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Old Faces, New Trouble?

"Well, that isn't very nice." The thin man walked towards him. "Not after everything we went through for the X Files."

"What we went through? You mean what Scully and I went through?" Mulder held his gaze as the younger man stepped closer.

"Jeez, talk about hold a grudge."

Mulder smirked slightly as he thought about the last time he had spoken to the young man, it seemed like a lifetime ago. A time before William and Lucy. A time before Scully trusted him enough to be with him. He sighed. It had been a lifetime ago and he had no wish to go back to the way life had been.

"You said you had information for me." He watched as the Thin man nodded.

"You are looking for a man called Alex Krycheck."

"So?"

"So, my friend you are looking in the wrong places. The Sunrise cult will not be found in Texas. They will not be found in London. You should look closer to home."

"He's in Washington."

"Now, Agent Mulder. I didn't say that. Please do not put words into my mouth." The thin man dug in his jacket pocket to find his car keys. "Does Agent Scully know where you are?"

"He's in Washington DC"

"I will take that as a no." He shook his head and laughed. "Whatever did a woman like Dana Scully see in you?"

"A question I constantly ask myself." Mulder smiled.

"Washington may be the best place to look."

Mulder stared at the man before he watched him turn his back and walk away. He knew that the longer he stayed the more he was being dragged back into the conspiracy. He narrowed his eyes as he watched the black sedan drive away. He knew that Krycheck was in Washington, he had no idea why his former asset had told him but the longer Krycheck was unaccounted for the more danger he and his family were in. He checked his cell phone before walking back to his own car. He had a feeling Scully had been right to be wary of returning to the FBI. The Xfiles had changed, people now widely accepted the prospect of alien life, UFOs were part of the cultural norm. Everyone talked about them, watched comedies about them but he had seen the side of them that had struck terror into the hearts of humans and brought out the worst of what humanity could do. He didn't want to see it again. He closed his eyes as his cell phone began ringing.

"Mulder."

"Hey, man!"

"Frohike?"

"Yeah. It's me. Large as life and twice as handsome."

"Byers and Langley?"

"Looking good considering." Mulder could almost here Frohike smile as he spoke. "How's the lovely Dana?"

"Probably going to bite my head off when she knows who I have been talking to. Where are you?"

"Same old place."

"I'm on my way."

"Mon?"

"Yeah?" Monica looked up from the laptop. She had been researching the UK origins of the cult Skinner had been telling them about.

"You think this cult is worth worrying about?"

"Yes." She ran a hand through her dark hair. "Yes, it certainly caused a few problems back in the UK. There has been no sign of them in Texas. I think that was a red herring. Look, the ideology of the group is all focused on 2012."

"That's when it was all supposed to change." Dogget watched as his fiance nodded.

"Depends what myth you subscribe to. There are people that thought the coming of the Millenium was going to end the world. Then there was 2010, Nostadamous. Take your pick." She sighed as Doggett nodded.

"So what you are saying is there is no foundation to what they believe?"

"No." She stood and walked towards him. "I'm saying that they believe there is a foundation and that they think that the rest of the world got it wrong. There seems to be no real use of the mainstream religious texts either. No Koran, Torah, Bible. Nothing."

"Which means?"

"That they are probably led by one charasmatic individual that uses his charm to enforce a set of beliefs that none of us would see as rationale."

"Mon, I'm lost." John stared at her. "You are the expert on this. I thought we were just looking for a former FBI agent gone bad. This cult stuff is beyond me."

"We are looking for Krycheck."

"So, what? I call Dana and tell her we are looking for an obsessive, charasmatic man on the charm offensive that has a thing about 2012?" He watched as Monica smiled.

"I think you just described Mulder but yeah. Basically the cult leader will have all those qualities and as we already have an alias for him I'm thinking find him, find Krycheck. Now are you calling Dana or am I?"

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