PART 22

When Scully woke up the next morning Nacelles was sitting looking down on her. She looked upset and when she saw Scully wake up she ran out of the room and hid behind the curtain. Scully got up and followed her out.

"Hey, what's wrong? What's happened sweetie?"

"Miss Scully? You're awake, would you like to come up for breakfast?"

Scully looked at the woman in front of her and stood up. She looked back at the girl who was still hidden by the curtain.

"Will she be ok?"

"She'll be fine. She's always like this. We sometimes wonder if she has any human understanding at all. Such a waste of a life. She'll never know true happiness or laughter. But please, do not worry of her, we have breakfast then I believe you wanted to see the dead people we found the other day?"

"Yes, that's right."

Scully walked towards the stairs to go up into the huts when Nacelles showed her small face popping out around the curtain.

"D...a...n...a."

Scully spun her head around and Nacelles stood in full view of her. The woman who came to get Scully for breakfast ran up the stairs and fetched down some of the others.

"D...a...n...a."

"Yes, that's right. Are you ok sweetie?"

Scully held her hand out and Nacelles ran over to her and hugged her. As the others came down to them, no one could believe what they were seeing. A girl that hadn't spoken one word in all of her life had just said a name and spoken to someone who was practically a stranger. They all went upstairs and Nacelles wouldn't leave Scully's side. As they got ready to go out Scully got ready to inspect the three dead bodies that had been found in the woods. But even then Nacelles wouldn't leave her alone.

"Would you take her while I look at this."

"Sure."

"I have to go over here will you stay with?"

"Bea."

"You stay with Bea, I won't be long."

Nacelles let her go and watched her every move as Scully looked over the dead people.

"Oh my God. I can't believe it, these people, I was investigating the murders of these people not three days ago, their bodies went missing and I had to find them."

"Well you succeeded, here they are."

"But I don't understand. That means that, the men doing the torturing, the men that killed

these people, and maybe even the men that took me are all the same people. They're doing this to fulfil a criteria."

"What criteria? What are they planning on doing?"

"I don't know. But I think we need to find out if you want to secure your safety out here for any longer."

Just then they heard a scream and someone came running to them.

"It's Nacelles, I let her hand go for one second and I lost her."

"She can't have gone far find her!"

Scully was the first to head off in the search and she found her within ten minutes.

"Oh sweetie are you ok?"

"The man came to see me."

"What man."

"He is gone."

"What man Nacelles?"

"He comes to see me, he taught me to say words. He has a nasty smell too."

Straight away Scully knew whom she meant. Smoking man. He knew all about the people who were living in the forest, and it was them his plans were for with Diana and Krycek. She had to stop him; she had to help them all. She couldn't leave them now, she couldn't.

"I have to get you out of here. All of you! We have to get out of here now!"

"That simply isn't possible I've told you."

"Well if you don't then you're all going to die anyway."

And with that Scully picked up Nacelles and headed back to the huts. The others followed, not knowing how far to trust her how far to go before saying stop. They were afraid, but no one was as afraid as Scully was.