Scully cackfully dashed down the hall toward Skinner's office. She nearly slipped due to the speed of her feet along the wet corridor floor, she dashed inside Skinner's waiting from to be confronted with Doggett and a woman sitting on the sofa "Why was I called as a matter of urgency?" she questioned almost dragging Doggett away by his sleeve, it was just that he managed to haul her hand off that prevented such a situation "What?" Scully asked noting Doggett's eagerness to stay beside the woman "This is Agent Reyes" Doggett explained motioning to the lady who had a bitchy expression "I'm Agent Scully" Scully said full of confusion, Reyes stood up and shook her hand "I've heard about your *work*" she said with sarcasm "I haven't heard about yours" Scully bitched back as she waited for a further narration from Doggett "Skinner called us in earlier. Somebody saw Agent Mulder" he said. Scully's mouth dropped open she suddenly felt the urge to sit down. She slumped in the chair and stared at the floor in shock "We're being called in as a task force to investigate" "Er.." still Scully was in shock, she looked up when she saw Skinner emerge with a smile "I think you had better come inside" Skinner said pulling her up, he tugged at her sleeve until she obliged with his request. Inside he was confronted with Kersh and a little fat bald man "Agent Scully this is Peter Shingles" the fat man stood up and shook her hand "I think you need to sit down" Skinner advised. Scully took the empty seat beside Peter and waited "Agent Scully" Kersh said with raised eyebrows and a smile "We have good reason to believe we know the exact where abouts of Special Agent Fox Mulder" he said with satisfaction. Scully smiled "Where?" she asked eyeing everyone in the room "He was spotted three times in New York" Kersh said "By three witnessess" he added "Where was he spotted?" "A cafe, a diner and the supermarket" Skinner butted in "We have searched three addressess in the area and in two addressess we found subsational evidence leading to Mulder" Scully began to cry with joy and relief. She knew Mulder was alive and that one day he would probably come back and she would no longer have to be in the company of Doggett "What now?" she asked "Well I am assiging agents Reyes and Doggett with you to go and track him down" Kersh explained "Thank you" Scully said rising to her feet "I am sure you will find him" Kersh said "I HAVEN'T FINISHED" he yelled as he noted Scully was almost out the door, she suddenly grew embarrassed as she realised she was cacking "Er...sorry" she said returning to her chair "Peter here is a detective from the New York police department" Kersh said "I searched all three of the addressess suspected of being resident to agent Mulder" Peter said "At two addressess we found small clues" "Like what?" Scully asked "We knew agent Mulder to like sunflower seeds, that correct?" he asked, Scully nodded eagerly "He's favourite movie to be A Wonderful Life?" Scully became confused "Pardon me I meant Scooby Doo" he said through embarrassment as he remembered A Wonderful Life was in fact his favourite, Scully's face sprang back into a smile as she remembered Mulder was an avid fan of Scooby doo "Yes he liked Scooby Doo" she said "We also found a few pencils hanging from a ceiling" he said leaning forward "This is what we couldn't explain" "Oh er" Scully found it difficult to explain "So we had to cross this one.." "Wait" she said "Mulder tended to become bored in certain situations. To accumlate his dullness he would simply stick pencils into the ceiling" "Really?" Skinner asked in surprise "Yes sir" she said "You have to love him for it. Not everybody can entertain themselves so..." "Stupidly" Kersh snapped "I think we have had enough of your time agent Scully" "Thank you" Scully said shaking Peter's hand "I appreciate the information" she said "Agent Scully" Kersh said "Make sure you get Doggett of his arse, no slacking" he warned. Scully nodded and departed from the office where again she saw Reyes and Doggett giggling and talking on the sofa, when Doggett saw her he rushed over "Come on" he said yanking her trenchcoat sleeve "We have to leave for New York" "Sure" she said now in a fresh state of mind JOURNEY TO NEW YORK Scully gave agent Reyes another dirty look as she puffed another cloud of cigarette smoke in her face. Reyes comprehended