Gambled Parts 8/17
By Debbie Eng (Wan-ping@juno.com)

11:25 AM
Behind Mei Mei's Grocery Store

	" That's what I thought, but then I'm only cold when I'm...." Peter 
froze.  His eyes had glazed over.

	Mary Margaret looked at him, " Peter?  Peter what's wrong? Come on 
Peter don't do this to me here. "  Hell, she thought, I should be used to this 
by now, I mean with a boyfriend like Kwai Chang Caine and all.  She snapped 
her fingers in front of his face.  No reaction.  This had already started off 
as being a crappy day since she got up.   She had been fifteen minutes late 
for work because her alarm didn't go off , those federal agents had shown up 
without any warning, and now this.  She vowed to herself to keep an eye on
the agents.  She didn't like the way they had both been looking at Peter 
before. Where were those two anyway?  

	Mary Margaret looked around.  Agent Mulder was looking at the dumpster
in a way that reminded her of Peter, however he was still talking or at least 
arguing, and gesturing to his partner.  She turned back to her own partner who
seemed content to be imitating a stone statue.

	All of a sudden Peter started to fall.  She quickly reached out to 
catch him.  But his weight and momentum was too great.  Where the hell was 
Kwai Chang when you needed him?

	A tan colored arm shot out and eased some of Peter's weight from her.
" I am here, Mary Margaret. "  They gently eased Peter to the ground.

	" Caine! " Mary Margaret was relieved, he would know what was wrong 
with Peter, wouldn't he?  " What's wrong with Peter? "

	" Hey, are you two all right?  What happened? " Mulder and Scully came
running towards them.

	Caine bent down to examine his son.  He did not yet know what had 
happened to Peter. For the past few minutes, he had been feeling Peter's 
anxiety.  Caine sent a brief surge of energy to Peter's chi. As he did so, 
Peter's eyes slowly opened, " Thanks for the jump start, Pop.  I mean
Dad."

	Peter started to sit up.  Two paramedics came over with their 
equipment.  " What seems to be the trouble, sir? "  Peter waved them off.  
" I'm perfectly all right. "  He turned back to Skelany.  " Skelany, one of 
the men, he left fingerprints when he opened the dumpster.  Tell someone from 
the evidence team to dust the left hand corner, near the large spot of rust, 
the shape of New Jersey. "

	Everybody looked at him.  " Look, just trust me on this one, ok? " 
Bracing his hand against Caine's shoulder, Peter got up.  If they weren't 
going to tell someone, he was.  Scully stopped him, " Are you sure you're ok? "

	Peter looked at her, " Yeah, I'm fine.  I just have to tell them to..."
Peter broke off his sentence as he looked past her shoulder to where the 
dumpster was located.  A man from the evidence team was already dusting at 
the exact spot that he had seen in his vision.

	" How? " Peter asked confused.

	" Mulder was just living up to his reputation of being Spooky Mulder 
as usual, " Scully replied to his look of confusion.

	" Yes, " Caine said slowly, " You have grown quite a bit since last I 
saw you, Fox. "  Everybody looked at him.  

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