Field Office
7:35 A.M.
Scully walked into the conference room where the agents were last night. Her partner, Agent Foster walked up to her. She sees apprehension in his face.
"Hey, Agent Scully, how are you?" he asked.
"I'm fine. How are you?" She replied.
"I'm fine. Do you think that we should be working with our partners on this one? I mean, instead of splitting everyone up?" Foster asked.
"I thought about that, but there are only two agents from D.C. and if we did it that way, we would leave them out, I think," Scully explained. She walked past Agent Foster and went up to the front of the room to address the group. She noticed Agent Mulder and Agent Marshall standing at the back of the room.
"Since there have been no new developments since last night, you will all be completing the same tasks that you were assigned last night. That is all I have to say, let's get started," Scully said.
The agents left the room to go do their jobs. Scully, Agent Foster, Mulder, and Agent Marshall met up at the back of the room. They were silent.
"Ready to go?" Scully asked. They all replied saying 'yes'.
They agreed that they would take Mulder and Marshall's car out to the house, since it was a rental car. Scully and Agent Foster sat in the back while Mulder drove, as usual while Agent Marshall sat up front. The car ride to the Greene residence was quiet the entire way. Mulder ate his sunflower seeds. Agent Marshall read her magazine. Scully looked out the window, and Agent Foster looked at the case. The car took a left turn onto Mulberry Street, where the victim and her family lived. The agents parked outside of the house and got out of the car. Mulder
Mulder walked up to the door of the house. He rang the door bell twice. I woman came to answer the door who looked to be about Scully's age. She had brown hair and blue eyes. She was not tall, in fact, she was a little on the short side.
"Mrs. Greene? I'm Special Agent Fox Mulder. This is Special Agent Dana Scully, and Agents Foster and Marshall. We are here investigating your daughter's murder," Mulder said. He could tell by the look on her face that she was distraught.
"Please come in," she replied. Agent Foster went up to where the crime scene was on the second floor. Scully, Mulder, and Agent Marshall went into the living room with her. Her husband and daughters were in the living room sitting down.
"Would it be all right if I talked to your daughters?" Mulder asked.
"Of course," Mrs. Greene replied.
"Thank you," said Mulder. He took the two girls out into the kitchen. They sat down at the table. Amanda sat across from Mulder, and the younger one, Laura Ashley sat between them.
Amanda was small for her age. Although she was eleven, she looked as if she were eight or nine. However, when she spoke she sounded much smarter. She had light hair, like her father, and blue eyes. Laura Ashley, on the other hand, had dark hair like her mother and blue eyes.
"Were you awake at nine-thirty two nights ago?" Mulder asked Amanda.
"Agent Mulder, I'm almost twelve, of course I was awake at nine-thirty two nights ago," replied.
"Did you see or hear anything weird coming out of your sister's room?" he asked her.
"No, I didn't. I was downstairs watching TV with my mother and father. We already did this with the police," she answered.
"Well, thank you for your patience," Mulder answered coldly. He did not understand how a child of the mere age of eleven be so cold.
"I was sleepin'!" exclaimed Laura Ashley. She grinned as she puts the chocolate chip cookie in her mouth. It was apparent that she was oblivious to what was going on. Mulder smiled at her, and left to go out into the other room where Scully and Agent Marshall were talking to the parents.
"Did you see anything abnormal the night that Alison was taken?" Scully asked. She worded the question rather broadly in hopes of getting anything out of them, even if it was a little on the paranormal side.
"No, I don't think so," the mother said. She looked at her husband, to see if he remembered anything different.
"Amanda, Julia, and I were just watching TV. What was it, Honey, that show we were watching? I think it was Law and Order SVU" her husband said.
"Were your doors locked?" Agent Marshall asked.
"Yes, they were," Julia Greene replied.
"Do you know all of your neighbors up and down the street," Scully questioned.
"Yes, except for the new family that moved in last week, but they have two children of their own, so I doubt they are probably suspects," said Mrs. Greene.
Mulder stood in the background and just watched Scully and his partner ask the parents questions. He took some notes on his little pad of paper in his pocket. This was not the first time that he had seen cases like this, and although it was a terrible thing to happen, it did not bother him like it used to.
Soon, he, Scully, and Agent Marshall were on their way back to the car, and were ready to go back to the office. Before they left, Scully went to find Agent Foster to tell him that they were leaving, and so he should get a ride back with some other agents. Foster told her that would be fine, and he had more work to do before he could go anyway. Scully left him and went back to the car were Mulder and his partner was waiting for her.
They climbed into the car and headed back to the office. This time Scully was in the front sitting next to Mulder and his partner was in the back. Mulder drove while he ate sunflower seeds, and Scully just stared out the window. She wondered why she used to know him so well, but now there was nothing to say.
When they got to the office, Agent Marshall went off to where she and Agent Mulder were set up. They had been given a table while they were going to be working there. This was so that they could fill out paper work, etc. without needing to use someone else's desk. Mulder went with Agent Marshall.
He sat down and began to record his notes on the children. He commented that for someone who is at the mere age of eleven, Amanda seemed very cold and bitter. He noticed that she did not seem to care that her sister was gone; she did not seem that distraught be the whole ordeal. Mulder decided that he wanted to talk to the parents about it sometime.