Title: Reunion (Part 2/2)
Author: Starbuck23
Rating: PG
Spoilers: none
Disclaimer: Mulder, Scully, Skinner, and the X Files belongs to Chris Carter, etc...
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11:13 PM
Audrey woke up feeling dizzy and nauseated. She squeezed her eyes shut and took long shallow breaths, trying to make the feeling go away. After a few unsuccessful minutes, she realized that she was cold. She opened her eyes and tried to sit up, but a wave of nausea made her surrender back to the cold, hard floor she had been laying on.
"Awake?"
Audrey slowly turned her head towards the male voice.
"Good. Here, drink this." A man's figure stepped out of the shadows of the room with a cup in his hand. He helped her sit up and let her sip the water in the cup.
After a minute or two, Audrey felt well enough to speak.
"What do you want with me?"
"You must miss your friend dreadfully, Carilyn," the man said, not answering the question.
Audrey sat, silent.
"My name is Alan, I can help you. I can reunite you with her, Audrey. You won't ever have to go another day missing her again. I can heal you pain."
"You-- you're nuts," Audrey said, shivering in the robe she was wearing.
Krodsky shook his head as if pitying her.
"You don't understand Audrey, but you will. You will understand when you see Carilyn again."
Afraid for her life, Audrey desperately tried to think of what to do and what to say. "Wh-when will I see her again?" she asked, her voice quivering.
"Tonight," Krodsky said walking out of the room. "Tonight."
As the door shut, Audrey prayed that Mulder and Scully would find her before it was too late.
Scully sighed impatiently as they sat in front of the stoplight. For the past few hours they had searched the entire town and parts of the neighboring cities. They even revisited Krodsky's store about four times and they had found nothing. Scully had also scoured the phone and address book for Kimston and the surrounding cities but hadn't found any one under the name Alan Krodsky.
"What if it's too late Mulder? What if we don't get to her in time?" Scully let the thick phone book slide to the floor of the car and rested her head against the window.
"Scully, we'll find her. We have to. And we'll find her alive. I'm sure of it. She's a strong girl. She'll be able to stall Krodsky until we find her."
"If we find her."
Mulder starred out into the dark road. It wasn't like his partner to be so pessimistic. "Scully... you know that it's not your fault Audrey was taken."
Scully sighed and almost laughed at the irony of his statement. Wasn't she the one who was supposed to be saying that to him? "I know, Mulder. But I still feel so guilty. I shouldn't have left her alone."
"Scully, she was taking a shower. And so were you."
"But if I waited for her and then took my shower-"
"Krodsky still could have kidnapped her while you were in the shower. Or if you were doing anything else."
After a minute of silence Scully nodded. "You're right. I have to stop blaming myself. If I don't watch it, I'll turn into you."
"Is that supposed to be an insult?" Mulder grinned.
"Maybe."
Mulder watched as the corners of Scully's mouth turned to a smile. Glad that he made her feel a little better, he turned his eyes back to the road wondering where to go next.
Audrey snapped her head up as she heard a door open. Since here eyes were adjusted to the dark, she could see the room she was held captive in. Even in the dark without any of the furniture in it, she recognized it as Carilyn's old basement before she moved in with her aunt and uncle. She could see the man, Alan, hiding something behind his back.
"What are you doing?" Audrey asked frantically.
"You're going to see Carilyn again, Audrey. Aren't you glad?" Krodsky said as he walked towards her. "Lets go. Get up."
"N-no, I won't go," Audrey backed herself into the wall.
"You need to see Carilyn again, Audrey! Don't torture yourself, stop grieving for her. You don't have to! You can see her!"
"Leave me alone, you're crazy!" Audrey cried out as she scuttled away from him.
"Lets go," he said more sternly. This time he showed what he was hiding behind his back. "Get up."
Audrey gulped and slowly got to her feet, never taking her eyes off the huge knife that was held menacingly in front of her.
Wonderful, thought Audrey as she shuffled down the dark street with Krodsky behind her holding the knife. Not only was she freezing, starving, and thirsty. Now she was going to be wet too. It had begun drizzling and the slight wind made the air even chillier. Now I'm going to catch cold or the flu, she thought miserably as she tripped over the curb. That is if I'm still alive.
