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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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"That´s the key isn´t it? The key to this whole mess..." Mulder and Eames turned, it was Goren. Eames took a look at her watch, they´d been there for nearly and hour already. Scully came in right behind Goren, she was carrying some papers, Goren acknowledged neither Mulder nor Scully, and turned only breifly towards Eames before continuing, "the fifth person...the one you where never goind to tell us about. Someone so important, that you can´t afford to have involved."
Scully pulled a single piece of paper out of the top of the bunch she was carrying. She handed it to Goren and he held it up to Katya, "Funny..it took us only.twenty minutes? To find this. After all the hours spent on you, twenty minutes and one phone call. You should cover your tracks better next time." Goren pulled the paper back and handed it to Eames. She looked at it at stared at Katya. Mulder looked to Scully.
"It´s a birth certificate." Scully explained, "For a girl, born to Katya and Sean Hovens, almost six years ago. Sean´s grandparents say that´s who they´re all protecting. They say if Katya´s family finds out where she is they could take her."
"They´re not my family." Katya said. She looked up at Scully and began pacing the room, speaking quickly, "They´re not my family I was adopted I..I have no family. Sean, he´s my family and his grandparents and our daughter, Kaia. The people who raised me are not my family, not by a longshot. They are nothing but bloodsucking opportunists...and I can´t afford to go back with them, and they must not find Kaia, she´s all I have left now...I can´t loose her too."
Mulder leaned back on the chair and Eames walked to the door and leaned against it. No one spoke. Goren was looking down at the floor, apparently fascinated. He shuffled his feet and put his hands in his pockets. He suddenly looked up and went near the girl, he found her eyes and stared right at her, then started pacing the room. "Is this why you ran away? What was it? Did...Sean, did he treat you better than they did? Did he treat you like a human being?"
Katya stared at Goren, she knew his questions where not intended to make her relax. He really did believe that she had done something to Sean. She cursed at herself for being so irrational and jumping at Goren. She stayed silent, Goren took that as a sign to continue, "Well if he was so wonderful then what happened?.If your new found life was so much better...", he trailed off. He stopped and went back to her, "it wasn´t so wonderful was it? Sean´s grandparents told us he moved in with you when you first found out you where pregnant. He tried to make it work there but he couldn´t. What was it? Was your family mean to him? Did they ignore him? You?...Your daughter?", he smiled a little and continued, he really thought this was it. Maybe he couldn´t explain what had happened to Sean to get him into his current state, but he had a very good theory as to who made it happen and Det. Goren was hardly ever wrong, "So you did what? Pack up your bags and hit the road? But you couldn´t could you...no. You had to move in with Sean. What did it bother you that it was a nice family, so close to the perfection you never even knew. You hated it, right? I mean who wouldn´t? After growing up in such a lousy home, to find out that most people where happy. I think it made you sick. I think you hated it enough to try to end it all for them! The car crash...taking the girl from the accident...hiding. But you couldn´t stop there could you? No...you had...no you needed more, so you decided to front the bill for Sean´s care. His entire family is torn apart, he might never recover. You thought you´d found the perfect guy, until you realized he was happy and you where miserable, and he had no right to be happy! You simply..." he cut off midsentence and shrugged. He went to lean against a wall, Mulder looked at him, he seemed so sure of himself, but Mulder wondered if that was the truth. Maybe it was, and this was no xfile after all, but he just felt there was so much more about this whole thing.
Katya had suddenly stood up. Fire and hatred shot through her eyes. She stared intently at Goren, as if she could destroy him by simply staring at him. How dare he! He actually thought...she could barely breath she was infuriated. She hated him, all she wanted to do was to...she looked at him and saw her own father. A hateful and dissmissive man who got off on making everyone else feel miserable. Before she even realized what she was doing she was screaming back at him, "You think you know me! Oh right! Mommy went crazy and daddy ran away, and from all of that the great Goren came forth and now he rules the world! You think your miserable life gives you the right to pass judgment on others! It doesn´t and you know what? You´re wrong. Sean and I left that place because they refused to acknowledge him and my daughter, they even tried to marry me off to some other guy! I was happy with them...you...you think because your mother was absent minded and your father gone you had it hard? I was locked in basements and closets because I refused to do as I was told, my brother was beaten every night until I agreed to do what I was there for! I was never let out, and I got to watch my little cousin die because they wouldn´t let me help her! I was 10, and she was 3, and all I did was sneak out to play! They beat her till she was to far gone, and then...then they didn´t let me help her, instead they took me to my "father", to heal his fracture hand which he´d gotten while beating a little girl to a pulp! I´m sorry Detective but you are so far off. You measure everyone according to your pathetic past and your pathetic existance now! Well, not everyone had it as peachy as you. At least you got to leave!"
