This was originally posted back on 2/25/2000... it has been substantially   
   revised since then.   
      
   Marybeth   
      
   TITLE: The Chilmark Project  (Comfort of Friends   
   X-Files Section)   
      
   AUTHOR: Wylfcynne and Ravenwald   
      
   E-MAIL ADDRESS: Ravenwald@adelphia.net or   
   Wylfcynne@aol.com   
      
   DISTRIBUTION: Anywhere; just please ask; that   
   way we'll know where it all goes, so we can visit.   
      
   SPOILERS: Does this really matter anymore?  This   
   is a post-ep for Demons, carrying on (and on, and   
   on...) into an AU  where some of the episodes   
   beyond that happen, and others do not.   This is the   
   divergence point from the canon, but some   
   episodes after that are included in our warped little   
   world.   
      
   Specifically, Biogenesis, The Sixth Extinction and   
   Amor Fati do NOT happen here! Neither do several   
   other episodes.  Basically, we picked and chose   
   what we want to have happened in our universe.   
   Also, we reserve the right to kill off the Fowl One   
   OUR way!  And just WAIT till you see what we have   
   planned for Phoebe Green!  It's not nice to screw   
   over our Mulder...   
      
   RATING: R for adult concepts; chapters with   
   NC-17 segments will be labeled.   
      
   CLASSIFICATION: post-ep, MT, MSR, AU,   
   Crossover (Highlander: The Series, The Sentinel,   
   F/X: The Series)   
      
   SUMMARY: Post-Ep for DEMONS; did you ever   
   wonder why Mulder let that quack drill holes in his   
   skull and shoot him full of Ketamine?  TWICE?   
   We figured it out, and things started to snowball...   
   The Chilmark Project is a Consortium sideshow,   
   one of the little jobs they had running while   
   everyone's attention was on the Big Show.  Six   
   children born in Chilmark, Massachusetts between   
   1961 and 1966 were the original subjects...   
      
   DISCLAIMER: They certainly aren't ours; if they   
   were, they'd be having more fun, and we wouldn't   
   be saving up for new cars!  Thank you, Mr. Carter,   
   for creating the show, and thank you, Mr. Duchovny,   
   and you, Miss Anderson, and you, Mr. Pileggi, for   
   creating the people. We're just borrowing Fox,   
   Dana, Walter and the others for some fun and   
   games.  We promise we'll bring them back on time   
   and unharmed, and they won't remember a thing.   
      
   Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Kim Cook and Walter   
   Skinner belong to Chris Carter, Fox and 1013.   
      
   Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg and Simon Banks   
   belong to Pet Fly.   
      
   Rollie Tyler and Angie Ramirez belong to   
   Fireworks/Rysher.   
      
   Duncan MacLeod, Amanda, Methos/Adam Pierson,   
   Joe Dawson, Anne Lindsey and Matt McCormick   
   belong to Panzer/Davis Productions.   
      
   Anyone else belongs to us.   
      
   FEEDBACK: Please...? (sad puppy pout) The Wylf   
   howls at the moon for feedback... Ravenwald pouts   
   if she doesn't get it.   
      
   XFC-FDBK:  Yes!!   
      
   AUTHORS' NOTES: at the end.   
      
   +++   
      
   Prelude   
      
   The Chilmark Project is a long-term genetics and   
   environmental combined experiment. Loyal   
   members of our Group have volunteered their own   
   children to become the Subjects.   
      
   The aim of the Chilmark Project is to induce an   
   insoluble bond between pairs of children so that, as   
   they mature, the bond intensifies. It is our hope that   
   the bond will facilitate mind-to- mind, para-verbal   
   communication (telepathy) between the members   
   of the pair-bond. Lesser levels of success would   
   entail less-than-verbal communication (non-verbal   
   communication, empathy).   
      
   The Project was conceived in order to have   
   personnel available to us in the second generation   
   who had been designed and trained, from before   
   birth, to be covert operatives. Born and raised   
   within the Group, loyalties unquestionable, these   
   will be our most valuable operatives, able to pass   
   information to one another with a thought.   
      
   Telepathic communication, if it can be achieved,   
   will be considered a fully successful outcome.   
   Even with lesser levels of achievement, the   
   subjects of the Project will be raised within the   
   Group, by their biological parents, in as normal an   
   environment as possible. They will be monitored   
   continuously and tested regularly.   
      
   They will not be told of the Project, but their parents   
   are to be fully involved in monitoring the children   
   and the progress of the Project. The parents will   
   participate in the Project as much possible,   
   depending on their individual abilities.   
      
   Volunteer families are:   
      
   Mr. & Mrs. William Mulder   
   Dr. & Mrs. Vasily Lermontov   
   Mr. & Mrs. Michael Decker   
   Mr. & Mrs. Alexander McKenica   
   Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Sullivan   
   Dr. & Mrs. Alvin Kurtzweil   
   Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Rosa   
   Mr. & Mrs. Francis Miles   
      
   Mr. Mulder, who was placed in charge of the   
   program when it was first conceived, will also   
   function as the local supervisor in Chilmark. Dr.   
   Kurtzweil will be in charge of the actual obstetrical   
   and gynecological procedures.  Dr. Lermontov will   
   be in charge of the biological research program.   
      
   Mrs. Mulder and Mrs. McKenica are currently in the   
   first trimester of their first pregnancies; the Project   
   is to be initiated at once.  The other couples will be   
   monitored for pregnancy on a monthly basis and   
   the unborn will be subjected to the Project's   
   procedures.  Over time, these procedures may be   
   changed or refined, in accordance with what is   
   learned from the earlier work.   
      
   The parents understand that compliance with the   
   Project's program is an irrevocable decision.  If   
   they refuse to continue with the Project after it has   
   begun, their subject child(ren) will be removed from   
   their custody and control, and placed with a family   
   more reliable in their compliance with the needs of   
   the Group and The Greater Good.   
      
   (Memorandum of Intent, unanimously approved by   
   the Board of Directors, March 3,1961).   
      
   +++ +++   
      
   Demonology   
      
   Scully's apartment Wednesday   
      
   Scully opened her apartment door and pushed her   
   partner inside.  He moved stiffly, awkwardly,   
   painfully, and only as he was shoved. When she let   
   go of him, he stopped and stood, swaying, his   
   eyes closed.   
      
   Scully was weary herself, after the exhausting   
   disaster of Mulder's last headlong dive into the   
   search for his long-lost sister.  He had been   
   exonerated of the murders of the Cassandras, by   
   the identification of David Cassandra's fingerprints   
   on the Sig Sauer, overlaying all of Mulder's prints.   
   The case was officially closed as a murder-suicide,   
   much to Scully's relief.  Mulder had recovered from   
   the Ketamine overdose.  The holes drilled into his   
   skull were still there, but were healing over nicely.   
   He did not appear to have suffered any truly   
   permanent damage.   
      
   Except to his psyche.  And hers. (*How could he do   
   that?*) she asked herself yet again, as she   
   abandoned him in the middle of her living room.   
   When she let go of him, he stood still, abandoned,   
   lost.   
      
   (*How could he let a quack like Goldstein do such   
   things to him? When he's up to it, I'm going to tear   
   him a new asshole.*)  She did not look at him; she   
   had been studying him for several days and she   
   needed a moment that was not completely   
   concentrated on him.  She walked across her living   
   room and punched down the PLAY button on her   
   answering machine.   
      
   "Doctor Scully, this is Sister Mary Fredericks.  I am   
   the administrator of the Queen of the Angels Long   
   Term Care Facility and Hospice in Chevy Chase.   
      
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