Chapter 5: Green Eyes
Nowhere
The space around Scully was black but it had no walls or doors. There was just infinite blackness stretching out in all directions around her.
“Hello?” She called out and her voice echoed eerily back at her in the dead space. Although it was black it wasn’t dark and she could see clearly in all directions. There was nothing to see.
Then she saw a figure walking towards her. As he drew closer she recognised him as Mulder and called out his name. He didn’t even react. He wasn’t looking in her direction and he didn’t seem to hear her. He stopped and looked around – looked right at her – but he still didn’t seem to see her.
“Mulder?” She called again, but he just began walking away from her. She hurried after him.
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Mulder’s Bathroom
12:17 AM
Mulder sat against the bathtub, opposite the mirror, as Elizabeth told him all that she could remember of the last few months of her life.
“It started at my friend Lynda’s sixteenth birthday party. Somehow she’d gotten hold of a Ouija board and we all crowded around it. It was just a game. Go through the motions, move the glass, ask silly questions. ‘Who will I marry?’ Things like that. Then glass began to move on it’s own.” Her voice began to tremble. “Something made it’s presence felt. It told us that it was trapped somewhere far away. We asked for it’s name but it wouldn’t tell us.”
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Nowhere
Mulder kept walking. Although he going at a slow steady pace, Scully had to run just to keep the distance between them constant. Suddenly he stopped. Scully carried on in the hope that she could now catch up with him. Instead she collided with something and the force of it was enough to make her fall to the ground. When she stood up the cause of her fall was not immediately apparent. Mulder was still standing just a little way ahead of her and she moved in his direction but came up against a barrier. Still nothing was visible but there did seem to be something stopping her from getting to him. She tried to feel her way around the barrier but it was impossible. She yelled herself hoarse calling his name but Mulder just stood as if he was waiting for something.
Then Phoebe Green appeared.
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Mulder’s Bathroom
“After that first time we couldn’t stop. The demon, or whatever it was, kept asking us questions. About ourselves, about the world, about other people. It got so that we were going out every night to speak to it. First at Lynda’s house and then into an old barn. The building had to have been a hundred years old and the only ones that used the place were bats and owls, until us. Over the course of a couple of months it got less like a game and more like a ritual. I couldn’t really tell you why but we lit candles and fires. Danni got a book..” She laughed. “..a book of chants. We used to recite them.” The smile disappeared from her face. “Stupid really. We didn’t see what was happening.” She turned a burningly direct look on Mulder. “Then my friends went *very* strange.”
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Nowhere
Scully was suddenly very angry. Mulder watched Phoebe Green was a look of anticipation. They embraced and kissed passionately. Scully pressed herself up against the barrier but couldn’t get through. <Mulder *shouldn’t* be there with that woman. He just shouldn’t!>
Then the unthinkable happened – Dr Bambi stepped out of thin air right behind Mulder. Possessively she placed a hand on his shoulder and turned him out of Phoebe’s arms into her own. He didn’t protest as their mouths met. Scully stared in horror but Phoebe didn’t seem to mind. She just began touching his back and kissing his neck. Just as Scully thought that her eyes couldn’t go any wider another familiar face appeared.
“Oh what?” She exclaimed out loud as Detective Angela White joined Mulder, Bambi and Phoebe. The three women took it upon themselves to start removing Mulder’s clothes. He didn’t appear to mind at all.
Scully repeated over and over to herself that she was in no way jealous. <No Way!> She just didn’t want to have to watch it. Despite herself the action beyond the barrier kept her transfixed, until a sound drew her attention to her left. Cancerman stood there lighting his cigarette, just watching Mulder and the women. Scully turned back towards Mulder.
“Mulder!” She screamed as a warning but he still didn’t hear her and he didn’t notice the extra audience. An audience which – Scully now saw – was growing all the time.
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Mulder’s Bathroom
“They went strange?” Mulder asked. “How so?”
“They started to claim that they didn’t need the board to talk to the demon. They could hear it inside their heads.”
“But you didn’t hear it?” He asked and she shook her head.
“No. They started meeting without me. I found myself more and more left out.” She laughed bitterly.
“Then what happened?” Mulder asked. Elizabeth’s brow creased and she concentrated.
“That last night..erm..I was going to my last meeting. I was going to tell them that I wasn’t doing it anymore. We started in the barn but for some reason they’d decided that we should do it in the woods out behind it. They lit candles. Then..then..I can’t remember what happened next.” Mulder sat up a little straighter.
“Try.” He insisted softly but she just shook her head sadly.
“That’s all I can remember.” She looked up at him steadily. “You should get some sleep, you look wasted.”
“Thanks!” Mulder said with a twisted smile.
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Nowhere
From the blackened ends of the dead space materialised horrors that Scully had hoped never to see again; Flukeman, Tooms and a host of other monsters – human and not quite human – as well as a number of what Scully thought to be EBE’s. They crowded around but Mulder didn’t see them. He was too intent on the trio of women.
“Mulder! Oh my God! Mulder!” She screamed but he couldn’t – or didn’t want to – hear her.
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Mulder’s Bedroom
He was tired but he didn’t think that he’d be able to sleep. He underdressed and got into bed. Despite his thoughts, his eyes began to slid shut and Fox Mulder drifted off to sleep.
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Nowhere
“Mulder!” Scully screamed again knowing how fruitless it was. A small laugh sounded behind her and turned around in shock. Elizabeth was standing behind her, smiling.
“That’ll work.” She said softly.
Scully woke up on the couch in Mulder’s apartment.
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Mulder was having a great dream.
“Mmmmm, Scully.” He breathed softly.
“Oh Mulder.” She whispered back and he felt the bed dip as she climbed in beside him. Her hands travelled lazily across his chest. Her lips followed in their wake. He moved his hands so that his fingers played in the hair at the base of her neck. She moved up over him finally reaching the base of his neck. His eyes remained closed. At length they lips met and the sensation seemed *so* real. He’d dreamt of this so many times but had it ever felt this real before? Suddenly she moved, straddling his hips and his eyes snapped open. She towered over him, panting slightly, and was very *very* real.
“This is real.” He said, unnecessarily, and she smiled.
“Finally.” Her voice held an odd note that didn’t really sound like Scully. “I’ve waited too long.” She lowered her mouth to his.