Chapter Four

"Can we not get out of bed?" Alex said as she nuzzled closer to Olivia in her bed.

"Sure." Olivia answered without even opening her eyes.

"God Liv you are always the lazy one."

"You suggested it, I didn't." Olivia said as she got up and switched on the TV on the way to the bathroom.

For a while now, Olivia's life had been a smooth sailing. There weren't that many cases that swarmed her desk, making her feel good that the streets were getting safer for women and children, and she had enough time to spend with her beautiful girlfriend. It was as though Alex never left, as everyday the sun rose and she woke to her brightening smile. Sometimes she would think how she even lived without her, then Dana's face would flash and her smile would immediately fade away. Even though her heart knew better, her mind always pushed back those occasional flashes of the FBI Agent's face as no more than a bug, much like an unsolved case would have done to her.

"God! Tanya Chase was killed last night."

As soon as Olivia heard it, she ran to watch the TV.

"Did you know her?" Olivia asked after the reporter finished.

"Almost 20 years ago, when I was a freshman in college, at this camp that I volunteered for. Did you know her?"

"I think she was a member of Tara's Haven, I remember seeing TC the last time I was there." Olivia answered.

"Wow, she was gay? I didn't know that." Alex said taking her turn in the bathroom.

"Oh yeah, we are everywhere….we are just not out." Olivia stated without much of a thought.

"Well, no reason to be. I am in closet and I am more than happy to share it with you." Alex called from the bathroom.

Olivia didn't answer as she started to make coffee.

"Hey Liv?" Alex said her head popping out of the bathroom door. "You have don't have a problem with me not being out, right?"

"How can I have a problem, when I am not out myself? Anyway IN or OUT I love you nevertheless."

"I know why you are killing these people." Scully said once she was alone with AJ.

AJ didn't say a word or move as she glared at the group photograph put in front of her.

"Greg Henson, Tom Reed, Nicole Cassady, Damian Ray, Jack Reynold and now Tanya Chase." Scully recited the names from the file. "Not because they were straight, but because they were not. They were all gay people but they weren't out."

"I know what you are thinking, you think if all the gay people came out, then there would be less discrimination, and Kelly would not be dead. But, coming out should be people's personal choice, you can't force it on them." Scully said trying to reach to the woman.

"Killing people who are not OUT, is not going bring back Kelly or save any other woman like Kelly and you know it."

"Damn it AJ, I know you are angry but how much better are you than those men who raped Kelly and left her for dead?" Scully said getting more agitated by the young woman's silence. Scully wanted to say more, scream more, but she just didn't have anything else to say. She got up and was about to leave when barely audible voice stopped her.

"Who said I want to be better Dana... Who said I was better? You asked what use is it to try and bring the cowards out of the closets. At least then, maybe, maybe our voice would not be meek, when a woman like Kelly is beaten and raped to show her what a real man is about, then maybe it won't go unnoticed. Kelly always said, 'we are everywhere' and truth is we are, but no one is out. Everyone has their own fucking agenda to stay in. But, if they are out, just imagine Dana, maybe you don't have to go to the club, pretending to be undercover, right DS?" AJ said with a smile on her face.

Scully was shocked, but an explanation quickly kicked in. AJ had the ability to travel in the victim's body, she must have seen Scully that night, to know about the Tara's Haven's rule of only using initials. Rarely in her life had Scully ever denied who she was, but right then in front of the woman who punished the closeted ones with death, Scully found herself lying.

"You are wrong AJ; I was there just for investigation." Scully said putting herself on AJ's list as she walked out.

"I thank you so much for your time. You have to understand we have to clear every angle." Agent Reyes said as she got up to leave, right then she remembered Scully asking her about the face in the photograph. "One last question, do you know Agent Scully, Dana Scully?"

"No, I don't think so." ADA Alexander Cabot replied. "Why am I supposed to?"

"No, no. I'll leave now. Thank you once again for you time." Agent Reyes said as she exited the office.

As soon as she was gone Alex picked up the phone and dialed a number.

"Hey Agent Doggett, is Agent Scully there, I was trying her cell but there is no answer." Monica said on her phone.

"No, she is examining last night's MRI's with the doctors. Why is there something you need me to tell her?" Doggett asked.

"No, just let her know that everyone in the east coast is clear so I am headed to Chicago now." Agent Reyes said as she hailed the cab.

"Alex, I can't believe you just didn't tell the Agent the truth." Olivia screamed at her girlfriend.

"I just can't, not when I might be running for the DA. And now that I know that it might happen, you are here and I'll ask Cragen for a favor." Alex explained.

"Ok, don't go anywhere. I am sending police escorts for you to go home. I'll be there as soon as I can."

"Monica said what?" Scully asked unable to believe what she just heard.

"She said the east coast was clear and she was headed for Chicago."

Scully pulled her cell phone and immediately dialed Monica's number.

"Monica, what about, Alexandra Cabot?" She asked as soon as she heard a voice on the other end.

"She is straight." Monica replied calmly.

"No she is not. Where are you?"

"Oh Shit! I am already on the plane."

"I am going there right now, text me her address and any information you have on her. Then take the next plane back and meet me there."

"But Dana do you know how to stop AJ?"

"Yes." Scully said and looked at the two men in white coat standing on top of AJ, whose body lay still on a bed.

"You know you are nuts right." Olivia hadn't stopped screaming ever since she heard what Alex had done. "A Federal Officer comes to you, to warn you that you might be in a potential danger from a serial killer, and you outright lie to her."

Olivia couldn't still believe the stupidity of her girlfriend.

"Well, I am just not used to answering 'yes' when people ask me that, it's just out of habit I guess as I have been so defensive about it all my life." Alex tried to explain how the no had just come out as an automatic answer.

"Ok, fine, I forgive you for now, but if you even try to get out of my sight for even a fraction of a second, I'll never forgive you." Olivia warned.

"I don't intend to detective." Alex said as she opened her briefcase. "Any way, you should hear about the department she was from, the X-Files."

"Scully." The name escaped Olivia's lips before she could even stop it.

"Dana Scully, you know who she is?" Alex asked remembering the name Monica had asked her about. "Because, Agent Reyes asked me if I knew her."

"Agent Reyes?" Olivia asked surprised that it wasn't Scully who had visited Alex.

"Yes. Special Agent M. Reyes, X-Files." Alex said as she read the card Monica had left her.

"Oh! You know I have dealt with FBI in couple of my cases, and I had heard that Agent Scully was with X-Files she must have transferred." Olivia said covering her tracks.

Alex was about to ask more about Agent Scully when the phone rang and she picked it up. Upon hearing the caller, she simply Okayed whatever was asked.

"Well, I guess it's my lucky day." She said as she walked towards the door.

"Where do you think you are going?" Olivia asked.

"No where just opening the door…" Alex said opening the door and then waited for few second and as she saw the elevator door open right in front of her door she announced, "For Agent Dana Scully."