A\N: So, even though i didn't get many reviews, I'm still posting this one. but really guys, let me know if you're reading. There is no point in writing if no one reads. It just makes sence like that, you know? This chapter is hopefully more interesting. What I can promise without a doubt is that there is loads of drama ahead. Also, you gotta pay attention to the details in this story, it's all important for the big picture. Well, i'll stop now. Enjoy, and please, PLEASE review. Thank you

Chapter 2

Bad Weather

"We're here." Mulder said gently, and Scully opened her eyes, coming out of a sleepless nap.

"Where? I don't see anything." She said groggily, squinting at the whiteness all around them.

"I just passed a sign. It said 'Gree- -ill'. I assume that's Green Hill. But I've yet to see any signs of life." This fact seemed to excite him, which made Scully wonder once again if Mulder preferred little never-on-the-map towns over women. They always seemed to turn him on, that's for sure.

"Oh, I see something! Right there, see it? Looks like there are a couple of houses up ahead."

And sure enough, they were soon parked by what seemed to be the Green Hill police office\court house\hospital\jail.

They tried to make a quick leap from the car to the door, with Mulder's arm wrapped around her shoulder tightly, but it still seemed like in the short seconds, 15 inches of snow had fallen on them.

When they got inside, a warm surge of air blew into their faces and Scully immediately noticed the two figured, seated next to each other on a couch that stood against the wall. There was a large wooden desk and a chair next to it, and on the wall hung a big map of Idaho, which Scully could bet excluded a little town by the name of 'Green Hill'.

What drew her attention however was not the room itself, but the two people who she assumed were Officer Kelly and Detective Lois.

In front of them, sat a man who looked in his fifties, clean shaved with thinning grey hair, dressed in a not very cheap looking suit. Next to him, and now getting up to greet the two agents, was a tall and attractive blond, wearing a suit that is not very different from what Scully usually had on a usual work day.

Mulder was quickly grinning, unmistakably by the presence of the blond who towered at least a whole head above Scully.

"Agents Mulder and Scully?" She asked, a smile that was too big for the bad weather shining on her face.

"Yes. Detective Lois?" Mulder asked, shaking her hand with a similar smile on his own face.

Scully, rolling her eyes, went on to greet with Officer Kelly.

While Mulder seemed to be blinded by Ms. Tall-attractive-blond, Scully couldn't help but notice that this couple defiantly didn't fit the little town people stereotype.

"We're very glad you guys could make it up here so fast. We've been on a real hype." Officer Kelly was saying.

"We're happy to help. But to tell you the truth, we've been given very minimal information about all this. All we know is that there have been four missing persons in the past three days." Mulder said.

"That's right." Offered the blond. "And this is extremely upsetting for us all – Green Hill has had almost no crime in all the years of it's existence, so this kind of a thing going on is very disturbing to us all."

"Tell us about the missing people?" Scully asked.

"Well, like you said Agent Mulder, there have been four of them. Three women and one man. One is a girl in her teens, the man is 80 years old, and the two women are sisters. It's like they disappeared off the face of the earth. We wake up in the morning, and they are just gone."

Officer Kelly gave Mulder some papers with pictures and identification information about these four people.

"So there really is no trend. Now, we've also been told about some kind of a… sighting?" Scully instantly knew that Mulder wanted to hear about the 'monster' Skinner was talking about.

"I'm glad you asked." Smiled Blondie. "Several people have come to us to complain that something has been walking around their house in the past couple of nights. From what we've got so far, we know that it's over 6 foot, has a lot of hair, and seems to be a dirty color of green."

Scully had to work hard not to laugh. Great. They were chasing a big bad green monster who comes at night and eats people. Even Mulder seemed disappointed by how outrageous this all sounded. Or at least she hoped he was.

The meeting was ended shortly after that.

They all decided that investigations would start the next day, when the sky was excepted to clear up and most of the snow would melt away.

They were staying and a Bed&Breakfest place, sharing a single room with two beds in it.

It was almost 10 pm when Scully was slumped on her bed, face down, trying to find the strength to get up and take a shower.

"Finding anything about green monsters?" She asked Mulder, who was sitting on the other bed with his laptop in hand.

"Oh, loads." He said half sarcastically.

"Seriously, Mulder. To me it sounds like their all just getting the hell out of this place. It's quite a hell hole."

"I wouldn't call it that." Mulder reasoned. "Besides, they don't sound like a group of people who would be hanging around in the same circle. You've got an old man, a couple of middle aged, unmarried women with no kids, and a 16 year old girl."

"Ok. But green monster? Seriously Mulder? And what about those officers? Did you see what they were wearing? They don't seem to exactly fit in."

"How can you say that? You haven't even seen the rest of the people yet. You can't know."

"Mulder, this town has 267 people living in it, minus 4, and two of them are police? What for? You heard her, there is no crime here. Ever. Doesn't that seem the least bit odd to you?"

"You should know by now not to judge so quickly. What's ever usual about the places we go to?"

"Phht. Alright." Scully snored, closing her eyes again.

"What was that for?"

"Give me a break Mulder."

"No. What? What is it? I saw you roll your eyes."

"Don't play it innocent. The only reason you're ignoring all this is Detective Lois. It's no secret you've got a thing for her type, but you're completely disregarding the ridiculousness of this case!"

"Come on Scully, don't pull that card on me. You make me out to be a complete idiot. When have I ever been wrong about a hunch?"

"What hunch? We were summoned here. This is just bullshit." Scully got up and headed for the bathroom, grabbing her pajama's on the way.

They didn't say a word to each other for the rest of the night.

She felt a bit guilty for starting a fight, but for some reason she couldn't help her grumpiness.

She woke up in the middle of the night, completely cold to her bones. She walked around the room to look for somewhere to turn up the heat, but she couldn't find a thing. She found extra blankets in the closet in the bathroom and sat up in her bed, wrapped in the blankets, unable to sleep.

"Hey." She heard Mulder's voice behind her, and away from the window where she'd been staring to look at her partner.

"Hey."

"Can't sleep?"

"No."

"Isn't that my job?"

She smiled.

"It's kind of cold in here huh?" He said, and she tossed him one of the blankets.

"Thanks. Listen, Scully, I'm sorry. I'm not sure what that was all about earlier, but I don't want to start this on the wrong foot."

"I know. I'm sorry too."

"Are you ok? I mean, aside from this case. You can talk to me, you know that."

"I know Mulder. But I'm fine. The bad weather getting to me or something. Really. Go back to sleep."

"Ok. Just know that I'm here, yeah? Sleep. We have a boring day ahead of us tomorrow."

"You can say that again."

"Goodnight Scully."

"Goodnight."

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