"I don't think we should tell him. He would never find out anyways." Langley said.
"Byers, what do you think we should do?" I asked him.
"Hmm," he paused, "I don't think we should, either."
"I think he has a right to know. How would you feel if you were in his shoes?" I asked. "Even if it hurts him he should know." I couldn't believe these guys would want to keep this from Mulder. Then I was surprised to hear Langley say, "Ok, I switch my vote."
"Fine, it's settled," I said. I grabbed my phone. "Mulder, it's Frohike. Can you come over right away? We've found something…no, it is important." He wasn't going to come. I had to play hard ball. "Scully is here." Mulder said he'd be right there and hung up. The guys looked at me.
"Liar," Langley said.
"What are you going to do when he gets here and she's not here?" Byers asked.
"I just wanted him to get here. We'll just tell him the truth. If he is going to make up with Scully she'll need to know this, too. It's all part of the package."
I raced over to their place. I had been trying to call Scully all morning. I tried everything I could think of to find her. I even went to her apartment. Her car was gone, but I still knocked on her door. It took all my strength to resist the urge to use my key. She'd kill me if I invaded her space like that.
I banged on their door harder than I had wanted to. Thankfully Langley quickly opened it. No need for the usual banter.
"Where is she?" I looked around the room. "Where is she?" I repeated. I saw Frohike lock the door behind me. What's going on?
"She's not here." Byers said.
"I'm sorry, Mulder. I had to get you over here somehow. There is something very important we need to tell you," Frohike interrupted.
"I need to talk to Scully!" I said.
"She came here late last night, but didn't tell us where she was going," said Byers.
"She did call us about an hour ago to tell us she was ok, though," Frohike continued.
"Why did you lie to me? I need to talk to her." I paused for a second and then a thought occurred to me. "Why was she here? What did you tell her?" I started to get angry. "Did you tell her about Diana?" I was shouting now. All three of them avoided my eyes. "Why! I asked you to never tell anyone!"
"I'm sorry, Mulder," Langley said softly. "It was my fault. It just slipped out."
I banged my fist on the closest table. The smaller objects bounced slightly. "What did she say? Tell me everything!"
"She only asked why you split up and then she left," Byers said.
I sat down. "Oh, man! I've totally screwed up! What am I supposed to do?" I thought aloud.
"Mulder, we're really sorry about all of this, but there's more. There's something you should know," Frohike threw in. I looked up at him. What could be worse than this?
He took a deep breath and handed me a blue file. "We were shocked when we found out Diana left you and then we started snooping around and found that."
I flipped through the pages. "This is just her personal file and medical records."
"Mulder," he continued, "look at the page marked Medical Examination."
I opened the folder back up and found such page. I saw the usual blood pressure results, weight, height, etc. Just as I was about to ask what they were referring to my eyes found the answer. Pregnancy test results: POSITIVE I looked for the date this was taken. October 29, 1991. That was just before she left. She knew she was pregnant when she left! How could she have done this to me? Do I have a kid out there somewhere?
"Look at the next page, too."
I turned the page. It was the exact same page but with different numbers in all the places. At the bottom half of the page were some hand written notes. Patient has experienced heavy bleeding for 3 days. Pelvic exam showed evidence of spontaneous abortion confirmed by sonogram. The date on this page was December 3, 1991. She was 10 weeks along. I understood now. I felt a little sorry for her, but she still withheld this information from me. I could have been a father. "Is there anything else I need to know?" I asked with my head low.
"That's it," Frohike answered. "Are you going to be ok?"
"Yeah, I guess. Thanks." I got up and Frohike unlocked the door. "I'll see you guys later."
