"Love and Darkness and Our Genomes" by Sarah Segretti (X Files/Dark Angel), R

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Fandom: THE X FILES/DARK ANGEL
Pairing: Max/Logan (UST) and Mulder/Scully (implicit), but really a gen piece
Author on LJ: timesink
Author Website: http://hometown.aol.com/mrsblome

Why this must be read:

This was written during XF S8/DA S1 and obviously is contradicted some later canon. Sarah Segretti shows that two action adventure shows about government conspiracies and genetic engineering are a match made in a fanfic writer's heaven.

The plot is simple: Max meets another girl with mysterious powers: she's not from Manticore, but she's still trouble. What's not simple is the amount of complicated backstory--for both shows, and extrapolating out--that Sarah slides in painlessly, and the perfect Max-voice, and the way she brings home that superpowers can't save anyone involved from grief and pain.

"Love and Darkness and Our Genomes"