Chapter 3 PFoD
"We have to go back and tell her our supicions."
"Mulder, we can't do that! We don't even know if it's true or not yet!"
"Well, today, more and more teens are going into depression. They're cutting, bulimic, anorexic, all of that stuff, and we have no reason to not think that this girl is just one of them who's been through something that she considers a tragedy. Like, her parents getting divorced, and getting a new father, or, a really bad break-up. She's been left out and she wants attention, so she lied to the police and told hem that her stepfather did it. I've heard of cases like this, Scully. Almost all of them turn out the same way."
" 'Almost all' ?" Scully asked, raising an eyebrow.
Mulder didn't answer, just shook his head in frustration.
"Mulder, I know you're concerned. I'm concerned, too. But I just think it's a little early to be jumping to conclusions. If we find something--if we find evidence of your supicions, I promise we'll go over there and confront her. But right now, we don't have solid evidence of anything."
Just then, the door burst open, and Skinner popped his head in the door.
"Guys, it's the step-father."
"What about him?" Asked Mulder.
"He's dead."
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"What've we got?"
"What've we got? We don't got nothing. That's what we got." The paramedic next to Mulder said, frusturated.
Scully scowled.
"Wait--what do you mean nothing? You maust've gotten something out of this case."
"No. Nothing. No burn marks, slash marks, bruises, internal injuries, no signs of poison, nothing. He's spotless. There's not a scratch on that guy."
"No," Mulder said disbelievingly. "That's not possible."
He ran over to the corpse and inspected it breifly, before turning back to the doctor who had done the autopsy.
"Nothing?"
The doctor shook his head.
"Suffucation?" Scully asked.
"We did a thorough search. These was no trace of any kind of fabric, or handprints."
"That's...that's just not possible." He said again in a very sorft voice.
"Unless..."
"Mulder? What's wrong?"
"I'm having a hell of of a time with my hunches, aren't I?"