Chapter Seven.
Scully walked up to him, frisked him and grabbed a .38 special from his jacket and a knife in an ankle holster then sat him down on a chair against the wall, "Listen up. You're in so much trouble and you don't even have a clue. Now, this can go down in so many different ways, but only one will keep you from death row. So, did you want to keep playing games and being a smart ass or do you want to give a shot at cooperating for once?"
"You have nothing on me. You never have and you never will. So do what you gotta do. I'm not saying a thing. My lawyer will have me out before you can fill out your paperwork. Suffice it to say, it has been fun seeing you both again though." Krycek smiled and put his feet up on the table.
Reyes looked at Scully and they nodded for one of the uniformed officers to take Krycek away.
They followed him to the FBI headquarters and met Skinner outside the interrogation room.
Skinner handed Scully the file on Krycek, which was about three inches thick, then leaned against the wall and faced the two women, "So how do you want to play this?"
Scully flipped through the folder, then closed it and handed it to Reyes and looked back at Skinner, "Krycek is unaware that Matheson and the Salionov brother's have turned state's evidence so he thinks he's got all the cards and isn't worried a bit. I don't think he will say a word until he knows some of what he's up against."
"Well, Krycek is all about self preservation so I believe once he feels the walls closing in he is going to want to deal and that's when he should be willing to tell us where William is." Skinner added.
"I agree. Let's just start by mentioning the brothers and save Matheson for later." Scully then motioned towards Reyes and the two women both entered the room with Krycek sitting handcuffed to the chair across from them.
Scully smiled as she sat down and opened up Krycek's file and showed him the pictures of the Salionov brothers, "Here's two of your friends. They had a bit of trouble and got picked up and are actually waiting for transfer. They did finger you as their boss and gave very detailed statements about everything you had them do and many things they saw you do so you are in a lot of hot water."
Krycek's smirk had changed to a look of annoyance and anger in a very short time, "Look, those two are fools. They didn't work for me. I only knew them from other associates. I don't know what you think they can tell you but your not scaring me."
Reyes pulled out parts of the two men's statements and sat it in front of Krycek, "Well, perhaps reading a little of what they are saying might jog your memory a little. This is only a mere sample of what they have been telling us, and they are big on talking. Now, if you tell us where William is we might try and keep you from that very deadly needle bad men like you tend to get."
"Listen, if you want to see your son again Scully you had better release me now. There is nobody watching him at the moment. He's in a chamber to monitor his vitals but if I am not there to check on it every couple hours it will shut off. Now I think you know what that will mean to your son. So, enough games. I will take you to your son, but I am not spending one day in prison. Those are my terms. You don't have long to accept them either." Krycek's trademark smirk returned and he sat back in his chair feeling he had once again got the better of the FBI.
Scully motioned for Reyes to leave the room with her and they closed the door and looked right at Skinner, "We have to do this. If he's with us the whole time he can't escape. We can write up some deal and fill it with loopholes so we can back out. We do it all the time. I can't risk that he's telling the truth about William."
"Calm down Scully." Skinner said, putting his hand on Scully's shoulders, "This man is a compulsive liar. He will do whatever it takes to get an edge and then he will use it against us. I will have hour lawyers draw up some papers and see if he bites. He's a smart guy though. He will want his own lawyer to look them over. If he doesn't bite on a cooked up agreement we will be in a very big bind."
"I know this is a no win situation. I have no choice. He's the only one who can help me find my son. I have to play it his way. We'll be with him the whole time." she added in a somber tone. Just then, a light bulb went off in her head, "Wait! Krycek doesn't know about Matheson right, so can we convict him with Matheson's testimony alone? If so, we can give up the Salionov's testimony in return for helping us out. That might work."
Skinner's eyebrows raised at Scully's suggestion, "Well, I'd have to get our lawyers to look over all his testimony first, but it is possible. It might work. I'll go talk to them, you go tell Krycek were working on his release." and with that Skinner took off down the hall and disappeared around a corner.
Scully and Reyes went back into the room and calmly sat down with Krycek again.
Krycek was trying to read their faces but they weren't showing any emotion at all, "Oh come on, what's it gonna be ladies? You have no choice. I'm the only one with the code to open the chamber. You're not going to let your son die so quit stalling. Time's of the essence. I do not want your son to die either. So let's a move on."
"Hold on." Scully said loudly, "We have our people working on your release. You'll have to give us more than you have for us to let you go. The FBI can't put my wishes ahead of procedure. As much as I want to just let you go, I can't. So we need to know where we are going so we can have people ready to take care of William when we find him."
