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Title: Brain Dead Summary: People are disappearing, and the two young daughters of a victim accompany Mulder and Scully as they investigate. August 4, 1995 "Stacey, are you scared?" "Just a little, Lizzie, but my stomach hurts." "Why don't we go into Mommy's room?" "O.K. Let's go." They quietly tiptoed through the sleeping house as a pitter patter of rain falls softly on the window. There was a streak of lighting that seemed to touch the house. A faint buzzing sound was heard in the distance. They knocked on their mother's door. "Mommy?" They opened the door and they screamed. September 14 FBI Agent Fox Mulder and Agent Dana Scully are partners whose job is to investigate strange and unexplained phenomenon that the government wants to keep secret from the public - the files they label 'X'. Mulder has an active imagination and will believe almost anything he sees, hears, feels, or imagines. Scully however, is much more unbelieving. Her job is to keep Mulder in line. "Well, it's certainly interesting," replied Agent Scully. "It will require some thorough investigation, that's for sure." "I wonder what could have possibly happened to those sweet little girls' mother. I feel really sorry for them." "Well, it's our job to find her and help the little girls." September 18 "Because my stomach hurt, and also Lizzie was scared of the storm." "Let's forget about Elizabeth for now. I only want to know about you. What did you see when you went into your mother's room?" "Well, there was a red triangle shaped object that was not there before. It was nailed onto the door. When I opened the door the first thing I heard was a faint buzzing sound, and I didn't know what it could possibly be. I saw partials of what I hope was not Mommy floating up into the air." "O.K. you can leave now go wait in the hallway with Agent Mulder and tell your sister to please come in." Elizabeth entered the room. "Hello Elizabeth. Your sister has just told me her story. Would you like to tell me yours?" "Are we in trouble? We didn't do anything wrong. I cross my heart and hope to die!" "I believe you, honey. But we need to know what happened that night in order to find your mommy, O.K.?" "O.K." "Now, what happened on the night of August fourth?" "Well, my mommy disappeared! I was very sad." "I'm sure you were, but what did you see or hear?" "While I was walking to my mommy's room there was a big bolt of lighting. It scared me, so I ran the rest of the way to mommy's room. I heard a sound like bees buzzing and it got louder as I got closer to the door. Then Stacey opened the door. I remember a triangle being there. I saw little sparkles floating away, like they were going to heaven in the sky. It looked really neat. Also the paint was a lighter yellow than it usually is. Then I screamed and suddenly every thing was black. My doctor told me I had fainted after Stacey took me there. Can I go out now?" "Sure, Elizabeth. Go ahead. Can you please tell Agent Mulder to come in?" "Both girls told me basically the same story. However Elizabeth told me more details," said Scully. "Yes, I heard. I think that we had better take a trip to the Sibol residence. There might be some evidence there," said Mulder. "I completely agree with you. Let's go tomorrow," Scully agreed. "What about the girls? Shouldn't we take them along on our investigations? They could be a lot of help. They are the only witnesses."asked Mulder. "O.K. I'm going home now. I'll take the girls for the night. I'll meet you at your place at 7:40AM. You'd better be up and ready." Scully told Mulder. "Don't count on it," joked Mulder. ** September 19 "Hi Mulder, its me. You'd better be ready or I'll just have to leave without you." Scully joked. "Well, I'm not ready, so goodbye," Mulder replied. "Then hurry up and get ready. The girls are waiting in the car." Scully repled. "O.K. I'll be ready in a minute." Mulder and Scully went into the car. "What took you guys so long?" said Stacey. "I was just finishing packing," Mulder replied. "How long does it take to get to get to the airport?" Elizabeth asked. "About twenty minutes. It's not that long," Scully told her. "Good, because I swear I am so bored," complained Stacey. After 30 minutes of driving, they reached the airport. When they reached the airport, they almost missed the flight, but they made it just in time. They boarded the plane and Scully sat next to Mulder. The girls were rambling on and on about how they hated planes, but after a while they quieted down and fell asleep. Mulder and Scully discussed the case. "Well, the kids certainly aren't suspects," Scully reasoned. "They are not exactly evil