AUTHORS NOTE: Okay, so I'm not promising the works of Shakespeare here because this story is really starting to be my Everest and I want to conquer it!! I shall conquer it. Good times.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Taggart or the X Files.

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The team crowded around Robbie and Scully leant down next to him, her hand pressing to his stomach as she realised that she didn't like the amount of blood that Robbie was losing in the process of this next trick. She bit her lip as she looked at Burke, "we need to get him to a hospital."

"And get this leaked to the papers?" He shook his head knowing that even though there was meant to be patient confidentiality and everything but it seemed to never really happen. There was always a bent doctor somewhere prepared to take a bit of extra cash for reporting about big things. "You're a doctor?"

"That doesn't mean I can do anything for him!" She protested standing up and raking her hands through her short ginger hair as she realised that this was getting even more surreal with every minute. Robbie groaned on the bed as even more writing started to write on his chest and Burke was worried what was happening to the young girl at the other end. Scully was back at his side almost immediately at that moment and she held onto his hand as he groaned.

"If we take him to the autopsy lab, there will surely be things..." Mulder protested but was silenced when Scully raised her hands and looked down at what was being written. "What is it, Scully?" He asked his partner as he wasn't too sure Robbie would want him staring at his chest.

"It says the girl only has thirty minutes until he kills her but it's not Jackie that he wants." She explained and Jackie turned from her position at the door to look at them. "He wants Robbie to die because he knows that he's the one she loves." She whispered and watched as Robbie stared over at Jackie with such a look that showed he was prepared to die for her. Burke and Mulder looked at Scully as if she was on something before turning to look at each other.

"Jackie, assist Scully and Robbie to autopsy so that you can fix him up the best you can. There is no way he is going to die." Burke demanded before turning to look at Stuart and Mulder, "Us three are going to go hunt this bastard down and ruin his chances of ever hurting another Reid again."

"We don't even know what we're up against." Stuart commented looking at Burke and could see that his boss wasn't thinking straight because a member of his team's life was at stake. "How do we know we're able to stop him?" He queried and Burke just glared at him before leaving the room. Mulder squeezed Stuart's shoulder but didn't say anything as he followed Burke out because he too knew that he needed to fix this for Robbie because he'd seen the pain on Jackie's face.

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They arrived at the house in ten minutes with the address that they'd read on Robbie's chest. It was a rundown shack that looked like it should have been blown up a long time ago but it still stood there. From the way the windows were boarded up, they could tell that no one had lived there for a long time but that didn't stop them from climbing out of the car and pulling their guns out of their holsters so that they could move forward. Stuart looked over at Mulder, who in turn looked over at Burke who gave the nod of his head and then Mulder kicked down the door shouting something about the FBI and that anyone around should come out now with their hands on their heads.

No one came out but they all knew that that didn't mean there was no one waiting for them in the dark corners of the house.

Burke indicated for Mulder to take upstairs and for Stuart to take the right hand side of the house while he took the left hand side. Searching through the house, the three men felt their hearts pounding in their ears as they moved round looking for any signs of Kingston or Amanda. They all met back in the untidy and dark kitchen at the back of the house. Burke was about to mention that nothing was there when he heard a sound downstairs and saw a door tucked away behind the open kitchen door.

He held a finger to his lips so that the others wouldn't talk and he pointed at the door before indicating that he would go first, followed by Mulder and then Stuart. They nodded with agreement and all made a line against the door before Burke twisted the handle and started down the steps shouting that if anyone was down there, they should come out immediately.

Reaching the bottom, he looked in horror at the young girl hanging from the ceiling and her body covered in her blood as she too was covered in the same writing that was sketched across Robbie's chest. Robbie had more room for the writing whereas Amanda was a petite girl of sixteen! Burke moved over to help her down and wasn't surprised when a man came out of the shadows. "Put your hands in the air, now!" Mulder barked at Kingston but Kingston just kept moving.

"Your weapon can't hurt me, Agent Mulder, as you well know. I know you and your partner, Agent Scully, know more about my skill than I do and I also know you've worked a lot on my last case even though you weren't even born then." He stopped in front of Mulder and smiled at him. "How does it feel to finally see me face-to-face?"

Mulder glared at the man, "You know I don't normally like hanging around with murderers especially not the ones that plan on killing a colleague."

