FF: "Firstborn." (Chapter 1/?)

["Elaine Dalier'" <ellie_dee@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

TITLE: "Firstborn." (Chapter 1/?)
AUTHOR: Ellie Dee
EMAIL: Ellie_Dee@xxxxxxxxxxx
CATEGORY: X-Files/Buffy the Vampire Slayer X-over.
RATING: PG13-R
SUMMARY: A pair of murders and a kidnapping in Sunnydale strikes close
to home with Agent Scully and the Scoobie Gang. Can they work together
to solve the case before a young girl dies?
SPOILERS: Consider anything up to and including Season 3 on BtVS and
Season 6 on the X-Files fair game. In the X-Files Universe this story
takes place after the movie "Fight the Future," but before the events in
the 6th season episode "The Beginning." In the Land of Buffy this takes
place after the episode "Band Candy" but before "Revelations."
DISCLAIMER: Any characters you've heard mentioned on TV were created and
owned by Joss Whedon, Chris Carter, Fox, and WB. They just decided to
come visit and play with the beings inhabiting my rather warped mind.
ARCHIVE: Anywhere, just please let me know where it goes and try to keep
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"Firstborn."
By: Ellie Dee

Chapter 1


FBI Headquarters
Washington, D.C.
1257Hrs.

Setting aside the remains of his Kung Pao Beef, FBI Assistant Director
Walter Skinner began to wind up what had proven to be a very product-
ive Tuesday lunchtime meeting.

"Well agents, it's nice to see that the two of you can agree on a case
occasionally." Said Skinner, as he addressed his two more successful
if not aggravating agents.

"Sir, the evidence was fairly straight forward," replied Special Agent
Dana Scully. "The suspects were using a sophisticated strobe light and
frequency generator combination to cause the guards to be disoriented
and incapacitated. This then allowed the suspects to make off with the
stolen components."

"And resulted in the guards having no clear memory of what happened.
Just a bright light and a feeling of disorientation. Both of which are
are common occurrences in alien abduction reports." Supplied her
X-File partner Special Agent Fox Mulder.

"Somehow I doubt aliens would be interested in components to the new
Patriot III antimissile upgrade."

"Actually Scully," mumbled Mulder around his chicken salad sandwich.
"Aliens might be interested in acquiring those components if they were
the result of the government back engineering captured alien techno-
logy."

"Mulder...we already went over all this."

"Oh I'm not arguing with you Scully. I'm just trying to point out why
aliens might be interested in our new defense technology."

"So I take it there won't be any little green, silver or reptilian men
popping up in here?" Asked Skinner as he tapped their final report and
took a long drink from his glass of Dr. Pepper.

"No sir, just a few ex-servicemen with a lot more greed than common
sense and some surplus Soviet Psy Ops. gear," supplied Scully.

Skinner frowned, "You're sure that the Russians weren't involved?"

"Yes sir, we checked out that possibility," replied Mulder. "This was
just a group of freelancers who were able to get a hold of the equip-
ment on the Black market."

"Well that's a ...." began Skinner, when he was interrupted by the
buzzing of his intercom.

"Yes Kim?"

"Sorry to bother you Director, but I have the Sunnydale California SAC
on line four. He says it's urgent," supplied Skinner's assistant from
the outer office.

A curious look crossed Skinner's normally stony face. "That's fine
I'll go ahead and take it."

Mulder and Scully made as if to leave, but their supervisor motioned
for them to remain seated as he turned up the volume on his speaker
phone.

"Agent Brenner?" they heard Skinner's assistant say. "Director
Skinner."

Over the speaker phone all three could hear a deep gruff voice, "Boss,
I got a problem out here."

"Well Agent Brenner, it must be nice to have only one problem at a
time to worry about." Replied Skinner almost playfully. "So, what's
going on?"

Scully shared a look with her partner. Skinner never sounded this
....friendly? And what was this "Boss" business. Their supervisor
usually maintained an air of aloofness with the agents under his
command.

"Look Boss, I've got a situation out here, a combination dual homicide
and kidnapping."

"Brenner, I wasn't aware of any ongoing kidnapping investigation out
of your office."

"Well.... sir, this isn't an ongoing case. Actually it only began
yesterday morning."

