TITLE: Journey into the Beyond

AUTHOR: Mel X Lady

RATING: R

CATEGORY: Post-Requiem

DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT: Feel free to post this anywhere as
long as my name stays with the fanfic.

FEEDBACK: DJPDude@Juno.com

SPOILERS: Beyond the Sea, Pilot, S.R. 819, Requiem, Tunguska/Terma, Sleepless, Avatar

The 9 minute lapse that abductees experience is mentioned several times.

SUMMARY: Scully searches for Mulder with the aid of an old aquantience. Post-Requiem.

DISCLAIMER: Well, everyone should have a goal, although!
I DON'T OWN: Scully, Mulder, Krycek, Skinner, The LGM, CSM, and Marita. (Never used her before. See, she's touched Krycek and that kinda hacks me off...) :)
I DO OWN: A backpack, X-Files Action figures, A few tapes, A bed and my computer.

NOTES: This came to me over the summer of 2000. My family moved from Oklahoma City, OK to Columbia, SC. So I needed a friend, and my fanfics seem to work just fine.

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Skinner quickly sped down the empty road and looked at his watch. 10:10 by his count as he stopped his car quickly and opened the door. He didn't bother to pull to the side of the road, let alone stop the engine as he pulled himself out and looked at the bright light in the sky that he was too familiar with.
"Oh God, be Mulder. Please let it be Mulder," he murmured as he climbed back into the car and drove to the familiar road where he and Mulder had been a week earlier. He heaved a sigh of relief as he noticed the car that was already parked on the side of the road as he quickly pulled up behind it. Walter stopped the engine as he quickly ran toward the center of the forest to find Scully and Krycek. He had decided that since he hadn't had any threats on his life that Krycek was out there, and hopefully Mulder too. He quickly forced his body through the trees and down the familiar path as he stopped and looked at the bright light over head and two masses standing in the clearing.

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Scully opened her mouth and tried to breathe, except the air felt like cotton as it covered her mouth and keep her from receiving the precious, life giving air. She didn't move her eyes as Krycek stood and looked at the craft. It was strangely and eerily familiar as he realized he'd seen one before. He'd been on top of one before, back when the oilan had taken over his body and his mind and nearly got him killed. Again.
"Mulder-" Scully breathed in a loud whisper as she allowed tears to stream down her cheeks. They watched as a bright, blinding light flew down from the heavens and stayed for what seemed like an eternity.

Krycek stared into the heavenly light as he resisted the urge to hold his hand up and block the light that left an imprint in his memory. He stood in a trance as he felt someone walk behind him. He couldn't turn around, even if he tried,

Scully stood and watched a form emerge from the light as she felt her voice catch in her throat and tears burn her eyes.
"Mulder!" she screamed out as she ran toward him. She wrapped her arms around him and inhaled him. He stood there as she slowly realized something wasn't right. Tears streamed down her face as she slowly and unsurely pulled her body back and looked at Mulder. He stared straight to Krycek and Skinner with no emotion on his face as Scully looked at him and brought in staggered gasps of air.

"Who are you?" Mulder asked as Scully let out a scream of horror and stepped back. Her heart shattered as her legs grew weak and her world was rocked.
"No! Oh God! No," she gasped as she dropped to her knees and held her face in her hands. She looked back up after a few moments and noticed the other form that had emerged from the light.
"You! What have you done to Mulder? Please!," Scully gasped and begged as the red haired man stood and shook his head. He stared at her as tried to stop the tears and tried to figure out what had happened to Mulder. She opened her mouth but stopped when Krycek beat her to her conclusion.
"His Memories," he whispered, "No! Do it! Give him back his memories. I'll trade myself for Mulder!," Krycek yelled as he felt his voice return as he walked toward the men and Scully.
"You would? Alex? You? One of the most selfish men in the world?" he asked as Krycek nodded.
"Yes. Give Mulder back everything he had before he left and take it away from me. Take me," Krycek demanded as he looked toward Scully and noticed the pleading in her eyes.
"Are you sure?"
"Do it."
"Fine," he said as he pulled out a needle and slowly jammed it into Mulder's arm. He stood, emotionlessly, as life slowly returned to him.

Krycek turned toward Skinner and nodded as Skinner quickly stepped toward them and looked at Mulder and Scully.
"Skinner, I think this is yours," Krycek murmured as he pulled out a switch that he held in his pocket and handed it to Skinner.
"Scully, you take care of everything. Please," he whispered as he reached over and looked into her brillant blue eyes. They didn't say anything as Krycek quickly took her lips in a savage, heart stopping kiss that, although only lasted five seconds, was enough to remember for a lifetime He pulled away and stroked her face gingerly. Her eyes thanked him as he nodded and turned.
"Mulder, I'm sorry," he said quietly as he turned toward the red haired man and nodded.
"Ready?"
"I leave only when I see that Mulder remembers everything."
"See for yourself," he replied as Mulder blinked and looked to Scully.
"Scully," Mulder cried out as he hugged her and felt tears weld up in his eyes.
"Okay. Let's go," Krycek murmured as the red haired man nodded and walked toward the light. Krycek followed as he looked at Scully and winked, although she didn't see it through the tears and kisses she rained on Mulder. Krycek felt a sharp pain to his neck as the light blinded him and he remembered nothing of his horrible past.

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Epilogue:

1 Year Later

The Smoking Man sat in his car and smiled, a very rare occasion. He lit up another Morley as he felt the smoke rush into his mouth, through his lungs and out of his mouth again. He closed his eyes and savored the moment that was interrupted by his compainion.
"Do you always have to do that while I'm in the car with you?"
"Yes. Old habits die hard," Cancerman said as he frowned and moved his eyes toward his son. He moved his eyes back to the park that they sat across the street from as they watched Mulder and Scully walk to a swing set.
"So, what's happened in the past year?" Jeffrey asked while the Smoking Man watched Mulder a moment longer before reaccounting the previous events of the year in his mind. He had been watching Mulder and Scully, and now their child, Nicholas William, for a year now, in the shadows, hidden. Not even his colleagues had found him, even after the mysterious death of Marita Covarrubias. Krycek may have escaped the car bomb years ago, but she hadn't been so lucky. He mentally shook his head at the waste of another life, although she had done well in the end by leaking information to Skinner. He exhaled slowly as he mused on her death for a moment before going on to Krycek.

Krycek had disappeared without word or notice almost a year ago. Krycek and the ship he'd been hunting for disappeared almost as quickly as Mulder reappeared. Mulder had reappeared and suddenly was very highly regarded in the FBI. He still had his basement office with Scully, but at least people knew they where down there.

The pregnancy had been sucessful and all was going according to plan. The supreme plan that would one day unfold and fall into place.
"Well?" Jeffrey asked as he pulled a Morley out of his father's package and proceeded to light it.
"All in good time, son. All in very good time," Cancerman said as he watched Jeffrey flick the lighter and place the Morley to his lips.
"I told you I'd be my own great man," he said as he lit the end as inhaled the deadly smoke. He exhaled as the Smoking man sighed and ground his cigarette out.

The pieces were falling into place.

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The End

"When they said "Make Love, Not War," they never dreamed one would become more dangerous then the other."

-Unknown