From iding.1@osu.edu Mon May 05 18:11:42 1997
Newsgroups: alt.tv.x-files.creative
Subject: An X-file Brutalization: HOME 1/3
From: iding.1@osu.edu (Savage Brutality)
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I originally posted this on atxf, so for those of you who have read this 
before, there is nothing new here. 

Disclaimer:  Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and the entire Peacock clan belong to 
Chris Carter, 1013 Productions, and Fox Broadcasting.  No infringement is 
intended. 

WARNING: I don't know what the rating system is for X-file fanfic, but I will 
tell you this: This story is EXTREMELY SAVAGE. My intention was to write a 
story with NOTHING to recommend it besides excessive, disturbing depictions of 
gore, agony, and general depravity. There is no humor, almost no dialogue, and 
M&S's relationship progresses only in a most hideous fashion. If you hate this 
story, tell me. If it bored you, tell me. If you like this story, tell me. 
I'll base my future fictions on your responses. 

Archive: If anyone wants to put this in one, by all means, do so.

Part 1 of 3.

The story begins as Mulder and Scully are preparing to defend themselves 
against the Peacock brothers, who are rushing back to the house...


Scully watched as two burly figures smashed open the door adjacent to Mulder. 
Her adrenaline was pumping; what had been a standard, albeit unusual, murder 
investigation had abruptly turned into a life and death struggle. Things were 
happening very quickly, but, in her agitated state, Scully was able to process 
all available information effortlessly and instantaneously. In fact, Scully 
felt a certain sense of control; it was almost as if she was she was 
manipulating the events as they unfolded. The feeling was actually 
exhilarating. Scully assessed that both of the men bearing down on Mulder were 
stronger than him. However, she also knew Mulder was armed and trained in 
close-quarters combat. In what seemed like minutes she knew she didn't have, 
Scully assumed a strategic position behind Mulder and aimed her pistol at the 
larger brother's head. She fired. The brother staggered back, crashing into 
the wall behind him. Scully couldn't tell if the brother was dead. She had hit 
him in the left eye, but it had been more of a glancing blow than a direct 
hit. It was not important, however. He had been effectively stopped. Scully 
quickly turned her attention to the brother struggling with Mulder. 
Furthermore, there was a third brother, still unseen, who had to be 
considered.

******

What Scully didn't know was that the brother she had shot was not dead, nor 
even unconscious. While generations of inbreeding had rendered the Peacock 
brothers' minds capable of comprehending only the basest of instincts, it had 
also altered their physiology to the extent that conventional weaponry was 
largely useless against them. The Peacock brothers were truly inhuman; their 
collective deformities and abnormalities constructed a "genetic shield" which 
protected them from Mulder's and Scully's attacks. Scully had indeed shot the 
brother in the eye, but it did not have the effect Scully thought it had. The 
brother, who was the largest of the three and had a scraggly mass of 
long black hair, had been born without a left eye. What was truly remarkable, 
however, was that in his youth his empty socket had slowly ossified. What 
Scully had actually hit was not an eye, nor even soft tissue, but bone. And 
thick bone at that. In fact, the brother's whole body was slowly ossifying, 
which in the long term would naturally kill him, but in the short term, in 
concert with his other bodily mutations, actually made him larger and stronger 
beyond the extremes of humanity. He was merely dazed by the blow, and would 
soon be up again to attack the intruders. However, there was no need.

******

The other brother, who appeared to be the eldest, had overtaken Mulder. Scully 
tried to get in position for a clear shot on the brother, but she could not 
risk accidently shooting Mulder. Suddenly, Scully was shoved violently from 
behind, thrusting her forward. She felt her foot snag on something as she 
fell, but it was a mere triviality compared with the sensation she felt 
immediately after hitting the ground. Something large had crashed into her arm 
with tremendous force. Scully had never felt such pain. Her mind's former 
lucidity receded in a mist of delirium; the only remaining reality was the 
intense, throbbing pangs of agony shooting from her right arm, just below the 
shoulder. The last thought she had before unconsciousness was that her bone 
had been shattered. The last sound she heard was her body being dragged across 
the woodplanked floor.

