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break any laws or anything by doing this so please, please spare the life
of a poor and struggling would-be author.
AUTHORS NOTES: This is a crossover between CI and Xfiles. Weird I know, but, the story just kinda popped in my head until it had to come out, so please bear with me. Any comments, good, bad or the unknown shade of grey in the middle would be appreciated, if you like you can send them to loshat_4@yahoo.com. The only thing I ask is to please be nice, no need to go ´round name calling and all. Oh and, keep in mind I´m not even from an english speaking country so any grammatical mistakes and such are ones I truly missed (because I check and re-check my work, I promise). Ok enough about me. Thanks for reading.
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Detective Goren´s job usually consisted of one very simple thing: crime and criminal. The practice of this was what was complicated, still he liked his job. Lately, however, he had to admit he had been getting a little bit to stressed. That´s what had actually attracted him to this case in the first place. Jhon Doe, admitted to the hospital, can´t be treated, there´s nothing wrong with him, except he´s not awake. Hours later cash starts flowing this boy´s way and he´s moved up to one of the very expensive, very private wards at the hospital. No one claims him, and no one knows what happened. This case only came to Goren because of the suspicion circumstances under which everything ocurred, and by mistake. It was supposed to go to some rookie cop, but it was accidentally dropped on Goren´s desk instead. He read it not knowing it wasn´t meant for him, and he was oddly drawn to it. He immediately got the case reassigned. Eames hadn´t been to pleased with this, she didn´t really see the point. "The simplest problems are the most difficult to solve." Had been Goren´s only justification.
It had now been an entire week and, while Eames would disagree, they had made great progress. There was the sister, she simply came in one day, after the news reported that it was the strangest case being looked at by the police of New York. Goren felt almost flattered. The girl had come in and claimed to be the sister of the boy. She gave no name or anything though and after spending six hours, voluntarily, in the questioning room, Goren and Eames had to let her go and while her partner found this an annoying event, Goren was only more interested. Why would someone hide all this information about the boy? The girl claimed to be his sister, but where did she come from? If she hadn´t seen him in six years, how did she know he was in the hospital? Was she paying the bills? What about the rest of his family? She mentioned grandparents briefly, where were they? A million questions had gone through his head so he kept on going with the case and he was happy with it, until the FBI came along.
It wasn´t that he minded the FBI getting involved. If there were anything to get involved in of course. It ocurred to him someone was pulling his leg, after all, who would buy a name like Fox Mulder, Special Agent. It turned out the guy did exist, and after a little checking up and a phone call with a friend of a friend, he found out the guy was into aliens and conspiracies. He found it unexplainable how a grown man chases after the stars claiming aliens do horrible things and checks out vampire attacks on the side. He was instantly annoyed with the man, of course he was a professional. He tried to keep his cool, but as soon as they introduced themselves and Agent Mulder went and started grabbing their stuff, he lost it. He barely even noticed his partner, which was unusual, seeing as how Detective Goren never missed anything, or nearly never at the very least.
In spite of all of this, he still could not drop the case. It was personal now, no FBI agent had the right to come in, brush him and his partner aside, question them on psychic energy and what they knew about it and take over their case. It might have been a dead end case, but it was his case. So he went ahead and stopped the rest of his work on other cases and focused on this one case. He actually found out very elemental mistakes in his investigation, first of all he had never checked the hospital records. He started there and it only took a few polite phone calls to come to the conclusion that whoever the girl had been, it was not the boy´s sister. This boy had been in a car crash, when he´d been picked up by the ambulance he was already in his current state, however no one noticed much because the other two people involved where in much more serious conditions. Two elderly people, one man one woman, the man had regained consciousness just long enough to ask about his grandson. When the admitting nurse told Goren this, he knew this boy must be the grandson, and the girl sure as hell was not the sister. He wanted to question the old man so he dragged a very moody Eames down to the hospital. He didn´t think it fair to be questioned about a horrible incident by phone, the very least he could do was do it face to face. So that was how he found himself slamming into the very same girl who had claimed to be the boy´s sister shortly after.
