Roses for my Man

Chapter 12

(Enter the FBI!)

“Hyman Escalara claimed he was attacked by a werewolf and the wounds that he sustained would seem to bear that out, right? And then, Wetzel over here sees a wasp man with stingers for teeth and he gets a bite mark that you say is irrefutably insect-like, right? And then another eyewitness claims she sees Freddy Krueger. Scully, what if we're dealing with one creature, one entity that, when it attacks, appears to you as your worst nightmare? Fear. Maybe that's what this thing feeds on.”

– Fox Mulder (X-Files, episode X-Cops)

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“Profiling is an art, Scully,” the Agent said as he and his partner walked into the Church. Fox Mulder, Agent of the FBI, magnificent Profiler, and head of the X-Files department didn’t look at all disgruntled when he had been given this assignment. For one, there was a crop circle case he could easily look at while he was in town, and second, Skinner wasn’t exactly happy with him or his partner (even though it wasn’t really her fault) and so, they had been sent to rescue a cop. An under cover cop by the name of Thomas Hanson.

“They have better office space than we do, Scully!” Mulder said. He whistled as he did so. Scully just rolled her eyes as she got the attention of a Detective.

“Hi, I’m Agent Dana Scully and this is my partner Foc Mulder, we’re here to see Captain Adam Fuller,” she said.

“Oh, hi!” the detective smiled a bit at them, “I’m Officer Judy Hoffs, Coach has been waiting for you. He seemed when he was told you two would be coming to help us out,” Judy said with a relieved smile of her own. She led the two agents to the door and knocked before leaving them. Mulder and Scully entered.

The man behind the desk reminded Mulder a bit of A.D. Skinner, except the man was black, had a great sense of style, and was grim.

“Agent’s Mulder and Scully, right?”

“Yes, sir,” Scully replied.

“I’m not going to lie to you; our officer has been missing for around two weeks now. In normal kidnapping cases, by this time I would have to assume that he’s dead. But, from the evidence we have…” here Fuller looked pointedly at a box full of tapes, “I have to assume otherwise, I think that the kidnapper may just…keep him…for lack of a better phrase,” Fuller explained.

“What do you know so far?” Mulder asked, taking a look in the box.

“We have two suspects, Wynter and Jalyn Damascus; out of the two of them we think it might have been Jalyn,”

“What brought you to that conclusion?” Scully asked.

“Hanson got a piece of jewelry as a gift from his stalker. He tracked it down to a pawn shot that had the name of the man who bought it,”

“Good thinking,” Mulder muttered to himself, he pulled out the bad.

“Whoever has you’re Officer, he has good taste in jewelry,” Mulder said.

“Anyway, we don’t have enough evidence to search either brother’s homes,” Fuller said.

“Huh, have there been any other stalking and kidnappings in town recently?” Mulder asked.

“Probably, but Hanson let us know early on, he took precautions,”

“What sort of precautions?” Scully asked.

“He let us know where he would be, he called almost every hour when he could. He left the building with another Officer, later on, when it got bad, he procured a safe house,” Fuller explained.

“Then, how’s this guy get him?” Mulder asked.

“Hanson was on a case, he went to this teen bar,”

“Wow, I wish there was one in town where I lived, that would have been cool,” Mulder commented.

“It’s a nice place, so I hear, no drugs or prostitution allowed, they only serve virgin drinks and soda. Anyway, two teens were hitting on Hanson when they say two men came up and just grabbed him,”

“Just like that? Did he go with them peacefully?” Scully asked.

“No, from what they said, he fought back,”

“Do these kids know that Officer Hanson is a police officer?” Mulder asked.

“They do now,”

“Why were they hitting on him, then?” Scully asked.

“Hanson was undercover to find a murderer who only kills boys who are homosexual,”

“Ah,” Scully nodded her head, now it made sense.

“Once Hanson found a suspect, he’d follow that person till he either confirmed or denied his suspicions,” Fuller said.

“Could it be the same person?”

“No,” Fuller replied.

Mulder raised an eyebrow at his partner; “You answered that rather fast,” he said.

“That’s because we caught the per two days ago, before he killed one of the witnesses’ to Hanson’s abduction,” Fuller replied.

“Ah, and this man never saw Officer Hanson?” Mulder said.

“He did once or twice at the school but wasn’t interested in him, said Hanson was too “old” for his taste,” Fuller replied.

“Okay, so these incidents are two anomalies,” Mulder said.

“Apparently,”

“Okay, we’re going to look over the evidence, you’ll have a preliminary profile tomorrow morning,” Mulder said, then he took the box and everything in it with him as he and Scully exited the office.

“Maybe this isn’t such a bad assignment after all,” Mulder muttered.

