A/N: Hi, sorry if this is a bit dodgy. My internet at home is not working so I had to put this on a USB drive, take it to work, email it to myself and upload on my phone! Enjoy!
November 10, 2014
3:59pm
Scully was glad to finally be home. It had been a long day. Staying up late on a school night was not the best idea but it was still making her smile so she didn't regret it.
Once again she was the first one home. Apparently the only member of the Scully family who didn't have a life, at least that's what Melissa had declared earlier that day.
Scully looked over at Fox's house and wondered what he was doing. After a moment she remembered what she was doing and turned the key, opened the door and walked inside.
She shivered involuntarily but it wasn't cold. Her mother had left the heater on. She closed the door behind her and kicked off her shoes.
Queequeg hadn't barked. It was strangely quiet. He always greeted her with a bark and a wagging tail.
"Queequeg!" Scully called out. "You there boy?"
Something must have happened to him! she thought suddenly.
The quietness was pressing in on Scully now. She almost couldn't stand it.
She hurried into the living room looking for him and then up stairs, grateful for the sound of her socked feet against the carpet. So grateful that as she entered her room she didn't notice the sound of another pair of feet. Not until it was too late.
Bang!
Her door slammed close behind her and she spun around.
"W... What are you doing?" she managed to say.
The other person did not answer. They just stared at her, a strange expression that Scully had never witnessed before was upon their face.
"How did you get in here?" she asked, trying to hide the terror in her voice and edging ever so slightly backwards towards her desk.
Again, there was no reply. He just held up something, something shiny, something jingly, something very familiar.
Scully recognized the keys she'd dropped that day in the rain. Fox had checked the drain the next morning; they'd never been able to find them...
"Dana," his voice uttering her name sent a violent shiver down her spine.
She stepped back again and felt her desk behind her. There was nowhere left to go.
"I'm not going to hurt you," he said. "I just need your help."
"You need help alright!" said Scully, trying to be bold. "What the hell do you think you're doing in my house?!"
"It's Luke," he continued with a crazed edge to both his voice and the look in his eye. "He's been hurt. He fell from his bike."
Scully felt like someone had just dropped a lead ball in her stomach.
"What are you talking about?" she asked. "What have you done to Luke?"
She could feel tears in her eyes now. This could not be happening.
"Nothing," he went on innocently. "I need your help to fix him."
"You sick bastard!" Scully yelled lunging forward all of a sudden.
There was a glint of something silver in the air as she threw herself at the intruder stabbing wildly at him with a pair of scissors she had felt behind her on the desk. It was all in vain however he grabbed her wrists and overpowered her, the sharp implement falling from her limp hand.
"That wasn't very nice," he hissed.
Next thing all Scully could see, hear or feel was stars. Bright lights danced across her vision, deafness fell upon her ears and the side of her face felt like a thousand white hot needles were being driven into her skin. The tears really started to fall now. She dared not speak.
She had fallen to the floor without realizing. A hand roughly grabbed her behind the neck and shoved something in front of her face. It was a smart phone picture of Luke Doggett tied and gagged in some poorly lit location.
Scully felt like she wanted to vomit.
"Stand up!" he ordered and she obeyed. "Walk with me. Do anything to raise the alarm and little Luke will never see the light of day again!"
Scully couldn't see any way out of it. She couldn't risk Luke's life to save her own so she walked. She walked out of her room, down the stairs, out the front door and across the road, all the while with Garland Theodore Botch at her side.
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