A/N: first chapter! Is a bit all over the place, but please review!
DISCLAIMER: don't own the x files or its characters
Chapter 1: suspect
"The only suspect we got is a boy, according to the local police" Doggett told Scully over coffee.
"It's a total dead end. As if a kid did this" he went on, shaking his head.
"Do you want me to come in and request an autopsy?" Scully asked. "I still teach at the academy part-time so It's possible they would let me"
"Yeah, that'd be great" Doggett replied, not taking his head from his hands.
She rang Mulder and let him know where she was, then went to see Skinner. He would let her do the autopsy, she was sure. Doggett and Reyes had gone back to the x files for definite now, and they were open for good.
"You want the autopsy?" Skinner asked, incredulous. "I thought you gave this stuff up"
"Agent Doggett asked me to"
"Right. Well I guess I could do that"
She thanked him, and to her surprise he gave her the case report, with a worried look.
"Just take a look at it Scully, we only have one suspect"
She looked at the report, and she was shocked. One suspect. The only suspect. William Van De Kamp.
"This can't be right"
"I can assure you it is"
Her face was pale, and she looked scared.
"Will you be alright? I can organise for someone to drive you home"
"No, I'm fine"
She walked back to her car, waiting until she was safely inside before she rested her head on the steering wheel and starting to cry.
She thought about driving home, but decided if she did she would just cause an accident, so she rang Mulder once again.
"Mulder, please come get me"
"Scully are you alright?"
"Please Mulder"
"Ok, I'm coming to get you, are you at the FBI building still?"
"Yes"
She watched his car pull up, and saw him get out, looking concerned but it barely registered. Without even being aware of what she was doing she ran to him and broke down all over again.
"Scully, hey, calm down" he said quietly "what happened?"
"One suspect" she choked out.
"What?" He sounded puzzled, but she couldn't look at his face. "A case?"
"William is the suspect" she finally looked up at him.
"Scully, I will do whatever it takes to clear his name, you know I will"
"But what if he actually did this?"
"There's no way a kid could kill ten people in less than an hour without leaving evidence"
She nodded. "I'm doing the autopsies tomorrow"
"Doggett told me"
"I'll find out as much about this case as I can"
He opened the car door for her and then got in himself and they pulled out onto the road.
"Did Doggett know?"
"I don't think so, but he seemed pretty concerned that people believed a little boy could do this"
She was so thankful that Mulder was there for her and he seemed so convinced that he knew the truth. That he could clear William's name. She believed him, and she knew he would do whatever it took, but exactly how far would he go?
At 6am in the morning, just before her alarm clock went off, the phone woke Scully. Not her phone, but the home phone that hung on the wall in the lounge room. She forced herself to get up, walking into the room but not getting to it before it went to the answering machine.
"Scully? It's John Doggett here and I was just letting you know that we are doing the questioning at 9. I figured you might want to be there, and I am so, so sorry about yesterday, I had no idea"
She felt happier that he hadn't known it was William, and through the questioning they might be able to get some answers. Sitting on the sofa, she thought about ways she could help get William out of this. She knew legally she had given up the right to make decisions for him when she gave him up, and it broke her heart, but he was her son and she would do anything for him.
The questioning was harsh, and a few times Scully had to step in to remind Reyes or Doggett that he was only a little boy, that this would be hard for anyone especially when they were that young.
"Did you have anyone with you that night?" Reyes asked carefully.
"No. Mum went to the shops and dad was at work"
"But you didn't leave the house?"
"No. It was dark"
"Does the dark scare you?"
"Not really, but the outside light was broken and I couldn't see anything"
"Where were you at 8:30?"
"I told you, I was at home! I didn't do it! I never hurt nobody!"
"Do you have anything to prove you were there?"
"I told you! I didn't do it!" He yelled pushing back the chair he was sitting on and and standing up.
"I think that's enough for today" Scully stepped into the room, between Reyes and William. William looked at her gratefully, and for a second she could have sworn recognition shone in his eyes but then it was gone. She knew he would never remember her, let alone recognise her. Would he?
She had watched Emily die, and not been able to do anything at all. Now her son's life could be ruined, and she had the power to change that. She had the choice, and she would prove him innocent