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Chapter 10...

The weekend came and went quickly. The group went to the house again the next day, finding nothing. The files, strangely, had been removed. Mulder was glad he'd taken which ones he could. No one could figure out who could have moved all those files in just four hours. Krycek was oddly quiet that day. Renee, while looking a bit upset, was a little jittery and also quiet. When Langly asked her what was going on, she murmured something incoherent and walked away.

However by the time noon Monday had rolled around, everyone was worried about something else. Something a little more sinister than files being taken from the old mansion. Even Mulder was distracted from the abduction files he had found. Creaux had assigned everyone in his classes to see the school guidance counselor. This counselor was brand new, and he looked vaguely familiar to Reyes. "I've seen him somewhere, I know it!"

During lunch, Renee came to the table quietly. She had been the first of the group to see the counselor. "How was it with the new shrink?" Mulder asked.

"Well, I was going to do our usual thing – "

"Tell the guy that you were a five year old victim of human trafficking and have recurring dreams about being raped by the characters on Fraggle Rock? Or the clown murdering all the kids in your orphanage?"

"First one," replied Renee. Two years ago the school guidance counselor lost patience with Renee and Mulder and sent them both to see a psychologist. The two managed to scare them all off.

"Kinky," Frohike said declaratively.

"You really are a pervert, aren't you, Melvin?" asked Reyes.

"Proud of it."

"Back to the story," Langly interrupted. After a few minutes, Renee still had said nothing. "Renee?" Langly nudged her.

"Hu? Oh, right, counselor. Uh, let's see, he's old, semi-decrepit, and there's this God-awful smell coming from his office closet. Oh and I think he tried to hypnotize or drug me, I'm not sure which, but I'm definitely feelin' kinda funky."

"You're not serious." Said Doggett, at which point Renee fell over in a dead faint; a strange purple substance oozed from a cut on her hand that hadn't been there before.

AD Skinner massaged his temples with his hands. He glared down at the speaker phone on his desk. "Let me get this straight. You think that your school guidance counselor did something to Renee? Mulder, where did you get this kooky idea from?"

Mulder quickly explained what Renee had told them. "Then, right after she told us that he did something weird to her, hypnosis or drugging, she passed out! She's in the school clinic right now, and Jeff Spender had to go in to see the counselor next. No one's seen him since and that was an hour ago. Doggett is in there with the counselor right now."

"I'll head over there once I get off work."

"Thanks, Sir."

When Doggett came out of the counselor's office, Reyes was waiting for him. "How'd it go?" she asked.

Reyes was surprised when Doggett started laughing. "He says I need to be more open with my feelings."

"And?"

"Aaaand," Doggett drew out the word. Then, he just looked at Reyes. "I think I'm going to."

"Meaning...?"

John Doggett was not an impulsive person. We know this. So what he did next was highly unusual. Doggett motioned for Reyes to come closer to him, as though he had something private to tell her. When she did, he leaned over and kissed her right on the lips. Out of impulse, Monica kissed him back. Doggett grinned. "Um, ok, bye then," he said, then merrily walked down the hall to his locker.

"Wha?"

Mulder, standing near the office, witnessed this. "What just happened?" he asked Monica.

Reyes looked at Mulder, bewildered. "I have no idea."

Reyes and Mulder decided to go up to the clinic to visit Renee, and discussed what was going on. Reyes believed it was definitely some kind of hypnotic witchcraft, which she would know about since she studied things of that sort in her spare time. "Why else would Doggett just do a 180 with his personality? Plus, as soon as Renee tries to dish out the dirt on this guy, she passes out. It's way too suspicious."

Mulder nodded. "I called Renee's uncle and told him about it. He said he'd come down once he got off work."

"You still think all that's going on somehow involved Renee?" Reyes asked. Frohike had told her about their conversation the morning after Renee had been attacked.

