We Could Have Made Music by Discordia (G)

[wendelah1]

Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing/Characters: Cindy Rearden, Teena Simmons, Eve 6
Length: 3,025
Author on LJ: discordantwords
Author Website: Discordant Words
Why this must be read:

This post-ep for the season one episode, "Eve," revisits the clones Cindy and Teena, seven years after the events that landed them in an institution for the criminally insane. They are still homicidal maniacs, but manage to escape, and now they have revenge on their minds. The X-Files is a goldmine for a talented horror writer and Discordia is one of the best I've read in this fandom.

They are fifteen years old, hale and hearty and healthy, tall and pale and quiet as churchmice. They have grown up to the music of Six's madness, her sobs and sniffles and laughter, the scrape of teeth against metal, the rasp of teeth against skin, the sick sweet wet sounds of tearing flesh.

No one looks in at Six, not even Eight when she comes to collect them. She is repulsed by her own insane, jagged reflection. Maybe she even fears that there will not be much left of Six after all this time, that the sounds they hear are her gnawing little bits of herself away until nothing remains. These thoughts are ephemeral, tucked in a gray foggy place that is hard to access without feeling sick and woozy and sleepy.

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