6x08 "Ice, Ice Baby"
by Cerasi J.

I got the idea for "Ice, Ice Baby" in mid-July of 2003 after an icy incident of my own. It was incredibly hot outside, so my brother and I decided to head over to the local ice rink to cool off. My feet, however, do not belong in skates of any kind... rollerblades, ice skates... whatever. My feet just don't work with them. So after slipping and sliding and sprawling on my butt a few hundred times I decided it was time to hang up the blades and call it a day. I sat in the bleachers with wet blue jeans while my brother and his friends took their hockey sticks pretty much played out the whole episode of "Ice, Ice Baby".

Inspiration struck and I wound up with one of the longest stories I've ever written.

As I watched my brother and his amigos play around I took out my notebook and started scribbling ideas. One of the first ideas I got was watching the goalie, Keith, as he tackled my brother, grabbed the back of his jersey and shoved him in the net. I, of course, thought this was outrageously funny and quickly wrote down what had happened while tears of laughter were running down my face. When I got home I sat down at my computer and started to bang out the idea and before long I realized the story was turning out to be a FRVS episode more than it was a fanfic. I e-mailed Kristi and Cassie with the idea and they seemed to like it very much, they gave me the go-ahead and I was part of the Fox and Rat writing team!

In the story, Krycek decides he no longer wants to be Russian, he wants to be Swedish instead, because he overhears Dana and Monica giggling over pictures of my favorite hockey player, Peter Forsberg, (who is, obviously, from Sweden). He uses his Endless Credit Card to buy hockey gear and Swedish language tapes, because, for some stupid reason, I decided that Krycek would speak a lot of Swedish in this episode. That part took a lot of research. Since I don't speak Swedish or have any relatives who are Swedes, I was totally clueless. The only thing I could claim to know about Sweden is that they make damned good pancakes over there. The parts of the episode where Alex speaks Swedish took me the longest to write, because I had to traslate each word from a Swedish to English dictionary I found at the library. Talk about tedious! >=D At the very end of the story my brain just shut down and I was totally out of ideas, (it must have been all that traslating I did!) so I went to the first source of my inspiration for help: my little bro. My brother actually wrote the last two pages of the episode which I went back and touched up later, and I found that his sudden ideas were much funnier than my own. (i.e. John Doggett calling Skinner "Que-Ball" and Mulder calling David Aebischer "Mr. Goalie Man").

And there you have it! It's amazing how one hot afternoon could turn into one of the best stories I've written. I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have! =)

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