Procrastination part 1/3 by: Shal Category: SRA Okay this is my first attempt at fan fic so here it goes!!! disclaimer: I know this will come as a shock to all of you but Mulder, Scully and the x files are not mine!! I did not create them! However if anyone doesn't believe this and feels the need to send me money go for it. If anyone wants to archive it just let me know where!! And feed back please Bubbles59@Yahoo.com summary: Scully's thoughts and feelings on things that have happened and what is happening. A bit of Mulder's too. Post movie. spoilers:If you have not seen the movie do not read, also various episodes and The End. July6 th 6:17pm Dana Scully's Apartment Scully looked down at the mound of paper and sighed. She sighed again and thought back to how this happened. After the re-opening of the x files and her and Mulders new faith they decided to gather all the information from their past files and restore them as they took on new cases. They haven't actually got a new case to work on right now. Aside from finding the boy. They are giving themselves time to regroup. , she had lied to him. She had told him she wouldn't let anything happen to him. Well something had happened. If he was dead she didn't know what she would do, he had really grown on her. Another child she had grown to care about was gone. That was the first reason she wanted to find him, the second . He read their minds somehow some way, and she wanted to know what was in them. It wasn't so bad before. She admitted her feelings about Mulder to herself a while ago. She just decided there would be a time and a place to disclose them. She even thought that there could bee chance for them...later. Then these things started happening. First he met his soul mate in a field. Mulder demoted her was to trusted friend This was a formilier argument with herself and she let it go...for now, and continued to think. The time of the bomb threat in Dallas and all that followed she was forgotten. Not completely but they, 'she' came first. Then they almost kissed, . She smiles darkly < that's right the dam thing almost kills me ,but what am I mad about. We never got to kiss!!I have problems.> Now however he was taking a trip to the hospital to check up on her. Scully put her head in her hands. It was tearing her a part. Most of the problem is that she couldn't talk to anyone about it. She talked to Mulder about everything. she thought sarcastaclly and laughed at the thought. She didn't want to admit to her mother what she had known even longer than Scully did. How deep her feelings for Mulder ran. She was emotionally exhausted. She lied down and went to sleep. July 6th 11:47pm Scully woke up to the phone. "Scully." "Hey Scully it's me," came a formilier voice."I was just wondering if you had any of the paper's on that case with the insestuos family...were you sleeping?" "Just napping," she moved over a flipped through the stack of papers. "Actually I do, would you like me to bring it over?" "No that's okay I'll let you sleep. Just remember it tomorrow please. Bye." "I'm awake now." the line was dead. She grabbed the paper and her jacket and was out the door in a matter of seconds. July 7th 12:04am Agent Mulder's Apartment Mulder got up to answer a knock at his door. "Scully?" "I brought you the papers. I was awake anyway." "Thank you." He motioned her in. "Can I get you anything?" she smiled at that thought. "Coke?" He gave her a witty smile. "Agent Scully that's illegal." She winced at the remark. "That bad?" he asked "You've done better." she switched topic's. "Mulder do you remember this case?" "Yes, why does something about it strike you?" "Mulder something about all of our cases strike me. Although I do remember and intimate moment..." Mulder smilied and his eyebrows shot up. "...with you and some pigs." Scully finished with a wicked grin on her face. "At least it wasn't an intimate moment with a vampire." Scully fiegned hurt. "That was low." He smiled at her. "Why don't we call it even?" They smiled and looked into each others eyes. Scully caught in the moment acted on impulse. "Mulder?" "hummm?" "What are you doing tomorrow?" "Aside from work?" "Yes" she continued to look into his hazel eyes almost drowning. "I'm going to see Diana, I missed visiting hours today so they wouldn't let me see her." "Oh..." She looked away hiding her expression then quickly gathered herself and looked back at him. "How's she doing?" "She's alive." he replied flatly. Scully had an evil thought and then chastised herself for letting herself think such horrible things. "Okay well it's late so I should go..." .She moved towards the door. "Scully?" She turned around at the sound of his voice smiling. He looked at her his expression unreadable. "Where are you planning to go without your car keys." He tossed her the keys and she nearly ran out the door. July 7th 3:45am Dana Scully's apartment Scully was lying in bed next to Mulder and the phone rang. "Hello?" She looked at the clock wondering who other than Mulder would call at this hour. "Hi is Fox there." came an angry and female voice. Scully recognized the voice. "Diana? How are you...you're better...Mulder's sleeping." She was shocked that she was calling but more importantly why she was asking for Mulder. "Don't you remember Dana?" Came the reply on the other side of the phone. "Fox is mine." "No. He's mine. mine,mine,mine,mine,mine.... Scully woke up her face wet with tears. She picked up the phone and dialed her mother. "Hello?" came her mother's voice a combination of annoyance and concern. "Hi mom." "Dana, what's wrong?" The annoyance left her mother's voice. "Nothing I just need someone to talk to. Nothing bad or anything, just chat." "Okay...I'll have tea ready for you...are you sure you're all right?" Scully sighed,"Yes I'm fine I just couldn't sleep so I called you wondering if you could...but now that you're up..." She knew how lame she sounded she just wanted or rather needed to talk to her mother, but not over the phone. "Okay then see you in an hour?" "See you in an hour." Scully