"Diana, you received my message I presume."
"Yes. It's not going to work."
"What?"
"This whole situation, it's all crap. Mulder won't help me."
"Well you have to make him help you."
"He doesn't want to anymore. He says, he says he doesn't trust me."
"Maybe he's a better judge of character than I thought."
Diana looked at the smoking man and began to get angry. She'd been in love with Mulder for so long, and now she'd ruined it for good. This time she couldn't talk him round, she couldn't convince him she was the one telling the truth. And it was all because of her. If Diana was going to have any chance of succeeding, Dana Scully had to go.
"He won't co-operate while he's with Scully."
"Ahh, Dana Scully. If only she knew how important she was to something she didn't even think was real."
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm not doing anything Diana. You should know by now that others do it all for me. I don't need to kill Scully when I have people working with me to get rid of anything that gets in my way. If that includes her then so be it."
"You're going to kill her?"
"No, you are."
"But..."
"I don't think you understand. You work with me now. Not Mulder, not the FBI, me. You do as I say or you pay the price."
Diana stood up from the table and headed out of the room. She didn't know what to do.
"When do you want it done?"
"As soon as possible. We aren't able to continue until Scully's out of the picture once and for all. Let me know when you have done your duty."
Diana left and went out to her car. She drove off not knowing where she was going or what she was going to do. After a lot of hard thinking, she made a decision. Not only was Scully in the way of smoking man, but she was preventing Mulder from being with Diana. She decided it would be better all round, if Scully were gone.
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"Well, Mulder if you're going to get this off your chest now is as good a time as any."
"Ok. Ok. A couple of weeks ago I got an anonymous phone call from a woman who said that she needed help from the FBI, that she needed help from me. She wouldn't identify herself, and it was only when I arranged to meet her that I knew it was her."
"Diana?"
"Yes. She was in a small abandoned high raise building, alone and looking ill and desperate. Even if I had wanted to I couldn't have left her there, not like that. So, we went to a motel out of town, I checked her in under a false name and paid for her to be there for two nights. We sat down afterwards and I finally got her to talk."
"And this is what you had to help her with?"
"Yeah."
"And she couldn't just come to you at the bureau?"
"No, she feared for her life."
"And you believed her?"
"Well at the time I had no reason not to."
"But you do now? Is that what you're saying?"
"Well I now see more logic in what you tried to get me to see for a long time Scully, there's a devil waiting in all of us."
"Did I say that?"
"Not exactly, but you doubted Diana, and I wish I'd have been such a good judge of character. It might have saved any of this from happening."
Scully stood up and wandered round. Mulder didn't know whether to continue or wait until she said something. He didn't want to push his luck; he'd done that enough already. He was lucky he had her with him then.
"So, you talked to her?"
"Yeah. She told me what had happened. That her death was staged by CSM, that he wanted her to help him in a new conspiracy after his group members and his son were disloyal to him, he felt he could trust her."
"Seems everyone wants to trust her. I wonder how she does it."
"CSM wanted to carry on preparing for colonisation, he still believed that the aliens would come back for their final abductions, and that he could restart the project he'd been on for over fifty years. But he needed Diana's help. He wanted her to get to me so that I'd give her all of my information on abductees and what we found out on the x-files."
"We?"
"Yeah, you and I Scully. CSM knew that we'd got so close we could almost see the touch line, so he wanted to get our input but without approaching us directly."
"Because he knew I'd kick his ass."
"Exactly. So he got Diana involved. She was his information machine, it all went through her back to him."
"And that's it?"
"Pretty much. I was trying to help her stop him to stop him getting his plans back on track. But I failed. I failed big time."
"You haven't failed Mulder."
She sat down beside him and held his hand again.
"We can still stop them. We've done it before we can do it again."
"But I don't know what this has to do with Krycek, or why the bounty hunter is here."
"Well, I'm gonna go home. And I'm gonna get some things together and we will finish this before it even has chance to begin."
"I don't want you to get hurt Scully, that's why I didn't tell you anything, CSM wants abductees, he wants them to be his test subjects again."
"Mulder I'll be fine. Remember what you said, you can protect me if I know everything, and I do now right?"
"Right."
"So. I trust you Mulder. Get some rest ok, I'll be back first thing in the morning."
Scully got up and left Mulder's apartment. She went to her car and felt relieved that she and Mulder were finally back on good terms even if it was with unlucky circumstances. She got in her car and drove off. As she turned around the corner she felt a chill and had a weird sensation. She pulled over and had a break. Then she felt it. Someone had a gun pressed to the side of her head.