Krycek threw his head back and smiled out of frustration, "You don't get it. Still. William is part of something much bigger than you realize. Even after so much has happened in front of your eyes you refuse to grasp the scope of all this."
Reyes was not buying everything Krycek was trying to feed them, "Well, why don't you fill us in on this conspiracy. We have a bit time here. We're listening. Start talking."
"Okay, I will. Just enough to clue you in. William was created in part using alien DNA. You know this. You want to deny it because it's easier, but that is not the reality of the situation. Now, since the Roswell debacle there have been 7 species of aliens land on this planet. 4 in the USA, 2 in Moscow and one in the Pacific Ocean. Each of these species had different and very distinct DNA."
"You expect me to believe that 7 different species of aliens have landed on earth? I can almost see keeping one a secret all this time, but 7? Not even the best security in the world could keep a lid on something that big." Reyes questioned, still very skeptical about anything Krycek said.
"You don't have to believe. I can show you. William is being kept at a very high tech lab right here in this city. Alongside William, are 5 species of aliens. The DNA of each one has a completely different affect when mixed with human DNA. Now, we have been trying to find a way to create what you call the super soldiers, not for our own selfish needs, at least not to begin with, but to be ready for an alien invasion. Yes, I know it sounds far fetched, but the fact is these 7 species all lost spacecraft and their own kind here on earth when they were either shot down or crashed. We have reason to believe that at least two of the species have been searching for their lost ships. They are searching with a fleet of ships in tow. We're talking an armada of ships, the likes of which nobody on earth is ready for."
"This is a fascinating tale Krycek, but where's the proof of anything you say?" Scully asked bluntly, "You have a knack for lying, for manipulating. Your word means nothing. Even if all you said is true, it doesn't explain why you took my son, or why he was part of this at all."
"You were part of the whole human testing that my group was doing. You were a random choice. The fact you happen to be in the FBI was not a concern for the group I work with. When the time came to test the alien DNA, we always wanted to test on newborn babies. When we injected you, and the others with the alien DNA, it also caused the women to become sterile, therefore negating much of what we had planned. But, somehow you had a baby in spite of all the odds. This made your son incredibly special and important to us and to others who had even more severe uses for him in mind."
Scully was standing up, unsure of all that she was being told and not sure what to believe anymore, "Alright, William is special because he is the only child to be born with this so called alien DNA mixed with his human DNA?"
"That is correct. That gives us so much more to work with. Every other human that we tested with these different alien DNA's had very different reactions. The younger the person was when they were injected with alien DNA, the more chance they had to survive it. Anyone over 30 that we tried this on died within 5 years. Still, human babies were too weak to try this on and we then agreed that nobody under 6 years of age would be used for this procedure. William is the first and only child born with both human and alien DNA. This means he's a miracle in most every way. He's healthy. His vitals are strong, and he already possesses innate powers that will only get stronger in time."
"Oh my god. Do you even hear yourself? You're talking about people's lives. A young baby. And to you he's nothing more than a guinea pig to test, poke and prod. It's disgusting." Scully shot back at Krycek then turned away from him.
"I understand your reaction and I don't even blame you." Krycek said, sounding for just a moment like he could understand what Scully was feeling, "But, you were not there when we spotted these alien war ships on the prowl, millions of them. Literally. The size of most space shuttles. These are sophisticated ships. If they ever make it to earth nobody is safe, not your son, not you, not me, not anyone. We were trying to find a way to fight them off. No, it wasn't pretty, it wasn't moral, it wasn't ethical or legal. It simply was needed. Every major government in the world is working on this as we speak. The fact is red tape will always slow things down. Even big countries like the US, China, Russia, France or England want the same thing. We are just doing it faster because we don't have to play by any rules."
"That's right. You don't, and tell me something Krycek, why is it that your last bank records showed you had 22 million dollars to your name?" Scully asked with a sneer, "Don't tell me this is for anything more than money."
"What, you think research is cheap? Everything costs money. Even more so when it's done underground. Again, what you also fail to see is our group is not the only one after William. Believe it or not, many of these other groups are more ruthless than us and ONLY want William to sell to the highest bidder. You may not agree with anything we're doing and that's fine, but as hard as it is to believe, we are and will continue to work towards preparing the human race for what could be a very deadly invasion."
Just then, Skinner walked in with a lawyer, who handed Krycek a written statement to sign.
Krycek looked it over then put it back in front of the lawyer, "I need my own lawyer to check this out. It looks good to me, but I can't sign off on it until my lawyer tells me to."
Skinner gave Krycek a look of contempt, "We knew you'd say that. Don't worry, your lawyer is on his way and should be here momentarily."
