Part 3 of the Sanctuary Trilogy:
Sanctuary

This story is currently being 'touched up' to mop up miscellaneous prose swamps and to sharpen the portrayal of two characters... but don't mind me.  When you hit the change between the new (blue) page format and the old gray one, you'll know where I'm at work.

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IF YOU WISH TO DOWNLOAD: I've run into some glitches in putting together plain text files, but you can easily save
these files as web pages; they will take up only slightly more room than text files and are easily printed out.  Simply
right-click on a chapter (above) and choose 'Save target as'.  Your Save dialog box will automatically default to the
web page format option ('HTML document' appears in the 'save as type' window), so just click the 'save' button.

THE FINE PRINT:

COPYRIGHT 2000 by bardsmaid (LoneThinker.) Feedback gratefully received.  I won't know what you think--or even that you exist and are reading--unless you tell me.  If you take the time to drop me a note, I guarantee you'll make my day.

KEYWORD-TYPE STUFF: Suspense and angst... surprises... MSR... Teena and her newly strengthened family ties... painful (and wonderful) times for Alex Krycek... danger hanging over many heads... mytharc., betrayal, unexpected justice... loss... and love.

RATING: R

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Many, many thanks to the fine Cavedwellers who have taken what time they had to comment on this story as it was being written--Listen, Littljoe, Michele, Lucyskull, Beth, 11-13, Zuffy and LoneGunwoman. Special thanks to Lucyskull and RxPhile for necessary medical background and to Gwoman for ongoing discussions about Scully. Thanks to real life for the many tiny incidents/analogies that ended up weaving their way into the coherency of the story and making it richer. Thanks to the memories of Spain that have hung surprisingly untarnished in the back of my mind for so many years and came out to help deepen the story at the right moments. And a fond nod of the Cap of Memory to Arturo Serrano-Plaja, who brought me living, breathing history and to Eudolfo P-G, whose nena I once was.

THE CONDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: No, Mulder and Scully and Skinner and CSM and Krycek, Maggie Scully and the LGM aren't my creations, though we've traveled a good many miles together by now.  These wonderful characters belong to Chris Carter and the accomplished actors who portray them.  No profit is being made here and no infringement is intended.  The rest of the participants, however--Rita and Will, Dale, Tracy, Sandy, Bethy, Adrie, Harry, Angie Connors, David and Heather, Dr. Maria and Brian--even Joe and Raylene, bless their struggling souls--all these characters came to me of their own accord, and I thank them from the bottom of my heart.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the third (and longest--about 850 printed pages) part of a trilogy and the immediate continuation of Walking Through Fire.  If you haven't read it, and the book that precedes it, Paradise Lost, you'll probably be lost, but both are available through these links.  I hope you enjoy this journey. It's been an amazing trek for me.

copyright 2000, bardsmaid