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A/N: This is a bit longer...

Chapter 11: Crash

Scully woke up later that night, the clock reading 3:07. She felt awake, like she had never been asleep. Looking out of the window, she saw the lights of the city and saw Emily stood in the doorway. She knew that she couldn't sleep somewhere new, it must be hard for her to suddenly have her life in danger like this, Scully thought.

"Can't you sleep?"

"No, sorry if I woke you" Emily whispered, looking ashamed.

"Just try to sleep, you'll feel better, and you look like you need it. I promise you there is nothing to be afraid of here"

"Ok" she smiled, looking somewhat comforted.

It seemed that Scully had fallen asleep too, because she was woken by Mulder shaking her and saw that Emily was asleep leaning on her shoulder. She shifted until she was sitting up more, and then slipped out without waking Emily, who was still wearing the shorts and white top she had slept in and judging by that, Mulder hadn't woken her yet.

Scully pulled on some jeans and a top, not bothering with her usual FBI uniform since nobody would see her here as an agent. She noted that Mulder had done the same thing. When her and mulder were ready, Scully managed to convince Katie to change, but asked Mulder to carry Emily to the car seeing as she hadn't slept much.

Scully sat quietly, thinking about what she had asked Mulder last night. About Emily.

When she next looked away from the window she had been staring out of, she looked at Mulder. His eyes were on the road and he looked focused, like he was concentrating hard.

'Mulder, are you ok?'

"Huh? Oh yeah the road's just a bit rough and this hill's getting steeper the further down we get."

Be careful, it looks like there's going to be a storm"

She went back to thinking, but soon got bored and started typing up a report on her laptop. Skinner had said they could treat it as a case, no doubt he'd want one.

She turned to look at Mulder questioningly when she heard his sigh of frustration, which quickly turned to panic as the hill got steeper.

"Scully, it's not working" he looked at her with wide eyes.

"Calm down Mulder, What's not working?"

"The brakes, Scully. We can't stop"

The car gained speed, as Mulder frantically tried to turn it to the side and slow it down. It turned a corner and a huge truck pulled out in front of them. The car flipped and The last thing Scully saw was the cigarette smoking man behind the wheel of the truck that had cut them off. Then she felt the impact as they hit the Tarmac and slammed into a tree.