Krycek smiled and sat back in his chair and waited.
Just as Skinner had said, Krycek's lawyer was ushered into the room in less then minutes. He sat down beside Krycek, looked at the agreement and then whispered something to Krycek who then asked for a pen and signed the paper. Skinner then escorted Krycek to the loading area where a large armor plated van pulled up and opened the side doors and Skinner and Krycek got inside.,
Scully and Reyes followed in their car and with Krycek's directions, they were soon at an old navy shipyard that appeared completely and totally abandoned. The van stopped a couple feet in front of a cement wall. Krycek got out, still handcuffed and in shackles and walked over to the wall and with 6 armed agents all around him pulled out a small device from his jacket pocket and pushed a couple buttons on it and soon the wall opened up barely enough for a large man to walk through.
Skinner led Krycek inside with Scully, Reyes and the heavily armed agents following closely behind. What they all saw was impossible to believe. It was like an underground hospital or research facility. Straight ahead was a very large glass covered storage container that held thousands upon thousands of vials. Each vial was a different size, shape and color. Further ahead were the first actual people working away at the countless mini labs throughout the place.
Krycek called out to one of the people working and told them to cooperate with the agents and they just went back to what they were doing, showing very little surprise at Krycek being escorted through the place in handcuffs. Even further inside were layer after layer of these very large coffin like metal boxes, stacked about 30 stories high with a rough estimate of over 100,000 lining the very long west wall.
Scully was looking around trying to find where her son might be and was getting impatient so she walked up to Krycek and grabbed him by the neck, "Look, it's time you showed us where William is. Take us there now!"
"We're almost there. It's through that door and to the left. There is a large mirror in the middle of the room. It's a two way mirror and if you didn't know it you would walk in and walk out and not see a thing."
"Fine, lead the way." Scully ordered then gave Krycek a push forward.
Krycek stumbled forward but kept on moving and soon was inside the room with the large mirror. He once again took out the device, pushed a couple buttons and the mirror parted in the middle and they all walked inside.
On the far wall was an incubation type chamber and Scully ran towards it with Reyes right behind her and she looked down and for the first time since this whole ordeal had started she was seeing her little boy.
Scully was so happy she was crying and she grabbed Reyes and hugged her tight and they looked down at William who was breathing just fine and smiling up at them with the cutest little grin.
Scully turned and walked right up to Krycek again, "You get him out of there and you do it now."
Krycek gave Scully a less than agreeable look, then let out a sigh, "Well, that's not so easy. You see, William is in need of constant monitoring now. So far, the alien DNA has caused no problems, but if something does happen, no hospital in the world will be able to treat him. We have all the medical knowledge in the world in this place and have been treating problems from alien DNA injections for over 50 years now. He's safer here."
Scully wasn't buying this story, "You know what, I don't believe you. I think William will be just fine, as long as you don't do anything else to him." "He might be okay. That's true. If everything goes like we anticipate his only side effects will be super strength, hearing, sight, brain capacity and many other wonderful things. I don't think you realize what all these powers do to people, even the best people. If not controlled, William will turn into a killing machine and he won't even know it."
"Why are you saying this?" Scully asked in disbelief, "He will have a mother that loves him. Friends that love him. Family that loves him. He will not be raised in some cage as an experiment. I won't let that happen to him."
"That might help. I hope it does. But the fact is, William is the first. We may know how others have reacted in the past but this is different. Everything he goes through needs to be recorded. He needs to be monitored daily. "Krycek added directly, "Whether you like it or not, William may be the only chance we have left."
"You're sick. You know that, sick. Do you even care that he's an innocent child, that you may have ruined his life permanently with all this crap? For what? For some perceived threat that hasn't happened for 50 years? There is no justification for what you did to me and millions of others and now to my son." Scully checked the vitals of William on the monitor and wanted so much just to pick him up and hold him in her arms, but in spite of her dislike for Krycek she couldn't disregard everything he'd just said without getting some medical people to confirm or deny what he was saying.
Skinner turned his cell phone on and called for a medical support team to be sent to this location, then put his phone back in his jacket and walked over to Scully, "Listen, you have your son now. We will find a way for you to take him home, to raise him like a normal healthy boy. You're not alone, okay?"
"Thanks. I know I'm not." Scully said softly and managed a slight smile for Skinner, "I just want to take him home and get him away from this madness. I just wonder if he'll ever be safe."
Monica reached out and put her hand over Scully's and smiled at her then turned and walked towards Krycek, "Why don't you just be a human for once in your life and let her son go?"
Krycek shook his head at Monica's question, "It's out of my hands now. The doctor's take care of him. Scully's the one who has to realize her son can do more good here than with her. Sad it may be, it's also 100% true."
