Title:  The S-Files: Roadrunners
Author:  Kristin
E-Mail:  K3L18S80@aol.com
Beta:  Maggie
Keywords: MSR, X-File
Summary: Scully goes off on her own to investigate the death of a 
hitchhiker.
Disclaim:  Mulder and Scully belong to each other, and the baby is theirs.
They also I guess somewhat belong to those mean people at Fox and CC.
But since they don't treat them very nicely I have had to step in.

Fade In:

Deserted Road Somewhere in Utah

A man waits by a bus stop sign, a bag slung over his shoulder. A bus arrives
and stops.  The man boards the bus.  The passengers eye him.  The bus pulls 
off of the road and stops. The passengers and the driver start to all file 
off of the bus.  The man joins them.  They proceed to beat one of the 
passengers with a rock.  The man yells and the passengers begin to surround 
him.

Fade Out:

Fade In:

Mulder and Scully are sleeping intertwined together. A loud alarm sounds. Mulder grabs a pillow and throws it over his head.

"Mulder, come on time to get up." Scully says and she herself rolls over and recovers herself up and in the process pulls the covers off and exposes a very naked Mulder.

"Baby you are a cruel woman", Mulder says as he tries to recover himself.

Scully, "Me? I am not the one that scheduled myself to leave at this ungodly hour on a Saturday of all things. Why again did you agree to guest lecture at this conference?"

"Mitch is an old buddy of mine. He has asked me a million times to do this for him and this was one time that I actually could. Come on, you could still go with me. The lecture is only one day. We have sometime off coming…."

"Mulder…"

"Scully…"

"Mulder, you know I can't go. I have to finish our reports. You know I have this partner who seems to think I, for some unknown reason, like to do all the paper work."

"You could do it on the plane and while I am speaking. Then we can rent a car, drive up the coast. Find a nice little bed and breakfast." Mulder says as he pulls the blankets back to expose a naked leg that he proceeds to run his hand up and down.

"Mmm, that feels nice, I mean sounds nice, but I can't. I guess the little man and I will just have to stay here and find something to do to entertain ourselves."

Mulder moves so that he is facing Scully's stomach. He smoothes the blanket out so that it is laying flat.

"Come on Mulder, we don't have time for this if you are going to make that flight of yours."

"Shh, Scully can't you see I am trying to have a little father to child time."

"Oh pardon me"

"Now you listen hear. Take care of your mom for me and don't do anything cool, like move or something till I get back. I will also make a deal with you. If you are a good little one while I am gone, we will watch the big Knicks game next weekend. Just you and I"

"Umm Mulder not to interrupt but we better get a move on if we are going to make that flight"

"Ok, ok. Man your mom can be a slave driver sometimes."

"Oh and Mulder, do I get to join this little basketball feast, I mean since I am house and home for the baby for the time being"

"Oh, I guess you can come, that is if you are good."

"Oh Mulder, you know I am very very good," Scully says with a little grin on her face.

"That you are." Mulder says as he kisses the tip of her nose. "How about we do a little shower together. I mean only to conserve water"

"Well, if it would just be to conserve water,"Scully responds as she slides out of the bed. "You coming Mulder?"

"Right behind you partner."

AIRPORT

An hour or so later at the airport….

"Mulder, are you sure you have to go?"

"Yea baby I do. I will be back Monday night. Pick me up?" Mulder asks, the puppy dogface comes out.

"Well unless you are replaced by the pizza man by then." Scully teases him.

"Funny, funny. I love you." Mulder says as he pulls Scully into a tight embrace.

"I love you too." She replies. She watches sadly as Mulder boards the plain. She turns and leaves the airport.

Fade In:

X-Files Office Later that same day.

Phone Rings

"Scully."

"Agent Scully, This is Officer James with the Utah Sheriffs department. The local FBI Bureau out here refereed me to you. We have a situation that they seem to think you would have some insight on."

"Well Sheriff, Why don't you fax the information to my office and I will have a look at it. "

"Well Miss, I think this would be better viewed face to face. How soon can you be out here?"

"Well, sir my partner is out of town right now and…"

The door to the office opened and Agent Doggett walked in.

"Agent Scully, Skinner needs those reports…."

Scully holds up her hand to quiet Doggett.

"I'm Sorry Officer James what was the last part of that?"