hung up the phone. July 7th 4:29am Mrs.Scully's House "Dana what is it?" There were lines of worry on her mother's face. "Nothing I told you I just wanted to chat."Scully tried to make her voice sound light. "Where's the tea?" The truth was all she could think about the entire trip there was Mulder and how she couldn't have him. Her mind exadurated the situation to extreme lengths. They sat down on the couch. "So talk, you must have a topic in mind at four o'clock in the mourning." Scully sighed, "You're right I do. It's about Mulder" Her mother just looked at her waiting for her to continue. "I..." "This is hard..." She put her thoughts into words. Her mother just continued to look at her. Scully closed her eyes. "I...I love him." the last two words were barely autable but the shock on her mothers face told her she had herd them. She looked at her mom again."You look surprised." "I am...not about you loving Fox I've known that for a while. I just never knew if you would ever say it out loud." Scully laughed. "Dana?" Scully waited for her mom to continue. "What does Fox think about this?" her mother's look told her that she knew dam well that she hadn't told Mulder. "He doesn't know." "Oh, and why is that?" Scully looked at her mother frustrated "Because I never told him." Her frustration was evident in her tone of voice. "Why is that?" "Because of Diana and his stupid soul mate and because...I'm scared to death. What if he pushes himself from me and keeps a safe distance..." "Fox couldn't last two day with you at a safe distance." Her mother broke in. SHe remembered what had happened to Mulder during Scully's abduction. "For the X-files he could. That's what it all comes down to. If he doesn't want me to love him," she choked out love,it was still a hard thing to say, "then he would distance himself from me so we could stay just partners." "You two are not just partners right now. Fox loves you. I see it in how he looks at you how he says your name. I believe that he knows he loves you. He just hasn't told you." "Of course he loves me. I love Bill. I love Charles. There are different ways to love someone." Scully was close to tears. "Besides we don't even call each other by our first names. How can I expect to have a normal relationship with him?" "I can't tell you how he loves you and what he wants only he can. As for a normal relationship with Fox, how can you expect a normal relationship! Fox and you are not normal people, you don't have a normal relationship now. If normal is what you expect...it's just not possible with you two." "I know that's just an excuse I guess. I would never want to change our relationship to normal." Scully was surprised at how much she was fighting something she wanted more than anything else. "I don't think I want our relationship to change. I guess I'll just have to get over it." Her mother looked at her knowing she wouldn't get 'over it'. Also knowing her daughter knew it as well. "No matter what tell him." Dana Scully looked at her mother frustrated at herself for being so stubbern but at the same time not being able to stop. "Why." "Because before you were happy. You loved Mulder and you wanted more but you were happy with how things were. Now your obviously not. And if you don't tell him it will affect you partnership as well. If he doesn't want anything Dana, it will be awkward for a while but it will go back to normal." Maggie Scully hugged her daughter wishing she could be more of a comfort, make everything better. She knew that her daughter would have to do this on her own, and that it would be hard. "He loves Diana." She remembering seeing them holding hands, she lost control and started crying. "Dana, why are you tourchering yourself. You don't know anything of the sort. Did he tell you he loved her?" Scully nodded her head in a no. "I know you're preparing yourself for the worst, know that it might be a possibility don't think of it as a reality or else you will never tell him." Scully pulled herself together again. "Thank you mom." She sighed. "Wish me luck." she didn't finish that thought said good bye to her mother and left. July 7th 6:02am Lone Gunmen's Lair "What's up?" Mulder gave his three friends a look that said 'this better be good'. He was an insomniac and on night's when he could sleep he wasn't thrilled about being woken up. "We think we have a lead on the boy." Bryers stated, looking at Mulders shocked and hopeful reaction."He's in Canada." "Canada? Any idea where in Canada?" Mulder said. If they didn't know were he was ready to search the country from end to end to find out. "A town outside of the capital of Manitoba. A contact of ours spotted him and...Alex Krytek. That's all we know." "Thank you guys. I'll give you one of my magazine subscriptions as a thank you present." He winked and got up to leave. "Can I choose which one?" Frohike asked hopefully. "That depends on what we find." Mulder smiled and started to leave again when Bryers interrupted him. "How's agent Scully?" Mulder lifted an eyebrow. "Scully? She's fine. Don't tell me Frohikes contagious." he joked fully aware of Frohikes 'crush' on Scully. "No that's not it it's just last time we saw her she seemed, distressed." He was picking his words carefully not sure how much he wanted to give away. Mulder thought they were joking at first if she was distressed she would tell him. Okay, maybe not but she wouldn't tell them. The looks his friends exchanged changed his mind. He felt and instant rush of jealousy. She told him something that she didn't tell him, something they weren't telling him. "Distressed about what?" "Well I don't know but she asked us some questions..." He felt his annoyance rising. Couldn't they just tell him? "Look are you going to tell me or not?" "She asked about Diana." Mulder just looked at them, waiting for them to go on. Bryer's continued "She asked about her past with you. I guess Diana said something. So we told her..." "You told her!" Frohike broke in. "Did not!" This only went on for a couple seconds until they felt Mulders glare