Title: One of These Boys is Not Like the Others
Author: Autumn
Email: autumnleaves@autumnpenguins.com
Archive: DDFH, APE, others please ask.
Summary: A mysterious death leads agents Scully and Mulder to a school in Westchester New York. An X-Men/X-Files crossover. Bunny tossed by THL in offering of the DDFH's April theme week.
Rating: R (implied relationships, language)
Disclaimer: The X-Men is property of Fox and Marvel. X-Files belongs to 1013 Productions and Fox. The original song belongs to Weird Al Yankovic and it is a parody of the Backstreet Boys 'I Want it that Way'.
A/N: I've replaced a bunch of the WA lyrics with my own, which are indicated with an astric (*). The song is to the tune of 'I Want it that Way'
This is set roughly around X-Files season six, and two years after the X-Men movie.
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Thursday, April 23
F. B. I. Headquarters
Washington D.C.
Agent Dana Scully walked through the door to find her partner hunched over the projector. "Morning Mulder."
"Mwornin" came the muffled reply.
Scully settled down in the desk chair and waited for her partner to begin his slideshow. "Hold your hose Scully, this is gonna knock your socks off." Mulder grinned and clicked the button; a strange picture filled the screen.
"This was found at the scene. As you can see there are what appear to be claw marks on one side of the body. Second and third degree burns cover the front and left side, the back appears to have been smashed into a wall with tremendous force, and there's evidence of freezer burn at the bottom. Whata you make of that Scully?"
"Well Mulder, we won't know for sure until I have a chance to examine the remains, but I'd say it was obviously a crime of passion." Scully answered swinging her blue gaze towards Mulder.
"Well, the local police can't figure out what happened, so guess who's up to save the day."
Scully simply nodded and picked up the suitcase from behind the desk. She'd long since learned to have a case full of clothes and toiletries ready to go at all times. Mulder still hadn't picked up on this habit and the pair was forced to stop at his apartment before continuing to the airport.
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Four hours later the agents had pulled up to the front of an impressive looking mansion and knocked on the door. A large, hairy man with pointed hair opened the door. "If you're selling something we're not interested. And before ye ask, no I haven't accepted Jesus, Mary or Joseph into my heart and eternal damnation sounds fine to me."
"You must be Logan." Mulder said, recognizing the face from the case study.
"I'm Agent Dana Scully, this is my partner Fox Mulder. We're from the FBI."
Logan glanced between the two of them and opened the door. He scowled as the two suits asked for Charles Xavier and demanded to see him at once. Logan stalked down the hall and threw the door open to Charles' office. "Cops are here." He told the older looking man before nearly plowing Mulder over in his hurry to get away from the duo.
"I understand that you're here to solve this mystery." Charles greeted them.
"Yes sir, that's what we do." Mulder volunteered.
"Sir, is there anything in specific we should know about the people we're planning to interview?" Scully pinned the bald man with a stare.
"Surely you are aware of the reason this school exists?" Charles asked.
Scully and Mulder exchanged a look before nodding their agreement. "I've cleared the main rec hall for your convenience, and the small room in the back of it is where you'll find the remains. Do let me know if there's any way I can assist in your investigation."
"We'll need to use a portable CD player, but that should be the only equipment that we are lacking." Scully informed him.
"Very well. I hate to cut our meeting short, but I fear that I have an awful lot of business to catch up on that simply can't be put off any longer."
"Thank you Mr. Xavier." Mulder said.
"Please, call me Charles." The bald one smiled warmly.
The G-men ushered themselves out of the office and walked towards the room they had been directed to. They locked the doors and proceeded towards the room where the corpse was located. The smell of burnt plastic still permeated the air, and the two coughed from the overpowering scent. "It looks even worse in person." Mulder cracked.
"What sort of person would do this? Its just, a little excessive if the killer was excessively angry."
"You're the one who said it was a crime of-passion" Mulder said, strongly emphasizing the last word.
"Mulder." Scully said, fixing her partner with a glare.
"What?" He asked innocently. The two regarded the other with a long look before Scully broke the silence. "Who do you want to interview first?"
"How many do we have?"
"10. Five men, five women."
"You don't actually believe in the possibility of mutants do you Scully?" Mulder asked, mimicking one of his first questions to Scully from five years ago.
"Mulder, you believe in aliens, and you're questioning this?"
"It's just that, it seems a little bit too comic bookish." Mulder finished.
"Mulder, there is scientific evidence that indicates that the X gene really exists."
"There's also scientific evidence that you're cute." Mulder muttered.
"What?"
"Nothing. Hey, check out the burn marks on this thing. It looks like it was blasted by some intense heat."
"Well, there is a fire thrower, and a man who can emit optic blasts in residence." She answered.
Mulder gave a derisive snort. "It just doesn't seem very plausible."
Scully laughed lightly, it wasn't often that she got to see Mulder doubting anything. She admitted to herself she rather liked the reversal of roles. "I'll perform the autopsy on the remains downstairs, Charles said there was a full medical facility downstairs."
"I'll look over the files again, we can decide which 'mutant' we want to interrogate first."
"Scully rolled her eyes and left in search of the med lab for a gurney to transport the corpse. She could tell it would be an interesting case.