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From Mei:

Title: The Exigency Series
Fandom: The X-Files
Pairing: Walter Skinner/Alex Kryceck
Category: Angst with interspersed fluff and lots more fluff towards the end.
Length: OMG!epic
Warnings: Violence. Kink. Extreme angst. Character death (only the bad guys). See parts for specific warnings.

Authors on LJ: n/a?
Authors' website: http://lzl.dreamhost.com/stories.html

Author's Summary: An angsty Skinner/Krycek saga that spans the X-Files canon from late Season 1 to mid Season 8.

Review:
This is my absolute favourite XF story; I can't even remember the number of times I've re-read this story. I initially encountered this story when the first book of the series (originally called 'Exigency', the new, revised version is named 'Surrender') was first posted, and WOW, that was 71/2 years ago.

Despite the authors' warnings, the Exigency series is more fluff than anything else. Well-hidden fluff, yes. Angst-driven fluff, yes. But fluff nonetheless. Sometimes I always felt Skinner and Kryceck had as much love as everyone else in the world put together. Kryceck isn't portrayed as a 'nice' person in these stories, but as you learn more about his past, you begin to understand why he did some of the things he did. This doesn't make those things he did 'right', and this isn't exactly a redemption story, but it is hard not to love the Alex in these stories.

The story link should take you to the cover page, where the stories are listed in chronologically order. You can also read them in the order they were written (the posting times are listed beside the story titles). I would actually like to recommend reading "Yield" (set when Kryceck first appears on the show) before "Becoming Alex" (set before the show). The epilogue is not posted yet, and I'm not sure it will ever get written (though the authors claim haven't given up entirely), but the story is complete as it is.
Highly, highly recommended.

The Exigency Series (index page)