*Seven*
I awoke on the floor of the living room. Clambering to a sitting position, I noticed Scully lying unconscious to my left.
"Scully," I said, shaking her. "Scully wake up."
She opened her eyes with a start. "What ... what the hell happened?"
"I don't know, you were gone, and I went to look for y – uh." For an instant, a demented tableau of the evening's events flashed before my eyes. What few events I could recall, anyway.
"Mulder?"
"Let's get out of here," I said. Scully nodded.
We dashed out the door, got into the car and drove off. I checked the clock – 9:34 p.m. We said nothing for a long time, trying in our respective heads to piece together what had just occurred.
"What happened after you went looking for Darren?" I asked, breaking the silence.
"I couldn't find him, so I went back to the living room. But you weren't there."
"I went looking for you."
Scully paused. "I got lost."
"Yeah." I kept my eyes on the road. "So did I."
She shifted slightly. "I don't remember ... "
I shook my head. I didn't remember either. He was kissing me. And then ... nothing. Oh god. I glanced in the rear-view mirror. "Scully, check to see if you have any marks on your neck."
She laughed. "You can't be serious."
"Humour me."
She pulled a small mirror out of her pocket – don't most women have purses for that? – and examined her neck. "No bite marks, Mulder," she assured me.
Okay, then what did he do? Drug us? Scully would know if she'd been drugged. Scully would be listing the symptoms in her cerebral medical record, and would have concluded something by now.
"Do you feel dizzy at all or feel any signs of hallucination?" she asked.
"Nah, you?" I vaguely recalled my vision swimming earlier, in the shadows of the cellar. I felt fine now, though.
"Not anymore," she mumbled. We pulled into the motel lot and got out of the car. "Mulder, I know we should probably review the case file, but do you think it could wait until morning? I'd just as soon call it a night."
I nodded. "Sure."
"Let me know if the last couple of hours come back to you." She sounded far away.
"Yeah. You too."
And with that, we slipped into our separate rooms.
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