kids." "O.K., but who is the suspect? We need some answers here." Mulder was obviously frustrated and Scully decided to leave him alone. The plane landed and they got off. They picked up their rental car and drove towards their destination. September 20 All four of them walked through the house, looking for any evidence that might be left behind. Stacey and Elizabeth lead them to their mother's room. When they walked in the two agents were surprised. It was just as Elizabeth and Stacey had told them. The walls were completely faded to a dull yellow, and there was a strangely bright red triangle nailed to the door, broken at the top. There was much of what looked like dust on the floor. Mulder took a sample and put it in a evidence bag. They figured that there is nothing more to see. They hear a ringing and Mulder pulls out his cellular phone. "Mulder." Mulder answers. "Mulder, there has been another murder similar to the one that you are investigating in New Mexico," Assistant Director Skinner, the voice on the phone, told him. Mulder asks, "Was there a triangle nailed on to the door?" "Mulder you are spooky, but actually there was. How did you know?" "Lucky guess," said Mulder hanging up the phone. "Scully, we have to go. There has been another one in New Mexico." They got in the car and Stacey and Elizabeth trailed after them. September 22 When they reached the house, it looked old and deserted, so they decided to talk to the nearest neighbors. When they got there, the first person they met was a fifty-year-old widow named Morine Slaof. Mulder asked if they could come in, and they were welcomed. "Ms. Slaof, do you mind if I ask you a few questions about Mr. LaChance?" Mulder asked her. "Sure, go right ahead, and you can call me Morine." "Thank you," replied Mulder. "Did you know Mr. LaChance well?" asked Scully. "As a matter of fact, we were good friends. We often had dinner together. Actually, we had dinner that night. But don't think that I am a suspect, because I swear on the Holy Book that I am innocent," said Morine. "Did you see or hear anything out of the ordinary? Such as a scream? Or a flash of light?" Mulder asked her. Scully flashed him an annoyed look. "Well, there was lightning, but that's about it. Oh yeah, and there was buzzing. At first I thought the bees in his bee hive had gotten lose, but the sound was too loud. I wonder what it was that happened to my poor dear friend Pierre." replied Morine. "That would be all. Thank you very much for your time," Scully said to Morine. "I do hope we meet again." Morine told the agents. As Scully was leaving, she noticed a triangle mounted on the wall, exactly the same as the one found at the Sibol residence. "Mulder, take a look at this," she said. "What is it?" he asked her. She looked back, and suddenly it wasn't there anymore. She thought it must have been a figment of her imagination. "Oh, it's nothing. Forget about it," she told him. ** September 22 Agents Scully and Mulder headed back to Mr. LaChance's home. The girls sat quietly in the backseat, thinking about what Ms. Sloaf had said. They soon realized that this case was similar to the one that happened to them just a few weeks ago. Soon they reached the house, and Mulder and Scully go in to investigate. The girls were told to wait in the front of the house and to be still. As Mulder and Scully approached the abandoned house, they separated and went off to opposite directions. Scully went upstairs, gun in hand. All of a sudden, she saw a dark figure in the corner. She pulled out her gun and her FBI badge and said "FBI! Put your hands up!" but the figure remained still. "I said, put your hands up!" but still the figure refused to move. She slowly approached and cornered it. Suddenly, as she saw the face of it, she realized it was only a long trenchcoat on a hanger. "I'm such a klutz," Scully murmured to herself. Meanwhile, Mulder had been investigating the basement of the creepy, seemingly haunted house. As he looked around, he muttered to himself. "It's likely that he was abducted. I see all the evidence." Suddenly he walked into a dark room with faded walls. "This looks just like the Sibol incident." he said aloud. Mulder looked around a little more, and then he went outside to meet Scully. "I didn't see anything," Scully said to Mulder. "Well guess what, I most certainly did," Mulder replied. "The walls were faded. I saw a room that looked just like the girls' mother's room did after the incident. We know it happened at night, and the room looked like a library, so he might have been staying up late and reading," Mulder told her. "It's uncanny." "Let's go in and take a look," Scully said. They walked into the