on them. Bryers cleared his throat. "Anyway it was mentioned that you were an item for a bit. After that she asked us a couple questions about the boy and stormed off." Mulder was confused. "Stormed off? Did she know we worked together?" "I think so." Frohike knew Mulder was missing something. That something was the jealousy of Diana that radiated off of Scully when she went in to talk to them. He knew how much that pissed Scully off. He had a brief flashback to Detective white. and quickly pushed the image away. He smiled at that thought. "I gotta run, bye." July 7th 7:30am J Edgar Hoover Building Scully sat in the office deep in thought. She came here early to gather her thoughts. Or rather fight them. and then the battling thought. then all thoughts agree in there hatred for the bee. She came back to reality when Mulder walked through the door. "You're here early." she commented. "Your one to talk." Was his reply. then he smiled. His boyish grin. She loved that grin. She realized he was still talking. "You okay Scully?" Mulder asked noticing her lapse in attention. "Yes I'm fine. When are you going to see Diana?" she thought sarcasticly. "Actually it turns out I don't have time. Scully what are you doing in about 2 hours?" She eyed him suspitously, "Why, what do you have in mind?" "Well..." an evil smile crept on to his face. He saw an unreadable expression on Scully's face. "We have a lead on Gibson. We are flying to the capital of Manitoba." "Manitoba, what's he doing there?" "That's what we are going to find out Scully." end of part one Sorry I didn't mention it before I believe this is an SRA catagory Procrastination part 2/3 Winnipeg, Manitoba International airport July 7th 12:00pm "Tired." Mulder asked Scully waking her up. "Exhausted. Have they found our luggage yet?" "Yep and I even rented a car already." Mulder seemed proud of his accomplishment. Scully saw his expression and smiled. "Oh that's nice." when she saw the look of disapointment cross his face she laughed. "I'm just bugging you Mulder I'm very impressed." "Well let's go." "Where?" Scully still didn't know the details. "They were spotted in a gas station in Lockport." Mohawke Gas Station 1:30 pm Scully and Mulder walked in to discover a rather out-of-it looking employee. "Hi we were wondering if we could ask you a few questions? We are with the FBI." The guy looked about 19 and just stared at them. "Sure." "Who was working 3 night's go at aproxamitly 4 am?" Mulder asked "I don't know and if I did I couldn't tell you. We've had some problems with stalkers." He eyed the pair suspiciously. Scully pulled out her ID. "I'm special agent Scully and this is special agent Mulder. We are with the FBI. We are not stalkers." The guy eyed them for a couple more seconds. "I'll check the schedual. What is this about?" Mulder pulled out a picture of Gibson. "We were wondering if anyone has seen this boy. He went missing." "Jacky was working that night. Hey we have camera I'll see if I can dig up the tape of that night for you!!" The guy left in search of the tape. "Mulder. We have to use cation when we talk to...Jacky MacNab." she read the name off the schedual. "If she was in the same state of mind, or as stoned as this guy..." The employee came back and handed them a tape. The date was marked on it. Scully turned her attention to the tape. "Can we have Jacky's address. We will need to talk to her." Mulder asked hoping they gained his full trust. The look that crossed the guy's 'David' (Mulder finally discovered the name tag) face wasn't hopeful. "Hey, isn't the FBI American?" "Yes, and so is this boy." Mulder knew the explanation didn't sound that great but it was the best he could do right now. "Well I can't give you her address but it wouldn't help anyhow. She should be at A&W down the street." A&W 15 minutes later. "I told you it was right." Scully said frustrated. "Yes but if I would have drove left for far enough we would have reached it eventually." "If you would have turned right we would have reached it 10 minutes ago." They walk into the resterant. Someone yelled for Jacky and she turned around. Scully and Mulder approached her. "Jack MacNab we would like to ask you a few questions." Mulder flashed his ID. "What's wrong?" She asked apprehensively. She didn't think that she had done anything wrong. Anything that would require the FBI anyway. They asked her about a boy. "I remember he was with 2 older men and a younger one. They were talking about going back to Winnipeg." The agent's thanked her and left. Off The Road Inn 5:19 PM Scully hit the bed and immediately was engrossed in thought. Thought's about Gibson and Mulder. She never thought about her problem today. She rarely does when she works. Focus first on work then on Mulder, most of the time. Her thought's were interrupted by a knock on the door. "Scully it's me." She herd Mulder's voice call. she thought sarcastically. "Me who?" "The man of your dreams." Came her answer. "Come in." When she saw Mulder she faked disappointment. "Oh Mulder it's you." He smiled and held up the video from the gas station, and a bag with popcorn inside. "Popcorn?" She smiled and grabbed a handful. Later on "Scully I think I've seen this one before." Mulder quipped as the tape rewound so the could see the scene for the 100th time. The scene goes like this. Old man and Alex walk in store. You can see Gibson in the car and a man in the car with him. That would be old man #2. Jacky MacNab sees the little boy and smiles. Alex and old man talk pay for gas and Pepsi and leave. "Hold on." Scully says and plays the part were Krycheck pays in slow motion. "There do you see it?" Krycheck pulls some money to pay Jacky but that's not all the come out of his pocket. "Yes it's a key." Mulder says staring at the key. "A hotel key. We nee to take this to the lab. Scully paused the frame which gave a good view of the key. "Mulder that wont be nessisary." she was starring at her end table. Mulder fallowed her gaze to her room key, and looked back at the screen. An identical match. Mulder and