It was pure luck the girl didn´t slam into Eames instead. She´d forgotten to lock the car and Goren went ahead first while she turned back to do so. The girl was no taller than Eames, but she came running at full speed, she slammed into Goren without even knowing it and even though he was only pushed back, the girl managed to slam her head into his chin, resulting in Goren biting his lip. It was only after Eames pointed it out that he even noticed. He was too amazed, down on the floor was the very girl he was trying to track down. She had been bounced back to the floor by Goren, she hit the back of her head and looked as if she was seeing stars. Behind her, came Agent Scully, bursting out of the door leading to the stairs. They both looked exhausted, but the girl looked beaten, especially after she looked up at Goren and recognized him. She was breathing heavily, but she still managed to curse the moment she chose that door and not the one next to it.
The girl was helped to her feet by Eames. As soon as she was up she pulled her arm out of Eames´. She rubbed her forhead and cursed some more. As soon as she caught Goren´s eye, she smiled and looked down at the floor, "Sorry." She muttered. Before he could get a word out, Eames noticed Goren´s bleeding lip and Agent Scully caught up to them. Scully quickly took the girl´s arm but before she could speak, Eames started questioning the girl.
"What are you doing here?"
"Getting a little exercise." Answered the girl.
"Really? I thought maybe you were visiting your "brother".
The girl´s eyes opened wide for a moment, she got control over herself quickly though and shrugged her shoulders, she turned to Scully, "And who are you supposed to be?"
Scully did not enjoy anyone taking that tone of voice with her. She took out her handcuffs, put them on the girl and started escorting her out the door, "FBI."
Goren hung back while he checked to see how much his lip was bleeding. It was pretty bad. He wiped some of the blood of with a kleenex he found in his pocket and followed Scully. Eames had already caught up with her and was arguing that it was their case and they should take the girl in themselves. Scully wanted to know why she was so interested in the girl. Goren was coming up to them to clear the whole thing up when the girl spoke up to no one in particular.
"They know me." She said, Scully turned to look at her, the girl eyed Eames and continued, "Well not socially of course. I spoke to them a while back about Sean." She said his name quietly, as if still trying to keep something hidden from them.
Scully understood almost immediately, "The sister." The girl only nodded in agreement. Scully took a deep breath and told Eames to go ahead and take her, "I need to find Mulder first anyway."
After that she walked away. Goren came up to Eames and took hold of the girl´s arm just in time to hear her mutter under her breath, "Take all the time you need Agent."
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It wasn´t like she was given any choice. She didn´t want to be this way, she never had, she was simply born with it. She use to lay awake all night, first in that little bed in the orphanage where she was put, then in her big bed after she was adopted, wondering what she could of possibly done wrong to deserve such punishment. All that changed seven years ago when she met Sean. He treated her like a normal human being, he wasn´t even afraid to touch her, he said it made him feel alive. Her life changed so much, she was happy now, of course she still lay awake at night, but now she wondered with childlike curiosity how many factors had to come to be for her to be the end result.
This was exactly what occupied her thoughts as she was driven back to police headquarters where she would no doubt be put in the same tiny, gray and ugly room she was put before, only this time she didn´t want to be there. She was pulled out of her musings when Det. Goren opened the back door and escorted her out. His lip was still bleeding, but it wasn´t as if he would die from it, it wasn´t like she cared she had her own problems to worry about. Sean. Kaia. Her head was sore and it ached just thinking about what would happen if they decided she had done something. Which she hadn´t.
She was led into the elevator and sat down on an incredibly uncomfortable chair while Det. Goren went to take a proper look at his lip and Det. Eames started a file on her. She looked around, people where talking on the phone, scribbling notes and talking amongst themselves. Everyone going about their own normal lives, not realizing they had a full grown and female none-the-less, healer sitting right there, arrester for a crime that never happened. She felt a sharp poke, she turned and saw Eames´ pen sticking at her arm, she did not look pleased.
"Full name." She said, she was done with formalities. It was one thing the FBI came and took over, but this girl had decieved them and now it looked bad, very bad.
"Katya." She said. She tried to smile but Eames wasn´t even looking at her as she typed.
"Full name."she repeated. Katya stared at her for a moment, thinking, then she took a deep breath.
"Hovens." She sighed and looked down.