She recognized the street Krodsky had brought her to. He was taking her back to the little pond where Carilyn had been murdered. With all of the homes around, Audrey knew that if she screamed someone would hear her and come out to check. She wished she could, even if Alan would plunge that knife into her, but he had gagged her and the cloth that was stuffed into her mouth was choking her.
As they came upon the spot Krodsky intended to stop, Audrey felt sick. I'm too young to die! She thought almost beginning to cry.
Choking back her tears, Audrey thought of Mulder and Scully and hoped that they were looking for her. Ducking under the yellow police tape as Alan told her to, she begged the Lord to have Scully and Mulder find her.
Telling her not to make a noise, Krodsky undid the gag. Audrey coughed instead. Her mouth was parched.
As Krodsky turned to the tree stump near the pond, Audrey suddenly decided to run. She got as far as the police tape before she tripped over a tree root and fell to the ground. Krodsky was on her in less than a minute. He dragged her back to the pond sat her in front of the stump. She sat still, the knife was pressed against the back of her neck.
After what seemed like an eternity, Krodsky found what he was looking for, the scissors.
"This is it," he whispered. "You'll never have to grieve over your friend again."
Audrey winced as he snipped off a chunk of her auburn hair knowing what was coming next. Alan's words echoed in her mind, "This is it."
Mulder glanced over at Scully who was staring out the window and sighed. They hadn't had any luck at all in their search and Mulder was afraid that his partner had given up hope. After driving around well into the night Scully had decided to stop for the night after checking at the murder site one last time. Even though there had been no sign of Audrey anywhere, Mulder had a gut feeling that she was still alive. She had to be for Scully's sake.
"NO!" Audrey screamed jumping up suddenly. She backed away from her startled captor. As soon as he realized what had happened, he started towards her with the knife again. But this time Audrey was ready.
"Stop right there!" she shouted, recalling the cops show she had seen a few weeks ago.
"Get back here!" Krodsky growled. "You need to be reunited with Carilyn. You need her!"
"No. Leave me alone. Stop there!"
Krodsky halted when he saw her draw up a gun from the pocket in her robe.
Audrey smiled despite the conditions. She finally had control of what was going on. She had found the gun in her pocket when she tripped. It had hurt when she fell on it, and she knew she was going to have a bruise for weeks, but now she could protect herself or at least stall for time if the gun wasn't loaded.
"You don't know what you are doing Audrey, drop the gun." Krodsky said.
"No, you're wrong. You don't know what you're doing. You need help." Audrey said trying to steady her voice.
"You need to end your grieving. You don't have to go on hurting. You can see Carilyn again, Audrey! Don't you understand? You don't have to live without her!"
"Carilyn is dead!" Audrey said, growing nervous. Krodsky was slowly inching towards her.
"You can see her again. I know how you can see her again. I can help you."
"Stay there or I'll shoot!" cried Audrey. "She's dead. Carilyn is dead because you killed her. You murdered her! You ended her life!"
"Carilyn needed to be with her parents. She was lost without them, she needed them. Just like you need her."
At that, Krodsky sprang. Audrey screamed and pulled the trigger on the gun. Nothing happened. It wasn't loaded. As she crashed to the ground from the impact of Krodsky, she felt her leg break from the weird angle in was crushed in. She let out another shriek as she felt the knife brush her skin.
"ALAN KRODSKY, STOP RIGHT THERE! DROP THE KNIFE OR WE'LL SHOOT!"
Both Audrey and Krodsky looked up to see Mulder and Scully with their guns drawn, pointing strait at Krodsky.
"SHE NEEDS TO BE REUNITED WITH CARILYN!" Krodsky screamed and drew the knife up ready to stab it into Audrey.
"NO!" screamed Audrey, Scully, and Mulder.
A shot rang out from both Mulder and Scully's guns and it was over.
TWO DAYS LATER
KIMSTON HOSPITAL, ROOM 203
12:23 PM
"Feeling better?"
Audrey nodded and gave Scully a small smile. "Yeah, thanks. Those are pretty."
"I thought you'd might like them." Scully said as she arranged the flowers she and Mulder had brought to cheer up the hospital room Audrey was staying in.
The poor girl had cuts and bruises all over as well as a broken leg and a stab wound in her left arm. One of the bullets fired had hit Krodsky in the arm and the other had hit him in the shoulder changing the knife's path from Audrey's chest to her arm.
