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Chapter 7 – The Legend
Reyes looked at Agent Jackman skeptically. She would believe almost anything, but she was not willing to believe that her friend and former roommate was responsible. She had known her long enough to know all of her secrets...well, the secrets Phoebe had had at that time, that is.
The only person remaining that believed Jackman was Mulder. Because of Mulder's motto, "Trust no one," he would be ready to believe that even the least likely suspect was responsible. From now on, anytime he was near the Halliwells, he would be on alert.
Reyes jumped when her cell phone rang. The noise had startled her out of her thoughts. "Hello," she said when she answered. "Hi, Phoebe." She could almost feel the tension in the room. "Really? Thanks. We'll be right over." When she hung up, Reyes didn't say anything. She didn't need to. Her colleagues were already ready.
The four agents told Jackman not to come. They feared that he would blow the situation out of proportion.
They left the office to go to Halliwell manor.
Darryl chose to stay behind, claiming to want to do some research. In reality, he wanted to call the sisters to warn them. He had to call Phoebe first. He had to warn her to be extra careful about what she said and how she acted. If she wasn't careful, she, as well as her sisters, would become a prime suspect.
He rushed over to the phone in his office. When he picked up the phone, he paused a moment when he realized that he and Jackman were currently the only two people in the station.
'That's weird,' he thought. He quickly dialed the number, and impatiently waited for one of the sisters to answer.
He looked up when he heard something. Jackman was standing right in front of him. His eyes had turned black.
Jackman forced Darryl to look him strait in the eyes, and, slowly, Darryl's eyes began to turn black.
"Hello...hello," Darryl heard Phoebe say over the phone. He gently hung up the phone.
"Hello...hello," Phoebe said when she answered the phone. She heard a soft click, and then she hung up. 'Must be a wrong number,' she thought.
She began pacing around the living room. After she had told her sisters everything that she had found, she decided that she would call the agents. However, she had hesitated. She didn't call right away, because she wasn't sure whether she should or not. So, after she arrived back at home from the college class, she called them.
She told them that she had some information that might help them, and that she would rather discuss it in person than over the phone. The truth was, she figured it would give her extra time to figure out what to tell them and what to leave out.
Phoebe hurried and answered the door when the doorbell rang. She led them into the living room, where she already had her laptop set up. She had gone on the website again, so that she could show them what she had found.
"You said that there is something important that you need to tell us?" Reyes asked.
"Yeah," Phoebe replied. "I was on the Internet the other day doing some research, and I came across this one website. On this website, there is a legend. According to this legend, something similar to this has happened before. In the early 1700s. The weird thing about it is that it sounds almost identical to what is happening now. The authors of the website say that they think that this legend predicted that this would happen."
"First off, what were you researching when you came across this website?" Doggett asked.
Knowing that there was no use in lying, Phoebe said, "I was doing research on the virus."
"Why would you be researching the virus?" Mulder asked.
"It's for an extra credit report in one of my class, in which we have been learning about the virus."
"Out of curiosity, what website did you find this on?" Scully inquired. She knew that Doggett and Reyes had already checked the Internet. They didn't find anything on a legend.
Phoebe went over to the laptop and showed them.
"Why am I not surprised?" Scully said when she saw what website it was.
Seeing Phoebe's confusion, Mulder said, "This is a website run by three of my friends. They call themselves the lone gunmen."
"Well," Reyes said. "It looks like we have a new source of information then." She looked over the legend.
According to the legend, a woman named Cassandra Wentworth stopped the spread of the virus. There supposedly was a demon that was responsible for the virus. It tried to turn the world evil. Cassandra Wentworth came in and stopped it. She put a curse on it, putting it in a "prison" until there was a more powerful force of good that could stop it once and for all. However, the legend didn't say who or what this force of good was.
After she finished looking over the legend, Reyes looked over at Phoebe. She was shocked when she saw that Phoebe was really nervous about something.
"Thank you for your help," Mulder said. Then, the four agents left. "I think Jackman was right."
"What are you talking about?" Scully asked. She wouldn't completely scratch the Halliwells off of the suspect list, but she definitely didn't find anything to pin on them.
"Didn't you see how nervous she was?"
"Yes," Reyes admitted, "but if she was behind this, why would she help us?"
Mulder sighed. "I don't know."
"Look, before we jump to any conclusions, why don't we call your friends, the lone gunmen," Doggett suggested.
Everyone nodded in agreement. The lone gunmen put the legend on their website. Therefore, they had to know more about it.
A/N: Well, there's chapter 7. I am so happy! Not only is this a three-day weekend, but I only have three more finals, and two and a half days 'till summer vacation!!! Yay!!! : ) Lol. Anyways, hope you liked the chapter.