The Truth is Out There--Scene 90 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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Mallory had just called Franz and told him she was in position.  
He was leaving with Adria and would be at the front doors of 
the facility in the next 15 minutes.  She sat low in her car 
while the rain washed over the windshield watching the 
facility being packed up.  She thought that maybe it would 
work, that Franz's plan was possible.  With the chaos that 
was in front of her, Mallory thought that Franz had a fighting 
chance of gaining access.

"Who am I kidding?" she mumbled to herself.

Just then, she saw a flash of black skitter behind her car 
and drop off into the woods.  It was followed by another, 
taller form.  

Mallory slowly and quietly got out of her car and walked 
towards the woods where the two forms had entered.  She saw 
them up ahead and drew her gun as she approached them from 
behind.  They were sitting up on the branch of a tree 
pointing to the facility and talking quietly.  

"Hands where I can see them!" Mallory said with authority.

"Shit" the taller figure muttered.

"Hands!"  Mallory snapped.

The two figures reluctantly raised their hands and Mallory 
moved closer to them.  When she got closer, she looked up to 
see two people she recognized from photos she had studied.  
The woman on the branch looked at her too, somehow knowing 
her face.

"Fox Mulder and Dana Scully" Mallory said as she holstered 
her weapon.  

"Mallory Suharta" the woman said as her partner looked from 
woman to woman astonished.

"Maybe someone should fill me in" he said as he jumped from 
the branch and onto the ground.

"Mulder, this is Mallory Suharta, she is one of the two 
agents AD Strickland has issued 'Kill on Sight' warrants for" 
Scully said as she went to climb down the branch.

Mulder helped her ease herself to the ground and turned to 
face Mallory.  "Why aren't you out of the country?"

"How do you know me?" Mallory asked Scully, ignoring his 
question.

"Skinner got me up to speed on you and your partner, Franz 
Lutman" Scully said as she wiped a wet strand of hair off 
her face.

"When did you see him?" Mallory asked.

"Just over a day ago" Scully answered honestly "Where's your 
partner?"

"Oh, shit" Mallory said as she reached for her phone.

She called Franz and, without telling him why, asked him to 
meet her at her car instead of going to the front entrance.  
He reluctantly agreed.

"Suppose you tell us what the fuck you're doing here" Mulder 
said as he eyed the agent.

"Franz and I have a hostage; she's a doctor who has been 
working at the facility since it opened.  She works with the 
patients" Mallory said.

"Where is she?" Scully asked stepping closer to Mallory.

"With Franz in the car, on their way here." Mallory offered. 
"Why are you two here?" 

"We have to stop the project" Scully said pointedly "for the 
sake of our son, and all the other kids they are doing this 
too."

"Your son is with you?" Mallory asked, looking around.

"No" Scully replied tersely

"What do you know about the facility?" Mulder asked, trying 
to change the subject.

"Uh, we have a layout and the location of all four kids in 
the facility."

"Only four?" Scully asked to clarify.

"Two died recently as a result of test complications" Mallory 
explained.

Mulder winced at the thought "what was your plan?"

"Franz was going to enter the facility with Adria and gain 
access to the kids.  He was going to take the kids that could 
walk with him to my car and any others...he was going to kill."

"He was going to kill them?" Scully asked, upset by the 
information.

"Ms. Scully if you knew what those kids have been through the 
last few years...death would be a gift."

Mulder and Scully fell silent as they looked at the agents wet 
eyes.  They knew she had heard too much information about the 
tests to be innocent of the pain these kids had been in.  

"What were you two going to do?" she asked, wanting to change 
the subject.

"John!" Scully said as she started to run towards the edge 
of the forest.  

"There's someone else?" Mallory asked Mulder as they stood 
waiting.

"John Doggett is with us." He answered plainly.

"So, what was your plan?"

"Oh," he paused "Scully was going to go in as a lab technician 
and shut down some alarms for me and John to gain access to the 
facility.  From there we were going to grab files, and extricate 
the kids.  We thought there would be more, maybe ten."

"So pretty much the same thing" Mallory said.

"Except for the killing" Mulder said harshly.

Mallory shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot.

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The end of scene 90