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Fox Mulder threw a large envelope down on his desk in front of Dana Scully, who was writing a report on the previous case they had attended. Scully would have loved to have said 'solved' but since joining Mulder all those months ago, down here in the dungeons of the FBI, rarely any case gets solved fully.
"I suppose this isn't a birthday present for me?" Scully asked Mulder inquiringly.
Mulder gave her a slight smile.
Mulder grabbed the envelope and tipped it so its contents fell out. Out fell a few papers and a video cassette.
"New case from Skinner?" Scully asked.
"New case from Skinner," Mulder replied and grabbed the tape and put it in the machine.
"I've barely had time to write up the Tooms case and already we've been assigned to a new case." Scully said getting back to her report.
"This is way different from Tooms." Mulder said with a slight giggle in his throat, like an excited little girl.
Scully looked up.
"I get worried when you start speaking like that, as anything different from Tooms with you tends to go in the direction of abnormality instead of normality." Scully said.
"This is much different than anything we've come across before. It's like everything we've done together, from the High School thing in Oregon- our first case, to the whole Eve thing and Tooms, all rolled into one." Mulder said and Scully could see he could barely contain his excitement.
"I have NEVER seen you so happy. This must be good." Scully said and gave a little laugh herself.
She loved her work down here on the X-Files with Mulder. She may get ridiculed by most of the other teams, but this work was fairly enjoyable and quite intriguing to attempt to solve phenomenons which most people put down to ghosts, or alien activities. At first, she could not understand why Assistant Director Skinner had put her to work with Mulder. She thought it may have something to do with his sister being abducted when he was younger. Over time she realised it was to balance the equation. Mulder wanted to believe, and genuinely believed most of the time, whereas she was sceptical and took a scientific view of everything. It brought Mulder back down to Earth, which was why she was brought in. The FBI could not have Mulder working on his own when he believed every story, or they'd never be able to prove anything. She could guess now he had some substantial evidence which could prove his theories.
Mulder pressed play on the remote and the tape starting playing.
Scully looked closer.
"What is that?" She asked.
"This was taken last night in Roswell, New Mexico by an amateur cameraman who had been given a new camera for his birthday and was trying it out. Stroke of luck he managed to catch this on film." Mulder said.
"Roswell?" Scully said sceptically.
"The same Roswell where a reported UFO crashed in 1947." Mulder said and Scully returned to the screen.
It looked like a comet of some sort had just fallen out of the sky and crashed in the distant. The horizon had turned a bright flame colour before the camera man fell over from the impact.
"That could have easily been a comet." Scully said but Mulder was expecting this. He had come prepared.
"I've already checked. NASA had no idea about this and been checking the galaxy for a long time and the closest piece of rock heading away would not be able to reach here until 30 years tops." Mulder said, feeling quite proud as there was not much other physical and natural evidence which could prove this.
"If it wasn't a comet what was it?" Scully said.
Mulder handed her a plane ticket.
"Plane leaves tomorrow morning at 8.30. Let's find out" Mulder said and walked out of the room.
Scully held the tickets for a moment longer before putting them away and continuing with her report.