X Files: Patience II
Chapter 2
"Well, this feels very strange," Agent Doggett's ex partner Doctor Dana Scully said with a smile as she sat down in a chair next to her partner, Fox Mulder. "I'm used to being the interviewer, not the interviewee," she said. Agent Reyes and Agent Doggett sat in Scully and Mulder's living room.
Soon after Scully called Reyes, Agent Doggett and Agent Reyes made their way to Mulder's isolated and secret log cabin. "Well, Mulder's not one to do things by halves, that's for sure," Doggett had commented to Reyes as they pulled up in Mulder and Scully's driveway. "What do you mean?" Agent Reyes asked. Doggett nodded to the cabin as he drove them through the gate that Mulder was opening for them. "One minute he's the Agent that everyone talks about, the next he's forgotten. Makes you think," Doggett said. Reyes shrugged. "Maybe he has a good reason. Maybe he's just protecting Dr Scully," Reyes said. Doggett nodded again as he parked the car. "Things must be bad for Mulder now if he feels he needs us to protect Scully," he said. The agents got out of the car and Mulder walked over to them with a smile. "Agent Doggett, Agent Reyes," he said, and shook each of their hands politely.
"Dana told me she called you. Something about a human bat?" Mulder asked as he lead the two agents inside his home. "Yeah, something like that," Doggett said. On the way there, Doggett had filled Reyes in on what had happened, and how Doggett and Scully may still be in danger from the creature.
They all sat down as Scully sat next to Mulder. Scully then noticed how far all four of them have come in life before the strange feeling of being the interviewee struck her. "Things have changed," Reyes told Scully with a smile. Scully nodded. "So, Dana thinks this bat creature is now on the loose. Is that right?" Mulder asked. "Yeah. The hunter that died of natural causes was the creature's brother. Now we're concerned that the bat like creature is after us again. After all, we are a marked thing to that creature, aren't we, Dr Scully? You remember what we said after it happened?" Doggett asked.
Scully nodded. "Yes. I said I wasn't sure if I'd shot it, but you said you were sure we did. The creature is made of flesh, too, so it is able to be killed," she explained to Mulder. Mulder nodded. "You need to be protected from it, right? Both you and Agent Doggett?" Mulder asked. Scully and Doggett both nodded. "I'll protect you," Agent Reyes spoke up. "How?" Scully asked. "By us keeping an eye on this cabin, night and day, until the creature is caught," Mulder said firmly and in determination. Nothing or no one was going to take Scully away from him.
"You don't have to do that, Mulder. You're retired now. I won't let you take any more risks because of me," Scully protested. Mulder put his hands on her shoulder and gazed into her eyes. "Dana, you mean the world to me. So I need to do everything I can to protect you, please let me protect you," he pleaded. Scully sighed and rested her cheek against his hand. She knew how stubborn and single minded Mulder could be. "OK," she said, before getting up. "I'll make us tea and coffee," she said, before leaving the room and going into the kitchen.
"So what makes you think it will come here?" Agent Doggett asked. "Or how long we'll have to wait. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," Doggett said. Mulder grinned. "Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean that they're not out to get you," he said to Doggett. "Excuse me?" Doggett asked, a little tensely. Reyes knew he and Mulder weren't exactly the best of friends, but they would work together if they had to. "I think Mulder means we need to go on our daily lives, but we have to watch our backs, too," Reyes explained to Doggett.
Just then, Scully rushed back into the living room, a little breathless and shaken. "Guys. Come out here. You've got to see this," she told them. Everyone rushed out and followed her through the kitchen and onto the porch. Once there, Scully gestured for everyone to look at a beam that was high above them. "There," she said, pointing. "Do you see that?" Reyes looked up with fascination at the sight before them. It was claw marks. "Claw marks," Mulder observed. "This are made by the creature?" he asked Scully. Scully nodded before turning to Agent Doggett. "Look familiar, Agent Doggett?" she asked him. Doggett was still surprised and couldn't say anything except nod. "Looks like we know where the bat creature's going to go now," Agent Reyes said, her eyes sparkling with curiosity. "Yeah. And we'll be ready for it when it does," Mulder said in determination.