CHAPTER 1
System #1

"Monica, wake-up."

Reyes struggled awake, and found herself next to Doggett, back in the car. They
were parked in front of her apartment.

"You're not tired, are you?" he said dryly.

"No," she groggily returned, "I just like to drool on car seats for fun."

He didn't chuckle; something was on his mind. There was a thoughtful silence,
until Reyes broke it:

"What are you thinking about?"

"Just . . . wondering," he said slowly. "You think we'll ever see them again?
Mulder and Scully, I mean."

"Dunno," she yawned. A shard of her dream stabbed her memory. "I have a
feeling we might," she amended. "How about you?"

"Dunno," he echoed thoughtfully. "Dunno." He roused himself back to matters at
hand. "You should go up; sleeping in a car's not a good way to rest."

She smiled. "Right."

Reyes opened the door and stumbled out of the car. She shut the door, but just
before she turned to leave, Doggett rolled the window down.

He gave her a concerned look. "You want any help?"

"No. It's okay."

"I'll give you a call tomorrow, and we'll figure out what we'll with Gibson. He can
spend the night with me."

"Right," mumbled Reyes.

"You sure you don't need any help?"

"No, I'm fine. Really."

The car pulled away from her apartment building, as Reyes plodded to the door,
too drowsy to start worrying about what in the world she and Doggett would do
with a kid the government seemed more than willing to kill to have control of.

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Okay, the next chapter oughta catch your interest a little more . . . ;)