A man walks down a stone hallway with urgency in his steps. He stops at a door with the nameplate - Dr. Katherine Muller

He knocks and cracks the door open when called in.

Inside is a blonde woman, late 30s, sat at her desk. She turns around and we see it's Scully.

She looks up through her glasses to see who has entered her office,

"Yes?"

The young man shifts on his feet somewhat nervously, "Dr. Muller? They're ready for you." Her assistant professor tells her.

"I'll be right there Richard, thank you."

Scully gathers her notes and follows behind Richard to the classroom. She was a little nervous, she was just as new to Oxford as some of her students and was about to 'step up to the plate' as her old partner would say.

Waiting in the classroom was a new batch of doctorate students eager to begin a more in-depth study of Zoology and Scully's "specialty" Infectious Diseases.

Scully had chosen not to continue in law enforcement or medicine after leaving D.C. but couldn't abandon science all together, she thought Zoology would make a good fit. Surely her study of monsters throughout her X-Files career could come in handy in the field.

When she decided it was in her and James' best interest to start living "on the grid" again, becoming a Professor seemed to provide the stability she was looking for while still keeping her mind engaged and challenged.

Looking at different vacancies at different universities she kept coming back to Oxford, there was something about being there, at Mulder's alma mater she couldn't pass up.

She had to find someone to fake her qualifications but being in the FBI she was able to know quality work and what would pass close inspection. She chose to go by her middle name and gave herself and her son a similar sounding last name to Mulder.

Everything was all in place, all she had to do was cross that threshold into the classroom and begin her new life as Katherine Muller.

Mulder POV:

I'm sitting in the backseat next to a pedophile former priest hoping the voices in his head lead us to a missing FBI agent. If Scully was here she never would have let it get this far, it's amazing how much she was able to ground me when with out her my natural inclination is to run with things like this. I was too headstrong to admit I needed that before, maybe even a little bit now but there's no denying she kept me... if not responsible REASONABLE. It wasn't enough just to believe or want to believe I needed to ground those feelings and suspicions in truth. Truth became more tangible with her next to me forcing me to base things in facts, in what we could prove. She kept me sane and I repaid her by leaving when she and my son needed me the most.

If I ever find them again, I won't make that mistake again. I won't put finding answers over them because even if I was to find all the secrets of the world without them by my side its all just so meaningless and hollow.

The vehicle we're in suddenly goes over a bump and wakes up FJ next to me who was starting to drool a little.

"Are we getting warm?" He asks.

"You tell us."

He looks around but shakes his head, "I don't know I have a clue where we are."

I pull out Monica Bannan's FBI photo ID card and show it to him hoping it sparks something.

But there's no recognition on his face,

"I don't know this girl. This Agent Bannan of yours. I haven't a clue of the connection."

"There's always something, however small." I tell him trying to push him to believe more in his capabilities.

"And who made you the expert?"

"I once investigated a series of cases involving unexplained phenomena for the FBI."

"So you believe in these sort of things?" He asks.

My mind drifts to Scully,

"Let's just say I want to believe." I tell him.

"And his sister was abducted by E.T." Drummy rudely comments from the front seat, and I feel my hand closing into a fist, asshole.

"Is that true?" Padre Pedo asks.

"It was a long time ago." I tell him, the only thing I want to talk to this man less about then my son would be my sister.

He studies me for a moment, "She's dead, isn't she, your sister?"

I take back the ID and look out the window, signaling to everyone in the car I'm done with the topic.

After a moment FJ speaks up,

"This is where she was taken - your agent - this is where she was attacked."

And the car pulls over with all of us climbing out.

Father Joe looks around a bit before walking towards the woods.

Whitney walks over to me and stands close also observing where FJ is walking,

"We have to consider him a suspect." She tells me.

Don't get me wrong I think the guy belongs in prison but just not for this.

"I thought you said you found no connection to the crime?"

"Don't think my guys have stopped looking, and they think they're going to find Monica." Implying they thought she was chasing her tail with this approach, been there sister.

"But you don't, or I wouldn't be here."

"Yeah, I'm not the most popular girl at the FBI right now for calling you in, believe me."

I smirk a little,

"I wasn't exactly Miss Popularity at the FBI myself." I tell her.

"But you've dealt with psychics before. Luther Lee Boggs, Clyde Bruckman, Gerald Schnauz - I went through those cases and that work was extremely impressive."

Color me faltered.

"Yeah, well. I'm only half the team." I tell her sensitively hoping I don't actually have to say the words 'I'm sorry'

"But it's your insights I needed" Implying Scully isn't who she needs on this case. I of corse disagree but the truth is Scully isn't here so I'm all they have.

We see Father Joe sink to his knees in the snow and begin to rush over to him.

When he hears the crush of the snow under our boots get close to him he starts speaking, staring out in the distance never looking back at us just assuming we're taking it all in.

"She ran away. She tried to escape. There were two men. Well, she couldn't. He pushed her down, it was here, it was right here, and then they we're put in her back."

"What was put in her back?" I ask.

"She's in pain, great, great pain."

"Tell me where!" Whitney demands.

"What was put in her back?" I ask again.

"I've never seen anything like them... they were like tiny monsters... I don't know. I...I can't see."