******

Scully awoke to the same excruciating pain she had left. At first she couldn't 
move; it took every ounce of her strength just to keep her eyes open, her 
lungs breathing, and, seemingly, her heart beating. Yet, somehow, she knew she 
wasn't going to die, at least not immediately. Rather, the pain still racing 
from her arm so dominated her consciousness that her mind had no capacity left 
to cease functioning; the pain was actually keeping her alive. Scully was no 
longer a living organism. She *was* pain. Eternal, immortal, pain. At least, 
that was how her mind comprehended her condition. She again swooned.

******

Scully again regained consciousness. She could tell the pain had dulled 
somewhat, but it still demanded all of her concentration for several minutes. 
Tolerating her agony to the best of her ability, Scully attempted to survey 
her environment. It was dark and moist. The ground beneath her was soft, and 
seemed to slide beneath her as she shifted her body. Faint shafts of light 
shone down on her from what she guessed was a ceiling above. Regaining more 
and more of her faculties, Scully was able to ascertain that she was in some 
kind of root cellar. Judging by the amount of light shining between the 
woodplanks above her, she guessed it was early dawn or twilight; her sense of 
time had completely left her. She was also cold. She used her uninjured arm to 
examine herself, and discovered that she was naked, though otherwise unhurt. 
She could not bring herself to touch her wounded arm, however. Still much too 
painful. This time, instead of fainting, Scully fell asleep. 

******

Scully awoke to the sounds of footsteps above her. It was much lighter now; 
Scully knew it had to be midday. She listened to the footsteps above her 
creaking across the wooden floor and the sound of a door swinging open. Scully 
began to remember the events that had led her to her current situation. She 
guessed that the Peacock boys were going out to tend to their pigs. Scully 
realized in a flash of horror that she had no idea *what* the Peacock boys did 
with their time, but quickly rejected this thought in favor of more immediate 
concerns. She again examined her environment. She was indeed in some sort of 
cellar. There was a small set of stairs leading up in the far corner of the 
room; otherwise, the room was unfurnished. The floor and walls were made 
of dirt, and there was a small pool of water under the stairs. With 
trepidation, Scully turned her neck to look at her injury. What she saw nearly 
shocked her back into her previous state of delirium. The arm just below the 
shoulder had been completely shorn; the bloody stump, from which her broken 
humerus extended nearly an inch, was caked with dirt from the floor. The rest 
of her arm was nowhere in sight. Overcome with shock and disgust, Scully 
turned her head and vomited, splashing what was little more than stomach acid 
over her right arm and shoulder. 

******

Regaining a semblance of composure, Scully began to wonder how she could 
possibly be alive. It had been a miracle that the shock of such a drastic 
injury had not killed her, but surely she could not have survived the 
subsequent blood loss. Summoning her courage, Scully again looked at her 
wound. Amazed that she had not noticed it before, Scully saw that a makeshift 
tourniquet had been applied to her arm. It looked horribly ragged, yet it 
seemed effective nonetheless. Scully began to attend to her wound more 
critically. It seemed that whatever had crashed into her arm had cut through 
the flesh and completely shattered the bone; her extended humerous evinced not 
a clean break but rather a fragmentation. However, Scully, amazed by her own 
lucidity, guessed that the crushing blow had not been totally responsible for 
the amputation. The flesh below the bone showed marks of serration, as if her 
arm had been sawed off after the initial breakage. Turning her attention back 
to the tourniquet, Scully, to her horror, realized that what she assumed was a 
stick holding the knot together was actually a bone, or a bone fragment at 
least, and actually had small chunks of flesh still attached to it. Could it 
be her bone? The question was too much for Scully to bear. She passed out. 

