Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997
Subject: EP> SRA - Cat and Mouse

From K@tie at DKScully@juno.com
Part: 1/5
Rated: PG for language
Category:SRA
Date: July 1, 1997
Spoilers: Momento Mori
Summary: Mulder is captured and Scully along with the Gunmen play cat and
mouse games to get him back while discovering Scully couldn't go on
without him.
Dislclaimer: Mulder,Scully,Skinner, and the Lone Gunmen do not belong to
me, though I'd awfully like to have them so if you're feelin generous,
CC.....<g>No really, they truly belong to CC, 1013, and FOX, no
infringement is intended.
Author's Note: This is the first time I'm writing a story in parts, but
this idea just came to me and since I've never done a big story before,
thought I'd give it a go. Tell me if you'd like to read more and I'll
send it out based on how many would like to see what happens, k?<g>

Cat&Mouse

Mulder wasn't at work today, but that hadn't worried her, he was
probably home sick. She'd call him as soon as she was in her car. As
she walked out of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, a car pulled up along
side her and a familiar face poked out. "Frohike," she said with a sigh.
"You scared me."

"I'm afraid I'll have to scare you again, get in."

She looked at him strangely. "I really have to get home I have a
lot of work to do since Mulder wasn't at work tod-"

"Exactly," he interupted her. "Mulder wasn't at work today
because he was kidnapped. Please just get in the car," he said slowly
with pleading eyes.

Her face went pale and she got in the car. "What's going on,
where is he?" She asked as the car pulled into traffic.

"A group of people known as the incorperation got him. They have
nothing to do with your Cancer Man and their more ruthless," Langly
informed her.

"Well what do they want?" She asked shakily.

"Mulder came in contact with information they needed. They got
to him but not the information." Byers told her.

"So can't Mulder tell them where to get it?"

"You know Mulder, Scully. He'd die before he did that." Langly
said

"Damnit," she swore to herself quitely. "Is it that important?
Why would he do this to himself, to me?"

"Actually, this information is very important. The knowlege
Mulder came in contact with can save your life. It's the cure for your
cancer." Frohike said, a bit strained.

She sat back and closed her eyes, ready to cry. "He did this for
me," She said softly.

Frohike looked to Langly and Byers. They both nodded and he
gently placed his hand on hers. "Dana, a while back, about a month after
Mulder introduced you to us, he told us something you need to hear right
now. He said if something like this ever happened to him, and he hadn't
told you already, for us to tell you that he wouldn't give the years you
were partners for anything in the world. Even Samantha. He wanted you
to know that he would do anything for you, and um, most of all that uh,
he loves you."

Her tears were pouring now as she cried with her face in her
hands. Frohike put a soothing hand on her shoulder, and a single tear
fell down his own cheek. He didn't know if it was sympathy for her or if
he was just devestated because Mulder decided Scully was hot too.

After a couple minutes, she got herself back together and asked,
"What can I do?"

"You mean what can we do," Langly corrected with a small smile.
"We're going to help you get him back cause we're kind of attached to him
too."

"First of all we think Mulder would have given you clues of where
to find this information, so we'll have to look everywhere. Your
apartment, his. Your office, anywhere that you two go." Byers said

She nodded and closed her eyes again. "Thank you guys so much
for helping me," She said with sincerety.

"Anytime, G-Woman." Langly quipped.

She gave him a small appreciative smile.
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End of Part 1 Please send all comments to DKScully@juno.com! ;*) K@tie

Cat&Mouse:Part 2

Scully was frantically searching her apartment. Where would
Mulder put that information? It wasn't in her kitchen, living
room,bathroom, or bedroom. After three hours of looking, she decided he
didn't hide it here. Tensely, she sat on her couch and grabbed her cell
phone.

"Mulder residence."

"Langly, it's me, I can't find anything here, have you guys had
any luck over there?"

Langly looked over to Frohike thumbing through the collection of
videos that "weren't" Mulder's and smiled. "Well, we haven't found the
information."

Scully sighed on the other end.

"Hey listen, Scully, where else do you and Mulder go?"

She rubbed her forehead. "I really can't think of anywhere
that...wait, I think I might know. Meet me at the Lincoln Memorial on
the bench by the reflecting pool."
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She jogged over to see what looked like the three Stooges from
behind sitting on Mulder and she's bench. She smiled a little at the
thought. She came to stand by Frohike who was sitting on one of the
ends.

He smiled up at her. "You were right, Scully, we found a disk
along with a note addressed to you." He gently handed her a folded piece
of paper. She put it in her pocket, and they went back to her apartment.

While the Gunmen were at work on Scully's lap top, she curled up
on her sofa and pulled out the note. It read,

'Dear Scully, I've given you the information to cure your cancer
on the disk. No matter what happens don't give it up, don't trade it for
me. I hope the Gunmen have kept my wishes and told you how I feel. I do
love you Dana, and that's why I'm doing this. If God should see me
through this, you need to know that I love you and always will. I hope
that the information is useful and I'll be able to see you again. I love
you, Dana.

