Title: Life After Mulder: I Shall Believe (4/6)
All other information is in Chapter one
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Mulder later told me that he had gone and had a couple of drinks and then proceeded to leave when someone he knew stopped him in the dark alley. The man was wearing all black and put a light to his face, a lighter to light a cigarette. Mulder turned and saw his face and yelled, "How could do this to my son, you cigarette smoking son of a bitch?"
"Mulder," the C.G.B. Spender said, "He is the way to save yourself as well as me, but I have to tell you there has never been any compassion in my life. I have killed many people and watched civilizations fall, and watched the suffering of mankind, I want to change that I want to save my grandson, not let him spend the rest of his life tortured by them."
"Then where is he, I know he's in Antarctica, but where?" an outraged Mulder yelled.
"Here is the location to the means of saving us from the beginning of the end. Take Will from them and we will all be saved, that is the only way to do it. Do what you must because I will now be killed."
"Good riddance," Mulder said running back to the street to hail a cab to his house.
"Scully we are leaving for Antarctica," Mulder said shaking me awake, "Come on we have to go now before it is too late."
I told him I was right behind him, off to save the future of all mankind as well as our son.
Antarctica
Two days later
7:37am
The winds of Antarctica where frozen. They gave me the shivers just thinking about what our son might be going through. I sensed that Mulder was worried. And why wouldn't he be. He was the father of the nest Messiah. Mulder felt compelled to tell me something, so while on the sled, he leaned over to me and spoke softly so AS Skinner wouldn't hear.
"Scully, I don't know what we're going to find there, but what I do know is that I will never let anything happen to you or Will.
I know that I have promised this before, but I feel responsible." His hands held against his face. I could see tears flowing down his face. It looked peaceful. I placed my arms around Mulder's body to try and keep him warm. It always seemed to work. And soon, I felt like the little schoolgirl. His muscular body against mine, so soft and firm. My mind soon drew a blank and the next thing that I hear out of Mulder's mouth is " I don't want to wrestle." My mouth began to show this smile that was missing out of my life. From then on, I knew that I had my family.
Then we stopped the motorized sled when we sighted buildings. I felt chills going through my body and trembled. "Scully are you okay?" Mulder asked in concern.
"Mulder I'm fine. How are we going to get there without being seen?"
"When I came to rescue you last time I was running towards the buildings and fell through a weak spot. I'm guessing there are more weak spots."
The three of us walked on the frozen tundra. All we saw was the small black huts against a snowy terrain. Skinner was the one who found the weak spot. He was walking ahead of us and we all heard a crunching sound, but didn't think he'd be the one to fall through. We saw him disappear into a deep hole.
"Skin-man, sir. Are you okay?" Mulder asked trying not to grin.
"Agent Mulder what did I say about Skin-man?" We both heard from below in the ice.
He had apparently fell into some kind of chamber. Mulder jumped down and I followed. He caught me and we both looked into each other's eyes. Both of us knew that this was it. This was our only chance to save mankind and Will.
The ship, Mulder told me, was exactly like the one he had seen before. He gave me a 'I told you so' look, but I think I started believing in this stuff after he left. We didn't know where to go and what we would find.
There was no one in the small office we found, but what we did find was Will medical charts.
"Mulder he's here and I think that they are afraid of him. Studying him to see how to save themselves."
Mulder just nodded as he went through the papers on the desk.
"Hey Scully what is this?" He was holding up a bone. I took it and studied it under the microscope that was conveniently in the office. "Mulder this has got the same virus that we've come across so many times in our work."
"What does it mean?" Skinner asked. I told him it meant we were dealing with very powerful forces at work here. The kind of forces that would destroy us all.
I studied what I could about the bone.
"Agent Scully, what is it?"
Skinner looked at me in a sort of puzzled way.
"Sir, both Agent Mulder and I have seen this. It's a biological toxin that I was exposed to over 4 years ago. This is like when Mulder rescued me from the ship."
"Where have you seen this 'toxin'?" Skinner asked.
"Well sir..." at first, I hesitated on telling him, but Mulder looked at me and that was enough to persuade me. "Well sir, we have seen this in two people. One, in a little boy named Gibson Praise. And two, in our son Will."
Once the words where spoken, it was enough to get Mulder's attention.
"Scully what do you mean?" Mulder asked.
"It's like what I tried to tell you before with Gibson. I ran every test that I could think of. When the results finally arrived, they revealed that the black oil was already apart of Gibson's protein code."
"Which means that somehow he was born with it?" Skinner said.
"Sir! Everyone had been born with it. Only in most people, it seems to be inactive. But in the case of Will and Gibson, it was turned on from the time that they where possibly conceived."
The look on their faces frightened me. I didn't know what else to tell them. Mulder pulled me to the side and asked me about Will.
"Scully, are you sure about Will?"
"Yes. I felt it necessary to have him tested, and he showed up positive. You might call it a really good guess or just mother's instinct."
"Either way, you did it."
Mulder reached for me and he held me tight. His strong arms felt save. But I wanted everyone to experience it, Will, Mulder and I. All as a family. Soon we continued in our search for Will.
We were still looking in the small office when we heard footsteps. We all froze; terror and fear were present in all of our eyes. The footsteps weren't heavy ones, but they still were footsteps. Mulder let go of me and walked towards the door quietly as he could with a stick he had found.
Mulder waited for his time to hit the person at the door, but we heard, "Mommy, don't let them hurt me." Will was standing before us his eyes filled with terror. "Mommy I knew you were here, I could hear your voice in my head."
I ran to him tears running down my face, happy to see him, but more afraid that someone had followed him. I took Will into my arms, his hazel eyes looking up to me, knowing somehow that it would be all right. Mulder watched as I held Will not ever wanting to let go. I looked over to Mulder and saw the immense joy in his eyes. I held my son on my hip and whispered to him, "Will you know whom that is don't you?" I asked pointing to Mulder, "You were never formally introduced."
"Mommy I always knew who he was. He was the only person you ever thought about besides me."
I hugged my son tighter then and Mulder came and rejoiced with us. Our family was finally reunited. Skinner interrupted the little family reunion and said, "Mulder, Scully I know you are happy to find your son, but you must remember we have to get out of here with out getting killed by those men."
I nodded. "Mommy I could read their minds that's how I escaped." I looked at him questioning I had only thought that to myself. He really could read minds!
We were half way over with our mission: The toughest part was yet to come: The escape from exile, the men, maybe aliens that were after Will, the most valuable part of all creation.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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"You can't bury the truth." –Mulder "Apocrypha"