"What happened to Krodsky?" asked Audrey after admiring the various flowers next to her bed.
"Well, he'll be in the hospital for a while from the bullet wounds, but afterwards he's going to be admitted into a mental hospital. He'll be under suicide watch and undergo therapy."
Audrey nodded. "I'm glad he won't be able to kill anyone else."
"Yeah." Scully gave the girl a small smile. "So am I."
"Hey."
The two looked up to see Mulder saunter into the room.
"How're you feeling? You'll be able to go home with your dad tomorrow," Mulder said, his hands stuffed into his pockets.
"That' s good," Audrey said with a smile. "I'm ready to get outta this place."
"And?" Scully said sensing that Mulder had something else to say
Mulder looked at his partner then shifted his gaze to the girl. "Audrey, your Mom died last night. The injection Krodsky gave her was lethal and the doctors couldn't do anything to counteract it. I'm sorry, Audrey."
Scully studied the girl who sat there staring at nothing taking in what Mulder said. The poor thing, subject to so much pain in just a few days.
"I'm so sorry," Scully whispered, squeezing her hand.
At that moment, Mr. Spencer let himself into the room.
"Did you tell her?"
Mulder nodded.
He nodded in return.
Scully and Mulder said goodbye to the two, leaving them to deal with whatever came next.
9:42 PM
"Case closed," said Mulder as Scully finished typing up the report for Skinner on her laptop. He looked at his partner in the seat next to him. "You okay?"
"Yeah," said Scully looking out of the window into the night sky. "Audrey will be okay, won't she?"
"Yeah," said Mulder giving Scully's had a reassuring squeeze. "She's a strong girl. She managed to survive Alan Krodsky didn't she?"
Scully nodded.
"She still has her father too. She'll be just fine. Don't worry about it."
Satisfied, Scully closed her eyes and settled in for the ride back home.
KIMSTON HOSPITAL, ROOM 203
Audrey looked out of the window from her hospital bed into the night sky thinking about the events of the past few days. Even though she missed her mother and Carilyn, Audrey knew life could and would go on. She closed her eyes, ready to sleep with a reassuring feeling that she would be reunited with them someday. Someday.
End
Author: Starbuck23
Rating: PG
Spoilers: none
Disclaimer: Mulder, Scully, Skinner, and the X Files belongs to Chris Carter, etc...
Feedback is always good!!!
11:13 PM
Audrey woke up feeling dizzy and nauseated. She squeezed her eyes shut and took long shallow breaths, trying to make the feeling go away. After a few unsuccessful minutes, she realized that she was cold. She opened her eyes and tried to sit up, but a wave of nausea made her surrender back to the cold, hard floor she had been laying on.
"Awake?"
Audrey slowly turned her head towards the male voice.
"Good. Here, drink this." A man's figure stepped out of the shadows of the room with a cup in his hand. He helped her sit up and let her sip the water in the cup.
After a minute or two, Audrey felt well enough to speak.
"What do you want with me?"
"You must miss your friend dreadfully, Carilyn," the man said, not answering the question.
Audrey sat, silent.
"My name is Alan, I can help you. I can reunite you with her, Audrey. You won't ever have to go another day missing her again. I can heal you pain."
"You-- you're nuts," Audrey said, shivering in the robe she was wearing.
Krodsky shook his head as if pitying her.
"You don't understand Audrey, but you will. You will understand when you see Carilyn again."
Afraid for her life, Audrey desperately tried to think of what to do and what to say. "Wh-when will I see her again?" she asked, her voice quivering.
"Tonight," Krodsky said walking out of the room. "Tonight."
As the door shut, Audrey prayed that Mulder and Scully would find her before it was too late.
Scully sighed impatiently as they sat in front of the stoplight. For the past few hours they had searched the entire town and parts of the neighboring cities. They even revisited Krodsky's store about four times and they had found nothing. Scully had also scoured the phone and address book for Kimston and the surrounding cities but hadn't found any one under the name Alan Krodsky.
"What if it's too late Mulder? What if we don't get to her in time?" Scully let the thick phone book slide to the floor of the car and rested her head against the window.
"Scully, we'll find her. We have to. And we'll find her alive. I'm sure of it. She's a strong girl. She'll be able to stall Krodsky until we find her."
"If we find her."
