Title: The Case of The Jolly Fat Men

Author: Neoxphile

Rating: Pg-13

Spoilers/time frame: Takes place the summer-winter after " The Truth."

Category: Casefile Snark

Summary: Sequel to " God! Stop Following Me Around!" which was written for a challenge to put yourself into a casefile fic. In this fic it's two years later, and a new pair of agents think there's something worth investigating in New England.

Disclaimer: I claim no ownership to the characters Mulder and Scully, who are the property of Chris Carter and 1013 productions. However, I do claim ownership to myself, and my imaginary child. I'd be willing to negotiate if CC wished to purchase us, though.

It was the type of summer weather that made you think that winter was never going to come. Or at least those of us hated winter were pretending so. Bright sunny day, a small boy laughing in wading pool, a smaller dog trying to get in... Christmas was definitely the last thing on my mind.

Even over Markie's laughing at Chase's antics, I could hear someone knocking on the front door. Whoever it was, apparently they couldn't hear us in the backyard. I frown. It's not safe to leave the three-year-old wading pool by himself, so I knew that is going to have to disappoint my son by getting him out of pool to check who was at the door. Carrying a squirming, wet, preschooler is not an easy task.

I briefly considered walking through the house, but thought of tracking all that water through just to answer the door didn't seem very appealing. So we went around the side of the house. And startled our visitors.

Sun-blinded, for a second I thought perhaps it was agent Mulder and Scully, but then I got a better look and realized that they didn't look much like them after all. Except for the suits. They had to be feds. Not a good sign.

"Can I help you?" I asked as we came up behind them, dripping.

They both whipped their heads around. Apparently they had been expecting me to answer the door from inside the house. Silly them.

The man recovered first. " Are you Shannon Phile?" He asked in the slightly gravelly voice. There was something of NY in it, but maybe the south too. It's nice to hear that I'm not the only one without a clear-cut accent. It made me wonder how many times he'd moved.

"It depends on why you want to know." Markie was squirming a lot, so I put him on his feet but held his hand. He gave them puzzled stares.

" Mommy, who are they?" He whispered too loudly. Like most kids his age he was still learning about voice regulation. Instead of answering, I ruffled his bright copper hair and gave them a pointed look - I wanted to know too.

As if reading my mind the woman smiled and said, " I'm agent Reyes, and this is agent Doggett. We work for the X-Files. I believe you know about that division of the FBI."

"Unfortunately, yes." I said with a sigh. "Are they around here somewhere too? Mulder and Scully." I added. Who knew how many agents were in their division.

Reyes and Doggett exchanged a look. Did I ever tell you how much I hate that?

Doggett cleared his throat nervously. " No, they're not. They've uh, left the FBI."

"Oh." That was kind of shame. I didn't actually like agents Mulder and Scully, but I didn't at least grown to tolerate them. That sort of thing tends to happen during near death experiences.

" Before they left they told us about the case you had work with them on with." Agent Reyes said. Something about her was very disarming...she seemed way too cheerful for an FBI agent. It made me a little nervous, but then again, FBI agents always tend to make me a little nervous.

The only case. Technically, I hadn't said that I would no longer work with them, but as it turned out they hadn't had any other cases in New England, so they had no need for my consultation.

"And?"

" And we were hoping that you would be willing to consult with us on another case." Doggett said. I found his looks fascinating. He looked like a worried elf. It made me wonder if agent Mulder ever accused him of being an elf. Too. His ears were certainly pointy-er than mine. I think that's why he looked familiar, he could've played one of the extras and Lord of The Rings.

I realized that they were staring at me. I suppose they wanted an answer to their question. Instead of answering I looked down at Markie to see what he was doing. Nothing interesting. " You do realized that on the one case I consulted with them for they nearly got my son and I killed."

Reyes gave me a sheepish grin, but Doggett just looked annoyed. " Mulder' s case file didn't mention anything about endangering civilians."

" Not just civilians. He and Scully were in as much dangers I was."

" Mulder left that out of his write-up too." Agent Doggett said with a little growl to his voice. The dog gave him an alarmed look.