many hands reaching for food at Thanksgiving table

Thanksgiving For Eight Challenge

This November, your challenge is to write a Thanksgiving fic about Mulder and Scully spending the holiday with their six children. How they created their family is up to you, and you can spend as little or as much time as you like cluing readers in to those details.

Variables to consider: the story will be set in the year of your choice, be that in past/seasons 1-11 AU, post-revival/present/future. Twins and adoption are both allowed but neither are required, nor is there any requirement to have any particular gender mix of the kids. And although the title includes “eight” for the eight members of the Mulder family, they can also have as many additional dinner guests as you’d like or they can be someone else’s dinner guests.

Moving on to the Required Elements (include all!):

  • The Mulder family has gathered for Thanksgiving so set the bulk of your fic on a 4th Thursday in November
  • 2 of Mulder and Scully’s children must be legal adults, defined as age 18 or older
  • 2 of Mulder and Scully’s children must still be young enough to be in high chairs at dinner (i.e. typically no more than 3 years old unless particularly small for their age)
  • The last 2 of Mulder and Scully’s children must be between the other 4 children in ages, but they can any ages from 3-17
  • Someone in the family must have a pet that makes a cameo, any type of animal
  • Someone other than Scully is pregnant - this person can be either at the dinner or merely discussed by the characters. Who’s having a baby?

Go forth and write, bring us a bounty of tales between now and the 4th Wednesday in November :) Please submit your story or the link to it to nurseryfiles@mulderscreek.com or post here on our submissions Tumblr or send me a message for me to reblog you

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