A/N: Sorry about the wait with this one, I was completely stumped as to where to go with this for the longest time. If you only watch SVU and not X-Files, you may find the rest of this story a little confusing. Any questions, feel free to ask.

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The next day, the investigation into the case officially began. The agents had suggested that they go talk to the investigation officers, and then the victim. The detectives agreed, but told them that the crime scene was a bit of a drive away.

"I'll drive," Elliot volunteered. Olivia regarded him sharply. He hadn't told her what he and the Captain had said yesterday, but he seemed to be making an effort to make nice, which Olivia appreciated.

Munch and Fin were going to talk with CSU, so Mulder, Scully, Elliot and Olivia climbed into the car and set off for the crime scene. After a little while, Olivia finally broke the uncomfortable silence.

"So how long have you been working together?" she asked.

"Six years," Mulder and Scully replied in unison. They looked at each other and smiled and Olivia smiled also.

"Actually, I was a medical doctor originally," said Scully. "But I decided I wanted to go into the FBI, so they assigned me to 'provide an analytical perspective' on Mulder's work."

"Which basically means she was sent to spy on me." Mulder cut in, his voice serious with a joking undertone.

"Oh. I guess the FBI must really appreciate your work," Olivia commented.

Mulder and Scully scoffed.

"Not exactly. They've tried to shut us down in a million different ways, a million different times."

Olivia furrowed her brow in confusion.

"Then, if you don't mind my asking...why were you so determined to keep doing this?"

Mulder and Scully looked at each other pensively for a moment, as if deciding how to answer.

After awhile, Mulder finally spoke.

"So they don't bury the truth."

Olivia heard a very soft disbelieving snort from beside her, but she shot Elliot a warning look, making his eyes turn back to the road.

"If you don't mind my saying so, Agent Scully, this kind of thing isn't something you would usually see a person trained to believe that science has an answer for everything would be working to prove. Have you always believed in this kind of phenomena?"

Mulder laughed at this, and Olivia saw Scully shoot him a warning look nearly identical to the one Olivia had just given Elliot.

"Uhh...not exactly. One of the reasons they assigned me to Mulder and the X-Files in the first place is because of my background in hard science, I suppose you could say they sent me to debunk his work. Some of the things that we see are so incredibly hard to believe, and believing in all the things that Mulder does is....difficult. I've come to believe, over the years, that extraterrestrial forces do exist, and that they are among us."

Olivia nodded. This woman struck her as a very smart person, and if she was able to be convinced that these alien life forms exist, there must have been some halfway solid logic behind it.

"What kind of things have you seen?"

The woman took a deep breath, as if debating where to begin.

"I still firmly believe that a good deal of what we see can be explained by science, but some things defy even the most outward bounds of science. We've seen people who Mulder believes....are certain phenomena. There was a man who he believed not only was cancer, but needed it to survive. He was seemingly able to regenerate any body part lost. His thumb, his head, even his entire body. There was also a young man we met, who was seemingly able to control lightning...."

Olivia listened, fascinated, to the two agents. Elliot, however, was finding it harder and harder to control his scepticism.

"I'm sorry..." he began. "But I find this incredibly hard to believe. Impossible, really. I have to admit, it seems like there must have been another explanation, other than the ones you've come up with. People just aren't cancer itself."

Mulder snorted laughingly.

"Believe me, if there was, Scully would have found it. You have no idea how hard it was to convince her of the cancer one, especially because..."

Scully laid a hand on Mulder's arm, and whispered his name gently. He looked at her for a moment, her eyes pleading him not to tell, and nodded affirmatively.

"...it just was." Mulder finished lamely.

Olivia looked at them and decided against pressing further, just as Elliot eased the car into the street by the victim's apartment. Olivia opened her mouth to start to advise the agents of the method to question a rape victim, but Scully cut her off before she could.

"Don't worry, Detective Benson, we've done this before. Don't press too hard, but keep going if it seems like the victim can handle it, don't offer comfort unless it's requested, and so on," she said with a smile.

Olivia smiled also, and followed the agents into the victim's apartment.

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Jennifer Meyer was a small woman for her age. She was roughly Scully's height, with long brown hair and blue eyes. As she spoke to the agents, she was curled up on her couch, wearing sweats and a suspicious expression.

"Nobody believed me before," she snapped. "Why should I think you'll believe me now?"

Mulder smiled disarmingly at her.

"Ms. Meyer, I guarantee you that even though the other officers didn't believe you, there is nothing you could say that would shock me." Mulder reached across the table and put his hand on top of hers. "I promise."

The young woman's eyes immediately filled with tears. She looked down, trying to collect herself for a moment.

After they heard a few soft sobs, she looked up.

"I lied when I said I never saw any of him," she began. "I did...but I'm not sure I really saw what I think I did..."

"Tell us," Scully said gently.

Jennifer let out a gasping breath.

"I think...it was a man. I thought I saw brown hair. And...." she broke off, looking at them tentatively.

"His eyes were frightening. It was like there was some kind of black substance in them."

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After they had questioned the victim, they met Munch and Fin back in the bullpen. The looks of complete confusion on Munch and Fin's faces matched Elliot and Olivia's exactly.

"Hey!" Olivia called. "What did CSU find?"

Munch and Fin walked up to them, shaking their heads.

"Dr. Queen isn't even sure. They found this black stuff at the crime scene, and the best I.D. they could make was...it was a form of black oil."

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A/N: And we journey into more X-Files territory! I got a great response on the last chapter, please keep it up! Enjoy, read and review!