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Title: The Antidote Author: Jewlz! Author's Notes: This one just popped in my head.. Archive: Anywhere as long as my name is on it! Category: M/S UST and RST, Character Death Characters: Mulder and Scully and Skinner and CSM and Fowley and Krycek. Disclaimer: No...not mine..wish they were..I'll give them back to Chris Carter and 1013 Productions when I'm done... Feedback: I'd die without it!! jewlz@vnet.net Keywords: virus....death..antidote.. Rating: R for violent thoughts, slight sexual situations.. Spoilers: All...or none... Summary: Mulder and Scully are both infected by a virus....but there is only enough antidote for one of them to live...... X-tra: I loved the thought of this plot line..I hope it works it's way into a real X-files ep one day...I'd love to see it happen! :) Enjoy! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX The Antidote by Jewlz! March 26, 1999 10:13 pm Whitmore Containment Facility Somewhere, Virginia "You take it Scully.....you have more things to live for than me." "No Mulder. You have more to see, more to conquer. You have to find your sister." Mulder huffed and sat back against the white wall. "I won't do it, Scully. You can't make me," he said in defiance. Scully smiled. She leaned her head softly on the wall behind her and closed her eyes. "Mulder?" Silence. "Muuuulllldddeerr..." Scully sing-sanged his name. "What?" He replied softly while playing with the button on his jacket sleeve. "I love you." Mulder laughed out loud. "What? What's so funny?" Mulder turned his head to find Scully's eyes piercing his. "I love you more," he stated simply, giving her a cute 'Mulder' smile. Scully sighed and closed her eyes again. "Mulder.....we only have one hour left. One of us must take the pill." "And it's not gonna be me..." Mulder jumped in hastily, turning back to the sleeve button. Scully bowed her head in her hands in frustation. ************************************************** One day earlier... March 25, 1999 11:21 am Mulder's Apartment Arlington, Virginia "What do you think it is, Scully?" Mulder asked his partner, slightly fingering the unopened yellow package that read 'FOX W. MULDER'. It was Thursday and Skinner had given them the morning off since there were no new cases for them yet. "Why don't you open it up and see?" Scully chided him. She opened the daily newspaper and started reading the headlines for the day. Mulder had called her hours earlier when he got 'the package'. She had gotten up, showered and dressed in her light lavender suit, and headed for Mulder's. Now that she was here, she figured she might as well eat some breakfast and read the paper until they were ready to go to the office. "What if it's a bomb?" he asked while shaking it and putting it up to his ear playfully. "Tick...tock...tick...tock.." Scully showed her annoyance by rattling the paper and turning the page. "Just open it already!!" She yelled from behind the paper. Mulder sighed. "Let's try to figure out who would send it? No return addy, probably no fingerprints....there's lots of classic signs here of the unibomber..." Scully threw down the paper in frustation and grabbed the package from Mulder's hands. "I'll open it!" She yelled, eager to see what was inside, and hating Mulder for teasing her. Mulder watched silently as Scully ripped the package open and stuck her right hand within it only to draw it out quickly. "Ouch!" "What?" he asked concerned. "It...it bit me!" Scully looked down at her hand and noticed a red welt appearing on her little pinky. Mulder carefully lifted her hand and studied it. A tiny speck of blood was coming up from the skin that was 'bitten'. He grabbed a napkin, dabbed at the spot, and let Scully put pressure on it. He reached for the package with more caution and peeked inside. When he couldn't see anything, he tilted it so whatever was inside could fall out. "Whatever it is....it's stuck." "Be careful," Scully warned him as he tentatively reached inside the very slowly. When he withdrew his hand, she saw it was nothing more than a NY Yankees pin with a picture of the stadium on it. Mulder smiled as he noticed that the tiny clasp was undone, and that was what had 'bit' Scully. "Is that all it was?" Scully asked him. "Yeah, but it's ok Scully, I don't think you'll turn into a vampire or anything..." he winked at her. "But I could keep you here for observation..." Scully arched her eyebrows. "I. Don't. Think. So." Mulder laughed at her and set the pin down, accidently scaping his finger too. "Damn!" He immediately stuck his thumb in his mouth. "Mulder....that's not really sanitary," Scully scolded him. Mulder shrugged and waltzed to the bathroom to get some more alcohol for Scully's pinky.he thought. Meanwhile, Scully lifted the napkin to look at her hand. "Oh...My..God!! MULDER!!" She screamed loudly. Her tiny pinky had turned almost pitch black............. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Later that same day...... 3:45 pm Trinity Hospital Washington D.C. "Agents? What happened??" Skinner's voice boomed throughout the hallway to the Emergency Room. Mulder blinked at his superior. "We have no earthly idea, sir." Skinner gazed at Mulder's bandaged hand. "What do you mean you have no idea?? Don't you know?" he asked incredulously. Scully stared down at the floor, not meeting his eyes. "Sir, Mulder got this package...and inside it was a pin.....and we both got stuck by it....and..." "WHAT? What package???? Why are you at the hospital?? Do you know what went through my mind when I heard that BOTH of my agents were taken to the hospital????" Mulder sighed and explained the package and what had happened to his boss. "I'm sorry sir, the pin must have had some kind of fungus or something on it...." "ARE you SERIOUS??" Skinner exhaled. His eyes looked back and forth from Scully's hand to Mulder's hand. "Sir, I assure you that this is *quite* serious," Scully sternly told him. Mulder explained furthur. "Whatever it is, it's acting pretty fast. In fact, the doctors are finding a room for us now. They are going to keep us here to see if it spreads any." Skinner sighed. < I have heard it all now....