Title: A Well-Prepared Shipper On The Web
Author: Alli (alli@ecis.com)
Rated: PG
Category: Humor, X-File
Spoilers: Arcadia, and the other Shipper stories
Disclaimer: *snigger*
Summary: Shippers: if you could go back in time and send one email to
an X-Files character, who would it be to?


The shipper had to be careful here.  If the pictures were too
incriminating, she could get them in trouble.  So everything had to be
done very delicately... 

There was 6X13arcadia.jpg -- that was a very good choice, even if it
technically hadn't happened yet.  The full disclosure episodes hadn't
even happened yet, actually, meaning The Fowl One and Jeffery
Spender-Bender were still frolicking around the X-Files office.

Well, she'd see to THAT.

The typed in the name of the Arcadia picture and set about looking for
another, grinning wildly when she came upon the picture she had
appropriately titled "yum.jpg", the manipulated picture from
Post-Modern Prometheus.  This was even better, because if it was
examined, experts would be able to tell it WAS manipulated, and no
lasting harm would be done.  Well, not to any HUMANS, anyway.

"Good work," she told herself.  She was beginning to wonder if perhaps
she wasn't interfering a little too much.  The iced tea, the sleeping
bag, Diana's shooting... nothing either of the agents would be
terribly suspicious of.  But Phoebe flambé, and the incident with the
beekeeper getup... they HAD to be curious about THAT.  At least Mulder
would be.

But even Mulder would never be able to imagine in a million years what
the Truth actually was.  And where it was from.  And what it was
doing. And why...

She did a fairly good impression of Dr. Evil's laugh -
"Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!" - as she clicked the send button.

XXX

When Mulder arrived at work the next day, he heard from Skinner that
Diana Fowley had just been taken to the hospital after what seemed to
be a heart attack.  She hadn't been doing anything strenuous at the
time, which Mulder found perplexing.  All she had been doing was
checking her email.

XXX

Scully stood in the X-Files office.  It was dangerous to be here, but
after hearing of Diana Fowley's attack while reading her email, she
had to see what it was that had been so alarming.

The two photos displayed on the screen were impossible, but horribly
funny.  The one of her standing with Mulder's arm around her - Mulder
in a PINK SHIRT! - was a fake, obviously.  And the other one... well,
yes, she remembered dancing with him, but they hadn't kissed.  It had
to be a manipulated picture.  Although it WAS strange that it was in
black and white.

Scully snapped on the latex and touched the mouse, noticing that the
reply address to the anonymous email was as interesting as it was
obviously fake: shipper@heart.com.  What was a shipper?  And who was
doing this?  The same person who had accosted her in the hallway of
Mulder's apartment last summer in the beekeeper outfit, perhaps?

Well, Scully didn't really care WHO she was.  She was obviously
friendly; she'd put the bitch in the hospital with those clever
pictures.

Scully clicked "DELETE" and left the office.

THE END