"Then I don't understand. How can the Bureau be involved yet? Is there
evidence that the kidnap victim has been taken across the state line
or have the local authorities requested the Bureau's assistance?"

"Sir, there's a better chance that the Veterans of Foreign Wars would
honor Clinton with a citizenship medal than the Sunnydale PD would
request assistance from the Bureau."

With that Skinner's assistant entered the office and approached the
Director's desk.

"Yes Kim, what is it?" asked Skinner with something of an edge to his
voice.

"Here are the prints, Director."

"What prints?" asked the AD somewhat confused.

"The ones Agent Brenner emailed me and then asked me to make copies of
sir."

"Ah... I was about to get to that Boss," Brenner added.

"Thank you Kim," said Skinner as he accepted the folder. Placing it
on his desk, the Director began looking through the assembled prints.
When he had finished, Skinner slid them across the desk to the two
agents facing him.

As Mulder picked up the folder and began going through its contents
Skinner continued his conversation with the agent from the west coast.

"Agent Brenner please try to explain to me as clearly as possible what
this is about and why you're even involved."

By now Mulder had passed the folder to Scully, who was going through
the pictures. There were six total, three were typical crime scene
photos. A close up of two apparently dead bodies and two distance
shots, showing the room from different angles with respect to the
bodies.

Hmmm, these shots are a much clearer than most police photos, thought
Scully. They must have used a digital camera at the scene and uploaded
directly to a computer.

The next two pictures were individual close ups of the bodies at the
morgue. They showed a man and a woman, both roughly middle aged. From
the angle of their heads Scully felt it was a good bet both their
necks were broken.

The final picture showed a young woman or more accurately a teenage
girl probably 17 or 18 years old. She had long dark red hair, green
eyes, a slender build and a bright friendly smile.

"Sir, the pictures in front of you are of a family from here in
Sunnydale. The bodies are those of Dr. Ira Rosenberg a local Heart
Surgeon and his wife Dr. Sheila Rosenberg a Child Psychologist. The
girl is the Rosenberg's daughter, Willow, age 17. She's a Senior honor
student at Sunnydale High."

As Scully heard this she nearly dropped her Caesar salad. Quickly
picking up the photos again, she stared at the picture of the red
haired young woman.

Brenner continued, "At 0712 Hours Monday, West Coast time, I was
completing my morning run. As I passed the Rosenberg house I could
hear a young woman's voice cry out 'Willow!' "

"It was then that I noticed the front door of the Rosenberg house was
wide open. I cautiously entered through the front door and found the
Rosenbergs lying on the floor of their living room. They appeared to
be dead."

"At that point I drew my service weapon and examined the bodies for
any signs of life. Both bodies were cold, they'd been dead at least a
couple of hours. From upstairs I could still hear someone yelling out
Miss. Rosenbergs name. The voice sounded very agitated or more
accurately, scared."

"I mounted the stairs and when I got to the second floor I identified
myself as an FBI agent and ordered whoever was up there to come out
with their hands up."

"When the person emerged from Miss Rosenberg's room I realized it was
one Buffy Summers, age 17, a classmate of Miss Rosenberg. At that
point I returned my weapon to its holster. Miss Summers informed me
that she had come to pick Willow up for school just a few minutes
prior to my arriving on the scene."

"We both went to Willow's room. It showed no obvious signs of a
struggle and nothing appeared to be missing so we returned to the
living room."

As she stared at the the photo of the young woman, Scully could hear
Agent Brenner speaking in the background. Not really listening she was
lost in her own thoughts.

It can't be her, it just can't, thought Scully. Not after all these
years.

"As I went over the bodies in detail, Buffy... I mean Miss Summers
looked around the room after I cautioned her not to touch anything."

"Not long after that we heard: 'Freeze, Police!' Two Sunnydale police
officers were holding weapons on us."

"Well it took a few minutes but I was able to get it through their
thick skulls that Yes, I was an FBI agent. It then took the better
part of half an hour to get then not to arrest Miss. Summers."

"Michael, how do you know that this Summers girl wasn't involved?"

"Simple sir, evidence." Replied the Special Agent-in-Charge of the
Sunnydale Field Office. "Based on lividity and rigor mortis it was
fairly easy to determine that the Rosenbergs had been dead upwards of
2 1/2 hours. It just didn't seem too likely that a murderer would stay
around the scene of a crime for over two hours after they had killed
someone."