Eames was not in the mood for this. She turned to look at the girl, not believing she was still trying to convince them she was related to the boy. They knew his name now that they´d found his grandparents and all, and they also knew he had no sister. She narrowed her eyes on her and was about to say something when Goren, came back and interrupted.
"If you´re not the sister that only leaved a limited number of positions with which you could claim that name, " he counted them off with his fingers, "mother," he looked her up and down and smiled, "some sort of cousin or aunt," he leaned forward on his desk coming closer to the girl, "or wife."
Katya looked up as he mentioned the last. Goren knew he had her, she cleared her throat, "I´m...I...didn´t do anything."
She was no sooner done with that statement that she was put into the little interrogation room. Goren led her there, but once she was there he dissapeared, Eames stood leaning on the door frame, following her every move. Katya walked up to the two way mirror and looked up. Two men, she narrowed her eyes, then she whispered, "The lawyer and the boss." Behind the mirror, both men jumped back a little, how could she have of known?
Katya smiled and sat down. At least she wasn´t handcuffed. She began humming a song, but she had only started when Det. Goren came back, with two more people at his heels. One man and one woman, the one who had handcuffed her, FBI. Det. Goren dropped a file Katya knew must have all of the details on Sean´s "case" and, without looking her way, he pointed to the two other people, "Agent Mulder. Agent Scully. FBI." He took a deep breath, sat down and opened the file, "So Katya.tell us about Sean."
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For the next three hours, Goren and Eames racked their brains out trying to break the girl. She never even blinked, she was always one step ahead of them, and sometimes even two. Mulder had to admit he was impressed, he wasn´t the one being questoined and he felt a bit intimidated by Goren. He and Scully had taked to stand in opposite corners, they didn´t speak and they didn´t move, they both knew that they had to seem the more threatening of the two pairs, after all, FBI carried more weight with suspects than Detective. Still, Mulder was worried, this girl didn´ really seem very stressed, in fact, it was Goren and Eames who where starting to crack.
Mulder took a deep breath and re focused on what was being said, "You would never have of gotten to me if the news hadn´t covered it. You know why? I didn´t do anything wrong."
"Maybe...but then why did you run from Agent Scully at the hospital? You couldn´t possibly have of known who she was." Goren said. He was sitting on the table now, the file long forgotten. When Katya didn´t answer Goren went on, "I mean, people don´t just run. If I had been you I would of confronted her, she had no right to be in that room! But you didn´t....maybe...maybe it was because you´re afraid of being caught."
"Caught for what?"
Goren shrugged his shoulders slightly and said nothing. He was going to keep insisting on the point. Katya knew this, she´d had enough of this. She stood up and faced Goren. He didn´t move, "Fine." She said, "Three hours of sitting here with you four morons is enough for me thanks. You wanna know what I did? Fine. But I warn you, he´s the only one that´ll buy it." She pointed at Mulder. Mulder took a step forward, maybe this was a justifiable xfile after all.
She took a deep breath and cracked her neck, then, she made her move. She took hold of both Goren´s hands with her right hand and put her left hand over his lip, she pushed him back on the table. It happened so fast no one had time to react. Goren tried to get free but somehow she had him pinned down, he could barely move. Eames tried to grab her but before she could reach her she was thrown aside. Scully attempted the same and she also feel back, Mulder´s eyes grew wide and he didn´t dare move. The whole thing lasted about ten seconds, but it was the longes ten seconds any of them had ever lived. Then, as quickly as she grabben on, she let go. Goren got up and grabbed her, he was really pissed.
He pulled her against a wall and then suddenly stopped. Her lip was bleeding, and then it stopped, and began to scar. She pushed him back, a great feat since Goren was twice her size. At that same moment a lot more officers stormed into the room and grabbed the girl, handcuffed her and threw her on the floor, she didn´t resist. Eames was helped up by Goren. Scully was the first to notice what she´d done.
She stared at Goren´s face, still down on the floor, "Oh my God." She whispered. Everyone turned to see what was so fascinating on the detective´s face. Mulder came right up to him, almost to close for Goren´s comfort.
"Your lip," he said, "she healed it."
Goren put his hand up to where it had been previously cut. They were right, it was gone. He turned to face her and she smiled, "Magic fingers, Bobby." Goren stared at her, he never told her his first name.