Mulder starred out into the dark road. It wasn't like his partner to be so pessimistic. "Scully... you know that it's not your fault Audrey was taken."
Scully sighed and almost laughed at the irony of his statement. Wasn't she the one who was supposed to be saying that to him? "I know, Mulder. But I still feel so guilty. I shouldn't have left her alone."
"Scully, she was taking a shower. And so were you."
"But if I waited for her and then took my shower-"
"Krodsky still could have kidnapped her while you were in the shower. Or if you were doing anything else."
After a minute of silence Scully nodded. "You're right. I have to stop blaming myself. If I don't watch it, I'll turn into you."
"Is that supposed to be an insult?" Mulder grinned.
"Maybe."
Mulder watched as the corners of Scully's mouth turned to a smile. Glad that he made her feel a little better, he turned his eyes back to the road wondering where to go next.
Audrey snapped her head up as she heard a door open. Since here eyes were adjusted to the dark, she could see the room she was held captive in. Even in the dark without any of the furniture in it, she recognized it as Carilyn's old basement before she moved in with her aunt and uncle. She could see the man, Alan, hiding something behind his back.
"What are you doing?" Audrey asked frantically.
"You're going to see Carilyn again, Audrey. Aren't you glad?" Krodsky said as he walked towards her. "Lets go. Get up."
"N-no, I won't go," Audrey backed herself into the wall.
"You need to see Carilyn again, Audrey! Don't torture yourself, stop grieving for her. You don't have to! You can see her!"
"Leave me alone, you're crazy!" Audrey cried out as she scuttled away from him.
"Lets go," he said more sternly. This time he showed what he was hiding behind his back. "Get up."
Audrey gulped and slowly got to her feet, never taking her eyes off the huge knife that was held menacingly in front of her.
Wonderful, thought Audrey as she shuffled down the dark street with Krodsky behind her holding the knife. Not only was she freezing, starving, and thirsty. Now she was going to be wet too. It had begun drizzling and the slight wind made the air even chillier. Now I'm going to catch cold or the flu, she thought miserably as she tripped over the curb. That is if I'm still alive.
She recognized the street Krodsky had brought her to. He was taking her back to the little pond where Carilyn had been murdered. With all of the homes around, Audrey knew that if she screamed someone would hear her and come out to check. She wished she could, even if Alan would plunge that knife into her, but he had gagged her and the cloth that was stuffed into her mouth was choking her.
As they came upon the spot Krodsky intended to stop, Audrey felt sick. I'm too young to die! She thought almost beginning to cry.
Choking back her tears, Audrey thought of Mulder and Scully and hoped that they were looking for her. Ducking under the yellow police tape as Alan told her to, she begged the Lord to have Scully and Mulder find her.
Telling her not to make a noise, Krodsky undid the gag. Audrey coughed instead. Her mouth was parched.
As Krodsky turned to the tree stump near the pond, Audrey suddenly decided to run. She got as far as the police tape before she tripped over a tree root and fell to the ground. Krodsky was on her in less than a minute. He dragged her back to the pond sat her in front of the stump. She sat still, the knife was pressed against the back of her neck.
After what seemed like an eternity, Krodsky found what he was looking for, the scissors.
"This is it," he whispered. "You'll never have to grieve over your friend again."
Audrey winced as he snipped off a chunk of her auburn hair knowing what was coming next. Alan's words echoed in her mind, "This is it."
Mulder glanced over at Scully who was staring out the window and sighed. They hadn't had any luck at all in their search and Mulder was afraid that his partner had given up hope. After driving around well into the night Scully had decided to stop for the night after checking at the murder site one last time. Even though there had been no sign of Audrey anywhere, Mulder had a gut feeling that she was still alive. She had to be for Scully's sake.
"NO!" Audrey screamed jumping up suddenly. She backed away from her startled captor. As soon as he realized what had happened, he started towards her with the knife again. But this time Audrey was ready.
"Stop right there!" she shouted, recalling the cops show she had seen a few weeks ago.
"Get back here!" Krodsky growled. "You need to be reunited with Carilyn. You need her!"
"No. Leave me alone. Stop there!"
Krodsky halted when he saw her draw up a gun from the pocket in her robe.
Audrey smiled despite the conditions. She finally had control of what was going on. She had found the gun in her pocket when she tripped. It had hurt when she fell on it, and she knew she was going to have a bruise for weeks, but now she could protect herself or at least stall for time if the gun wasn't loaded.