that her fag was anoying Doggett and Scully so she chucked it out the window "So" Doggett said from the backseat "What's the first address we're going to inspect?" "A place in 23rd Avenue" Reyes said "The last address he supposedly stayed at" "Supposedly?" Scully asked abruptly "Well yes" Reyes answered "Well I am pretty sure Mulder was there" Scully bitched "Well I didn't mean he wasn't there. I am just saying supposed because supposedly the evidence suggests he was but we cannot determine for sure whether he was or not" she said leaving Doggett and Scully confused. They both exchanged confused looks "So you think he was?" Doggett interrogated "I am quite sure but not positively sure" said Reyes not looking at the two agents as she indicated the care to turn left "Right" Doggett said leaning back in his seat "I don't see why agent Mulder is in New York" "Neither do I" Reyes said "Perhaps he doesn't feel ready to go back to work" Scully suggested "I guess" Doggett said wonderesly "Whatever the reason we need to look for clues as to where he went next" Reyes said cacking for another fag "Maybe he went to Washington" Doggett said placing his face in between the two front passenger seats. Scully looked to see something move beside her. At first she thought it could be some kind of creature that had occupied the car via the window Reyes had left open while she puffed away on her cigarette. She turned her head to see Doggett staring at them both "He would have done that first" Reyes said "If I know agent Mulder, which I don't he would probably need some time to think" "But you just said you didn't know him" Doggett pointed out with bafflement "From what I have heard about him" Reyes explained "I agree" Scully said finding Reyes concepts interesting "Mulder would never be able to be abducted by aliens, returned and then come back to work. He would need time to recollect the past few months" "When we examined Teresa Hosey we found that she had been experimented upon" Reyes began "Do you think Mulder was also experimented upon?" "Perhaps" Scully said "I don't think aliens would actually spend time abucting people from planet earth simply to experiment on" Doggett groaned with skeptism "I think Mulder just needed some space so..." "Shut up!" Scully yelled giving both Doggett and Reyes an earache "If you don't believe in the theory that those little grey men come down and took my partner then just be quiet" she said through a tearful expression. Doggett realised he had been being skeptic again and he knew Scully didn't respect that kind of behavior in her company. He extended his arm to the power button on the car stereo. The radio came on playing "Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bete Midler. Doggett pulled a dreamy face and comfortably lounged in the back seat. The song reminded her of Mulder. She had once devoted it to him as she did with many songs. She thought of Mulder as the wind beneath my wings "Hey" Doggett said roughly grabbing her shoulder "What?" she snapped with anger "Scrag told me a joke about this song" Doggett said finding it hard to speak through laughing "Is this a crude one?" Reyes asked through excitement "No" Doggett answered leaving Reyes disapointed "He said that his version is devoted to agent Pitfall. You know the..." "Fat agent" Reyes said "Yeah the fat agent" he said still laughing "Instead of wind beneath my wings, it's wind beneath my ass" he laughed. Reyes began to laugh at his pathetic joke. Scully rolled her eyes and glanced out of the window "I love fart jokes" Reyes said still giggling "I know..." "You make a great team" Scully bitched "Especially your sense of bathroom humour" "Here we go" Doggett said "What's that supposed to mean?" Scully asked "Starting another argument" "Well your the one who made a stupid rude joke about something I don't find at all amusing" "Come on" Reyes said "It's natural to..." "I know it's natural as is number two's" Scully said trying to retain her reputation by referring to shit in a mannerly way. Suddenly she heard Doggett laughing loudly, she looked round to see him red with tears running down his face "What?" she asked annoyed "Number...Number two's" he squealed "Well I know what you would call them" she said bitchily "The same..." "Come on guys. Do you really need to keep fighting?" Reyes questioned turning the radio up louder to drown out