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"I think that I know someone that might be able to help you two, he's allegedly the only one to survive an attack from this… assailant as a child. "The local sheriff said as he, Mulder & Scully looked over the body of another little boy. "Can you give us the address?" Scully said. "Sure, just go east on route nine until you see a sign that says 'Pine Hill Road'; take a left & follow it until it dead ends." He said. "Scully I can't believe that you're humoring me on this." Mulder said as he smiled warmly at her. "I'm humoring you because I think that we're running out of options." She replied as they made a left onto Pine Hill. "Geeze! I hope we don't lose our deposit." Mulder said with a grimace as the asphalt came to an abrupt end & the car hit a series of large humps, causing it to bottom out. "The scenery is so stunning here; too bad we won't get to enjoy it." Scully said sadly as they approached two large black iron gates at the end of the road. "Can I help you?" A flat voice said through the intercom to Mulder's left. "Yes, we're from the FBI & we're here to see a Jacob Mathews." "One moment please." She replied. After a brief wait, the gates in front of them began to open, groaning loudly in protest to the high humidity of the mountains.
"Oh, this is just fitting." Scully said exasperatedly as she gazed up at the towering mental hospital before them. "Are you sure you don't want to wait in the car?" She said jokingly to Mulder, Mulder returned her comment with a sarcastic smile as they entered. "We're agent's Mulder & Scully & we need to see a Jacob Mathews." Mulder said as he showed his badge to the nurse at the front desk. "Right this way, sir. Though I don't know what help he'll be, all he talks about is the ordeal he suffered when he was a kid, even our strongest anti-psychotics & best doctors haven't been able to help him." She said as she leaded them to the elevators. Third floor, room five fifty at the end of the hall to your left." She said as she left them.
"You're just here to tell me how crazy I' am, like the others." Jacob said as he sat cross-legged at the foot of his bed with his back to them, facing the small, depressingly barred rectangular window. "Actually, Mr. Mathews, we're more interested in what you have to say to us." Mulder replied. "Jacob turned sharply to face them with one smooth motion. "She's killing again, isn't she?" He said, it was disconcerting how suddenly lucid he became. "We came here hoping that you could tell us how you survived so we might be able to stop her." Mulder replied, Jacob let out a short, harsh laugh. "You can't stop her, no one can. She won't stop until her castle is complete." "What?" Scully interjected. "Every hundred years or so, she expands her kingdom. She uses the teeth she collects to add onto her castle. Her kingdom on the border between this life & the next." Mulder elbowed Scully with an 'I told you so' grin on his face.
"I'm sorry, Mulder but if you're going to stake the integrity of your entire case on the ranting of a madman, & then perhaps you do belong back there." She said as she jabbed her thumb over her shoulder at the hospital as they drove away. "This makes about as much sense as shadowing every kid in this town that's due to lose their last tooth." Scully said flatly when he didn't answer. "How did you ever guess that's what I had in mind next?" Mulder replied. "You can't be serious!" She cried as she placed her hand on her forehead exasperatedly. "I don't see what choice we have, even if it is a child murderer that is using the legend as a cover to kill, his pattern is sporadic. We'll never catch him unless we do it this way." "Well, local PD is really going to love us." Scully said under her breath.