A futurefic involving a grown William Mulder looking for his...parents...with John Doggett playing an adoptive uncle?

His skin was covered with little bumps as though from a nettle rash. I looked for the tick he had flung away. It was black and swollen from old blood and it seemed clear that this infected blood had got into the wound and caused acute blood poisoning.

With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.

A battery of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of papers and carried off by clerks.