Title: The Truth is Not Enough

Author: Dana_Maru

Summary: Mulder gives a brief account of how he feels now that the X files are gone

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Chapter Two

I have been awake since the crack of dawn - I had some serious trouble getting to sleep - and I watched the golden sun rise over the quarry, turning the sky many shades of orange. Something tells me there is a rocky road ahead of us, and I don't just mean the actual rocks on the ground. I mean, Kersh told us that if we weren't out of America within twenty-fours hours of them helping me get out of that sweatshop they call military prison, we would be, at the end of the day, dead meat. And if that was the case, there would only be me to blame.

I have caused her so much pain over the years, she was abducted because of me, she got that damn cancer because of me, and she lost her sister because of my dumbass search for the truth. And old bullheaded me didn't go north of the border like Kersh said, but I headed south to the Navajo ruins where I had been told a 'Wise Man' would be waiting to reveal the truth I had searched for so long. I was desperate to know more, to know if there really are other beings out there or if it was all part of the government conspiracy. The sun has only just risen, but it is already radiating enough heat to make me sweat like I just ran a marathon.

I wander into the bathroom, with the decision to take a shower. I can't get what Scully said last night outta my head. And I feel even guiltier, if it wasn't for my quest to find proof of the existence of aliens, Scully would never have been abducted by those military assholes. And then she would never have been made barren, her chance to have a child would never have been stolen from her in the first place. But with some stroke of luck, she became pregnant with a boy, our son, William, so life wasn't so bad after all. That was until those Super Soldier freaks kept trying to get their hands on our cherished little boy, and we were told (well Scully was told, since I took my scared little ass outta here for a while) William was not a hundred per cent human. They convinced her that he was the first successful human/alien hybrid. Although my half brother, Jeffrey Spender - son of that chain smoking asshole - did save us the pain and got rid of the alien part of him. Well Scully thought he had saved us the pain until he told us that the Super Soldiers would never forget what he once was, therefore he would never be truly safe from harm if he stayed with us. So Scully did the only thing she could have and handed him over to an anonymous family.

I finished with what I had intended to be a quick shower, and walked through to the bedroom with a fluffy motel towel wrapped around my waist. Scully was awakening on what must have been the most uncomfortable motel bed we have ever had the ill luck to sleep in, in the nine years we have spent chasing the paranormal. My cell phone starts ringing.

I better answer it before it wakes Scully. Can't answer with the trademark 'Mulder?' just in case it's the idiots who bombed the ruins, checking to see if we they need to come back and have another go at killing us since they never do seem to have any luck trying.

"Hello?"

"Mulder? It's Monica Reyes. How's everything going? I just had to check you left the ruins safely."

"Hey Monica, we're fine, Scully's asleep, I was hoping to make a start when she wakes up."

"Well, that's gonna have to wait a while. I've got some important news for Scully."