You failed Part 1 - How to save a life | XFiles: Krycek/JSpender fic

FROM: Curlie
Date: 08/12/08 (started)
TITLE: You failed Part 1 - How to save a life
Shortcut: Spender gets rescued after the tragic meeting with his father.
RATING: PG-13
CATEGORY: JS/K Slash, Post-Epi, Angst
SPOILER: Season 5 & 6 (One Son)
DISCLAIMER: Sadly the Characters aren't mine.
FEEDBACK: molly_1013@hotmail.com
AUTHOR'S NOTES: I always wanted to try out if I could write slash. I dedicate this Fic to a beloved friend who was patient enough to help and beta read my very first English FanFic.


Somewhere deep in the back of his mind he still heard how the door of the dark office closed before he finally lost consciousness. His blood slowly filled the floor and the desk also got visible spots of it when he got shot by his own father. Nobody seemed to have noticed it. He was alone... Like most of the time of his life no one was there when he needed it the most.

The Headquarter haven't seem to change in any way when he entered and silently made his way down to the Office of Fox Mulder, which he knew was going to be replaced by its old owner. Almost melancholy he observed the Agents who passed by him while he stepped into the elevator and pushed the button for the basement with the fingers of his left hand. Alex became nervous while the elevator slowly moved down and was glad when he finally could escape the small cabin and attentively walked down the hallway till he reached the office door. For a short moment he stopped and noticed the smell of old smoke which filled the air like a bad demon before he opened the door and entered. What he saw left even him speechless.
It wasn't the first time that he saw the pale face of Jeffrey Spender, but this was definitely a special moment. Again it was the air that told him who did this to the young man who was laying down to his feet. „That sonuvabitch!“ Alex hissed through clenched teeth and checked his barely but still visible vitals before he looked up to the empty place on the wall, where Mulders Poster once was. >I want to believe< had been its tag line and was also the intention that drove him to pick up his cellphone from the black leather jacket to call help. Help from someone, he'd never expected to need.

Diana Fowley arrived only a couple of minutes after she received the rushed call from the one she knew but never really worked with and hurried through the parking area of the FBI Building. Her higher level gave her access to almost everything and so she didn't need to go through the usual security checks on the main entrance. She held herself back from saying anything and just nodded at Krycek, who was kneeling beside her last partner and pushed his hand against the shot wound on Spenders neck to stop the bleeding, when she reached the office. „We need to get him out of here!“ Alex spoke silent but noticeable worried, when she also knelt down to help. Again she nodded. „How are his vitals?“ - „They didn't get better since I've called you, that's for sure.“ Krycek answered a little annoyed by the slowness of their activities. „Where's your car?“ - „Right in front of the parking areas entrance.“ Former Agent Diana Fowley replied, unimpressed and overseeing the tone of his voice, when they picked Spender up from the floor and brought him to her car.
„Bring him to the place I've told you on the phone, I'll follow in a minute.“ Alex said, after he closed the backseats door of the vehicle. „I still have a job to do.“ He rolled his eyes by the thought of doing the dirty work for the Cigarette Smoking Man after he left this mess in the basement office and went back inside the building.

Before she left the parking garage, she checked Jeffreys wound once again which had finally stopped bleeding. He was weak... not that it would have been something new to her but this time he was life threatening wounded. The car started to move and entered the dark city of DC, which were only lightened up the way by the street lights while the drive.

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But meanwhile another light came to Jeffreys attention. A tempting bright light. Even if his eyes were closed he could see stations of his life, as sad as it was. It was so overwhelming, that he almost could feel the pressure on his eyes.
„Don't cry, Jeffrey...“ Who was it? The voice was so familiar to him. It was... the voice of his mother, who disappeared once again only a couple of weeks ago. „Mom? Is it you?“ He answered. „Where are you?“ He looked around, obviously lost. „I can't see you, Mom.“ Again he heard her saying to stop crying. Was he really crying? He was confused.
„I'm here, my boy.“ He could hear Cassandra saying. „Right here, but what are you doing at this place?“ She asked concerned. „I... I got shot, Mom. There was this man, down in my office.“ He answered like a small school boy. „The man who pretended to be my father did this.“ Cassandra came up to him and protectively laid her arms around her son.

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Alex was just finished with covering up the events, when the door opened and Mulder stood in the doorway. He couldn't even think as fast as he was going into defense. Mulder rushed in and grabbed him by the jacket and nailed him with his back to the desk. „What are you doing here, Krycek?!“ He barked at him and didn't even wait for an answer. Alex' head swung to the side when the first punch at his face arrived. A dark look was returned to the Agent instead. Alex should have known better that this was only an invitation for Mulder to slap him again and he opened his mouth for an answer. „I know what you think, Mulder. But it's not like that... Not this time.“ He was barely finished when he felt the new cut on his lip. „Dammit, Mulder... Listen!“ The Agent backed off of him and let him wipe away the blood.

A few minutes later after he told him about what has happened down in the basement he got up from the desk again. „You wont see me again that soon. I have better things to do than playing your goddamn punching ball.“ And with these words he left the office back into the dark, with the coming back worries about the green Agent he found there when he first entered.

~tbc~

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“Where am I?” He asked weakly. Diana looked towards the bed when she noticed it and got up from the chair where she spent the past two hours, watching over his unconscious body. “It's alright, Jeffrey... You're gonna be okay.” She leaned down to her former partner and placed her hand on his chest. “Don't speak too much... You got shot, but you'll survive it.” Spender just nodded careful and still knowing what happened to him. With questioning eyes he looked aside of Diana towards the door when it opened.

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“We've saved your little sorry ass...” someone hissed through his clenched teeth, when he caught Jeffreys eyes were open right from the door where he stand now. Diana looked back at the dark, short haired man and nodded – giving him a sign that he was going to be fine again before she got a nod back and left the location. When she passed the man, she could hear a silent “Thank you” from Krycek before she finally closed the door behind herself and left the men behind.