AUTHORS NOTES: This is a crossover between CI and Xfiles. Weird I know, but, the story just kinda popped in my head until it had to come out, so please bear with me. Any comments, good, bad or the unknown shade of grey in the middle would be appreciated, if you like you can send them to loshat_4@yahoo.com. The only thing I ask is to please be nice, no need to go ´round name calling and all. Oh and, keep in mind I´m not even from an english speaking country so any grammatical mistakes and such are ones I truly missed (because I check and re-check my work, I promise). Ok enough about me. Thanks for reading.
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Detective Goren´s job usually consisted of one very simple thing: crime and criminal. The practice of this was what was complicated, still he liked his job. Lately, however, he had to admit he had been getting a little bit to stressed. That´s what had actually attracted him to this case in the first place. Jhon Doe, admitted to the hospital, can´t be treated, there´s nothing wrong with him, except he´s not awake. Hours later cash starts flowing this boy´s way and he´s moved up to one of the very expensive, very private wards at the hospital. No one claims him, and no one knows what happened. This case only came to Goren because of the suspicion circumstances under which everything ocurred, and by mistake. It was supposed to go to some rookie cop, but it was accidentally dropped on Goren´s desk instead. He read it not knowing it wasn´t meant for him, and he was oddly drawn to it. He immediately got the case reassigned. Eames hadn´t been to pleased with this, she didn´t really see the point. "The simplest problems are the most difficult to solve." Had been Goren´s only justification.
It had now been an entire week and, while Eames would disagree, they had made great progress. There was the sister, she simply came in one day, after the news reported that it was the strangest case being looked at by the police of New York. Goren felt almost flattered. The girl had come in and claimed to be the sister of the boy. She gave no name or anything though and after spending six hours, voluntarily, in the questioning room, Goren and Eames had to let her go and while her partner found this an annoying event, Goren was only more interested. Why would someone hide all this information about the boy? The girl claimed to be his sister, but where did she come from? If she hadn´t seen him in six years, how did she know he was in the hospital? Was she paying the bills? What about the rest of his family? She mentioned grandparents briefly, where were they? A million questions had gone through his head so he kept on going with the case and he was happy with it, until the FBI came along.
It wasn´t that he minded the FBI getting involved. If there were anything to get involved in of course. It ocurred to him someone was pulling his leg, after all, who would buy a name like Fox Mulder, Special Agent. It turned out the guy did exist, and after a little checking up and a phone call with a friend of a friend, he found out the guy was into aliens and conspiracies. He found it unexplainable how a grown man chases after the stars claiming aliens do horrible things and checks out vampire attacks on the side. He was instantly annoyed with the man, of course he was a professional. He tried to keep his cool, but as soon as they introduced themselves and Agent Mulder went and started grabbing their stuff, he lost it. He barely even noticed his partner, which was unusual, seeing as how Detective Goren never missed anything, or nearly never at the very least.
In spite of all of this, he still could not drop the case. It was personal now, no FBI agent had the right to come in, brush him and his partner aside, question them on psychic energy and what they knew about it and take over their case. It might have been a dead end case, but it was his case. So he went ahead and stopped the rest of his work on other cases and focused on this one case. He actually found out very elemental mistakes in his investigation, first of all he had never checked the hospital records. He started there and it only took a few polite phone calls to come to the conclusion that whoever the girl had been, it was not the boy´s sister. This boy had been in a car crash, when he´d been picked up by the ambulance he was already in his current state, however no one noticed much because the other two people involved where in much more serious conditions. Two elderly people, one man one woman, the man had regained consciousness just long enough to ask about his grandson. When the admitting nurse told Goren this, he knew this boy must be the grandson, and the girl sure as hell was not the sister. He wanted to question the old man so he dragged a very moody Eames down to the hospital. He didn´t think it fair to be questioned about a horrible incident by phone, the very least he could do was do it face to face. So that was how he found himself slamming into the very same girl who had claimed to be the boy´s sister shortly after.
