TITLE: Three Grand Slams, please.
AUTHOR: Krista Wagner
EMAIL: wagnerkrista@hotmail.com
SITE: http://www.geocities.com/kristawagner
FEEDBACK: Please! But this is my first published fanfic, so be gentle!
DISCLAIMER: Byers, Langly, and Frohike are 1013’s. But the waitress is MINE! ;)
SPOILERS: The Lone Gunmen’s Pilot episode
CATEGORY: Humor
SYNOPSIS: The Gunmen think out their day’s plan over Grand Slams.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: You really have to have seen the Pilot episode to get this fic. The first part is actually from the episode, and then I take it from there. Let’s just say, this is a ‘deleted’ scene. Also, thanks to http://www.geocities.com/thelonegunmen030401/ep0.html for the transcript of the show.

5: 48 A.M.

LANGLY
Whataya say we call it a night, Byers?

FROHIKE
Ah, it's too late for that; sun just came up. Come on, Byers; I'll buy you a Grand Slam.

BYERS
It just doesn't make sense.

LANGLY
What doesn't make sense?

BYERS
The blood in my father's house.

FROHIKE
Buddy, we've been through this. They shot him.

BYERS
Why? Why go to the trouble of, faking a car accident so perfectly, so convincingly, when you're starting with a body that's, got a bullethole in it.

LANGLY
Maybe dad put up a fight.

BYERS
(pause)
Maybe it wasn't his blood.

6: 37 A.M.
Denny’s Restaurant

The three Gunmen are sitting at a booth in a Denny’s restaurant. Frohike is sitting on the audiences left, in the middle of the booth seat. Byers and Langly sit together on the opposite side, Langly farthest in, Byers on the outside. Each man has a ‘Grand Slam’ they are eating at.  All except Langly. Langly sits, fork in hand, staring at his full plate. He appears dazed, his eyelids heavy.

FROHIKE
So, tell me, Byers. If it wasn’t your old man’s blood, then whose was it?

BYERS
I don’t know. Maybe it’s the man that came to kill him. Like what Langly said, he put up a fight.

FROHIKE
But there was no sign of a struggle.

BYERS
There doesn’t have to be. Just like the blood. All the evidence was cleaned up. The carpet was shampooed and anything else out of place may have been put back into place. (he takes a bite of his hot cakes)

Langly’s head begins to bob. He catches himself and sits up straight, eyes wide. He
immediately slouches back down, eyes almost closed. He other men don’t seem to notice.

FROHIKE
(takes a bite of sausage and swallows)
We could have the blood sampled.

BYERS
(nodding his head)
After we finish here, we can go back to the house and get a sample. If we give it to Mulder, he can get the results back quicker than if we sent it in ourselves.

FROHIKE
What do we do if it isn’t his blood?

BYERS
We assume he isn’t dead. Mr. Helm can help us find him.

FROHIKE
If he wants to be found.

Byers eyes flicker, and he works at cutting up his hot cakes. Frohike looks at him, regretting what he just said and looks back down to his plate. Short silence. Langly has been drifting in and out of sleep, his eyes close and open, his head bobs back and forth throughout the conversation. Finally, during this silence, he gives up trying to stay awake. His head falls forward, hitting the plate loudly. Byers and Frohike glance over at him, startled by the noise.  Langly’s hair has fallen over his face, hiding it, but it is obvious he fell asleep right in his food.  The men look away, paying no heed to Langly. Another pause. Byers looks up at Frohike suddenly, his eyes wide.

FROHIKE
(startled)
What is it?

BYERS
I’ve got it! His would-be assassin was sent to make his death look like an accident. The carpet in the living room had been freshly shampooed. The assassin slipped on the carpet, just like you did, and his gun went off, killing him. Dad realized he was in danger. I imagine his first impulse was to run. He somehow must have found the remote control that the assassin had attached to his car. Someone was going to great lengths to fake his death in a car accident. So he came up with his own plan. The body found in the car was the assassins, not Dad’s. Dad must have put him in the car and sent it towards the metal pylon. That way they wouldn’t be able to positively identify the body.

FROHIKE
Smart man.

BYERS
We have to find out what Scenario 12D is.

A waitress walks onto screen, notepad in hand. She is a young girl, early 20’s, with blond hair tied back into a ponytail. She wears a maroon polo shirt, with a Denny’s logo on the right shoulder, and black dress pants. She also has a white apron tied around her waist.

WAITRESS
(tears off check and lays it down on table)
Here is your check, gentlemen.

FROHIKE
(smiling at waitress)
Why, thank you, pretty lady.

The waitress does not notice Frohike’s flirting. She is too busy staring at Langly, her eyes wide with concern.

WAITRESS
Is your friend ok?

BYERS
Oh, yeah, he’s fine.
(shakes Langly’s shoulder)
Langly? Langly, wake up.
(looks back to waitress)
Do you think we could have a large coffee to go, please?

WAITRESS
No problem. I’ll be right back.

After she exits screen, Frohike reaches over the table and slaps Langly upside the head. 

FROHIKE
Wake up, you idiot.

Langly jumps and raises his head. He has a couple pieces of scramble eggs stuck to his forehead. He looks around confused. Frohike shakes his head, takes the check and digs around in his back pocket for his wallet. He pulls out a black leather one, of course, and take money from it. The waitress enters again, a large coffee in her hand. She sets it on the table.

WAITRESS
There ya go.

FROHIKE
How much for the extra coffee?

WAITRESS
Don’t worry about it, it’s on me.

She glances at Langly, egg still on his forehead, and smiles, trying not to laugh. Frohike notices this.

FROHIKE
(embarrassed)
Thanks.
(hands her the money)

The waitress smiles again and walks off screen. Langly, still looking around, frowns when a piece of egg falls off his head and onto his plate. He reaches a hand up and wipes off the egg, acting confused on how it got there. Byers stands.

BYERS
There is work to be done, gentlemen.

Frohike crawls from the booth. Byers walks off screen. Langly topples out off his spot.  Frohike takes the coffee from the table and pushes it into his hands.

FROHIKE
Drink it!

Langly stumbles off screen, taking a drink of coffee.

FROHIKE
(to himself, as he walks off-screen)
Imbecile.

(END - To find out what happens, watch the rest of the Pilot episode!)