Reyes' heart caught in her throat as she approached the car. It hadn't just been abandoned it had veered off the road and then left empty. To her this meant whoever had taken Scully and William wasn't alone, you can't move a woman and small child alone after a car accident. She had a feeling that they were close, that she could sense their urgent need for help. It made her want to be the rescuer, to save the day, but then that's how everybody was feeling.

"Monica. You comin' to check out the car?"

"Yeah. I just need a minute." Doggett walked down the small dip at the side of the road and disappeared momentarily from Reyes' sight, so she moved herself closer, allowing a better view of the car and the surrounding area. There were only so many placed that they could be, how hard could it be to get agents canvassing the area and trying harder than they already were to find them? She followed Doggett's footsteps and looked in the car. A shiver ran across her body and she was startled at the vibes she was getting from the car. She could sense Scully's control, that she wasn't afraid when she exited the vehicle, she had power. This confused her, but made her even surer that they hadn't gone far, and she realised something else as she looked in the front passenger seat and saw the train from the set that she and Doggett had bought William for his birthday.

"Monica you ok?" Doggett's words had made her jump and she turned to him feeling nauseous but firm in her belief.

"She was driving."

"What?"

"Dana was driving, she took the car off the road so that she could escape, she had William in the front with her, no way would a kidnapper want to take care of a three year old, she did this so we'd find her."

"Monica, if she was driving then she wouldn't have just abandoned the car like this, she could have stayed with it, called for help."

"Not if the kidnapper was still conscious, or if she ran away for help he could have come to and gone after her. She's still here John, I can feel it." Doggett took Reyes' arms and turned her away from the open land she was staring at to look at him.

"Monica I know you want to find them, we all do, but you gotta let the bureau work this using the best tools and the best people they got. You should go back to Mulder. Let us work from this and wait for news." Reyes frowned and then gently released herself from Doggett's hold on her.

"You don't believe me?"

"I think you're upset and tired, and I think you might be picking up on things that aren't here. There's nothing we can get from the car Monica, I'm sorry."

"You're wrong John. I'm going to prove it to you."

"How?"

"I'm going to find them."

"You think I'm going to let you go out there on some wild goose chase alone?"

"I'm not asking you to let me, I'm telling you what I'm going to do to find Dana and William. You should call the apartment and have someone tell Mulder what's going on."

"Monica, you can't just walk off like this! Monica!" It was no use, Reyes was already walking into the distance, nothing but open land ahead of her and she didn't answer to Doggett and she didn't care what anybody else thought about what she was feeling, she knew that she was right about this. And of all the people in the world to believe she didn't want it to be Alex Krycek, but maybe he was right, maybe this was her job to protect Scully, and to protect William. Wherever they were now they were vulnerable and they needed help.

When the cars and people she had left at the road side became blurry blobs behind her she knew that she was pushing her luck going so far alone, but the further she walked the more she could feel it. It was the same feeling she had at the car, that Scully was in charge somehow, something had happened and she was getting closer to the source of it. She suddenly noticed a small building, almost like an old barn, in the distance and she sped up her walking to a slow jog as she got closer. She took out her weapon and steadied her arm as she quietly got close enough to take a look inside. When she did she was startled, but she wasn't surprised at what she saw.


"Oh my God Dana are you ok?" Reyes ran into the old barn and couldn't help running over to Scully to hug her. Scully smiled as her friend expressed her concerns through the familiar bond she had grown used to from Reyes.

"I'm fine. How did you find us?"

"I don't know. And even if what I thought were true you'd never believe me. We should get you out of here. Where's William?"

"Mon'ca!" Right on cue William came running over, tired and afraid he was relieved to see someone that he associated with safety and Reyes picked him up and held him close to her. It was then that she noticed the body lying on the floor at the far side of the barn, he looked dead and she could see a lot of blood.

"Dana what happened here?"

"I shot him. I took the car off the road to escape, but it didn't work and two men lead me here, that one was holding William to get me to follow without arguing and it was more than I could take, so when he wasn't looking and William was out of danger I shot him, I had to."

"A mother's instinct. But where's the other man?" Scully frowned and the momentary tension release she had had came back and she was on full guard again.

"He was waiting for someone outside, I assumed that you took care of it getting in here?"

"There was nobody out there, who is he waiting for?"

"I don't know, but this goes right back to everything that we've been told. Turns out that everyone's being played. Gibson, Kersh, Krycek, they've all been told different stories regarding the four of us and William, and my baby, in an attempt to split us up, so that we're weak enough to take out. This is about us as a group of people not our work or a conspiracy. But for Gibson to have risked seeing us when he did and for someone to have been able to get a message to him in hiding, and for Kersh and Krycek to have believed what they were both told, this has to have come from someone with a lot of power, someone with the power to keep Kersh as an assistant director and to make sure that Krycek lived. I think that's who the other man is waiting for outside."

"Ok, but I didn't see anyone..." As she stopped speaking both women turned to look at where a shuffling sound had come from, but neither could see anyone or anything.

"We have to get out of here Monica. This is about the Mulder family that much I'm certain of, I just don't know why or which members are in most danger, and I don't really want to stick around to find out."

"There are a dozen FBI agents about two miles back, we just need to get back to them."

"How?"

"Well we've got one dead body on our hands, will it really make that much difference if we take another one out?"

"Are you serious?"

"Well personally I don't want to think about what might happen if they decide to shoot to kill first do you?" Scully shook her head and took a half asleep William from Reyes' arms.

"I wanna go home." Reyes nodded her head and took out her weapon again. She'd take this other man out herself. It was the right to do to protect them all, and to guarantee their safe return home.