Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 22:54:54 -0400
From: marajsky@snip.net (Char Priolo)
Subject: REVISED Story: The Cure 1/6
Title - The Cure -Forever Knight/X-Files Crossover
Author -Char Priolo
E-Mail address -Marajsky@snip.net
Archive: Anywhere and everywhere
Rating -PG
Category -A (Angst), R (Romance-MSR/S other), C (Crossover)
Spoilers -End of 4th season of XF
Disclaimers: None of these characters belong to me. I'm just borrowing them
and I promise to return them in good or excellent condition to their original
owners.
Summary -Two weeks after her only friend dies, Dana Scully searches for
a "Alternative Treatments" for her illness that could not only kill her but
damn
her soul for forever. Can Nick Knight save her? Or will an old friend come
to save her?
Set: After end of 4th season of XF, 3rd season of FK, but before "Last Knight"
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The Cure
By: Char Priolo
Dana Scully's Journal
June 1, 1997:
11:21pm
Well it's been a long time since I wrote in this journal, I thought now
was a good time to start again. My shrink thinks it might help me through
to the end. Where do I start? It's been two weeks since I got the call to
ID a body. Now I'm alone, mom can't help, she wouldn't understand. And the
one person that would decided to take the easy way out, I still can't
believe it. Why did he leave me alone to deal with my illness, I can't go
on like this. The treatments are not going well, it fact I think they are
making me worse. I have come to an decision that can either help me or kill
me, I have to find the answer no matter what the cost. I've tried many
forms or "Alternative Treatments" from acupuncture to faith healing, and
herbal treatments, nothing. I did hear of a band of people in Toronto
Canada that have been known to live for hundreds of years. I'm booked on a
flight to Canada in the morning and should be there shortly after night
fall. My source gave me a name of a club where these people go to called
"The Raven".
June 2, 1997:
8:30pm
Well I just checked it to my hotel room not far from this club, but before I
checked in I went and did a little shopping. Man, I can't wait to see my
Visa bill, oh hell who care anymore! I found a outfit for my first night
out on the town in months, this time I told myself I wouldn't get another
tattoo! The dress is green silk with a very low cut neckline and no middle,
just two this strips one on each side, so it will show my tattoo. I hope I
have the guts to wear it! Well what the hell! I'm going to die so why not
have some fun, let go for once. I will have fun tonight and maybe find the
answers that brought me here.
The Raven:
9:45pm
LaCroix just finished his nightly radio show when he saw a sight that
nearly took his breath away. A petite red head wearing a dress of emerald
green silk, showing a tattoo of a snake in a ring on her back. He decide to
check her out, he sensed she was seeking him or the others out. Is she a
danger? He could not sense danger from her, just hope and desperation. She
was a delightful creature that he just HAD to meet. Trying to ignore the
blood lust building up inside him, he made his approach.
"Good evening my dear." LaCroix said to the pretty creature from behind
her.
She jumped and reached for something at her side, Dana forgot she left her
weapon at the hotel. She was faced with a tall man with short spiky blonde
hair
with gray eyes. "Oh, I am so sorry for freighting you. I'm the owner of
this club, LaCroix." He said as he took her hand and kissed it.
"Oh it's ok I guess I'm a bit jumpy. I'm Dana." She did not want to get to
friendly with this guy. Something about him frightened her to the bone.
"Welcome Dana, can I get you something to drink?"
"Um .. How about gin straight up." She knew she would pay for this in the
morning.
"Sure. May I ask what is a lovely creature like you are doing in a
place like this?"
'Man can't he find a new pick up line, gez.' Dana thought to herself as
she
rolled her eyes, but there was something about this LaCroix that might be able
to help her. But she still could not get away from the cold feeling of death
coming from this guy.
"I'm on vacation, from Washington DC." She said trying to keep herself
from
shivering.
"Ah, well I am happy you came here for the night. May I ask what do you
do?"
"Um.. I'm a doctor." Well better to give a half truth than a total lie.
" Dr. Dana. Um.. A doctor of...?"
"Pathology"
"Ah, I know a Pathologist too, her name is Natalie. A close friend of
mine and her are very ah should I say.... friendly."
"Oh that's good. By the way do you know of a group of people who have been
know to live a very long time? My source said they sometimes gather here."
Well
better get this over with.
"What do you want with them?" LaCroix whispered threateningly from
behind Dana. He knew it, she was here to destroy him and the others.
The blood lust became almost more then he could stand.
"I need their help. Please help me find them." Dana said as the fear
nearly overtook her.
"Why? Have you come to destroy them? You can not, they are eternal. They
can not die!"
"I know, that's why I've come. I'm dying, and I need their help. Please
help me." The tears started then.
LaCroix nearly gave in to the blood lust, until he saw she was crying.
Indeed she was here for help and nothing more. This Dana was not a threat
to him or the others, in fact she would make a lovely addition.
"My dear don't cry. Indeed I can help you. What do you know of these
people?"
"Not much, just that they can live to be hundreds of years old, and
can't not die."
"Ok, meet me here tomorrow night at midnight and I will help you. You DO
know what you are seeking, don't you?" LaCroix asked as he walked her out of
the club and into a taxi.
"Yes, I think." Dana said as she stepped into the taxi.
"Indeed. I look forward to tomorrow night. Good night Dana, until
tomorrow."
He said as the taxi pulled away.