Scully walked up to Krycek before she responded, "You really are a warped individual. He's just a little boy. Find another way to stop the big bad aliens." she walked away in disgust, but quickly turned around for one last comment, "You don't seem to listen to reason do you? You don't seem to be phased by threats. You will not touch my son again. You better get this message to your associates very soon. I don't have to tell you what the consequences are if anything happens to my son. You can look in my eyes and figure it out for yourself. I'm done here. As soon as I get medical clearance for my son I'm taking him home and will give him the life every child deserves."
Krycek was going to respond but thought better of this time. The medical team arrived and did some preliminary tests on William and after about a half hour of non stop evaluations they proclaimed him in perfect health and handed him over to Scully. Her eyes began to tear up as she held her son close to her chest, feeling his little heartbeat against her own and playing with his tiny little fingers as she touched his soft skin for the first time in so very long.
Reyes joined her in playing with William and the two of them walked slowly out of the underground complex, got in the car and drove back to Scully's house.
Skinner took Krycek into custody and informed if of Matheson's testimony that would put him away for a very long time and he was furious.
Krycek turned to Skinner as he was led away, "Scully's child is never going to be safe. We'll hunt him down until we find him and then continue our experiments. There's nothing you can do to stop this."
Skinner just gave him a look of disdain, and then looked at the officers who were escorting him away, "Get him out of here."
Back at Scully's house, Reyes was helping Scully pack and get ready for her relocation. Things were happening very fast and Scully had very little time to enjoy having her son back in her life, but she knew this was the only way to try and keep him safe and give him a relatively normal life.
The phone rang and Scully picked up, "Scully here."
"Hello special agent Scully. This is agent Mary Traverse of the relocation branch of the FBI. We are in the process of creating your new identity and giving you a new life. You will not know where you're going, but we do give you the option of the climate you'd prefer to live in. Do you want somewhere with seasonal weather much like here in DC or would you prefer somewhere that's hot all year round?"
Scully looked over at Monica and remembered her dream of being on a beach with her and that was all she needed to make up her mind, "I think I would want someplace warm all year round. So my little boy can be outside all the time and get a lot of fresh air."
"Alright, that's what we will arrange. One other thing, once you do this you will not be able to contact anyone at the FBI unless you believe your cover has been exposed. No phone calls. No visits. No contact period. Now, is it just you and your little boy or is there anyone special in your life you'd like to have included in this?"
Once again, Scully looked over at Monica playing with William and smiled, "Actually yes there is. Agent Reyes will be joining me."
"Okay then, we'll get to work on this and you will need to be ready by 9 PM tonight. That's when we will move and transport you to your new destination."
"Thank you. We'll be ready." she hung up the phone and strolled over to Monica and put her arm around her waist, "I didn't ask you if you wanted to come with us, but I was hoping you would be part of my new life."
"I can't think of anything I'd rather do than spend my life with you and that adorable little boy of yours. Count me in."
Scully leaned in and gave Reyes a soft kiss, then picked up William and held him in her arms thinking that finally things were going to get back to normal for her.
Deep in the Siberian Desert, 300 feet below the surface a similar, yet much larger medical facility was buzzing with workers, continuing the work of Krycek's group. Two men were standing over a small chamber talking.
"Listen, with Krycek in jail and our lab in DC exposed things are only going to get more tense around here. We have no idea if Krycek will talk, but knowing him he will do anything to save his own skin so we better be ready to move at a moment's notice."
The elderly man was puffing on a cigarette barely listening to what the other man was saying, "Don't tell me what we have to do Follmer. You're part of the reason were in this mess in the first place. Shoddy work you've done. You let that Reyes women figure you out. You did a pathetic job of hiding your identity and you can't find anyone who can be trusted to work for us. You know what, your brother was the smart one in your family and the only reason you're still alive. But, now that he's gone I see no reason to keep you around. Do you?"
Follmer started backing up nervously, "Wait, wait! Don't."
The cigarette smoking man took no mercy on Follmer and put two bullets into his head and he fell to the floor. Three men quickly stormed in, took his body away and cleaned up the blood.
When the excitement was over the cigarette smoking man sat down beside the small chamber and looked inside at a small baby boy, "Hello William, it's better this way. Your mommy doesn't need to know that the baby she has right now is a clone of you. Nope, we all got what we wanted didn't we?" he smiled as he puffed on his cigarette and watched little William sleep.
The End.
Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. Perhaps a follow up will be in order here. If there's enough interest I will continue on with Scully & Reyes living the good life until something alerts them that William may not be real after all.