Goren was in shock, as was Eames. Mulder and Scully suddenly felt incredibly awkward in the room, as if they didn´t belong. Goren only stared back, trying to seem as if what she´d just said didn´t affect him. Eames wanted to kill Katya, but she was beyond caring anymore. Mulder was about to speak but she suddenly turned on him as well, "What?", she said, "Aliens not good enough for you? You´re all a pathetic lot. Cop daddy´s girl, poor army brat child, deadbeat dad and oh! My favorite.little sister gone missing! I am so sorry...you must´ve suffered so much! And now you think that what? You´re right? I was there and I don´t know what happened right? I don´t know what I´m doing I´m just...a perp behind bars?" She smiled, a cold and almost evil smile, her voice dropped to a whisper and yet they still heard her perfectly well, "Well, you have me...oh please let me not intrude with your theories with something like the truth!"
After that she didn´t speak again. She turned her back and stared at the wall. Scully thought she heard her crying, but she couldn´t be sure. She was shocked still. It was almost as if she had felt Katya´s anger actually hitting her, if someone had asked her, she wouldn´t of remembered what had been said, only that she had felt...she shook her head slightly. That was impossible, you couldn´t throw your emotions at someone as if they where stones. She decided to keep this out of any conversation or report having to do with the case, but she couldn´t help but feel a little better as she looked around and saw that the other three people in the room looked just like Scully felt. She wasn´t quite sure how much time had gone by before anyone spoke again, it was Mulder.
"How did you know about our past?"
Katya didn´t turn but she simply shrugged her shoulders. Everyone seemed pulled out of their minds at Mulder´s question. Eames spoke up next, "Did you look it up in a computer? Where you playing us?" She straightened up but did not go near Katya. Katya took a deep breath and sighed, she turned around and faced them. She went near the bars and pointing at each in turne she began speaking.
She pointed at Mulder, "Samantha."
She pointed at Scully, "Melissa."
She pointed at Goren, "You where seven when it happened, eleven when your father left."
She looked at Eames, "You despised the thought of being a cop when you where a girl."
She went around again, pointing in the same order, "Sister...two brothers one sister...no one...you´re the most normal of the whole bunch." Her finger stayed on Eames and she smiled. Mulder suddenly got up, his eyes lit up.
"You read our minds?" He asked. He came close to Katya, whose anger was quickly replaced by annoyance at Mulder´s apparent thick headedness.
"No. For someone to read a mind, the subject would have to be thinking of something. Besides...minds are not books, Fox. You can´t just...read them." She smiled and crossed her arms, as if that explained everything, no one reacted except Mulder, he did not appreciate being called by his first name, especially by a girl who wasn´t supposed to know it. She rolled her eyes and continued, "You know shamans? Witches? Warlocks? Priests?...sometimes those people have amazing healing powers right? I mean Christ himself could heal by mearly touching someone." She shrugged and sat back down. If this was the way it was going to be, then she wasn´t about to connect all the dots for them.
Eames tried not to laugh, as did Goren. Mulder stared at her, thinking, trying to remember something, Scully said nothing. It wasn´t that she believed the girl, but if there was anything she had learned from working on the xfiles, it was that getting all the facts counted. Even the facts from the apparently insane suspect. Scully was about to ask the girl something when Mulder suddenly looked back at her, Scully knew from the look on his face, that he had come up with something he thought was solid.
"A healer." Scully seemed to be thinking but came up with nothing, Mulder continued, "I have a file. From Ireland, somewhere in the eighties. It has to do with some sort of cult that had formed around individuals they called healers."
It took Scully another second or two but she finally remembered. It was an xfile, from 1985 if she wasn´t mistaken. She walked closer to Mulder, "I remember. The members of this cult claimed that few individuals among them where what they called "healers", they could cure anyone of anything, or so they claimed...as I recall, there was hardly enough evidence for the xfile to exist."
Goren turned to look at Scully. There was evidence for these kinds of things? He walked toward the two agents, Mulder didn´t look at him, and neither did Scully for a moment. He suddenly felt like he was intruding, but he didn´t move back, "You have a file on this?"
