The X-Files
Chapter 3
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"Mr. Mulder you are one lucky man, another inch deeper & whatever cut you would have sliced right through your spinal cord." The doctor said as he finished stitching up the wound with Scully watching his every hand movement. "There is no sign of infection?" Scully asked. "No, the amazing thing is it's remarkably clean." The doctor replied as he gave his work a final over. "I'm going to prescribe you some pain medication & I'm going to recommend that you take it easy for the next week or so."
"What exactlydid you see, Mulder?" Scully asked him as they drive back to their hotel. "I'm not sure, butit looked almost… reptilianbut ifwhatever attacked me is the same thing that's been attacking the workers;how didIcome away with just a scratch compared to them?"
"Wow, mate. That thing got you good, eh?" Cody said as he examined the wound a few days later in his office. "I'm starting to wonder if it was an attack at all, whatever we're dealing with didn't seem to have any trouble with precision in its previous attacks." Mulder said. "You think that we might be dealing with two creatures?" Cody offered, Mulder snapped his fingers at him. "Bingo."
"We need to go back down there, Scully." Mulder said as they walked to their car. "No way, Mulder. Not until you're healed, no telling how many kinds of contagions are down there just waiting to invade an open wound." She said as they stopped at their car, Mulder preparing to slide into the drivers' seat. Scully saw the look on his face, she knew that look. It was the one he always got when he was planning on doing something brash, she quickly strode around to block his entrance into the car. "No way, Mulder; there's no way in hell I'm going to let you crawl around a dank sewer in your condition." She said as she put her hand on his chest & pushed him back away from the car. "Scully come on…" He began as he attempted to duck around her, but she moved to block him. "Passenger seat… now." She said firmly, there was a brief stare down before he reluctantly admitted defeat. "It's kind of a turn on when you put your foot down, Scully. Why don't you do it more often?" He said playfully to her as she pulled out of the parking lot, she gave him an exasperated look but chose not to comment.
Three weeks had passed before Mulder got the all-clear from the doctor to once again go clamoring around in the sewer, this timehe broughtCody with him. "This is where I saw it last." Mulder said as they all dropped into the overflow manhole. "Well, at least now you can know what broke your fall last time." Scully said as she panned her flashlight over a sickingly green pile, she couldn't hide a smile as she saw Mulder's face practically turn green from behindthe mask of his suit. Just then, something streaked by them. "Get to that pipe before it does! I think that's how it escaped last time!" Mulder yelled as he drew his gun. "Freeze!" Whatever it was stopped dead in its tracks & cowered in the shadows in an attempt to evade their flashlight beams. "Please… no light." The creature said; his voice was quiet & raspy, like it wasn't used very often. Mulder made to bathe the creature in the halogen beam of his flashlight, but Scully's hand on his arm stopped him. "Mulder, no." "Why not, Scully? It's killed men, Scully. Why should it get to hide in the dark?" He said. Scully however, knelt beside the creature. "You aren't the one killing these people, are you?" She said softly. "I' am not. But I can understand why your partner suspects me." "If you're not the one then why in the hell did you attack me?" Mulder said harshly as he gestured to his back. "I didn't mean to, I ran past you into the pipe & my spines must have cut you, I'm sorry for that." "Come into the light." Mulder said as they turnedtheir flashlights off,the light from the full moon filtering through a sidewalk storm drain above their heads was now the only light in the small area. The creature hesitated & Scully reached out her hand to him, he reluctantly placed a gnarled claw into her hand. They all had to fight the urge to shrink away. The creature looked to be a cross between a human being & several different kinds of reptiles; his skin was a brownish green, it had three spines that protruded out of its back, four rows of gleaming needle sharp teeth & ten-inch long claws. His posture was bent & he was forced to walk semi-upright,much likethe Hunchback of Notre Dame. "No need to hide your distain, I know I' am hideous." He said as his fiery yellow eyes considered their suppressed reactions. Scully however, approached him. "My name is Dana Scully, what's yours?" The creature shrugged. "I have no name, Master didn't give me one." "Master?" Mulder repeated. "That's who created my brother & me & takes care of us; we were created using the same combination of DNA." "These murders, is it your brother & your master who is doing them?" Scully said gently, there was a long silence before the creature answered, his intense yellow eyes not meeting hers. "Yes."