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Scully walked up to him, frisked him and grabbed a .38 special from his jacket and a knife in an ankle holster then sat him down on a chair against the wall, "Listen up. You're in so much trouble and you don't even have a clue. Now, this can go down in so many different ways, but only one will keep you from death row. So, did you want to keep playing games and being a smart ass or do you want to give a shot at cooperating for once?"
"You have nothing on me. You never have and you never will. So do what you gotta do. I'm not saying a thing. My lawyer will have me out before you can fill out your paperwork. Suffice it to say, it has been fun seeing you both again though." Krycek smiled and put his feet up on the table.
Reyes looked at Scully and they nodded for one of the uniformed officers to take Krycek away.
They followed him to the FBI headquarters and met Skinner outside the interrogation room.
Skinner handed Scully the file on Krycek, which was about three inches thick, then leaned against the wall and faced the two women, "So how do you want to play this?"
Scully flipped through the folder, then closed it and handed it to Reyes and looked back at Skinner, "Krycek is unaware that Matheson and the Salionov brother's have turned state's evidence so he thinks he's got all the cards and isn't worried a bit. I don't think he will say a word until he knows some of what he's up against."
"Well, Krycek is all about self preservation so I believe once he feels the walls closing in he is going to want to deal and that's when he should be willing to tell us where William is." Skinner added.
"I agree. Let's just start by mentioning the brothers and save Matheson for later." Scully then motioned towards Reyes and the two women both entered the room with Krycek sitting handcuffed to the chair across from them.
Scully smiled as she sat down and opened up Krycek's file and showed him the pictures of the Salionov brothers, "Here's two of your friends. They had a bit of trouble and got picked up and are actually waiting for transfer. They did finger you as their boss and gave very detailed statements about everything you had them do and many things they saw you do so you are in a lot of hot water."
Krycek's smirk had changed to a look of annoyance and anger in a very short time, "Look, those two are fools. They didn't work for me. I only knew them from other associates. I don't know what you think they can tell you but your not scaring me."
Reyes pulled out parts of the two men's statements and sat it in front of Krycek, "Well, perhaps reading a little of what they are saying might jog your memory a little. This is only a mere sample of what they have been telling us, and they are big on talking. Now, if you tell us where William is we might try and keep you from that very deadly needle bad men like you tend to get."
"Listen, if you want to see your son again Scully you had better release me now. There is nobody watching him at the moment. He's in a chamber to monitor his vitals but if I am not there to check on it every couple hours it will shut off. Now I think you know what that will mean to your son. So, enough games. I will take you to your son, but I am not spending one day in prison. Those are my terms. You don't have long to accept them either." Krycek's trademark smirk returned and he sat back in his chair feeling he had once again got the better of the FBI.
Scully motioned for Reyes to leave the room with her and they closed the door and looked right at Skinner, "We have to do this. If he's with us the whole time he can't escape. We can write up some deal and fill it with loopholes so we can back out. We do it all the time. I can't risk that he's telling the truth about William."
"Calm down Scully." Skinner said, putting his hand on Scully's shoulders, "This man is a compulsive liar. He will do whatever it takes to get an edge and then he will use it against us. I will have hour lawyers draw up some papers and see if he bites. He's a smart guy though. He will want his own lawyer to look them over. If he doesn't bite on a cooked up agreement we will be in a very big bind."
"I know this is a no win situation. I have no choice. He's the only one who can help me find my son. I have to play it his way. We'll be with him the whole time." she added in a somber tone. Just then, a light bulb went off in her head, "Wait! Krycek doesn't know about Matheson right, so can we convict him with Matheson's testimony alone? If so, we can give up the Salionov's testimony in return for helping us out. That might work."
Skinner's eyebrows raised at Scully's suggestion, "Well, I'd have to get our lawyers to look over all his testimony first, but it is possible. It might work. I'll go talk to them, you go tell Krycek were working on his release." and with that Skinner took off down the hall and disappeared around a corner.
Scully and Reyes went back into the room and calmly sat down with Krycek again.
Krycek was trying to read their faces but they weren't showing any emotion at all, "Oh come on, what's it gonna be ladies? You have no choice. I'm the only one with the code to open the chamber. You're not going to let your son die so quit stalling. Time's of the essence. I do not want your son to die either. So let's a move on."
"Hold on." Scully said loudly, "We have our people working on your release. You'll have to give us more than you have for us to let you go. The FBI can't put my wishes ahead of procedure. As much as I want to just let you go, I can't. So we need to know where we are going so we can have people ready to take care of William when we find him."