Fox Mulder'

She was crying again, and before her tears could hit the paper,
she noticed there already was tear stains there. Mulder had been crying
when he wrote it. This just made her cry even more as she held the
letter to her cross. The Gunmen turned around and Frohike went over and
put his arms on her shoulders. "Well get him back, Dana, I promise."
She nodded and stopped crying. "So what exactly does this disk say?"
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Cat&Mouse:Part 3

Langly and Byers turned to look at Scully. "It's amazing,
really, we've never seen anything like it." Byers told her. "There's
instructions on how to make cancer killing, hybrid DNA strands. The
picture shows a normal strand with 48 chromosomes, but then the next
picture shows extra chromosomes that don't look like the others, they're
grey in color and oval shaped. Supposedly if these strands were
implanted into the nucleus of your cancerous cells, they would eat them
and cure your condition."

Scully sat back in shock. "But that's impossible, DNA doesn't
work that way-"

"Scully, with all you've seen in the X-Files, you've started out
thinking it was impossible, but then had it proven to you that it was
possible. All those times and just this once, you can't have faith in
the man that proved it to you all along? Just believe in him and trust
us. Anything is possible, you just have to be open to extreme
possibilities." Langly pointed out.

She smiled and looked down at her hands that were folded gently
in her lap. "You remind me of Mulder." She sighed. "I want to
believe."

Langly nodded and turned back to the computer. "All right, then
the next step is to see if these people are willing to make a trade. Of
course we'll copy this disk first and then give them the original, but
until then, they've got to contact you first."

"Langly, my friend, you are forgetting that if you make a copy,
the original will give away that we still have the information. There
are small details on the disk that can be found when you makes copies."
Frohike reminded him.

"Ah, but not, my dear friend, when we hammer out the details with
a laser," Langly said with a smile.

Frohike came up behind Langly and put a hand on his shoulder.
"You have an absolutely brilliant mind."

Langly laughed and smiled again.

Shaking them all out of their relaxed state, the phone rang.
Scully almost sprang to get it, but Frohike put an hand on her shoulder.
He pushed the trace button and then motions that it was okay to answer.

"Scully."

"Agent Scully, I have a proposition for you," said a voice that
was definitely using a voice pattern scrambler. "We have Agent Mulder,
and are willing to trade him for the disk."

She was silent for a couple of minutes.

"Agent Scully?"

"How do I know you haven't killed him?"

There was a loud noise on the other end and she heard a groan.
The next moment, her heart started beating again. "Scully," Mulder
wheezed into the phone.

"Mulder, are you okay? Did they hurt you?"

"Scully listen to me. Don't make the trade. Don't-"

And then he was gone and the voice was back.

"Damn it! You bastards! Don't you hurt him!"

"Why Agent Scully, you sound upset. Give us the disk and you'll
get your lover boy back." And then the line went dead.

She looked weakly to Frohike. "Did you make the trace?"

He shook his head with sympathy. "No, they were using some kind
of digital scrambler. Whoever they are, they're very cautious."

"But they didn't even give me a date or time, what am I supposed
to do?"

"You just wait here and get some sleep." Byers told her. We'll
take the disk back to our place, make the copy and fix up the original.
If they call again, let us know. Lock your door and pull the shades down
on your windows. You'll be okay."

She nodded.
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The next morning, the Gunmen were back bright and early and even
fed her breakfast in bed. Frohike gave her a single red rose, and she
kissed him on the cheek as a thank you.

The phone rang again, and their features froze. They didn't even
bother with the trace because they knew it was useless. Scully picked up
the phone carefully off its cradle.

"Scully."

"Nice to hear your voice again, Agent Scully. I'm sure Lover boy
here would like to hear it too, but he's not going to."

In the background, she heard a fist connect with a face, and then
someone slam into a wall.

The voice grunted. "Your lover gets a bit uppity when I talk
about you. Have to watch what I say, he throws a pretty good punch.
Back to business. Meet us in the back of the alley at 51st Street at 6:00
P.M. You bring the disk and we bring lover boy. Deal?"

She took a deep breath and looked around at the Gunmen. They all
nodded in agreement. "Deal."

"And don't try anything or bring anyone or he's gone." Then the
line went dead.
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End of Part 3. Please tell me what you think, I'd love to hear from you!
All comments can be sent to DKScully@juno.com Thanx for reading, K@tie
;*)

Cat&Mouse Part:4

It had been four days and the Incorporation had neither showed or
called. Scully was getting extremely nervous, and the Gunmen just about
lived at her apartment now. Within the time frame of Mulder getting
kidnapped, she and the Gunmen had become inseparable friends. She
discovered that their paranoia paid off sometimes, and aside from them
being crazy, they were good people and friends at that.

She was laying weakly on the couch after not getting more than
five hours of sleep in those four days when the phone rang. Her heart
jumped into her throat as she reached over to answer it. "Scully," She
said with the Gunmen watching over her.

"Why Agent Scully, good to see you haven't given up faith in us."

