Title - Wish For - 4 of ?
Author - Lady Disdain
E-mail - The_Lady_Disdain@mailcity.com
Rating - R (Mary has a dirty mouth)
Category - 
Description - 
Summary - Be careful what you wish for...
Spoilers - None
Disclaimer: Mulder and Scully and their ensemble cast 
are owned by Fox. Characters of my own invention are 
owned by me. (Wow that even makes sense, I think.)
Author's Notes are located at the end of this story.
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Wish For - 4 of ? by Lady Disdain 
<The_Lady_Disdain@mailcity.com>

"Be careful what you wish for
You may regret it
Be careful what you wish for
You just might get it"
 - Metallica

 I hate highways. I hate going so fast while you're 
so close to other cars. I hate the eighteen-wheelers 
with engines that roar as they speed past you. I hate 
having to cross three lanes of traffic to get an 
exit. 

 Life in Kansas may have been boring but speeding 
down a D.C. highway while being pursued by wanna-be 
kidnappers isn't the kind of big city excitement I 
dreamed of while holding my dog Toto as I sung "Some 
Where Over The Rainbow".

 I'm kidding about the singing thing but I still hate 
highways and we do have a dog named Toto. Mom thought 
she was being clever.

 Our tires squeal as we rapidly change lanes. Scully 
has one hand on the wheel the other is holding her 
cell phone. Great.

 I have no idea where the hell we're going and I 
don't want to ask. I'm afraid of the answer.

She's a little nervous, I can tell, her voice shakes 
as she says, "Mulder, its me. We're going south on 
Highway 256 and are being followed by a black van 
with no license plates."

 I don't know how she thinks he can help, I'm pretty 
sure we're on our own.

 Finally I'm so nervous and scared that I yell, "What 
the hell are you doing?!"

"I'm *trying* to keep you safe!"

 The van's gaining on us.

"And your doing *damn* fine job of it!"

She glares at me. Ouch, ice. 

"*Your* the one with the powers, remember?" Her 
eyebrow arches at me. "Why don't you just wish them 
away?"

 If only it were that simple. Getting that guy to 
knock some glass bottles over, making a baker screw 
up Scully's order, I could do all that because it 
only involved fucking with a couple people's lives. 
We're talking about making an entire corporation 
forget I existed. That doesn't exactly happen over 
night.

 I wish we'd just get off the highway.

 Before I get a chance to respond her comment a gap 
opens in the next two lanes, Scully sees her chance 
and swerves, impossibly my knuckles get whiter.

 She's not holding the phone anymore, it's just 
resting on the seat between us. "I've turned off the 
Highway now and onto Exit 23. We're going to try to 
lose them in the national forest." She yells into the 
general direction of the phone.

 Forest what forest? She answers my silent question 
by quickly turning at the sign that says "National 
Forest". Oh.

 Shit. The van is still behind us. All of the trees 
scare me just as much as the highway, what I would 
give for the plains of Kansas! It gets worse as we 
move higher up into the mountains.

 We are speeding on a back road that somehow I don't 
think was meant for the usual campers to use. She's 
going too fast, the turns are too sharp.

"ROLL DOWN YOUR WINDOW!!!" She yells at me and I 
shakingly obey.

 I understand why as she loses control on the next 
turn and the car flips and beings to roll down the 
ditch.
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