From: polly122456@yahoo.com   
      
   Title:  Band of Gold   
   Author: Polly (polly122456@yahoo.com)   
   Rating:  PG   
   Category: 310 Words, Missing Scene, Pre-XF, Mytharc   
   Spoilers:  "Travelers"   
   Disclaimer: "The X-Files" and its characters belong   
   to Chris Carter, 1013 Productions, and FOX.  No   
   copyright infringement is intended   
   Archive:  If you want it, it's yours   
   Feedback: Always welcome and appreciated   
   Summary:  Explaining the ring, the smokes, and other   
   things   
      
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   He stared into the bathroom mirror, finger-combing   
   the bangs out of his eyes. He made a mental note to   
   visit the barbershop soon; better get the hair cut   
   voluntarily before Reggie made it mandatory.   
      
   He picked up the cigarette smoldering on the sink's   
   edge, took one last drag, and flicked it into the   
   toilet.  He was close to quitting, only lighting up   
   now when he got nervous. Today certainly qualified.   
      
   He was two steps out of the bathroom before he   
   remembered to turn back and retrieve the item left on   
   the toilet tank. He slipped the gold wedding band on   
   the third finger of his left hand, still a peculiar   
   sensation.   
      
   He'd gone in search of a ring after a senior Agent in   
   Behavioral Sciences advised him that victims and   
   suspects confided in serious, mature men, not baby-   
   faced, smart-ass kids. He doubted that was true, but   
   decided creating the facade of a stable family man   
   couldn't hurt. When he read the inscription in this   
   gold band he'd found in a pawnshop on M Street, he   
   knew it was fate: "To my beloved F.M."   
      
   He wasn't sure the ring had enhanced his professional   
   credibility, but it had succeeded in sending a clear   
   message to the barracudas in the secretarial pool. He   
   wasn't ready for romantic entanglements, least of all   
   with anyone at the Bureau; he wasn't anxious to   
   become anyone's "beloved F.M." just yet.   
      
   He headed for the door, hoping the ring would work   
   its magic today.  He needed former FBI Special Agent   
   Arthur Dales to confide in him about a case involving   
   Edward Skur and William Mulder. What connection could   
   his father have to a suspected murderer? He had to   
   know, and Dales was his only link to a 38-year-old   
   unsolved case, an "X" file.   
      
   Why was it called an "X" file anyway?  Maybe Dales   
   would tell him that too.   
      
   THE END   
      
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