"Why didn't you show?"

"Well it seems lover here was a bit uncooperative so we punished
him by making him wait to see you a couple days."

"Stop playing these cat and mouse games with me," she said with a
conviction and temper she didn't think she'd have the strength to carry
out. "This cat when pushed is a dangerous weapon, and I don't care if I
die or not, I scratch hard, and my bite is worse than my roar, trust me.
Now meet me or prepare for the consequences cause God knows I've got the
conviction to bring you down."

The voice was silent on the other end and then spoke. "Have a
temper, do we kitty? Well for some reason or another I tend to believe
your little speech, and besides, I'm getting tired of waiting. Meet us
tonight, same time and place." And the line went dead again.
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Right after that, the Gunmen left for the apartment building on
the right side of the alley where Scully was to meet with the
Incorporation. They wanted to be close to her without being seen so they
got a room with a window by the alley, and stayed there.

Around six, Scully's car pulled up, and she walked with the disk
in her hand to stand about 20 feet away from a big black van with no
license plate. A man got out dressed all in black. He held the voice
pattern scrambler to her mouth and then spoke to her. "Glad you came. I
bet you can't wait to see your lover." He snapped his fingers and two
more men in black jumped out of the van, one holding a gaged and weary
Mulder.

"Mulder." She called to him breathlessly

His eyes pleaded her to leave, but she wouldn't. Not when she
was this close. One of the MIB's walked over to her other side.

The voice spoke again. "Extend both of your hands. The man on
your left will take the disk, and the man on your right will hand lover
to you. The exchange will occur at the same time so neither on of us is
cheated. Deal?"

She nodded solemnly, and held out her hands, one holding the
disk, the other open, ready to take Mulder. In the next second, the disk
was taken from her, and Mulder was shoved towards her, but then shot in
the back of his shoulder. The MIBs jumped back into the van and took off
as police and ambulance sirens came closer. Scully thought to herself
the Gunmen must have called them.

She ran into his arms, and he held her as best he could, still
shaking from being shot. She didn't care about his injuries at that
moment, she was just glad to have him back alive. She held onto him so
fiercely her body shook against his, and she was crying uncontrollably in
his embrace. She ungagged him and smiled through her tears. She just
couldn't help it anymore, she started to kiss him anywhere she could.
Quickly darting kisses across his cheek to his lips and then to his other
cheek. When she reached his jaw, he tilted his head, and she kissed his
neck. He took her face in his hands, their foreheads touching, and he
whispered into her lips, "Dana, I love you," before kissing her so deeply
she stopped crying for a brief moment and kissed him back. When they
broke apart, her tears returned, and she held him again. He gently
rocked her, holding her back with one hand, and her head to his chest in
the other. He closed his eyes and kissed the top of her head as the
ambulance sirens came closer.
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End of Part 4 Please send all comments to DKScully@juno.com, and enjoy
reading part 5 ;*)K@tie

Cat&Mouse:Part 5

Scully sat in a chair right next to Mulder's hospital bed with
the Gunmen standing behind her. The doctors said he'd be awake any
minute now. She held his hand, just grateful that they both got out of
this alive.

Mulder's eyes blinked open to find four smiling faces watching
him. He smiled back at them.

"Hey. How are you?" Scully asked him softly.

"Okay I guess." His smile turned into a frown. "Scully, you
shouldn't have given them the disk. It was your only chance."

Langly held up another disk. "Not quite Mulder, you should have
had more faith in us than that," he said grinning. "We made a copy."

"But they'll kno-"

"Laser," Langly reassured him. "They'll never know."

Mulder let out a sigh, smiled, and laid back against the pillows
supporting him. "Thank you for taking care of Scully."

"Oh, we didn't take care of her, she's a strong woman, Mulder.
We simply helped her out." Byers corrected.

Mulder nodded and smiled. "Well thanks for helping her out."

"Anytime. Besides, we got to be really good friends. Don't let
this one go, Mulder." Frohike said sincerely. "And if you do I just
might have to take her up for myself," he added smiling.

Scully blushed and Mulder smiled back.

"Say guys," Mulder asked, "Could we have some time alone?"

"Yeah, sure, we better get going anyway, never safe to stay in
one place too long." Langly answered for them. "Later guys."

"Later," Mulder said.

"Bye, and thank you," Scully added.

They all smiled at her once more and then left her and Mulder to
themselves. She held his hand.

"I thought I'd never see you again. I was so scared." She said
just above a whisper.

"I was scared too. I needed to see you again. To tell you face
to face that I love you more than anything. I need you in my life," he
whispered. He lifted their entwined hands and gently kissed her palm.
She leaned in and kissed his cheek and then the crook of his neck, and
finally his lips. When they broke away, she rested her forehead on his.

"I love you too," she whispered into his mouth. "No more games
of cat&mouse. This kitty wants her mouse to stay with her forever, and
never run away again."

"I promise you I won't run away any more....kitty," he whispered
with a smile.
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The End!!!!! So how was my first more-than-one-parter?<g> Please let me
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