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"You want me to do what!" The sheriff said, looking at Mulder to Scully as if they also belonged in Pine Hill Mental hospital with Mathews. "We believe that a killer with a penchant for killing children is using the legend of this witch as an MO to murder the kids in this town. I know that it's asking a lot of your department, I've also made some calls back to Washington & more agents are on their way to help us." Scully said to Sheriff Bennet the next morning. "I sure hope to hell that you did, Miss Scully. Because I barely have the man power to cover the basics around here, it is a small town, you know." He said flatly as they gave him a look. "A child killer?" Mulder said disappointedly once they were in the privacy of their car. "Do you honestly think that he would have been nearly as cooperative if I had let you march in there sprouting your theories about this witch? He would have sent both of us to Pine Hill mental hospital." "Touché." Mulder replied, wearing a playful grin as he saluted her. "Let's go, we're staking out a Billy Johnson's house tonight.
"So… what should we do?" Mrs. Johnson said as she nervously let them in. "Just go about your normal routine." Scully replied as the worried mother departed their company to put her son to bed. "Do you really think that a human murderer is what is killing these kids, Scully?" Mulder asked as they made themselves comfortable in the sitting room. Mulder took the recliner, using his overcoat as a blanket as Scully made herself comfortable on the couch. "I'm not going to haul off & say it was some mythical witch." She said as she closed her eyes tiredly. "I guess one of us will be proven right by the end of tonight." Mulder replied as he settled back against the soft leather. "& you think it's going to be you." Scully replied, Mulder merely shrugged. "Scully shook her head, exasperatedly as she snuggled back against the arm of the couch.
Mulder was suddenly jolted awake by his vibrating cell phone a few hours later. "Agent Mulder, the killer tried to get Janet Myers, she's really shaken, but she's unhurt. She described the attacker to me &…" "Stay with her, & do not leave her unattended." Mulder interrupted. "Yes sir." Agent Daniels replied as he broke their connection. "What's happening?" Scully slurred as she awoke to hear the tail end of his conversation. "An attempt was just made on a kid across town, but she was okay." "We might be dealing with multiple killers." Scully said, more to herself then to her partner. Suddenly, a crash & a scream came from the boy's bedroom. They rushed in to find a figure, hidden in a black shroud hovering over the boy in his bed. "Mulder, what are you doing!" Scully yelled as he rushed in & shoved the figure back, putting himself between the boy & his assailant. The creature slashed at him with its three inch nails just as Mulder fired his weapon & the creature went limp. Scully turned it over only to find a man behind a white porcelain mask before tending to Mulder. "Their just scratches; check the boy." Mulder said as she looked over the angry red marks under the tears in Mulder's shirt, made by prosthetic metal claws the killer had worn over his own hands.
"Well, it turned out to be a violent occult that was using the children's remains for their rituals. Apparently they had been doing so for hundreds of years; I did some research on Mathews' case & it turns out that the same occult was responsible for his ordeal as well, now maybe he can have some closure." Scully said as they made their way through their gate. "I was so eager to believe that this time, it clouded my judgment." He said embarrassingly as they took their seats on the airplane. "But I guess that an occult that prays to a mythical witch of death isn't exactly normal, is it?" Mulder added with a laugh. "No, it isn't." Scully agreed as their plane left the ground.