"You will not harm her, LaCroix." Nick Knight said as LaCroix turned to
find Nick behind him.
"She wants it. She wants to be brought across. And I will be the one to
bring her. Nick, you can not stop me, she is giving herself to me. It is
her own free will, I did not seek her out, she searched ME out."
"As I said, you WILL NOT touch her. I have been contacted by an FBI agent
about her. He is a worried she will take the same path he did, well what she
though he took. He will be here anytime now."
"Ah, Nick. You know the rules. If she gives herself to me, you can not
stop me."
"But she DOES NOT know WHAT we are. She is frightened, alone and sick.
She is looking for a cure to her illness, not a fate WORSE then death. If
it is
meant for her to die, then let her die. Do NOT bring her across WITHOUT
her knowing the truth!"
Chapter 2
June 3:
11:21am
Oh man! My head hurts. Why did I have that drink last night? I can't hold my
liquor like I use to. Well tonight is the night! I will finally will have
beaten them at their own game! I will live! Last night was a turning point
in my life, I meet a man, LaCroix, who said he can help me find these
people. He is a very handsome man, any woman would be crazy to not desire
him. But there is something strange about him, I don't know. Whenever he
touched me I felt cold, death, like he was not human. I guess working on
the X-Files cases for the last four years has me jumping at shadows. There
was something else about LaCroix that makes me believe him, maybe it's his
soft but firm voice. But I know he can help me, that's for sure.
_____________________
"I'm here to see Detective Knight." Said the man who stood in front of
Detective Tracy Vetter.
"May I ask who you are?" Tracy asked the dark handsome man.
"FBI, that's all he has to know."
"OK, wait here." Tracy said as she left the front desk area to look for
Nick. She found him typing away on his computer.
"Nick?"
"Hum." Nick Knight said as he surfed the "Net".
"There is a FBI agent at the front desk looking for you." Nick's head
jerked up from behind the computer screen.
"What's his name?" He asked his partner.
"He didn't say."
"Ok, thanks Tracy." Nick said as he left the room heading down the hall
to the front desk.
______________
"You looking for me? Agent ..." Nick asked the FBI agent. The agent
turned around and said.
"Mulder."
_____________________
"I believe my partner is grave danger. I had to fake my own death
to get away from THEM. You see, detective, my partner Dana Scully, is
a very sick woman. Two or is now three months ago she was diagnosed
with a rare brain cancer. They gave her about six months, if she's lucky.
I have reasons to believe she is here searching for a cure. You see I have
a catalog of ALL the file in the 'X-Files" and there is one missing. It has
to do with a band of vampires here in Toronto. I think she is here looking
for them, thinking maybe they can help her. But there was a page missing
from the report that states that they are VAMPIRES. I pray we can find
her before they do. That's why I need your help Detective Knight." Mulder
stopped and leaned closer to Nick and whispered "I need your help because
you are one of them. Don't worry I will not say anything of what I know to
anyone. Please help me find her before it's too late."
Nick looked at the FBI agent and said. "You do not know what you
are getting into Agent Mulder. Take my advise and leave Toronto NOW and
forget your partner, for your sake and for her's."
"I am not leaving without Dana. Now are you going to help me or
am I going to looking for her alone! Because I am not afraid of you or the
others, DO you UNDERSTAND!"
"Why can't you forget her?"
"Because she means alot to me. I need her and right now she needs
me. All I did in the last two months was for her. If I was out of the FBI I
could find out who/what did this to her and find the answer to save her life."
"Agent Mulder, I will do all I can, but if she makes the decision to
crossover I can not stand in the way. But I know who she's been seeking, let's
go." Nick said as they walked to Nick's caddie.
____________________
LaCroix waited patiently for his prize to walk through the door. It was
not a long wait, Dana walked into the "Raven" just as the clock struck
midnight. She thought this was strange, the club was empty. A creaking
sound sent chills up and down her spine, she had the feeling that this was
a BIG mistake.
'Just run away, NOW.' She said to herself as she turned to leave. The
doors closed and locked by themselves, with a loud crashing noise.
"I can not let you leave, Dana." LaCroix's voice can from the speakers
that were around the club.
"Where are you, show yourself." She screamed as she held out her
weapon, nearly shooting one of the speakers. Out of the darkness behind her,
LaCroix stepped out.
"I'm here Dana, you still want my help, don't you?" He asked quietly as he
can towards her. She turned and to her horror she said the man she hoped
could help her coming towards her with eyes of bright yellow. She wanted to
scream but his eyes, she couldn't stop looking into those eyes.
"Yes, help me, please. I don't want to die." She said with tears running
down her cheeks. LaCroix held out his hand beckon for her to take it and
take his offer. Dana took one step towards him when he grabbed her wrist
and pulled her to him.
"I can give you life, eternal, do you want it?" He said through clinched
vampiric teeth.
"Yes." She said with a tearful voice, almost a whisper. LaCroix lifted her
head as he bent down to kiss her softly on the lips. He stopped when he saw
she wore a small gold cross around her neck. Dana, in a dream state,
removed the cross as she let out a sorrowful sigh as his lips moved slowly
to her neck. As his fangs broke skin, he let the warm sweet blood spill
into his mouth. She tryed to break free but her held her tight, so tight
she screamed in pain. As she screamed, the doors flew open and Nick Knight
and another came running in.
"LaCroix! Let her go!" Nick screamed as he pointed his weapon at
LaCroix.