room and Scully told Mulder that he was absolutely right. She agreed with him that it did look like the Sibol incident. After Scully looked around for a little while, Mulder started to walk outside. He thought that Scully was following behind him, but she was still inside. Mulder stepped into the car, and turned on the engine. "Agent Mulder, where is Scully?" Elizabeth asked him. "Isn't she right next to me?" he asked, while backing out of the driveway. "Agent Mulder, I think you left Agent Scully inside of the house," she told him. Mulder looked to his side and realized she was right. He pulled back into the driveway and went inside to look for her. "Girls, this is very important. You must stay in the car," Mulder told them strictly. When Mulder went inside of the house, he heard a female scream, which he recognized as Scully. "Scully!" he shouted. He ran upstairs to look for her, but the house was empty. Stacey and Lizzie were waiting in the car, playing a hand game, when a dark shadowy figure stepped up into the car, unaware of the girls. "Agent Mulder, you forgot Agent Scully again," Stacey said. "Who the hell are you?!" the dark figure asked. When Elizabeth heard the strange voice, she started to cry. Stacey comforted her, asking the figure how he could say a bad word in front of her little sister. However, the figure does not respond. Elizabeth and Stacey comfort each other as they are driven off to an unknown place. Meanwhile, Mulder had been searching for Scully in the big house. After a few long minutes, he saw her in horrid condition, lying on the floor. When she finally regained her consciousness, Mulder asked her why she was lying on the floor, in shock. She told him that her memory was kind of shadowy, but she remembered being knocked over by a figure, although she could not recognize his face. She said he seemed to be in a rush. Mulder then reminded Scully of the girls, and they went outside to check on them. When they saw that their car was gone, they immediately called 911, asking for help on tracking down their car. They mentioned that the girls were also in the car, and that they might be in danger. When the other police came with a car for them, they went on a search for the girls, but found nothing. ** 15 Minutes Later They looked around some more, and saw that there were many figures in dark that looked just like the man that had driven them to this odd place. All of a sudden, they saw their mother's body, and they shrieked. At the sound of their shriek, they felt a sharp stab of pain, and everything went black. While all of this was happening, Mulder and Scully had traveled back to the F.B.I. headquarters in Washington D.C. There they had spoken to their boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and had told them of everything they had found out. When Skinner heard that the girls had disappeared, he got very angry at Mulder for leaving them alone in a car. "They were your only chance to solve this case, and now they are gone. What are you going to do about it?" Skinner had said. Mulder replied, saying that he promised he would find them. "Don't make promises you can't keep," Skinner warned him. Mulder and Scully left the office. Sibol Residence Mulder and Scully decided that maybe if they went back to the Sibol residence there might be some more evidence to find. When they approached the doors to Elizabeth and Stacey's room, they immediately noticed something new. "Look!" Scully shouted. "What is it?" said Mulder. "Look, it's two broken triangles just like the other ones we saw!" Scully said excitedly. "How could we have possibly missed that?" Mulder said aloud, wondering. hinking aloud, Mulder said "maybe we didn't miss it. Maybe it's something new." Scully responded, saying that couldn't possibly happen, and that the house was closed off to the public. "Who says it was the public?" Mulder said, pointing up at the sky. "Look at all the facts. It all leads straight to the sky. We've seen it before, Scully," Mulder said. "Look Mulder, I wish you would stop jumping to conclusions so quickly. What evidence are you talking about?" Scully countered. "What about the sparkles, floating into the air? That doesn't happen everyday you know," he said. "The only evidence you have is that of the girls' statements. They could be lying," Scully said. "What about the faded paint? Only extreme heat could cause that," Mulder replied. "Look Mulder, I don't really want to argue with you right now. Our main concern is the girls." "O.K." Mulder agreed. Top of The Empire State Building "Where are we?" Lizzie asked. "I'm not really sure, but I can tell that we're in a big city now. And we seem really high," Stacey