DISCLAIMER: Don´t own ´em. Any of them...unfortunately...
A/N: OK, so this did take a long time. I´m busy with school and all, keep me up all night working on not-so-interesting-things...anyway, but I did finally get something in...almost over now actually so I will hurry things up. Promise.
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The next two weeks proved to be blissfully normal. No more strange cases and stranger fed´s, it was simple, crime, criminal and case. Eames was deliriously happy, although she obvisouly didn´t really show it. Inside she did feel a little guilty, Katya had been released and the warrant had been served, there was nothing unusual found and Katya was left alone, insisting that she had done nothing but there were people who should be put behind barrs. Her pleas had fallen on deaf ears with Eames, and Goren still believed she was the criminal so she didn´t even try to convince him. Still, there was a little bit of guilt stored inside Eames, for both her partner and the girl. She knew Goren hated leaving cases half way done, but there was nowhere else to go on this one; as for the girl, she hated to admit it to herself but she had almost believed her for a second. Almost, and just for a second. It was still enough though.
She looked up from her desk and saw her partner. She knew he was still following up on the girl, he couldn´t help it, and she knew he was probably working on something to do with her at the moment, no one could possibly buy Robert Goren being so involved in paper work. She didn´t say anything, against her better judgement. He would come around eventually, or come up with a brilliant solution and close the case, either which way she gave him space. She didn´t know it, but Goren actually appreciated it more than anything else.
She went back to her paperwork, still thinking about how good it was to be back to normal. She was just about done with the last report she had to hand in when her phone rang. She let it ring a few times before answering it, she didn´t know why but she had a funny feeling maybe she should just let it be. She shook the thought away and answered.
"Eames."
"Detective Eames."
She sighed, Goren´s eyes looked up from his work, "Agent Mulder." Goren´s head shot up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------
The last fifteen days had been a confusion of noise and movement, nothing really had seemed to make sense or even be tangible enough to be considered real. It was all a dream. That was her chant and it had kept her going so far. Katya leaned back on her chair and rubbed her eyes. The papers in front of her began to blurr. Suddenly, having gotten the teacher´s assitant job didn´t seem like such a great idea, she was tired, bored, still had plenty of work; on the other hand, she had no idea where her daughter was, her husband was still unconscious and Mr. and Mrs. Hovens, even thought they were home, were still suffering from the injuries. She felt like an entire building being supported by no more than a few matchsticks, old, very, very old matchsticks..maybe even used ones. She smiled dryly at her own metaphor, then decided to call it a day. She´d had enough, and she still needed to see about dinner. She put everything back in order at the desk and headed downstairs, when she got to the bottom she looked back up, she didn´t know why, but for the last few days she´d had a very uncomfortable feeling, like she was being watched, and she felt followed.
She shook off the feeling and went into the kitchen. Dinner was ready in about half an hour and she took it upstairs to the big study which had been transformed into a makeshift "everything-room" since that was where Mr. and Mrs. Hovens spent most of their time. They talked about things that were not too serious and they carefully avoided any subject that might lead them to Sean or Kaia, or even the detectives and FBI agents. Katya was still fuming over that. She hadn´t believed it when they´d left her cooped up in that cell for nearly seven hours, without a lawyer, then a warrant was served on her home and after nothing was found and the FBI agents (the only ones with whom she had a chance of being believed) had left, the detectives had simply shook hands with her, apologized and not meant it and gone on with their lives. They´d found nothing, so the case was just being left alone. This was always present in her thoughts, now if someone did try to find her, no one would care, no one would know. She was trying really hard not to entertain that thought when the phone rang. She answered it on the fourth ring, she got a feeling maybe she should just leave it alone.
"Hello."
"Katya?"
"Dr. Pierce..what is it?" Mr. and Mrs. Hovens heads shot up from their books as they heard her. She turned briefly to them, a look of panic in her eyes. She waited for another minute, hung up, and without another word, she simply ran to the door. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------
"Mulder, bad is putting it lightly."
Mulder turned in his chair to look at her partner. He held her eyes for a moment before looking back down at his desk, he took a deep breath. He knew it was his fault they were stuck where they were, but there was still a pretty powerful voice inside of him arguing that he had been right, that he usually was and this time with more reason. He heard his partner heading for the door, she said something to him which he didn´t really catch and she left. He almost went after her. Almost. He felt guilty, but being away from Scully actually allowed him to think about it.
