Chapter 2
Holtzmann had taken over the break room, much to Erin's displeasure. ("Well to be fair, you should have specified that you didn't mean breaking things. I mean, it's in the name, Erin. It's called the 'break' room.")
The break room was located at the back of the building, so she didn't hear the doorbell ring. She only knew that they had visitors when Kevin appeared in the doorway, and tried to explain.
"There's a fox's skull from the FBI here" he'd said.
"I'm sorry Kev, you've lost me. What's going on?" She asked, tossing her blowtorch in the air and catching it.
"Abby's got them. They're downstairs." He said, giving up trying to explain. Talking to the Ghostbusters felt like having cotton wool in his brain. It wasn't painful, but he always felt like he was missing something.
Holtzmann pulled her brows together, not bothering to try and figure out the riddle.
"Alrighty Kev! Well, that's wonderful." She smiled at him, less manically than usual.
"Okay, okay. I better go get Mike an ice-cream. He's sick." Kevin turned and left, leaving Jillian's reply to die on her tongue.
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After stabilising the open containment field she'd been working on, Jillian pushed her goggles up onto the top of her head. She wanted to see what it was that Kevin had tried to tell her.
The fireman's pole was expressly forbidden territory for Holtzmann, but that had yet to stop her. She straddled it.
"Abby! Kev told me.... Kev told me something. I don't really know what it was." She yelled as she descended, landing a foot in front of their guests. Abby was not in the room.
There was a moment of silence as the people in front of her tried to process her. The man had a slight smile on his face upon seeing her. The woman's eyebrows, however, were raised and her mouth was slightly ajar.
Holtzmann recovered first.
"Well hello there. I'm Holtzmann, Ghostbuster extraordinaire, doctor of engineering and general all-round crazy person." She grinned, only slightly manically.
The woman's face appeared frozen in shock, so it came as no surprise when the man introduced them both.
"I'm agent Fox Mulder of the FBI, and this is my partner, Agent Dana Scully. We did call ahead, we were hoping you could shed some light on a case we're investigating"
Jillian closed her eyes briefly.
"A fox's skull. Of course. Makes perfect sense, Kev" she muttered.