"I said that we can fix you up with a partner if that is what it takes to get you out here. This will take a day tops. I can have you home by tomorrow night."

"Okay, just fax over all the info and I will see you later today." Scully agrees and hangs up the phone.

"Sorry about that Agent Doggett. What were you saying?"

"Just that Skinner needs those reports ASAP." Doggett says again while he eyes Scully up and down. 'Damn, I hate it when she wears that suite.' Scully catches him looking and he fidgets under her gaze.

"Ok, they are on my desk. I will be out of the office till Monday. Just call my cell if you need anything. See you Monday" Scully says as she puts on her jacket and heads for the door.

"Ok Agent Scully, I will…"

Scully walks out the door and it shuts behind her.

"See you Monday."

Fade Out:

"Hi Mulder, its me. I am on my way out to Utah to look at a body for the sheriff there. I should be home by tomorrow night. I will be careful. Give me cell a call when you can and I will call you when I know where I am staying. I love you."

Scully places her cell phone back in her purse and leans back in her seat. She places a hand over her stomach.

"I hope I am doing the right thing."

UTAH SHERIFFS STATION

Scully walks into a small sheriff's station. A man steps out of an office and heads toward her.

"Agent Scully I presume?"

"You presume correctly Officer…James, I am guessing."

"You are correct. Well, let's not waste anytime. This is Officer Thomas, he will be taking you out to the crime scene first and going over the details and then when you get back you can have a look at the body and tells us what you think."

"Ok, then lets get going."

Scully follows a young Officer Thomas out the door.

ROAD OUT TO CRIME SCENE

"So you are telling me that a man was found on the side of the road bludgeoned to death with rocks and a slug was found in his back?" Scully questions.

"Yes mame. And this isn't the first time either. Up here on the left is where the body was found."

The car pulls off to the side of the road. Scully and Officer Thomas exit the car. Scully moves off to the far said of the road where it is still roped off. She bends down and inspects the dark marks on the ground.

"Well, there does appear to be some dried blood on the ground. Nothing else appears to be out of the ordinary. Officers Thomas, can I see those crime scene photos again?"

Officer Thomas is no where to be found

"Officer Thomas? Can you hear me? Officer Thomas!" Scully calls, looking in every direction hoping to catch site of her escort.

Scully pulls out her cell phone to call the Sheriff's office. The Phone flashes NO SERVICE.

"Great just great."

Scully climbs into the car and tries the radio.

"Should have known. The radio is dead." She starts up the car and notices that the gaslight is on. "And of course there is no gas. This had the makings for a bad horror film. And do you realize that you are talking to yourself Dana?" She puts the car in drive and goes off to look for a gas station. "Why didn't anyone think to fill the car up before driving out to the middle of nowhere?" She says to herself.  "I better have enough gas to get me to a gas station." She looks around and sees what appears to be a town just up the road. She drives into the town to an abandoned looking gas station.

MEANWHILE IN NEW JERSEY.

Mulder checks into his hotel room and calls to check his messages. He hangs and up and quickly punches in a number.

-The cellular customer you are trying to reach is not in a service area to leave a message press 1

He pushes 1

"Hey babe it's me. I can't believe you went off without me. Anyway give me a call when you get this. I just want to make sure you are all right. And no I am not being over protective, ah hell maybe I am. Anyway just give me a call, I don't care what time it is."

He hangs up and dials again

"Utah, the Utah sheriffs station. Hi. This is Agent Mulder with the FBI, I believe my partner an Agent Scully was in earlier today consulting on a case."

Switch Board Operator: Let me connect you with the Sheriff

"Agent Mulder Hello. This is Officer James"

"Hi I was calling about my partner."

"Yes she was in today. She is out in the field with one of my men. She should be returning anytime now. "

"Can you tell her I called? She knows how to reach me."

"Will do agent, bye."

Mulder lies back onto his hotel room bed and tries to tell himself not to worry. He knew that she was a well-trained agent and could take care of herself. He kept telling himself that she was most likely just caught up in the case. He knew how she could get. As he lies there he soon drifts off into a dreamless sleep.

BACK OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE:

Scully pulls into the gas station and prays to herself that the place is still open and in operation. With luck an older man strolls out of the store and tips his hat toward Scully.

"Hi! I am hoping you can help me out with some gas." Scully asks the man.