Scully look at each other and bolt for the door. end of part two. Scully was ready to throttle the man behind the hotel desk. He was refusing to give them any information based on "Look." she said literally shoving her ID in his face. "If you refuse to co-operate you are obstructing an investigation. We can even discuss this business with your boss right now. I'm sure he'd be really pleased with you." She gave him a withering look. Mulder observed all of this with faint amusement. He loved it when his partner did this. Well most of the time. The employee looked at Mulder then Scully. "The people who fit you're description did check in three night's ago. They stayed two nights. However not all of them left. The boy was no longer with them." Scully's mind was reeling. No longer with them. "What room did they stay in? We would like to take a look at it." Mulder said. Scully looked up and a video camera caught her eye. "You have camera's here. We want the tapes from when they checked in to when they checked out." "I'll get my boss." Mulder sighed relief hoping for someone who would co-operate. A man walked up to them handed them a key and 10 video tapes. "This is the room they stayed in and the tapes we have during the time they were here, if I or any of us can help you further please let me know." With that the man left. "Who was that misterous stranger Scully?" Mulder stared after the man with a strange look on his face. Scully shot her partner a half amused look. "Let's get something to eat we have a long night ahead of us." Scully was looking at the video tapes calculating how many hours they were. "Let's take a look at the room first." Subway 10:30 pm Scully didn't realize how hungry she was until she ate her sub. She sighed they hadn't found aanthing at the motel "Hungry Scully?" Mulder asked observing her quick eating. "Yep. Still am a bit." She looked regretfully were her sub used to sit. "We passed a Dairy Queen on the way here. I'll treat you." Scully smiled. "Okay just don't run off and get locked in with any bombs this time." Mulder smiled remembering the last time he treated Scully. He got locked up with a vending machine filled with explosives. "Mulder?" "humm?" "What are we going to do if we find him? I mean, I want to run a couple tests and so will others but...when will it end. I'm sure he doesn't want to go through life for the purpose of being tested." "What are you suggesting?" Mulder asked. "I don't know." Scully dropped it for know. "Let's get that ice cream." Off The Road Inn July 8th 1:02 pm Scully was dressed and ready to finish watching the tapes. So far they saw them check in and nothing else. Why come here to stay in a motel. Unless someone was meeting you. It could be any person on these tapes though. Anyone! She sighed. The way the case was going it wasn't leaving her with much time or opportunity to have a heart to heart with Mulder. She turned that over in her mind then thought better of it. There was a knock on her door "Scully it's me. I think I've found something." "It's unlocked." Mulder walked in excited "Look at this." He popped in a tape. They saw the lobby of the motel. It was empty. Then, there was Gibson! Alone! He looked quickly around and left! "There's more." Mulder fast forwarded the tape and a couple seconds later Krycheck appeared. Mulder slowed the tape down to play and you could see him questioning the desk clerk. Then very frustrated he called someone payed the bill and left. "That's it. They aren't on any more." "What about the other man?" "He left the night before. No more of him either." Scully looked at Mulder who was wearing a navy blue suit. "So, he got away?" Scully said feeling hope rise in her. "It appears so. But where did he go?" Mulder asked happy that he got away but hoped they could get to him first. "He might try and leave town..." Scully didn't think that was it but it was an option. "To where and with what. He has no connections and no money." "Well Mulder it's a place to start." They gathered there stuff and prepared for there search. 4:00pm Somewhere downtown Scully was in a bad mood. She and Mulder split up and she didn't find anything. It didn't help that Mulder was late Again. If he did she would forgive him "Find anything Scully?" Mulder was right behind her leaning over close. She felt the hair rise on the back of her neck and her annoyance dissapear. she sighed she smiled to herself and realized he was waiting for an answer. "Jesus Mulder you scared the hell out of me." She allowed herself to breath and could tell from one look at him that he hadn't found anything. "No nothing." Mulder sighed. "Me either. I think we should go back to Motel and see if there was anything we missed." "I'll meet you there, I have to buy toothpaste and a few other things." Mulder nodded and left. Scully sighed again. and headed for the drug store. A short time later Scully got what she needed and went to pay the cashier. As she got out her money the picture of the boy fell out of her purse. The sales clerk gave her a funny look and smiled. "You have such a cute kid." She smiled at the picture. "You have such a nice hair colour I don't know why you would want to change it." Scully gave the woman a confused look wondering what kind of drugs she got into. "Change my hair colour?" "Yes your son was in yesterday and her bought dark brown hair dye when I asked him about it he said it was for his mother. I remember him because he was adorable. I'm sorry your not his mother?" Scully looked at her wondering how old this woman thought she was. Then, it hit her. Scully thanked the woman and ran out of the store and dialed Mulder leaving the woman looking after her wondering what kind of drugs she's on. "Mulder." his answer interrupted her thoughts. "Mulder it's me. I found something!" "So did I Scully. He's looking for us." Mulder's voice was filled with excitement. "What?" "I called the FBI and they told me a young boy called actually looking for us. They told him we were in Winnipeg on a case. They wouldn't tell him were we were staying though." "Mulder where are you?" Scully asked. "Grabbing a bite to eat why?" "Don't you think one of us should be at the motel in case he calls?" "Shit. I'll pick you up." Off The Road Inn Mulder ran to the room as Scully went to the desk. "Any messages for us in room 17?" She felt her heartbeat racing "Yes a girl called and asked for you. She left a message." He Handed he a piece of paper. Scully unfolded the paper: someone is trying to get a hold of you it is very important please stay in from 6 pm to 9 pm. She folded the message back up and looked at the clock. 