Chapter Four: The Capture of An Enemy:

Greensburg Pennsylvania November 2, 1998:

Fox Mulder was not having a good day, he should have been, after all he had helped capture the very person responsible for leading "faceless rebels" to kill any abductees they came across. It was who she was that got him mad, Marita Covarrubias, a woman he had thought willing to work against the syndicate but was in fact, well he was not sure what she was doing in all honestly. He looked haggard, his brown hair was not very neat, his suit rumpled and his hazel eyes dull from lack of sleep. He always wondered how Dana did it, she looked perfect, her black skirt suit was neat and her red hair cut neatly to the shoulders and straight. Her blue eyes were not dull and he wondered if she was fully human, not that he dared joke to her about that. He hated being into trouble with her, it meant no sex.

Now it might come as a great surprise that Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were in fact together. They had a secret one that very few knew, they were in fact husband and wife and had been for a very long time. It was one thing that Skinner had pulled over on cancer man, he thought he was picking out Scully to work with Mulder but it was not the case. She was seated calmly in the interrogation room with John Doggett. He was a tall thin rugged looking man with short dark brown hair and intense blue eyes. He was a family man, a former Marine and as a tough as they came when needed. Next to him was another former Marine and his boss, Walter Skinner. He was tall, stocky, bald and wearing glasses clad in suit and tie like all the men around here and he looked very upset. Of course he had a reason to, this woman clearly knew far more than she should about those killed in Russia and on Skyland Mountain recently by the so called "faceless rebels" one of whom they had captured along with her. Doggett threw a very life-like rubber mask on the table before her and glared at her.

"We found this with your so called face-less rebel." Doggett said glaring at her.

"Not mine, and I was taking him into custody, I am not the enemy here." Covarrubias said coolly, "in case you do not remember, well Mulder does, I tried to help earlier this year."

"So you say, I am not easily fooled by all this talk of alien abductions and the like." Doggett shot back, "what I see is some sort of sick cult that has formed and taken and hurt a lot of innocent people and you are part of that."

"I am not, and you have no idea what you are up against no idea!" Covarrubias said.

"Then why don't you tell us?" Skinner said.

"You don't have the clearance and I have said too much." Covarrubias replied, "I am not your enemy, even those that Mulder thinks enemies are not, well perhaps one but he is being tracked…"

"I don't believe you." Doggett shot back, "you are lying."

"I am not." Covarrubias said, "now why don't you go and question my rightful prisoner and let me go, you have nothing on me and Mulder knows it."

It was only too true, the Bounty Hunter as he was called had been captured with a very lifelike "faceless rebel" rubber mask. It seemed not only was he going after clones but he was now going after those abducted. How and what Covarrubias was doing with him was the mystery. She had been stopped in a "routine" traffic stop and the bounty hunter had been found. The stop however was not routine and was a carefully set up trap, a trap to stop the killings of innocents. A week prior a group of FBI and CIA agents did something that was highly unusual and really unheard of before then. They worked together to help hunt down a site where a group of abductees were meeting, lead by a man who went by the name of Absalom. He was not under arrest, there was nothing to charge him with as those who were found with him where clearly there of their own free will. He had not been happy that abductees were being killed off and though he was not very fond of the government he had helped Mulder out many a time in the past and followed the law, not because he wanted to but because he did not want to go to prison where he could not do any good at all.

"I have plenty on her." Melissa said walking up, "let's see how she reacts at seeing me alive and well."

"Are you sure she ordered the hit on you?" Scully asked.

"Yes, very sure, she has been playing you Fox." Melissa replied.

"As long as you don't say I told you so." Mulder said, "I am fine."

"You know I would not, she is very smart in what she does, time for me to make my move, one I have waited for, well for a few years now."

"Give her hell." Scully said, not sure what her sister had but it had to be major for her to be here like this.

"I know, and I will." Melissa replied.

