They were sitting in a round table. Monica and John were sitting next to each other. On the right of John was Skinner. On Monica's left was Dana, and of course next to her was Mulder with William in his arms.

After their food was served they went right to business.

"So Mulder tell us everything that happened."

"Now? Here in public? It's not pretty"

"Mulder we need to know" Dana said in a loving voice. "I have to know. For our sake. For his sake" she says pointing to their sleeping child. "I need to know how save it is for him. Please tell us."

" Ok. But I warned you. When I left I first went to Arizona."

"Why Arizona? Of all the places why Arizona?" Monica asked not knowing what was in Arizona.

"He went back to Arizona?" Dana asked. "Better yet how did you know he was in Arizona?"

"I wasn't sure, but I had to start looking somewhere. Gibson felt save there. For the first time in his life he had felt save. It was a save bet he would go back to his comfort zone."

"I still don't understand why you went looking for him?" Skinner asked.

"What I don't get is how a small boy like him could get out of state custody." John said.

"Gibson has never been your average boy" Scully informed him. "But Mulder did you find him? Is he all right? Special as he is, he's still just a boy."

"If you will all stop with all the questions for a little while you might get all the answers. It took me a while to get to Arizona. When I got there, I first went to the school he had attended. I asked around, but no one would answer me. It took a couple of days then finally one of his friends decided I wasn't a treat and took me to Gibson."

"He never seems to stop amazing me. Honestly he was literally in a whole in the wall, that's were a twelve year old boy was living. To answer your question Skinman the reason I went looking for him was to warn him. If they tough I was a threat, who ever they are, they would must likely think him a threat. Gibson is proof of everything. He is by definition a hybrid."

"Ok, now I'm really lost. I read his file but I still don't get it. Why would he be such a threat?" Monica asked.

"There is junk DNA in all of us. It is impossible for us to use it. But it's active in Gibson, and this gives him, um, shall we say abilities. Once when I ran his DNA I found it to be a match to an alien strand of DNA. So Gibson is really half human and half alien." after Dana, explain she looked over at her friend you was completely shocked.

"Well I had gone to find Gibson. And I found he was safe. I stayed with him for two days. I asked him what he new and he knew nothing. On the second day we got an unwanted visitor. I'm not sure if it was me that lead the supersoilder to Gibson or if they had already be looking for him. The point is that they found us. Both Gibson and I had to leave, but not before he tried to kill us. It was not pretty at all. There is a reason they call them supersoilders, they are unstoppable. That's how I got that nice scare on my back." he felt Dana's go to his back and he smiled. He knew she had notice the scar the night before (she had even kissed it), and he knew she knew he didn't have the scare before he left "there had been a nice fight. Really it was real nice. He had tossed me across the room and left me with just about no energy. Gibson had crawled under a table like I told him, for all the good that did. When I looked across the room he was about to slice Gibbs in two. So I ran and use my body as a shield for Gibson. I am human and do bleed so there you go."

"We were on our way. And I didn't have a clue what I was going to do. I had to find someplace save to leave Gibson. A place where people would protect him, but also a place where he didn't have to keep his secret. And we all know how easy that kind of place is to find. Then I remembered a case we worked a long time ago. Ok so it wasn't a real case since neither one of use was employed at the time. You know were I took him don't you Dana? You know the place you took me AFTER YOU SHOT ME! Don't you remember?"

"Yes Mulder I remember" she said smiling at the memory not that it really was a happy one. " He took him to Farmington, New Mexico."

"Yes I did. It took us longer then it should have because they were still following us. But we got there eventually. I explained everything that was happening to Albert Hosteen, but of course he already knew. He wouldn't tell me everything right away. It took me three day just to tell him everything I new and then on the third day he told me he knew all that and more. They days that followed it was me getting information. A little bit everyday. He told me things I still don't completely understand, the man talks in riddles, but I got very important things out of him. He said he was superced to find out it was happening so soon, he wasn't expecting for many years. I still don't understand how or why he knew it was going to happen. But yes he told me very useful things."

"What else did he tell you Mulder?" she looked him dead in the eye when she asked. "There is more isn't there?" she asked knowing there was.

"He sent me to Pueblos built by Anasazi Indian. You see the thing is these Pueblos had been Abandoned 2,000 years ago and no one new why. But town's people were saying the all-knowing man was there. When I got there I found out that it was-" he stopped not wanting to say. He took Dana's hand and shook his head begging her not to make him tell.

"Tell us" she encouraged.

"It was the Cancerman." Dana pulled her hand away and looked at him in shook. Skinner's eyes grow big.

"I though Krycek had killed the sorry bastard" Skinner said

"Have you ever Know the rat to do anything right. Mulder tell us what he told you. I can tell by your face it's not good. Not good at all, but Hon I need you to tell us. Please don't stop."

" He told me that, ten centuries ago the Mayans were so afraid that their calendar stopped on the exact date that the story begins. December 22, the year 2012. The date of the final alien invasion."

"Come on you don't believe that. Come on Mulder not even you could believe that" John said ever the spiktic.

"I didn't but then I went to Mount Weather, where our own 'Secret Government' is hiding, and found proof. Nearly got killed will doing it, but I got it. But it's not all bad news. I found out that there is something in the rocks that don't let the aliens get close to there. I saw it tear a supersoilder apart. So they can be stopped. When they come it won't be the end of they world, we are ready for them." he finished his story and looked around the table to see worried expirations on all their faces.

