahoo.com if you'd like to be informed immediately when the URL changes.
I've added 93 new fics to the site, and you can see which by clicking "New With This Update" on the upper left of this page. It's a slightly smaller than usual update by a few fics, but I'm working on another important project at the moment: geosave. I'm slowly saving and uploading *all* the geocities fics currently linked to The Nursery Files (you might notice this in authors beginning with the letter A. I said it was going slowly). As I mentioned before, I'll change the links if authors get new pages, but this is a stop-gap measure so fics aren't lost in the void. I'm unsure if I'll do another site update before the switch to yahoo, but you never know.
Check out the challenges, there are a few new ones: Project Midnight (give another challenge a dark twist), IWTB Scene Re-Write (rewrite all of part of IWTB to include William), Kicked Out (the Van DeKamps kick William out, returning him to Mulder and Scully) and Moving Day (your opening scene involves a pregnant character moving into a new home).
5/03/09
As you may or may not be aware, Geocities announced last week that they will be closing "later this year" without much explanation or even a timeline for when they're closing. This is leading to a lot of understandable freakouts given that a huge precentage of personal fic pages and archives like this one are hosted at geocities.
I'd like readers to know that I've already secured a new home for my fics and The Nursery Files at www.dreamhost.com. I'd like you to continue to use this site as long as its open, so I'm not giving out the new URL just yet because the site isn't 100% set up (more like 80%) and I'm still learning how the new host functions. Anyway, this archive is moving, but you'll still be able to get your baby/kidfic fix =)
However, I think now is also the time to make note of a new emergency policy here at TNF: if your fic is hosted on another geocities site, when the new Nursery Files site opens I'm going to archive your fics that had previously been linked instead. This is a temporary measure, and I'll be happy to link to your new webpage as soon as you give me the new url, but I don't want to lose any content in the transition.
10/14/08
We're now reached 1000 fics! With this update there are 130 new fics, and there's now a site search, check it out =)
10/06/08
A fellow phile is conducting a census of X-Files fans. Please go here by 11/20 to participate!
9/22/08
So... that pull down genre list that was on all the genre and index pages turned out to be a bad thing and messed up how the site functions behind the scenes. Please use the links to the new Genres Master List at the top of pages to navigate the lists from now on. (it's okay to pick your first choice of the lists per visit here on the front page from the last remaining pull down menu, but please don't return to this page to pick another genre that way). Sorry! On a positive note, at least the Genres master list comes with descriptions of the genre, so the change is not all bad. I've even included some new genres lists: AU after Requiem, AU after Existence, Grandpa Mulder and Grandma Scully, and The Empty Cradle
In other news, two new challenges are up: one for an often requested missing scene for Existence and the 2008 Halloween Challenge. Please give them a read here
8/16/08
If you loved the movie, why not write a challenge fic with it in mind? Or, can you use a challenge to write a fic that explains what characters who weren't in the movie might have been up to instead?
4/13/08
2 new challenges: William's 7th Birthday and A Hybrid's Tale are on the challenge page.
As Gossamer is requesting, I too have a new requirement for submissions: If your new fic involves spoilers or speculation as to what the new X-Files movie will be about, you must include "X-Files Movie 2 Spoilers" in both the headers of the fic and the subject line of your e-mailed submission. You're welcome to submit fics that are about the new movie, but readers need to be made aware of it.
1/30/08
85 new fics! Lots of the genre lists have been updated, especially Single Dad Mulder & its companion list Life After Mulder. Also Non-Canon Kids has been revised to break fics down into non-canon babies, kids or both.
And check out the challenges ! There haven't been many entries lately =( Please consider adding to those ranks.
10/18/07
Two new genre lists added. Young Relatives: fics about nieces, nephews and other young family members. Life After Mulder: fics about Scully moving on with her life after Mulder dies or disappears long-term. "Should Have Told You" is a work-in-progress; I added it to the genre dropdown lists now to update the pages all at once. You can peek if you want to, but there's only a handful of fics on the list yet.
10/12/07
Update!! 108 new fics total. If you send in your halloween fic, I'll add it as long as you submit it by the 29th.
10/08/07
While you're working on your challenge fic, don't forget to check out the two Halloween themed genres.
Little Ghosts for stories about young ghosts, and Halloween for fics about Halloween in general. Come see what we've scared up for you ::d&r::
9/18/07
Hopefully you've noticed that over the past couple of months 95% of the broken links have been repaired. There's an update slowly going on now too. And three brand new challenges! Check out the challenge page for details.
12/5/06
As you can see above, there are two new challenges. Completed fics will go here.
5/15/06
The update's complete. 106 new fics, and three new genre lists:
Teens - fics about either the characters as teen (pre-XF or cameos like Gibson) or teenage offspring
Casefile kids - kids who are part of cases rather than family.
Crossovers - fics about crossovers between the x-files and other shows, movies or books.
Five more days left to get your William's Fifth Birthday fic submitted!
4/22/06
Another New Challenge!
Children With Others Challenge
Give a main character a child with another character that they're not usually paired up with (Scully & Skinner or Doggett, Mulder & Marita or Reyes etc)
3/15/06
2012 & 2012 Revisited Challenges
Two challenges for the price of one. One set during invasion, the other during colonization.
3/2/06
As you can see above, the challenge pages are being rearranged too. Check them out by clicking the challenges link.
Plus, three New Challenges!
William's fifth Birthday Challenge
William turns five on May 20th, 2006
Stolen Ova: Another Child Challenge
What if Scully learned of another "Emily" after having her miracle baby?
Amor Fati Sons Challenge
Imagine a situation in which you reveal that the two "sons" that Mulder and Fowley had The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati were real children, not just Mulder's dream.
2/18/06
The winds of change blah blah bumps in the road... Everything should work again now.
2/13/06
As you may have noticed, this place looks quite different. Hopefully people enjoy the change =) There are 75+ new additions with this update as well.
The fine print for the inclusion policy:
Before a fic is included on this page, I make an effort to contact authors
to ask permission. I've only gotten one "no" since beginning this
archive, but I know I'd like to be asked, so I extend that courtsey to the
writers here as well. If the e-mail address for a writer's fic does not
work, I look for newer works from the author, hoping to find a more
recent, working address (unless it's marked "archive anywhere," after
the first failed e-mail I take the instuction at face value). If I still can't
contact them I assume they've moved on from this fandom and wouldn't
mind if their work was included; likewise, if the e-mail to them is not
returned but its been months without a reply I may also include the work
for the same reason. If I'm ever wrong about your work and you'd like it
removed, please let me know.
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