5:47. She jogged to the room. When she got there she herd yelling inside. She threw open the door and saw Mulder and Krycheck in either the throws of passion or a fight. She decided it was the latter and pulled her gun on Krycheck. Krycheck backed off and was walking backwards. "You wouldn't shoot an unarmed man would you Agent Scully?" "Don't you mean a one armed man?" Came Mulder's dead pan reply. Scully took her safety off the gun. "Wanna try me?" Krycheck stopped dead in his tracks. No one noticed how close he was to the open window though and he jumped out. "Shit." yelled Mulder and Scully in unison. They looked out the open window and saw nothing. Mulder started to climb out after them. "Mulder let him go." "I can't." Came Mulder's reply as he hopped out the window as well. Scully was thankful the motel was only one floor but made a mental note to strangel Mulder for ditching her yet again. Scully sat down on the bed but was far from relaxed. She wanted to be out there with Mulder chasing Krycheck. Or just...be with him. She sighed. She thought Mulder would be fine. He knew how to take care of himself. The phone interrupted her thoughts. "Hello." "Hello. Who am I speaking with." There was a girl on the other end of the phone. She just assumed the desk clerk has mistaken Gibson's voice for that of a girl, but this really was a girl. A teenager by the sounds of it. "Agent Scully. Who is this?" Scully was confused. "That doesn't matter. What is your first name?" "Why?" Scully was now suspicious and annoyed. "This is very important and I was told that you would know what it's about. Please what's your first name?" "Dana." She herd talking on the other end of the phone but couldn't make it out. "Can you come to Dairy Queen you were here before." "Okay but who..." the line was dead. Scully grabbed the keys to the car and left. End part 2 Procrastination part 3 of 3 by: Shal Scully was ready to throttle the man behind the hotel desk. He was refusing to give them any information based on "Look." she said literally shoving her ID in his face. "If you refuse to co-operate you are obstructing an investigation. We can even discuss this business with your boss right now. I'm sure he'd be really pleased with you." She gave him a withering look. Mulder observed all of this with faint amusement. He loved it when his partner did this. Well most of the time. The employee looked at Mulder then Scully. "The people who fit you're description did check in three night's ago. They stayed two nights. However not all of them left. The boy was no longer with them." Scully's mind was reeling. No longer with them. "What room did they stay in? We would like to take a look at it." Mulder said. Scully looked up and a video camera caught her eye. "You have camera's here. We want the tapes from when they checked in to when they checked out." "I'll get my boss." Mulder sighed relief hoping for someone who would co-operate. A man walked up to them handed them a key and 10 video tapes. "This is the room they stayed in and the tapes we have during the time they were here, if I or any of us can help you further please let me know." With that the man left. "Who was that misterous stranger Scully?" Mulder stared after the man with a strange look on his face. Scully shot her partner a half amused look. "Let's get something to eat we have a long night ahead of us." Scully was looking at the video tapes calculating how many hours they were. "Let's take a look at the room first." Subway 10:30 pm Scully didn't realize how hungry she was until she ate her sub. She sighed they hadn't found aanthing at the motel "Hungry Scully?" Mulder asked observing her quick eating. "Yep. Still am a bit." She looked regretfully were her sub used to sit. "We passed a Dairy Queen on the way here. I'll treat you." Scully smiled. "Okay just don't run off and get locked in with any bombs this time." Mulder smiled remembering the last time he treated Scully. He got locked up with a vending machine filled with explosives. "Mulder?" "humm?" "What are we going to do if we find him? I mean, I want to run a couple tests and so will others but...when will it end. I'm sure he doesn't want to go through life for the purpose of being tested." "What are you suggesting?" Mulder asked. "I don't know." Scully dropped it for know. "Let's get that ice cream." Off The Road Inn July 8th 1:02 pm Scully was dressed and ready to finish watching the tapes. So far they saw them check in and nothing else. Why come here to stay in a motel. Unless someone was meeting you. It could be any person on these tapes though. Anyone! She sighed. The way the case was going it wasn't leaving her with much time or opportunity to have a heart to heart with Mulder. She turned that over in her mind then thought better of it. There was a knock on her door "Scully it's me. I think I've found something." "It's unlocked." Mulder walked in excited "Look at this." He popped in a tape. They saw the lobby of the motel. It was empty. Then, there was Gibson! Alone! He looked quickly around and left! "There's more." Mulder fast forwarded the tape and a couple seconds later Krycheck appeared. Mulder slowed the tape down to play and you could see him questioning the desk clerk. Then very frustrated he called someone payed the bill and left. "That's it. They aren't on any more." "What about the other man?" "He left the night before. No more of him either." Scully looked at Mulder who was wearing a navy blue suit. "So, he got away?" Scully said feeling hope rise in her. "It appears so. But where did he go?" Mulder asked happy that he got away but hoped they could get to him first. "He might try and leave town..." Scully didn't think that was it but it was an option. "To where and with what. He has no connections and no money." "Well Mulder it's a place to start." They gathered there stuff and prepared for there search. 