Episode 10 x 7
E. T. E.
*Note* I do not own any part of X-files, Chris Carter and 20th Century Fox
does.
Summary: Who is this mysterious Cleo? Is he really a friend or an enemy? Will he be able to save Mulder and Scully from the FBI and the Syndicate or is he working with them? Plus: Will Mulder get to ask the question or will they be separated forever?
2:25 pm November 27th Mulder & Scully's Apt Scully was completely out of it, she didn't even think about the fact that the FBI could not do this. She was totally mesmerized by what Mulder was saying when they were interrupted. "Was he going to ask what I thought he was? Oh my God I think he was! What could that smile possibly have meant?! We always get interrupted!!"
"You can't do this!" screamed Mulder to the cops as they handcuffed him.
"True." said a tall man in a suit with a croaky voice who paused to puff his cigarette, "But we are, obviously."
"YOU!" said Scully you suddenly woke from her daydreams as she saw the familiar face.
"You're dead!" said John.
"On the contrary I am quite alive." he said.
"Last time I saw you you were nearly dead!" said Mulder.
"But you died when they bombed the place!" said Monica.
"I guess I'm some sort of Houdini." said the Cigarette-Smoking-Man.
"So this is the Syndicate's doing!" Mulder said as they were pulled out of the room.
"You can't arrest me! What charges do you have on me?" yelled John.
"Aiding a criminal in escape from a military prison and further charges." said an arresting officer.
"Let the two hostages free." said C-S-M to one of the officers.
"Hostages?!" Mulder said angrily as he was pulled out of the apartment.
"Mr. Mulder you are under arrest for the kidnapping of Mrs. Scully, and her son." C-S-M said.
"He did no such thing!" yelled Mrs. Scully.
At this point the cops started to ignore their complaints and the FBI agent started to recite their rights. When he did this Mulder thought to himself, "That's only legal thing they did!"
Mulder and Scully were shoved into the same cop car and as soon as they were alone Mulder began to complain again, "He can't do this! The Syndicate must have control of the Canadian government! How can this be?"
"I don't know. Maybe the end is closer than we thought. Do you think that the Syndicate plans to take full control?" she responded.
"End?" he asked confused.
"The aliens are planning to come and infect the world with the black virus."
"Somehow it seems strange when I hear you say that."
"Why?" she said as she turned to look in his eyes.
"I don't know." he said taking her hand into his.
"What was it that you were going to ask me?" Scully said unable to wait any longer.
"Well. I was going to ask you if you would m-"
BANG! BANG! BANG!
"Damn it!" Scully accidentally said out loud.
Two three officers were shot down my a dozen men who had arrived to the scene. They were all dressed in camouflage with ski masks on and sunglasses. On their camouflage caps there were the letters "E.T.E." They surround the cops and shot them all down.
To Scully and Mulder's surprise the shot cops bled with a green bubbly liquid and melted away in a few minutes. The Cigarette-Smoking-Man panicked when he realized there was no escape. He race to the car and pulled Mulder out and put a gun to his head.
"Don't move or I'll shoot his brains out." he said in a quivering voice.
"What use is this? They probably want me to be shot." Mulder thought.
"Calm down Mr. Spencer you are free to go if you just release Mr. Mulder." said an average height brunette with dark shades. She wasn't dressed like the others of her group. She had nice black dress pants and a white blouse. She had quite a similar style to Scully's.
"No I believe that he is going with me. You just stay back and let me leave peacefully so that your friend here doesn't meet his end."
The E.T.E. soldiers were pointing their guns in his direction, but the woman ordered them to let him go. When he had shoved Mulder into another car and drove off they surrounded the only survivor, the FBI agent who had not been shot or attacked.
"Good work Agent Littell. This is the first successful E.T.E. undercover mission." said the women.
"Thank you Cleo." he said to her.
"Cleo?" Scully said confused, for she had been released from the car and was listening attentively.
Cleo didn't hear her and continued, "Well agents good work. Now it's back to Zion for us."
"These people are crazy." Scully thought to herself, instead she said, "Zion?"
"Oh sorry Ms. Scully." she said noticing her for the first time, "My name's Cleo."
She shook her hand in a friendly greeting and continued "I am the president of our organization, E.T.E. working against the Syndicate to prevent the spreading of the alien virus."
"E.T.E.?" Scully questioned.
"Extraterrestrial Elimination, Zion is our main base in New Mexico."
