I'm not usually a fan of stories that end with M and S apart, but I liked this story so much. Primarily because it's the first piece of fanfic I've read in a long time that gave me a visceral "Whoa" response. I read it and found myself grinning a little in admiration for Annakovsky, for going down this particular path, for doing something gutsy and unusual in fic and making it work. The prose is spare and light but not empty, Mulder's increasing inability to call any of the Samanthas by any names other than Samantha is both believable and really sad, and the incest-angle manages to be sufficiently creepy without being off-putting. Thanks to this comm for pointing the story out to me.