"I wish I could mame. We are fresh out. We have a delivery coming in first thing tomorrow morning." The old man replies.

"I really need to get back to town tonight." Scully tells him.

"Well it's starting to get dark already and it is a long drive back into town. We have a real nice bed and breakfast here. Mary, the woman who runs it, is a friend of mine. I can give her a call and let her know you are coming. She can also cook up a mean dinner."

"I guess I have no other choice. That would be very nice. Thank you."

"If you walk right up main street here you can 't miss it. Its called Mary's" The man points down the road a ways and Scully can barely make out what appears to be an old rugged sign with fine handwriting on it."

"Thank you again sir." Scully tells him, giving him a warm smile.

"Call me Jim. And I should have my gas here by nine. I will give Mary a call in the morning and tell her when it has arrived."

"Thank you again, Jim."

SHERIFF'S OFFICE

"What do you mean you can't get a hold of them? Well why isn't he answering his radio?" Officer James screams into the phone. His face is boiling with anger and sweat is pouring off of his face. "Well send a few cars out to look for them. And let me know as soon as you find anything out." Officer James hangs up the phone and sinks into his chair. "This is great, just great. Not only is one of my own missing but also a fed. What am I going to tell her partner?" James shivers at the thought. The man had sounded a little worried over the phone, what was the man going to do when he found out that she was missing in action?

MARY'S BED AND BREAKFAST:

Scully walks slowly up the front steps of the quaint bed and breakfast. As she steps inside she can smell dinner flowing through the entry hall. 'A nice home cooked meal and a soft bed to sleep in might be just what she needed.' She thinks to herself. She had been noticing how easily tired she was becoming since she found out she was pregnant. She has also not eaten since lunch and she could tell the baby was not happy with that. The voice of a woman startles Scully and she quickly turns around.

"Hello dear. You must be the woman Jim was telling me about."

"Yes, I am Dana Scully."

"Well, Miss Scully…"

"Dana please." Scully interrupts her. She didn't know where that impulse came from. She usually never allowed anyone to call her anything but by her title or her last name. She laughed to herself; Mulder had been a big influence on her.

"Dana, Dinner is ready if you would like to join me in the dinning room we can have a bite and then I will show you to your room. I hope you like pot roast."

"Sounds lovely. This is so nice of you."

Scully and Mary ate a nice dinner with general conversation between the two of them. Towards the end of the meal Scully suddenly felt very tired. She was trying to keep her eyes opened and focused on Mary but her vision turned blurry and her hearing became muffled. Suddenly she blacked out.

NEW JERSEY:

Mulder awoke at a very early hour. He checks his cell and the message light on the hotel room phone. Noticing nothing on either one he dials Scully's phone. The phone rang straight to voice mail.

"Damn it Scully! Where the hell are you?" Mulder lays down the phone. And then he quickly picks it back up. "I need a reservation on your first flight to Salt Lake City."

MIDDLE OF NOWHERE UTAH:

A large room is filled with people. Jim approaches the front of the crowd. Up the aisle two men walk in carrying Scully on a make shift bed. The crowd begins to grow loud.

"People please settle down. We have found the one. This is the one who will save us. At the stroke of midnight tomorrow night the ceremony will be preformed." Jim's voice is loud and forceful as he speaks to the congregation.

Scully is able to work the gag out of her mouth and she voices her protests, "What are you doing to me? I am federal agent." So much for these people being nice country folk.

Silence Miss Scully!" Jim shouts at her, he puts the gag back in her mouth. "This does not concern you. Mary do you have the holy one?"

"Yes here you go."

"Miss Scully, you should feel very honored. You will now be the home for our God. It is very special to be the chosen one."

Scully's response is to pull against her restraints. She tries to yank her wrists free but it is no use, she is bounded tight Even if she did managed to break free how would she have escaped this multitude of people? Her hope for escape is dwindling.

Jim opens a medium sized box. In it lays a large slug. The crowd cheers.

SHERIFF'S STATION:

Mulder enters the sheriff's station and heads for the first uniformed man he sees. " I want to see Officer James NOW! I am a federal agent!" Mulder holds up his badge to the frightened officer.

"Agent Mulder I am right here." Came a calm voice just off to Mulder's left.

"Where is she?" Mulder demands.