"Are you some kind of terrorists?"
"No." she said sounding insulted, "We are a group of top trained agents and soldiers working to protect those who support us."
"Sound like a bunch of nutcases." John said aloud quite accidentally.
Cleo ignored him as Scully continued to question her, "So what is your business with us?"
"We believe you have valuable information for the E.T.E. We also hoped that you would assist us."
"Assist you, why should we?" asked Monica.
Cleo didn't look at her, she had an annoying habit of acting like no one existed here but Scully. She continued "We believe that your son is in danger Ms. Scully."
"William?" she said anxiously.
"We believe that he is going to be targeted by the Syndicate."
"No!" she said as her heart dropped.
"Yes, that is why we must find him."
"But what does it matter to you if he dies or not?" asked Scully's mother.
"We believe that he is vital to the survival of the human race."
"But can you find him? Why do they want to kill him?" Scully said tears in her eyes.
"I'm afraid that there is no time to explain. I have to catch a flight to London to talk to a contact, and you and your family need to go to New Mexico with my agents. You, Agent Reyes and Agent Dogget you need to return to D.C as soon as possible."
"But what about Mulder?!" Scully said frustrated.
"I'm really sorry Scully but that matter is second to what is at hand."
7:11 pm November 28th Denver, Colorado
"You're not Cancer man!" Mulder said angrily.
"So is that the name that you gave me?" he said smiling. "And how are you so sure."
"You clearly are close to twenty years younger, and you're not half dead from the sickness you were suffering from."
"Well it's amazing what modern medicine can do now a days."
"That's bullshit!"
"I'd calm down Mr. Mulder. Do remember that I am holding a loaded gun to your head."
"You should know of all people that this is a familiar scene, and that I'm not scared of you one bit."
"Oh but I do know." he said pausing to look forward as he drove, " that there's someone you hold dear in my control."
"Are you talking about Scully? You know as well as I do that you have no control over those people who just took her captive."
"On the contrary Mr. Mulder I do. But your dear lover is not who I am speaking of."
"Who then?"
"It would be so awful for him to die at such a young age wouldn't it? Why he's only about three now is he."
"William! I swear to you you bastard if you hurt him I'll kill you with my own two hands."
"Yes I'm quite sure you would. That is why you will to as I say or I will shoot the kid myself."
"What could you possibly want from me?"
This is when the Cigarette-Smoking-Man stop the car on the side of the road and lowered the gun, "I need to know the true identity of your contact Cleo."
"I don't even know who he is!"
"Clearly you don't since Cleo is a woman."
"What?!"
"Yes, I believe I know why you are confused. The man who assisted you in that clever plan of yours was actually just an agent in the E.T.E. When the person we're after is Cleo the female president of the organization."
"You seem to know more about her than I do!"
"In actuality Mulder I know little about her. What I know about is this pathetic attempt of an organization that she leads. They're trying to stop this invasion when it is obviously inevitable."
"So what do you think I know about her?"
"Well you have been contacted by her over 57 times since your escape from military prison. We believe that you have met nearly four of her agents in the past three months. Two of which helped you with your money problems and paid for your bus ticket to Toronto and for a rented car. They planned this whole set up so that they could find me."
"So what do you think I know about her that you don't?"
"You no the location of Zion, the home base of the E.T.E."
"Oh do I? What do you think is going to force me to tell if I do?"
"The threat of death for your dear son."
"You can't even find him!"
"Oh so you do know something don't you! Well you're right we don't. But it's not him that is the hostage here is it?"
"What?" Mulder said not sure of where he was going with this.
"You are!"
5:53 am November 29th Painted Dessert, New Mexico
Scully yawned as she awoke when the car came to a halt. They had gotten on a plane in Toronto. Flew most of the night to Phoenix Airport in Arizona and had drove across the border to New Mexico through the desert. Scully had only just fallen asleep for she had thought constantly of Mulder and of William.
Her mother and her brother both awoke beside her. Her mother looked at her with a concerned face when she saw the dark circles under her eyes, and the tears on her face. They were then led from the car out into the desert that was still dark and cool and along a beaten sandy trail.
Scully was exhausted by the time they reached a huge jumble of rocks about a hundred yards wide and a couple dozen feet high, shortly after the sun rose nearly two hours later. Scully looked around her, the road had completely disappeared into a mirage of wavy water on the horizon and all around, except for the large mountain of rocks in front of them, were rocks of every shape and size and cactuses scattered around in the sand.