told her. "I wanna go home," Lizzie moaned. "I do too, but if we ever want to get there, we have to find a way down from here first," Stacey said. "Stacey, this is all your fault!" cried Liz. "No, Lizzie, it's not. It's all Agent Mulder's fault. He shouldn't have left us alone. But we can't think about that now. We've got to get out of here," Stacey said, becoming a little annoyed. They finally decided to scream out to the people under them. "Help, help! Somebody help us! We're scared!" Lizzie and Stacey screamed in unison. A man and woman holding a small child and a baby heard them from the next level below them. "Call the police!" the woman shouted. Bottom of The Empire State Building "Assistant Director Skinner, we have just found two small girls stranded on the top of the Empire State Building in New York. They claim they were with an Agent Mulder," a police man told Skinner on the phone. "What are their names?" Skinner asked him. "Elizabeth Sibol and Stacey Sibol," the policeman responded. "O.K., send them here by plane. I'll get Agent Mulder to come right away," Skinner told him. "Agent Mulder, they just found the two girls you had 'lost' on the top of the empire state building. How can you explain that?" Skinner asked Mulder. "I really don't know. They disappeared at the outside of the LaChance residence. I have no explanation. Maybe you should ask the 'enigmatic' Dr. Scully. She always has the scientific explanation of everything." Mulder sneered. "Look Mulder, I'll let this go. I won't put it in your records. But don't let it happen again." Skinner decided, massaging the bridge of his nose. "Skinner, I don't give a damn about that. I just want to know what happened! I want to find the answers, damn it! I want to know the truth." Mulder said, getting angry. "Look Mulder, the only thing I can tell you is that they were each missing a finger, and if you want to know anything more, you'll have to question them yourself." ** "Lizzie and Stacey, do you remember how you disappeared, or what happened to you?" Mulder asked. "I....." Lizzie started to say, but Stacey broke in. "Don't tell him anything, Lizzie. He's the one responsible for what they did to us. He left us all alone." "Now, Stacey and Lizzie, you know I didn't mean to do that. I had to find Scully, she screamed. I thought it was okay to leave you outside for a minute. I know I shouldn't have, and I'm sorry. But please tell me what happened, please. I need to know," Mulder pleaded. "Alright. But we don't remember anything. All we remember is being put into test tubes of some kind," Stacey told him. "Is that true for you, too Lizzie?" Mulder asked. "Uh-huh!" she responded. "Okay. Agent Skinner will find you a nice home where you can stay." Mulder told them. "But we want to stay with Agent Scully! She was nice!" Lizzie and Stacey said. "I'll see what I can do," Mulder said, laughing to himself. Agent Scully's Apartment I enjoy having company, Scully thought to herself as she watched the girls fall asleep during "The Sound of Music." She knew that would put them to sleep. She put on her turtle rim plastic glasses and started to type the report. The conclusion of the report looked like this -- In conclusion, I believe that the children were held as hostages for something, although I can not determine what. I believe the children were put under anesthetics which in turn made them forget their whole experience. As for remembering being 'put in a test tube' I don't know what to make of that. Perhaps they were put into some sort of cylindrical case to keep them quiet and under control. As for their missing thumbs, I believe it was a 'killer's mark', in other words, the trademark of their kidnapper. I do not have a reason for them ending up on the empire state building. Perhaps their kidnapper had access to a police helicopter and was therefore not noticed When dropping off the children. I am very disappointed in agent Fox Mulder's lack of responsibility for the children, but in part it was my fault, for making Mulder come into the house. As for the faded wallpaper and the 'magic' dust, I cannot say how that was put there. However, I do not believe agent Mulder's theory that it was some sort of extraterrestrial life form that had 'abducted' the mother, Mr. LaChance, and the children. I do enjoy having the company of Elizabeth and Stacey Sibol, and I leave this case closed. Assistant Director Skinner's Office "Sir, I want you to know that I will find the truth someday, no matter what. I promise," Mulder said. "Don't make promises you can't keep, Mulder," replied a man holding a cigarette from the corner. the end
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