******

Scully was not out for long. When she awoke it was still relatively bright in 
the room. However, her environment had changed. She was no longer alone. 
Mulder was there, in the corner adjacent to her. "My God!" she thought, 
"Mulder! I haven't thought him in days, weeks. Has it been weeks?" It actually 
had been only two days since Mulder and Scully had come to the Peacock house. 
Scully looked at Mulder. He was, like her, totally naked, but was fully 
intact. Also unlike her, his entire body was bruised and bleeding, his face 
swollen nearly beyond recognition. Blood caked his nose and jaw; Scully 
couldn't tell whether it was dry or freshly leaking. She couldn't tell if he 
was alive or dead, for that matter. Scully noticed something else, another 
figure, in the opposite corner. She recognized the body as that of the young 
officer who had assisted them, the officer whom she watched be brutally beaten 
by the Peacock brothers. Judging by his condition, which was comparatively 
much worse than Mulder's or Scully's, he was most surely dead. Like Mulder, 
his entire body was bruised and bloody, but he had no limbs, and there was a 
large opening running across his stomach. He was nothing more than a head and 
husk of a body, for Scully could see entrails hanging out of the gash in his 
torso. He had been dismembered and eviscerated, and the stench of his 
incipient putrefaction filled the room. Next to him was a pile of bones, each 
having varying amounts of tissue attached to them. Scully guessed that they 
were the remains of the young officer's limbs. She did not want to guess why 
they had been raggedly stripped of their flesh. Then Scully saw something 
which sent her reeling yet again. One of the bones in the pile was noticeably 
shorter than the others. To her horror, Scully recognized it as her own arm, 
ripped of its flesh, left to rot in a pool of her own displaced blood.  Scully 
was about to pass out, but a new, tingling sensation in her arm caught her 
attention. She looked over at her wound and was repulsed to see a rat gnawing 
at the bloody stump. In a sudden fit of strength, she wrenched the rat from 
her wound and flung it against the wall. It slid down to the floor, recovered, 
and proceeded to crawl over Mulder. Scully then fainted.


End of part 1. This was relatively tame compared with what's to come.
Look for part 2 soon. A preview of what is going to happen: really bad shit.

Jeff (Savage Brutality)



From iding.1@osu.edu Mon May 05 18:13:47 1997
Newsgroups: alt.tv.x-files.creative
Subject: An X-file Brutalization: HOME 2/3
From: iding.1@osu.edu (Savage Brutality)
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Disclaimer:  Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and the entire Peacock clan belong to 
Chris Carter, 1013 Productions, and Fox Broadcasting.  No infringement is 
intended. 

WARNING: I don't know what the rating system is for X-file fanfic, but I will 
tell you this: This story is EXTREMELY SAVAGE. My intention was to write a 
story with NOTHING to recommend it besides excessive, disturbing depictions of 
gore, agony, and general depravity. There is no humor, almost no dialogue, and 
M&S's relationship progresses only in a most hideous fashion. If you hate this 
story, tell me. If it bored you, tell me. If you like this story, tell me. 
I'll base my future fictions on your responses. 

Archive: Yes, please.

Part 2 of 3. If you've read part 1, this is much worse.


Scully was jolted back into consciousness by a renewal of her original searing 
pain. Her environment had changed. She was still in the cellar room, but 
instead of lying on the floor she found herself in the grip of one of the 
Peacock brothers. She recognized the man as the same one she had shot days 
before. Between the pangs shooting from her wound, which had been aggravated 
by the violent manner in which she had been hoisted on the brother's shoulder, 
Scully wondered how the man could still be alive. Even though she didn't have 
a direct view of his face, she could see a ragged, gaping wound stretching 
from just inside his temple to just behind is ear, but the brother seemed 
in no way affected by it. Scully, still retaining a modicum of her wits, a 
luxury that would soon leave her, was astounded by the man's brute physique; 
had she been only looking at the man she would have called him a bear, but, 
being in such close physical contact with him, she gathered he was more of a 
boulder than any fleshly creature. Her pain mixed with her predicament equated 
nothing less than a waking nightmare; in a reversion to childlike 
helplessness,Scully closed her eyes, trying to escape the horror. They reached 
the groundfloor of the home. Scully heard the creaking of the floorboards 
beneath her, and, for a moment, she smelled, she felt, the blossoming of the 
wildflowers, their fragrances blown about by the warm summer breeze. And, for 
a moment, Scully felt the same warmth within her, the same gentle life, and 
thought, for just a moment, that she never wanted to leave this place. With 
her eyes still closed, Scully felt herself lowered onto a wooden chair. Hands 
carressed her, gently, and she felt other odd sensations which she couldn't 
identify. A feeble voice deep within the receding well of her rationality 
warned Scully that she was being tied to the chair, but a much stronger, much 
more appealing feeling (instinct) assured her that if she kept her eyes closed 
the pain in her shoulder and the horror of her situation would be carried away 
with the wind which warmed her soul. Suddenly, a loud, discordant grunt woke 
her from her reverie. Her eyes opened, and the sight which filled her vision 
was more horrible than any abomination her mind had ever imagined.

