Story 233: "Ad Vitam Aeternam" by Foxsong

[wendelah1]

Happy Halloween! For a show about things that go bump in the night, this fandom is surprisingly short of genuinely scary stories. They must be hard to write, or at least write well. This isn't exactly a ghost story, but it's plenty disturbing all the same

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[wendelah1]

The show has been quite consistent about only the stiletto to the back of the neck killing the alien bounty hunters, rebels and hybrids, so his convenient death is hard to believe.

Was it that inconsistent with canon? The first successful alien/human hybrid was Cassandra Spender. You could cut into her and she would heal herself spontaneously--we saw it onscreen. It took 30 years of experimentation to make it work. There was nothing on the series to prove that another successful hybrid was created. The scientists who had worked on the project were murdered. Emily died of toxemia. The clone Mulder believed was his sister drowned.

We know that Spender wanted to resurrect the Project. Perhaps in this AU, he was successful, but only to a limited extent. It doesn't seem far-fetched to me that instead of Mulder being infected with a virus to turn him into a super-soldier, that he could have been the subject of a different experiment. This Mulder could be another partial success at creating a human/alien hybrid--someone with toxic blood like Emily's but not invulnerable to illness or injury.

On reread, I do have difficulty with a version of Scully who is willing to give up on looking for Mulder. But in effect, that's what canon gave us, and I had the same problem with it.

[bmerb]

Reread your comment and you are right. Cassandra Spender was the first successful hybrid, Emily wasn't killed with a stiletto, and the others were clones. The Kurt clones and the Jeremiah Smiths were killed with a stiletto to the neck but there was that Samantha clone that died in other circumstances as well I think... Oh inconsistent canon!