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Todd and Tucker are still following a woman who turns tin into gold and lettuce into dollar bills, but all of it turns back at sunset. She's killed a man in Texas, by turning him into a gold statue, but she's long gone. But, Duke's got a feeling about why she's running, if not where, and all he has to do is catch up with her first.
Later, Chaz runs into someone he doesn't know, but has a terrible feeling he needs to.Some characters from Criminal Minds and The Lone Gunmen may be mentioned, as this is a Vexation of Spirit fic, but none of them are appearing in this fic.Series
- Part 33 of Vexation of Spirit
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Rebirth is a Champagne Holiday by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit
26 Jun 2022
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Diana Reid has been schizophrenic for a very long time, and when the Altzheimer's hit, it didn't help at all. Spencer knows very well how bad the situation is. How bad it was. How bad it should be. But, she's been getting better, recently. Not less paranoid, but more coherent. And he keeps waiting for the other shoe to drop.
(And in the background, Chaz makes bad decisions, like the Anomaly hasn't given enough to feel guilty about.)
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- Part 27 of Vexation of Spirit
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A ring purchased by a pawnbroker in a small town in North Carolina is not the ring he finds the next day. When suspicions of insurance fraud come up, the local sheriff washes his hands of the matter, and Duke heads down with a consultant who specialises in gemstones. The consultant, unfortunately, has never before encountered an anomalous crime.
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- Part 25 of Vexation of Spirit
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Blood and Water by Redcodah, Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV)
13 Apr 2022
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"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." -- Rabbi Richard Pustelniak
This holiday season, Vexation of Spirit brings you family bullshit, with a side of murder and malfeasance.
A strange system failure at Idlewood is preventing access to parts of patient and employee records, and it falls to Langly and Kim to figure out what's happening and how to fix it, before the missing information gets someone killed. Chaz's first hint something is wrong comes when Shadow's treatment fails to match the neurologist's orders.
Reid and Alvez take on a twenty-year-old case in which the killer proudly admits to eleven murders, but has always held that two more were someone else's kills. A twentieth anniversary interview with a victim's sister reveals the last two deaths were a gay couple who didn't live together, and both came from intolerant families. Were one or both of the families involved in their deaths, or are they just as much a distraction as the other killer?
And Reid gets more people knocking on his door in two days than in most of the preceding decade.
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- Part 23 of Vexation of Spirit
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The Cause of Your Stumbling by Redcodah, Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV)
14 Nov 2021
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Someone in Las Vegas is cutting the legs off of women. Reid is already less than thrilled to be back in town, when he discovers the lead on the case is someone he used to know in school. When an anomalous man is spotted in the vicinity of several crime scenes, the question is whether he's a witness or the killer, and whether this will become an ACTF case.
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- Part 22 of Vexation of Spirit
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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
18 Aug 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.
And then the unthinkable happens, and Reid is caught up in a horror of Parabolan origins with a lord from the High Wilderness, the next stage in a drama stretching back before the Fall of London. How will a former Sequencer, a half-breed space bat, and a member of the Calendar Council who subsists almost entirely on ... 'caramels' save them?
But first, a brief head injury, sustained in the fall...
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Everything That Rises by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: The Lone Gunmen (TV), Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit
09 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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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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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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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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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.
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Recent events have pushed Chaz well past his limits, and the nightmares won't stop. In pursuit of complete exhaustion, in the hopes it'll let him get four or five hours of sleep, he lets Hafidha talk him into going to a new nightclub, where he intends to drink until he stops caring and dance until he drops.
Drink, dance, fuck, sleep. He hoped.
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'L' Is For Love Letters by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: The Lone Gunmen (TV), Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit
05 Nov 2018
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Reid and Langly finally have the conversations Reid's been procrastinating about: what was with that message and what happened between the donut shop and the hospital? Renovations begin at the most annoying possible time. Byers gets some frightening news about the woman he's loved for almost thirty years, and then some much, much stranger news regarding the informant he's been so curious about. And that's when the shit hits the fan.
Who is Alcea, and what does Susanne Modeski have to do with any of this?
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- Part 6 of Vexation of Spirit
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Quicksilver [podfic] by semperfiona_podfic (semperfiona) for DefinitelyNotScott
Fandoms: Shadow Unit
20 Feb 2018
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Podfic of "Quicksilver" by beccastareyes
Author's original summary:
In a lull during a 2007 case, Daphne and Hafs talk conspiracies and superpowers.
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Episode 2.08.5: Sign over everything by CenozoicSynapsid for kalirush
Fandoms: Shadow Unit
10 Jun 2014
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Maybe she was too far gone for that. Maybe they'd just look at each other and she'd see the message in their eyes, bug in the program, block in the circuit and then they'd take her away and lock her up where they could cut her open and try to figure out where she'd gone wrong. Why she couldn't understand.
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Hafidha Gates heads for North Dakota. Takes place between 2.08 (Not Alone) and 3.01 (The Unicorn Evils).
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The team sets out to track down a gamma who may be a mad scientist.