Scully turned to him and Eames, who was not very pleased to be included in this conversation, "Yes we do. But it´s just a file, the FBI mainstream is the one who handled the case itself."
This was enough to interest Goren, "There was a case?"
"Yes. I don´t remember the specifics very well but it had to do with kidnapping and abuse of some children. There was a girl who was american, she died during the investigation." Scully looked to Mulder, he was the one who actually knew all of the files by heart, he took his opportunity and got up. None of them where paying much attention to Katya, who was staring wide eyed in the general direction of the agents, there where others like her?
Since no one noticed Katya, Mulder continued explaining, "Yeah, something.the children where all adopted, there where only four. The american girl, was kidnapped actually that´s how the case got started. When they found out about they cult they found that the children were treated like objects more than people. They had no rights, and no one withing the cult believe they had any use for anything other than healing. They where assigned to a couple who pretended to be the parents to the outside world, but they where treated no better than any farm animal." He finished. That was all he remembered about the case, but it wasn´t all that he remembered from his xfile. He turned to Katya.
"In the xfile I have...it mentioned these children received no education on how to heal, they simply did it. It also mentioned the possibility of them being some sort of short range telepaths or psychics." He crouched down and spoke to Katya, "You are one of them aren´t you?"
Katya half smiled and nodded her head. Mulder continued, "Your daughter? Is she...?"
"No. Thank God." She looked up at the ceiling, she seemed more calm but no one other than Mulder seemed prepared to trust her enough to come close.
"Is that why you ran away? No one accepted Sean and when your daughter wasn´t like you they just cut them off?"
"Something like that...they came in one day and took me. They wanted to..." She stopped to look for a friendlier word than the one which had been used on her, she didn´t so she continued, "breed me. They said healers where harder to come by now a days.there was a boy, Tom, his aunt was a healer. She died before I was there..." She trailed off and chanced a look at the people beyond the bars. What she saw was not very uplifting.
Mulder had the look of a kid in a candy store, Scully looked skpetic, but was convinced something had happened which justified her attention and prescence, Goren and Eames looked unemotional and Katya couldn´t really read their expressions. She got the message when Goren turned away and walked out of the room, followed by Eames, neither of them bothered to look back at the agents, or the girl.
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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"That´s the key isn´t it? The key to this whole mess..." Mulder and Eames turned, it was Goren. Eames took a look at her watch, they´d been there for nearly and hour already. Scully came in right behind Goren, she was carrying some papers, Goren acknowledged neither Mulder nor Scully, and turned only breifly towards Eames before continuing, "the fifth person...the one you where never goind to tell us about. Someone so important, that you can´t afford to have involved."
Scully pulled a single piece of paper out of the top of the bunch she was carrying. She handed it to Goren and he held it up to Katya, "Funny..it took us only.twenty minutes? To find this. After all the hours spent on you, twenty minutes and one phone call. You should cover your tracks better next time." Goren pulled the paper back and handed it to Eames. She looked at it at stared at Katya. Mulder looked to Scully.
"It´s a birth certificate." Scully explained, "For a girl, born to Katya and Sean Hovens, almost six years ago. Sean´s grandparents say that´s who they´re all protecting. They say if Katya´s family finds out where she is they could take her."
"They´re not my family." Katya said. She looked up at Scully and began pacing the room, speaking quickly, "They´re not my family I was adopted I..I have no family. Sean, he´s my family and his grandparents and our daughter, Kaia. The people who raised me are not my family, not by a longshot. They are nothing but bloodsucking opportunists...and I can´t afford to go back with them, and they must not find Kaia, she´s all I have left now...I can´t loose her too."
Mulder leaned back on the chair and Eames walked to the door and leaned against it. No one spoke. Goren was looking down at the floor, apparently fascinated. He shuffled his feet and put his hands in his pockets. He suddenly looked up and went near the girl, he found her eyes and stared right at her, then started pacing the room. "Is this why you ran away? What was it? Did...Sean, did he treat you better than they did? Did he treat you like a human being?"
