AN: I don't own the X-files or its characters. Just having some fun with them.

Chapter 4 Confrontation

The first couple of Saturdays with Katie had been a little bit strange. They were both trying to get to know each other; and in Katie's case, getting to trust Dana. They had spent the first Saturday at Dana's house watching a movie; with a visit to the park nearby.

Slowly, but surely, Katie began to trust Dana and Dana could relax around her and enjoy their time together. They had some fun filled Saturdays, going to the park when it wasn't too cold, staying in with hot cocoa and a movie or making a puzzle when the weather was bad.

Katie told Dana about the things that happened at school, she told her when she was sad and when she was happy.

It was March now, and Dana had managed to persuade Melinda to go to her hometown to spend some time with her parents and some of her friends from high school. Katie would come over for her first sleep over that weekend. All three of them were looking forward to the weekend. Melinda trusted Dana with her daughter and was grateful someone was looking after her. She had noted the differences in her daughter since she had been spending time with Dana. Katie was still very shy and withdrawn, but slowly she was opening up.

FBI Headquarters

Friday 17 March 2000

2:00 PM

It was quiet that Friday afternoon but suddenly Scully's cell phone rang in the silent basement office. When she looked at it, she didn't recognize the number. She hoped it wasn't some out of town country sheriff asking for assistance on a case. Most of the time Mulder was the one who got those calls, but every once in a while somehow somebody would get ahold of her number and call her. With a sigh she answered the phone. Now was not the time to go out of town, Melinda was going to go away for the weekend and have some fun. She was only 22 after all; she needed some time with girls her own age, without having to worry about her daughter. Katie was supposed to stay with her for the weekend, she was really looking forward to it, and Katie seemed to be excited as well.

'Miss Scully, this is headmistress Jones from Katie's school. I'm afraid we are having some trouble here. Katie's father showed up. He must have heard that Melinda was going away for the weekend and now he demands that he take Katie for the weekend. I know that Katie is supposed to stay with you this weekend and I don't think he is supposed to have Katie unsupervised or for longer than a few hours. Would it be possible for you to come over here? Pour Katie is quite upset about this whole business, and Nick doesn't seem to want to leave anytime soon.'

Scully was quite shocked when she heard the headmistress. She hadn't had the "pleasure" of meeting Katie's father (more like donor she thought) yet, but she knew that would be only a matter of time now.

'I'll be there as soon as I can, it will probably take me close to an hour at this time to get there, and do you think you'll be able to contain the situation until then?'

'Yes, I think we can do that, but please come as soon as you can,' the headmistress answered.

'I'll leave right now; I'll be there as soon as I can.'

Scully hung up the phone and looked at Mulder. She knew he had been listening to her phone conversation. She still hadn't told him about Katie and now was not the time.

'I have to go right now, Mulder, can you handle everything here?' she asked him.

'Of course, but maybe we can get together this weekend and go over these files some more,' he asked.

He had not asked to go over to her place for a few weeks now. She knew that he didn't like it that they didn't spend as much time together as they used to, and part of her missed it as well, but right now was not the time to dwell on that.

'I'm sorry, but I have plans this weekend, work will have to wait till Monday. I need to leave now, have a nice weekend,' she said as she rushed out of the door.

But before she could close the door of the office she heard him say 'have a nice weekend with your boyfriend'. He didn't know how wrong he was she thought.

Katie's school

2:45 PM

45 minutes later she arrived at Katie's school. She had made good time; there had been a lot less traffic than she had anticipated. She had picked up Katie from school once, but hadn't been inside that time. So when she entered the building she had no idea where to go, but she didn't need to ask anyone for directions. From the noise and the shouts it was clear where the office of the headmistress was located. She quickly made her way through the hall way towards the noise. She could hear Nick shouting angrily, but couldn't make out his words just yet.

When she opened the door to the office the first thing she registered was Katie sitting on a stool, looking very small and with tears on her face. She didn't have a chance to see anything else, because suddenly a man was standing in front of her. It could only be Nick.

'So you're the bitch who is taking my daughter away from me?' he shouted at her.

Before she could respond she felt his right fist connect with her face and her head flew back. Her lip split at the impact and the door was hitting her in the back of her head. She was dazed for a few seconds and couldn't react. Nick took advantage of this and before anyone in the room could respond; he hit her in the face again with his left hand. This time he didn't hit her lip, but her right cheekbone with his left hand and his right hit her on her ribs, right under her left breast. Finally Scully's training kicked in and when he pulled back his arm, her right arm shot out and before he knew it he was on the floor with Scully on his back, putting her handcuffs on him.

When she saw that Nick was secured and wouldn't be going anywhere she stood up hastily and went over to Katie, who was crying and yelling at her dad to stop hurting Dana.

'Shh, shh, honey. It's all right, I'm all right. Nobody's going to hurt you,' Scully cooed to the little girl.

As soon as Scully was close enough Katie had flung herself around her. All Scully could do was hold her, stroke her back and hair and whisper soothing words to her. After a few minutes of this, the headmistress coughed to make her presence know. Scully stood up at that and addressed the woman.

'I'd like to call the police so they can arrest him,' she said while nodding towards the man on the floor.

'I'm going to take Katie with me to the hallway so she doesn't have to stay with him any longer. Is there some security to stay with him?'

As soon as she had finished saying this the door opened and a security guard entered the room. He had only just stepped out before Scully had arrived to call the police because of all the trouble Nick had caused.

'The cops will be here in about 10 minutes,' the guard said with an amused look on his face when he saw Nick lying on the floor in handcuffs. Then he saw Scully's face and the look changed from amused to horror.

'Are you all right Miss?' he asked.

'I'll be fine, I just want to have him arrested and since I'm his victim I think it will be better if someone else does that. I just cuffed him to stop him and to protect us.'

'Dana is an FBI agent,' Katie said with a small but proud voice.

When the cops arrived they took Scully's statement and asked her to come by Monday for a full statement. The headmistress was asked to come on Monday as well to tell her side of the events. Since Katie was only six they only asked her a few questions. But from what they had heard Scully had been correct to put Nick in handcuffs. They arrested him and took him away. It was 6 PM by now and Scully wanted to take Katie home with her.

'Katie, did your mom give you your overnight bag to you this morning?' she asked the little girl.

Katie nodded and said that it was in her classroom, so they went there to retrieve it.

On the way home they decided that they deserved some greasy and fatty foods. Katie loved McDonalds, but hardly went there. Money was always tight and Scully didn't want to indulge her too much, but thought that today could be an exception.

Before leaving the school Scully had been to the restrooms to clean up her face. Her lip was throbbing, as was her cheekbone and her ribs. She was going to have a nice shiner by the end of the night. But there would be no permanent damage. She knew the signs of a concussion and had concluded that she didn't have one. She would need some painkillers later to help with the pain.

When they arrived home at 8 PM Katie was very tired, so Scully took her to the spare bedroom, which she had already prepared for Katie and put her to bed. When she returned to the living room changed in some comfortable pajama bottoms and a sweat shirt, she poured herself some iced tea and sat down on her couch to watch some TV.

Next chapter, in which Mulder will finally meet Katie, is almost finished...