He looked up at the ceiling, the panel hadn´t been replaced in some time and there were already so many holes it would be hard for another pencil to be stuck up there. He sighed, it wasn´t exactly pencils that occupied his mind at the moment. The last two weeks had been, as Scully had put it so subtely, beyond bad. They´d gotten back to Washington only to be yelled at for nearly three hours, after which they had to fill in extensive reports, apologize to a hundred different people and then they were put on Skinner´s favorite torture: on a normal case. They´d been stuck with a pair of rookie agents who thought it charming to hit on Scully and mock Mulder. It had been a miracle they´d survived the first night of the stake out. It was a simple case, double murder, of two FBI agents undercover, it might have even been mildly tolerable if it hadn´t been for the two rookie agents.
Mulder was wondering if Skinner actually took some sort of perverse pleasure from punishing them like this when he heard a knock on the door which seemed all to familiar and all to similar to what he was sure, must be the fates mocking him. His eyes went to the door and there stood the two wonderfully young and un experienced agents. They both immediately made some bad joke about the basement and then started looking around the office, looking for Scully and making damn sure Mulder knew about it. Scully came back just at the moment when they were starting to make certain comments on certain themes involving certain people. Mulder was practically shaking with anger, about to explode and she would of found it amusing, had not all the comments been directed to her. She cleared her throat, the two young agents turned to look at her and turned, what they must have thought was, their most charming smiles on. She roled her eyes and headed to Mulder´s desk, making sure he was between them. At that moment the phone rang. Mulder hesitated to answer, he had a funny feeling he should just leave it alone. He was about too, but Scully decided otherwise, she leaned forward without stepping in front of him, and answered.
"Scully."
"Agent Scully? Do you remember me?"
"Yeah, of course...Dr. Pierce, from New York." Mulder turned in his chair to face Scully. She breifly noticed he was almost too close for comfort, but she didn´t move back, the other too were still leering and she´d rather have them believing some rumour than having to stand one more comment. She fell silent while Dr. Pierce finished speaking. She hung up and didn´t do anything to correct the distance between her and Mulder, he looked up at her expectantly. She weighed her options. They´d been punished enough already, chances were that any more bad behavior would not be repremanded so severly out of the fact that Skinner probably felt guilty about this punishment already. A smile started to form on her lips slowly, Mulder already new what she was thinking. She turned to the door, he followed. Mulder stopped briefly at the door and mumbled something about closing up to the other two agents in the office, then he disappeared, thanking the gods for their perfect timing. He got his cellphone out and started dialing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
Goren was not the happiest man at the moment. He was very conflicted about what he was doing. He had been trying to follow up on the case, but it wasn´t really going anywhere, and since they had been ordered to officially close the case, he couldn´t do much but wait for things to fall into place by themselves. As it turned out, just when he was about to close the file for the final time, Dr. Pierce called. It was highly suspicious, but then again, everything about the case was at the very least, mildly suspicious. That was just the things concerning the case, then there were the FBI agents.
Dr. Pierce had actually called them first. He didn´t know why, but he was a little annoyed at this, it wasn´t right. Why would he call the feds? It just didn´t make sense. In any case, both Goren and Eames had received a phone call from Agent Mulder shortly after Dr. Pierce hung up. Both agents were on their way to New York, Dr. Pierce had told them it was urgent he talk to them. Dr. Pierce had also asked both detectives to meet him, they had agreed to do so early the next morning, before Dr. Pierce started seeing patients. Goren went over the case over and over again, Dr. Pierce had to be involved, but he didn´t think he´d done anything illegal, not willingly anyway. Goren tried to figure out what was so annoying about this situation, he couldn´t decide. It wasn´t that both he and his partner were, techinically, going against direct orders; it wasn´t the fact that Agent Mulder was going to be back in town (if he was honest with himself, it was a big part of what annoyed him, but Goren felt something else, something Agent Mulder had nothing to do with); it wasn´t the fact hat Dr. Pierce had actually contacted them after getting back from his vacation...He just could not figure it out. He decided to try to put it in the back of his mind, for now, and just try to focus on Dr. Pierce.