The two agents led them to a small cave entrance on the left side of the "mountain." About three yards into the cave there was a metal door blocking the entrance. One of the agents typed a password into a small computer screen on the side. Immediately the doors opened pulling themselves into either side of the rock.
Before they even stepped inside a man stepped out and greeted them, he had an Asian face but he didn't have any accent, "Hello Scullys welcome to Zion."
"These people really have issues." thought Scully to herself, "It's like were in some kind of freaky science fiction movie."
The man smile disappeared when he seemed to get to the point, "Miss. Scully I'm afraid that we have a problem."
"What kind of problem?" she asked as he lead them further into the cave.
"We have a hostage problem."
They entered into an underground building. If you had not seen the outside landscape you would have sworn it was the FBI headquarters or a similar agency. The long hall they were walking down was completely furnished, including pictures on the walls. Scully was utterly amazed when they walked into what seemed to be the main office at the end of the hall.
Everywhere were computers and large computers, and video camera screens and maps. If Mulder had been there he would have noticed that is was much like the place he had broken into when that military agent had supposedly died. In fact much of the equipment was modeled on the high tech equipment of that military facility and of the Syndicate.
The man pointed up to the large screen on the wall in the front of the room with a grave look on his face. Scully looked up to see the face of Mulder on the screen. His face was unshaven and he had a dark bruise around his eye.
"Is he alright?" Scully asked concerned.
"It's alright," said the man, "It's mostly to scare you. I'm sure they are keeping him alive and healthy. They need him to get to William."
"I don't believe you've told us your name." Mrs. Scully pointed out, who seemed to be quite off topic; she really didn't like this place.
"Yes, my name is Nathan Mathews. Anyway, Miss. Scully we need to find your son." "But why do you want to help me rescue Mulder?"
"Really all we are concerned about is your son. But we will help you with this matter with your assistance."
"Why the heck is Mulder always second to everything?" Scully thought. Of course she was concerned for William, she loved him as dearly as Mulder but she was getting pissed off. "What kind of assistance do you need?" she said rubbing her head with her fingers, she was getting a migraine from all this stress.
"We believe you, and Mulder are our best sources of information on the conspiracy that the Syndicate is involved with."
Her Mrs. Scully interrupted, she went to Scully and put an arm around her and said quite fiercely to Agent Mathews, "Can't you see that she too tired, we're all tired. We have been awake for nearly two days." Here she looked at Scully and continued, "I can't believe what she has had to go through in the past three years. Stop burdening her and give us somewhere to sleep."
He was quite silent for a moment and then said, "I'll have to check if we have proper housing available. Hey you there!" he said stopping a person walking briskly by, "Please find the Scullys a room."
Scully's mom came into her small room and sat down beside her. Scully was holding her head in her hands. Mrs. Scully placed a comforting hand on her daughters back. Scully turned so that her mother held her in her arms.
Scully began to cry uncontrollably, "I'm not strong enough for this!...Why?"
"I know you won't believe me but it's going to be okay."
"How can you be so sure Mom?"
"Because I have God, don't you believe anymore?" she said as Scully moved back and her mother took the cross on Scully's necklace in her hand, "Doesn't this mean anything to you anymore?"
"Mom I don't know what to believe anymore. You haven't seen what I have. Everything that has happened contradicts my beliefs. The science I based my life, my every judgment has disappeared."
At this point Scully had cried so much that she had no more energy left. Her Mom helped her into bad and tucked her in. Scully almost laughed, her mother hadn't done this in many years.
Scully tried to continue in a sleepy voice "Mulder he was going to ask. me.something." She smiled and before she could finish the next sentence she was asleep, "Mom he was going to ask me if I would ma-"
11:28 am November 30th Denver, Colorado
"Will I ever get to ask her the damn question?!" Mulder said aloud.
"And what question is this?" said Cancer Man.
"What do you think?" said Mulder angrily.
The Cancer Man took the ring that Mulder was playing with. He seemed to be annoyed with Mulder constantly starring at it, "What, were you nervous with asking her to marry you?"
Mulder actually laughed at this comment. It was funny how wrong he was. The last thing he was was nervous. He had been starring at it because it reminded him of the sparkle in her beautiful eyes. He could just imagine the smile on her face, when or if he did ever ask her.