their squabbling. The radio was now playing "Fantastic Day" by haircut100. "Sorry" Scully said feeling guilty. Agent Reyes wasn't as bad as she at first expected her to be. Doggett was not being fair on her, he kept starting arguments "Me too" Doggett said realising he was taking the blame for Scully's rudeness LATER, NEW YORK CITY GEORGE'S APARTMENT BLOCKS 23RD AVENUE "This is it" Scully said retreiving the key from her pocket "This is the address on the case file" "These apartments are slighty dirty" Doggett observed "Whatever" Scully said unlocking the door. She walked into the dark apartment, she reached around for the light switch. Her hand came across it, she flicked it on to be greeted by a run down old apartment. The wall paper was hanging off the walls, there was no carpet nor curtains "I guess these are the sunflower seeds" Doggett said. Scully turned to see Doggett in the kitchen. She dashed over to examine the little heap of sunflower seed cases "This was Mulder" she said with a joyful grin "He always positioned the outer shell like that" "I am sure this has to be evidence" Reyes said producing a Scooby doo video from under the sink. Doggett wondered why Mulder had taped it there, was he hiding it as a clue or was he just stupid "Why would he put it there?" Scully asked "I know he's a Scooby" she said "A what?" Doggett questioned "It's a big scooby doo fan Doggett" she snapped turning back to Reyes "Perhaps he always keeps his videos there" Reyes suggested "No he always puts them neatly under his TV cabinet" Scully explained "Except he hasn't got a tv ca..." "Does it matter?" Doggett butted in "Why don't we get these seeds analyized and also the tape too" he suggested "Good idea" Reyes said "I am going back to DC soon. I will take them to the FBI lab. I'll fax the results to the police station on Laker Avenue" she said putting the items carefully in an evidence bag "OK" Scully said with a smile "I'll see you soon" Reyes said leaving the apartment "Now what?" Scully questioned "Look" Doggett said tugging her sleeve. She looked to see a photograph on the kitchen side. It was a skinny little kid with large 70's hair. She suddenly realised it was Mulder in his teenage years. She yanked it from Doggett's hand and cuddled it "Looks like some kind of Donny Osmond attempt gone wrong" Doggett joked. He felt a finger poke his chest "Don't insult Mulder" she said weepily "That's Mulder?" Doggett asked full of shock "Yes" she said "It's a clue, he wants us to know he was here" she said with joy "On the back" Doggett said noticing some badly handwritten words "An address" Scully said widening her eyes "Maybe..." "Mulder is there" she said running from the apartment FAITH HEALERS RESIDENCE OREGON "Mr Bamboo" Scully yelled thumping the door loudly "I know your in, I saw your chintz curtains moving" Doggett yelled retreving his gun "FBI" Scully yelled "I am going to count to fi..." the door flung open. An old man stood in the doorway. Scully recognised him, it was her and Mulder and worked with him several years ago. She remembered him to be a faith healer "Jeremiah" she said with stunment "I thought it was Mr Bamboo" Doggett said "Mulder said he gave you my address" Jeremiah said inviting them in "Jeremiah Bamboo?" Doggett questioned "Bamboo is my code name" Jeremiah said offering them a seat in two empty chairs "I have some very bad news" "What?" Scully asked leaning forward "Agent Mulder came to me yesterday" he said looking down at the floor. Doggett watched on as the man began to speak "He asked me to perform a faith healing operation. Your partner was taken" "By what?" Doggett asked "Ssshhh" Scully said angrily "ET's"Jeremiah said "They implanted him with an alien virus. The virus killed him" Jeremiah said sadly "No" Scully screeched making Doggett jump "PLEASE NOOOOO" "Calm down" Doggett said restraing her "How do we know your telling the truth?" Doggett asked. Scully sat sobbing "You have to trust me" Jeremiah said "Trust no one" Doggett said "That's what agent Mulder believed, right Scully?" Doggett asked his tearful partner "Yes" Scully said "How can I trust anyone when my partner couldn't even speak to me" she cried "I refuse to believe he is dead" Doggett said rising to his feet "I don't believe for a second Mulder would come here" "Why?" Scully asked "Mulder was your friend. Why would he travel all the way