FF: "Firstborn." (Chapter 5/?)

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TITLE: "Firstborn." (Chapter 5/?)
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 or
Season 6 on the X-Files fair game.
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"Firstborn." (cont.)
By: Ellie Dee


Chapter 5.


Twenty minutes later, Mulder and Scully pulled up in front of an
attractive two story house. As they were getting out, Agent Brenner
parked his car in the driveway of the house next door.

Making their way to the front door they met Brenner as he was fumbling
with a key ring. "The Rosenbergs gave me a spare key incase there was
a problem when they were gone or if Willow ever needed help," said the
senior agent.

"Did the Rosenbergs often leave Willow ... I mean their daughter home
alone?" Scully asked with concern.

"Well Scully," replied Brenner, "let's just say that Willow's mother
and father believed whole heartedly in benevolent neglect. From what
the neighbors say, she's been staying home taking care of herself for
weeks at a time, since she was at least 12. Before that she would stay
over at the house of a friend of hers, Xander Harris."

> From where he was standing Mulder could see the look on Scully's face.
It wasn't pleasant. He could see the pain she was feeling and knew
that she was feeling guilt over what had happened. From the sound of
it the Rosenbergs had left Willow alone many times. To Scully it must
have felt as if she had repeatedly abandoned the girl.

Then something caught Mulder's attention, "I don't think we'll be
needing a key."

"Why, are you fond of picking locks?" asked Brenner sarcastically.

"No it's just that the door is open," said Mulder pointing at the open
doorway.

"Shit!" said the Sunnydale agent as he set his brief bag down and
removed a large metal flashlight. Holding it in his left hand Brenner
then drew his Sig Saur. "Alright, Scully on me, Mulder take rear.
Standard three man cover formation."

Trying to remember their room clearing exercises from the academy,
Mulder and Scully drew their weapons and followed Brenner into the
house. Moving to cover the area he had designated, Scully couldn't
help but remember how she had thought that the oriental kid was the
cowboy.

The three agents moved silently into the living room. Though there
were no lights on, Brenner didn't need to use his flashlight. Between
the street light outside and the near full moon there was plenty of
light for them to see by.

Brenner was about to motion for Mulder and Scully to follow him up-
stairs when Scully saw something slam into the senior agent. This
caused him to fall into her, knocking her to the floor.

Quickly regaining her bearings, Scully realised that while she could
not see Mulder she could see that Agent Brenner was nearby. And that a
small man with long blond hair was straddling Brenner's back trying to
use a choke hold on the senior agent.

Quietly getting to her feet. Scully made her way over to Brenner and
placed the muzzle of her pistol into the the base of the skull of the
blond assailant. Then in a loud and forceful voice she yelled "FREEZE!
FEDERAL AGENTS!"

The blond immediately froze and began to raise his hands. Using her
free hand, Scully pushed the blond to the ground. At this point Scully
discovered that the man she was holding a pistol on was wearing a bra.
She absorbed this fact while she removed a pair of handcuffs from her
jacket pocket and placed them on the blond's wrists.

Turning now, Scully could make out Mulder rolling around on the floor
with a young man on top of him. Scully quickly got up and succeeded in
getting the young man's attention by placing the end of her pistol on
the bridge of his nose.

At this point the boy, he couldn't have been over 18, froze like a
deer in a car's headlights. Her breathing a little shaky, Scully
looked the boy in the eye and explained, "I said 'Freeze. Federal
Agents.' That means you don't move."

As soon as she felt the boy understood she backed off a few feet and
motioned to the floor with her free hand. "Face down on the floor.
Hands away from your body." While the kid complied Scully could hear
Mulder groan.

"Mulder, Agent Brenner, are you alright?" she asked with concern in
her voice.

"I'm fine Scully," said Mulder from where he lay next to her.

Across the room a groan punctuated by a cough showed that Brenner was
still among the living.

After Mulder and Brenner got to their feet Brenner cleared his throat
and said, "Let's turn these two over and see if we can ID them."

While Mulder and Scully complied Brenner looked around the room.

With his back to them Brenner began, "Ok, so why don't you two tell us
who you are and why you're here?" Then turning back to face them
Brenner was shocked.

"Summers! Harris! Don't the two of you have the sense to stay out of
a crime scene?"

Shaking his head and letting out a deep exasperated sigh Brenner
turned to Scully and Mulder and continued. "It's alright, I know these
two. Go ahead and uncuff them, then let's get them out of here."

The boy, sounding nervous, quickly spoke up, "Yo, Bren-meister, we
didn't mean to cause any trouble but our... uh... Crime Club... yeah
the Crime Club wanted to research this...."

At that point something clicked in Mulder's head. "Wait a minute,"
interrupted Mulder, "Buffy Summers?"

"Yes?" answered the young blond.

"You're the one who found the Rosenberg's the other morning."

"Yeah. Why?" replied Buffy cautiously.

"You, Miss Rosenberg and Mr Harris here are suppose to be very good
friends," stated Scully. "So what are you really doing here?"

Silence filled the room as Buffy and Xander looked back and forth
trying to figure out what to say. They were interrupted by a tired
sounding Brenner. "Give it up you two."

Hearing this Buffy's face settled into a sad smile. "We were trying to
find some clues about what happened to Willow and where they took
her."