*THE STORY DOESN'T END HERE!!!*
E. T. E.
*Note* I do not own any part of X-files, Chris Carter and 20th Century Fox
does.
Summary: Who is this mysterious Cleo? Is he really a friend or an enemy? Will he be able to save Mulder and Scully from the FBI and the Syndicate or is he working with them? Plus: Will Mulder get to ask the question or will they be separated forever?
2:25 pm November 27th Mulder & Scully's Apt Scully was completely out of it, she didn't even think about the fact that the FBI could not do this. She was totally mesmerized by what Mulder was saying when they were interrupted. "Was he going to ask what I thought he was? Oh my God I think he was! What could that smile possibly have meant?! We always get interrupted!!"
"You can't do this!" screamed Mulder to the cops as they handcuffed him.
"True." said a tall man in a suit with a croaky voice who paused to puff his cigarette, "But we are, obviously."
"YOU!" said Scully you suddenly woke from her daydreams as she saw the familiar face.
"You're dead!" said John.
"On the contrary I am quite alive." he said.
"Last time I saw you you were nearly dead!" said Mulder.
"But you died when they bombed the place!" said Monica.
"I guess I'm some sort of Houdini." said the Cigarette-Smoking-Man.
"So this is the Syndicate's doing!" Mulder said as they were pulled out of the room.
"You can't arrest me! What charges do you have on me?" yelled John.
"Aiding a criminal in escape from a military prison and further charges." said an arresting officer.
"Let the two hostages free." said C-S-M to one of the officers.
"Hostages?!" Mulder said angrily as he was pulled out of the apartment.
"Mr. Mulder you are under arrest for the kidnapping of Mrs. Scully, and her son." C-S-M said.
"He did no such thing!" yelled Mrs. Scully.
At this point the cops started to ignore their complaints and the FBI agent started to recite their rights. When he did this Mulder thought to himself, "That's only legal thing they did!"
Mulder and Scully were shoved into the same cop car and as soon as they were alone Mulder began to complain again, "He can't do this! The Syndicate must have control of the Canadian government! How can this be?"
"I don't know. Maybe the end is closer than we thought. Do you think that the Syndicate plans to take full control?" she responded.
"End?" he asked confused.
"The aliens are planning to come and infect the world with the black virus."
"Somehow it seems strange when I hear you say that."
"Why?" she said as she turned to look in his eyes.
"I don't know." he said taking her hand into his.
"What was it that you were going to ask me?" Scully said unable to wait any longer.
"Well. I was going to ask you if you would m-"
BANG! BANG! BANG!
"Damn it!" Scully accidentally said out loud.
Two three officers were shot down my a dozen men who had arrived to the scene. They were all dressed in camouflage with ski masks on and sunglasses. On their camouflage caps there were the letters "E.T.E." They surround the cops and shot them all down.
To Scully and Mulder's surprise the shot cops bled with a green bubbly liquid and melted away in a few minutes. The Cigarette-Smoking-Man panicked when he realized there was no escape. He race to the car and pulled Mulder out and put a gun to his head.
"Don't move or I'll shoot his brains out." he said in a quivering voice.
"What use is this? They probably want me to be shot." Mulder thought.
"Calm down Mr. Spencer you are free to go if you just release Mr. Mulder." said an average height brunette with dark shades. She wasn't dressed like the others of her group. She had nice black dress pants and a white blouse. She had quite a similar style to Scully's.
"No I believe that he is going with me. You just stay back and let me leave peacefully so that your friend here doesn't meet his end."
The E.T.E. soldiers were pointing their guns in his direction, but the woman ordered them to let him go. When he had shoved Mulder into another car and drove off they surrounded the only survivor, the FBI agent who had not been shot or attacked.
"Good work Agent Littell. This is the first successful E.T.E. undercover mission." said the women.
"Thank you Cleo." he said to her.
"Cleo?" Scully said confused, for she had been released from the car and was listening attentively.
Cleo didn't hear her and continued, "Well agents good work. Now it's back to Zion for us."
"These people are crazy." Scully thought to herself, instead she said, "Zion?"
"Oh sorry Ms. Scully." she said noticing her for the first time, "My name's Cleo."
She shook her hand in a friendly greeting and continued "I am the president of our organization, E.T.E. working against the Syndicate to prevent the spreading of the alien virus."
"E.T.E.?" Scully questioned.
"Extraterrestrial Elimination, Zion is our main base in New Mexico."
