From: CheerBabyKK@cs.com Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:06:14 EDT Subject: my story Source: direct *Hydration* by Kaelan US Olympic Trials 2000 Vanessa Atler takes a drink from her Gatorade water bottle. "Concentrate, you can do this Vanessa" her coach tells her. Vanessa walks up to the parallel bars and chalks her hands. She gently massages her ripped hands as she waits for the judges go ahead. "Vannessa Atler on bars" the announcer says. Vanessa salutes to the judges and walks up to the bars. Her mount is perfect. So is the rest of her routine. She hands on the mat and turns to the judges, saluting with an ear to ear smile. As she walks off of her coach runs up to her and gives her a big hug. "Great routine Nessa! Perfect! Im so proud of you!" They both look at the judges score. Perfect ten. Vanessa and her coach jump up and down. Mary Lee Tracy stares into Dominique Moceanu's eyes. "Its ok Domi, you're gonna do fine. Just focus and you wont fall off. I know you can do this." Dominique takes a drink of Gatorade and goes up to the beam. She turns and salutes the judges. Another perfect routine from an Olympic hopeful. Not everyone was so lucky to have good scores though. Morgan White and Alyssa Beckerman had bad luck. Morgan White's coach walked up to her. "It's ok, put it behind you. It doesn't matter what happened on bars right now, your on floor. Just remember how good you did at practice, give it your all and you can do it." Morgan White smiled and took a drink of Lemon-Lime powerade, her favourite. She saluted the judges, and walked up to the floor. Her music started, and she just stood there, blank. It was like her brain had been erased or frozen. The same thing happened to Alyssa Beckerman. She wipes the tears from her eyes and takes a drink of powerade. After her punch front mount onto the beam she couldn't remember anything. She did some leaps and backwards tumbling and then tried a double front off but landed on her butt. Scratched. FBI Headquarters Mulder and Scully sat in their office. "Man... its a pretty empty day huh Scully. Wanna go get some ice cream?" "Sure I guess... but should one of us stay here just in case something springs up? Ill stay here, you go ok?" "Sure Scully, whatever you say. What do you want?" Scully sits and thinks for a second. "A low fat tofutti rice creamsicle sounds good." Mulder makes a disgusted face and nods ok to Scully. He leaves the building, and three minutes later the phone rings. "Scully" she answers. "Ok, well be there as soon as we can." Scully hangs up the phone and calls Mulder on his cell phone, telling him to get back soon so they can go. "Yea, Skinner already booked us a flight, and we have a nice rental car waiting for us after we get off... according to him." Scully hangs up the phone. Mulder and Scully are in the car on their way to the airport. "Oops sorry Mulder, i dripped some ice cream on your seat." "Its ok... theyre ScotchGuard." Mulder opens his glove compartment and takes out a napkin. "Here." he hands it to Scully. Corner of 31st street and 16th "I swear it, this is where Skinner told me to go. Right here. He said there was a suspicious chain of bank robberies and this was the last one." "Well then how come there isn't a bank here Scully? Are you sure that was Skinner that called you? And not just some stupid junkie prank calling you?" "I don't know, but if it was some kid then he sounded JUST like Skinner." "OK Scully, how about I call Skinner and see what he says." Mulder calls Skinner on his cell phone, mumbles a bit, and then hangs up. "Nope, Skinman said he never called you. Looks like we get a free vacation here in Boston, because he said to stay a while since the files haven't really been very productive. Lets go find a hotel." Mulder and Scully both walk into a Days Inn. "Can I help you? One room..." "No two separate rooms please" Scully requests. "Yea" Mulder says acting rather disappointed. Mulder and Scully walk into their rooms and get settled in. Mulder makes a few phone calls and goes to Scully's room. "Be back in a few minutes, Scully get dressed im taking you out to dinner." Mulder leaves and Scully gets dressed in a dark blue elegant dress. Mulder picks her up at the hotel and takes her to a fancy restaurant. They both eat and Mulder pulls something out of his pocket. "Here Scully" he says handing her a velvet box. Scully opens it up and pulls two tickets out of it. "Thank you so much Mulder! Olympic Trials tickets! How did you know I was a closet gymnastics fan?" Scully giggles. "Well it's pretty obvious when all you have in your VCR are gymnastics tapes. And I know how much you wanted to be a gymnast when you was a little kid." "I love gymnastics! What a beautiful sport! And the gymnasts today are unbelievable. Sometimes i just sit and think about what it would be like to be one of them. Famous, special, i'd love to be a gymnast. I still hold a grudge against my mom for never giving me lessons. Sure, Bill and Charlie get to play baseball and football, but im stuck at home just sitting there, watching the bob tube." US Olympic Trials, Boston "See that one over there? Thats Morgan White. And that one! That's Vanessa Atler! My favourite! She is so cute! If I ever have a little girl that shows any interest in gymnastics im putting her in lessons that second. Look! Its Shannon Miller! I cant believe that she petitioned before. That's just wrong I think." Mulder and Scully watch the gymnasts perform. Vanessa Atler is on floor. "Come on Nessa you got it! All you need is a 9.5 to win and I know you have it in you! Your doing so good, two tens! And your routines are so perfect! Just one more, floor! You can do it! Get out there and bust it out!" Vanessa Atlers coach yells at her. Vanessa Walks out onto the floor, and gets into her starting pose after saluting to the judges. Her music starts and she just stands there. Then she collapses. Paramedics rush to her, but then Dominique Moceanu collapses too. Scully and Mulder run down to see what happened. "FBI" they say in unison. Scully examines Vanessa Atler, who has no symptoms of a normal collapsing. Her heart beats irregular, and her arms are turning blue. "I cant seem to figure out what's wrong with her Mulder. Run these tests for me." She hands Mulder a piece of paper with scribble on it. Mulder walks away. "I need a full analysis of what this girl has been eating and drinking, one of Dominique too" Scully insists and walks away. Scully and Mulder are at the lab. "The tests are in Mulder, I think we have something look. What are the things that are the same with both of these girls?" Mulder looks at the charts. "They both drank Gatorade. But I don't understand, weren't all the girls drinking that?" "Apparently not, because we ran some test on the Gatorade that Vanessa and Dominique were both drinking, and it had some kind of drug in it that sped up their hearts and gave them extra or even some kind of false energy." "So I guess it was just them that drank it. Oh I remember now, all the other girls that I saw were drinking Powerade!" "That's it" shouts Scully. FBI Headquarters "Oh I can see you two are back from vacation." Skinner says as Mulder and Scully walk into the doors of the FBI basement. "Well it seems that it wasn't a vacation after all." says Mulder. "Yea, we had a very... interesting case with sports drinks." "Yea so I guess we still get our vacation time, and that didn't count. Too bad huh? Maybe ill take mine soon." "Nope I don't think so," Skinner says, "we've been very busy since you've been gone. We have about three cases lined up for you." Skinner hands Mulder and Scully a pile of papers. Mulder and Scully stare at each other. "Have fun!" Skinner says, and walks away.