Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:04:24 -0800 Subject: My Story Title-Dark Of Night (1/1) Author-Nae Rating-PG for language and gore - no violence - no sex Classification-XA Spoilers-Pusher, Kitsunegari Keywords-Mulder/Scully Friendship Summary- When on a case something goes wrong putting Agent Mulder's life on the line. Disclaimer-Mulder and Scully are owned by Chris Carter, 1013 Productions, Fox Television Network, etc. They are wonderfully brought to life by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. I am just borrowing them for a little while so please don't sue me Chris!! I make no profit from this, and neither will Fox if they sue me. Archive: Sure! Just let me know. Dark Of Night Scully sat at her desk deeply engrossed in the lastest X-Files that had crossed there desk. She didn't even noticed when Mulder walked through the door telling her good morning. He tapped her on the shoulder and she almost jumped out of her chair. "Jesus Mulder! You scared me" "Sorry Scully hehe . Watcha reading?" He asked. "It's our latest case" she answered without looking up." So what's the case?" he asked. "It just came on our desk this morning , and I'm still not sure. Scully started explaining the case to him, "4 men have died so far all working with-in the same building, a placed called 'Morenzos Electronic's they say they have all died under strange and mysterious circumstances." Mulder raised his head from which he was staring at the ground and said "What kind of mysterious circumstances?" "Well the case says here that 2 of the men were crushed from the inside with no apparent marks on the body to show any sign of apparent bruises and anything." "What about the other 2 men?" Mulder asked. "It says here the other 2 well they burned to death but there was no apparent burn marks. They died as if they thought they were on fire, like some kind of mind control. Something or someone made them think they were on fire when they apparently weren't." "Did they do a autopsy of examination on and of the four bodies?" "No they have requested that I do the autopsies on all four of the men. In fact I was just on my way over their do you want to join me?" No did any of the 4 men have wives?" "Yes 3 of them had wives." "Give me the address of one of the men's wives think I will make a little trip over there while you do the autopsy's. I want you to call me if anything comes up." "Ok. The address to one of the workers 'Gary O'Brian' is 7341 South Vine St. It's right here in Washington." And with that they were out the door and head there own ways. ************************************************************************ O'Brian residence 7:15 p.m. Mulder knocked on the door of Mrs O'Brians house waiting for someone to answer the door. 'KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK' no answer.. "Hello?" he called out. No answer. He knew someone was home, because Mrs. O'Brian's car was parked in the front drive. He grabbed the doorknob and jiggled it just a little bit and surprisingly the door opened with ease. By then Mulder reached on his side and pulled his gun out of his holster and held it up, opening the door slightly and with great caution. He peered inside not seeing anything out of the ordinary. He walked in very slowly with his gun cocked and ready. "Hello? Anybody here?" he called out. No answer. He started walking through the house looking in each and every room with caution and finding nothing. He walked into the living room when he heard a slight noise of someone's voice talking, but was relieved to find the tv turned on. "I really need to calm down" he told himself under his breath. He then slowly walked into the kitchen and as soon as he entered he could see someone laying on the floor. He walked slowly toward the body and behind the counter he found Mrs. O'Brian on the floor. He checked her pulse and she was dead. He then got up and started searching the kitchen. He didn't find anything unusual except when he got to where the telephone was, he found the telephone off the hook and hanging off the receive of the floor, as if Mrs. O'Brian was talking on the phone when she died. He picked up the phone and got a dead signal. He then pulled his phone out of his pocket and punched in a number. Soon a man's voice filtered through the other end of the line. "Hello?" "Yeah Danny this is Mulder I need a number." "Yeah I need the number of the last incoming call from this residence. Ok thanks Danny" Mulder then waited and about 5 minutes later the phone ring. He picked it up. "Hello?" "Yeah Mulder it's me I got that number it's 555-3337." "Where's that number at?" "It's the number to a old warehouse called Warehouse 55 off Route 72." "Ok Danny thanks a lot" ************************************************************************ County Morgue 7:08 p.m. "The body appears to have no apparent marks to show any-" then the high pierce ringing of Scully's cell phone broke off her sentence in which she was speaking into a recorder. "Scully" "Scully it's me I think you really need to get up here and fast" "Mulder why? What did you find?" "What I found was Mrs. O'Brian dead. "Dead?" "I'm on my way." Scully hit the 'end' button on her phone, pushed the body back into the morgue and was out the door locking it behind her. Just minutes later Scully was pulling up in the front yard of Mrs. O'Brians house, where she saw Mulder standing out front waiting on her. She got out and walked up to talk to him. "Do you know what she died of?" she asked. "No in fact I can't nothing that shows of what she died of." "Maybe a heart attack is what I was thinking." He added. "Well we won't know for sure until I can do a full course examination on her body. "Did you call the coroners office?" she asked. "Yeah there on the way and so is the crime lab to see if they can find any evidence or pull any finger prints." "But the thing I found was Mrs. O'Brian's phone off the hook and dead when I found her. If was as if she was talking to someone before or right when she died." "Ok well I am going to do a examination on her and see what I can find." Scully said. ************************************************************************ County Morgue 8:20 p.m. "What did you find?" Mulder asked walking into the morgue where Scully was just finishing the full body examination and autopsy of Mrs. O'Brian. "Well to tell you the truth Mulder this is weird. I mean this lady has no apparent marks on her body and no evidence or and explanation of how she died what so ever." "Except?." "Except what?" Mulder asked curious. "Well when I took a brain test on her I found that