Dr Foster squats beside Mulder, she slaps him lightly across the face, and he starts up.
"Careful, take it easy."
Mulder slowly stands, and Dr Foster helps him onto a seat.
"What happened?"
"From what I can tell Holly attacked you."
"Why?"
"She's done a runner, I didn't want to tell you this, but I suppose there is no point lying now."
Dr Foster goes makes two glasses of water, then comes and sits with Mulder at the table.
"What haven't you been telling me?"
"Holly isn't Holly, when her and her father came here from Britain; she was replaced by an alien bounty hunter. She's after agent Scully, and your files. That's why we took her to protect her."
"That phone call didn't make it seem like you were protecting her."
"It was faked. Skinner has also been taken to ensure his safety. But you, we need your help."
Mulder looks at her suspiciously, he couldn't trust her, do much didn't make sense, and yet nothing ever seemed to. If Holly was here he could check Dr Foster's claims, but it was too late now, he had to do what this women wanted.
"How?"
"The syndicate isn't the evil conspiracy you once knew, anymore. We are about protecting people. We…."
"Cut the sales pitch, what do you want?"
"We want you to kill an alien bounty hunter, working out of the FBI. He is a killer and trying to destroy everything you worked to build. He's the one that ordered the death of Agent Doggett last spring."
Mulder sighed, he knew Doggett had died seeking a truth, but he had not known what. He thought of all the people he had lost due to this fight, and yet here he was still alive, with hundreds of files that couldn't conclusively prove anything.
"Why can't you kill him?"
"He's expecting us, but you, you're of interest to him. His name is Martin Walsh. Killing him will force "holly" out into the open, and then we can stop her."
Mulder drinks some water. Dr Foster fidgets nervously.
"I'll do it."
Dr Foster's face fills with glee.
"Thank you, everything will be able to come out now, all your work exposed."
Mulder stands and motions to the door, Dr Foster gets up quickly, and walks to the door, Mulder opens it for her but stops her in the doorway.
"Just one thing."
"Yes?"
"Where is Holly?"
Dr Foster looks at her feet.
"The real Holly died in an experimental procedure that was meant to save her life. Believe me when I say, we were close, and I cared greatly for her. That is why what you are going to do is so important. To stop any other children being created to die."
Dr Foster smiles, shakes Mulder's hand and leaves.
Mulder rushes to his laptop, and googles "Martin Walsh"
An article appears dated 2 days ago, "Walsh plans to shake the Bureau to its core, with new policy"
Mulder skims the article, it only says that he is going to be making changes, but there is no clear sign of what these changes are to be.
Mulder sighs and closes the laptop. Wandering over to his desk drawer, from which he pulls a gun, he loads the ammo. And sits at his desk.
X X X
Scully hangs by a chain from the ceiling in a completely white room. Her feet don't touch the floor, a chair and table sit not far from her. Her wrists are bleeding and bruised from struggling. She hangs barely concisions.
Her eyes open, and her head rises at the sound of a bolt being pulled back, slowly the door creaks open, a man in a white lab coat enters, followed by two men who are dragging Skinner.
"No!" Scully screams and start struggling.
The man laughs and walks over to a wheel, he turns and Scully comes closer to the floor, until eventually she is sitting.
Skinner is thrown beside her. And the men all leave.
Skinner is handcuffed, and has a black eye and bleeding lip.
Scully pulls herself close to him.
"Oh Skinner, what are you doing here?" she gasps hugging him, tears fall down her face.
"I'm fine, How are you?" Skinner stretches up.
"I don't understand what's happening."
"I think they want your daughter" Skinner looks at Scully, with great pity.
Scully looks back confused, then suddenly hope spreads across her face.
"Emily is alive? How? I mean what…"
"No." Skinner interrupts "They made more than one child, the one they want is called Holly."
"You've meet her? What is she like?"
"Scully, she's got problems."
Scully closes her eyes and turns her head away.
"I'm so sorry."
"I know, when you said they made more than one, are there more?"
"Not anymore."
Scully sinks off her knees, tears swelling in her eyes.
Skinner moves closer to her, and she rests her head on his shoulder.
The door opens, Skinner's eyes widen as someone walks through.
"No."