"Nick, old buddy, she has come here on her own free will asking for my
help. Remember the law, if a mortal chooses to crossover by their own free
will, no one will stand in the way. Dana, do you want me to help you? Tell
my friend and yours the truth." LaCroix asked Dana as he still held her in
his arms.
"Yes, I want your help." She said in a hypnotic voice.
"Scully, it's me, Mulder. Don't looking into his eyes, he is hypnotizing
you. Break the hold he has on you. Look at me!"
As Dana turned to look at her partner the bond that held her to LaCroix
fell.
"Mu.. No can't be, your dead. What's happening to me. LaCroix, what's
going on? Mulder, is it really you?" She said confused.
" Do not listen my dear, they can not help you, only I can save you. Give
yourself to me and I will take the pain away." LaCroix said knowing his
bond with her was breaking.
"Yes, it's me, please take my hand and let's go home." Mulder said as he
held out his hand to her. Still confused, Dana reached out and took his
hand. She fell in his arms and wept. Mulder held her, looking at Nick with
a thank you smile.
"Let's go home." He said to her as they left the club.
"Nick, you can not interfere. She came to me, only we can help her now.
She asked for my help." LaCroix said to Nick with anger in his voice.
"Dana does NOT know what we are, what she will become. Until she
learns the truth I WILL NOT let you bring her across. When she learns the
truth
and she still wants your help, I will not stand in the way." Nick Knight
said as he left the club, leaving LaCroix alone in the dark club.
Chapter 3
"Nick, what happened?" Natalie asked as the three walked into Nick's
apartment.
"Long story, Nat. Can you help Dana to the bed room, she needs some
rest." Nick asked Nat.
"Sure. Dana are you ok?" She asked as she helped her up the stairs to the
loft bedroom.
"OK, Detective Knight, what the HELL is going on? What just happened
back there?" Mulder asked Nick as the two women disappeared up the stairs.
"LaCroix is one of the two vampires that brought me across over 800
years ago. He is like our father, our leader, we must not disobey him. But
I have
broken away from him and now he has no hold on me anymore." Nick explained.
"What happens now? Did he..." Mulder could not say the words.
"We got there before he took too much. I'm sure she will be ok, if she
makes the right choice, that is." Nick paced around the room.
"What do you mean by 'The right choice"?"
"LaCroix will not give up on your partner. He will be back for her soon.
But the problem is: She came to him for help, she is the only one that can
save
herself now. We can not interfere. Dana must see him again and either take his
help or not. She must learn what she is dealing with. During the day, Nat and
you will help her understand what she has to do. You see LaCroix does NOT
fight fair, if she choose not to crossover, he might take her by force. Then
again, he might let her go. But we have to prepare for the worse." Nick
explained as Nat came down the stairs.
"Is Dana asleep, Nat?" Nick asked as Nat walked up to him.
"Yes, Nick I need to talk to you." She whispered hoping the FBI guy did
not hear her.
"What is it Nat?" Nick whispered.
"LaCroix. He did ...." Nat tried to say the words.
"How much did he take?"
"Enough that I had to give her a transfusion but not enough to kill or
bring her across."
"But enough to make her his slave, right?"
"Yes. Nick what are we going to do?"
"When she wakes, tell her the truth. Everything! From me, LaCroix and the
others. Do not leave anything out. Dana must know what she is dealing with,
what
she might have to live with, if she chooses."
"What? What is it?" The FBI agent asked after a few moments.
"Nothing Agent Mulder, just letting Nat know what to tell your partner
when she wakes."
___________________________
Dana Scully's Journal
June 4th
11:21am
I'm awake, I think. The past day or two have been like a living nightmare
that not
even Anne Rice could dream up. Natalie told me an unbelievable story, about
Nick Knight, LaCroix and other vampires she know of. Vampires, what have I
done? She told me I had to make a choice, to become one or dying in 2 or 3
months from the cancer. No matter what I choose, I am going to die. What do I
do? I'm so scared, I can not hide it anymore. Mulder is alive! I still don't
understand what happened with him, but I'm so relieved he is here to help
me. I
have to tell him what I've been wanting to say for three years now, that I
love him.
But how? Why? If I'm going to die, why put him through the pain? For the first
time in awhile I picked up the bible and read and prayed. Praying for my
soul, for
my mother, for Mulder, and for help. This might be the last entry in this
journal, I
just hope it will help the people around me deal with what happens next. To my
mother: I am sorry for what my job did to our family, my sister's death,
and for
mine. My mother in the last three years had lost my father, my sister and
now me.
Please Mom, be strong, for me. Mulder, my partner and best friend, I'm
sorry for
not believing, and for not telling you how I feel about you sooner. Please
make
them pay for what they did to us.
_______________________
"She's gone, she's gone!!" Nick woke to hear Agent Mulder screaming.
Nat and Nick ran up the stairs to the loft.
"What?? What happened??!!" Nick and Nat said simultaneously as they
came into the room.
"I woke up from a nightmare and she was gone. Oh god, Nick what if she
went to see LaCroix? We have to stop her before she makes the BIGGEST
mistake of her life." The FBI agent said as he paced around the room. "I
have to
go, NOW!" He said as he grabbed the keys to his rented car.
"Wait!! We will go with you." Nat said as she stopped Mulder from
leaving without her and Nick.
