Location: Travelers' Inn Guest House, Beaufort, SC
08:25pm
Scully remained still under the warm shower, her eyes closed and her breath getting deep and deep each time she breathed. She felt much better, so much better than how she was when she returned to his room tonight. She looked around, the bathroom was small but was white and clean and it was already filled with the masculine aroma of Mulder's toiletries. She reached for the small complementary bottles of amenities, the only option she had tonight. She never cared of fancy hotel stuff, but surprisingly the small bottle of shower gel was refreshingly lemony scented. "Not Bad" she thought to herself while applying a generous lather of soft milky bubbles on herself. She would have never preferred something citrusy for herself, but how strange, she might have been wrong! Just then there was a loud knock on the bathroom door, breaking away her peace and awakening her to the reality.
Hey Scully..is everything ok? You were inside for almost half an hour and the pizza man also came..
Yea I am..give me five minutes..I will be there
You eat Mulder, don't wait for me – She yelled as she cleaned herself from the frothy mess.
She looked at her own reflection in the blurred bathroom mirror. The plain old simple "Dana Scully" she thought smiling at herself via the small area where she has wiped the bathroom vapor. She felt "really naked" even though his t-shirt reached below her mid thighs. It's too late to turn back now and besides a part of her needed him so badly.
She sighed, before opening the bathroom door.
Hey..I thought you were kidnapped or something! He was chuckling while gulping a mouthful of pizza.
How thoughtful of you, then I would have asked the kidnapper to hold on for a second as I'm so freaking hungry Mulder!
She settled on the bed, leaning against the headboard and covering herself with the soft white duvet.
This is really good! He reached her, passing the half-empty box to her. Oh your coke, here u go!
So – tell me, what do you this really is? She asks with a much curiosity for his surprise.
What? Ah – you mean the case?
Well, I believe this clearly a planned murder Scully. I was able to scan the branding on the victim's neck and it clearly says it all. Here have a look at these – He pulled his laptop, and started a slide show of a few photos of very similar images of the same set of letters.
These ones you see here are from different cases, all married and newly married couples, some of them dating back to 1980s. But all are having one similar factor!
What do you mean, the same person behind all these murders?
Might be..or from the same cult..these letters are not a random set of scribbles Scully. Here have a look at this - he handed her a file with a few printed A4 sheets.
This is a word in Hebrew, the letters אַחֵר stands for "acher" and in plain English it means "Other". When all these cases are examined carefully you see one thing very significant, the female partner is a born Roman Catholic while the male partner is from another faith, as per our case, a Jewish. And among all those you just saw now, it was the same as well. You know what, there were cases in history that people were murdered just because they were married to different casts or social statuses. To prevent another generation which is then believed to be lower than the original higher status they were in. You know what I mean, right?
But this is unacceptable – why would you kill someone just because they are of another faith? Which God would accept that Mulder?
I think this is not directly under the influence of Roman Catholic Church, but there can be people who think they are doing God's work, who are heavily persuaded by these sort of cults.
She sighed deeply – whatever it is we will have to hurry up and stop this before it takes another two innocent lives!