"Don't move."
"Yes. It's not going to work."
"What?"
"This whole situation, it's all crap. Mulder won't help me."
"Well you have to make him help you."
"He doesn't want to anymore. He says, he says he doesn't trust me."
"Maybe he's a better judge of character than I thought."
Diana looked at the smoking man and began to get angry. She'd been in love with Mulder for so long, and now she'd ruined it for good. This time she couldn't talk him round, she couldn't convince him she was the one telling the truth. And it was all because of her. If Diana was going to have any chance of succeeding, Dana Scully had to go.
"He won't co-operate while he's with Scully."
"Ahh, Dana Scully. If only she knew how important she was to something she didn't even think was real."
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm not doing anything Diana. You should know by now that others do it all for me. I don't need to kill Scully when I have people working with me to get rid of anything that gets in my way. If that includes her then so be it."
"You're going to kill her?"
"No, you are."
"But..."
"I don't think you understand. You work with me now. Not Mulder, not the FBI, me. You do as I say or you pay the price."
Diana stood up from the table and headed out of the room. She didn't know what to do.
"When do you want it done?"
"As soon as possible. We aren't able to continue until Scully's out of the picture once and for all. Let me know when you have done your duty."
Diana left and went out to her car. She drove off not knowing where she was going or what she was going to do. After a lot of hard thinking, she made a decision. Not only was Scully in the way of smoking man, but she was preventing Mulder from being with Diana. She decided it would be better all round, if Scully were gone.
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"Well, Mulder if you're going to get this off your chest now is as good a time as any."
"Ok. Ok. A couple of weeks ago I got an anonymous phone call from a woman who said that she needed help from the FBI, that she needed help from me. She wouldn't identify herself, and it was only when I arranged to meet her that I knew it was her."
"Diana?"
"Yes. She was in a small abandoned high raise building, alone and looking ill and desperate. Even if I had wanted to I couldn't have left her there, not like that. So, we went to a motel out of town, I checked her in under a false name and paid for her to be there for two nights. We sat down afterwards and I finally got her to talk."
"And this is what you had to help her with?"
"Yeah."
"And she couldn't just come to you at the bureau?"
"No, she feared for her life."
"And you believed her?"
"Well at the time I had no reason not to."
"But you do now? Is that what you're saying?"
"Well I now see more logic in what you tried to get me to see for a long time Scully, there's a devil waiting in all of us."
"Did I say that?"
"Not exactly, but you doubted Diana, and I wish I'd have been such a good judge of character. It might have saved any of this from happening."
Scully stood up and wandered round. Mulder didn't know whether to continue or wait until she said something. He didn't want to push his luck; he'd done that enough already. He was lucky he had her with him then.
"So, you talked to her?"
"Yeah. She told me what had happened. That her death was staged by CSM, that he wanted her to help him in a new conspiracy after his group members and his son were disloyal to him, he felt he could trust her."
"Seems everyone wants to trust her. I wonder how she does it."
"CSM wanted to carry on preparing for colonisation, he still believed that the aliens would come back for their final abductions, and that he could restart the project he'd been on for over fifty years. But he needed Diana's help. He wanted her to get to me so that I'd give her all of my information on abductees and what we found out on the x-files."
"We?"
"Yeah, you and I Scully. CSM knew that we'd got so close we could almost see the touch line, so he wanted to get our input but without approaching us directly."
"Because he knew I'd kick his ass."
"Exactly. So he got Diana involved. She was his information machine, it all went through her back to him."
"And that's it?"
"Pretty much. I was trying to help her stop him to stop him getting his plans back on track. But I failed. I failed big time."
"You haven't failed Mulder."
She sat down beside him and held his hand again.
"We can still stop them. We've done it before we can do it again."
"But I don't know what this has to do with Krycek, or why the bounty hunter is here."
"Well, I'm gonna go home. And I'm gonna get some things together and we will finish this before it even has chance to begin."
"I don't want you to get hurt Scully, that's why I didn't tell you anything, CSM wants abductees, he wants them to be his test subjects again."
"Mulder I'll be fine. Remember what you said, you can protect me if I know everything, and I do now right?"
"Right."
"So. I trust you Mulder. Get some rest ok, I'll be back first thing in the morning."
Scully got up and left Mulder's apartment. She went to her car and felt relieved that she and Mulder were finally back on good terms even if it was with unlucky circumstances. She got in her car and drove off. As she turned around the corner she felt a chill and had a weird sensation. She pulled over and had a break. Then she felt it. Someone had a gun pressed to the side of her head.
"Don't move."