"No, Nat, stay here in case she comes back." Nick said as he and Mulder
disappeared into the night.
____________________
June 5, 1997
2:55am
The Raven
"What am I going to do?" Dana asked herself for the 100th time tonight,
she truly did not know what road to take from here. Life has trust her to this
crossroads, now she had to find what path to chose. She knew there was really
only one road she could take, she knew that now.
'I think.' she said to herself as the cab pulled up to the Raven.
LaCroix was finishing up his nightly radio show as she walked into the club.
"Life. Life is so fragile. Not one of us knows when the end is near. We live
as if we will never die, until the day one finds out that he or she is
dying. Then we
try to fight the disease, weather it's aids or cancer, we put radiation
into our
bodies hoping it will kill the disease. But in the end we MUST accept the
fact that
we are NOT immortal that we will die. Some search for the answer to eternal
life,
some find it, some die searching. But if you were offered eternal life
would you
take it or would you suffer the pain and the pain of others as you slowly
slip away.
Think my children, what would you do? Until tomorrow night, the night crawler
bids you good night."
As LaCroix clicked off the mic in the radio booth he saw Dana walking into the
Raven. She looked as if she was still not sure what to do. LaCroix decided
to help
her in her decision.
"Well, good evening Dana. It's a pleasure to see you so soon. I'm sure
tonight will be the start of a wonderful new life for us, together." He
said as he
came up behind her.
"I have changed my mind, LaCroix." Dana said as she stiffened at his
touch.
"What ever do you mean, Dana." He said as he gently pushed aside her red-gold
hair to reveal the marks he left there the other evening. As he bent to
kiss the
marks she breathed sharply and said.
"No! I've decided to continue my search for the answer, and this is NOT it."
As she moved away from LaCroix, he slowly moved closer to her.
"My dear are you aware that within two to three months you will die, I
alone can save you! You CAN NOT turn me down!" He said with much anger
and bloodlust.
"You can not change my mind! I don't want the kind of life you are
offering. I'm sorry, I better go now." Dana said as she slowly backed up
into the
bar.
"No, my dear, I can and will. Even if I have to take you, you will be mine!"
"Please don't do this." She whispered as her right hand went for her
weapon to find it's gone. As he slowly moved towards her, she hear her own
heart
beating with fear. As his eyes burned into her's, she felt her soul
separating from
her body. She could feel his hands firmly on her shoulders.
"No please." She though she heard herself whispered as his breath touched
her cheek.
"I alone can save you, you will let me? I know you do not want to die, do
you?" He said softly in her ear.
"Please let me go. Please?" She whispered as she felt the warmth of his
breath on her neck. Fear and passion filled every part of her being, yes
she did
want him, but not like this. "Yes, let him take you." Was all she could say to
herself.
__________
"LaCroix stop!" LaCroix lifted his head from his would-be meal. He
growled at the two men standing in the shadows of the main doors.
As they moved into the moonlight streaming through the windows, LaCroix
saw the only thing that truly frightened him, the cross. Held up towards
him by the
pesky FBI guy, who also wore a necklace of garlic.
"Let her go, NOW!" He said loudly as he moved closer holding the cross
with both hands as if holding a shield.
"LaCroix, you are not playing fair. She made her decision and you have to
honor it." Nick said as he stood in-between LaCroix and Dana.
"Nick, my son, how do you know what decision she made? What if I told
you she did want me?"
"You're lying!" The FBI agent said as he helped his partner up from where
she collapsed. "Scully can you hear me? It's Mulder, I'm here."
"No, please don't." Dana murmured as she slowly came out of her dream
state.
"See, she does not want you." Nick said as he helped the two FBI agents.
"She will be mine! Nick, make no mistake, I WILL bring her across."
LaCroix said as the three left.
Chapter 4
June 5, 1997
4:21am
Silence filled Nick's caddie as he drove the two FBI agents back to their
hotel.
In the back seat Dana looked out at the darkness before the sunrise, still
shocked at
what almost happened tonight. She was actually thinking of taking LaCroix
up on his
deal.
'I must have been crazy!' She thought to herself. 'But the way he looked at
me, as if he could see into my soul.' She thought again. All she could see
in her mind
was his eyes, yellow with passion and blood lust. Somehow she found the
experience
exciting, passionate and frightening all at the same time. She found
herself actually
wishing that Knight and Mulder did not break it up.
'No, stop thinking like that.' She told herself as she laid her head on
the glass
and closed her eyes.
"I would advise you to take Dana back to DC today. LaCroix will not give
up that easy, next time we may not be so lucky." Nick said softly to the
FBI agent
next to him.
"I know." Was all Mulder could say. Looking over his left shoulder he saw
his partner asleep against the window.
As the caddie pulled up in front of Dana's room at the 'Days Inn at
Toronto',
Nick helped Dana out of the car and to the door. Mulder took her keys and
opened
the door as Nick and Dana walked into the darkened room. Dana broke Nick's
embrace and walked into the bathroom as a small drop of blood ran down her
upper lip.
"I'm worried about her." Her partner said as the bathroom door closed
leaving the two men alone in the lightly lit room.
"It's normal. Most prey, um victims go through a period of depression. I
will do all I can to keep LaCroix away from her. But I must warn you, he
will not
give up easy, we will have a battle on our hands, and Dana may not been much
help to us due to the fact she is now under his control. I've seen this
before, with
my sister. I had to beg him to let her be and in the end I had to make him
a deal.