"Also, if Buffy had killed the Rosenbergs 2 hours prior, why would she
still be there looking for Willow? The Rosenberg house isn't that big.
And finally Buffy and Willow are best of friends, neither of them
would do anything to hurt the other."

Even with his photographic memory Mulder still liked to look at the
original information on occasion. So while listening to the agent from
California he reached for the photos again.

It was then Mulder noticed that Scully had her eyes closed and that
her head was slightly bowed.

Concerned but not wanting to bring Scully to Skinner's attention,
Mulder went back to listening to the briefing. While also keeping an
eye on his partner.

I wonder what's wrong, thought Mulder. Sure, kidnappings are bad,
especially when kids are involved, but to be honest, we have seen a
whole lot worse.

"Anyway sir," continued Brenner, " we were eventually able to convince
the officers on the scene that Buffy and I had nothing to do with the
murder. That was when they contacted their supervisor who arranged for
a Crime Scene Unit to come over."

"The last time I checked, that would be the proper procedure Agent
Brenner."

"Yeah that's true Boss. But in every investigation I've ever been on
the CSU always talks to ANY witnesses. Whereas we were completely
ignored."

"I hope you didn't try to take charge of the case," asked Skinner.

"Sir, you would have been proud of me. I didn't threaten, bully or
throw anyone against a wall. I did yell a little, but I kept my
profanity to a minimum."

With that a small grin crossed Skinner's face.

"What bothers me is the haphazard way in which they are carrying out
the investigation. The first officers on the scene were trying to move
the bodies before the CSU people were even on site."

"When the investigators arrived they failed to question Buffy or
myself. They also failed to search any part of the house but the
living room."

Obviously agitated, Brenner continued.

"Shit, Boss! They didn't even take any crime scene photos. I had to
send Buffy next door to my house to get my digital camera. I took
those photos myself and they're the only ones that exist."

"I have been blocked out of every aspect of this case. I was even told
by the detective in charge that, 'It's not a Bureau matter so,' and I
quote, 'stay the Fuck Out!'"

"And last but not least, do you want to hear the theory these pinheads
have come up with for what happened? They think Willow killed her
parents as part of a gang initiation."

A strangled cough brought Skinner's head up. This allowed him to see
Mulder trying to clean up the iced tea he had just sprayed all over
himself.

Chuckling slightly Brenner remarked, "From what I just heard, it
sounds like someone else thinks that theory is a bunch of crap."

"Well be that as it may," said Skinner, " isn't it possible that
Miss Rosenberg could be an accomplice of the killers?"

With a deep sigh Agent Brenner explained, "Sir, the Rosenbergs have
been my next door neighbors since my family moved here. I personally
know both Buffy and Willow. Hell, Willow even baby-sits my kids! And
you know me Boss, is it at all likely that I would let anyone even
remotely dangerous near my babies?"

"Alright Mike, what happened next?"

"Director, after all that's happened I went to visit the Chief of
Police this morning. I informed him that if he didn't request Bureau
assistance I would file a formal complaint with the Justice
Department. The report would recommend to the Attorney General that
she begin an immediate investigation of the Sunnydale Police
Department."

"I stated that my report would site incompetence, malfeasance of
office, shoddy investigative procedures and direct interference from
the highest levels of the department."

"Eventually, after a lot of yelling on both our parts, I was able to
get him to see it my way. He agreed to allow my people to be part of
the investigation if I hold off on my report to Justice."

"I'm hoping that you can see fit to lend me some of your Violent Crime
or Behavioral Science Unit people to help out on the case. I've got
some really good people, but we're a little light in the Violent Crime
area. Also we don't have any Witch Doctors," said Brenner, using the
Bureau term for a Profiler.

Before Skinner could speak, Scully rose.

"Sir. Please excuse me, but there is an important matter I have to
take care of." Said Scully as she left the office.

*****

Fifteen minutes later Fox Mulder walked into the basement office of
the X-Files. As expected, he found Scully sitting at his desk silently
crying.

Walking over, Mulder pulled out a chair and sat down on it backwards
facing Scully. After waiting a minute he broke the silence, "Want to
talk about it Scully?"


End of Chapter 1.


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