I own neither X-Files nor Yu Yu Hakusho.

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Dana knew that blaming Mulder for the situation they were in would be meaningless. Of course, when a very large group of persons disappears in a forest without leaving a single trace one would usually consider whatever or whoever lurked in that forest to be dangerous, especially when you have already encountered cases where you couldn't defend yourself or anyone for that matter. They had almost become victims in other cases before, numerous times even. You would think it would have made Mulder more cautious. It would have made anyone else more cautious, but that wasn't how Mulder's thought process worked. When he discovered such unusual cases he generally acted like a kid in a candy store and rushed in, more often than not ignoring her worries or reluctance. That's how he got results, but that's also how they landed in such messes so often.

This time they were stuck with a Forest Ranger named Larry Moore, Doug Spinney an eco-terrorist and an unlucky young woman who had been hiking in this forest before a centuries old tree had been cut down, unleashing microscopic insects that pretty much ate any type of animals, humans included, and attacked as soon as the sun set. Steve Humphreys the representative of the logging company Schiff-Immergut Lumber was already dead, and they were running out of fuel for the cabin's electricity which meant that they would soon lose their only source of light, and the cars had broken down quite far away due to some traps set on the roads. They might reach them before sunset, but they would never get them to work...

"There might be a way to survive this..."

The young woman who had been stuck in this situation with them broke the tense silence in the cabin.

"How? No more fuel, the cars are useless..." There the Forest Ranger shot an evil look toward Spinney who was responsible for the traps on the road. "The radio won't work either..."

The woman shook her head with a sigh.

"You are not used to out-of-the-box-thinking are you? We won't use technology."

Mulder suddenly looked very interested. Dana destroyed every ounce of jealousy she felt into tiny bits, and then squashed them some more until she was sure nothing was left. The woman named Pia looked Italian mostly. She had tan skin, the bluest eyes Dana had ever seen, it was almost unnatural, and extremely long wavy black hair. So black they almost seemed to have a blue tint to them. Aside from her coloring she wasn't particularly pretty though. Her jaw was too strong, her eyebrows too thick, and she was tall for a woman, easily towering over Mulder. She was also all muscles, no breasts, almost no hips either. Dana shouldn't be feeling jealous. Even more since she had absolutely no interest in her colleague. She really didn't.

"We need someplace with light, that we can build it from scratch every night. We also need to be able to take the necessary materials along with us while we follow the road. But that means we must be as few as possible, in a small space. While we do that mister eco-terrorist here can take what's left of the fuel, run to his own car since it's probably still in one piece, get out of here and call for help. If someone come to get us we'll be along the road so they will find us easily."

"So how do you create a small space that would be bright enough to keep the bugs away?"

Asked Moore with a frown. They apparently all thought the same as Dana did. After all Pia had run from her camp, leaving behind all her stuff after discovering a few bodies around the wood. She had only thought about reaching the road to find some help. Her solar lamp had stayed behind, as well as her tent.

"There is some plastic sheets lying around, as well as easily movable workbenches. We'll use that to make a tent. Then we will light a fire inside, and at least one or two outside. Of course we must make sure that the air circulates well enough, meaning it won't be closed, but I don't think a closed space would stop microscopic insects anyway. And we take as many mirror as possible along with us which we will place at strategic points around the tent to reflect the light. That way we will create a space as luminous as possible."

It meant using the few mirrors inside, but also those from the cars didn't it? Which meant they would have to vandalize the ones in front of the house, and then run with all the materials to the other ones... Would they make it in time?

"I will carry the heaviest load such as the workbench. And I can light a fire anywhere. I'm very good at burning even the greenest wood." Said Pia with a secretive smile, her blue eyes almost looked as if they were glowing with the way they caught the light coming from outside. "We might not get out of here unscathed, but we should still manage to survive. We'll only have to take turns to sleep. The fires can't go out or we're dead."

They all exchanged hopeful looks.

"Okay." Mulder clapped his hands together once. "It's still day outside, so let's get the workbench and the plastic sheets. Find some bags, matches and take the mirrors on the car outside. If there are any inside we take them too.. We might need a wheelbarrow, that way we could carry some cut wood without being slowed down. We'll only use it in case of emergency, if we don't find wood where we will be camping. We prepare everything tonight so that tomorrow we only have to grab our stuff and run."

No sooner had he finished his sentence everyone left the cabin to do what they needed to do outside. Anything inside could be done once night had fallen.

They were getting out of here.

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