******

Scully didn't notice that the Peacock brothers had assembled around the 
table at she was seated. Scully had been bound to the chair; her legs were 
tied to the legs of the chair and her uninjured arm and torso were strapped to 
the back. She was seated at the head of the table. Next to her on the right 
was the large brother whom she had shot and who had carried her from the 
cellar. On her left was the brother who had grappled with Mulder. He was the 
eldest of the three, totally hairless, and suffered from an "abundance of 
skin," rendering him nearly featureless. He was the most intelligent of the 
brothers, and was generally regarded as their leader, outside of their 
mother's authority, of course. While the other brothers communicated with a 
nearly random series of grunts and whistles, he had been able to master a few 
rudimentary syllables, and could understand his mother's speech to a limited 
degree. He also could operate simple machinery, and, in what amounted to a 
Peacock family miracle, had learned to drive by mimicking his late father. The 
third brother, seated one seat down from the eldest, looked reasonably human, 
and actually rather slightly built. "He" was sexless, however, blind, 
and less intelligent than the chickens he tended. There was an empty seat at 
the end of the table opposite to Scully, and, in a flash of comprehension, 
Scully guessed that the chair probably hadn't been disturbed in decades. The 
mother was nowhere in sight.

******

Again, at first Scully took no notice of who was seated around her. Instead, 
she was transfixed by what was lying on the table. It was Mulder, splayed 
face-up across the table, his hands and feet tied to the corners. Besides his 
new supine position, his condition hadn't changed from when she saw him in the
cellar. It was Scully's premonition of what was about to unfold that terrified 
her the most. The largest Peacock brother got up from his seat and reached to 
the wall behind him. He came back to the table with a relatively small saw in 
his hand. It was rusty and caked with blood. Scully was overcome with horror. 
She couldn't move, couldn't think, couldn't scream. Yet she was compelled to 
look; her eyes were frozen open. Unfathomed images of what she knew was 
imminent, of the evidence of mutilation lying in the cellar, and of her own 
amputated limb raced in a vicious cycle in her mind. She knew they were linked 
by the horrible tool before her, but her will to survive prevented her 
completing the connection. Her instincts knew she couldn't survive it. Her 
mind suddenly changed directions. Was Mulder still alive? She still could not 
tell. He was completely still, she saw no signs of breathing, but the blood on 
his face looked relatively fresh. The large Peacock lowered the saw to just 
below Mulder's knee. Before Scully could begin to wonder why the Peacock boys 
brought her to their table, a piercing scream shattered the silence of the 
room. Mulder WAS still alive, and his leg was being sawed off. Blood gushed up 
from the jagged laceration, splashing the saw-wielding brother's face. He 
continued, undaunted. The saw was halfway through his leg; the sounds of 
denticulating bone and Mulder's wails coalesced into a horrid symphony, 
sickeningly stifled by the heat of the summer day. The Peacock butcher tore 
the remaining connective tissue with a brutal twist and held Mulder's lower 
leg aloft, letting what blood it still retained drain out. Mulder, 
whose head lay directly in front of Scully, had ceased screaming; he was 
utterly delirious, no longer feeling the pain of his cropped leg as one would 
expect him to. He, in a final moment of reflection, whispered the name of his 
angel, the one whom he had thought would save him, the one whom he had led to 
this hidden hell: "...Scully..." It was his last breath. The shock of his 
mutilation killed him long before all of his lifeblood left him. Scully heard 
her name, but she no longer recognized the figure before her. She no longer 
knew herself. She knew only horror. In a way, she was thankful.