Krycek threw his head back and smiled out of frustration, "You don't get it. Still. William is part of something much bigger than you realize. Even after so much has happened in front of your eyes you refuse to grasp the scope of all this."
Reyes was not buying everything Krycek was trying to feed them, "Well, why don't you fill us in on this conspiracy. We have a bit time here. We're listening. Start talking."
"Okay, I will. Just enough to clue you in. William was created in part using alien DNA. You know this. You want to deny it because it's easier, but that is not the reality of the situation. Now, since the Roswell debacle there have been 7 species of aliens land on this planet. 4 in the USA, 2 in Moscow and one in the Pacific Ocean. Each of these species had different and very distinct DNA."
"You expect me to believe that 7 different species of aliens have landed on earth? I can almost see keeping one a secret all this time, but 7? Not even the best security in the world could keep a lid on something that big." Reyes questioned, still very skeptical about anything Krycek said.
"You don't have to believe. I can show you. William is being kept at a very high tech lab right here in this city. Alongside William, are 5 species of aliens. The DNA of each one has a completely different affect when mixed with human DNA. Now, we have been trying to find a way to create what you call the super soldiers, not for our own selfish needs, at least not to begin with, but to be ready for an alien invasion. Yes, I know it sounds far fetched, but the fact is these 7 species all lost spacecraft and their own kind here on earth when they were either shot down or crashed. We have reason to believe that at least two of the species have been searching for their lost ships. They are searching with a fleet of ships in tow. We're talking an armada of ships, the likes of which nobody on earth is ready for."
"This is a fascinating tale Krycek, but where's the proof of anything you say?" Scully asked bluntly, "You have a knack for lying, for manipulating. Your word means nothing. Even if all you said is true, it doesn't explain why you took my son, or why he was part of this at all."
"You were part of the whole human testing that my group was doing. You were a random choice. The fact you happen to be in the FBI was not a concern for the group I work with. When the time came to test the alien DNA, we always wanted to test on newborn babies. When we injected you, and the others with the alien DNA, it also caused the women to become sterile, therefore negating much of what we had planned. But, somehow you had a baby in spite of all the odds. This made your son incredibly special and important to us and to others who had even more severe uses for him in mind."
Scully was standing up, unsure of all that she was being told and not sure what to believe anymore, "Alright, William is special because he is the only child to be born with this so called alien DNA mixed with his human DNA?"
"That is correct. That gives us so much more to work with. Every other human that we tested with these different alien DNA's had very different reactions. The younger the person was when they were injected with alien DNA, the more chance they had to survive it. Anyone over 30 that we tried this on died within 5 years. Still, human babies were too weak to try this on and we then agreed that nobody under 6 years of age would be used for this procedure. William is the first and only child born with both human and alien DNA. This means he's a miracle in most every way. He's healthy. His vitals are strong, and he already possesses innate powers that will only get stronger in time."
"Oh my god. Do you even hear yourself? You're talking about people's lives. A young baby. And to you he's nothing more than a guinea pig to test, poke and prod. It's disgusting." Scully shot back at Krycek then turned away from him.
"I understand your reaction and I don't even blame you." Krycek said, sounding for just a moment like he could understand what Scully was feeling, "But, you were not there when we spotted these alien war ships on the prowl, millions of them. Literally. The size of most space shuttles. These are sophisticated ships. If they ever make it to earth nobody is safe, not your son, not you, not me, not anyone. We were trying to find a way to fight them off. No, it wasn't pretty, it wasn't moral, it wasn't ethical or legal. It simply was needed. Every major government in the world is working on this as we speak. The fact is red tape will always slow things down. Even big countries like the US, China, Russia, France or England want the same thing. We are just doing it faster because we don't have to play by any rules."
"That's right. You don't, and tell me something Krycek, why is it that your last bank records showed you had 22 million dollars to your name?" Scully asked with a sneer, "Don't tell me this is for anything more than money."
"What, you think research is cheap? Everything costs money. Even more so when it's done underground. Again, what you also fail to see is our group is not the only one after William. Believe it or not, many of these other groups are more ruthless than us and ONLY want William to sell to the highest bidder. You may not agree with anything we're doing and that's fine, but as hard as it is to believe, we are and will continue to work towards preparing the human race for what could be a very deadly invasion."
Just then, Skinner walked in with a lawyer, who handed Krycek a written statement to sign.
Krycek looked it over then put it back in front of the lawyer, "I need my own lawyer to check this out. It looks good to me, but I can't sign off on it until my lawyer tells me to."
Skinner gave Krycek a look of contempt, "We knew you'd say that. Don't worry, your lawyer is on his way and should be here momentarily."