4:00pm Somewhere downtown Scully was in a bad mood. She and Mulder split up and she didn't find anything. It didn't help that Mulder was late Again. If he did she would forgive him "Find anything Scully?" Mulder was right behind her leaning over close. She felt the hair rise on the back of her neck and her annoyance dissapear. she sighed she smiled to herself and realized he was waiting for an answer. "Jesus Mulder you scared the hell out of me." She allowed herself to breath and could tell from one look at him that he hadn't found anything. "No nothing." Mulder sighed. "Me either. I think we should go back to Motel and see if there was anything we missed." "I'll meet you there, I have to buy toothpaste and a few other things." Mulder nodded and left. Scully sighed again. and headed for the drug store. A short time later Scully got what she needed and went to pay the cashier. As she got out her money the picture of the boy fell out of her purse. The sales clerk gave her a funny look and smiled. "You have such a cute kid." She smiled at the picture. "You have such a nice hair colour I don't know why you would want to change it." Scully gave the woman a confused look wondering what kind of drugs she got into. "Change my hair colour?" "Yes your son was in yesterday and her bought dark brown hair dye when I asked him about it he said it was for his mother. I remember him because he was adorable. I'm sorry your not his mother?" Scully looked at her wondering how old this woman thought she was. Then, it hit her. Scully thanked the woman and ran out of the store and dialed Mulder leaving the woman looking after her wondering what kind of drugs she's on. "Mulder." his answer interrupted her thoughts. "Mulder it's me. I found something!" "So did I Scully. He's looking for us." Mulder's voice was filled with excitement. "What?" "I called the FBI and they told me a young boy called actually looking for us. They told him we were in Winnipeg on a case. They wouldn't tell him were we were staying though." "Mulder where are you?" Scully asked. "Grabbing a bite to eat why?" "Don't you think one of us should be at the motel in case he calls?" "Shit. I'll pick you up." Off The Road Inn Mulder ran to the room as Scully went to the desk. "Any messages for us in room 17?" She felt her heartbeat racing "Yes a girl called and asked for you. She left a message." He Handed he a piece of paper. Scully unfolded the paper: someone is trying to get a hold of you it is very important please stay in from 6 pm to 9 pm. She folded the message back up and looked at the clock. 5:47. She jogged to the room. When she got there she herd yelling inside. She threw open the door and saw Mulder and Krycheck in either the throws of passion or a fight. She decided it was the latter and pulled her gun on Krycheck. Krycheck backed off and was walking backwards. "You wouldn't shoot an unarmed man would you Agent Scully?" "Don't you mean a one armed man?" Came Mulder's dead pan reply. Scully took her safety off the gun. "Wanna try me?" Krycheck stopped dead in his tracks. No one noticed how close he was to the open window though and he jumped out. "Shit." yelled Mulder and Scully in unison. They looked out the open window and saw nothing. Mulder started to climb out after them. "Mulder let him go." "I can't." Came Mulder's reply as he hopped out the window as well. Scully was thankful the motel was only one floor but made a mental note to strangel Mulder for ditching her yet again. Scully sat down on the bed but was far from relaxed. She wanted to be out there with Mulder chasing Krycheck. Or just...be with him. She sighed. She thought Mulder would be fine. He knew how to take care of himself. The phone interrupted her thoughts. "Hello." "Hello. Who am I speaking with." There was a girl on the other end of the phone. She just assumed the desk clerk has mistaken Gibson's voice for that of a girl, but this really was a girl. A teenager by the sounds of it. "Agent Scully. Who is this?" Scully was confused. "That doesn't matter. What is your first name?" "Why?" Scully was now suspicious and annoyed. "This is very important and I was told that you would know what it's about. Please what's your first name?" "Dana." She herd talking on the other end of the phone but couldn't make it out. "Can you come to Dairy Queen you were here before." "Okay but who..." the line was dead. Scully grabbed the keys to the car and left. End part 2 Part 2/3? Dairy Queen 6:47 Scully walked into the store not sure what to expect. A girl got off the phone and approached her. "Agent Dana Scully?" "Yes." Scully knew from her voice this was the girl who called her. "Can you come to Tim Horton's with me. We can talk there." Scully nodded and followed the girl across the parking lot. She bought a coffee and sat down. "What's your name?" Scully asked not sure how to address her. "Shay-Lee. I guess I should start from the beginning." She shifted in her seat. "The other night you and your partner came in. A couple minutes later this boy came in and asked for my help. I agreed. He asked me what you looked like and I told him. He said he needed to find you and asked to make a phone call. I let him and it was long distance so my boss is going to kill me but that's besides the point." She lit a cigarette. "So apparently he then knew that is was you two that were here and I had to call almost every hotel and motel in Winnipeg to find you. He couldn't make the call himself because it could get him into some kind of trouble." She looked at Scully. "I'm sorry is the smoke bothering you?" "No." Scully replied anxious for the girl to go on. "So I left the message and when I called he