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It was all going as planned. Dr. Pierce´s little "vacation" had really helped him to change his mind about Katya. After being reasoned with, Dr. Pierce agreed to help out.So far he´d kept his word, and they all expected he would continue to do so, seeing as how his family was being severly threatened. Things were finally turning around. Soon, Katya would be back were she belonged, and those meddling cops would learn their lesson. It would all turn out for the better. It might have of upset some people to actually plan and carry out the kidnapping of one detective and one federal agent, but not these people. They knew what they were doing was for the better good, and if they had to risk their lives then so be it.
Peter Sonns smiled as he stood outside Dr. Pierce´s building. All that was missing now was for everyone to show up. Katya would be the first, she would be easy to take. As long as she believed she was coming for her daughter, she would not be focusing on anything else. Dr. Pierce had already called her the day before, asking her to come to his office early in the morning. As a matter of fact, she should be showing up any minute. After she showed up it was all a matter of timing, she would go up, she would be taken and if the cops were as punctual as they seemed to be, not ten minutes later would they be standing in Dr. Pierce´s office, and then...Peter Sonns´ smile grew wider. He was a smart man, he´d been watching the cops ever since word got out there was a case being investigated. If there was one thing he´d learned, was that neither the feds nor the detectives would jeopardize the life of their partners, it didn´t matter who they took then, but they were hoping for both the women, just because of size, they had to be easier to handle. In any case, Peter Sonns was not trusting anything to chance, he had six men in the building, just waiting for them to come in so they could make their move. Once they had everything they came for, they could simply dissapear, wait enough time for Katya to do one last healing and then get her out of the country, after that, they could decide the best way to deal with the other two people they´d be holding. Peter Sonns didn´t worry about that, he´d done worse things in his life than kidnap a couple of adults, he would loose no sleep over their fates.
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Katya started worrying about Eli when he didn´t come back for what she guessed was several hours. She hadn´t said another word to either Eames or Scully after he´d left. She paced the room they were in and tried very hard to ignore the other two women in the room. She needed to think, she needed to find some way to actually get out of there alive. If they were caught, a lot of people would die. She knew this for a fact, she´d seen it happen once before. She did not intend on it happening again. She was getting desperate. She looked around, it was morning again, there was a little light coming in through the windows at the top, but her brother was nowhere to be seen. She was just about to sit back down when she heard something. It was someone, coming down the stairs, her heart stopped beating, she thought that maybe, just maybe...She took a step forward, then two, she stood near the door. It opened. On the other side of the door stood not Eli, but someone else, someone who smiled cruely at Katya and came at her quick. He pushed her against the wall and leaned on her. Two more men came in and took hold of Eames and Scully, pointing their guns at them, again. Katya was angry, but also confused. That was until she heard something. It was a voice, she strained to make out what they were saying, she couldn´t, but she did learn one thing. It was Agent Mulder speaking, and that could only mean that Detective Goren was there too. They had found them. Katya almost yelled but the man holding her down covered her mouth with his hand. She looked at him, recognized him, it was Tom. She looked away, he was enjoying this, a little too much.
Eames and Scully were both trying to put up a fight, but with their injuries it wasn´t really hard to stop them. Scully was simply pushed back against the wall, she couldn´t even stand on her own two feet let alone fight a grown man with a gun keeping her up against a wall; Eames could barely breathe properly, she couldn´t do much either. Katya was the real threat but she would be quiet as long as guns were being pointed at people. Tom smiled cruely at her and leaned in a little too close. She could feel the full weight of his body on her, he put his mouth close to her ear, she could feel him tense up. She tried to push him away but that only got her pinned up even more against the wall and Tom. She decided not to move, to simply stay still. It worked a bit, Tom didn´t do anything else, apparently if she didn´t fight him, he saw no need to push her.
Katya was desperate. So was Eames. So was Scully. They could all hear them now, their partners, their only hope. They were so close, but obviously not close enough. Seconds went by and turned into minutes and it all seemed like an eterninty. Everything was silent. There was a sound from above, someone was kicking at the window. Eames knew it was probably Goren, showing off his natural abilities to annoy people, especially suspects and those who knew more than they were letting on. Despite the fact that they were so close, it was clear they would not find them there. They eventually were led away by Peter Sonns himself, both Mulder´s and Goren´s voices faded into silence. Eames felt like she could break at any moment, Scully recognized the all to familiar sensation of the darkness swallowing all hope she ever had of being found, Katya thought of all she´d lost. None of them moved. The men backed off. They did nothing. It was hopeless.