"Calm down. We have a good lead on where she might be. There is an abandoned town just on the edge of town near the crime scene. We found our police car at an old gas station. It was out of gas. We are guessing that our Officer and Agent Scully decided to walk for help. They most likely found somewhere to stay for the night. We have officers out looking all over." Officer James explains. He had guessed wrong, Agent Mulder wasn't going to be mad, he was going to be livid.

"I want directions to where the car was found. NOW." No way was he going to wait around for some amateur cop to find his partner. By then it could be to late.

"Yes sir, come with me." Officer James leads Mulder out of the station and towards his police car.

MIDDLE OF NOWHERE UTAH:

Scully is tied face down to a bed in an old room with boarded up windows. Her shirt and bra have been torn off of her in preparation for the sacrifice that would be held in less then twenty-four hours.

"Dear lord what have I gotten myself into. I promise lord I will never go off on my own if you will just let me and the baby gets through this. I wish I were just at home in bed with Mulder. Dame it Dana! You need to snap out of this. If you think about it you have been in much worse situations. You just need a way to get these ties off of you."

Scully is looking around to find a way to remove the ties when she hears a car pull up outside of the building.

Outside of the gas station Mulder steps out of his car. He looks around the semi deserted town trying to figure out where Scully could be. Just then a man steps out of a building near him.

"Can I help you sir?" The voice belongs to Jim.

"Yes you can I am looking for someone." Mulder tells him, approaching the man carefully.

"Oh we don't get many strangers around here." Jim says.

"This woman is about 5'3", red hair, very pretty."

"Oh I don't believe I know anyone like that." Jim tells him, his hands on his hips in what would be called a defensive posture.

Upstairs Scully can't believe her ears. She tries to move to bang the window to get Mulder's attention. Finally she starts to yell, "MULDER! I am up here!" She barely gets another word out before Marry rushes in and puts the gag back on.

"Now we will be having none of that missy." Mary leaves the room and goes back down stairs.

Outside Mulder hears a faint noise from up above him. He doesn't like the look in Jim's eyes either. Thinking something is definitely up Mulder devises a plan. "Mr…Sorry I didn't get your name"

"Jim, my name is Jim."

"Well Jim. It has been a long drive. Can I use your restroom?" Mulder asks nonchalantly.

"Umm…" Jim has to think about it for a minute, which sets Mulder at unease. Jim glances upstairs towards the room Scully is being kept in. "Yes, I guess that would be ok."

Mulder follows Jim into the building. They pass Mary and she nods in Jim's direction. Mulder was on alert. Something inside of him told him Scully was near.

"The bathroom is down the hall to the left just pass the staircase." Jim tells him.

"Thank you." Mulder says and makes a quick start towards the staircase and around the corner. Once around the corner he makes sure no one can see him. He slowly climbs the stairs and when he reaches the top he heads to the door to the bedroom in front of him. If he is correct it's the one Jim glanced up to outside. Carefully opening the door he looks in and sees Scully bound half-naked to the bed. His heart lurches in his chest.

"Oh my god what have they done to you." Mulder asks, running to her side. He gently removes the gag and starts removing the ropes binding her wrists.

"Oh Mulder!" Scully sighs in relief.

"Scully are you ok, are you hurt?" Mulder asks, holding his breath, if they hurt one hair on her head he would kill all of them with his bare hands.

"I am fine and the baby is fine also." She tells him, looking straight into his eyes.

"Here let me finish untying you and you take my shirt and then we have to get out of here." He says, trying to be careful with her chaffed wrists. He finally gets both hands loose and makes quick work of the buttons on his own shirt.

"You aren't going anywhere. She is the chosen one." The two lovers turn in surprise to find Mary and Jim holding rifles on them.

"Look sir we don't want any trouble." Mulder says in a calming voice. "Just let us get out of here and we will forget this ever happened."

"There will be no trouble. She is the home for our God. She can't leave and now. I'm afraid we can't let you either."

Scully pulls on Mulder's shirt and as she does she leans down and pulls the ankle holster gun out so that she will be armed along with the gun Mulder keeps in his back. Mulder notices what she does and reaches around for his gun too. Mary and Jim make a move for Scully. Mulder and Scully both pull their guns on the two.

"You may be able to get by us but you will never make it out of here alive." Jim says.

