September 7, 2002: 06:00

The digital alarm clock next to Mulder's bed went off promptly at 6 am, with the sounds of classical music floating to his ears, Mulder awakened. He felt as if something was missing, he looked over and noticed that Scully was no longer beside him. He sat bolt upright in panic. Just then the soft sound of running water floated to him from the bathroom, over the sound of his alarm. He reached over and hit the snooze button to shut it up.

"Scully?" he asked, with the phone call from the night before still prominent in his brain. There was no reply. "Scully?" he asked again, louder this time. Still no reply but the sound of water in the bathroom. "Why is she up so early," he asked himself. It was kind of suspicious after all. He arose from bed, and walked towards his bathroom door. His hand reached out for the knob; he could hear faint sounds of movement from within. He turned the knob in his hand, as he opened the door, a cloud of steam rushed out to great him. He looked inside and saw Scully quickly close his medicine cabinet and she turned around almost panicked. She was naked except for a towel wrapped around her head, and freshly showered. In her mouth was a toothbrush, one that she had left at his house for such occasions.

"Good morning," she mumbled, through a mouthful of toothpaste, "your up early."

"As are you," Mulder replied, as he looked over her glistening naked body.

"Indeed I am, I woke up and I didn't want to wake you so I crept in here to take a shower."

"Well I'm awake now," he said as he stepped closer to her and caressed her thigh.

"I have to go, that's why I got up early to shower, I have to go see my brother, he's passing through town, we're meeting for breakfast to catch up."

"Oh, alright, I'll let you finish then." Mulder exited the bathroom and walked aver to his closet, pulling out a comfortable t-shirt and some old jeans. As he was getting dressed Scully came out of the bathroom, now adorning her silky black bra and panties. She walked aver to the bed and picked up her clothes from the day before and started to dress.

"Sorry I have to leave so soon," she said, "I guess I forgot to tell you about this earlier."

"It's no big deal," Mulder replied, "Its your brother you have to go see him."

"Yeah." They finished dressing and Scully was preparing to leave. Mulder was still thinking about the call the night before. In fact he was contemplating telling her about it.

"Is something wrong Fox?" she asked him cautiously, "you seem somewhat distant, upset almost."

"No, no its nothing," he replied, "Just ..."

"Just what?"

"I got this strange phone call on my cell last night, after you were asleep. I answered it and there was a man with a rough voice, he said 'Do not trust her, she is one of them' when I asked who it was and what he meant, he hung up."

"That's odd," replied Scully followed by an awkward laugh.

"I don't know why, but I know he was talking about you, I don't understand why though, or what he meant."

"I doubt it was about me, it was probably a wrong number, and even if the call was for you, it was probably about one of our cases," replied Scully with a slight touch of nervousness in her voice that Mulder knew only he could sense.

"Yeah, probably" he said.

"Well, I really need to get going now," replied Dana, as she pulled on her jacket, "I'll see you later Fox."

"Bye," he said, kissing her, "I love you."

"I love you too."

Mulder closed the door behind her, knowing that something wasn't right. What had the phone call been about, and why had Scully seemed so nervous when he brought it up? Could she possibly have something to hide? And what was she doing before he got up, how long had she been up? His mind raced with questions but no answers came. He walked back into his bedroom, catching his reflection in the bathroom mirror through the open door. Looking at himself he remembered. The medicine cabinet. What had she been looking for? He walked into the bathroom, and opened the cabinet. Everything seemed the same, Tylenol, Band-Aids, shaving cream, razor, a couple extra bars of soap, nothing out of the ordinary, and nothing she could have needed. So what had she been doing? He could see nothing different, so he closed the cabinet. As he was swinging it closed he caught a metallic glint on the back of the door by the bottom hinge. He opened the cabinet again, and looked closer. On the hinge, pressed way into the crack was a small metallic rod. He poked at it with his finger and managed to pry it off. It fell into the sink, but he managed to stop it before it went down the drain. He picked it up and inspected it closely, it looked familiar, something he had seen before. It all clicked together in his mind. A bug.a listening device.planted there. by Scully? It couldn't be, but it was, somehow he knew it to be true, it had to have been her, it was no coincidence that he had walked in there and startled her looking in his medicine cabinet. She had been planting a bug. As the thought of Scully lying to him crossed his mind, so did another, was there more bugs? If so, how long had they been there, and what had they heard? With that Mulder dashed out of the bathroom and began his frantic search, to confirm his suspicions and discover the betrayal, of love.