out here to speak to a complete stranger?" "I'm no stranger" Jeremiah said "Mulder and Scully worked a case with me a few years ago. In fact Mulder knew me well" "Not well enough obviously. If you said..." suddenly Jeremiah pushed Doggett over "Hey!" Scully screamed chasing after Jeremiah as he attempted to scarper "Come back here" "Scully" Doggett yelled "Don't chase him" "Why?" she asked "You're chasing a lie" he said "Mulder came to him for a life saving procedure. I think he peformed that procedure and sent Mulder away" "Where is he then?" she asked still crying from the shock of the recent news "Let's go back to Washington and file a miss.." "There's already a missing persons report, are you stupid?" she bitched "No but I see no reason why Jeremiah wouldn't p..." "Look" she said roughly pulling him up from his fallen down position "Mulder is dead" "I bet he isn't" Doggett said wiping the dust from his suit "I will continue to believe so" she said "I am going to come to terms with his death" she said running from the house. FBI HEADQUARTERS 8:55AM NEXT DAY Doggett walked into the office expecting to find it empty. He walked in and caught sight of Scully weeping in front of her computer "Morning" he said with sympathy. She didn't answer "Listen..." "Hush!" she said placing her finger to her lips gesturing the shut-up of his voice "They found Mulder's body" she said with deep depression "When?" Doggett asked with shock "Earlier" she said "Where?" "His apartment" she replied pushing her swivel chair away from her desk "They found him holding a carton of milk in his hand" she said. Doggett couldn't help but find it funny, he didn't laugh through respect but he did actually find the situation amusing "They asumed he was settling down to watch Scooby Doo his tv and VCR were both switched on inside the VCR they found a tape, Scooby Doo" she said suddenly bursting into a fit of tears "Hey" Doggett said running over. He placed his arm around her "He loved Scooby Doo" she said. Still Doggett held back the urge to laugh at the fact Mulder actually enjoyed a cartoon about a dog "I remember one time" she said in recollection "I went round to his house and we watched his most enjoyed episode" "I guess Mulder was one for kids programmes" Doggett said trying to make her feel better. A slap was received for his exertion "I didn't mean it nastily" he said "I'm sorry" she said "I just can't help it" "Why don't you go home" he suggested handing her, her snake skin bag "No!" she protested "I don't want to be alone" "Okay" he said looking around the office for a distraction to her grief. He didn't know how to handle a situation like this "Why don't I go and get you some tea" "That would be lovely" Scully said "No problem" he said "Scully" he said before he left "Did Reyes get back any information on the sunflower seeds and tape?" "Yes" she said "It was Mulder" "Ok" he said abondoing the office in a flash. Scully glanced over to Mulder's old desk. She had hoped one day he would return to use it again. She knew this wouldn't happen now. She felt depressed as she remembered all the case she had gone through with him. All the times she had been nasty to him, she wanted to apologise but now she never would. The door opened, expecting to see Doggett or probably somebody else who she wasn't in the mood for but instead she saw Mulder. She was stunned and shocked, she couldn't believe her eyes she guessed either she was imagining it her it was his ghost "Hey Scully" his dry voice said "Mulder!" she said rising to her feet "What are you doing...doing here?" "I work here" he groaned with not a float of life in his voice "But you're dead" she said running toward him "Mulder!" she said shirekfully "Since when?" he questioned opening the filing cabinet beside the door "Since you disappeared" she said grabbing his sleeve "Let go this is Vasaci" he snapped loosening her grip "What's with you?" he asked dazed "What's with me?" she asked in fury "You're supposed to be dead Mulder" "Well I think maybe you're having some kind of strange thing going on here Scully because I am pretty much alive" he said openeing the case file he had just retreived "I am going to take his up to Skinner, we can talk when I get back" he said with his usual happy smile. Mulder walked out leaving the door half open. She didn't realise she was holding her breath until Doggett walked