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Return to Innocence?

"Mulder?" Monica was relieved her voice sounded as calm as it did. Dana was her friend as she was worried sick about her.

"What?"

"You said Dana was in a coma for how long?" She asked as Doggett gunned the gas pedal, she knew that the weather conditions were far too dangerous for him to be driving the way he was but she knew he loved Dana as though she was his sister.

"Too long." Mulder gritted his teeth as he spoke. "Too long."

"Why does Skyland Mountain hold such significance? I mean there has to be a reason Krycheck is taking her there. Is it to do with Dana or is it the Sunrise Cult?" Monica was running different theories through her head as Doggett swore under his breath. He fought to control the wheel as he hit a huge puddle in the middle of the road.

"Dana." Mulder answered. "It has to do with her. Spender's mother was abducted from there. She was taken from there. It has everything to do with her. Krycheck was FBI at the time Dwayne Berry took her. He was partnered with me when we were looking for her. He knew the significance of that mountain. He knew how close we came to loosing her."

"Was he playing both sides in those days?" Monica asked innocently.

"Yes." Mulder sighed. "We just didn't know it until after Scully came home."

"Oh." Monica closed her eyes. She was reluctant to admit she was feeling sick. There were more important things to worry about than her nausea. She avoided Doggett's questioning eyes in the mirror. Her fiance didn't need to know how she was feeling. They had to find Dana. That was the only important thing. The tri fell silent as the car began to climb the deserted mountain road. Mulder just hoped that history wasn't repeating itself.

"This is it." Doggett slowed the car as Mulder felt the familiar sense of dread build in the pit of his stomach.

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"This is ridiculous." Scully almost spat the words as she met Krycheck's eye in the mirror.

"Oh come on. Don't you see the irony? The place where the world realised Mulder was in love with you."

"You can't hurt me."

"Oh I think I can."

"No." Dana shifted in her seat to face the thin faced man. "We all thought you were dead. That you had died along with that black lunged bastard you worked for. I never expected you would be the first person I told but I have nothing to loose. I have terminal cancer. I am dying. That was why I was at the hospital. That was why I agreed to come back to the X Files. So, you kill me and all you are really doing is putting me out of my misery."

"Scully."

"Save it Krycheck."

"You have cancer?"

"Again."

"You liar."

"I wish." She held his gaze. "I've two children I'd like to see grow up and go to college. To be a grandmother but that is never going to happen. But one thing is going to happen. One thing I can say with absolute certainty. You kill me and there is no place on this Earth you can go where Mulder wont find you. Time to make your choice, Alex. I had to. Now it's your turn." She waited as Krycheck held her gaze. He knew she was right.

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"Mulder." Monica checked the gun in her pocket. "We're here. Dana is here somewhere. Either that or her phone is."

His hand was on the car door handle before anyone could say anything else. The dimmed lights of a car were in the distance as Doggett reached her side.

"Mon."

"John."

"Let him do this."

"What?"

"They have history. Let him do this."

Monica nodded as Mulder walked off in the direction of his wife's car. It was now or never.

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