A/N: OK, so this did take a long time. I´m busy with school and all, keep me up all night working on not-so-interesting-things...anyway, but I did finally get something in...almost over now actually so I will hurry things up. Promise.
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The next two weeks proved to be blissfully normal. No more strange cases and stranger fed´s, it was simple, crime, criminal and case. Eames was deliriously happy, although she obvisouly didn´t really show it. Inside she did feel a little guilty, Katya had been released and the warrant had been served, there was nothing unusual found and Katya was left alone, insisting that she had done nothing but there were people who should be put behind barrs. Her pleas had fallen on deaf ears with Eames, and Goren still believed she was the criminal so she didn´t even try to convince him. Still, there was a little bit of guilt stored inside Eames, for both her partner and the girl. She knew Goren hated leaving cases half way done, but there was nowhere else to go on this one; as for the girl, she hated to admit it to herself but she had almost believed her for a second. Almost, and just for a second. It was still enough though.
She looked up from her desk and saw her partner. She knew he was still following up on the girl, he couldn´t help it, and she knew he was probably working on something to do with her at the moment, no one could possibly buy Robert Goren being so involved in paper work. She didn´t say anything, against her better judgement. He would come around eventually, or come up with a brilliant solution and close the case, either which way she gave him space. She didn´t know it, but Goren actually appreciated it more than anything else.
She went back to her paperwork, still thinking about how good it was to be back to normal. She was just about done with the last report she had to hand in when her phone rang. She let it ring a few times before answering it, she didn´t know why but she had a funny feeling maybe she should just let it be. She shook the thought away and answered.
"Eames."
"Detective Eames."
She sighed, Goren´s eyes looked up from his work, "Agent Mulder." Goren´s head shot up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------
The last fifteen days had been a confusion of noise and movement, nothing really had seemed to make sense or even be tangible enough to be considered real. It was all a dream. That was her chant and it had kept her going so far. Katya leaned back on her chair and rubbed her eyes. The papers in front of her began to blurr. Suddenly, having gotten the teacher´s assitant job didn´t seem like such a great idea, she was tired, bored, still had plenty of work; on the other hand, she had no idea where her daughter was, her husband was still unconscious and Mr. and Mrs. Hovens, even thought they were home, were still suffering from the injuries. She felt like an entire building being supported by no more than a few matchsticks, old, very, very old matchsticks..maybe even used ones. She smiled dryly at her own metaphor, then decided to call it a day. She´d had enough, and she still needed to see about dinner. She put everything back in order at the desk and headed downstairs, when she got to the bottom she looked back up, she didn´t know why, but for the last few days she´d had a very uncomfortable feeling, like she was being watched, and she felt followed.
She shook off the feeling and went into the kitchen. Dinner was ready in about half an hour and she took it upstairs to the big study which had been transformed into a makeshift "everything-room" since that was where Mr. and Mrs. Hovens spent most of their time. They talked about things that were not too serious and they carefully avoided any subject that might lead them to Sean or Kaia, or even the detectives and FBI agents. Katya was still fuming over that. She hadn´t believed it when they´d left her cooped up in that cell for nearly seven hours, without a lawyer, then a warrant was served on her home and after nothing was found and the FBI agents (the only ones with whom she had a chance of being believed) had left, the detectives had simply shook hands with her, apologized and not meant it and gone on with their lives. They´d found nothing, so the case was just being left alone. This was always present in her thoughts, now if someone did try to find her, no one would care, no one would know. She was trying really hard not to entertain that thought when the phone rang. She answered it on the fourth ring, she got a feeling maybe she should just leave it alone.
"Hello."
"Katya?"
"Dr. Pierce..what is it?" Mr. and Mrs. Hovens heads shot up from their books as they heard her. She turned briefly to them, a look of panic in her eyes. She waited for another minute, hung up, and without another word, she simply ran to the door. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------
"Mulder, bad is putting it lightly."
Mulder turned in his chair to look at her partner. He held her eyes for a moment before looking back down at his desk, he took a deep breath. He knew it was his fault they were stuck where they were, but there was still a pretty powerful voice inside of him arguing that he had been right, that he usually was and this time with more reason. He heard his partner heading for the door, she said something to him which he didn´t really catch and she left. He almost went after her. Almost. He felt guilty, but being away from Scully actually allowed him to think about it.
