Two women watched Mulder's retreating back, "I can't do this anymore," the shortest of the two sighed as she spoke, "give him false hope that his sister that he spent most of his life searching for will come back to him."
"I thought that was why you gave him the papers in the first place," the other woman was slightly taller and sounded much older. She glanced at the other woman as she nodded, "But that isn't the only thing that is bothering you is it Dana?"
"You are too perceptive old timer," Dana began to walk away, her black, knee length coat trailing behind her.
"After spending so much time, helping you grow, you tend to know when something's wrong with your charge."
Dana stopped, "I'm tired," she gestured to the warehouse, " of this meeting in secret and in shadows. Of the hidden agendas."
"Aren't we all?"
"Even you Ana? I thought you lived for this life."
"Even your tough-as-nails mentor. You are smart Dana, you never got involved to the point where you couldn't get out. You didn't let them brainwash you, unlike Samantha Mulder. Through it all you never forgot you were Dana Scully."
"It just seems like I've been fighting Them my whole life."
"You have, ever since you were six. Until the war is won..."
"...we must all fight our battles. I know it by heart Ana."
"About Mulder, Dana... tell him. He deserves to know," Ana walked away leaving Dana open mouthed in shock, "just let me know how it turns out."
TBC