To forfeit love, you see if I ever fall in love he will take her from me."
Nick said
as he leaded his head against the window.
"You mean Nat?"
"Yes, take my advise, if you love her, which is obviously the case, let her
know. Don't let anything or anyone stop you. It's so hard to see Nat and know
I can never tell her how I feel, for her life and soul. I can not let
LaCroix take
her, so Mulder I know what you are feeling right about now. Just go back to
DC and try to forget what happened here."
"We will leave tonight, she's tried and needs some rest. Nick, do you
think he will be back today?"
"No, sunrise is in a hour, she will be safe during the daylight hours. But
you MUST be on the plane by sunset, or you will chance him finding her
again.
"Knight, thanks for all your help and I WILL take your advise."
__________
June 5, 1997
7:21am
Days Inn at Toronto
Mulder watched Dana asleep on the queen size bed, she looked so peaceful.
His eyes grew heavy as he watched her sleep, knowing he had to protect her
at all
cost, even if it met giving his life for her's. He wished he could crawl up
and fall asleep
next to her, he gave in to the temptation. As he crawled into the bed next
to her, he
slipped an arm around her waist, and for the first time in years, he fell
asleep. No
nightmares, no fear, just restful and peaceful sleep.
The sound of Dana sighing in her sleep woke Mulder. To his shock and
disbelief he overslept, looking at his watch he saw it was 9:00pm, night
had falling.
With panic he jumped out of the bed, feverishly looking for Knight's phone
number. Dana woke to see Mulder tearing through the room looking for
something,
talking to himself.
"How could I have been so stupid! I never sleep that soundly, we missed
out flight back to DC and now it's dark. Damn, where did I put that card?!"
"Mulder, what's going on?" Dana asked as she slipped out of the bed.
Mulder came over to her and gently pushed her back into the bed.
"You stay in bed, you need the rest."
"I'm fine."
"NO you are NOT! Stay in bed!"
"What is going on with you?"
"Scully, please do what I say for now. We need to get out of Toronto
ASAP! I have to find Knight's card and let him know what has happened."
"Ok, what happened?"
"I overslept and we missed our flight back to DC, and now there is a storm
coming. I bet there are no flights leaving the airport tonight. Nick did
warn me to get
you out of Toronto before sunset. LaCroix will be looking for you, and
this time
we may not have much of a chance." He said as the lights in the room flickered
as a crash of thunder filled the air.
"Just call the station." Dana said as she picked out a change of clothes
out of her overnight bag. "I'm going take a shower, I'll be out in a few."
She said
as she closed the door to the bathroom.
"Yes, Det. Nick Knight please, yes I'll wait." Mulder said into the receiver.
"Knight?" Nick's voice came over the ear piece.
"Knight, it's Mulder, we need your help."
"What happened? I thought you were back in DC?"
"Well I overslept and now with the storm there are no more flights leaving
tonight."
"Ok, I'll be right over, I'll take Dana to my apt so I can keep an eye on
her.
I'll get Nat to help, stay there do not leave the hotel!" Nick said as he
hung up the
phone.
______
'Now, it's got to be now. I have to tell her before I lose her to him.'
Mulder
thought to himself as Dana walked out of the bathroom.
"Dana, I need to talk to you." He said as she towel dried her hair. She
stopped in her tracks when she heard him call her by her first name, that
meant this is
serious. He took her hand and lead her to sit on the side of the bed.
"Um, ah, for the last five years we have been working together, I considered
you a very close friend. But in the last three years, since your
disappearance that has
change. Um, Dana I ... Damn I knew I couldn't do this."
"What, you don't consider us as friends anymore?" She said as fear and pain
filled her soul.
"Yes, I mean things are different now. With your illness, Ed Van
whatsisname,
and now Lacroix, my feelings towards you had changed, but it's not what you
think.
What I guess I'm trying to say is if it comes down to choosing what LaCroix
can
give you vs what I can, I hope you would consider choosing me. You see, I love
you, and I do not want to lose you to HIM. Please give me a chance, yes I may
not be able to give your life back, but whatever time is left I WILL do my
damnedest
to make you happy." He reached into his bag to pull out a small box. "I got
this
the day after you told me about you illness. I wasn't sure how/when to do
this,
or what to say. But I want this partnership to move to the next step. So,
um would
you consider marring me? There now that was not so bad"
The Cure
By: Char Priolo
Chapter 5
June 5, 1997
10:45pm
"Nat, thanks for coming with me. I'm sure Dana needs another woman
to talk to. Maybe you could help her understand what is at steak here." Nick
Knight said as he looked over to the passenger sitting next to him in his
caddie.
"I'll do what I can, Nick. Why is LaCroix so obsessed with Dana anyway,
why doesn't he just let her go. She made her choice and he will not let her
be,
why?"
"Well, you see, she asked to be brought across then changed her mind.
LaCroix does not handle rejection too well. He also knows that she is dying
and
doesn't want to lose her to death. I think he is in love with her."
As they pulled up to the hotel they saw the two agents walking out of
the room. Nick pulled the car up to then as they opened the car door.
"Let's get out of here, before HE comes looking for us." Mulder said to
Nick as they got into the car.
"On my way." Nick said as he watched them from the rear view mirror.
Dana looked a bit dazed and confused, but strangely happy.
"Is everything ok, Dana?" Nat said what Nick was thinking.
