Descendancy: Prologue
A WIP by Kate Lesky
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PROLOGUE
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     I woke up in a strange hospital room with an ache in my head and a tube 
coming out of the hole in my throat. I remembered being pushed down the stairs
by Krycek and Marita, and promptly swore to myself not to let them live out 
the week. Even if I didn't hate them for personal reasons, they were a threat 
to the project. It's too bad - Marita was a decent lay.

     An obscenely cheerful nurse came in to check my vitals. "You'll be just 
fine, sir. A neighbor found you at the bottom of the stairs and called 911. 
Apparently some of your friends have arranged for you to be transferred to a 
private facility tomorrow."

     I couldn't say anything because of the tube, so I stared at her 
uselessly. She smiled back, and left after checking my IVs. 

     I wanted to talk to my "friends," let them know about our two latest 
traitors. And I needed to get out of the hospital; it wasn't safe to be so 
unprotected from all the people who wanted to kill me. A man as important as I
shouldn't be left unprotected in a hospital; I had better things to do. The 
date for Colonization was apporaching rapidly, and my associates were not 
pleased with the lack of recent progress. The rebel forces had interfered with
so much of our planning that it was now a possibility that the date would 
arrive without adequate defense for humanity against the virus.

     As I was contemplating this, the Bounty Hunter entered. <<Colonization 
will proceed on schedule. We have everything we needed.>> I could hear him in 
my head. 

     <<But the only viable hybrid was destroyed over a year ago.>>I thought to
him. <<Another one has been created?>>

     <<That was not necessary. We have taken what we needed and begun to clean
up the evidence. All those with too much information must be eliminated before
we can commence takeover.>>

     Thoughts rushed through my head. The only person with the right DNA to 
make a hybrid unneccessary was Fox. <<You took Mulder? I thought you were done
with him last fall.>>

     <<It is no longer your concern. The only thing we need now is Dana 
Scully.>>

     <<I don't know where she is. She doesn't have hybrid the DNA that Fox 
does.>>

     <<Her offspring may.>>

     He turned around and pulled the tube out of my respirator, then left the 
room. No alarms sounded from the machinery; I would have welcomed the nurse. 
As I grew dizzier, my last thoughts were that I only wanted to protect my son;
I only wanted to protect humanity from oblivion. The room bacame fuzzy as I 
berated myself for not saving the world, saving my descendants.