Title: The New Link
Author: Crystal
Archive: yes to mpreg
Feedback: crysgen78@h...
Summary: Alien colonization for our favorite do-gooder.
Author's Notes: Have I mentioned boredom. Sometimes, I swear I hate work. Although I guess it beats the alternative. This is another drabble plus some. These are just one-offs. If I ever finish the two stories I'm working on, I may revisit some of my drabbles (Batman/Superman especially), but for now just take it for what it is.
Fandom: ER/Early Edition/X-Files
Pairing: N/A (Gary Hobson gets hit this time)
Rating: PG

John Carter stared at the results on his patient's chart. It just couldn't be. It had to be a mistake. Someone else's results got mixed up with his. The guy had come in complaining of nausea and vomiting that occurred every morning for several weeks, and John had run some very standard blood tests-certainly not a pregnancy test. Not on this guy-this Gary Hobson.

"Excuse me, Dr. John Carter?" John looked up to find two FBI agents waving badges in his face. One guy, dark hair, good build, rather pouty mouth-John blinked and turned his attention to the red headed woman who had addressed him to begin with.

"Yes, I'm John Carter, Agents…?"

"Sorry," the guy spoke up, shaking his hand. "I'm Agent Mulder, and this," he indicated his partner, "is Agent Scully. We had a report that you're treating a man named Gary Hobson. We'd like to speak with him if we could." As agent Mulder had his attention, Scully looked at the open chart file, and gasped.

"Mulder," she quickly got her partner's attention. "He is one."

"Which room is he in?"

By now John was furious that his patient's confidentiality had been breeched, especially over mixed up results. "I'm not telling you that. And what do you mean he is one." Of course, as happens when you don't want someone to know something, your eyes automatically go to that place.

Seeing John glance at a room, Scully and Mulder rushed through the door to be greeted with an open window and an empty bed. There was a newspaper on the bed, and for a moment, Mulder could have sworn the headline read about a Chicagoan being the first documented pregnant man and being taken into custody for his own protection by the FBI, but then just like that the headline was gone.

John Carter had followed just a step behind them and swore heavily when he encountered the empty room. "I want you to tell me what's going on."

Fox Mulder looked back at the young doctor impassively, and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Dr. Carter, tell me what you know about alien colonization techniques."

End