No one talked for several minutes. Then " are you sure Gibson is save Mulder?"

"Yeah angel, I am. He was even happy. They were taking great care of him. He was playing like a normal kid when I lefted."

"Would these rock keep us all save?" Skinner was the first to mention it.

"They should be."

"I think when the time comes all will be well." Monica said.

"How can you be so optimistic, Mon" John asked her.

"What other chose do we have?" Dana said, "Mulder what happened, how come it's save now, you didn't say."

"They didn't know about the rocks. It surprised them when they were being pulled apart by it. They left. They know they aren't safe here. We have something that will disture them."

"So they won't bother us."

"One more thing no one has mentioned." John said getting confused looks from all around the table. "What's your cover story?"

"What do you me in his cover story?"

"I think what John means is, what are you going to tell everyone. I mean you leave out of no where, then you come back." Skinner clarified

"Not to mention when you left, Dana had just had William. Well you could say you turned out to be a dead-beat-dad." John continued

"No!" both Dana and Mulder yelled in unison.

"Yeah that might work John, but don't you think Mrs.Scully might kill him for abandoning her daughter? What if you say you were in witness protection?" Monica said.

"That would work as long as the people we tell that lie to aren't government agents that can check out the truth. Or have any conation to anyone who might be able to find out the truth. Meaning the only person that would believe that is my mother."

"Hey at least she won't kill me. What if we just tell the truth" Mulder says hopeful. Everyone just stares at him.

"Monica's idea isn't that bad. If we could get Kresh to go along with it and make the paperwork saying that Mulder was really in Witness protection." Skinner tells them.

"Because he has always been our very best friend." Dana said frustrated. "It won't work. Maybe we just don't say anything. Anyone that ask we just tell them to mind their own damn business."

"We might be able to get Kresh to agree." Monica continued ignoring her friend.

"And how are we going to do that, Agent Reyes?" Mulder said in disbelieve.

"We could make him think it's in his best interest." John says defending her.

"Kersh won't listen to a damn thing we say an you know it. He won't even listen to Skinner.

"So we have to get someone he trusts to convince him." Skinner says.

"I might be able to help with that. I know someone that kisses Kreshes ass daily."

"And is this friend of yours from the past?" John asked putting infuses on the word friend. His eyes had gone a couple shades green.

"Does it matter were this friend is from as long as he could help." Monica replied annoyed.

"Ok then, we will try to convince Kresh when?" Dana said trying to break the tension.

"I'll get stared on it." Monica said getting up from the table with her cell phone.

"Do you really think you will be able to convince this friend right now, Monica?" John asked pissed of.

"Most people don't take that long to make up their minds John." she told him then stormed away.

John slammed his fork on his plate, and looked away. William began to fuss, so Mulder handed him to Dana so she could get him to sleep.

"So what's been going on since I've been gone? Nothing new, no new relationships?" Mulder asked directing his question at John.

"What the hell would make you ask that?" John asked even more pissed of then before. Mulder just shrugged.

"I'm going to ladies room" Dana stood and hand William to Mulder.

When she entered the bathroom she found Monica on her cell. So she waited. The truth was she didn't really have to use the bathroom; she just wanted to see how her friend was after that little spat with John. Monica finished her call.

"He is going to go talk to Kresh today and call me back later to see what happens." she said and walked over to the sink. "Go ahead ask."

"What do you want me to ask?" Dana said playing dumb. Monica shot her a look. "Oh you mean ask you about who this friend is and why John got so pissed off?"

"He was my partner in New York. Him and I were close, and we kind of had a fling." she rushed through the last part.

"What happened?"

Monica stayed quite for a while. "Nothing I was transferred to the New Orleans office, he stayed. And I found out he's now in D.C"

"Your not going to tell me his name, are you?"

"Nope" Monica said plainly and walked out the door, Leaving Dana to think for a while. Then she walked out to. When she got out Monica had told them all that her 'friend' was going to talk to Kresh. They were all ready to leave.

"So what everyone doing today" Skinner asked as they got up to leave.

"Nothing" John said plainly.

"Catching up" Mulder said smiling as he pulled Dana close. She placed a kiss on his lips.

"I'm going to the hardware store to get thing to fix my apartment" Monica said putting her jacket on.

"Your going to the hardware store by yourself?" John asked her. She shot him a look "Do you even know what you're getting?"

"Yes John, but what I don't have is a chaperone and you no girls are not to leave their houses without a chaperone."

"These two argue more then you two" Skinner whispered to Mulder and Dana.

"I'm serious Mon.," he told her. She handed him a list. "Your getting all this by yourself. That's a lot of thing Monica. It will be heavy."

"Not like if I have much choose."

"I'll go with you."

"Fine."

"Fine. Just like that."

"Well I could use the help."

"John if you wanted to spend the day with Monica all you had to do was ask her. She would have been very happy to have you along. You could have skipped the whole arguing part." Dana teased.

"I don't want to spend th-" he began to argue.

"Quit while you're ahead." Mulder said so quickly you could barely understand. Then John looked at Monica's hurt expression and shut up.

"So I'll call you all after my friend calls." John turned green at the mention of Monica's friend.

"Well see you then." Skinner said, as he Mulder and Dana ran out before they started arguing again.