told me not to give out my name and to get you to go to Dairy Queen so I could see and make sure it was you, or your partner depending who I got. So I brought you here because this is where he is, he wanted me to tell you this first. Go to the bathroom." Scully forgot that this girl existed and walked, to the bathroom. "Gibson?" "Dana? In here." The now dark haired Gibson called her into the family restroom. "What's wrong?" Scully didn't like the expression on his face. It made her nervous. "You were followed. I came in here so I wouldn't be by any windows and they couldn't see me. They are outside, and they don't know I'm here. You can't stay in here too long or they will get suspicious." "Well I will go out, tell Shay-Lee. We will think of something. When we do she will come in and tell you. Okay?" "Okay." Gibson smiled weakly. Scully smiled back and Hugged him. She stood up walked back to the table praying Shay-Lee was still there. She was. "I've been followed we have to find a way to get him out of here." Shay-Lee got up and went to order something else. She came back with a coke and sat down. "In two minutes 2 employee's are going to go bother them. When they are distracted me and Gibson will go to the bank." She indicated the building next to them. "It has an entrance in the front and back. You have to drive to the back unnoticed and we might be seen going into the front, but that's all." Scully looked at this girl with surprise. Shay-Lee put out her cigarette and got up. "I have to go to the bathroom. Scully nodded and got ready to leave. She saw two employees out side talking to the men and blocking there view. She then ran to the car and took off out of the parking lot. She wondered if maybe they were following her instead of Shay-Lee and the boy. She detoured and drove behind the bank. Gibson hopped into the passenger seat. "Hurry up they are coming." Scully took off looked behind them and saw no one. She sighed in relief. "What about your friend?" "She went back to quit her job. They are distracted with us and it's her only chance to go back there safely." "They can still find her." Scully started to worry about the girl whom she only had a short aquantance with. "They might but I don't think they'll try right now." Scully grabbed her cellular and dialed Mulder. It rang once "The customer you are calling is unavailable." "Dammit." Scully cursed and hung up the phone. As if the answer her the phone started to ring. "Scully." "Scully it's me." Was an unfermilliar voice doing a mock impression of Mulder. A rush of adrenaline rushed through her. "Who is this." The man laughed, "Agent Scully I'm offended that you don't recognize me after all the good times we shared." Scully herd muffled yelling in the background. "Krychek?" She spat out the name. "Hey, you do remember." His voice changed. "I understand you have the boy. Scully glanced at Gibson but said nothing. That was all the answer he needed. "Let me propose an exchange. Mulder for the boy. Meet in the warehouse on the corner of Gerry and Portage." Then Mulder was yelling in the backround. "Scully no. Don't it's a tra..." The line was dead. Scully was fuming. "I have an idea." Gibson spoke up. Scully looked at him. "We will go close to that place and I will tell you what he plans to do and we can work around it. We should hurry before the other men get there." Scully nodded and relaxed a bit. She pulled over and grabbed a map out of the glove box. She felt Gibson's hand on hers. "Nothing will happen to him." She nodded and drove to the meeting spot. Some where on Portage 7:36 "Gibson what do we do." Scully looked at him hoping that he knew a way to get Mulder out of this mess, because she sure as hell didn't. Gibson told her and she nodded. Gerry and Portage A few minutes later Mulder was tied to a chair but no longer gagged. Krycheck had hi gun pointed at the door and was ready to shoot. He was tense. Mulder thought he would shoot at the next noise, he started to sweat. An instant later that noise happened in the form of a phone. Krycheck jumped and shot at the door. "Fuck." He yelled and looked in the direction of the ringing phone. It was down the hall in one of the rooms. Krycheck was visably shaken and raised his gun to the door again. The answering Machine started to play and then there was a very loud voice which caused Krycheck to shoot again. "Krycheck it's Scully pick up the phone!" Krycheck took off out of sight in the direction of the phone. Scully entered the warehouse quietly through a window holding her cellular. Mulder could hear Krycheck looking for the phone. "Hello I'm waiting." Scully lowered her voice so he wouldn't here her inside, only over the answering machine. Scully went to Mulder and started to untied him. She motioned for him to be quiet and to go out the way she came in. Mulder obeyed. "Krycheck why should I believe that you would let me and Mulder live if I gave you the boy.?" Mulder knew she was keeping him on the phone so he wouldn't come back before their escape. "When have you ever kept your word?" Scully was at the window ready to slide through. Mulder saw her make a face at something he said. "Well I don't believe you so go to hell." She was out the window and hung up the phone. They hopped in the waiting car and drove off. Perkins Resterant 8:09 The three of them didn't say anything the whole car ride and ate in silence as well. Mulder sighed. "I guess we should book us on the next flight to Washington." He reached for his phone. "NO." Gibson said rather loudly and the agent's looked at him surprised. "I can't go back they'll take me again." Mulder went to say something but Gibson ignored him. "I want to go back to how thinks were before people knew. I can't there." "We can put you into the witness protection program." Mulder jumped in trying to calm the boy down. Gibson looked at him. "They wouldn't give you the chance. I called my parents from your cellular when you were inside." Gibson looked at Scully who had a quick thought about her phone bill. "I have an idea but I will need