PART 14
"Alex, you're doing well, I must have had an effect on you when you were working for me."
"Don't be too self sure old man. I have always been capable of more without you."
CSM stood directly in front of Scully and looked at her as he spoke to Krycek.
"Maybe so, but I think that I should make it clear, you would never have gotten to Agent Scully were it not for my help."
"That may be so, but I got her here none the less. I was able to keep Mulder out of the way."
"Mulder thinks that Scully is taking a break with her mother."
"What! You bd! What the hell have you told him!"
"Agent Scully I so rarely see you upset like this. How can I ease your worry?"
"Let me go you son of a bh. I have no idea what the hell is going on and I don't wish to. Let me go and you might escape this unharmed."
"Agent Scully I think you've missed the point..."
"NO, you have. Mulder may not know where I am right now. But he will and he'll find us, he'll know what you're planning and he'll stop you before you get even close. The point is you've never won before, and you sure as hell are not going to win now."
"Well, we'll just have to wait and see. Why don't we take a small ride in my car? I have
somewhere for the three of us to stay."
Krycek looked at CSM and frowned.
"Three? You're telling Diana about this?"
"No you fool! You are joining Agent Scully and I for the final stages of the procedure."
Scully looked at CSM and shock her head in disbelief.
"Gees, Diana doesn't know what you're doing? I thought she was your new partner in crime."
"You should hear me now and remember what I say Agent Scully. Diana is with Mulder, no doubt getting what she's wanted for so long..."
"He wouldn't!"
"Wouldn't what Agent Scully?"
Scully blushed and gave CSM a hard stare full of hate and anger.
"He wouldn't trust her."
"Maybe, but she is very persuasive. As I have you here for my plans, she will be getting the adequate information from Mulder. We will then meet up and put the two together. So we can win. Believe it or not, if Diana knew that you were going to be killed she wouldn't be completely happy. Maybe a little. But she knows that if you were to die Mulder's spirit would die with you."
Scully scowled and was about to speak again before Krycek interrupted her.
"Shouldn't we move on? We don't want to stay in the open like this."
"Very well, we'll take my car. Alex, you can drive. Agent Scully and I will sit in the back."
And with his final command the three of them got into the car and drove off into the vast
emptiness of the desert. Scully had no idea where they were, but she no longer just had fears for her life, she feared that Diana would get her way with Mulder, and that made her feel hurt, and more alone than she'd ever thought possible.
"Fox I hope we can be friends when this is all over."
"I don't think that that's such a good idea Diana. We should stay as far away from each other as possible."
"But I thought that...I thought we could at least try."
"Try what Diana? I don't understand you anymore. There was a time when I thought that I knew you better than I've ever known anyone else. But I don't know you at all, and I don't want to."
"But I love you Fox. I always have and always will. And even if you choose to walk away and not believe me, that is the truth, and I mean it more than anything I've ever said in my life."
Mulder walked closer to Diana and bowed his head down to her ear. Diana felt a cold chill. She looked at him and thought that he was going to kiss her.
"Well that's too bad Fowley. Because I only have room for one woman in my heart and that space is taken. And it sure as hell isn't by you."
And with his heartbreaking words to Diana he left and slammed the door hard behind him. He walked out to his car and sat for a few minutes thinking. He never thought about how much truth was in his words, but he was right. His heart was taken, and it was time for the keeper of his heart to know. Before she'd never be able to know anything ever again...