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Mulder enters the commercial property, it is very dark as he walks through the building. From the distance he can hear a strained voice calling his name. Mulder then runs to the voice, rounds a corner and sees Scully standing some distance away.
“Scully, what are you doing here?” Mulder asks.
“You were right about her, Mulder.” Scully answers back and then raises her gun and points it as Mulder.
“Scully!?” Mulder is shock at Scully’s action.
“Mulder, she’s making me do this.” Scully now cocks the hammer on her gun.
“Where is she?” Mulders ask urgently.
“She’s here. Mulder, make her stop. I can’t help myself.”
“Lina Bowman!” Mulder shouts.
“Mulder make her stop.”
Again Mulder shouts, “Linda Bowman, show yourself!”
“Mulder.” Scully says frighteningly as she points her gun at her temple.
Mulder starts to run towards her. “NOOOOO!” The gun goes off and Scully falls to the floor. Mulder reaches her and checks for a pulse. He then hears footsteps from behind and looks up to see Linda Bowman approaching also with a gun. Mulder grabs Scully’s gun to point at Linda Bowman.
“I’m gonna kill you!” Mulder says angrily.
“Don’t listen to her Mulder.”
“What?”
“It’s me, you were right about her. Linda Bowman is pushing you.”
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“I’m Scully. Linda’s right behind you, she’s telling you I’m her.”
Mulder looks down and sees Scully lying in a pool of blood. “You killed her!”
“Mulder, I’m Scully. I’m not dead. She wants you to shoot me. She knows you’ll never forgive yourself.”
“Shut up!” Shouts Mulder.
“Listen to me.”
“Shut up!
“Your mother is Teena, your sister is Samantha!
“SHUT UP!”
“Modell warned you. Don’t play her game.”
Scully is seen rising just behind Mulder. Linda Bowman fires at Scully and then falls. Mulder looks down at the body on the floor to see that it was the real Linda Bowman, and then turns back to the shooter to see that it was the real Scully who fired the shot.
Scully walks up and holds Mulder’s arm to console him, then kneels over Linda Bowman to check her pulse.
Weakly Linda says, “You think you can hold me?”
Mulder wakes up abruptly all sweaty. He sits up grasping for breathe and whispers, “Scully.”
It has been week since the Lina Bowman case and he still having nightmares about Scully’s death at the hands of Linda. And how he almost shot her again dealing with Linda same as when Modell taunted him. Mulder than looks at his watch to see that it’s two in the morning, he knows it’s late but he have to call Scully just to make sure she is still alive.
After fours rings Scully finally answers, “Mmm…hello.” Scully says sleepy clearly not fully awake. Mulder just listen. “Hello.” Scully tries again. Mulder however still doesn’t speak but thinks in his head, “I almost lost you.” And then he hangs up.
The next night Mulder again dreamt about Scully’s death but this time it was a little different from what really happened.
“Scully, what are you doing here?”
“You were right about her, Mulder.” Scully raises her gun and points it at Mulder.
“Scully, what are you doing?”
“Stop her Mulder, she’s making me do this.” Scully cocks the hammer on her gun.
“Linda Bowman, where are you.” Mulder shouts.
Scully then points the gun at her temple. “Mulder, please. Make her stop.”
“Scully, drop the gun.” Mulder slowly walking towards Scully.
“I can’t help myself. Make her stop.”
“LINDA BOWMAN!! Show yourself.”
“Mulder, please! Make her stop.” Scully begs Mulder
“Scully, just drop the gun. Please” Mulder desperately pleads with Scully.
“I can’t Mulder.” Scully then shoots herself and falls to the floor.
“NOOOOO!” Mulder runs to Scully, checks her pulse and tries to stop the bleeding.
Scully says weakly with blood coming out of her mouth, “Modell warned not to play her game.” And then Scully dies.
Mulder wakes up shaken to his core with tearing streaming down his face, “Oh god, Scully.” And then quietly sobs. This time Mulder doesn’t care what time it is when he reaches for his phone to call Scully. This time Scully answers on the second ring a little bit alert, “Hello.”
