X Files: Patience II
(Takes place after I Want to Believe movie)
Special Agent John Doggett walked towards the X Files office that Monday morning after riding the elevator down to the basement level. As he neared the X Files office door, he heard a female voice on the phone. He rapped on the door quietly, before poking his head in. The voice on the phone was his partner, Special Agent Monica Reyes, and it seemed like she was in deep conversation.
But as soon as she saw Doggett, she gestured for him to come in, and Doggett looked at her quizzically. "What's up?" he mouthed silently. "OK, yes, thanks, Agent Scully. I'll tell him. You take care now, okay Dana?" Reyes asked. She handed Doggett a newspaper article as she did so. Doggett read the headline that screamed up at him. "Local landowner dies after being attacked by so-called bat creature". There was a picture of Mr Ernie Stefaniuk , a man that he and Scully met when they were investigating a case that involved what looked to be a half-bat and half-man creature. He went into hiding after the bat creature tried unsuccessfully to kill him and Agent Scully. He and Agent Scully knew they were 'marked' by the creature and Scully wondered if one day it would kill them. But Doggett thought the creature is dead. After all, he and Scully did fire at the creature a few times. Now one of the hunters was dead? Doggett thought.
"Yeah. OK. Bye," Agent Reyes was saying into the phone before hanging up. "Good morning, John. How are you?" she asked. Doggett nodded. "Good. But I've been better before you handed me this article. Was that Scully on the phone?" he asked.
Reyes nodded. "Yeah. She wanted me to tell you of that article that she found. Said you would remember and wanted you to be careful," she said. Doggett shook his head in disbelief. "She still thinks this monster is after me and her?" he asked. Reyes nodded again. "I know you worked with her on a case about this a couple of years ago. She told me it was a half bat half creature that nearly killed you two. Now the creature's brother died. You remember the case?" Reyes asked.
Doggett nodded and closed his eyes as he remembered. "Yeah. We met the creature's brother, who said he was trying to help him. He was a hunter 40 years ago, as he was trying to hunt this creature down with three other men. Now, it looks like there's no one there to hunt the creature now. You believe all this, Agent Reyes?" he asked his partner as he put the newspaper back down on the desk. Reyes nodded. "It makes sense as far as it goes," she said, "But I'm not too sure about the whole half human, half bat creature that hangs on porches. Whose to say you and Agent Scully were tracking just one suspect? Why couldn't there be a bat and a human that you were hunting?" she asked.
Doggett sighed as he sat down at one of the other desks. "It's because Scully said in her autopsy of the body, she found animal bite marks that looks to be that of a bat," he explained. "But not that of a human?" Reyes asked. Doggett looked at her. "Look, Agent Reyes, I don't know how to explain it either, but I don't think Agent Scully should be so easily dismissed. I think we should go to Quantico and autopsy the body, then head back to the scene of the crime," Agent Doggett said. Reyes nodded. "All right then," she said, "let's go get some answers." With that, she picked up the newspaper article and tucked it under her arm. She and Doggett then made their way out of the office.