Fox Hunt
Chapter 4
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Scully awoke early the next morning feeling strangely well rested; she made her way to the kitchen for some coffee & breakfast before getting dressed for work. She was unusually anxious to show Skinner what she & Mulder had learned. Suddenly, she heard a sound to her left, her eyesdartedabout the room, trying to locate her weaponwhenshe felt a hand close around her mouth. "Looking for this?" A cold voice said as he snaked her pistol in front of her.
"Mulder, where in the hell are you? I cleared my schedule for you & agent Scully this morning & neither of you showed!" Skinner yelled into Mulder's cell phone, Mulder grimaced as he held it away from his ear a few centimeters. "We didn't come because Scully didn't show this morning; I'm on my way to her apartment, something isn't right."
"Do you know who I' am, agent Scully?" A young man said as he sat across from Scully, he had her gun trained at her chest. "You should know, your kind killed my father, Robert Modell." He said when she didn't answer. "You're father killed himself, his tumor remained operable until the very end, but he refused to have it removed. What's worse is that he chose to hurt & manipulateothers with his abilities." Scully replied. "My visiting you is a courtesy call, agent Scully. I have come to tell you that I have declared war on those who murdered my father & my aunt." "A killing spree that ends with killing me." She finished for him. "Sorry to disappoint you, doll face. But you're not the one I'm after." He replied sinisterly.
"Scully!" Mulder said as he pounded on the door, her apartment was dark & there was no answer, so he kicked the door in. He struggled to see in the fresh darkness as his eyes took their sweet time to adjust, he located his flashlight & drew his gun. His flashlight beam finds Scully with her weapon trained on him; she's using all her strength, fighting against her own mind. "Show you're self, John Leismen! You're as cowardice as your father, hiding behind an innocent party!" "Oh, rest assured that she isn't innocent, she murdered my aunt. Linda Bowman, i'm sure you remember her." A voice filtered from the darkness; Mulder fixed his flashlight beam on a youngish man sitting behind Scully, who wasstill struggling against her own body.
"Doctors first found the tumor when I was a teenager, my adoptive parents wanted to wait until I was eighteen three years later to do the surgery, since the tumor was benign & posed no immediate threat. But I noticed that as the mass grew, so did the strange new abilities… so when the time came, I refused to have it removed. I killed those agents to lure you two in; I was after the both of you all along… worked like a charm." He said with a sinister smile. "M-Mulder, please get out of here. I can't fight him much longer." Scully pleaded, tears were streaming down her face. "I could have her kill you anytime, you know. Or perhaps I should just have her kill herself, like the others. No, I think that its better this way, forcing her to harm the one she loves most." John said casually as Scully cocked her pistol. "Mulder, please… just go." She said as tears streamed down her face. "I'd rather have you shoot me, then leave you at his mercy." Mulder said stubbornly as they both discharged their weapons.
Mulder's eyes suddenly snapped open & he tried to sit up, but gave it up as pain shot through his body. "Ah & sleeping beauty awakens." A familiar voice said, Mulder smiled as his vision focused on Frohike, Langley & Byers. "You were out for two weeks, man. You really had us worried." Langley said as the nurse returned to check on him. "What did I say? Only one person in here at a time, now out!" She said, the gunmen gave a final wave as she shooed them out the door. Mulder turned to Scully, who was sitting in a chair by his bedside. "I'm sorry, Mulder. I couldn't fight him, the bullet missed your heart by inches & it collapsed a lung. I don't know what I would have done if you…" She trailed off, Mulder responded by gently brushing the fresh tears that made their way down her cheeks. "But you didn't." He said, Scully smiled through her tears as he placed his hand on hers. "Don't beat yourself up over it; I didbreak down your door, so I guess you could say that your shooting me makes us even." He said with a dry smile.