“Why is that?” Scully asked, dodging someone who had their hands full of papers.

“Because, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen this happen,” Mulder shrugged almost nonchalantly, but Scully could see the excitement and fear in his eyes.

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Doug Penhall let the Agent’s into his apartment. It was a bloody mess and he could see the clear understanding and fear of contamination on their faces.

“Sorry, I haven’t had much time to clean up…” Doug said.

“Never mind that,” Agent Mulder replied.

“What do you know about Officer Hanson’s disappearance?” Scully asked.

“I know where they’re keeping him,” Doug said.

“You do?” Mulder blinked. This would be a piece of cake then.

“Yeah, I shadowed Wynter Damascus all day yesterday. I tried to get Coach to let us go in there and get him…but he wouldn’t let me and basically told me to stay away from that house,” Doug muttered.

“Well, fear no more. We’ll just get a search and seizure warrant,” Mulder shrugged and pulled out his cell phone.

“It can’t be that easy,” Scully said.

“I hope so, Tommy’s been missing for forever!”

“Forever is a long time to wait,” Mulder said dryly.

“Not when you love someone,” Doug sighed. He sat down on the couch.

“You two are involved?” Scully asked.

“No, well…we’re best friends…I’ve just realized that…”

“It’s all right, it’s probably not important to the case anyway,” Scully intoned.

“I’m gay, I’ve been trying to see if Tommy would go out with me but I can’t seem to get the nerve up…and now he’s gone and…I love him…” Doug said, almost sniffing, but not really.

“Ah,” Scully nodded her head, she knew how that could be.

Mulder was off the phone and he turned to them with a smile.

“We’ll have the warrant this afternoon,” he said.

“Great!” Doug smiled.

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In the end, Doug waited by the phone in his apartment, with directions to clean up, that Hanson would probably want to stay with someone when he was finally rescued or something of that nature while Agent Mulder and Scully went to make the necessary arrangements with other officer’s of the Jump Street Program to get the house under surveillance as soon as possible.

Once that little task was done, Mulder and Scully had the chance for a bit of a sit down.

“Mulder, what did you mean by what you said earlier? About seeing something like this before? It’s a normal stalking and kidnapping case,” Scully said.

“Not if it involves these two, it’s not,” Mulder replied, he pulled out a case file that looked to be over twenty years old. It was a foot thick and it looked as if Mulder had been adding to it.

“Wynter and Jalyn Damascus are crazy son’s of bitches. There aren’t a lot of clues to tie them in with any of the stalking, but, they need a human to support their power,” Mulder said.

“What are you saying?” Scully propped an eyebrow.

“What I’m saying is that these two are psychic Vampires. They live off the human feelings,”

“Mulder…”

“Scully, I know we haven’t been working together for long, but when have I been wrong about this sort of thing?” Mulder asked, looking almost hurt.

“Okay, go on then,” Scully rolled her eyes. Fox Mulder wouldn’t be happy till he got his theory out in the open.

“Here,” he pulled out the photos of three crime scenes.

“Of course there isn’t much of a report on autopsy, however, by the time they were found, their brains had been withered away to mere lumps. This happens one or two ways, the Psychic Vampire will feed often and the brain will turn itself off according to how traumatic the situation is, or, the Vampire will just eat the brain by sections,” Mulder said.

“That is too farfetched,” Scully said.

“Can’t deny evidence, Scully, and I know a Vampire. That’s what he said,” Mulder replied.

“Okay, let’s assume your right, then wouldn’t these two be hard to subdue?” Scully asked.

“No, Blood-sucking Vampires are the most powerful, Psychic are on the bottom bar of the food chain, they can get along like normal people. For a while, till they need to feed off of someone. This can be just interacting with a group in public, sex or…worse,”

“Worse?”

“With each victim, they found a dog collar, and the victim looked to be one of those that had been used as a sexual slave,”

“Not good,” Scully remarked.

“You can say that again, but I’d rather you didn’t,” Mulder shrugged.

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“First floor clear!”

“Second floor clear!”

“Third floor clear!”

“What about the basement?” Mulder called into the headset.

“No one is hear, but you should come look at this,” was his reply.

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A/N – Good grief, I have no clue when this turned into a bloody cross over. But it did! Okay, I am of course refusing to allow the time perimeters, at best; I think X-files started in the early nineties. So, with that said, this is set a bit after the pilot in season one, but hopefully won’t clash with other episodes. I happen to like X-files. I hope no one here minds. I needed some help with this.

And Doug didn’t want to help and I needed an expert on Vampires…that’s where Fox Mulder comes in. Thanks for reading!

Ta,

Dizzy