Later that day, at the hospital...

The Doctor who had just examined Kevin, gave Doggett and Reyes the bad news.

"We've done a scan on him and he has a brain tumor."

Reyes was confused. "What?"

The doctor was embarrassed. "We don't know how to explain it either, because it wasn't there last time he came in."

"How can he have a brain tumor over night?" Doggett asked.

"I don't know, nobody knows. And I saw this thing on the scan. Its massive, and he may not wake up from this." The Doctor replied.

"Is it possible someone did this to him?" Reyes asked.

"You're are talking about cancer gene manipulation?" The doctor said in disbelief before walking back into the room where Kevin is.

"Monica, what is going on?" Doggett asked.

"Isn't it peculiar? His mother? An ex abductee, died from brain cancer. His sister? Who knows? And now him? There is no history of brain cancer in their family." Monica mused. "Maybe the NeoSyndicate are up to something?"

"If that is the case, then why are they doing this?" Doggett asked.

Suddenly, the doctor came running out Kevin's room. "He's awake."

Doggett and Reyes ran into the room, where Kevin looked like he was on his deathbed.

"I know what the codes are now." Kevin panted out. "It's coordinates to where Conrad Strughold is."

Kevin grabbed Doggett's head and whispered the coordinates into his head. Before falling back down onto the bed and dying. Doggett and Reyes exited the room and Doggett called the Lone Gunmen and gave them the coordinates.

"That's in Tunisia." Langley said.

"There's no images of it on google maps." Byers chimed in.

"Whoever this is, their well connected." Forhike stated the obvious.

"Can you get us there discreetly?" Doggett asked.

"Yep." Langley replied.

"Do it." Doggett commanded, and hung up before turning to Monica. "We're going to Tunisia."


Author's note: This story part of the story is adapted from the fan-written script: The X-Files: Syndicate Control, by Jack Venturo. While I liked it, I had these problems with it:

1: Mulder would NEVER just leave Scully without talking to her about it first (and I refuse to read any MSR break-up fic).

2: The subplot with Miller and Simmons just distracted and slowed down the plot.