AN: So here is the deal; I can take a hint - no reviews, no one's reading, and the story sucks. I can live with that, I'll just let this be the last chapter.
So if by any chance anyone IS reading and would like me to continue, please let me know. It doesn't take much. But it's a bore writing to myself. Really no purpose.

Chapter 3

Foursome

At 10 am the next day, Scully found herself standing next to Officer Kelly outside the Carlo Residence, waiting for someone to open the door. Inside lived the parents of the 16 year old girl, Caitlin, who was one of the missing persons.

That morning, at 8, Mulder and Scully had arrived at the police station, and were met once again by Detective Lois and Officer Kelly. They decided to split into two teams and go around to talk to people who are related, or know anything about the 'kidnappings', which included pretty much to whole town of Green Hill. Before she knew what was happening, Scully was persuaded that Mulder and Scully shouldn't be together but with Lois or Kelly, because it would be less intimidating to the towns people.

So here she was, shaking to her bones in the hellishly cold weather, waiting to be let in.

It had stopped snowing, and the sun came out so most of the snow that had fallen out was melting, but the four layers that she had put on that morning still weren't enough.

When Mrs. Carlo finally opened the door, Scully couldn't quite read her body language as well as she usually could. Worried? Jumpy? Nervous? Scully immediately decided something was off.

They were led to the living room and sat on the couch and given some hot tea, which Scully more then grateful for.

"Three mornings ago. We just woke up, Bill and I, and she wasn't here." Mrs. Carlo was saying, for what seemed to be the third time. She hasn't given up much more information really.

"Does she go to school?" Scully asked.

"She's home schooled." said Bill, the husband. He was just standing in the corner, leaning on the doorframe to the kitchen.

"We're very sorry for what you're going through, we promise to do everything we can to find Caitlin." Said Officer Kelly, and started getting up.

"Wait, shouldn't we take a look at Caitlin's room?" Scully asked, surprised that their visit was coming to an end so soon.

"What for?" The dad asked, and Kelly put his hand on Scully's elbow, motioning her to get up.

Taking the hint, Scully got up, and with Kelly's hand on her back she was led to the door. The amount of touching that was going on was bothering her, but Scully was not one to say anything about it.

When they were out of the house and walking towards his car, Kelly suddenly stopped.

"Oh, shoot. I forgot my scarf. I'll be right back."

Scully didn't think much of this, she just went inside the car to escape the cold and turned the heat on.

What she didn't know, was that Officer Kelly didn't go back just for his scarf. Inside, Mr. and Mrs. Carlo were waiting for him, and Officer Kelly placed five hundred dollar bills in Bill Carlo's hands before returning to his car.

Scully, Officer Kelly, and Mulder with the Blond met for lunch at 12:30 at the only restaurant in the town by the name of 'Green Hill Kitchen'.

By then, they've each talked with a number of people, but it seemed that they learned nothing new. Scully heard several description of this so called 'monster', and they all matched. In fact, they were identical.

Big. Scary. Green. Hairy.

That's it. When Scully asked if it walks on two or four, the responses varied. One elderly man who knew one of the missing people even said he walked on only one leg. Or 'hopped', as he described it.

"So that's it? That's all we have? Monster took four people and left?" Scully asked, getting a nasty look from Detective Lois, who sat across the table next to Mulder. Very close to him, in fact.

"Well, that's why we called you guys to help us out." She said.

"We work for the FBI. We can't do magic. The fact that we're over here isn't going to make new evidence appear." Scully said, a bit harsher then she intended.

"Speak for yourself. Agent Mulder here has been more then helpful." Lois said back, flashing a smile at Mulder who gave Scully a sorry excuse for an apologizing look.

"You're not bad yourself honey." Kelly said, and the hand that he's been stubbornly kept on her back traveled downwards, so low that Scully abruptly jumped from her seat and excused herself to the restroom.

She stopped for a moment in front of the mirror and tried to tell herself to relax. Mulder asked her the night before if something was bothering her aside from this case, and something was. But she couldn't put it in words. It's been several months since her cancer had gone into remission, so it wasn't that. At least it didn't seem to be.

Maybe it was just this odd little case after all. Not to talk about Officer Kelly, who's made it clear of his sexual interest in her throughout the day. Despite his older age, she couldn't deny that he was a good looking man, he had that 'manly man' feel to him. But she felt very harassed by him and the last thing she wanted to do was confront him about it.

She went back to the table and tried to focus on the case. She wished she had a moment to talk with Mulder alone. Surly by now he was feeling the same strangeness about this case that she had been sensing from the beginning.

But no such luck. She spent the rest of the day with Officer Kelly and his invading hand, asking just about everyone they could lay their hands on in the town about what was going on. Another thing that Scully detected was how calm everyone was. Even Kelly himself didn't seem to be in much of a hurry.

Finally, at 10 pm that evening, Mulder and Scully returned back to their room.

"I'm tired. This whole day has been such a waste." Mulder said, and Scully almost jumped from relief.

"Thank you! Finally you see what I'm talking about. This is ridiculous! Why isn't anyone concerned? And everyone just accepts that a green monster came and took tree women and a man? This is unheard of! And our lovely officers don't seem remotely disturbed by this fact."

"I really don't know what to say. I mean, from one point of view, this is the perfect classic x-file. I couldn't have asked for a better one. All we have to do is snap a picture of this famous monster that everyone is seeing and we'll be on the cover of National Geographic. But this doesn't seem to be the case. I have great doubts that there is a monster at all."

"Took you a while." Scully added.

Choosing to ignore this, Mulder continued. "The next theory I can think up is a cult. Then there are endless possibilities. And a small town is the perfect candidate. But then again these people just don't act like it."

"And why would they call the FBI? If the they are doing this, then everyone here must be in on it. Why would they want someone from the outside to come and bust them? It just doesn't make any sense."

"That's exactly what I was thinking. Unless Officer Kelly just called us all the way out here for a booty call." Mulder smirked, and Scully immediately knew what he was referring too. He must have noticed the touching as well.

Mulder must have seen her cheeks redden, because he went on in a more serious tone.

"Do you want me to kick his ass? They old man's really got the hots for you."

"You're doing pretty good for yourself too. How is Detective Lois doing?"

"Come on Scully, I thought we went over this. Give me a break." He said.

"Sorry. I just couldn't help it. But seriously, what is going on here? Are they trying to get us to have a foursome or something?" She asked, trying to appear serious.

Mulder laughed. "You know I'd never say no to that." He narrowed his eyes and patted in circles a space next to him where he was half laying half sitting on his bed.

"You'd love that wouldn't you?" She smiled, and got up to collect her pajama's and head for a hot shower.

On the way, she took her socks off and threw them at Mulder. "Here you go. So you have something to fanaticize about."

AN: So, this'll be the last chapter, unless anyone lets me know they're still reading and I have a reason to go on.
See you next chapter, I hope.
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