anjoufic

Title: Beating the Darkness Back 5/7

Author:

comice aka Anjou (Anjou@rocketmail.com)

Posting Date: October 2008

Rating: R for language and sexuality; M for Mature readers

Classification: Mulder/Scully, MSR, post-ep for IWTB

Archive: No archival until the story is completed, please. I'll be submitting to Ephemeral and Gossamer myself.

Spoilers: Through I Want To Believe

Disclaimer: All X-Files personnel belong to 1013 and Fox. All other elements are mine.

Author's Note: Beating the Darkness Back will be posted in seven parts. Parts 1 & 2, and 3 & 4 will be posted together, as they are just long sections that needed to be cut in half for ease of posting. This story is finished, although still undergoing final editing for Parts 5-7. I expect it will be all posted in a week's time. Posts can be read on my fic journal:

anjoufic, as well as Ephemeral and other XF fic sites. The whole tale will be archived at my website, No Other … , maintained by the generous dtg, when it is completed.

Thanks to Konrad Frye and especially the fabulous

lilydale for not only willingly answering questions about the novelization of "I Want To Believe" that clarified the timeline for this writer, but for being brave enough to have read it in the first place.

As always, my biggest thanks go to my sister and editrix, Suzanne, for her support, and above all, her patience.

Summary: Where do we go from here, now that we are free?

( Part 5 )