Title: Nisei: Perhaps Because It Was Fate.



Author: Pattie



Rated: PG, (language).



Category: SA, X-File, Missing Scene.



Summary: This Missing Scene is something they should have added.

  

Or maybe not... but who is this guy?  Scully confronts "X".

Spoilers: Nisei. Between Nisei and 731



Archive: Gossamer, Ephemeral.  Show me the flyer points!



Feedback: trish59@444.net   

Welcome as always.



Disclaimer: All characters from the series and the original teleplay

are the property of Chris Carter, 1013 Productions and Fox Studios. I

make no profit from fanfiction composition and intend no copyright

infringement.





                     Perhaps Because It Was Fate



The static sound hissing in her ear told Scully that which she already

feared, knew, and dreaded: Mulder was on that train, and he was in 

grave danger.



She wheeled around to "X".  "Dammit!  I don't know who you are, you 

son of a bitch, but you are going to get him out of whatever this is!"



He just glared back at her. "You attribute great power to me, Agent 

Scully.  I have none. Your partner will seek his *truth* at any cost.

He doesn't realize the price he's really paying."



"And just what is that? His life? Samantha's life? What?"



"I must leave now. Watch, and... " Before he could utter any further 

advice, he thought better of it, then slammed the door behind himself.

His empathy for Mulder would eventually do him in.  He knew that. 

There was so little time to expose the plan the Consortium had, the 

shoddy agreement with the aliens. "X" knew the dangers all too well.

Knowing what he knew, just the knowledge, was dangerous enough. To

protect Mulder and Scully was a risk he had undertaken with great care.



Scully desperately wanted to find out just what that chip from her 

body had to do with all the other women. She was damned if she was

going to believe some cancer story, some tracking system for abductees.

But the evidence was right before her. For a brief moment, a tear ran

down her cheek.



"You all right, Agent Scully?  You look like you could use a break,"

Pendrell stated emphatically.



"Yeah.  Yeah, I could.  Thanks. Agent Pendrell.  I guess I just need

some time.  Time to put things in perspective." She looked briefly at

the floor, then high-tailed it through the lab door, not wishing to

have Pendrell or anyone else see the worry in her eyes. Worry not just 

for Mulder.  Worry for herself.  But it had to be put on the back 

burner.



Where was that train going?  What were the chances he'd still be 

alive if she caught up with it? Would "X" have any conscience,

by any chance, and see to it that Mulder came out of this alive?

With concrete evidence? As she drove down the highway, she was

praying for these very things.



The rest is history. Perhaps because it was fate.



Pattie