in with two paper cups and a smile "Doggett" she said breathing some air in "I just saw him" she said eyeing the room in a state of dazement "Who?" Doggett asked peeping out of the door to catch a glance down the corridor "M...M..er my friend" she said realising that what had just happened was due to her grief for Mulder. She had imagined the entire thing. Not wanting Doggett to think she was some kind of raving lunatic she decided she wouldn't tell of her mad event "It's nothing" she said wanting him to hand over her tea. She really needed it to help with the shock of Mulder being dead "Scully, I need to you understand that I am here for you" he said giving her, her long awaited brewed tea "I know we don't get on" "No" she said "I am not getting along with you" "I am a..." "I am rude to you" she said still crying "I was rude to Mulder sometimes. Not as much as I am rude to you. I will never forgive myself for all the times I treated Mulder like dirt" "Don't be so hard on yourself" he demanded "I am sure Mulder understands" "Your only saying that to be nice" she snapped "Okay I am" he admitted "That's it" she yelled grabbing her bag "What?" he asked, wondering why she suddenly got ready to depart "I have just lost my partner. You're supposed to be making me feel better not putting me down" "I..." before he got the chance to explain she run out slamming the door behind her. In a way he was glad because he could finally have the office to himself. Although he didn't know Mulder much he really felt pitty for him. He knew he believed in aliens and he was called spooky Mulder he had even in the past spread a rumour about him. He now wished he hadn't as he glanced over at the name plaque on his desk. He glanced down at the floor. The door opened, he looked behind to see him. It was surely agent Mulder "M..." before he finished Mulder made himself comfortable at the desk "Who are you?" Mulder asked raising his eyebrows "What have you done with Scully?" he asked paranoid "N.." "If you've hurt her" Mulder warned "I didn't" Doggett blurted out with alarm "She went somewhere" he said gulping. Was he really seeing Mulder? Was he going insane? "That's okay then" Mulder said making himself cosy in his chair "Who are you?" "Agent Doggett" he answered "I'm Agent Mulder" he said walking toward him. He shook Doggett's hand and smiled "Why are you just standing there?" "I don't know" Doggett replied not able to understand what was happening to him "I'd like to just sit here and watch you stand there all day agent Doggy but I have work to do" he said with a happy facial expression "I will get out of your hair" Doggett said making sure he wasn't dreaming by pinching himself "Much obliged" Mulder said turning his attention back toward his case file "Close the door on the way out" he said. Doggett left closing the door gently behind him. He stood in the corridor for a while trying to come to terms with his insane minute. He contemplated going back inside just to check he really saw what he did but forced himself not to. Instead he go the lift up to the fourth floor where he would speak to Jean-Paul Crisp the FBI's therapist. The lift doors opened, he saw Scully waiting outside the office. Wiping her face with kleenix "If you've come to say sorry I..." she began "No!" Doggett said sitting beside her "What do you want?" "I just saw something that I can't explain" he said. Scully was still shocked from her imagination which was why she had decided to come and see Jean-Paul. She waited for him to speak but instead he just sat there "Well?" "I think I need to see Jean-Paul" he said. The lift doors opened to reveal Skinner. He dashed over and sat down beside Doggett and Scully "Sir?" Doggett questioned "Don't ask" Skinner said with the same expression as the two agents "Can I ask you something?" Scully asked leaning forward "Did you both happen to see Mulder?". They all exchanged puzzled looks. Doggett and Skinner both nodded "He must be here" Scully said jumping up "We..." "Aren't you forgetting something?" Doggett questioned tugging her sleeve "Mulder's dead" he reminded "Agent Doggett I hate to break the news to you but all three of us have seen him" "I know" Doggett defended "I also know he can't be alive. We're going to view his corpse today" "Maybe he isn't dead?" Scully questioned "He can't be" Skinner said "There was however a positive