Doggett and Mulder rushed over to the now flipped over bed. The rest of the room was also a wreck. There had obviously been some type of struggle. On the count of three the men lifted the bed and set her free. Out of instinct, she ran directly into the arms of the person closest to her, Agent Reyes.
"I was just sleeping and all of the sudden everything in my room started to shake. I felt something pull me off the bed and then it all went black." Scully walked around the room looking for anything that would give her a hint as to who may have been in the room. All of the windows were closed and locked, and her door had been because they had knocked it right off the hinges.
"Why is this all happening to me? I didn't do anything to deserve this." Megan was now in hysterics as she spoke. She had gone through things the last couple days that no one would understand. She watched some of her closest friends disappear, been badly injured, and was now being terrorized but something she had no control over.
"You obviously did somethin to piss this…whatever off. As hard as its sounds we have to go back to that house and you need to show us exactly what you did." Doggett said as he tried to be the voice of some kind of reason.
"John we can handle that all tomorrow. As for tonight Megan can sleep in my room." Scully volunteered. With her arm around her shoulders Scully lead her into the next room. Mulder was the last person to leave the room. He just stood in there for a few moments looking around. A reflection in the mirror caught his attention. He looked over his right shoulder and saw his father in the mirror for a brief second. He closed his eyes tightly and when he opened them back up the reflection was gone. Assuming it was just because he had just woken up, Mulder turned out the lights in the room and left.
The next morning Scully woke up at around 9:00 am. It was a sunny day out, and the glare was resting right over hey eyes. Megan had insisted that she sleep on the love seat earlier in the morning. Scully looked over at her, she was curled up into a little ball with the pillow and blanket she had taken from her room. As she sat up out the bed, she felt a hand grab at her side.
"Where you going?" Mulder asked her with half of his face in the pillow. She could tell he was worried something might be wrong.
"I was just going to run to the little coffee shop I saw down the street and get some coffee and bagels. Everything is okay." She rubbed her hand over his cheek in reassurance, and let him fall back to sleep.
When she returned back to the room with breakfast, everyone was awake. Megan was in the shower, and Agents Doggett and Reyes had even made there way over to the room. It was a good thing she had bought extra. Everyone grabbed for there coffee like there lives depended on it.
"After last night, I even had a little trouble sleeping." Reyes admitted after taking a few sips of her coffee. This was by far one of the strangest cases she had seen.
"What do we know about these other kids Megan was with?" Doggett asked.
"Well she was with a girl named Jamie, her boyfriend Kyle, and his brother Steve. They all seem to have been pretty normal kids." Mulder replied, he had obviously done him homework.
"Did Megan say it was Jamie who was doing the speaking while this ritual went down?" Doggett asked. They all shook there heads yes and looked at each other.
"I can get a search warrant for her apartment within the next 24 hours. If we can find out anything like what she said, then we might be able to figure out how to close the gate she opened." As they finished there discussion, Megan emerged from the bathroom to an eerie silence.
"Gee, were you guys talking about me or something?" She joked with a smile on her face. It was nice to see her smiling for a change.
They all piled into one car and made there way back to the Cromwell house. As the pulled into the driveway, Megan became visibly shaken.
"I don't know if I can handle this." She was fighting back tears as she spoke. Scully squeezed her hand as they walked closer to the house. As they walked into the front room Megan found herself a little bit surprised.
"This place looks a whole lot friendlier in the light." They walked into the main room of the house.
"This is where it happened, right here." She sat down in the middle of the floor.
"The light you explained, where did you see it coming from?" Scully asked her. She pointed directly above where she was sitting.
"It was right there." Suddenly the windows began to shake.
"See this is how it started. It's happening again." She stood up from the floor.
"Get her out of here!." Mulder yelled to the other Agents. They all ran out of the house quickly. As soon as they reached the front gate to the house, all of the windows in the house seemed to shatter simultaneously.
"We have to get that search warrant." Reyes said as she looked around at all the other Agents. They were all just as frightened as she was.
