"I don't know where the hell this kid could have gone." Mulder said in frustration now back at the car. His jacket was draped over the hood and his sleeves were rolled up.
"Mulder, the local police are all over the place. They'll find him." Scully reassured her partner.
"I just can't believe someone could actually become that jealous, to be driven to kill another human being." She said as she sat down in the driver's seat.
"I don't know Scully, I'm not going to draw any conclusions until I sit down and talk to this kid." He replied.
"Mulder you can't be serious. It is obvious that this is a case of extreme jealousy." She snapped back.
"You never tried to kill Diana, and if I say so myself, you were pretty jealous." He knew he would be in trouble for that one. It was alright though, the mood needed to be lightened.
"I was not jealous! She was just a disgusting human being and I did not want to see her messing with your mind." She replied defensively. Diana Fowley was still a touchy subject. Mulder just sat and watched her try to maintain composure.
At the motel Mulder sat alone on his bed mindlessly flicking through the basic cable channels available to him. Nothing in particular was catching his attention. Without hesitation he picked up his cell phone and dialed her number.
"Hello?" He had called her room phone figuring she had turned her cell phone off by now. She sounded tired, but he could tell she hadn't been sleeping. She had picked up too quickly.
"Hey, it's me. I'm sorry but I can't sleep." After all these years he still had to apologize for calling her late at night, even though he knew she didn't care.
"I'm the best thing you could think of?" She asked. She was also sitting on her bed. She was in a simple pair of light blue denim jeans and a v-neck short sleeved black t-shirt. She hadn't even attempted to find anything of T.V. and had gone right to the book she had brought with her.
"You weren't sleeping either so stop acting like I'm bothering you." He said teasing her. She could hear the smile on his face.
"What makes you so sure I'm not busy? I could have gone back to lover's lane and picked up a young buck." She hadn't, but she liked making herself seem unattainable to the only man that had complete access to her life.
"Yeah okay. I'll be over in a few minutes." He hung up the phone without giving her a chance to reply. The fact that they were surrounded by all this puppy love and teen age antics had brought out a bit of flirtatiousness in the both of them.
Within a few minutes Mulder was knocking on her door. She politely let him in.
"Is he hiding under the bed?" Mulder asked with a smile.
"No, he just hopped out the bathroom window. I told him you had a gun." She replied with a smile. She settled in a chair and let Mulder collapse on the bed.
"Mulder, did you ever go to a place like lover's lane when you were a teen?" Scully asked out of pure curiosity.
"Who hasn't?" He replied. Scully felt her cheeks turn a shade of red.
"You're kidding me Scully. You and Melissa never snuck out to go park with some home town boy?" He asked with a smile.
"No Mulder we didn't. With a father like ours it was impossible. Plus, I think I turned out okay. Making out in the backseat of some hoopdie was not vital to my growing up." She had been such a good child growing up, things like that never even crossed her mind.
"My first kiss was at a place like that. I remember being so completely nervous. The girl had braces, so it was a little awkward, but the next day I felt like the coolest guy on the planet." Scully smiled at his story.
"That's charming." She replied sarcastically.
"Alright then, what about you? How charming was your first kiss?" he asked as he sat up from the bed, now facing Scully.
"He was a friend of the family, and we both decided we were at a crossroad in our life. It was short and horrible. It took me several years to recover." She had a bit of a grossed out look on her face as she spoke about the memory.
"Now, I bet if you had been parked at the top of some hill overlooking the city lights that first kiss would have been a whole lot better. I'll have to take you up there one day." He replied with a wink.
"Down boy." She said sarcastically.
"It would be strictly business Scully. Get your mind out of the gutter."
Authors Note: Okay, this ship is setting sale. Okay that was a horrible joke, but yeah. Get ready for loads of tension between our two favorite agents and this case is going to get very interesting.