"Ah, nice choice of words because I knew you wouldn't say friend because Detective Ross has Miss Reid's affections..." He spoke on ignoring Burke's cry that Jackie was also a detective, "whereas you are also holding a little flame for her. That must confuse you after your feelings for your own partner, Agent Scully."

"Go to hell." Mulder whispered to him, his hands curling into fists at his sides as he glared at the man knowing that he wasn't going to be held responsible for whatever he did to this son of a bitch if he continued goading him. He was startled, however, when Kingston started to laugh at him.

"I'd love to because being stuck in purgatory is no such fun. I mean, do you really think people want eternal damnation?" He barked at Mulder before turning to look at the young girl that was slipping in and out of consciousness. "I feel like this all because of Jacqueline Reid."

"No, you don't." Stuart finally spoke up for the first time causing Kingston's angry gaze to finally rest on him. "Your argument is with her grandfather that is so many times great which makes you victimising Jackie as pointless as victimising Victoria and we all know you loved Victoria."

"I didn't love Victoria." He spat at Stuart. "She looked like my daughter because her mother was my family. My niece married that man's son because she "loved" him. Kingston's don't love Reid's. We hate each other."

"That makes Jackie family and that's why you never die after killing them!" Stuart pointed out making Mulder suddenly realise the issue too. Instead of getting revenge, Kingston was killing his own family making him even more despised and finding it harder for his soul to pass on. He needed to receive forgiveness before being able to move on. This was more an episode of Ghost Whisperer than an X File and Burke couldn't help but turn to stare at them angrily,

"The longer we talk to him, the less chance we have of Robbie actually surviving this episode and it also appears that Miss Stone is starting to pass away too." He shouted at them angrily before moving to let Amanda down and putting her in recovery position so that she could still breathe.

Kingston looked down at the little girl, his hands trembling as he held out his hands. "I'll come willingly but I don't promise anything for Detective Ross' life. He's not good enough for my family."

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Scully cleaned up the cuts the best she could and saw that to stop the bleeding she'd need to slow his heartbeat down a little. She bit back the urge to scream with fear or frustration, she was undecided which one she felt the most. Her hands trembled as she filled her syringe with what it would take and sighed before injecting him while Jackie just watched on.

The monitor went down and she took a deep breath as she kept her eye on the bleeding but was also preparing herself for having to quickly operate in case it dipped below healthy. Jackie looked at Scully, her eyes silently asking if she knew what she was doing and Scully just looked away because she didn't want to admit that she had no idea what she was doing.

The bleeding ceased and Scully smiled before quickly making his heart rate go to normal, she looked over his scars and sighed. "They might need stitching."

"Meaning he'll have them forever?"

"I didn't take you for being shallow, Detective Reid." Scully allowed herself to bite out and Jackie glared at her in response because her phone started to ring. "Scully..." She went silent for a few moments before hanging up. "They have Kingston and he wants to talk to you."

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Jackie felt nervous as she moved into the interrogation room and even though she knew that Mulder, Burke and Stuart were sat behind the mirror, she still could feel her palms starting to sweat and her muscles trembling as she sat down in the chair across from the man that had murdered most of her family. "Good evening, Jacqueline."

"My name is Jackie." She whispered before leaning forward against the table, "Victoria was your great-niece and you knew that when you murdered her." Kingston smiled at her lazily before shaking his head.

"I sacrificed her." He corrected laughing before leaning towards her too. "I thought it was what I needed to do." He shrugged as he leant back in his chair and ran his hand through his hair that showed no signs of greying even though he was old enough to have died several times over. He could at least have the decency to have one grey hair.

"No. It was you wanting cruel revenge and not once did you think that the killing of your own flesh and blood would not help you seek your second life." She said standing up and then was surprised when he took hold of her wrist.

"All I need I think to escape this hell is your forgiveness.."

"No." Jackie burst out and she slammed her hands down on the table, glaring at him. "You owe an apology to every Reid you've ever hurt in your miserable past and now that I know you'll roam this earth forever in your own damned misery then that makes me go on very happy." She whispered slamming out of the room before leaning back against the wall and hiding her face behind her hands. She wasn't surprised to find herself being hugged by Mulder five seconds later.

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AUTHORS NOTE: One more chapter left. One more note, the thing Scully did might not be medical procedure but it worked for what I wanted it for XD