"I think, and this is just a theory, I think something happened with her parents, and that one of them is after her now. When we overheard Renee and Skinner talking, he was upset because she had 'been on her own' this entire time. Plus, didn't you notice that we'd never met her parents. She never said a word about them. Plus, Skinner moved in with her the day after the attack. And then, there was that note she found when we saw the body in room 1013." Reyes pondered all of this as she and Mulder walked (they both had study hall this period).

Krycek had beaten Reyes and Mulder to the clinic. Now that Renee was semi-delusional, he could get information out of her. He'd been talking to her for about ten minutes and had managed to convince her that he was not Krycek. "So, will you tell me who has the files?"

"What files, Herbert?"

Krycek sighed, "The files from the Thurston house."

A long pause ensued. "There were no files."

"What?"

"That's the policy, right? Deny everything."

Krycek looked at Renee quizzically. "You're not delusional are you?"

"A little sedated, not delusional, Bob," shrugged Renee. Krycek was resisting the urge to bang his head against the wall when Langly came in, scowling once he saw Krycek. Renee grinned. "Ringo!" she cried.

"Oh, she remembers him," muttered Krycek.

Langly, ignoring Krycek, went over to Renee. "How are you feeling?" Renee was to busy to answer seeing as she had started braiding Langly's long hair. "Stop that," he said, trying to swat her hands away. Renee stuck out her lower lip and her eyes got big. "Gah, fine." Renee giggled and resumed her activity. Langly had no will power against the sad face. Krycek got a little disgusted at the cuteness of the two who weren't even a couple and left. He ran into Mulder and Reyes on the way out, stopped to chat with them and managed to get Mulder to tell him that he took the files.

"Great, could I borrow one or two?" Krycek asked.

"You into aliens?"

"Definitely."

"I'll bring you a couple."

"Thanks, man." Krycek said.

"No problem," Mulder said as Krycek walked off. Reyes frowned at him. "What?"

"Krycek is bad news, Mulder."

Mulder just rolled his eyes. "How do you figure?"

Reyes explained about the fight he had with Renee, and plus, the bad vibes she got off him. Monica stopped her little rant upon seeing Renee, still braiding Langly's hair. She laughed. "What's going on?"

"Renee's not herself," Langly said, his arms folded.

Renee laughed. "I am myself! Who else would I be? That's just silly."

"It's going to be a long week," Mulder said, then he noticed the purple substance that the nurse had managed to catch into a bottle from the cut on Renee's hand. "What the hell, this is the same stuff that was found on the corpse!"

Langly looked worried. "I noticed that too. I managed to get some of it into a separate bottle. I figured you could give it to Renee's uncle and he could have it analyzed."

"Good thinking."

"Lavender government goop," Renee declared.

Skinner arrived around sixth period. Renee was still in the clinic, but she was back to normal now. The same could not be said for Mulder, Frohike and Byers, who had been sent to see the counselor. Frohike was convinced that he was a munchkin from the Wizard of Oz, Byers seemed to believe that people were stalking him because he was a famous stripper, and Mulder was acting downright strange. He kept reading people's palms and yelling "DANGER!" at people, then jumping out from behind trash cans and what not. When asked what the hell he was doing, he would reply with, "Constant cognizance, you should always be prepared for danger." Other students were also acting queer. Some, like Doggett, had taken to telling their feelings to anyone who would listen, and then acting out on those feelings. Others acted out in irrational anger. Fights were breaking out all over the place.

Walter Skinner strode into the counselor's office, fully intending to see who this guy was and check out his credentials, but he stopped at the slightly cracked door. Creaux was yelling at the counselor. "Alan, you were only supposed to make that certain group forget about the files they found, not cause mass pandemonium!"

Alan snorted. "It's not my fault you sent everyone to see me. I got bored. I make people forget things, and that has side affects. Everyone should be normal tomorrow."

"What about the kid who thinks he's a walrus now?"

"That was just fun."

Um... yeah. Weird, I know, but there you have it. Please review and let me know if I should continue or not.