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It's 1987 and the Oklahoma cops have an unsolvable case. Fox Mulder, golden boy of the VCU, is called in to stop the murders of children across the state. What he finds takes him places he never wanted to go and forces him to make the pivotal choice of his life.
Rated NC-17 for language and violence.
While my brain fog is limiting my ability to upload new fics I've decided to fix up and re-release some early uploads. The quality was hit and miss in some of the early ones. I've done a complete re-edit of this one to insert all the indents and line breaks to make it more presentable.
This fic is extreme pre-XF Profiler!Mulder-torture, with child victims, so it may not be for everyone, despite being sprinkled with the poetry of TS Eliot. It does tend to align with Eliot's (and the murder's) struggles with religious beliefs.
I believe the original artwork (below left) came from the Annex. In my original upload I added to that one (below right), but I've now created a new cover for reasons that will become evident shortly, much to my own amusement.
Originally released 10 March, 2019