******

Meanwhile, the large Peacock brother had set about cleaning the bone, a 
process which consisted of sawing the flesh lengthwise along the bone and 
ripping off by hand whatever remained. It was a messy process, to say the 
least. The brother divided the meat into three roughly equal portions, with a 
little in a small pile off to the side. Scully watched, not seeing, as the 
brothers gorged themselves on their bloody meal. Still the mother was nowhere 
to be seen. One viewing the grisly scene wouldn't think it possible that any 
more atrocities could be heaped upon poor Scully's now empty soul, but what 
happened next surpassed all that had yet happened. The eldest brother, sinew 
and entrails caught between his teeth, picked up the small pile of Mulderflesh 
and proceeded to stuff it down Scully's throat. Scully's humanity snapped back 
into sentience. She choked on her dead partner's flesh, spitting him out in a 
gory mess which dribbled down her body. Scully considered herself dead, paying 
for unknown sins by desecrating the body of her only real love in the most 
hideous of fashions. The brothers stepped up their efforts, pulling her mouth 
open and literally forcing the meat it into her stomach. Satisfied she had 
consumed a reasonable portion, they watched her, waiting. Then, abruptly, the 
largest and eldest brothers began to beat her stomach while the other, who was 
also the youngest, stuck his fingers down her throat, gagging her. Scully 
vomited all she had swallowed, leaving a pool of partly digested Mulder in a 
circle around her chair. What was once Scully fainted. The brothers were again 
still, again waiting. A soft scraping sound was heard on the floor, and Mrs. 
Peacock, strapped to her rolling board, emerged from underneath the table. The 
eldest Peacock directed her to her dinner, which was dripping through the 
cracks in the floor. 


Jeff (Savage Brutality)


Savage Brutality
Lead Screamer: Scream Moldy Bore
X-Ville's first and only death metal band
Son of Paddock, (A) Husband of Peacock
We'll kick your ass and eat the rest

From iding.1@osu.edu Mon May 05 18:15:32 1997
Newsgroups: alt.tv.x-files.creative
Subject: An X-file Brutalization: HOME 3/3
From: iding.1@osu.edu (Savage Brutality)
--------
Disclaimer:  Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and the entire Peacock clan belong to 
Chris Carter, 1013 Productions, and Fox Broadcasting.  No infringement is 
intended. 

WARNING: I don't know what the rating system is for X-file fanfic, but I will 
tell you this: This story is EXTREMELY SAVAGE. My intention was to write a 
story with NOTHING to recommend it besides excessive, disturbing depictions of
gore, agony, and general depravity. There is no humor, almost no dialogue, and
M&S's relationship progresses only in a most hideous fashion. If you hate this
story, tell me. If it bored you, tell me. If you like this story, tell me. 
I'll base my future fictions on your responses. 

Archive: sure

Part 3 of 3.

For the next few days, the Peacock family repeated this grisly ritual, 
consuming Mulder limb by limb, eventually disemboweling him to eat his organs 
when no more large muscle mass remained. It was a rather quick process; the 
Peacocks had learned through generations that meat spoiled quickly in the heat 
and humidity of the summer, and while rotten flesh was palatable (especially 
to the later generations of Peacocks, who had completely lost their sense of 
taste), it could lead to debilitating, even lethal, sickness. Mulder had been 
killed and eaten because the remains of the young officer Scully had seen in 
the basement were beginning to decompose. The brothers knew that their present 
meal would soon spoil, too, and looked at the young woman seated next to them 
with deadly anticipation. They understood they had to keep her alive, at least 
for a few days more, if they were to eat. If their mother was to eat. It was 
the only thing that kept them from killing her.