She walked into the interrogation chamber and Covarrubias went white as a ghost. This was going to be fun, after all that Dana and Fox had gone through Melissa knew that this was a break for them. All the problems of the last year, being taken off the X-Files for a time, John taking over and the faceless rebels burning up many of the Syndicate, well this was a victory. It had been a long hard road for Melissa and she had hidden in the magical world because of this woman. Still with the help of Absalom she had come so far and though she could not go after the Syndicate as a whole this was a major blow to them. She looked down coldly at Covarrubias who was not looking well at this time and knew she had her and she was now going to nail her to the wall.

"Hello Marita." Melissa said taking a seat shoving a file to her, "you really thought that you could keep me from figuring out who ordered me to be shot?"

"I have no idea what you are talking about." Covarrubias said.

"Oh I think you do, it might have been Luis Cardinal who did the shooting but you, you were the one who ordered it, it is all here."

"You have no proof."

"I do, Luis Cardinal, he might be dead and it took some time but I found his diary." Melissa said, "he was smart, and at first I thought the Egyptian hieroglyphs were just sketches of places he had visited. Never took him for one to actually learn to write in that language. Then again he is not from Nicaragua originally was he?"

"So, he hanged himself." Covarrubias shot back.

"Yes he did, that he did as he was loyal to whatever sick twisted thing you are doing." Melissa said coldly, "his real name was Paser Pasha and he was from Egypt, his family worked as anthropologists there."

"Again your point?" Covarrubias said trying to look bored.

"I spoke to his family, who are far from where you can get your hands on them and his father translated this." Melissa said, "and it is an account of his work and the like and points the attempted assassination right to you."

"It will not hold in court." Covarrubias shot back.

"I think it will." Doggett replied, "I think we wrap this up and arrest you now for attempted first degree murder."

Melissa left the room and walked into the observation room where she saw Fox looking so upset. He had every reason to, he had lost both his parents to Krycek not just his father and to learn this woman had been part of that angered him to no end. Melissa put a hand on his shoulder and looked up at him concern for her brother (for she saw him as such fully) in her eyes. He could not stay angry with her there, he knew her abilities and though he lashed out at her she came back and when he needed it gave as good as he dished out. He was no match for her and knew it and rather liked it that way. Doggett came into the room and ran a hand over the back of his neck.

"Not sure I like working the X-Files." Doggett said, "I liked working violent crimes but this, well this, she really believes in this alien crap."

"It's real." Mulder shot back.

"Look I believe that there is evil out there in many forms, that there are strange things out there but aliens behind a lot of things? No, and I believe that there is intelligent life out there, but why would they come to a primitive rock like this abduct people?" Doggett said, "no that I don't believe, our job is to capture criminals not go off on conspiracy hunts."

"It paid off." Mulder said.

"This time." Doggett replied.

"Boys enough, or do I need to get a tape measure?" Melissa said walking by, "I have a date, see you later."

"Can't see what you see in that Brit." Mulder muttered.

"Stephen is great and far smarter than you Fox." Melissa shot back, "see you later."

"Ouch, that hurt." Mulder replied.

Doggett just shook his head and wondered, yet again what he had got into when he accepted being head of the X-Files. He was still the head and with his track record and getting the cases solved, 75% of those cases that were thought too far out by most to solve. He was a family man to boot, and his having a house, a wife and three children, one son and two daughters, twelve, ten and seven respectively and this made him perfect for leading the X-Files. Of course he clashed with Mulder more often than not as the X-Files were "his" and how dare Doggett come and take that away from him.

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I never did like Covarrubias and I believe I was proved right in the end. So as stated there will be quite a bit of both worlds here, I will bring in X-Files characters, some will be throughout the story, some only a chapter or so. It's hard to get the whole series in one story but the conspiracy arcs are loads of fun and putting Severus, er Stephen Stone into the middle of this will work, I do hope.

Yes I have changed things here, I thought changing things up a bit would work best, we are talking alternate universes here and I liked Doggett but could not think of another way to bring him in earlier than this way. Oh and yea I changed a few things in his personal life as well, I felt someone besides Mulder and Scully should have a happy life in the end. I know full well what I did with him is not canon but neither is what I did with Mulder and Scully really, just a few changes to blend two universes here.

Anyway please review!