6:22am

Skinner was thinking. Maybe first he should try to reach Mulder on the phone before he alarmed Scully. He dialled his number, but only got the message "the person you have called is momentarily unavailable". Mulder was never unavailable.

He dialled Scully's number.

"Scully", she answered, a little drowsy from the sleep still, because the phone call had woken her. Despite being worried whole night because Mulder hadn't returned her call she had fallen asleep at one point. Maybe his friend had forgotten to pass on to call her.

"Agent Scully, this is A.D. Skinner", Skinner identified himself.

"Has something happened?" Scully asked, alarmed. Usually Skinner won't have a reason to call her on her that early.

"I hope not", Skinner sighed. "When last did you hear of Agent Mulder?"

"Yesterday, as I told you already. I tried calling him a couple of hours later, but his informant answered. I asked him to tell Mulder to call me back but he didn't."

"Do you happen to know where Agent Mulder and his informant are?"

"No, I just know it's something to do with a UFO."

"Well", Skinner started. "I don't know if something really has happened, but as I told you yesterday I've had a call from a woman in Phoenix who claims she had a dream about Mulder being badly injured, in a desert. Now this morning she phoned again and she sounded really anxious. I've tried to reach Mulder, but his phone was unavailable."

"That's unusual", Scully mused. Her partner never switched off his phone.

"Could you come in so we can try figure out together where Mulder could be and how to reach him?" Skinner asked Scully.

"I'll be there in an hour."

6:31am

Scully picked up her cell phone and pressed number one on the speed dial. But instead of starting to hear the buzz of Mulder's phone ringing there was a voice, telling her that the person she's calling is momentarily unavailable.

*Damn*, she thought. *Mulder, what did you get yourself into again this time?*

She got up and dressed as quickly as possible, sipping a quick cup of coffee and grabbed her keys and coat to drive to the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

One hour later Scully entered Skinner's office. Skinner quickly dialled a number and put the phone on speaker. It was Mulder's number, but again the same message was being said by a computer generated voice: "The person you have called is momentarily unavailable."

Skinner and Scully exchanged meaningful glances.

Now Skinner dialled another number.

"Alison DuBois", a female voice was heard over the speaker.

"Mrs. DuBois, it's A.D. Skinner again. We've been trying to reach Agent Mulder for the last hour but unsuccessfully. That's very unlike him so I've called his partner, Agent Scully, in for assistance. Is there maybe anything else that you remember from the dream that could help us identifying the location Agent Mulder might be at now?"

"Well, I remember certain numbers and a place name before I saw what happened." Alison replied.

"The location name was Greenwater, and the next scene was in a desert."

"Greenwater?" Scully repeated. "I've heard that before." She started roaming her brain for the explanation.

"Could the numbers be road numbers?" Skinner mused.

"Possibly", Alison said. "At least they came in connection with the road sign."

Scully was still pacing up and down, her brain working incessantly. "Greenwater, Greenwater..." she kept mumbling towards herself. Then with a start her head jerked up and she ran towards the map on the wall of Skinner's office.

Skinner followed her to find out what she was looking for. Scully's finger ran ferociously over the map. Skinner made out she was checking Nevada... wasn't that where Area 51 was located?

Indeed Scully was scanning Area 51. After all it was located in a desert. Suddenly she tapped her finger on a certain spot on the map. Skinner took a closer look. "Greenwater", it read where Scully had just pointed to.

"How did you know where to look?" Skinner marvelled.

"UFO, desert... Mulder. Doesn't that sound like Area 51? And Greenwater I'd heard him mention a couple of days ago, but he didn't explain to me what it was about." Scully explained.

Skinner went back to the phone. "Mrs. DuBois?" he called.

"Yes I'm still there. Did you find something out?"

"Apparently there is a place near Area 51 in Nevada that is called Greenwater and it is located in a desert. Could you give me the numbers you dreamed again so I can find out if there is a connection there? And another thing. Did in you dream at any point there was a mention about a UFO?" Skinner inquired.

"Indeed there was. It seemed like that other man tried showing Agent Mulder the remains of one", Alison explained.