Gambled Parts 9/17
By Debbie Eng (Wan-ping@juno.com)

12:19 PM
JoJo's Cafe
	
	They had all decided to stop for lunch in the cafe across from Mulder 
and Scully's motel.  They had been put in a booth with Caine sitting in the 
extra chair at the head of the table.  After the waitress had come back with 
their drinks, Scully looked at her partner.  He had been so quiet after he had
seen Caine.  She put her hand on his arm and silently asked him if he was 
alright.  Mulder patted her hand and nodded.  He was mentally searching his 
memories.  He knew that he had seen Caine before, but the name did not
ring any bells, and considering he had a photographic memory, that worried 
him a bit.

	Caine looked up from his cup of tea to see Fox staring at him again.  
He sighed and took a sip of his tea.  It had been a very long time since he 
had seen Fox.   It had been just after the temple had been destroyed and he 
had been searching for the essence of his son.  He looked up into Fox's eyes, 
but instead of the confusion, he now saw recognition.

	" I remember now, " Mulder said as his photographic mind finally found
the bit of memory it had been searching for. He flashed back to when he was 
twelve.  Days before his sister, Samantha had been abducted from their home.  
He and Sam had been in the school yard playing basketball.  Sam would always 
miss the basket because she was so short, but she had always been willing to 
keep trying.  Some older kids had stopped and started to tease Sam, but he was
Sam's protector.  He had just stepped in front of Sam when he heard a man 
shout.  The older kids had left and Fox had turned back to dry Sam's tears. 
The man had come up behind him.  " Peter, " the man had said softly.  Fox had 
turned around.  Caine looked at him in confusion and then sadness.  " Peter? 
Who's Peter?  I'm Fox William Mulder, and this is my sister Samantha.  Thanks 
for the help before. "  Fox had stuck out his hand.  His mother had taught him
to be polite.  The man had clasped his hand briefly and then turned away, 
muttering to himself. something about the essence had been so like Peter's.  
Fox had never gotten the name of the man who helped him nor had he ever seen 
that man again until today.

	Mulder took himself back to the present.  The others were looking at 
him.  " What do you remember, Mulder? " Scully asked.  

	" I remember when I had meet Peter's father.  It was you, wasn't it, 
at the schoolyard.  " he looked at Caine.  Caine nodded, " Yes. "

	" Schoolyard? " Peter asked.

	" It is a story for another time, " Caine replied, not really wanting 
to think about the times he had spent grieving and searching.  Peter looked 
like he wanted to say something, but he stopped himself.  " Before, you said 
that you needed to talk to me? About the deaths in Chinatown, I believe?"

	" Yeah, " Peter said as he was gathering his thoughts, the 
waitress came and placed their orders on the table.  She smiled at Peter and 
Mulder and then left.  " Pop do you know what's going on?  Agents Mulder and 
Scully thinks that its similiar to a case they had a while back.  Something 
about people gambling away their body parts for money? "

	" Yes, that would explain it then, " Caine said.

	" Explain what? " Skelany asked as she was eating her fries.

	" Why I have so many more people coming to me for help.  It is usually
because of an infection from their wounds.  Yet they would not tell me how 
their wounds had been acquired. " Caine nodded to himself.  The people in his 
community were very proud.  They did not ask for help unless they truly needed
it.  Yet, more and more people with patches and bandages had come.

	" We have to find out who's running this and stop him, " Peter said as 
he finished his roast beef sandwich.

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