Mulder just quietly sobs into the line and thinks, “I almost lost you, again.”
“Hello…Mulder is that you?” Mulder once again hangs up.
Scully sits up in bed now wide awake and worries about Mulder. She knew that was him on the phone. Ever since they finished the case with Linda Bowman, Mulder has had this haunted look over him plus he has been trying discreetly watching her every move in the office with a painful expression. She knows he blames himself for what happened in that warehouse. Once again Mulder had played a dangerous that almost cost her life, however she doesn’t blames Mulder instead she blames herself for not trusting Mulder’s insistence enough. She was blinded by her worry over Modell toying with Mulder again.
The third time the nightmare happened again they were out of town on a case. They were sent out to Missouri because a delusional minister had kidnapped his daughters from his ex-wife because he thought God was telling him his ex were turning their daughters into demonic demons spreading Satan’s evil on the world. They had finally caught a break early in the evening and had spent about five hours of talking the minister of releasing his daughters. It was such a long and draining case that when they were finally able to go back to the motel, Mulder said he just wanted to go straight to bed.
“Mulder” Scully says in a strained voice.
Mulder runs to the voice and sees Scully standing some distance away. “Scully, what are you doing here?”
“You were right about her Mulder.” Scully then raises her gun and points it at Mulder.
“Scully?”
“She’s making me do this.” Scully cocks the hammer on her gun.
“Where is she?” Mulder asks desperately.
“She’s here. Mulder, please make her stop.”
“LINDA BOWMAN.” Mulder shouts.
Scully then points the gun at her temple. “I can’t help myself.”
“Show yourself now, Linda!”
“Mulder, please…make her stop.”
“Scully please don’t do this.”
“I can’t, it’s her game.” Scully pulls the trigger and shouts herself in the head.
Mulder immediately runs towards Scully. “NOOOOOOO!” Mulder reaches her and try to stop the bleeding. Just then Mulder hears footsteps behind him and see Linda Bowman approaching him with a gun. He grabs Scully gun and point it at her. “I’m gonna kill you!”
“Don’t listen to her Mulder.”
“What!?”
“It’s me Scully.”
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“I’m Scully. Linda’s right behind you.”
Mulder looks back at Scully’s dead body. “You’re lying, you killed her!” Mulder once again points the gun at Linda.
“Mulder, I’m Scully. I’m not dead. She wants you to shoot me. She knows you’ll never forgive yourself.”
“Shut up!”
“Mulder listen to me—”
“I said shut up!” Mulder losing control over his emotions.
“Mul—.” Mulder can’t take Linda Bowman no more. He looks over at Scully again and then fires a kills shot to the head at Linda Bowman.
“Mulder.” Scully whispers before falling to the floor dead. Mulder goes back over to Scully but this time it’s actually Linda Bowman rising from the floor. Mulder now realizes his mistake runs over to the real Scully.
“Oh god, no, Scully. Please wake up.” Mulder cradling Scully’s dead body pleading for her to wake up. Linda standing over Mulder, “You thought you could hold me?” This time Mulder shoots the real Linda Bowman dead.
Scully has been trying to wake Mulder up for the past five minutes, she had heard him ten minutes ago thrashing and screaming her name through the open connecting doors between their rooms. She rushed right into his room on the first scream.
“Mulder! Mulder, you got to wake up.”
Mulder finally wakes up and is not sure of his surroundings, the only think he can think of is that in his dream he did shoot Scully instead of listening to her about Linda Bowman. Mulder starts to violently cry.
“Mulder, shhh. It’s alright, I’m here now.”
“But I almost lost you. I pulled the trigger and shot you dead.”
“You didn’t Mulder, I’m okay. Please you got to calm down.”
“Will you stay with me?” Mulder asks, thinking he is still dreaming.
“Of course I will. Just lie down and rest. I’m okay and I’m not going anywhere.”
Scully settles on the bed and pulls Mulder to her so he can rest his head across her chest. Mulder lays his ear on Scully’s chest so he can feel and hear her heart to make sure she is still alive. Scully’s heartbeats has lure Mulder into a peaceful sleep for the first time since the Linda Bowman case has been closed.