ALL BLOODY CONSPIRACY
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Chapter Six
"Paradise City"
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Paradise, Pennsylvania
March 3 2003 22:20 PM
"This is a very weak case" Monica Reyes said with a unburden sigh.
"We are almost there Monica, the guy should make at least one trade this weak" John Doggett replied.
The new X-files couple were waiting to sight an unusual trade near the Paradise City's Sacred Home Hospital, they were waiting in the car, a rented blue Landstalker, for almost three days.
"Our FBI 'listener' informed me that several calls informing a new one were made on the public phones of the hospital, and analyzing the recent movement of the cars on the parking lot, I'm sure that one of that should occur in the next hours" he completed.
Both have gotten closer since they started working together on the X-files, and after the disappearance of Mulder and Scully, they could really took the department their way. Some resemblance could be noted, of course, Monica got the mystical look that Mulder always had and John worked his skeptical path very like the 'early Scully' did, because all those years we know that she really started to believe that non scientific things could happen. Monica ensures that John is starting to believe too, but he will not bend his pride so easy to admit it. For almost an year they solved some new cases, but they know that these cases were not so graceful as the Mulder's files were, much of the magic was departed away, when this case came around John could not resist, he intercepted Monica doing his cooper in the park early morning, and about less then two hours they were heading quickly to the site of the case. That morning they felt the theme song, a new truth was out there.
The old Pennsylvania got a mystery, in the small city of Paradise and its surrounding a higher number of babies got dead in the birth and two other little kids were kidnapped from the kindergarten. Like the old way, a scrap of a newspaper was fixed in the X-files department's door, Doggett came early that day and after a 10 minute investigation using the computer he decide to take a closer look. Fine. Where is the creepy factor to qualifies this case as a X-file? None of the bodies were found. The kidnapped ones never returned and the body of the ones that died on their birth were misplaced by dead doves inside their little coffins. Doves? Yeah the last couple of parents noticed that the coffin was heavier than it should be, when they opened it they have find out the exchange, the local police department demanded autopsies in the other babies, but they also found doves in all the coffins. The families want to believe that maybe all the kids are still alive.
The FBI was not called, but John always want to solve those cases involving missing kids, an echo of his lost son Luke. It may not be a real spooky case enough, his will added to the dove weirdness let him start a x-file, enough to him, enough to try to convince his boss. Luckily the boss was out for some days, he would have just to make a post explanation record if the case don't head anywhere, but if it do so many families would be glad, this feeling he could not take from his heart.
But Monica was right, till then, it was a very weak case. Agent Reyes got bored based in the weakness of the facts, but she did not tell John either that she had that little butterfly feeling in her belly, her power of predict some paranormal situations was sparkling 'YES'. But after that Dæmnoiacus[1] case she (and Scully) learned to do not let this feeling be the main factor of any investigation, the shame of that case sometimes still color his cheek when John tease her, she knows that a mistake was committed.
Babies and doves made Monica and John check a clue that someone in the hospital should be swapping the bodies. And the high phone calls the John referenced was the possibility of new birth would have been done recently. An order of him was sent to the others hospitals of the county to do not accept birth cases and lead the mothers to that one, pleading that their machinery would be broken and the only hospital safe to gave birth would be the Paradise's Sacred Home, this small strategy would lead the thief high to them, the problem that came was for the last three days no birth was reported till that moment, maybe the babies were waiting for moon changes as the ancient indians used to say. So the lack of new babies would be a great marketing to the kidnappers.
"I will grab you a coffee" He said getting out of the car.
"Thanks John, strong please!" she added.
He crossed the street and walked into the RR restaurant, but he sighted a strange man parking an old car, a cracked modified convertible red Lobo, was reversing approaching its trunk to a door of the hospital.
John walked back and tapped the window of the car followed by some gestures to warn Monica. She walked with him into the front door of the hospital. "Let's overtake him from inside". They calculated the path to get to the door the suspect were and headed to it wielding out their gun, they instructed the nurses and patients on the hallways to keep quiet.
A guy wearing a white uniform was walking rapidly holding a pack was seen in the distant corridor, John accelerate his pace to follow him far enough to try to don't get notice, then the guy walked to the door where that car was parked next.
