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Murderous Days and Cosmogone Dreams by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV), Fallen London | Echo Bazaar
16 Jun 2021
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The Masters chose the Sixth City, and against all advice, a deal was made for Washington DC. Reid's team are struggling to adjust to the Neath and its unusual inhabitants, and also to the apparent loss of the rest of the country. On top of this, a killing spree is stretching across the city, with apparently unrelated people slashing complete strangers, with similar techniques but widely varying knives. It's only with the assistance of a Fifth City team of experts in unusual crimes that they can even begin to approach the case from the right angles.
But first, a brief head injury, sustained in the fall...
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Watching the Evening Slide Away by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd) for Earlgreyer
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit
06 Jan 2021
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After almost getting killed five times in as many weeks and then going straight back into the field, Reid has a thirty-something hour dissociative episode. Langly brings bagels and refuses to let him apologise for it.
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- Part 21 of Vexation of Spirit
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Best Served Cold by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV)
16 Dec 2020
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While Villette deals with broken ribs, and Byers tries to figure out how to make space in his plans for Bedlam's top man, Reid gets called away on a case. Four victims have been found disembowelled in cold docks at the port of Camden, with no apparent similarities aside from the method of death. The lead detective on the case is not fond of the idea of having feds on his patch, and casually obstructs their investigation. Reid is not his usual tactful self after four attempts on his life in as many weeks.
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- Part 20 of Vexation of Spirit
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Everything That Rises by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: The Lone Gunmen (TV), Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit
10 Aug 2020
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Everything that can go wrong will go wrong, and that's just the beginning. Chaz can't go home, because it's a crime scene. Langly's worried that Kim of Bedlam's going to try again, and they're not going to see it coming, next time. Montoya's got a horrifying development in the amphetamine murders. And Reid's just waiting to get the stitches out of his arm.
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- Part 19 of Vexation of Spirit
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Burn Away, Burn Away my Pride by kye_16 for Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Shadow Unit
24 Jul 2020
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Chaz has had to put up with some shitty assignments in the past. He'd like the shit to stay relegated to the cases, though, if he may.
Villette gets nostalgic in shitty ways, and keeps company with (invariably overpriced) whiskey.
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Putting Out Fire with Gasoline by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit
26 Apr 2020
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Villette comes home to an almost-pleasant surprise. Reid comes home to a case that does not go as well as he'd like. And in the background, a deadly opponent prepares one final game-ending strike that Langly is waiting to capture.
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- Part 17 of Vexation of Spirit
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Dawn of the Secret Admirer by DefinitelyNotScott for CenozoicSynapsid
Fandoms: Shadow Unit
02 Mar 2020
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The first time Dr. Cassie Martin finds dried flowers in front of her door it's not creepy at all.
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God in an Alcove by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: The Lone Gunmen (TV), Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit
07 Feb 2020
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Langly's cousin isn't his cousin. She's his mutant clone. And neither of them are related to anyone in their family. Our heroes have traced this back to a fertility clinic operating out of Lincoln, but it's been shut down for thirty years, and a surprising number of former employees are dead or missing. No one knows where their records ended up. But, Byers has another idea about where to find more information...
In the background, Reid and Villette deal with some lingering personal issues from times past, and the police keep showing up to investigate the greenhouse full of pot some local kids decided to build in the back of the dairy barn on the old Langly farm.
(Lost? Try the rest of the series.)
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- Part 16 of Vexation of Spirit
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He Loves Me Not by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Shadow Unit, Criminal Minds (US TV)
05 Jan 2020
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On the thirteenth of February, the day before Valentine's, Chaz comes into the office early, only to find himself surrounded by the smell of tea roses and the start of a case. From the initial evidence, he and his old friend Spencer Reid can't even tell if they're investigating an abduction or a murder.
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- Part 18 of Vexation of Spirit
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Polish the Stars by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV)
05 Nov 2019
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In Idaho Falls, a killer has been hanging victims up in playgrounds, surrounded by battery-powered glowing stars. In York, there are bodies to be exhumed and difficult questions to be asked and maybe even answered. In Midland, an unusual number of patient-family suicides surround a mid-sized hospital. And from her cell, Narcisse continues to plot against her nemesis, the yet-unbowed Spencer Reid.
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- Part 14 of Vexation of Spirit
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It Could Be Sunshine by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit, Criminal Minds (US TV)
13 Jun 2019
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Langly has a cousin, or so they think. Under other circumstances, his wariness might be dismissed as paranoia, but who is this Nebraskan forensic pathologist, really? And how does Chaz intend to deal with the fact that he made a pass at the cousin of one of the men he's sleeping with, knowing damn well that was exactly what he was doing?
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- Part 13 of Vexation of Spirit
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The first time he finds an evil eye bead, Chaz thinks it's a broken necklace. But when more evil eyes keep showing up, he's forced to believe it's not a coincidence. Don't worry, ends well.
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Sickles and Straw Men by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit
06 May 2019
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After fielding a fake request for immediate assistance that seemed to come from the Governor of Maryland's office, Prentiss sends the half of the team that's been working the Helmsman investigation out on a totally other case in Nebraska. Four bodies have been found during the harvest, along the I-80 corridor through Nebraska, each of them eviscerated and hung up like a scarecrow in a different farmer's corn. Whether they'd meant to take the case or not, it's definitely legitimate.
Meanwhile, Yves has dropped back in on the Gunmen, to inform them she's been contracted to look into their front company, but she's been offered an extension on the contract to kill them. After deciding she'd rather not kill them, she agrees to be used as a conduit back to her employer... Helmsman.
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- Part 12 of Vexation of Spirit
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The WTF's nutritionist on call comes up with a new way to find gammas. Emotions ensue.
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Arthur Tan discovers Chaz and Hafidha developing a complex computer visualization of unclear purpose.
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In Which the Team Discovers Madeline Frost's Extracurricular Activities (Among Other Things) by Sanguinifex (Eros_Scribens)
Fandoms: Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV), Vanity and Vexation (AU)
01 Apr 2019
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In a case that's transhumanist from start to finish, the Shadow Unit team pairs up with Langly (alias Frank Arroway, post-JtS) from the X-Files/The Lone Gunmen, to take down a gamma who's killing people and hooking them up to public computer terminals. With two of their own network cryptids in play, it seems like it should be open-and-shut, but the stakes are raised when the rogue gamma targets the ACTF.
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Certain persons made a request for happy!Chaz. I was all too pleased to make the attempt.
Hafs is late getting home, but she arrives with the perfect gift.
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- Part 15 of Vexation of Spirit
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The Dangers of Not Being Dead Enough by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: The Lone Gunmen (TV), Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit
17 Mar 2019
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Langly's trying to clean up the mess yet another encounter with a troublesome tabloid reporter has made of his seventeen years supposedly dead and buried, when he finds that a photo he didn't catch the first time has inspired a group of writers to add him to their collection of erotic fiction. A few clicks and a little scrolling, and there are suddenly way too many names he knows on the page.
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Reaching for a Ghost by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV)
12 Mar 2019
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The essential truth of life is that nothing stays the same. One learns, one grows, and sometimes one comes back from the dead to kick ass and take names. Or that's what it looks like from the outside, anyway. The hunt for Helmsman continues, and our heroes discover an awful lot about themselves and each other along the way.
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- Part 10 of Vexation of Spirit
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“What’s so great about greasy potato pancakes?” “Greasy. Potato. Pancakes. Is there something to not like?”
An eternal debate, this time in the Shadow Unit briefing room.