PART 33

Three days later Mulder and Scully were back at work. They took a couple of days to themselves before having to go back to being just friends at work. Scully was still badly shaken after what they'd seen in the forest. Mulder tried to keep both of their minds off it, but it was too horrible to forget quickly enough. As Mulder arrived at work Scully was already sat at his desk on the phone.

"Yes...ok, yes...right away...as soon as he gets here...fine." She placed down the receiver and looked at Mulder.

"Skinner?"

"Yeh, he wants to see us as soon as you arrive at work."

"Well, I don't actually feel like I'm here yet."

"You and me both."

"Are you ok Scully?"

"Yeh I'm fine."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm just sick and tired of theses games. That's all it is to them. A game that they can forget about within two seconds, but what about me? What about you? Us. We have to live with what they did, why is our conscience's that suffer? We have to get them for this Mulder. They can't get away with it."

"You still want to find her don't you?"

"Mulder, Nacelles wasn't among the dead, she was no where to be found which means she could be alive somewhere. We didn't find her, the police didn't find her."

"The police will hide anything they found Scully. They'll have been ordered to keep quiet by the government, the FBI, anyone with higher power than them."

"I have to try Mulder."

He walked over to her and took her hands into his own, she stood up in front of him and he held her close.

"Mulder if anyone sees us..."

"I don't care Scully. If you want to look for her, we will, I'll be there by your side the whole time, I always will be. We'll find her together."

"Thank you. I love you Mulder."

"Well it wouldn't kill you to say it once in a while."

Scully laughed and kissed Mulder friendly on the lips, they hugged tightly and then made their way to Skinner's office. They were going to have to tell him everything. All the details from A to Z. Where did they start, where did they finish?

As they went into Skinner, he was on the phone; they sat and waited for him to finish, for him to start the interrogation.

"Agent Mulder Agent Scully. I believe their are some things that we need to discuss."

"Sir?"

"Like where you've been and what you've been doing. And how we can prevent it from happening again."

"I can assure you Sir, we haven't had a choice in the events of the past few days, we've had no picnic either."

"I'm sure you haven't. Now I know that you were both involved in something that was illegal to say the least with Diana Fowley and Smoking Man."

"And Alex Krycek, the Alien Bounty Hunter."

"What?"

"You've got a lot to hear Sir."

"Agent Scully, you're very quiet, are you planning on adding anything to this discussion?"

"I'm more than sure that Agent Mulder will be able to explain things perfectly for the both of us Sir."

"Well I'd like you to speak for yourself."

"You can like all you want but I have nothing to say. I have no doubt in my mind that Agent Mulder will cover everything clearly, I will have nothing to say that will contradict his version of events. Now shall we get on so we can leave you to write a report on this is peace to use against us for future reference?"

Skinner sat down and didn't know where to look. He wasn't used to Scully being so forceful, not to him anyway, she usually stayed quiet and the responsible one. Mulder looked at Scully. He was worried about her, she was acting strange since what had happened, which he supposed was to be expected after what they'd been through.

He wanted to help her but he didn't know how. He loved her more than anything, and she loved him too, he didn't want to jeopardise that in any way. Skinner looked at Scully and she looked at him, she didn't move an inch. He looked away from her to Mulder as Mulder looked at him.

"Fine. Agent Mulder, if you'd like to tell me what the hell's been going on and we can clear this up for good."

"When I've finished sir things will be less than cleared up, they will be messier than ever."