Krycek smiled and sat back in his chair and waited.
Just as Skinner had said, Krycek's lawyer was ushered into the room in less then minutes. He sat down beside Krycek, looked at the agreement and then whispered something to Krycek who then asked for a pen and signed the paper. Skinner then escorted Krycek to the loading area where a large armor plated van pulled up and opened the side doors and Skinner and Krycek got inside.,
Scully and Reyes followed in their car and with Krycek's directions, they were soon at an old navy shipyard that appeared completely and totally abandoned. The van stopped a couple feet in front of a cement wall. Krycek got out, still handcuffed and in shackles and walked over to the wall and with 6 armed agents all around him pulled out a small device from his jacket pocket and pushed a couple buttons on it and soon the wall opened up barely enough for a large man to walk through.
Skinner led Krycek inside with Scully, Reyes and the heavily armed agents following closely behind. What they all saw was impossible to believe. It was like an underground hospital or research facility. Straight ahead was a very large glass covered storage container that held thousands upon thousands of vials. Each vial was a different size, shape and color. Further ahead were the first actual people working away at the countless mini labs throughout the place.
Krycek called out to one of the people working and told them to cooperate with the agents and they just went back to what they were doing, showing very little surprise at Krycek being escorted through the place in handcuffs. Even further inside were layer after layer of these very large coffin like metal boxes, stacked about 30 stories high with a rough estimate of over 100,000 lining the very long west wall.
Scully was looking around trying to find where her son might be and was getting impatient so she walked up to Krycek and grabbed him by the neck, "Look, it's time you showed us where William is. Take us there now!"
"We're almost there. It's through that door and to the left. There is a large mirror in the middle of the room. It's a two way mirror and if you didn't know it you would walk in and walk out and not see a thing."
"Fine, lead the way." Scully ordered then gave Krycek a push forward.
Krycek stumbled forward but kept on moving and soon was inside the room with the large mirror. He once again took out the device, pushed a couple buttons and the mirror parted in the middle and they all walked inside.
On the far wall was an incubation type chamber and Scully ran towards it with Reyes right behind her and she looked down and for the first time since this whole ordeal had started she was seeing her little boy.
Scully was so happy she was crying and she grabbed Reyes and hugged her tight and they looked down at William who was breathing just fine and smiling up at them with the cutest little grin.
Scully turned and walked right up to Krycek again, "You get him out of there and you do it now."
Krycek gave Scully a less than agreeable look, then let out a sigh, "Well, that's not so easy. You see, William is in need of constant monitoring now. So far, the alien DNA has caused no problems, but if something does happen, no hospital in the world will be able to treat him. We have all the medical knowledge in the world in this place and have been treating problems from alien DNA injections for over 50 years now. He's safer here."
Scully wasn't buying this story, "You know what, I don't believe you. I think William will be just fine, as long as you don't do anything else to him." "He might be okay. That's true. If everything goes like we anticipate his only side effects will be super strength, hearing, sight, brain capacity and many other wonderful things. I don't think you realize what all these powers do to people, even the best people. If not controlled, William will turn into a killing machine and he won't even know it."
"Why are you saying this?" Scully asked in disbelief, "He will have a mother that loves him. Friends that love him. Family that loves him. He will not be raised in some cage as an experiment. I won't let that happen to him."
"That might help. I hope it does. But the fact is, William is the first. We may know how others have reacted in the past but this is different. Everything he goes through needs to be recorded. He needs to be monitored daily. "Krycek added directly, "Whether you like it or not, William may be the only chance we have left."
"You're sick. You know that, sick. Do you even care that he's an innocent child, that you may have ruined his life permanently with all this crap? For what? For some perceived threat that hasn't happened for 50 years? There is no justification for what you did to me and millions of others and now to my son." Scully checked the vitals of William on the monitor and wanted so much just to pick him up and hold him in her arms, but in spite of her dislike for Krycek she couldn't disregard everything he'd just said without getting some medical people to confirm or deny what he was saying.
Skinner turned his cell phone on and called for a medical support team to be sent to this location, then put his phone back in his jacket and walked over to Scully, "Listen, you have your son now. We will find a way for you to take him home, to raise him like a normal healthy boy. You're not alone, okay?"
"Thanks. I know I'm not." Scully said softly and managed a slight smile for Skinner, "I just want to take him home and get him away from this madness. I just wonder if he'll ever be safe."
Monica reached out and put her hand over Scully's and smiled at her then turned and walked towards Krycek, "Why don't you just be a human for once in your life and let her son go?"
Krycek shook his head at Monica's question, "It's out of my hands now. The doctor's take care of him. Scully's the one who has to realize her son can do more good here than with her. Sad it may be, it's also 100% true."