"Yes, I'm just a bit shocked that's all." She said as a smile crossed her
face. Looking down at the piece of jewelry on her hand.
"OK." Nat said knowing that Dana did not want to talk about it right
now.
_____
"Agent Mulder, I want you to check every window and door, make sure
they are locked. Then place these garlic flowers around them, upstairs
only, not
down here." Nick said as they all walked off the elevator that lead into
his apt.
Mulder grabbed the flowers Nick pointed to. As he began checking the windows
he said to Nick.
"I guess you can't stand these can you?" He trust the flowers towards
Nick.
"Stop!" Nick yelled as he backed away hiding his head in his hands.
"Sorry, just checking, just wanted to make sure this works." He said as
he walked up the stairs where Dana and Nat disappeared a few minutes ago.
"Agent Mulder, just remember if anything happens up there, I can not
help due to the garlic. You will be on your own, unless you get rid of the
flowers."
"I understand." He said as he moved to let Nat passed him.
"Nick, why the garlic?" Nat asked as she watched the FBI agent disappeared
into the loft bedroom.
"Well, it will keep LaCroix away for now. We just have to get the through
the night. Nat can you do me a big favor? Tomorrow make sure they BOTH get
on the plain back to DC, ok?" Nick said as the lights flickered out as the
storm
grew in intestine.
"Yep, will do." She said as she little the candles on the coffee table. "By
the way, did you anything strange about them tonight?" Nat asked as she pored
some wine she found in his cabinets.
"Yes I did, Dana seems a bit calmer and happier then last night." Nick
whispered as he sat next to her on the couch.
_________
"These things STINK!!" Dana said as her partner finished placing the
garlic around the windows and door.
"I know, but if it keeps you safe then it's worth it."
"I think they know."
"Know what?" Mulder said as a lopped sided grin crossed his face.
"You know!"
"Oh, that."
"Yes"
"So?!"
"SO??!!"
"Well I do wish they could find what we just found."
"What do you mean?" Dana asked as she walked over to the French
doors that lead to a terrace.
"Nick and Nat. They are so close and yet they can never be together."
Her partner said as he came up behind her.
"Why?" She asked as he slipped his arms around her waist.
"You don't know, do you?"
"What?"
"Nick and Nat, they are in love and can not be together due to a deal Nick
made with LaCroix hundreds of years ago.
"LaCroix again?! He almost came between us." Dana said as she leaded
into his embrace.
"Yes, him again! You know we have to make some plans real soon. Why
don't we make a pit stop in Vegas?"
"Vegas? Why?"
"Elvis of course!" He said trying his best Elvis imitation.
"LIKE HELL!!! Elvis WILL NOT be in MY wedding!!! Or I'm going
back to DC ALONE!"
"Ok, Ok, no Elvis."
"Deal?"
"Deal, Vegas it is."
______
June 6th 1997
3:13am
Nick Knight's apartment
A nightmare woke Dana from what she thought was a peaceful sleep.
She was walking in a grave yard wearing a long white nightgown. It was ripped
and splattered with blood and mud. The night was warm and foggy. She heard
someone calling her name softly, almost whispering. She turned to see LaCroix
standing behind a grave stone, beckoning for her to come to him. She could not
resist, a invisible force pulled her to him. He was breathing heavy as his
eyes
glowed yellow. She knew the bloodlust was building in him.
"No." She thought out loud.
As he reached out to her, she tired to back away. His hand grabbed
onto her wrist. She tired to break free but his hold was too strong.
"My dear do not fight me. It will be less painful for you if you do not
fight me. You have tasted blood and you want more, don't you?"
"No, please, I don't want to die, please." She heard herself said. Without
warning he pulled her closer to him, she screamed for her partner.
Dana sprang up out of the nightmare, or was it just a dream? She looked
down at herself, no blood, no mud and no white nightgown. She slid out of the
bed, trying not wake Mulder, who was fast asleep.
She opened the French doors to get a breath of fresh air. The garlic was
starting to really get on her nerves. As she sucked in the cool night air,
she saw a
figure of a man across the street, looking right at her. She closed the
doors quickly
and ran back to the bed. She dove under the covers trying to stop herself
from shivering.
"Dana, Dana I know you can hear me. Come back to the window, come
to me my dear." A voice whispered within her head.
"No leave me alone." She said out loud as she covered her ears.
"Um what?" Her partner mumbled as he rolled over, still asleep.
"Oh god, Mulder get up! He's coming!" She tired to wake her partner,
but he just rolled over still very much asleep. Dana walked back and forth
checking
the garlic and making sure her cross is still where she left it, around her
neck. The
other day Nat give it back to her, Nat told her that Nick found it in the
club. After
making sure everything was still in place, she sat in the chair across the
room.
Wrapping her arms around her legs, she sat in the chair and waited knowing
this
night maybe the end.
_______
June 6, 1997
3:59am
As her eyes grew heavy she heard him again.
"Come back to the doors, Dana." The voice whispered within her head.
She covered her ears and cried.
"Please leave me alone. If you love me then let me go." She said softly.
"Remove the flowers Dana, now."
"No."
"Do it!" LaCroix's voice rang inside her head again.
Dana felt herself starting to slip into sleeplike daze. The dream came to her
again, but different. This time she was in Nick's bedroom with Mulder fast
asleep
in the bed as she sat in the chair. The invisible force pulled her to the
French doors
making her throw the flowers away from the doors. A gust of wind blew the
doors
open while a smoky mist rolled into the room. As the miss cleared, LaCroix
stood
in front of her.