Katya stared at Goren, she knew his questions where not intended to make her relax. He really did believe that she had done something to Sean. She cursed at herself for being so irrational and jumping at Goren. She stayed silent, Goren took that as a sign to continue, "Well if he was so wonderful then what happened?.If your new found life was so much better...", he trailed off. He stopped and went back to her, "it wasn´t so wonderful was it? Sean´s grandparents told us he moved in with you when you first found out you where pregnant. He tried to make it work there but he couldn´t. What was it? Was your family mean to him? Did they ignore him? You?...Your daughter?", he smiled a little and continued, he really thought this was it. Maybe he couldn´t explain what had happened to Sean to get him into his current state, but he had a very good theory as to who made it happen and Det. Goren was hardly ever wrong, "So you did what? Pack up your bags and hit the road? But you couldn´t could you...no. You had to move in with Sean. What did it bother you that it was a nice family, so close to the perfection you never even knew. You hated it, right? I mean who wouldn´t? After growing up in such a lousy home, to find out that most people where happy. I think it made you sick. I think you hated it enough to try to end it all for them! The car crash...taking the girl from the accident...hiding. But you couldn´t stop there could you? No...you had...no you needed more, so you decided to front the bill for Sean´s care. His entire family is torn apart, he might never recover. You thought you´d found the perfect guy, until you realized he was happy and you where miserable, and he had no right to be happy! You simply..." he cut off midsentence and shrugged. He went to lean against a wall, Mulder looked at him, he seemed so sure of himself, but Mulder wondered if that was the truth. Maybe it was, and this was no xfile after all, but he just felt there was so much more about this whole thing.
Katya had suddenly stood up. Fire and hatred shot through her eyes. She stared intently at Goren, as if she could destroy him by simply staring at him. How dare he! He actually thought...she could barely breath she was infuriated. She hated him, all she wanted to do was to...she looked at him and saw her own father. A hateful and dissmissive man who got off on making everyone else feel miserable. Before she even realized what she was doing she was screaming back at him, "You think you know me! Oh right! Mommy went crazy and daddy ran away, and from all of that the great Goren came forth and now he rules the world! You think your miserable life gives you the right to pass judgment on others! It doesn´t and you know what? You´re wrong. Sean and I left that place because they refused to acknowledge him and my daughter, they even tried to marry me off to some other guy! I was happy with them...you...you think because your mother was absent minded and your father gone you had it hard? I was locked in basements and closets because I refused to do as I was told, my brother was beaten every night until I agreed to do what I was there for! I was never let out, and I got to watch my little cousin die because they wouldn´t let me help her! I was 10, and she was 3, and all I did was sneak out to play! They beat her till she was to far gone, and then...then they didn´t let me help her, instead they took me to my "father", to heal his fracture hand which he´d gotten while beating a little girl to a pulp! I´m sorry Detective but you are so far off. You measure everyone according to your pathetic past and your pathetic existance now! Well, not everyone had it as peachy as you. At least you got to leave!"
Goren was in shock, as was Eames. Mulder and Scully suddenly felt incredibly awkward in the room, as if they didn´t belong. Goren only stared back, trying to seem as if what she´d just said didn´t affect him. Eames wanted to kill Katya, but she was beyond caring anymore. Mulder was about to speak but she suddenly turned on him as well, "What?", she said, "Aliens not good enough for you? You´re all a pathetic lot. Cop daddy´s girl, poor army brat child, deadbeat dad and oh! My favorite.little sister gone missing! I am so sorry...you must´ve suffered so much! And now you think that what? You´re right? I was there and I don´t know what happened right? I don´t know what I´m doing I´m just...a perp behind bars?" She smiled, a cold and almost evil smile, her voice dropped to a whisper and yet they still heard her perfectly well, "Well, you have me...oh please let me not intrude with your theories with something like the truth!"
After that she didn´t speak again. She turned her back and stared at the wall. Scully thought she heard her crying, but she couldn´t be sure. She was shocked still. It was almost as if she had felt Katya´s anger actually hitting her, if someone had asked her, she wouldn´t of remembered what had been said, only that she had felt...she shook her head slightly. That was impossible, you couldn´t throw your emotions at someone as if they where stones. She decided to keep this out of any conversation or report having to do with the case, but she couldn´t help but feel a little better as she looked around and saw that the other three people in the room looked just like Scully felt. She wasn´t quite sure how much time had gone by before anyone spoke again, it was Mulder.
"How did you know about our past?"
Katya didn´t turn but she simply shrugged her shoulders. Everyone seemed pulled out of their minds at Mulder´s question. Eames spoke up next, "Did you look it up in a computer? Where you playing us?" She straightened up but did not go near Katya. Katya took a deep breath and sighed, she turned around and faced them. She went near the bars and pointing at each in turne she began speaking.
She pointed at Mulder, "Samantha."