"FBI. Mister please drop carefully what you are holding and turn around" John halted the guy from behind.
The guy obeyed, John came closer. Pointing the gun to the guy he kneeled to check the pack. The pack that seemed like a baby was nothing more than dirty diapers. "What a hell?" He stood up and Monica joined them. "Man, I want some explanation"
"What's wrong about holding trash?"
John pressed strongly the guy in the wall by his collar. "Like a baby?" He pointed his gun between the guy's eyes. "One more chance to be more convincing" He said calmly and angrily.
"Hey, I just work here like a nurse, I guy paid me today earlier, to do that."
"Fine, you will be charged by supporting a crime."
"There's no --"
"Don't try. The jury will no accept you excuse, is damn clear that you did it to outwit us." John finished with him. A small crowd joined him, and he let dropped the suspect with a security officer of the hospital to be handcuffed.
Then they heard a big bump outside.
Monica and John ran out. That car wasn't next the door anymore, someone have picked it and drove out but it hit some bushes trying to get a escape shortcut, unlucky behind the bushes where some metal mesh to support the plants, the car was stuck there, someone was still inside trying to manage it off, and it did when John came closer.
Ten seconds later Monica came with their car and John grabbed in. The pursuit began.
Monica's car was a pickup, strong but not so manageable in high speed, so they sideslip some times, the thief's car was old and with high suspension. They crossed about ten blocks, trough red lights and damaging the traffic, when the were closer enough to try a bump into the thief's rump. So they did, the bump made the old car lose all control and enter heavily into someone's garden destroying a small playground. But the truck lose the control too, trying to manage breaking Monica made the blue Landstalker keel over laterally in the mid street in a complete 360 degrees turn almost hitting a motocycler.
They looked to each other in a relief sigh checking if they were still entire. They were, so they ran out to reach the car in order to grab the thief.
He was unconscious, the old car didn't have an air bag, so he hit harder the steering wheel. Monica trough the other side of the car take a basket from the back seat, inside it a sleeping baby, she smiled when assured that the kid was safe and unharmed. The family that live in the housed that was invaded by the car came out worried, Monica left the baby with them after showing his id to calm down them.
John pulled out the thief and shook him, he was alive and woke up some minutes later. "What were you doing with this baby?"
He spitted some blood "Hey, I'm just the deliver man." He petted his wound in the forehead "But I know that the schema is big"
"Fine, you are going to deliver us to your boss. Now" John demanded.
The guys was left in the backseat of the police car that came five minutes later, the FBI agents designed quickly a breaking into the central of kidnapping that the thief would lead them.
They got the road about twenty minutes and found a very old house, looking like a it was abandoned. About a dozen lambs lived beside the house.
Four police teams added to the agents entered the house for many different entries. Following the instructions of the arrested man, they knew that all the operation was realized in the basement. The breaking was silent and well made, some policeman wield machineguns, others only handgun, anyway all of them were wearing bulletproof vest.
In the basement the teams got no resistance to render the man that was there doing some kind of praying, a old man looking like a native american. Beside him, was one lamb. The old man didn't say anything, got complete quiet and let them arrest him very easily.
The basement was made of walls of non similar types of rock and the ground was in the intact soil, some long candlestick where in the corners.
"What's up John?" Monica queried.
"Something is wrong"
"Sure that is, you wanted to find, maybe save some baby..."
"Yep" he sighed.
Some of the policeman called John to help him to check a thing. Under the stairs was a wood plate apparently hiding something. After some bumps it opened.
Someone, a man was laid there facing the other side, he was alive.
"Are you ok? ... " John asked
The man, in his thirties, very dirty, seeming that he stayed in the ground for some time, rolled to the side. The long black hair was different but his face was...
"Agent Mulder?"
[1] Dæmoniacus (X-Files 9x02) Scully and Reyes were cheated by a man who knew that their belief in the paranormal would help him to escape from the prison.
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To Be Continued
Next (7): Get the road Scoobies
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Chapter Six
"Paradise City"
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Paradise, Pennsylvania
March 3 2003 22:20 PM
[1] Dæmoniacus (X-Files 9x02) Scully and Reyes were cheated by a man who knew that their belief in the paranormal would help him to escape from the prison.
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To Be Continued
Next (7): Get the road Scoobies
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