"You don't know what you are doing Audrey, drop the gun." Krodsky said.
"No, you're wrong. You don't know what you're doing. You need help." Audrey said trying to steady her voice.
"You need to end your grieving. You don't have to go on hurting. You can see Carilyn again, Audrey! Don't you understand? You don't have to live without her!"
"Carilyn is dead!" Audrey said, growing nervous. Krodsky was slowly inching towards her.
"You can see her again. I know how you can see her again. I can help you."
"Stay there or I'll shoot!" cried Audrey. "She's dead. Carilyn is dead because you killed her. You murdered her! You ended her life!"
"Carilyn needed to be with her parents. She was lost without them, she needed them. Just like you need her."
At that, Krodsky sprang. Audrey screamed and pulled the trigger on the gun. Nothing happened. It wasn't loaded. As she crashed to the ground from the impact of Krodsky, she felt her leg break from the weird angle in was crushed in. She let out another shriek as she felt the knife brush her skin.
"ALAN KRODSKY, STOP RIGHT THERE! DROP THE KNIFE OR WE'LL SHOOT!"
Both Audrey and Krodsky looked up to see Mulder and Scully with their guns drawn, pointing strait at Krodsky.
"SHE NEEDS TO BE REUNITED WITH CARILYN!" Krodsky screamed and drew the knife up ready to stab it into Audrey.
"NO!" screamed Audrey, Scully, and Mulder.
A shot rang out from both Mulder and Scully's guns and it was over.
TWO DAYS LATER
KIMSTON HOSPITAL, ROOM 203
12:23 PM
"Feeling better?"
Audrey nodded and gave Scully a small smile. "Yeah, thanks. Those are pretty."
"I thought you'd might like them." Scully said as she arranged the flowers she and Mulder had brought to cheer up the hospital room Audrey was staying in.
The poor girl had cuts and bruises all over as well as a broken leg and a stab wound in her left arm. One of the bullets fired had hit Krodsky in the arm and the other had hit him in the shoulder changing the knife's path from Audrey's chest to her arm.
"What happened to Krodsky?" asked Audrey after admiring the various flowers next to her bed.
"Well, he'll be in the hospital for a while from the bullet wounds, but afterwards he's going to be admitted into a mental hospital. He'll be under suicide watch and undergo therapy."
Audrey nodded. "I'm glad he won't be able to kill anyone else."
"Yeah." Scully gave the girl a small smile. "So am I."
"Hey."
The two looked up to see Mulder saunter into the room.
"How're you feeling? You'll be able to go home with your dad tomorrow," Mulder said, his hands stuffed into his pockets.
"That' s good," Audrey said with a smile. "I'm ready to get outta this place."
"And?" Scully said sensing that Mulder had something else to say
Mulder looked at his partner then shifted his gaze to the girl. "Audrey, your Mom died last night. The injection Krodsky gave her was lethal and the doctors couldn't do anything to counteract it. I'm sorry, Audrey."
Scully studied the girl who sat there staring at nothing taking in what Mulder said. The poor thing, subject to so much pain in just a few days.
"I'm so sorry," Scully whispered, squeezing her hand.
At that moment, Mr. Spencer let himself into the room.
"Did you tell her?"
Mulder nodded.
He nodded in return.
Scully and Mulder said goodbye to the two, leaving them to deal with whatever came next.
9:42 PM
"Case closed," said Mulder as Scully finished typing up the report for Skinner on her laptop. He looked at his partner in the seat next to him. "You okay?"
"Yeah," said Scully looking out of the window into the night sky. "Audrey will be okay, won't she?"
"Yeah," said Mulder giving Scully's had a reassuring squeeze. "She's a strong girl. She managed to survive Alan Krodsky didn't she?"
Scully nodded.
"She still has her father too. She'll be just fine. Don't worry about it."
Satisfied, Scully closed her eyes and settled in for the ride back home.
KIMSTON HOSPITAL, ROOM 203
Audrey looked out of the window from her hospital bed into the night sky thinking about the events of the past few days. Even though she missed her mother and Carilyn, Audrey knew life could and would go on. She closed her eyes, ready to sleep with a reassuring feeling that she would be reunited with them someday. Someday.
End