"How do you know she didn't go off on her own?" Scully asked trying to
sound like she was open to all possibilities.

"You obviously don't know Will," said Buffy's companion. With an easy
grin on his face, he nodded towards the stairs, "Her laptop is still
on her desk up in her room."

"So, maybe she didn't need it," added Mulder.

This caused all three of the Sunnydale residents to start laughing.

Seeing no humor in this Scully asked, "What's so funny?"

"Lady, Wills takes that thing everywhere. When we went to the beach
last summer she took it along to help design our sand castles," Xander
said still laughing.

"I've seen her use it as a pillow at the library," commented Buffy.

Chuckling to himself, Brenner added, "For all I know she takes it with
her when she's making out with her boyfriend in the back of his van."

In spite of all that was going on, Mulder was having a hard time not
laughing. Remembering Willow's picture he knew the girl was obviously
beautiful and graceful just like her mother. She probably had no
trouble taking her pick of the boys in the area. Beauty and brains,
she definitely took after Scully.

Looking over at his partner, Mulder saw an unpleasant look on Scully's
face. Somehow he realized that the look was caused by the words "van"
"boyfriend" and "making out".

"Ok people," said Brenner, "I don't want to be here all night so let's
get to work. Buffy, you and Harris can help. But for God's sake, if
you find something call out."

For the next 45 minutes Scully and the others searched the Rosenberg
house. Scully had personally gone through Willow's room. She had told
herself that this was to look for clues, but actually she wanted to
see how her daughter lived.

Willow's room looked like an average teenagers room. A lot neater than
most but... comfortable. It reminded Scully of her room as a teenager.
Well except for the poster on the wall. What kind of band would call
itself "Dingoes Ate My Baby?"

Walking around the bed Scully kicked something hard underneath.
Bending down she pulled out a small wooden box.

Opening the box Scully was surprised by the contents. Inside were
small jars of neatly labeled herbs and powders, glass vials of what
looked to be water, candles, cloves of garlic, a knife with a white
handle and no edge, several sharpened wooden stakes. And laying on top
was a large wooden cross.

These look like witchcraft supplies or something you'd fight a vampire
with, thought Scully. Dear God, what was Willow involved in?

"Excuse me, Agent Scully?" said a voice from the door.

Surprised Scully accidentally dropped the cross and the lid to the box.
Looking up, she could see the Summers girl in the doorway.

"Uh, yes Buffy?"

"Agent Brenner says he wants to wrap things up. You about done?" asked
the pretty blond.

"Yes I am," replied Scully as she pushed the box back underneath the
bed. She then picked up the cross and hid it under her rain coat.

Heading down the stairs, Scully asked Buffy about her and Willow.

"I love her. I mean, you know, like a friend," said the blond in a
confused rush. "Cause that's what she is, you know, my best friend.
We're like the friendliest of friends... I should really just shut
up now."

She seems very nervous, thought Scully. Probably just a mixture of
being around an FBI agent and her friend being missing.

"Was Willow involved with any groups around school?"

"Huh, oh yeah. Computer Club, Physics Club, that sort of thing."

Trying to get Buffy to open up to her Scully remarked, "She sounds
like me in high school. I was a regular Miss Teen Geek."

The reaction she got from Buffy was not what she expected.

Buffy stopped dead in her tracks and looked as if she were going to
hit Scully. Then in a low angry voice she said, "Don't ever call Will
a Geek! She's my best friend and the sweetest person I've ever met!"

"Buffy...I'm...sorry. I didn't mean anything by that. It...it's just
that Willow sounds so studious, she reminds me of myself in school."

Buffy watched Scully for several seconds, then with a slight nod she
turned and resumed down the stairs.

Once everyone was in the living room again Brenner spoke. "Well it's
getting late and we'll have more time tomorrow. So unless someone has
some questions let's get going.

"You know, you should make sure the other cops don't leave their butts
laying around. Doesn't this, you know, contaminate your crime scene?"
asked Xander pointing to a bowl on the end table.

"Harris, I know the Sunnydale PD is slack as Hell. But even those
idiots know not to smoke at a crime scene. Besides I was here the
entire time and those cigarettes were here when I arrived."

"Well then that's your first clue," replied the teen. "Because Will's
parents didn't smoke."

"I'll be damned, you're right. Ira and Sheila both hated smoking.
They'd never let a visitor smoke in the house."

Kneeling next to the end table, Mulder got his partners attention.

"Scully, take a look at this."

"What is it Mulder?"

"Check out the brand," said Mulder as he picked up one of the
cigarettes with the tweezers from his knife.

Looking closely Scully could make out the familiar brand name.

"Morleys?" she asked.

"Yeah, I wonder if...."

"Mulder it's just a coincidence."

"What are you two talking about?" asked Brenner.

"I was just wondering if a friend of ours could be involved. This is
his brand," added Mulder.

Considering for a moment, Brenner took the cigarettes and placed them
in an evidence pouch and pocketed it. "Well we'll see if we can figure
out who these belong to in the morning."

Turning out the lights, Brenner allowed everyone to file out. Then he
locked the front door from the outside. Just as he was straightening
up, the vampires appeared.


End of Chapter 5.

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