"This is a dream." She told herself trying so hard to make herself believe it
was nothing but a dream. But what if it's not? She tired to back away from
him,
but the force that brought her to the window will not let her move.
"Oh god, what do I do now, I can't move." She through to herself. "Scream,
yell call for Mulder NOW." As she tired to call out for Mulder nothing
happened,
she could not speak.
"Now my dear we mustn't wake your friend, now can we? This time Dana,
you will NOT escape as easy as before. Nick and Nat are downstairs lost in
each other's arms, while your partner is fast asleep. He will not awaken, I
made sure
of that with a little well placed dream and a dash of this." LaCroix said
as he held
up a small vile of white power, sleeping powder. "Your friends can not help
you
this time. Give yourself to me and let's end all this ... this game of cat
and mouse."
LaCroix's said as he moved closer to Dana.
"No! I told you that before. Get over it!" She yelled over the thunder that
filled the air.
"No my dear, you do NOT understand! You are mine now and I will have
you. TONIGHT!" He said as he took hold of her wrist. "Look at me! Looking
into my eyes and see what lies ahead for you."
'No, don't look, he will have you for sure.' She thought to herself as she
looked at the floor. LaCroix's placed his palm under her chin to lift her
head to look
into her eyes. What he saw in those eyes moved him. Fear, pain, hopelessness
and love? Love for HIM or for the one still fast asleep? As a tear ran down
her
cheek, he wiped it way with his free hand.
"Now my dear, there is nothing to fear. Just close your eyes and enjoy."
He said as he brushed back her hair to reveal the marks. "It will be over
quickly,
I promise." He kissed her cheek as his hand gently caressing the marks, his
lips
moved slowly down to her neck, she breathed in sharply as his lips meet up
with the marks he left on her.
"No, please." She whispered as her body shivered. Still dazed she could
feel him holding her tightly against him. "Not like this, please." She
whispered.
"My dear there is no other way, not for me that is. Just relax don't fight
me." He said still nuzzling her neck.
"Oh god now what? Just give it, there is no use trying to fight." She thought
to herself as she fingered her cross, her CROSS!! She slowly took it off as
his
lips parted to reveal his long teeth, she pressed the cross against his
neck. As the
cross burned into his skin, LaCroix's screamed in pain.
"Now why do you go and do that for." He said with much anger. She
turned to run, but still could not move.
"NO!" She screamed as LaCroix stopped playing games, he grabbed her
around the waist from behind and pulled her to him. Without hesitating,
Lacroix
bend down as his vampiric teeth grew as they broke skin.
"NO oh GOD NO. Stop." She screams as she feel her life being drained
out of her body. He stopped feeding a few minutes later as he held her in his
arms he said.
"There that wasn't so bad was it? Now you have to drink from me to
complete the transformation." He bit into his own wrist letting the blood
flow
into a glass. "Drink, my dear." He placed the glass in her hand.
Dana, still dazed took the glass looking up at LaCroix she felt a tear run
down her face, knowing this was it, no turning back.
"Please forgive me." She said to the sleeping form of her partner and lover.
As she raised the glass to her lips, Mulder woke throwing himself toward Dana
and the glass. As the red liquid dripped onto her lips, he knocked the
glass from
her hands.
"No, I will not let you take her." He said to LaCroix as Dana tired to pick
herself up but fainted instead. "The sun is rising, LaCroix. Leave here and
never
come back again or I WILL kill you!"
"I will be back, you can count of that! Good day Mr. Mulder." Lacroix
said as he disappeared.
Mulder, trying to get his bearings, saw his partner lying on the floor. He
picked her up and laid her on the bed. Check first for a pulse, then
covering her
up. He just placed his head by her side and cried himself asleep.
______
June 6, 1997
12:00pm
"Agent Mulder wake up!" Nat's voice came into his dream.
"Um what?" He asked sleepily.
"It's noon and your flight is at 2:00pm, you both have to get ready."
"Dana, she's not well. Nat can you help her? A transfusion or something,
I'll give her my last drop of blood if that's what she needs."
"Ok, Ok. I do want to take a few samples for more testing anyway."
Nat said as she pulled out her medical equipment.
Chapter 6
June 8, 1997
5:00pm
Over Dulles airport
"Can I have your attention? Flight 121 from Las Vegas to Washington
DC's Dulles airport is making it finial approach. Please place your trays
to the
up position and buckle your seat belts. And thank you for flying Vegas
airlines."
The flight attendant's voice spilled from the over head speaker.
"Well are you ready?" Mulder said to Dana as he gather up their bags.
"What do we tell the AD?"
"Just you went to Canada to look into a new treatment. That's all."
"What about Vegas and us?"
"Nothing, say nothing. They think I'm dead and I want to keep in that way.
In fact I will not be at my apt or yours. I will contact you in a day or so."
"Now that's no way to spend our honeymoon, apart."
"I know, but it necessary. I promise, soon we can forget all that has
happened and move on with our lives, together."
"Where will we go?" Dana said as she looked out of the window.
"Well I was thinking maybe we could open our on private investigation in
Mexico or Canada?"
"Mexico? Like Cancun? The last time we were their I loved it, but we
were on a job then. So what do we call this new business of ours?