"Are you some kind of terrorists?"
"No." she said sounding insulted, "We are a group of top trained agents and soldiers working to protect those who support us."
"Sound like a bunch of nutcases." John said aloud quite accidentally.
Cleo ignored him as Scully continued to question her, "So what is your business with us?"
"We believe you have valuable information for the E.T.E. We also hoped that you would assist us."
"Assist you, why should we?" asked Monica.
Cleo didn't look at her, she had an annoying habit of acting like no one existed here but Scully. She continued "We believe that your son is in danger Ms. Scully."
"William?" she said anxiously.
"We believe that he is going to be targeted by the Syndicate."
"No!" she said as her heart dropped.
"Yes, that is why we must find him."
"But what does it matter to you if he dies or not?" asked Scully's mother.
"We believe that he is vital to the survival of the human race."
"But can you find him? Why do they want to kill him?" Scully said tears in her eyes.
"I'm afraid that there is no time to explain. I have to catch a flight to London to talk to a contact, and you and your family need to go to New Mexico with my agents. You, Agent Reyes and Agent Dogget you need to return to D.C as soon as possible."
"But what about Mulder?!" Scully said frustrated.
"I'm really sorry Scully but that matter is second to what is at hand."
7:11 pm November 28th Denver, Colorado
"You're not Cancer man!" Mulder said angrily.
"So is that the name that you gave me?" he said smiling. "And how are you so sure."
"You clearly are close to twenty years younger, and you're not half dead from the sickness you were suffering from."
"Well it's amazing what modern medicine can do now a days."
"That's bullshit!"
"I'd calm down Mr. Mulder. Do remember that I am holding a loaded gun to your head."
"You should know of all people that this is a familiar scene, and that I'm not scared of you one bit."
"Oh but I do know." he said pausing to look forward as he drove, " that there's someone you hold dear in my control."
"Are you talking about Scully? You know as well as I do that you have no control over those people who just took her captive."
"On the contrary Mr. Mulder I do. But your dear lover is not who I am speaking of."
"Who then?"
"It would be so awful for him to die at such a young age wouldn't it? Why he's only about three now is he."
"William! I swear to you you bastard if you hurt him I'll kill you with my own two hands."
"Yes I'm quite sure you would. That is why you will to as I say or I will shoot the kid myself."
"What could you possibly want from me?"
This is when the Cigarette-Smoking-Man stop the car on the side of the road and lowered the gun, "I need to know the true identity of your contact Cleo."
"I don't even know who he is!"
"Clearly you don't since Cleo is a woman."
"What?!"
"Yes, I believe I know why you are confused. The man who assisted you in that clever plan of yours was actually just an agent in the E.T.E. When the person we're after is Cleo the female president of the organization."
"You seem to know more about her than I do!"
"In actuality Mulder I know little about her. What I know about is this pathetic attempt of an organization that she leads. They're trying to stop this invasion when it is obviously inevitable."
"So what do you think I know about her?"
"Well you have been contacted by her over 57 times since your escape from military prison. We believe that you have met nearly four of her agents in the past three months. Two of which helped you with your money problems and paid for your bus ticket to Toronto and for a rented car. They planned this whole set up so that they could find me."
"So what do you think I know about her that you don't?"
"You no the location of Zion, the home base of the E.T.E."
"Oh do I? What do you think is going to force me to tell if I do?"
"The threat of death for your dear son."
"You can't even find him!"
"Oh so you do know something don't you! Well you're right we don't. But it's not him that is the hostage here is it?"
"What?" Mulder said not sure of where he was going with this.
"You are!"
5:53 am November 29th Painted Dessert, New Mexico
Scully yawned as she awoke when the car came to a halt. They had gotten on a plane in Toronto. Flew most of the night to Phoenix Airport in Arizona and had drove across the border to New Mexico through the desert. Scully had only just fallen asleep for she had thought constantly of Mulder and of William.
Her mother and her brother both awoke beside her. Her mother looked at her with a concerned face when she saw the dark circles under her eyes, and the tears on her face. They were then led from the car out into the desert that was still dark and cool and along a beaten sandy trail.
Scully was exhausted by the time they reached a huge jumble of rocks about a hundred yards wide and a couple dozen feet high, shortly after the sun rose nearly two hours later. Scully looked around her, the road had completely disappeared into a mirage of wavy water on the horizon and all around, except for the large mountain of rocks in front of them, were rocks of every shape and size and cactuses scattered around in the sand.
