By Jinx
Chapter Three
Working Late
It was past midnight but Rianna was up, sitting at her desk working. Boxes surrounded her in the tiny, nasty apartment. She hadn't unpacked anything except her desk and office supplies since arriving in D.C.
A light glowed dimly, illuminating her lap top screen. She pulled up her Internet screen and looked for the adoption agency she'd come from.
"Information… Adopt a Child… Contact Us," she mumbled under her breath.
Her cell phone rang just as she clicked the "Contact Us" button.
"Hello?" She answered.
"Hey Sweetie. Up this late?" the voice said.
"Hi Mon," Rianna said, her voice softening from her business-like manner. "Yeah. I'm working on some stuff for a case I'm working on."
"I just wanted to be sure you were okay, Honey," her mother said. She hesitated. "Even if I didn't create you, I still love you and I'm still your mother."
"I know," Rianna told her. "Maybe not biologically but in my heart you are."
"You don't know what it means for me to hear you say that," her mom said.
"It's true," She replied.
"I love you Sweetie," her mom said.
"I love you too. Bye mom," Rianna answered.
Her mom said her final farewells and Rianna hung up the phone.
She copied down the address of the agency on her note pad and pulled up the site for US Airways. She booked three business class tickets to Dallas for the next day. Then she pulled up hotel listings.
She stopped and picked up her phone.
"Hey Mom?" she said. "It's me again. As it turns out, my case is going to bring us into Dallas for a couple days. I was wondering if you would mind if Scully, Mulder, and I stayed with you. Great! See you soon!"
She pressed end and dialed Scully's number.
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A few miles away, Scully's phone rang, stirring her from a deep sleep. She flicked on the light and picked up the handset.
"Hello?" she said groggily.
"Hi Scully, sorry I woke you. It's Rianna," the voice said.
Scully glanced at the clock. "It's 1:30 AM, Agent Heart. Why are you calling?"
"You must mean business if you're calling me Agent Heart," Rianna replied. "I just wanted to let you know that we're flying out to Dallas tomorrow at nine AM. I have a lead."
"Okay," Scully said. "Goodnight Rianna." She hung up the phone and went back to sleep.
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Mulder was watching old Sci-Fi movies and working on his laptop when his cell phone rang.
"Mulder," he answered it, hardly pausing his work on the computer.
"Huh. I guess I'm not the only one up late, huh?" the voice said.
"Who is this?" Mulder asked.
"I'll give you three guesses."
"Rianna?" he said.
"Damn. Got it in one," she replied.
"What's up?" he questioned.
"We're flying to Dallas at 9:00 AM. I got a lead and I need to pursue it," Rianna told him.
"Okay," he said. "Did you talk to Scully?"
"Yeah but I don't think she was very happy that I woke her up at 1:30 in the morning," she told him.
Mulder laughed at that. "She doesn't stay up at night to work like us."
"She doesn't seem like the type," Rianna commented. "Well, I need to get going. Make sure you get some sleep."
"Okay. You get to sleep too. You're gonna need it."
"G'night Mulder," Rianna said.
"Good night, Heart. See you tomorrow."
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Rianna hung up the phone but didn't get up yet. She pulled up the FBI database and looked up her own name. She looked over the information and saw that it had already been updated to show her transfer. The picture of her was truly horrible but she pulled it up anyway. Then she pulled up Agent Scully's picture and pasted both in a blank file and began comparing.
At first glance, they appeared to be the exact same woman only with different hair styles and one wore glasses. Rianna delved deeper.
"I know we look alike but this is freaky," she whispered. She put her own photo into the photo editor program. Then she began making slight changes to her hair and removing the glasses. The result looked almost exactly like Scully. The she did the same to Scully's photo with similar results. There was some kind of connection…
"Yes!" she said and clicked print. She stuffed the photos into her laptop case and turned out the light.
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~*Jinx