He looked up at the ceiling, the panel hadn´t been replaced in some time and there were already so many holes it would be hard for another pencil to be stuck up there. He sighed, it wasn´t exactly pencils that occupied his mind at the moment. The last two weeks had been, as Scully had put it so subtely, beyond bad. They´d gotten back to Washington only to be yelled at for nearly three hours, after which they had to fill in extensive reports, apologize to a hundred different people and then they were put on Skinner´s favorite torture: on a normal case. They´d been stuck with a pair of rookie agents who thought it charming to hit on Scully and mock Mulder. It had been a miracle they´d survived the first night of the stake out. It was a simple case, double murder, of two FBI agents undercover, it might have even been mildly tolerable if it hadn´t been for the two rookie agents.
Mulder was wondering if Skinner actually took some sort of perverse pleasure from punishing them like this when he heard a knock on the door which seemed all to familiar and all to similar to what he was sure, must be the fates mocking him. His eyes went to the door and there stood the two wonderfully young and un experienced agents. They both immediately made some bad joke about the basement and then started looking around the office, looking for Scully and making damn sure Mulder knew about it. Scully came back just at the moment when they were starting to make certain comments on certain themes involving certain people. Mulder was practically shaking with anger, about to explode and she would of found it amusing, had not all the comments been directed to her. She cleared her throat, the two young agents turned to look at her and turned, what they must have thought was, their most charming smiles on. She roled her eyes and headed to Mulder´s desk, making sure he was between them. At that moment the phone rang. Mulder hesitated to answer, he had a funny feeling he should just leave it alone. He was about too, but Scully decided otherwise, she leaned forward without stepping in front of him, and answered.
"Scully."
"Agent Scully? Do you remember me?"
"Yeah, of course...Dr. Pierce, from New York." Mulder turned in his chair to face Scully. She breifly noticed he was almost too close for comfort, but she didn´t move back, the other too were still leering and she´d rather have them believing some rumour than having to stand one more comment. She fell silent while Dr. Pierce finished speaking. She hung up and didn´t do anything to correct the distance between her and Mulder, he looked up at her expectantly. She weighed her options. They´d been punished enough already, chances were that any more bad behavior would not be repremanded so severly out of the fact that Skinner probably felt guilty about this punishment already. A smile started to form on her lips slowly, Mulder already new what she was thinking. She turned to the door, he followed. Mulder stopped briefly at the door and mumbled something about closing up to the other two agents in the office, then he disappeared, thanking the gods for their perfect timing. He got his cellphone out and started dialing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
Goren was not the happiest man at the moment. He was very conflicted about what he was doing. He had been trying to follow up on the case, but it wasn´t really going anywhere, and since they had been ordered to officially close the case, he couldn´t do much but wait for things to fall into place by themselves. As it turned out, just when he was about to close the file for the final time, Dr. Pierce called. It was highly suspicious, but then again, everything about the case was at the very least, mildly suspicious. That was just the things concerning the case, then there were the FBI agents.
Dr. Pierce had actually called them first. He didn´t know why, but he was a little annoyed at this, it wasn´t right. Why would he call the feds? It just didn´t make sense. In any case, both Goren and Eames had received a phone call from Agent Mulder shortly after Dr. Pierce hung up. Both agents were on their way to New York, Dr. Pierce had told them it was urgent he talk to them. Dr. Pierce had also asked both detectives to meet him, they had agreed to do so early the next morning, before Dr. Pierce started seeing patients. Goren went over the case over and over again, Dr. Pierce had to be involved, but he didn´t think he´d done anything illegal, not willingly anyway. Goren tried to figure out what was so annoying about this situation, he couldn´t decide. It wasn´t that both he and his partner were, techinically, going against direct orders; it wasn´t the fact that Agent Mulder was going to be back in town (if he was honest with himself, it was a big part of what annoyed him, but Goren felt something else, something Agent Mulder had nothing to do with); it wasn´t the fact hat Dr. Pierce had actually contacted them after getting back from his vacation...He just could not figure it out. He decided to try to put it in the back of his mind, for now, and just try to focus on Dr. Pierce.