It was pure luck the girl didn´t slam into Eames instead. She´d forgotten to lock the car and Goren went ahead first while she turned back to do so. The girl was no taller than Eames, but she came running at full speed, she slammed into Goren without even knowing it and even though he was only pushed back, the girl managed to slam her head into his chin, resulting in Goren biting his lip. It was only after Eames pointed it out that he even noticed. He was too amazed, down on the floor was the very girl he was trying to track down. She had been bounced back to the floor by Goren, she hit the back of her head and looked as if she was seeing stars. Behind her, came Agent Scully, bursting out of the door leading to the stairs. They both looked exhausted, but the girl looked beaten, especially after she looked up at Goren and recognized him. She was breathing heavily, but she still managed to curse the moment she chose that door and not the one next to it.
The girl was helped to her feet by Eames. As soon as she was up she pulled her arm out of Eames´. She rubbed her forhead and cursed some more. As soon as she caught Goren´s eye, she smiled and looked down at the floor, "Sorry." She muttered. Before he could get a word out, Eames noticed Goren´s bleeding lip and Agent Scully caught up to them. Scully quickly took the girl´s arm but before she could speak, Eames started questioning the girl.
"What are you doing here?"
"Getting a little exercise." Answered the girl.
"Really? I thought maybe you were visiting your "brother".
The girl´s eyes opened wide for a moment, she got control over herself quickly though and shrugged her shoulders, she turned to Scully, "And who are you supposed to be?"
Scully did not enjoy anyone taking that tone of voice with her. She took out her handcuffs, put them on the girl and started escorting her out the door, "FBI."
Goren hung back while he checked to see how much his lip was bleeding. It was pretty bad. He wiped some of the blood of with a kleenex he found in his pocket and followed Scully. Eames had already caught up with her and was arguing that it was their case and they should take the girl in themselves. Scully wanted to know why she was so interested in the girl. Goren was coming up to them to clear the whole thing up when the girl spoke up to no one in particular.
"They know me." She said, Scully turned to look at her, the girl eyed Eames and continued, "Well not socially of course. I spoke to them a while back about Sean." She said his name quietly, as if still trying to keep something hidden from them.
Scully understood almost immediately, "The sister." The girl only nodded in agreement. Scully took a deep breath and told Eames to go ahead and take her, "I need to find Mulder first anyway."
After that she walked away. Goren came up to Eames and took hold of the girl´s arm just in time to hear her mutter under her breath, "Take all the time you need Agent."
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It wasn´t like she was given any choice. She didn´t want to be this way, she never had, she was simply born with it. She use to lay awake all night, first in that little bed in the orphanage where she was put, then in her big bed after she was adopted, wondering what she could of possibly done wrong to deserve such punishment. All that changed seven years ago when she met Sean. He treated her like a normal human being, he wasn´t even afraid to touch her, he said it made him feel alive. Her life changed so much, she was happy now, of course she still lay awake at night, but now she wondered with childlike curiosity how many factors had to come to be for her to be the end result.
This was exactly what occupied her thoughts as she was driven back to police headquarters where she would no doubt be put in the same tiny, gray and ugly room she was put before, only this time she didn´t want to be there. She was pulled out of her musings when Det. Goren opened the back door and escorted her out. His lip was still bleeding, but it wasn´t as if he would die from it, it wasn´t like she cared she had her own problems to worry about. Sean. Kaia. Her head was sore and it ached just thinking about what would happen if they decided she had done something. Which she hadn´t.
She was led into the elevator and sat down on an incredibly uncomfortable chair while Det. Goren went to take a proper look at his lip and Det. Eames started a file on her. She looked around, people where talking on the phone, scribbling notes and talking amongst themselves. Everyone going about their own normal lives, not realizing they had a full grown and female none-the-less, healer sitting right there, arrester for a crime that never happened. She felt a sharp poke, she turned and saw Eames´ pen sticking at her arm, she did not look pleased.
"Full name." She said, she was done with formalities. It was one thing the FBI came and took over, but this girl had decieved them and now it looked bad, very bad.
"Katya." She said. She tried to smile but Eames wasn´t even looking at her as she typed.
"Full name."she repeated. Katya stared at her for a moment, thinking, then she took a deep breath.
"Hovens." She sighed and looked down.