ID on his body" "By who?" Scully asked "An old friend of Mulders" Skinner said "It's not him. He was acting too normal like nothing had happened" Doggett said acting is if they were stupid "Maybe the real Mulder isn't dead and he has amnesia" Scully suggested "Your right" Skinner said standing up "I think we should go and take a look in the office" Doggett said following them to the lift. Inside the office they saw Mulder still sitting at his desk in the same position Doggett had left him in "Mulder" Scully said running over "I wondered where you had gone" Mulder said wondering why she was cuddling him "What's with the audience?" he asked with sarcasm "Mulder don't you know what has happened?" she asked "No" he answered "What do you mean 'what happened'?" "You went missing" Skinner said walking over "For ages you were gone. Somebody found your body today at your apartment" "That's impossible because I am sitting right here" Mulder snapped angry at their accussations "Assitant Director" Doggett said, Skinner turned round "We should find out who made the ID" "Go on agent Doggett" Skinner requested, Doggett nodded sadly and left the office. He now felt depressed because he knew now Mulder was back who would probably be removed from The X-Files he actually admitted to himself he liked Scully. Before he thought she was a right bitch but now he decided she wasn't as bad. LATER "Pardon my intrusion" Doggett said as he entered the office to find Skinner and Scully filling Mulder in on the recent happening "The man who made the positive ID was Jeremiah Smith" "He made a false statement" Scully said angrily "I think he wanted everybody to believe Mulder was dead" Doggett said stupidly. He received several looks as if he was an idiot "I suppose my work here is done" Doggett said collecting a carboard box from the cabinet beside the door "I'll pack m..." "Agent Doggett" Skinner said grabbing his arm "Agent Scully has something to tell you" he said "Yes" Doggett said thinking perhaps she was going to break the terrible news he was no longer required in The X-Files division "I think you should sit down" Mulder suggested with a grin "OK go on tell me" Doggett said with a sad glance, he eyed the floor "Doggett I am pregnant" she said excited. Doggett couldn't believe his day. What was going on? "Pregnant?" he questioned "You're joking?" he asked with a happy smile "No I am six months pregnant" she felt relieved he finally knew why she was so violent and aggresive "Why didn't you..." "I was afraid but now it's out in the open" she said glancing back at her partner Mulder "No wonder you have been taking personal time" he said now realising all the clues were staring him in the face "That day when you..." "Had a pregnancy scan in my drawer and you were being nosy as usual..you found it and you confronted me..." "OK" Skinner said wishing they would stop with memories "Now what?" Mulder questioned "I cannot remember a single thing" "Well Mulder" Scully said turning back to the man she had been informed was dead just a few hours ago "I suggest we take you to the hospital" "No way" Mulder protested "Sir" Doggett said barging in on the conversation "I still don't believe what I am seeing". A slap was presented in a familiar style this time by Skinner "Do you now?" he asked. Doggett nodded "They have Jeremiah Smith arrested" Doggett said "Now what?" "I guess they'll arr..." "NO" Doggett said loudly "What about..." "My office tomorrow morning 8:00am" Skinner snapped wanting the man to leave. He really wanted to spend some time with Mulder after his weird departure "Bye" Doggett said leaving the office with depression "Who is that guy?" Mulder asked "My partner" Scully said "You mean he has been working The X-Files?" Mulder asked angrily "Yes" Skinner replied "He is sceptic" "I am gonna kick..." "Mulder!" Scully warned "I am on maternity leave soon" she reminded "Don't be to hasty, you may need him for a case" "Damn this" Mulder said frustrated "I woke up this morning as I would any other morning and instead of solving a case I get told a load of jargon I don't even remember" "Mulder you will need to come to that meeting in my office tomorrow too" Skinner explained "Scully is on maternity leave for a while tomorrow and I think we need to sort something out" "Oh goody" Mulder bitched THE END
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