Story 24: "To Carthage Then I Came" by Annakovsky

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Another weird mostly-non-MSR story nominated by me. Note the warning!

Title: To Carthage Then I Came
Author: annakovsky
Rating: R
Pairings: Mulder/Samantha, Mulder/Scully, implied Scully/Doggett
WARNINGS: INCEST, more or less. SO BE AWARE.
Summary: Clones of Mulder's sister Samantha are being terminated. Mulder tries to save them.

Comments

[all-shine-on.livejournal.com]

I can see him not saying anything about being his sister's clone, just because she's lived so long as someone else. I wouldn't want to be the person to destroy her former life like that.

[wendelah1]

Her he tells the whole truth, the cloning, the termination. Well... nearly the whole truth. He doesn't tell her Samantha was his sister. He's not quite sure why.

But he does destroy her former life, and his as well. She leaves behind her old identity to assume the one that the Gunmen created. He doesn't tell her the most important fact of all, who she really is to him. As a consequence, Fox Mulder, the man who spent his life searching for the truth, ends up living a lie. I want to cry, just thinking about it.

[all-shine-on.livejournal.com]

Ah-my apologies! I re-read this story last week when I was uploading it to my del.ici.ous and forgot that part. Hmmmm. Totally different angle on it. Why not that aspect of it all? It makes Mulder a bit more...disturbing somehow. It could be said (not sure if I'm believing it) that he doesn't tell her because he knows/wants something like this to happen? Or what other purpose could he have for keeping that part a secret? Perhaps this "Samantha" is so different from HIS Samantha that he just can't make them seem to be the same person.

[wendelah1]

It makes Mulder a bit more...disturbing somehow.

It is really disturbing. It makes my brain explode. This is good.