The Truth is Out There--Scene 47 from XF3
by Lolabeegood

E-mail: lolabeegood@gmail.com
Distribution: Archive freely with my name attached.

Rating: R
Categories: S, R
Keywords: Mulder/Scully romance, Post-IWTB
Spoilers: IWTB
Summary:  The truth is something Mulder & Scully may have to 
pay a steep price for.

Author's Notes: 

Ever since I watched IWTB I have thought of the ideal way to 
start and storyline a third movie.  So, after much thought and 
deliberation I have a series of scenes that I have written for 
the third XF movie.  The scenes will not necessarily run right 
after each other but they are in sequence.  They are more like 
scenes I would like to see in the XF3 that develop character, 
tie loose ends, and add plot interest.  

I do not own the characters and I don't make any money from 
this.

Enjoy!

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Hanson started to laugh uncontrollably.  

"What is so funny?" Mallory snapped at him, hers nerves raw.

Hanson continued to laugh until he seemed to be gasping for 
air. 

"Robert, have you lost it?" Mallory asked even more on edge.

"He did it for you" Robert gasped between gasps of laughter.

"Fuck you, Robert" Franz snapped from across the bed.

Mallory turned to face Franz and attempted to ignore the hyena 
on the bed "Why did they threaten me?"

"They've been setting me up for years Mallory, and when I found 
out about..."

"How have they been setting you up?" she asked sitting on a chair 
so she could see him better.

"It started with scholarships.  I had my entire university 
education paid for by Kite Pharmaceuticals.  I always wondered 
why a pharmaceutical company was interested in someone studying 
psychology, but then I figured maybe they gave them out to all 
different faculties..."

"When did you clue in?"

"Surprisingly late, actually" he snickered.  "For a profiler I 
didn't even consider profiling myself, but then I started to get 
case after case that seemed to involve the company and eventually 
I was asked, no ordered, to do some things that, in retrospect 
were not entirely legal."

"Not entirely?"

"Mallory, you know how it goes when you are a new agent, the boss 
says jump and you say, how high?  I didn't want to get labeled as 
an agent who didn't follow orders, even if I knew some of the 
orders were questionable."

"So, that's how they found out you'd play along?"

"Well, for a while.  But then I did start to ask questions and 
look into activities...and that's why young Hanson here is my 
boss.  Now they only call on me when they need a profiler as a 
front man."

"Franz, I can't believe..."

Robert Hanson had calmed down his laughter at this point and 
listened to the last bit of explanation "and now I won't even get 
the luxury of being a wash-out like Franz here, I'll be dead."

"Shut up, Robert" Mallory snapped.

"They threatened you, my sister, and my mother,.  You however, are 
a recent addition.  If I walked away, if I failed to do as told, 
they had the ability to kill each and every one of you before I 
would even know what happened."

"So, you are involved with these people because..."

"I have no alternative" Franz finished her sentence and bowed his 
head "I've tried to think of every conceivable way out of this 
hell-hole I live in, but there's nothing, no way.  It only ends if 
I..."

"Don't" she interrupted.

"I should, that little boy..."

"It won't stop them from trying to find him.  We can find a 
way..."

"Ha!" Robert laughed from his spot on the bed "you may be good at 
some things Mallory," he leered "but leave the detective work..."

"Shut up, you son of a bitch" Franz snapped .

"Franz, don't."

"Yeah, Franz.  Although you may be lusting after your little partner 
here..."

Franz knew from the moment he found them in her room that Robert 
Hanson was intimately involved with Mallory.  He also knew that she 
didn't really care much for him from the way she had been dealing 
with him. Finally, he knew that Robert would never clue into the 
fact that he and Mallory were involved, and Franz wanted to keep 
it that way.

"I don't give a shit about you and Mallory" Franz bit back "all I 
care about is not getting anyone I know killed."

Mallory looked at him, stunned.  He knew.  Her heart wanted to 
break into a million pieces but she couldn't allow that to happen 
at the moment.

Mallory walked over to her bag and got out her handcuff keys.

"It's about fucking time" Robert snapped from the bed.

She walked over to Franz and undid his cuffs "I'm sorry" she 
whispered as she leaned into him.

"I don't deserve..."

"Yes, you do" she whispered.

"Uh, over here" Robert called them back to the reality of the room.

Franz looked at Mallory and she knew they needed to talk, without 
Robert present.  He took the handcuffs and walked over to Robert.  
He dragged Robert off the bed and into the washroom.  He snapped 
one on his hand and the other onto the pipes coming out from the 
bottom of the sink.  Robert now had a set of cuffs holding his 
hands together, and a set tying him to the sink.

"What are you doing?" Robert snapped.

"We'll be back" Franz said as he shut the door behind him.

"Your room" Mallory said as the door shut.

"You can't do this!" Robert yelled from the washroom.

"Robert, you better stop yelling or you'll draw attention to 
yourself, and I'm sure you don't want to be found here" Mallory 
chastised through the door.

"Get dressed and grab the files, I'll see you there in a minute" 
Franz said as he walked out her door.

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The end Part 47