Mulder and the Doctor, part 2

[ispyforthefbi]

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Mulder is becoming quite wary—and suspicious—of this guy. If this is alien technology, why does he know it so well? He looks like a regular human being.

"Hey," he grunts as he steps towards the console to investigate it. No familiar buttons to him. "Where are you from, exactly?" He takes a wild guess. "Wales?"

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[borntolove]

Be careful Mulder if The Tardis doesn't trust you enough, touching her consule- she will shock you. As Barba and Ian found out the hard way.

Oh, wow. You really haven't put it together have you? Yet, so clever otherwise.

"Gallifrey."

[ispyforthefbi]

Mulder finds a lever. A big lever. He points at it.

"What does this do, turn the box red?"

And as he lets his friend's answer sink in, he keeps the questions coming.

"What is Gallifrey, a city in Wales?" What the hell is Gallifrey?

[borntolove]

Sorry, Mulder. Enjoy the slight shock. "Hey! Don't go just pulling levers and pressing buttons!"

Bad human! Bad!

"Oh, you really know how to pick them don't you?" Is the remark outloud to the Tardis, "My home planet."

[ispyforthefbi]

Mulder stepped back and held his hands up, indicating he had no intention of causing any trouble.

"Okay, okay. Damn."

After the Doctor explained his situation, Mulder could only squint for a moment and ask:

"Planet? So you're an alien? I've seen uglier aliens. You're a catch compared to the Greys."

[borntolove]

"Am I?" Why yes, that's a shocked rude and not ginger remark. Then a beat, "Speak for yourself. Do you think you look beautiful to them?"

[ispyforthefbi]

"Human victims are beautiful to them," Mulder explaines with disdain. "All they want to do is abduct you and run tests on you. Believe me, I'd know."

You know how many times he's been approached by "alien abductees"? Too many. And it's always the Greys. Why are they always the grey ones? Mulder closes his eyes and sighs.

"Look, I don't want to fight with you. I just want to understand what's going on. You're not associated with those psychopaths, are you?"

[borntolove]

The Doctor gives a pointed look; "And humans don't do the same to other humans?" The answer is yes, humans do.

Then a whisper, "No." Which how it's stated it sounds like he's on his own.

[ispyforthefbi]

After all they've been through together, Mulder trusts the Doctor. If he wanted to assault him, physically or emotionally, he would have done so by now. The only trick here was to be honest, with which he wasn't unfamiliar.

"Okay. Then we're fine."

Exhausted from their running, manipulating others, and climbing through vents, Mulder turns and leans back against the console, deciding to catch is breath. This place seems safe enough. Time for a rest.

"So," he grumbles. "What's Gallifrey like? Is it desolate and grey like the moon?"

[borntolove]

"Come on. Let's find you a bed." Ten slides out of his seat and over to Mulder and will help the man though the console room to the hallway to a bedroom. Ten, on the other hand, doesn't seem tired at all.

As far as the Grey's, The Doctor will get back to that later.

[ispyforthefbi]

Mulder shrugs his arm away, not intending at all to find a bed. He's done stakeouts before. He's been up for days without sleep. He just has to rest against something for a little while, no sleep expected.

"I'm fine. Don't worry," he says with dismissal. "I've been through worse. Just give me a few minutes to lie against a wall or something."

[borntolove]

Ten gestures at the seat he had been sitting, "If you change your mind let me know. Might get lost otherwise."

[ispyforthefbi]

A chair was better than the back of a terribly awkward control console. Mulder plopped himself in the chair and let his arms flop to his sides limply.

"So you're an alien but you're not grey and you're from Gallifrey. Anything else I should know? Are you going to probe me in my sleep? Because I left my lube at home."

[borntolove]

"Did they do that to you before?" Is a genuine concern.

[ispyforthefbi]

"No," Mulder responds quietly, leaning back in his chair. "But I've heard of many, many people that have gone through something like that before." He sighs. He couldn't help them. He tried, but he couldn't help them from multiple abductions. "Probing, experimenting... there was no limit to the abuse their victims suffered."

Scully, for instance, had had her ovum extracted, leaving her infertile, and her belly expanded for reasons he could never figure out.

[borntolove]

There's a look, the look along the lines that humans do, do the same thing to their own species and other species besides the Grey's have done it humans and so forth and so on.

"Not all aliens are bad. Just like not all humans are bad."

why did this not come up on my notifications?

[ispyforthefbi]

Mulder shrugs, still mulling over the hell his clients have been through. What Scully has been through.

"I know. There's always one killjoy at a party that ruins it for everyone."

He takes a deep breath, trying to distract himself from the bad memories he's accumulated and turns his attention back to the Doctor.

"Do you know those grey aliens? You know, the kind with the big black eyes, giant heads, and tiny mouths? Pretty short? Don't say much?"

[borntolove]

The Doctor makes a rather pointed face at how Mulder made that statement; could have said the same thing better, human.

"Not personally." And they're telepathic hence the lack of talking.

[ispyforthefbi]

"But you know of them?" It's a start. Everyone else denies their existence.

[borntolove]

"Yes." Is the casual remark and there's a lot more species out there in the universe too.

[ispyforthefbi]

"Well?" Mulder leans forward in his chair, eager to learn more. "What do you know, then? Besides the fact that they're grey and experiment on people, I mean."