Eames was not in the mood for this. She turned to look at the girl, not believing she was still trying to convince them she was related to the boy. They knew his name now that they´d found his grandparents and all, and they also knew he had no sister. She narrowed her eyes on her and was about to say something when Goren, came back and interrupted.
"If you´re not the sister that only leaved a limited number of positions with which you could claim that name, " he counted them off with his fingers, "mother," he looked her up and down and smiled, "some sort of cousin or aunt," he leaned forward on his desk coming closer to the girl, "or wife."
Katya looked up as he mentioned the last. Goren knew he had her, she cleared her throat, "I´m...I...didn´t do anything."
She was no sooner done with that statement that she was put into the little interrogation room. Goren led her there, but once she was there he dissapeared, Eames stood leaning on the door frame, following her every move. Katya walked up to the two way mirror and looked up. Two men, she narrowed her eyes, then she whispered, "The lawyer and the boss." Behind the mirror, both men jumped back a little, how could she have of known?
Katya smiled and sat down. At least she wasn´t handcuffed. She began humming a song, but she had only started when Det. Goren came back, with two more people at his heels. One man and one woman, the one who had handcuffed her, FBI. Det. Goren dropped a file Katya knew must have all of the details on Sean´s "case" and, without looking her way, he pointed to the two other people, "Agent Mulder. Agent Scully. FBI." He took a deep breath, sat down and opened the file, "So Katya.tell us about Sean."
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For the next three hours, Goren and Eames racked their brains out trying to break the girl. She never even blinked, she was always one step ahead of them, and sometimes even two. Mulder had to admit he was impressed, he wasn´t the one being questoined and he felt a bit intimidated by Goren. He and Scully had taked to stand in opposite corners, they didn´t speak and they didn´t move, they both knew that they had to seem the more threatening of the two pairs, after all, FBI carried more weight with suspects than Detective. Still, Mulder was worried, this girl didn´ really seem very stressed, in fact, it was Goren and Eames who where starting to crack.
Mulder took a deep breath and re focused on what was being said, "You would never have of gotten to me if the news hadn´t covered it. You know why? I didn´t do anything wrong."
"Maybe...but then why did you run from Agent Scully at the hospital? You couldn´t possibly have of known who she was." Goren said. He was sitting on the table now, the file long forgotten. When Katya didn´t answer Goren went on, "I mean, people don´t just run. If I had been you I would of confronted her, she had no right to be in that room! But you didn´t....maybe...maybe it was because you´re afraid of being caught."
"Caught for what?"
Goren shrugged his shoulders slightly and said nothing. He was going to keep insisting on the point. Katya knew this, she´d had enough of this. She stood up and faced Goren. He didn´t move, "Fine." She said, "Three hours of sitting here with you four morons is enough for me thanks. You wanna know what I did? Fine. But I warn you, he´s the only one that´ll buy it." She pointed at Mulder. Mulder took a step forward, maybe this was a justifiable xfile after all.
She took a deep breath and cracked her neck, then, she made her move. She took hold of both Goren´s hands with her right hand and put her left hand over his lip, she pushed him back on the table. It happened so fast no one had time to react. Goren tried to get free but somehow she had him pinned down, he could barely move. Eames tried to grab her but before she could reach her she was thrown aside. Scully attempted the same and she also feel back, Mulder´s eyes grew wide and he didn´t dare move. The whole thing lasted about ten seconds, but it was the longes ten seconds any of them had ever lived. Then, as quickly as she grabben on, she let go. Goren got up and grabbed her, he was really pissed.
He pulled her against a wall and then suddenly stopped. Her lip was bleeding, and then it stopped, and began to scar. She pushed him back, a great feat since Goren was twice her size. At that same moment a lot more officers stormed into the room and grabbed the girl, handcuffed her and threw her on the floor, she didn´t resist. Eames was helped up by Goren. Scully was the first to notice what she´d done.
She stared at Goren´s face, still down on the floor, "Oh my God." She whispered. Everyone turned to see what was so fascinating on the detective´s face. Mulder came right up to him, almost to close for Goren´s comfort.
"Your lip," he said, "she healed it."
Goren put his hand up to where it had been previously cut. They were right, it was gone. He turned to face her and she smiled, "Magic fingers, Bobby." Goren stared at her, he never told her his first name.