The two agents led them to a small cave entrance on the left side of the "mountain." About three yards into the cave there was a metal door blocking the entrance. One of the agents typed a password into a small computer screen on the side. Immediately the doors opened pulling themselves into either side of the rock.
Before they even stepped inside a man stepped out and greeted them, he had an Asian face but he didn't have any accent, "Hello Scullys welcome to Zion."
"These people really have issues." thought Scully to herself, "It's like were in some kind of freaky science fiction movie."
The man smile disappeared when he seemed to get to the point, "Miss. Scully I'm afraid that we have a problem."
"What kind of problem?" she asked as he lead them further into the cave.
"We have a hostage problem."
They entered into an underground building. If you had not seen the outside landscape you would have sworn it was the FBI headquarters or a similar agency. The long hall they were walking down was completely furnished, including pictures on the walls. Scully was utterly amazed when they walked into what seemed to be the main office at the end of the hall.
Everywhere were computers and large computers, and video camera screens and maps. If Mulder had been there he would have noticed that is was much like the place he had broken into when that military agent had supposedly died. In fact much of the equipment was modeled on the high tech equipment of that military facility and of the Syndicate.
The man pointed up to the large screen on the wall in the front of the room with a grave look on his face. Scully looked up to see the face of Mulder on the screen. His face was unshaven and he had a dark bruise around his eye.
"Is he alright?" Scully asked concerned.
"It's alright," said the man, "It's mostly to scare you. I'm sure they are keeping him alive and healthy. They need him to get to William."
"I don't believe you've told us your name." Mrs. Scully pointed out, who seemed to be quite off topic; she really didn't like this place.
"Yes, my name is Nathan Mathews. Anyway, Miss. Scully we need to find your son." "But why do you want to help me rescue Mulder?"
"Really all we are concerned about is your son. But we will help you with this matter with your assistance."
"Why the heck is Mulder always second to everything?" Scully thought. Of course she was concerned for William, she loved him as dearly as Mulder but she was getting pissed off. "What kind of assistance do you need?" she said rubbing her head with her fingers, she was getting a migraine from all this stress.
"We believe you, and Mulder are our best sources of information on the conspiracy that the Syndicate is involved with."
Her Mrs. Scully interrupted, she went to Scully and put an arm around her and said quite fiercely to Agent Mathews, "Can't you see that she too tired, we're all tired. We have been awake for nearly two days." Here she looked at Scully and continued, "I can't believe what she has had to go through in the past three years. Stop burdening her and give us somewhere to sleep."
He was quite silent for a moment and then said, "I'll have to check if we have proper housing available. Hey you there!" he said stopping a person walking briskly by, "Please find the Scullys a room."
Scully's mom came into her small room and sat down beside her. Scully was holding her head in her hands. Mrs. Scully placed a comforting hand on her daughters back. Scully turned so that her mother held her in her arms.
Scully began to cry uncontrollably, "I'm not strong enough for this!...Why?"
"I know you won't believe me but it's going to be okay."
"How can you be so sure Mom?"
"Because I have God, don't you believe anymore?" she said as Scully moved back and her mother took the cross on Scully's necklace in her hand, "Doesn't this mean anything to you anymore?"
"Mom I don't know what to believe anymore. You haven't seen what I have. Everything that has happened contradicts my beliefs. The science I based my life, my every judgment has disappeared."
At this point Scully had cried so much that she had no more energy left. Her Mom helped her into bad and tucked her in. Scully almost laughed, her mother hadn't done this in many years.
Scully tried to continue in a sleepy voice "Mulder he was going to ask. me.something." She smiled and before she could finish the next sentence she was asleep, "Mom he was going to ask me if I would ma-"
11:28 am November 30th Denver, Colorado
"Will I ever get to ask her the damn question?!" Mulder said aloud.
"And what question is this?" said Cancer Man.
"What do you think?" said Mulder angrily.
The Cancer Man took the ring that Mulder was playing with. He seemed to be annoyed with Mulder constantly starring at it, "What, were you nervous with asking her to marry you?"
Mulder actually laughed at this comment. It was funny how wrong he was. The last thing he was was nervous. He had been starring at it because it reminded him of the sparkle in her beautiful eyes. He could just imagine the smile on her face, when or if he did ever ask her.
*THE STORY DOESN'T END HERE!!!*