PART 12

"Mulder are you really sure about this?"

"Yeah Scully. Why?"

"I just don't want us to get involved in something that we don't need to be a part of."

"But we spoke about it Scully. We both agreed to fight back. I told you everything I knew and as a team we're going to stop them. It's the way it's meant to be Scully. I couldn't stop them before because I didn't have the power, but now I have you by my side. We can bring them down together."

Scully looked at Mulder and was determined to get him to change his mind. She was under orders to stop Mulder wanting to be with Scully and to force him into the direction of Diana.

"I just have a bad feeling about it. I think we may have been too quick to reach a decision last night, we were both tired. I really think we should sit and think about this."

"Scully are you ok?"

"I'm fine Mulder. I'm just scared that we may not escape this alive. We've been through so much, to carry this on now may end it for us completely."

"Are you still talking professionally? Or is there some other thing that this may end for us?"

"Mulder..."

"I know, I'm sorry. I should just stick to the job in hand."

Scully took hold of Mulders hand and stood close by him. She looked at him and tried the innocent look to convince him he was wrong.

"Mulder I care about you. And now my hand is in your hand, not a job. Please, lets just let this be. If things are going wrong anyway then CSM won't succeed whether we get in his way or not."

Mulder looked at Scully partly confused and frustrated, but partly besotted by her and her plea for him to call it a day. He couldn't find it in himself to make her unhappy. She was all he had. She was all he wanted.

"Ok, ok Scully. We won't go. We'll leave it to the powers that be and see what happens."

"Thank you Mulder. I gotta go."

"Where?"

"I er, I have to meet a repair man at my apartment."

"So that's why you're blowing me off this morning! A hot date with a man in a uniform."

"Mulder."

"Joke, Scully."

"I'll call you later."

"Ok, bye."

As Scully left Mulder's apartment, he was really considering not going after CSM and Diana, but part of him knew he couldn't just sit around waiting for the inevitable. He had to try, no matter what Scully said. He'd be back before she noticed he'd even gone. So as he cleared it with himself morally, the ABH was in a meeting with CSM getting him now how everything went.

With the ABH not used to having to be a woman, CSM was very happy with the results he'd now found himself with due to the meeting in Mulder's apartment. Now he believed more than ever that his plans would be a success, and that he would get the better of all that had deceived him in the past.