your help." "What do you need." Scully asked him wondering what was going on in his mind. "I want to be put up for adoption. Under a different name of course, and be adopted by my parents." Gibson looked at them and went on quickly. "My parents are making the arrangement's right now but I need you to take me to the capital of Canada. I need to go to there Social Services." "Of course." Mulder said and he and Scully exchanged glances that were in amazement at the intelligence of the child. "They weren't all my idea's." He said and looked at them. "I got the first idea from you." He said looking at Mulder." Then I thought about it and talked to my parents and we decided on this. Mulder nodded picked up his phone and booked three flights to Ottawa. Ottawa Canada One Week Later Scully and Mulder walked into the social Services department for the fifth time since they got to Ottawa. The receptionist smiled at them with recognition. "You know where to go." The agents smiled back and walked down the hall. The opened the door to to an older woman sitting behind the desk. "Hello there." she greeted them. "I have good news. Little Dominique has an interested couple. They met a yesterday and hit it off. So things are heading in that direction, if your sure you don't want to try." Scully smiled and politely declined. She knew the woman was joking but this was hard for her. She remembered trying to go through the adoption system with Emily. "Well you can see him. You should know were to go by now." Mulder smiled and got up. He put his hand on Scullys arm, knowing that she was thinking of Emily. Gibson was looking at them as they walked in. "Okay I'll tell you." He smiled. Mulder smiled as well but Scully looked confused. "He wants to know all of this happened." Gibson explained to her. "Well you know your friends hacked into the social services records and created 'Dominique'." "Nice choice on names." Mulder commented. "Well after that they arranged a 'transfer' from somewhere else I don't know were they said I was...I should learn. Well I showed up here and my parents made an appointment right before I came met with two other children before me." During this Scully drifted off and reflected on the last week. She honestly had tried to get the right time to talk to Mulder but they had been so busy hiding in case Krycheck or someone followed them here. Doing paper work or something else that she couldn't have told him. Her deadline was over and she didn't tell him. It wasn't like her to be superstitous but when it came to Mulder not all her thought's were rational. Very few were rational. She snapped back into reality with Mulder and the boy starring at her. "Sorry I missed that I guess I was out of it for a minute." Mulder smiled. "That's all right. I didn't book us onto a flight until tomorrow so we could relax for a night." He turned to Gibson. "Well I guess this is good-bye." He smiled and shook the boy's hand. Gibson smiled back and Scully went over to hug him. "I need to talk to you for a second." "Okay." She replied not sure of what he had to say. Gibson looked at Mulder who said he would wait in the hall and turned back to Scully. "The case isn't over until you go back to Washington." He smiled at her and gave her a hug. Scully smiled back. "Thank you." She left and joined Mulder. MacKunny Street An hour later Mulder looked over at Scully and smiled. She didn't notice him but she rarely did notice when he looked at her. She glanced at him and smiled. He smiled back and looked away. "Mulder..." "Yes Scully." She sighed. She realized he was still looking at her and waiting for her to reply. Scully pulled over to the side of the road and shut the car off. "I need to tell you something. I've needed to tell you for a while but I never got the chance." "What is it Scully." Mulder's forehead creased with concern. "When I went to you and told you I was leaving the FBI you told me how you felt. I never got the chance because of the bee." She didn't mention the near kiss but brought it up so she knew he would remember it. "Now I'm going to tell you." She took in a breath. "You carry around so much guilt about me. My life or lack of it. You blame yourself for me not living normally." "Scully..." Mulder interupted. "Don't interrupt me I need to do this. Don't feel guilty. I love my life, how it is. I would be bored with a normal life. I wouldn't like it. I love my job and working with you...I love you." She scanned his face for a reaction and all she got was a blink. Her thought was interrupted when Mulder leaned over and kissed her, there lip's touched when there was a bang on the window. They looked at each other made sure neither one was hurt and continued to kiss. *Nothing* was stopping them this time. The person outside banged harder and yelled into the car. A few seconds later they parted and smiled at each other and turned to the man outside. A Police Officer. "I would like to see some ID, and please tell me why your pulled over." Mulder and Scully flashed their ID. Scully cleared her throat. "You see I was looking for some papers..." The police officer interrupted. "Let me guess you two are partners?" The agent's nodded guiltily. The man shook his head. "Look I don't know what it is with you in the FBI, but it's none of my business. I just wish you people would stop parking off the side of the street for make out sessions." The man walked away shaking his head. When he was out of earshot the agents burst out into laughter. Mulder's face turned serious. "Scully I love you. It's so nice to say that. I love you more then anyone. I have been in love before but..." He searched for the right words. "It doesn't come withen a miles reach of what I feel for you. What I've always felt for you." Mulder gave her a soft kiss. Scully smiled at him with tears in her eyes and Mulder's eyes began to water. They herd the honk of the police car behind him. Scully started the car and drove happier than she has ever been. The end Should I make another part to it?? Let me know, good and bad Bubbles59@yahoo.com