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Crazy Cracky Crossovers by JJPOR [Reviews - 31]  Chapter or Story Author's Notes: Another short crossover born of a lj prompt, this one from my good buddy akashasheiress/Maggadin. More Agent Scully, but this time she's the one trying to help Romana II with her enquiries... | |
The knock on the office door was gentle but firm, quiet and yet somehow perfectly audible. Not that there was much noise down here in the basement. Agent Scully put down the case file she was reading and stood up from where she was seated on the other side of Mulder’s cluttered desk, turning around in mild surprise; they did not usually receive callers. And when they did, she saw, they were not usually callers like this.
“Excuse me.” The blonde woman’s voice was high, clear and had the quiet self-confidence of a true aristocrat. “I wonder if you could help me?” She looked as if she had gotten dressed in a charity shop; cherry-red boots, a straw hat and a dress that looked vaguely Victorian; a dress which very obviously did not have a visitor’s pass attached to it.
“I’m sorry,” said Scully, feeling vaguely unsettled, “but how did you get in here?” The woman looked at her, giving a little frown as she did so:
“Obviously, I walked in the front door,” she replied. “How else does one enter a building?” Scully wondered if she had escaped from some sort of secure hospital:
“Yes, but this is FBI headquarters,” she pointed out. “You can’t just walk in here.”
“Well, I did,” the woman answered, still giving her a funny look, as if she were the mad one. “I don’t normally have much trouble getting where I want to go. I was wondering if you could help me find the Doctor?”
“I’m a doctor,” Scully said, as gently and soothingly as she could manage; patients like this could turn violent at the drop of a hat. “Now, just stay calm and we’ll get you back home, just as soon as…” The woman practically rolled her eyes in exasperation:
“I’m looking for the Doctor,” she said, adamantly. “We became separated in the course of…well, an altercation with some…miscreants, and I’ll admit I may have become a little bit lost, so when I saw the sign on the front of your building…”
“It’s okay,” said Scully softly, as if talking to a child. “I know it must be frightening, being out by yourself…” The visitor gave her another concerned look:
“Not especially; I’m more worried about what the Doctor might do by himself. He’s always told me that if you’re on Earth and you get lost you ought to ask a policeman…well, your sign says this is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, so I thought…well, you are policemen in here, aren’t you?” She flashed a hopeful smile; she had a remarkable set of teeth that she had somehow managed to keep completely concealed until now; it was like a flashbulb going off.
“I suppose we are,” Scully replied. “Now, I’m just going to…”
“I asked the man at the desk if anybody in here knew about finding alien visitors,” the woman went on. “He said I should go down to the basement, that a Spooky Mulder could help me; is that you?” She thought about something. “He also laughed quite a lot; always nice to see people enjoying their work.”
“Agent Mulder’s just stepped out for a moment,” Scully replied, not adding that he was busy getting carpeted in Skinner’s office. Again. “Now, how did you manage to get down here by yourself?” she asked, gently and, she liked to think, compassionately. “Were you with one of the tour parties?”
“I’m sorry,” said the woman, with another little frown, “but I think I may have come to the wrong place. I’ll go and see if I can find him myself; I’m sure he’ll show up somewhere or other. Good afternoon…” She turned on her heel and left the office as suddenly as she had arrived; in the time it took Scully to run out into the corridor after her, she had, somehow, completely disappeared.
END
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