Title: Value & Honor (summary through chapter 14)

Author: Forte (Forte1354@aol.com or bjm1352@aol.com)

Rating: strong R

Category: XA

Timeframe: set in early November 1998 (S6) while M&S are off the
X-Files and working under Kersh.

Chapter Summary:

Chapter 1: Friday morning.  M&S have just returned from
assisting with a case involving a serial killer of children. 
Scully is nursing a headache.  Scully runs into Diana Fowley,
who mocks her about her infertility.

Chapter 2: M&S meet with Kersh, who assigns Scully to work on a
related serial killer case.  Privately, Kersh suggests to Scully
that her career would be better off without Mulder.

Chapter 3: Friday afternoon.  M&S discuss/argue the morning's
events and some (gasp!) non-work-related issues.  Mulder asks
about her headache.

Chapter 4: Friday night.  Mulder returns home from work to find
Diana Fowley waiting for him.  He chews her out over her morning
altercation with Scully, but Diana is still hiding something. 
Scully calls Mulder to discuss the new case to which Kersh
assigned her, but their conversation is interrupted.

Chapter 5: Scully rushes to Mulder's apartment.  Mulder has a
visitor: someone from their past who may be able to help them
find Dr. Scanlon.  The visitor leaves, promising to be in touch.

Chapter 6: The Gunmen are called in to help.  M&S discuss
Fowley's visit to Mulder.  Scully goes home and Mulder has an
unsettling dream about her.

Chapter 7: Saturday morning.  M&S each receive two mysterious
e-mails.  They decide to get help from the Gunmen in
understanding them.

Chapter 8: The Gunmen start working on deciphering the four
e-mails.  Mulder sticks around to check on other leads while
Scully returns to the office to work on the case Kersh assigned
to her.  Frohike makes fake ID's for both of them in
anticipation of a trip to find Scanlon.  The Gunmen confront
Mulder about his relationship (or lack thereof) with Scully.

Chapter 9: Saturday afternoon.  M&S regroup at the Potomac and
have another conversation related to personal matters.  They go
to her apartment, where Scully gives Mulder a gift.  An MSR-ish
moment is interrupted by a phone call.

Chapter 10: Fowley insists that Mulder come to the Hoover
Building to see an e-mail she received.  Meanwhile, Scully gets
a call from the Gunmen regarding the four e-mails she and Mulder
had received.  She and Mulder use that information to determine
where they must go to meet up with Mulder's visitor from the
night before.  Mulder leaves to meet with Fowley while Scully
makes travel arrangements.  She is suspicious of Fowley.

Chapter 11: Scully's headache is still bothering her.  She gets
the information needed for their trip.  On his way to the Hoover
Building, Mulder ponders his interrupted moment with Scully and
wonders why Fowley is so eager to get him to see the e-mail she
received.

Chapter 12: Mulder meets with Diana and learns that she knows
some, but not all, about his visitor from the night before. 
They discuss a case that he and Scully had worked on previously.
He leaves, taking copies of her e-mail and its attachments.

Chapter 13: Mulder mulls over his meeting with Fowley while
packing.  Scully picks him up.  He shows her the e-mail and
attachments that he got from Fowley, and expresses concern that
their meeting with the previous night's visitor is a set-up. 
Scully continues to wonder about Fowley's possible involvement. 
Someone else from their past is waiting for them at the airport.

Chapter 14: Mulder and Scully meet a man named Brian, who is
headed for the same city they are, while they wait in line at
the airport.  Brian's plane takes off on time, but an imposter
takes his place on the flight.  Mulder and Scully are forced to
wait for a later flight.


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