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Title: Nova: East of Eden
Author: Angel- JumperChick@aol.com
URL: 
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Bath/7266/ang
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Feedback: I love it more then chocolate. 
Rating: NC-17 for possible graphic violence and 
sexual situations. 
Disclaimer: Not mine, I'm making no money, just 
playing.
Classification: Angst, Post-Colonization-sequel to my 
fic `Nova', available at my page, Gossamer, and, 
Annex to name a few. 
Spoilers: It's a WIP, so I really don't know what will 
happen. But anything up to but not including the 7th 
season finale is fair game. PLEASE PLEASE don't 
try to read this fic without reading `Nova' first. 
Thank you.
Summery: You didn't think it was going to end there, 
did you?..With a happy ending.Evie, my muse, 
and I are all laughing. 
Dedication: To Evie for her always perfect beta job 
and from the get go listening to my endless questions 
and whining. Melissa for her more then excited 
response when I told her of this fic, her 
encouragement and beta. And to all the original 
`Nova' readers, I became addicted to your feedback 
and just had to get some more of it. I hope this WIP 
can live up the standards `Nova' set for me.


Part 1
Prologue 
Five  years after the completion of `Nova'.
Present day


From the moment Mulder came to me after the first 
attack, to take me from my ruined apartment and 
bring me to Nova with the hope of a chance to 
prosper my life has been out of control. From that 
instant on They have had the upper hand. Not all 
things in this life have been bad, not when I stop and 
think of the whole picture. For a short while I hid 
behind that idea, let it flood my thoughts.  I thought 
maybe, just maybe everything Mulder and I have 
accomplished overrode what They have managed to 
do to this world. But it just wasn't true. I finally 
accepted that my life, and the life of my family, 
would forever be ruled by Them if I let it. 

I left everything I knew of a life because I had no 
choice, because They destroyed it. But I wouldn't let 
Them destroy me, Mulder wouldn't let Them. 
Following Mulder was second nature to me, I never 
questioned that he would take care of me. And he 
has, the best he can. He has always taken it upon 
himself to look after me, even when I don't want him 
to. Being the man he is he accepted the request to run 
Nova. I encouraged him to, it seemed right at the 
time. Nova needed someone strong minded and sane. 
But it has reeked havoc on me since then. I'm the one 
that has to keep Mulder sane, holding him when he is 
weak and dealing with his pigheadedness. It's not an 
easy job, but it's one that I gladly comply to. I owe 
him that and much much more. He gave me a second 
chance at life, he gave me a beautiful family, and he 
loves me unconditionally. And he doesn't ask much 
of me. I ask-no I expect so much from him. He gives 
and gives and it's never enough for me. How much 
can I ask before he can't give anymore?

As hard as I imagine I can't see that happening. After 
everything we have been through, even before They 
came, Mulder and I are just too important to each 
other. I didn't think it was possible for us to become 
closer, but everything we have been through, 
everything we have seen has done just that. I can't 
live without him, I know that. Looking at him now, 
sleeping soundly in bed next to me I can't believe 
how lucky I am that this man cares for me how he 
does. He's everything to me, he's my life. 

But I just can't deal with how I am existing in this 
life anymore. It has taken so much out of me, so 
much out of us. And now, we don't have much to 
show for it. 

Maybe it was the deaths that got to me. So many. In 
so many different ways. Natural and not. Most unfair 
and untimely. It's amazing I've made it this long.

 I can still remember, like yesterday the first time 
Mulder and I set foot in the place. Tired and hungry. 
So ready to trust, it is was unlike us. But we aren't 
the same people as we were before we came to Nova. 
Only slight changes to the on looker, but I know 
Mulder as well as I know myself, I see all the little 
things. 

And the not so little things. A part of Mulder dies 
every time something horrible happens at Nova. 
When a part of his dies, a part of me dies. 

I don't know how much more I can take. How much 
more hell I can watch go by. It's a ticking bomb 
before something else happens. Who knows if we 
will be as lucky, if that's what you can call it, as we 
have been so far. So many people have lost so much. 
It's so hard to watch people suffer. Knowing its 
going to happen again is the worst. Knowing that we 
could very well be next is dreadful to realize. We all 
know it's just a matter of time. I don't want to be 
here when time runs out. 


Notes: I'm back! I thought my muse was dead, turns 
out she just really likes Nova and nothing else. So, 
let's make my muse happy, ok? 
Anyway, this prologue is just my way of getting East 
of Eden out there. By the way, thank you Evie for the 
title.
 So once again, I have a mailing list out for this. If 
you want to join just let me know. Parts will NOT be 
coming out as fast as they did with Nova, I just can't 
do it. But I hope to have part 2 out very soon. For 
those of you who are worried, the parts will be longer 
then this. Again, this is just to get my foot in the door 
so to speak.
Hey, remember that thing called feedback that I love 
so much? *hint hint* =)