> "Well, when do you think you'll know something???" Scully spoke up, "Any time now. They are studying the fungus and should let us know something soon." Scully saw Dr. Berry heading towards them. "In fact, there is our doctor now..." Skinner turned his head to see a older man with glasses and a long white lab coat on. Dr. Berry stepped up to them and said, "I'm sorry. We have a containment crew outside waiting for you both. You will be taken to another facility. We just don't have the kind of equipment here to help you." Dr. Berry took off his glasses and rubbed them with his jacket too see better. "Dr. Berry, I am a scientist and a medical doctor. I assume you know more than you are telling us? What is going on here?" Scully spoke vehemently. Mulder glanced at Scully during her out burst. He could tell she was angry by the fire in her eyes......and that meant Dr. Berry better speak up. "Well, it's like this. We couldn't exactly identify the exact nature of whatever it is.." he explained as he trembled slightly. Scully raised her eyebrows at the doctor. "EXCUSE ME?" Skinner put a reassuring hand on her shoulder's to steady her. "Agent Scully, I'm sure that the doctor here has a very reasonable explanation....right Doctor??" Skinner let his 'you're a dead man' gaze lock onto Dr. Berry's eyes. The doctor fumbled some more. "All I know is this. It's not a fungus..it's a virus. It's been incubating in your system for hours now, staying in a complex form. But as soon as your bodies recognize it as an enemy, it will attack it, letting loose millions of simple virii that will start to kill you both very slowly. Unless you have some sort of antidote,....." Dr. Berry nervously looked over his shoulder. "What? What will happen Dr. Berry??" Mulder forced him to respond. "Unless you have an antidote....you will both die within 48 hours.." Scully and Mulder were speechless. Skinner just bowed his head and prayed a silent prayer. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Later on that very same day..... 5:57 pm Dark office Somewhere, Somewhere Diana Fowley poked her head in the office and spoke into the dark. "May I can in now?" "What took you so long?" A voice rang out at her. "I suppose you heard what happened by now?" she stated to the other dark figure. "Yes, I have." Fowley observed a brief orange radiance from a flicker of a lighter to light up a cigarette and then go dark again. "Well, I did as you asked me. At least *I* didn't screw it up." She walked closer to the dark figure. "I can always trust you dear. It's Krycek I don't trust. I knew somehow he would ruin things for me." Fowley felt a arm sneak around her waist. "I told you not to trust him. I'm the only one who really cares about you darling..." Fowley bent to kiss the ear of the dark figure. The dark figure chuckled softly in the dark. "Of course, if Agent Scully hadn't been there, all went have went well." He let Fowley take a quick puff of his cigarette and then poke it back in his mouth. "I promise darling, I will make everything right again....just as you like it." Fowley blew a little in the dark figure's ear. "So I suppose you will give them the antidote?" "Yes.....but only for one of them, and if I know Agent Mulder like I think I do, he will make her take it. Agent Mulder will die, just like you planned it." She whispered softly in his ear, and nibbled a bit on his nose. "Of course......you always know what I want...." the dark figure smiled in the dark. "You always know...." XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Still later on...the exact same day..... 8:16 pm Whitmore Containment Facility Somewhere, Virginia Mulder and Scully had been led to a white room with twin beds, a desk with nothing on it but a pen and paper, a small white couch, a tv in the upper corner of the room, and a tall white divider in the middle that divided the bed space in half. Mulder, still in his suit that he had had on since breakfast, glanced up at the tv and wondered out loud, "I wonder if we can get the playboy station??" Scully, looking equally distressed, gave Mulder 'the look' and replied nonchalantly, "I wonder why we have to have the same room??" Mulder grinned evilly and quickly grabbed Scully around the waist tightly. "Oh baby....just think about it! Me and you.....locked away together....for the rest of our lives...." He bent down to lip-lock her, in which she deftly avoided it and squeezed out of his arms before contact could be made. Mulder was left hugging the air and kissing an imaginary Scully still in his arms. The real Scully looked back at him and crossed her arms. "Mulder??" she asked playfully. Mulder 'awoke' and put on a sad face. "Sure Scully..but when you start to feel lonely tonight and you start moaning for me, I won't be listening...." Scully blushed and casually turned around so he couldn't see it. She picked the bed on the right hand of the divider by throwing off her shoes and lying down on it. Mulder just wandered around for a bit, letting the 'vibes' settle in. Once he took off his coat, and sat down on the couch to watch tv, he heard a buzz on the door click it open. "Scully..we got company.." XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX End of Part One...Part Two coming shortly..