******

Scully, meanwhile, spent the next few days floating between insanity and hell. 
However, it only would be appropriate to deem Scully insane in terms of her 
objective situation, for, in Scully's tortured mind, those periods in which 
she didn't comprehend what was happening around her were actually the times in 
which she felt the greatest lucidity, control, and, in a sense, identity. 
During these times, Scully escaped the mortification of her body and soul, her 
entrapment within this foul den of abject slaughter, even her memories and 
knowledge of herself, and entered a new union with her surroundings. This is 
not to say she somehow psychologically ingratiated herself with the horrid 
family that had enslaved her, but rather became enraptured with the same 
tender, tranquil sense of security she had felt while being carried up from 
the basement days before. It was in the air itself. Scully likened the warm, 
moist air to the breathing of a mothering Earth, fecund and kind. The scents 
of fresh blossoms and gentle caresses of midday breezes invited Scully to 
enter an embryonic sleep, a second gestation which would reshape her into her 
natural form, physical and mental, uncorrupted by the weight of her own 
history. Again, it was in these moments Scully knew that this place, this 
land, was meant to be her eternal sanctuary, her hidden Eden. She never wanted 
to leave. And, in moments even more fleeting than these, she knew why the 
Peacocks never had.

******

Yet, at the same time, there was a very brutal reality which Scully could not, 
of course, escape.  The brothers left her strapped to the chair between meals, 
time in which Scully would drift off to the fantasies described above. The 
ripping of flesh and sawing of bone always brought her back. Scully dreamt of 
reuniting with nature, of becoming the "noble savage." These men were an 
example of the reality behind that whimsy. Animalistic, predatory, cannibals. 
Day after day, Scully's brain refused to accept (understand) what her eyes 
transmitted: the progressive dismemberment and evisceration of her (life) 
partner, who was left to rot before her in the afternoon heat as a gruesome 
memorial to his fanciful enterprises. The enterprises she had shared. But even 
this did not compare to the ultimate horror of her forced consumption. Her 
body had been conditioned to convulse and vomit what flesh had been forced 
down her throat after several minutes; she had literally become a surrogate 
digestive system for Mrs. Peacock, whose own gastric juices had long ago 
reduced the walls of her stomach to scarred, ulcer-ridden films, incapable of 
proper storage and digestion. Mrs. Peacock had, in fact, taken up residence 
under Scully's chair, constantly craving the arrival of her next meal. She had 
also taken to biting Scully's ankles at any perceived threat to her position 
as matriarch, a position in the Peacock family which also entailed sexual 
eminency. It was a twisted struggle for female dominance, the participants 
being a raving, retarded, aging invalid and a tortured, broken soul, 
completely oblivious to the timeless battle she was engaged in. This mockery 
of humanity continued until nothing edible remained on Mulder's body; his 
mangled, spoiling corpse was then hacked into a pulp and fed to the pigs. 

******

Scully was able to conceive that Mulder's disposal meant her situation would 
likely change. The change, in fact, came very quickly. The Peacocks cut 
Scully's bounds and layed her on the table. They sensed their new prey was 
already greatly weakened; they would have to act quickly if she was to provide 
them with precious meat. Scully felt her wrists and ankles being tied to the 
corners of the table. What was left of her mind raced as she filled the space 
Mulder had occupied, but it was not memories that flashed before her, nor had 
she any epiphanies or transcendent comprehensions. Rather, her mind filled 
with the horror of her fate. She witnessed the procession of her imminent 
mutilation. Waves of pure fear washed viscerally through her body as she saw 
her limbs and entrails torn away. She cursed her protracted awareness, 
envying, perhaps not the peace, but the seeming finality of Mulder's death.  
Yet even death was not an escape, for, in a still viler infestation of her 
fear,  Scully realized her flesh, in a sense, would live on inside her 
demented captors, permanently transfused with their septic evil. Suddenly, 
pain was her only reality, a pain even greater than the one she had felt days 
before in the initial struggle. She swooned, fading into blessed blackness, as 
a faint undercurrent from the darkest recess of her mind came wafting into her 
slipping consciousness, a thought so horrible her mind (instincts) had kept 
her from considering before. Was it possible? Could they force her to eat her 
own flesh? Could such an act be committed?...