While Scully keeps her gun trained on Mary and Jim, Mulder takes the ropes that had bound Scully and ties the two people up. When he is finished he moves to the bed and pulls Scully off. Together they make their way downstairs.

"Did I ever tell you that you have perfect timing?" Scully tells Mulder, affection clear in her voice.

Mulder smiles at her and asks, "What is up with those two?"

"It's not just them it's the whole town. They drugged me and then said I am the chosen home for their God, a slug." She shivers at that thought of that thing in her body. Mulder notices and pulls her closer to his side.

"What?" Mulder asks, not really understanding.

"Mulder look." Scully says, holding Mulder's arm. As they approach the door to leave they see a giant mob in the streets.

"How did they find out so soon? Come on I think there is a back way out." Pulling on her arm he leads her to the back of the gas station. A little ways towards the back of the property is a small barn. The doors are open and a headlight to a car can be seen.

"Think it runs?" Scully asks.

"Probably not, that would be to easy." Mulder says dryly.

"Well, there is only one way to find out." Scully takes off towards the ram shackled barn.

"Scully, dammit, wait for me." Mulder mutters and takes off after her. In the distance he hears someone say, 'There they are!' They make it to the car and climb in. Mulder leans down to hot wire the car. It starts right away.

"Thank you God." Scully exclaims.

"I second that."

"Mulder hurry." The mob has made it half way across the yard before Mulder gets the car into gear. He pushes the gas peddle to the floor and speeds out of the barn taking the doors off in the process. The people run in every direction to avoid being hit, all accept Mary and Jim. Somehow they had gotten loose and now stood before them. Mulder jerked the wheel, barely missing them.

Scully looks over to Mulder and asks, "Why didn't you just hit them?"

"Cause I don't think I could claim self defense and I don't want to be seeing little William here through a glass petition."

"Little William huh?"

"Just a feeling." They both laugh.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Scully is lying in her bed. She starts to stir and reaches across the bed when her hand comes into contact with nothing. She sits up," Mulder?"

"Be right there Scully."

Scully lies back down in the bed and closes her eyes. The next thing she knows a form is climbing on top of her.

"Mmm, I hope this is the pizza man." Scully teases.

Mulder begins to tickle her.

"Mulder stop!" Scully shrieks, and begins hitting his chest.

"Ok, I guess we are even." He laughs and climbs off of her, plopping down next to her on the bed.

"What's this?" Scully picks up an envelop on the bed.

"The report from Salt Lake. They found no one in the town. Its been cleared out."

"An X-File"

"Yea. So what really happened out there?" Mulder asks.

"Well I had gone out to look into that hitchhiker death. We road out of town tot he crime scene and Officer Thomas just disappeared…"

"Yea, they found him dead about two miles from where I found you. His back had been cut open, appears he bleed to death."

"They believed this slug was their God and that it needed a human flesh home to live in and I appeared to be the new chosen one.

"Umm Scully we never talked about…"

"Yea I know." She reads his thoughts.

"Why?" He asks, sadness filling his eyes.

"Why go off on my own? I don't know. I guess I needed to feel independent and my own person."

"But you always are."

"No I'm not. I mean my body is fast becoming someone else."

Mulder reaches down and touches her stomach. "The baby."

"Yea, and as much as I love it and I am so happy to be having our baby, I just needed one more time before I got to where I couldn't be in charge of it. I thought it was going to be easy. I was just going to go out there and look at the body. I never imagined I would, that I might have…"

Scully starts to cry. Mulder gathers her into his arms.

"Shhh, baby its okay, you both are ok. We have both done stupid things and ran off without each other. It's over and done with."

"I know. I love you."

"I love you." Mulder leans down to kiss her. His hands run up and down her body. Scully pushes Mulder so that he is on his back and she is on top.

"Now Mulder what do you say we have that romantic day in bed?"

"Anything you say."

THE END

Footnotes: Ok, I couldn't stand to see Scully get hurt again so I had to make a few changes there. Also, who wants Doggett saving Scully when Mulder can? Hope you all enjoyed it!

Maggie's little note: Amen to that!!!!

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I guess I have to do this so I wont get sued....I DON'T OWN THIS SHOW. THIS IS ALL MAKE BELIEVE. THIS IS TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER SINCE I GOT CHEATED OUT OF MULDER AND SCULLY BEING TOGETHER. There i admitted it! Are you satisfied now!!!