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It was all going as planned. Dr. Pierce´s little "vacation" had really helped him to change his mind about Katya. After being reasoned with, Dr. Pierce agreed to help out.So far he´d kept his word, and they all expected he would continue to do so, seeing as how his family was being severly threatened. Things were finally turning around. Soon, Katya would be back were she belonged, and those meddling cops would learn their lesson. It would all turn out for the better. It might have of upset some people to actually plan and carry out the kidnapping of one detective and one federal agent, but not these people. They knew what they were doing was for the better good, and if they had to risk their lives then so be it.
Peter Sonns smiled as he stood outside Dr. Pierce´s building. All that was missing now was for everyone to show up. Katya would be the first, she would be easy to take. As long as she believed she was coming for her daughter, she would not be focusing on anything else. Dr. Pierce had already called her the day before, asking her to come to his office early in the morning. As a matter of fact, she should be showing up any minute. After she showed up it was all a matter of timing, she would go up, she would be taken and if the cops were as punctual as they seemed to be, not ten minutes later would they be standing in Dr. Pierce´s office, and then...Peter Sonns´ smile grew wider. He was a smart man, he´d been watching the cops ever since word got out there was a case being investigated. If there was one thing he´d learned, was that neither the feds nor the detectives would jeopardize the life of their partners, it didn´t matter who they took then, but they were hoping for both the women, just because of size, they had to be easier to handle. In any case, Peter Sonns was not trusting anything to chance, he had six men in the building, just waiting for them to come in so they could make their move. Once they had everything they came for, they could simply dissapear, wait enough time for Katya to do one last healing and then get her out of the country, after that, they could decide the best way to deal with the other two people they´d be holding. Peter Sonns didn´t worry about that, he´d done worse things in his life than kidnap a couple of adults, he would loose no sleep over their fates.
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Katya started worrying about Eli when he didn´t come back for what she guessed was several hours. She hadn´t said another word to either Eames or Scully after he´d left. She paced the room they were in and tried very hard to ignore the other two women in the room. She needed to think, she needed to find some way to actually get out of there alive. If they were caught, a lot of people would die. She knew this for a fact, she´d seen it happen once before. She did not intend on it happening again. She was getting desperate. She looked around, it was morning again, there was a little light coming in through the windows at the top, but her brother was nowhere to be seen. She was just about to sit back down when she heard something. It was someone, coming down the stairs, her heart stopped beating, she thought that maybe, just maybe...She took a step forward, then two, she stood near the door. It opened. On the other side of the door stood not Eli, but someone else, someone who smiled cruely at Katya and came at her quick. He pushed her against the wall and leaned on her. Two more men came in and took hold of Eames and Scully, pointing their guns at them, again. Katya was angry, but also confused. That was until she heard something. It was a voice, she strained to make out what they were saying, she couldn´t, but she did learn one thing. It was Agent Mulder speaking, and that could only mean that Detective Goren was there too. They had found them. Katya almost yelled but the man holding her down covered her mouth with his hand. She looked at him, recognized him, it was Tom. She looked away, he was enjoying this, a little too much.
Eames and Scully were both trying to put up a fight, but with their injuries it wasn´t really hard to stop them. Scully was simply pushed back against the wall, she couldn´t even stand on her own two feet let alone fight a grown man with a gun keeping her up against a wall; Eames could barely breathe properly, she couldn´t do much either. Katya was the real threat but she would be quiet as long as guns were being pointed at people. Tom smiled cruely at her and leaned in a little too close. She could feel the full weight of his body on her, he put his mouth close to her ear, she could feel him tense up. She tried to push him away but that only got her pinned up even more against the wall and Tom. She decided not to move, to simply stay still. It worked a bit, Tom didn´t do anything else, apparently if she didn´t fight him, he saw no need to push her.
Katya was desperate. So was Eames. So was Scully. They could all hear them now, their partners, their only hope. They were so close, but obviously not close enough. Seconds went by and turned into minutes and it all seemed like an eterninty. Everything was silent. There was a sound from above, someone was kicking at the window. Eames knew it was probably Goren, showing off his natural abilities to annoy people, especially suspects and those who knew more than they were letting on. Despite the fact that they were so close, it was clear they would not find them there. They eventually were led away by Peter Sonns himself, both Mulder´s and Goren´s voices faded into silence. Eames felt like she could break at any moment, Scully recognized the all to familiar sensation of the darkness swallowing all hope she ever had of being found, Katya thought of all she´d lost. None of them moved. The men backed off. They did nothing. It was hopeless.