The large Peacock brother had broken Scully's knee with a crushing blow. The 
brothers heard her scream, which they were accustomed to, and watched as she 
quickly slipped out of consciousness. Yet they did not go further. Mrs. 
Peacock was absent. The brothers knew something was amiss; it was unlike their 
mother to move more than a few feet without their help. Besides, she had no 
purpose other than eating and breeding, and had no reason to leave the room in 
which her meal was served.  Something had happened, something which was to 
drastically alter the course of future events.

Mrs. Peacock had died.

******

Mrs. Peacock had sensed that the end of her life was near. She was fifty-six 
years old, which was quite incredible in light of her genetic abnormalities 
and profound medical ailments. She knew her body was failing, and, beyond 
that, sensed the presence of a new dominant female presence in her home. It 
was of no consequence that the boys intended Scully to be nothing more than a 
meal, and in fact Mrs. Peacock knew this, on a limited level. However, Mrs. 
Peacock did not have the mental capacity to reconcile her instinctual 
knowledge that Scully was food and her instinctual warning that Scully was a 
sexual threat, nor could she understand that Scully's pure genetic code 
rendered her largely incapable of mating with such chromosomal cesspools as 
her sons, to say nothing of her willingness to participate in such acts. She 
had dragged herself outside and under the backporch to the dark, cool place 
where she had always known she would die. This is where the boys found her. 
They loved their mother, and they cried for her. Scully was still unconscious. 
When she awoke, several hours later, the brothers were sitting down, looking 
at her on the table. Unlike before, they were quite passive, hardly stirring. 
A mournful look hung upon their faces, as well as a grim uncertainty. Scully 
smelled wildflowers in the wind.

******

Seven years later.

Scully watched her son as he played in the grassy fields behind their home. 
She would have called out to him, wishing him a happy fifth birthday, but the 
child had been born without ears, and she doubted he could have understood 
speech, anyway. It did not matter. The boy was hers, and he was beautiful. She 
rolled herself over to the other side of the porch so she could gaze on the 
rest of the family. There was the eldest, still diligently toiling in the 
pens, along with his younger brother. The largest brother had died three years 
ago; his stiffened body laid beneath her, under the porch next to his original 
mother. Scully did not really remember the woman; she had seen her only 
fleetingly in a time clouded by a deep sense of dread, though Scully could not 
remember what exactly had happened. It did not matter now, though. She knew 
who she was. She was Mother, head of her household and proud carrier of the 
Peacock lineage. The air was thick and sweet that day; it was days like these 
she could feel her arm and leg anew, could feel her soul warmed by the 
graceful rhythm of family whispered in nature and resounded by her own. She 
was so proud, so happy, so glad she was there. Scully was under the spell of 
the house and the earth it stood on. It had seeped into her long ago, 
gradually erasing the memory of her previous life and providing her with a 
timeless sense of existence as fertile care-giver. The spell had given her a 
family, given her a son, and at the same time protected her, hid her, from the 
encroachment of her history. No search party had ever found her or even the 
home she resided in. Her mother and siblings eventually forgot about her. The 
Peacock brothers had strapped her to the rolling board with a loving care 
unlike Scully had ever known, and carefully dressed her wounds and soothed her 
pains. They knew she had become Mother; their instincts (the land) told them 
so. Scully's board slipped on the edge of the porch and fell, snapping her 
neck. So she died, forgotten by the world but loved by her family, her home, 
her land. Eventually all the Peacocks died away, returning to the earth from 
which the came. They were survived by their home, proud, and in loving memory.

Fox William Mulder: 1961-1996

Dana Katherine Scully: 1964-1996

Mrs. D. Peacock: 1996-2003

End.

Jeff (Savage Brutality)


Savage Brutality
Lead Screamer: Scream Moldy Bore
X-Ville's first and only death metal band
Son of Paddock, (A) Husband of Peacock
We'll kick your ass and eat the rest

