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Intruders

Diana was not stupid. She knew something was up the moment Shelly entered the room.
Years of training to combat psychic tricks showed her that something (or several somethings) were following Shelly as she moved. It was almost like a trail of smoke and it had taken years of practice for her to even see that.

Diana stepped in front of the distracted woman and startled her. The smoke stopped and gathered and then moved past her. For a moment, when Shelly was startled, the smoke looked almost like shapes.

There is another one in here. Diana thought and looked around carefully.

"Where are you going Ms. Richards?" Diana asked with a smile that could kill.

"Oh uh, I was going to get some air." The startled girl responded.

So young. Thought Diana as she watched her struggle to look unfazed. Shelly kept watching over Diana's shoulder and finally Diana turned to see what she was looking at.

The hidden smoky vision was crossing through the door.

Dammit.

"We have intruders! Lock the gates! They are cloaked, so I need the specialists out here now!" Diana yelled and an alarm went off. She watched outside as a thick iron wall slid out and covered the gate where escape was possible. The smoke stopped moving for a moment and once again became more defined. She saw what appeared to be five shapes.

"They are outside!" She yelled and pointed, "I want this one put under arrest and held in a sterile cell until I, or any others immune, can talk to her no one can have contact!"

Two guards took hold of Shelly and began to pull her away.
"No! Diana wait! Please! Please don't make me go back down there! I will be good please! I can help!" Shelly yelled as she kicked and screamed and Diana felt a tinge of pity for the girl.

She was almost nineteen and had never known a life outside of this one. Diana had met her not long after she was reinstated and put on this assignment.

Diana had known her mother as one of the abductees that she had monitored. She'd had a certain affection for the girl, which is how Shelly had gotten the position she had. Diana realized now that she could never let her feelings toward someone affect her reasoning.

She turned her head to where the smoky vision had been to see a familiar group being apprehended.

She'd known it was only a matter of time, but it still gave her a headache.

There, right outside the doors stood, Gibson Praise, Walter Skinner, Dana Scully, William Van De Kamp, and Fox Mulder in a wheel chair. The one thing that she had not expected was to see Skinner holding onto specimen G86.

Gabby. The girl had been a problem from the day she was born. Gabby was the last child of the project. She was similar to William in that her mother had been an abductee that Diana had known.
Gabby's mother was just sixteen when she had her baby. She had been rendered barren by the things done to her, but she had not even known that yet. Gabby's father was also just a teenager who wanted to do the right thing.
Taking them out had not been an easy thing to do.
Diana flinched a bit at the memory of the young girl holding her baby to her chest and refusing to give her up. She watched as her child's father was killed and still did not move. In the end that'd had to remove the baby from her limp arms.
Every time Diana saw the little girl, she felt ashamed of that day, but this time she felt anger. That little girl never stopped trying to escape and helped others escape. She had been moved around the country eight times and each time found trouble.

Seeing her was not too much of a surprise.

Diana felt the familiar pang in her heart when she saw Fox slumped in the chair somewhere between conscious and unconscious. Seeing Dana Scully also brought a few choice words and feelings to mind.

The older Gibson Praise seemed ready to run back in and help Shelly.

Ah. She thought and understood then that Gibson's mental shield had failed, because of the girl's cries.

She sighed and went to go meet them where they were being held outside.

Gibson had been prepared for the possibility of Shelly being apprehended, but he was not prepared for how much anguish she would be in.

She was screaming out loud, but on the inside, was shouting for him. They were taking her to a dungeon type place where she would be forced to sit for hours on end. She had lived years in the room with little human contact and the horror of going back was too much for her.

Gibson felt the young woman's pain and turned back to see that William and Gabby also felt the pain. Gabby's little hands were balled up around Skinner's shirt, her eyes were closed and her head was bowed into Skinner's neck. William had his hands over his ears as if that could help him. His eyes were squeezed shut and Scully had let go of the wheel chair to examine him.

It was only a few moments before the shield was gone and they were exposed to the world.

"I'm sorry," he said aloud and they all looked in the direction of the door to see armed guards coming for them.

They took off running, even though they knew there was no escape. The guards caught up with them easily and soon they were being detained.

As they had started to run, Scully had taken one hand off of steering the wheel chair and had grabbed on to William. Her hand was now being pried out of his and the other off of the wheel chair.

She fought to keep hold of her son, but they pulled him away. William's eyes were closed shut as if he were concentrating. Scully saw that Mulder only seemed half aware of what was happening and he looked to her for help.

The mysterious little girl was being pulled away from Skinner screaming and kicking. Skinner tried to pull his gun, but was hit over the head before he could get to it. He crumpled to the ground where a guard began to put him in hand cuffs as well. Scully was forced to the ground on her stomach and was being handcuffed when she saw Diana.

Seeing Diana alive was more annoying that unbelievable to Scully. Over the course of the entire ordeal, she had been continuing to remember her life and now memories, new and old, of Diana filtered in.

She saw her standing near Mulder and holding his hand and felt the heartbreak that her young self had felt. She saw Diana in the basement office of the X Files building doing the job that she had stolen from them. She saw pictures from the crime scene of Diana's supposed murder. The last few memories were recent, all under a year old.

Diana telling her the same story over and over again. The story of the woman she wanted Scully to be, the story that Scully had believed.

This out of all of the memories made her the most angry.

She glared at Diana as the woman approached them.

"You can let them stand up, but don't let go of them just yet," Diana directed. Scully was roughly pulled to her feet, as were Gibson and Skinner. The children were just being held firmly while Mulder had been handcuffed to the chair. Diana bent down in front of Mulder and touched his face. Mulder moved a bit to dodge her hand, but she just took his face between both of her hands.

Rage nearly blinded Scully, "Don't you touch him!"

Diana looked over at her with a humorless smirk and stood up, "Dana aren't we past this? Fighting like a couple teenage girls over the cute boy?"

"You tortured him for months!"

Diana walked began to walk toward her and Scully tensed up as the men holding her arms held on tighter, "He was happy actually. You should ask him about it when he is stable again. You've moved him too soon and he is suffering from motion sickness. My doctors will take care of him."

Another woman in a lab coat had joined them outside and she now approached Mulder with a syringe drawn.

Mulder was starting to react to his surroundings, "Don't…" he tried to pull away but the woman grabbed his arm roughly and injected him.

Scully didn't even think as she brought her foot up behind her and kicked one guard in the thigh with her heel. The man yelled out and let go while the other man was momentarily distracted and Scully used that moment to shove him sideways.
She ran toward Mulder's chair. She didn't know what her plan was. Her hands were cuffed behind her back and she was really useless, but she couldn't do nothing. She got to Mulder as his eyes closed again and she shoved the 'doctor' to the ground with the force of her whole body.

Before she could think of what to do next, more strong arms were grabbing her and shoving her to the ground.

A guard nearby helped the woman she had pushed back up and she looked angrily at Scully before she began to push Mulder away.

"No! Diana, stop this! Why are you doing this?" Scully yelled, but it came out with a slight wheeze at the end as a knee was driven harder into her back.

Diana stood over her and looked down, "It is because I see what needs to be done and I do it. I don't let my feelings or the opinion of others get in the way of my job."

"What is your job exactly?" Skinner chimed in angrily.

"Well sir, I don't answer to you. I answer to the future. I am fighting for humanity and I will not let you get in my way."