he died just like those 2 men." "And how's that?" Asked Mulder. "Well apparently she died of smoke inhalation." "What?" "I know I said the same thing, I mean her house had no fires or anything I mean no flames to show any evidence of smoke or fire what-so-ever." "Ok Scully remember when we looked into Mrs. O'Brian's house remember her phone was off the hook as if she was talking to someone before or when she died?" "yeah, what are you saying?" "Well I'm saying that what if the person she was talking to made her think she or her house was on fire. Like mind control like them four men died." "Plus, I got Danny to trace the number of the last incoming call that was receive at Mrs. O'Brian's and Danny called back with a number being dials from a old warehouse called Warehouse 55 right off Route 72. I say we check it." Ok I'll meet you there as soon as I get done it shouldn't be long." "Ok I'll go on and head over there now" he said. And with that he was off. Just about 30 minutes later Scully was just finishing up and cleaned up and headed over to the warehouse that she was to meet Mulder. Warehouse 55 9:10 p.m. Scully pulled up in the parking lot after passing the rusted gate in the front. She at first couldn't see Mulder's car then breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him standing by his car in the back of the warehouse. She pulled up next to his car and got out. "Did you go inside yet?" she asked. "No not yet I was waiting for you thinking that you would want me to." "Ok ready?" "Yeah" he said. And with that they were off and head toward a old rusted door leading into the old warehouse, with their guns cocked and ready. They got up to the door and was greeted by a locked door but with one swift kick by Mulder the door was soon opened. "good job" Scully snickered. "Thanks" he said with a sheepish grin. While they were having a delightful moment, it was then broken off when they heard a loud clatter. They then looked at each other, held their guns up and walked cautiously into old warehouse. "Scully kinda stay behind me just a little I would rather go first just to be safe" and without protesting Scully slid to the left a little behind Mulder. All of a sudden they heard another loud clatter but this time it was 2 times as louder than what they had heard just moments before and with that they were running towards the sound. When they ran just a couple of feet they stopped staring down a mile high pile of boxes. All of a sudden a voice came from behind them "Don't move." Mulder and Scully froze the voice then said "Turn around slowly very slowly" with that Mulder and Scully turned around slowly and within seconds were facing a middle age man with a white t-shirt and workers type jeans. "Well well if it ain't the FBI what took you guys so long?" "Well you are probaly wondering if I am the killer. The answer to your little question is yes." "See but there is something you do not know about me." "Yeah and what's that?" Mulder asked. "I am or well was a former FBI just like you a few years ago until I had a accident." "What kind of accident?" Scully said finally speaking. "I was on a stakeout when the guy holding people holding the men and woman hostage starting shooting and shot me in the head." "I almost died but I didn't. I since that day I sorta possessed a power to mind control anybody and anything I want." "Is that why the FBI fired you?" asked Mulder. "No they fired me because I took advantage of my power and went of a killing rampage killing a great number of people. But before they could arrest me I would be gone." "See like right now If I wanted to I could make you take that gun of yours and blow your partner away in 2 seconds. Scully then looked up at Mulder with sympathetic eyes. "Yeah well I got more will power than to do that. If anyone is gonna get blown away it will be you." "Wanna try me?" Asked Mark sarcastically. "No I do not want to try you. What do you want?" I don't want anything except you two agents dead." "Well I don't think that's gonna happen." "No you don't think?" and with that before Scully and Mulder could even react Mark shot off 3 rounds from his gun hitting Mulder 2 times in the chest and once in the arm. Scully then took her gun and shot Mark a number of times until he was dead. "Mulder!" "no no no hey come on Mulder wake up." "She bent down to him "hey come on wake up." Mulder then slightly open his eyes and said "Scu-lly?" "I'm right here Mulder your gonna be ok. "Scully?" "yeah Mulder? " "Is this goodbye Scully?" "No Mulder" Scully then picked up his his head and layed it in her lap. "Listen to me this is not goodbye you heard me? No good byes ok? No good byes. Come on Mulder stay with me don't leave me please." By this time Scully was crying and in the distance she could hear the EMS van and as soon as they pulled up Mulder blacked out. Georgetown Medical Hospital 11:30 a.m. the next day Mulder opened his eyes and looked around his room and let out a groan when he finally saw where he was. He could hear someone crying and when he turned around to look he saw Scully laying her head in his bed crying her eyes out. "Hey Beautiful" Scully's head popped up, "Mulder!!" "Oh my god hey!! She jumped up and grabbed his hand. "What's wrong" he asked. "The doctors didn't know if you were gonna live or not and I was just so scared I would never see you again. "Hey come on now come here" he said grabbing her hand. "I just thought I would never be able to tell you things that I wanted to tell you. Things I didn't know if you knew or not." "Plus I was just remembering when you got shot how you asked me if that was goodbye and I was so afraid that it was." He squeezed her hand and said "I was afraid it was goodbye too but it wasn't you were there for me and I am still here." "Don't worry Scully I will never leave you I promise" Scully then starting crying harder and bent down and kissed him on the forehead and said "Mulder I want you to know how much you mean to me" "You mean everything to me I would give me life for you without thinking twice. I would put my butt on the line any day for you. I care so much for you, I want you to know that you are my best friend. You always have been and always will be." "Scully I know that and I care that much for you and more. But I think you know how much I care about and how much you mean to me." Scully smiled and then spoke and said "yeah I know and remember no good bye's ever ok?" "Ok I promise" he said. And with that Scully gave him one last hug and walked out of hospital room with a big smile on face her knowing that it wasn't the last time she would see him. THE END