Title: Without You Pt. 15
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Monica's Apartment
May 21, 2002
5:24 a.m.
The gentle moonlight softly shines through the window of Monica's bedroom. I stare down at the sleeping child in my arms. I haven't let him go for the past four hours.
I don't want to ever let him out of my sight again. Mulder, too, is in the room, but surprisingly he fell asleep hours ago. My eyes are starting to get heavy, but I don't want to close my eyes. I don't want to take them off my son.
This is all too good to be true. To think that in the past 48 hours I was given hope, it was dashed away, and then finally restored in the form of this child that is silently sleeping in my arms.
So many questions stills swirl around William, around the smoking man, and around the rest of us. Questions that could be of great importance to every man, woman, and child on Earth.
Finally, I give into the heaviness of my eyelids and fall asleep clutching my son tightly in my arms.
Meanwhile, John and Monica lean up against one another on the couch. The smoking man sits facing them.
Sleep has not come easy to them.
"What the hell is going on?" John whispers into the darkened living room.
"Too much for you to comprehend, Agent Doggett. Too much for even Mulder and Scully to understand. This is the key to it all the last pawn that the aliens need to start the dreaded Armageddon."
"Armageddon, aliens? That's a bunch of crap. Why would aliens travel millions of light years to take over our planet?" Doggett asks skeptically.
"Why don't you ask Agent Reyes. She seems to know a lot about this," Spender tells him slyly.
"Mon?" John turns to her questioning.
"I don't know what it all means, John, but some of what he's talking about holds some truth to it."
"It's too damn early in the morning to be talking about aliens and flying saucers," Doggett tells them skeptically.
"Always so cynical, Agent Doggett. Do you not even consider some of the strange things that you've seen while working on the X-Files? Some of the cases that were so out there and hardly believable, yet Agent Scully started to believe in them. After years of working there she couldn't deny what she saw in front of her," Spender tells him.
"I'm not Scully or Mulder--" Doggett starts
"--I'm not saying that you are, but this is too fantastic and will affect the lives of everyone on Earth. You have to open your mind now, Agent Doggett, open it now or you'll dig your own grave," Spender interrupts, amazingly passionate about the cause.
"Why should we even believe you?"
"Mulder and Scully don't. You showing up with their son makes it even harder to trust you," Monica pipes up.
"Agent Doggett and Agent Reyes, I am going against my own people. I'm sure Mulder and Scully have told you about the Project and the secret men in the government."
"Yeah, they have," Doggett replies, cautiously.
"That group no longer exists. They were all killed off and the group that has come in to replace them is trying to work with all of the breeds of aliens. They don't even want to consider using a vaccine to stop the alien invasion."
"Then what do you need from us? From Mulder? Scully? William?"
Spender pauses dramatically, his eyes gleaming in the light.
"Mulder has found out that this goes as high as the Presidency, even higher. All of the governmental agencies don't have a clue as to what is going on. The crisis in the Middle East is Bush's way of redirecting our attention to Afghanistan and Iraq. Not to his agenda.
"All they need is William. William is the final thing that they need. Except--"
"--Except what?" Monica asks concerned.
"William and Mulder's deaths were faked because of what William meant to them and to the world."
"You're not making any sense," Doggett says shaking his head, "I thought you said that once they had William they would start the invasion."
"They didn't have William, I did. I did along with my new formed group. A group that mirrors the group I once ran, but--"
Before he can get another word out, Doggett is at his throat, holding onto the collar of his shirt with rage and anger showing up on his face.
"John!?" Monica nearly screams at him.
"You are a sick bastard. Do you know that?!?" Doggett whispers nearly hissing. "Scully thought she lost the two most important people in her life. Do you have a heart at all? How can you even try and think that 'faking' their deaths would make things okay? She nearly died of a broken heart. A broken heart!!!! Do you even understand that? Losing someone so close to you that it nearly kills you to breath?"
John lets go of him quickly and backs away. John Doggett has finally hit a wall emotionally. He sits down on the couch hard and puts his head in his hands trying to keep himself from screaming at the top of his lungs about the unfairness of life.
"Look, Agent Doggett--" Spender tries to start.
"--Shut up!"
"John," Monica looks to him, trying to calm him down with the sound of her voice.
"Just tell us what we need to do to keep Mulder and Scully and William safe."
Spender starts again, hesitating a bit, but hardly showing it. "William no longer has what they need. My group destroyed it, but we made clones of the child, trying to keep them off the track as long as possible. They think that William is still their key, but he's not."
"Then who is?" Monica asks, curious.
"Mulder and Scully complicated the situation," Spender responds.
Silence passes through the room and realization hits both John and Monica at the same time.
"You mean?--" Monica starts.
"Their twins," Doggett finishes.
"Yes, and there is only one way to ensure that Mulder and Scully and their entire family is safe."
"Which is what?" Doggett asks.
"They need to go into hiding. In a place that is both lethal to the Super Soldiers and not even on the map for the government."
"Which is where?" Monica inquires.
"A small town 500 miles north of Vancouver. A place that they must stay in for the next ten years."
"And what about us?" Doggett questions.
Spender looks from Doggett to Reyes and then back again.
"You know thinking about it. You might be able to keep them safe," he pauses, "actually, it would be better if you went with them."
"When?"
"Within the next forty-eight hours or else you'll never get out of the country," Spender tells them grimly.
"They're going to close down the boarder?"
"The aliens are going to try and find their 'key' and with the help of the government they will be able to do whatever they want."
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