Scully walked up to Krycek before she responded, "You really are a warped individual. He's just a little boy. Find another way to stop the big bad aliens." she walked away in disgust, but quickly turned around for one last comment, "You don't seem to listen to reason do you? You don't seem to be phased by threats. You will not touch my son again. You better get this message to your associates very soon. I don't have to tell you what the consequences are if anything happens to my son. You can look in my eyes and figure it out for yourself. I'm done here. As soon as I get medical clearance for my son I'm taking him home and will give him the life every child deserves."
Krycek was going to respond but thought better of this time. The medical team arrived and did some preliminary tests on William and after about a half hour of non stop evaluations they proclaimed him in perfect health and handed him over to Scully. Her eyes began to tear up as she held her son close to her chest, feeling his little heartbeat against her own and playing with his tiny little fingers as she touched his soft skin for the first time in so very long.
Reyes joined her in playing with William and the two of them walked slowly out of the underground complex, got in the car and drove back to Scully's house.
Skinner took Krycek into custody and informed if of Matheson's testimony that would put him away for a very long time and he was furious.
Krycek turned to Skinner as he was led away, "Scully's child is never going to be safe. We'll hunt him down until we find him and then continue our experiments. There's nothing you can do to stop this."
Skinner just gave him a look of disdain, and then looked at the officers who were escorting him away, "Get him out of here."
Back at Scully's house, Reyes was helping Scully pack and get ready for her relocation. Things were happening very fast and Scully had very little time to enjoy having her son back in her life, but she knew this was the only way to try and keep him safe and give him a relatively normal life.
The phone rang and Scully picked up, "Scully here."
"Hello special agent Scully. This is agent Mary Traverse of the relocation branch of the FBI. We are in the process of creating your new identity and giving you a new life. You will not know where you're going, but we do give you the option of the climate you'd prefer to live in. Do you want somewhere with seasonal weather much like here in DC or would you prefer somewhere that's hot all year round?"
Scully looked over at Monica and remembered her dream of being on a beach with her and that was all she needed to make up her mind, "I think I would want someplace warm all year round. So my little boy can be outside all the time and get a lot of fresh air."
"Alright, that's what we will arrange. One other thing, once you do this you will not be able to contact anyone at the FBI unless you believe your cover has been exposed. No phone calls. No visits. No contact period. Now, is it just you and your little boy or is there anyone special in your life you'd like to have included in this?"
Once again, Scully looked over at Monica playing with William and smiled, "Actually yes there is. Agent Reyes will be joining me."
"Okay then, we'll get to work on this and you will need to be ready by 9 PM tonight. That's when we will move and transport you to your new destination."
"Thank you. We'll be ready." she hung up the phone and strolled over to Monica and put her arm around her waist, "I didn't ask you if you wanted to come with us, but I was hoping you would be part of my new life."
"I can't think of anything I'd rather do than spend my life with you and that adorable little boy of yours. Count me in."
Scully leaned in and gave Reyes a soft kiss, then picked up William and held him in her arms thinking that finally things were going to get back to normal for her.
Deep in the Siberian Desert, 300 feet below the surface a similar, yet much larger medical facility was buzzing with workers, continuing the work of Krycek's group. Two men were standing over a small chamber talking.
"Listen, with Krycek in jail and our lab in DC exposed things are only going to get more tense around here. We have no idea if Krycek will talk, but knowing him he will do anything to save his own skin so we better be ready to move at a moment's notice."
The elderly man was puffing on a cigarette barely listening to what the other man was saying, "Don't tell me what we have to do Follmer. You're part of the reason were in this mess in the first place. Shoddy work you've done. You let that Reyes women figure you out. You did a pathetic job of hiding your identity and you can't find anyone who can be trusted to work for us. You know what, your brother was the smart one in your family and the only reason you're still alive. But, now that he's gone I see no reason to keep you around. Do you?"
Follmer started backing up nervously, "Wait, wait! Don't."
The cigarette smoking man took no mercy on Follmer and put two bullets into his head and he fell to the floor. Three men quickly stormed in, took his body away and cleaned up the blood.
When the excitement was over the cigarette smoking man sat down beside the small chamber and looked inside at a small baby boy, "Hello William, it's better this way. Your mommy doesn't need to know that the baby she has right now is a clone of you. Nope, we all got what we wanted didn't we?" he smiled as he puffed on his cigarette and watched little William sleep.
The End.
Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. Perhaps a follow up will be in order here. If there's enough interest I will continue on with Scully & Reyes living the good life until something alerts them that William may not be real after all.
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