Ghostbusters?"
She laughed as she remembered the last time they were in Cancun, before they
went on their trek into the South America jungle to find some missing
archaeologist.
To spend her remanding days in Cancun, he must have planned this.
"I know, I saw how much you wanted to stay there, so I though you might
like to live there. I already bought a villa on the beach, our own private
beach."
He whispered the last part as he kissed her neck.
"Um that sounds great!"
"I was thinking for calling the new business "Mulder and Scully
Investigations""
He said
"You mean 'Scully and Mulder Investigations;"
"No."
"Yes."
"Ok, what about 'The X-Files"?"
"Well I guess that will do."
______
June 23,1997
8:30pm
A knock on her door woke Dana from another nightmare, she was glad
someone interrupted this one.
"Coming." She said as she threw on a robe and went to the door. She
knew it was Mulder, after all this was their one week anniversary. She opened
the door and there he stood, LaCroix! She screamed and slammed the door.
"NO!" Dana screamed as she woke from the nightmare to hear a knock
on her door.
"Who is it?" She asked with a shaky voice.
"It's me, you hubby, are you ok? Let me in." Mulder's voice came from
behind the closed door.
"I'm coming." She got up from the couch and walked over to the door,
she was relieved to find Mulder there and not LaCroix. She threw herself
into his
arms and cried.
"What happened?"
"I had another dream about him. I know he will find me, what are we going
to do?" She cried in his arms.
"LaCroix will not find you, I promise. Anyway we leave for Cancun in two
days. Did you tell Skinner about you're leaving?"
"Yes, I told him I was taking a permanent sick leave. He said I was one of
the best agents he ever worked with. And he said he was sorry for what has
happened, meaning you and this illness. He actually had tears in his eyes,
he cares
about what happens. I believe we can trust him."
"No, trust no one at all. Well are you almost ready to leave? You only have
two more days before we leave DC forever."
"I still haven't told my mom yet, Mulder can we please take her with us?"
Dana said as she made they coffee.
"No, I will not have my mother in law on our honeymoon. The more people
that don't know I'm alive or that we are now married the better."
"Ok, but I want my mom there when ..." She began to say but stopped.
"I promise you, when the time comes I will make sure you are not alone,
yes she will be there for you."
"Thanks." Dana said as a knock on the door frightened her. "Who is it?"
She asked as Mulder slipped into the bedroom, cracking the door to watch.
"Dana, it Natalie." Nat's voice came from the other side of the door. Mulder
came out of the bedroom and gave Dana an ok look.
"Ok be right there." Dana said as she walked over to the door. As she
opened the door she saw Nat and Nick there and they both seemed happy.
"Hi, come in."
"Thanks, we came to show you these." Nat said as she handed Dana a
folder.
"What's this?" She asked as she took the folder from Nat.
"The last test I did. I think you might want to see them. I couldn't tell
you
over the phone, I had to come and show you personally." Nat said as Dana read
the report. Dana face went completed white.
"How? Are you sure these are right?" She asked Nat unable to believe
what she was reading.
"Yes I redid the tests three time, it's GONE! COMPLETELY GONE!!"
Nat said as Nick placed an hand on her shoulder.
"How? I can't believe this, how? Oh my god, it's gone." Dana said as
tears started, Mulder came up behind her for support.
"I asked the same question so I dug a bit, here read this." Nat said as she
handed Dana another report.
"You see, the blood you did drink from LaCroix, thou it was not much,
did do something to you. It cured you! It was not enough to bring you across.
The vampire cells in LaCroix's blood killed all the cancer cells in your
body.
I can't explain why, but all I know is LaCroix DID cure you."
"I can't believe this, this means ..." Dana said as tears would not wait to
be shed.
"You will not die!" Nat said as she too started to cry.
"Oh my god, it's true. I will not lose you. Oh god thank you, thank you."
Mulder said softly as he held her as she cried tears of joy.
"Well I'm glad things did work them self out well." Nick said as he held
Nat. "Well Nat I believe our plane to Vegas will be leaving soon, maybe we
should be going." He said as he rocked Nat in his arms.
"Vegas? Are you two going to get married there?" Dana said as she
wiped tears from her face.
"Yes, he asked me on the way here." Nat said as she too wiped tears
from her eyes.
"Nat, Nick, thank you so much for what you did, we don't know how
to thank you. Please let's keep in touch, I want the two of you in our
lives."
Mulder said as he shook Nick's hand and hugged Nat.
"Of course we will keep in touch, in fact we would like the two of you
to stand up for us. Are you busy? We would love for the two of you to come
with us to Vegas."
"Sure, we don't leave for Mexico for a few days, I'm sure we can,
Dana?"
"Oh, um sure I would love to." She said as she held on to her hubby.
'Thank you Dana!" Nat said as the four of them left for the airport."
_____________
July 4, 1997
Cancun, Mexico
11:21pm
Dana Scully-Mulder woke to her radio blasting loudly in her ear, some
how the alarm was not turned off. Before she pushed the button to turn it
off she
hear a familiar voice.
"If you love something, let it go. If it don't return, hunt it down and
kill it."
It was LaCroix! The radio station was carrying LaCroix's 'Night Crawer' radio
show. She knew what he meant by that line and it scared her to death. Is he
come to get her? Does he know where they are?
'Oh god no, please don't let him find me.' She thought to herself as she
slipped into sleep.
THE END????