She pointed at Scully, "Melissa."
She pointed at Goren, "You where seven when it happened, eleven when your father left."
She looked at Eames, "You despised the thought of being a cop when you where a girl."
She went around again, pointing in the same order, "Sister...two brothers one sister...no one...you´re the most normal of the whole bunch." Her finger stayed on Eames and she smiled. Mulder suddenly got up, his eyes lit up.
"You read our minds?" He asked. He came close to Katya, whose anger was quickly replaced by annoyance at Mulder´s apparent thick headedness.
"No. For someone to read a mind, the subject would have to be thinking of something. Besides...minds are not books, Fox. You can´t just...read them." She smiled and crossed her arms, as if that explained everything, no one reacted except Mulder, he did not appreciate being called by his first name, especially by a girl who wasn´t supposed to know it. She rolled her eyes and continued, "You know shamans? Witches? Warlocks? Priests?...sometimes those people have amazing healing powers right? I mean Christ himself could heal by mearly touching someone." She shrugged and sat back down. If this was the way it was going to be, then she wasn´t about to connect all the dots for them.
Eames tried not to laugh, as did Goren. Mulder stared at her, thinking, trying to remember something, Scully said nothing. It wasn´t that she believed the girl, but if there was anything she had learned from working on the xfiles, it was that getting all the facts counted. Even the facts from the apparently insane suspect. Scully was about to ask the girl something when Mulder suddenly looked back at her, Scully knew from the look on his face, that he had come up with something he thought was solid.
"A healer." Scully seemed to be thinking but came up with nothing, Mulder continued, "I have a file. From Ireland, somewhere in the eighties. It has to do with some sort of cult that had formed around individuals they called healers."
It took Scully another second or two but she finally remembered. It was an xfile, from 1985 if she wasn´t mistaken. She walked closer to Mulder, "I remember. The members of this cult claimed that few individuals among them where what they called "healers", they could cure anyone of anything, or so they claimed...as I recall, there was hardly enough evidence for the xfile to exist."
Goren turned to look at Scully. There was evidence for these kinds of things? He walked toward the two agents, Mulder didn´t look at him, and neither did Scully for a moment. He suddenly felt like he was intruding, but he didn´t move back, "You have a file on this?"
Scully turned to him and Eames, who was not very pleased to be included in this conversation, "Yes we do. But it´s just a file, the FBI mainstream is the one who handled the case itself."
This was enough to interest Goren, "There was a case?"
"Yes. I don´t remember the specifics very well but it had to do with kidnapping and abuse of some children. There was a girl who was american, she died during the investigation." Scully looked to Mulder, he was the one who actually knew all of the files by heart, he took his opportunity and got up. None of them where paying much attention to Katya, who was staring wide eyed in the general direction of the agents, there where others like her?
Since no one noticed Katya, Mulder continued explaining, "Yeah, something.the children where all adopted, there where only four. The american girl, was kidnapped actually that´s how the case got started. When they found out about they cult they found that the children were treated like objects more than people. They had no rights, and no one withing the cult believe they had any use for anything other than healing. They where assigned to a couple who pretended to be the parents to the outside world, but they where treated no better than any farm animal." He finished. That was all he remembered about the case, but it wasn´t all that he remembered from his xfile. He turned to Katya.
"In the xfile I have...it mentioned these children received no education on how to heal, they simply did it. It also mentioned the possibility of them being some sort of short range telepaths or psychics." He crouched down and spoke to Katya, "You are one of them aren´t you?"
Katya half smiled and nodded her head. Mulder continued, "Your daughter? Is she...?"
"No. Thank God." She looked up at the ceiling, she seemed more calm but no one other than Mulder seemed prepared to trust her enough to come close.
"Is that why you ran away? No one accepted Sean and when your daughter wasn´t like you they just cut them off?"
"Something like that...they came in one day and took me. They wanted to..." She stopped to look for a friendlier word than the one which had been used on her, she didn´t so she continued, "breed me. They said healers where harder to come by now a days.there was a boy, Tom, his aunt was a healer. She died before I was there..." She trailed off and chanced a look at the people beyond the bars. What she saw was not very uplifting.
Mulder had the look of a kid in a candy store, Scully looked skpetic, but was convinced something had happened which justified her attention and prescence, Goren and Eames looked unemotional and Katya couldn´t really read their expressions. She got the message when Goren turned away and walked out of the room, followed by Eames, neither of them bothered to look back at the agents, or the girl.