[Makebelieve] FIC: Suicide is Candy 2

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Suicide is Candy 2
by PEJA

Fandom: XFiles
Characters Alex Krycek/Walter Skinner
Portrayed by Nick Lea/Mitch Pileggi
Rating: PG
Summary: Waler arranges a second meeting
Warning: Angst, AU
his chapter is dedicated to Lilithangel (CompleteKingdomOfSlash), who
requested a continuation of "suicide Is Candy". If you would like to see
more of this story, let me know
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Walter Skinner made a point of being in the park early the next day, hoping
to catch the young rogue agent. But when he arrived, the bench was empty.
Digging the brown paper bag of day old bread from his pocket, he settled
down and began to tear up the crusts into bird bite sized bits, tossing them
with mild interest to the flocking pigeons. His dark eyes darted between the
strutting antics of the birds s to the bricked walkway that Alex had
disappeared down the day before.

It was only minutes later that his vigil was rewarded by slow, heavy
footsteps heralding the other man's arrival.

Alex came to a sudden halt, seeing him waiting on the bench. He tilted his
head, blinking his eyes rapidly as if not believing what he was seeing. A
slow, mocking caricature of a smile flickered over his lips. "Come to
deliver that bullet to my head, then?"

"Maybe later."

Alex shrugged, then took his place next to Walter, saying,. "You know where
to find me."

Walter gave him a hard, curious look, but Alex never noticed, bringing out
his own bag of crusts and idly tossing them out by the measured handful.

"Why are you doing this?".

"I call that beaten up looking brown one," Alex pointed out the bird in
question with a trembling hand. "Smoking Man." His hand waved toward a blue
grey strutting pigeon next. "That's Mulder. They have this "at your throat"
competition thing going, just like their namesakes."

"Why are you doing this, Krycek."

Alex paused, staring at the birds for a breath. "Do you know how I spent my
last birthday? The holidays? No?" He sighed tiredly. "Listen, I won't bore
you with the morbid details of my day to day life, Skinner. Suffice to say,
I don't have any self-pity left. And I'm too damn world wear to care about
the rest of the world anymore."

"Surely you realized what you were getting into when you started down your
path." Skinner said softly, not wanting to feel sorry for the defeated man
at his side. "You knew .... "

Krycek laughed a short bitter sound that soured the brightness of the quiet
day. "I was gonna save the world." He gave another choked chuckle. "They
sold me the whole ball of crap. Wasn't till I was so far deep in that I
figured out the truth." He caught Walter's dark scowl. "What? You think they
recruited me out of Quantico by telling my I was going to betray the human
race? Commit genocide on a world wide scale? Right. That's me alright. Mass
murderer, Alex Krycek" He up-ended the bag of crumbs, scattering them to the
flocking pigeons and jerked to his feet, a park of the dangerous fire
Skinner had been missing back in his green eyes. "Just forget it. Leave me
to what I have to do and thank your lucky stars its finally finished."

Walter grabbed his arm as he moved to leave. "Stop."

Alex slanted him a mocking glance. "Arresting me?"

The older man shook his head. "Stop running away.

"You offering me somewhere to run to?" He gave a short bitter laugh. "Didn't
think so."

"What if I were."

Alex chuckled. "too little. Too late."

This time when Krycek walked away, Skinner didn't stop him.

end

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