180,000 words
Mulder and Scully, off the X Files for now, investigate a possible bioweapons facility. What they find there puts their partnership, their investigative skills, their love and even their sanity to a test neither could ever have imagined.
!non-consensual sex, suicidal thoughts
*Aug 2021 Update: Jean has now republished this story on AO3 with a few little edits, so I've added the link to take you there.*
This is another dark and angsty one, but well worth the pain.
I somehow missed the original dustjacket despite the hundreds of them in my collection, and it wasn't until I went to get the link for this post that I discovered there was one. After adding the one I made to the epub and pdf files I wasn't about to delete it all, so I've posted the original dustcover from The Annex below.