CHAPTER 6

 The Dean of the college had no problem allowing the Federal Agents to use a side office in the administration building. The one thing he was curious about was, “they only sent two of you?”

 Mulder sat down his brief case and opened it, “you only have one kidnapping, you get two agents.”

 The Dean thought about that for a moment and then responded, “I thought the old line was one disaster, one agent?”

 Mulder pulled out his small electronic gadget to sweep for ease dropping devices. He then looked to the Dean in a very serious way, “hey we’re the Federal Government. We double up on everything.”

 The Dean nodded, “wastes more money?”

 “Exactly,” Mulder waited for the man to leave but the Dean just stood there. Mulder snorted, “do you mind?” 

 Finally the Dean closed the door behind him and then the agent began sweeping for ease dropping devices in earnest. He stopped when he saw the needle peek. He closed in on the spot where the signal was coming from and then he turned up the speaker so he could hear what it was.

 “Dana I don’t think you should…”

 Skully heard her voice coming from the phone and the extra speaker, “Mulder do you mind! I’m on the phone here! Would you put that thing away!”

 After cutting it off Mulder did add, “I still think we should check you for bugs.”

 “In your dreams…” Skully caught herself, “no not you Mom!”

 Mulder had already sat down behind the desk and was flipping through the notes left for him by the agents from the field office. They had already made initial interviews of all the witnesses and done a preliminary background check on the victim. He would go through the witness statements in a moment. For the time being something in the background check had caught his eye.

 The victim here, snatched into a pick up truck as she was walking to her dorm room, was the daughter of an Air Force Doctor! Mulder found that most interesting. As he read on he found even more, “Skully do you realize that this girls mother works on a classified project. This Cassandra Frazier also has no records of being in school up till fifth grade. There is no birth certificate, no…”

 Skully grunted, “can you hold on a second Mom.” Skully marched over to the desk and pointed to a part of the report, “the girl’s Canadian and adopted. Says so right there Mulder.”

 Uncharacteristically Mulder cracked a grin, “no wonder the Senator asked us to investigate it. She’s an alien.”

 That did not seem to humorous to Dana, “very funny Mulder.  Mom, so you were saying…”

 Fox flipped through some more pages and then flipped back between them several times. He then pulled the packet, that he had received from the Senator, out of his trench coat and looked at the times and dates. 

 “Dana we have a problem here.”
 Finally hanging up her cell phone, Dana walked back to the desk and looked at what he had found. It was something the agents from the field office could not have known. She noticed that Mulder was sitting back in the office chair with his arms folded behind his head. She felt like wiping that look right off his face, with a bazooka, “oh don’t look so smug.”

 “Do I have to say I told you so,” Fox held his nose high. He waited, and then waited some more, before asking “you know that apologizing thing?”