PART 38

Scully sat on her couch and stared out of the window. There were about seven agents set up at her apartment to look for Mulder, they thought that if anyone was going to get in contact about him they'd contact Scully, or his own apartment where more agents were set up. Scully had her heart and soul set on finding Mulder, but she was miles away thinking about anything and everything. It took Skinner several minutes to get her attention, as he was about to leave.

"I'm sorry Sir, what?"

"I'm taking Nacelles back to the bureau, are you going to come with us?"

"Would you mind if I passed on it? I think I should stay here. And I'm not sure I could watch her go to be honest."

"I see."

"I'm sorry Sir."

"It's fine Agent Scully. I'll be back to see how things are progressing as soon as I can."

Nacelles came running out of thee bathroom and straight onto Scully's lap. She was crying but smiling too. Scully was crying but unfortunately couldn't find it in herself to smile.

"Why are you sad Dana?"

"I'm fine sweetie. Really."

"Will you come and see me? I will visit you."

"Of course I will. I'll always be here for you."

"Agent Scully, we should be going. Her parents are waiting."

"Yes, sorry."

"Bye bye Dana. Say bye to Fox for me when he comes back."

"Ok. Bye sweetie." They left and Scully watched them pull off outside, she was fed up of everything just getting up and going. But she knew that Nacelles was going back to the life she was owed by right, a home with her parents. She was fed up of sitting around doing nothing.

If it were her missing, Mulder would have been out looking for her for hours already. She decided to go out and visit every place they'd been to whilst working on this "case", but she had no luck in finding him anywhere. She searched all day and ended up at Mulder's apartment in the early hours of the morning. It was there that she fell asleep crying on his couch with one of his t-shirts held closely by to her heart.

When Mulder woke up after the crash he saw CSM, ABH, Krycek and even Diana was there sat in a chair in the corner. She looked shaken up but he didn't care. They all just stared at him as if they were waiting for him to do or say something. But he just stared back. He yet again didn't know where he was, and he just wanted to go home, he felt sore all over. The silence wrapped them up like a neatly wrapped gift.

"Agent Mulder, so glad to see you awake and back with the living."

"I would have thought you'd like me dead by now."

"On the contrary, I'm fed up of you not being scared of me killing you, so I'd rather you see me win in this world, and conquering the next. I think you're more afraid of me winning than you are of dying. You will finally get to see what I'm capable of."

"I already know what you're capable of, you murdering son of a bh."

"You only see the half truths Agent Mulder. Yet here we are again. So close to the truth you persist with so much need. Well, I'm here to lay the cards out on the table now Mulder, I'm ready to tell you what you want to hear. The truth." Mulder looked at him and couldn't figure out what his motive was. Why was the CSM being so open and upfront? He tried to stay cool and calm, but he hated him and could've killed him right there right then.

"Fine. Lay your cards on me."

"When Diana first got in contact with you, that was for me, then Krycek was up to his own tricks and ended up working with us, and as for the bounty hunter, well we couldn't have done this without him. We were a team, even your precious Diana was against you from the start."

"Oh she's not so precious. Actually you can have her, I have Scully." Diana squirmed in her chair and looked away from them all, she hated this type of confrontation.

"So, we had our team, and we had our people. We were giving the people in the forest to the alien colonists, to make them think we were back on track, that we still wanted to work with them, but we were secretly negotiating with the rebels to come together as one force and stop them, to end the hell and begin the heaven. But then who should come along but agents Mulder and Scully. You always get in my way, but this time it worked in my favour. It was your fault all those people died. And now we have 600 people chosen at random from the general public to be taken instead. They will be taken tomorrow without even being conscious of it."

"You'll never pull it off!"

"Oh we will, we will win this one Agent Mulder. You enjoy your rest now, because tomorrow you won't be able to live with the knowledge that you couldn't stop me, and that it was all your fault that you didn't get your own way."

And with that they all left. Left Mulder to dwell on his thoughts. He was tied down, but didn't have the energy or will power to get up and run anyway. CSM was right; he was stuck and had nowhere to go for help. He couldn't let him win, but he couldn't do anything but lose whilst he was alone. He needed Scully, he prayed she'd walk through the door any minute to stop the charade from happening. But no Scully, no plan, no losing CSM, he was going to win, and there was nothing either he or Scully could do about it alone. They had to work as a team.