Monica Reyes/Relationships

===Family===
Monica's mother gave birth to her in Mexico Her parents still lived in Mexico City in 2002. When Reyes was believed to have died in that year, her parents began to journey from their hometown to the hospital where she was staying in order to bid her farewell. 
:It is unclear whether or not Reyes' parents ceased their journey when they learned that she had been revived or if they still visited her.
:Monica's parents are the only established members of her family and it is unknown if there are any other members. If so, it is unclear what relation they are to Monica. When asked at what time she discovered numerology in the episode "Improbable", Reyes replies, "We used to do it as kids". It is unclear if she is referring to her childhood friend(s) or possibly even her sibling(s).
===Romantic Interests===
====Brad Follmer====
While working in New York during her early FBI career, Reyes became romantically involved with Brad Follmer. She would often visit his office and ask him to close the door while they kissed. 
One night in 1999, Reyes was waiting for her order at Carlo's when she wandered toward the kitchen and saw Brad Follmer talking to a man and taking a stack of money from him. Reyes believed the man was part of the Mafia. Instead of asking Follmer about the incident or even reporting him to the FBI, Reyes ended her relationship with him and left New York. 
They would not see each other again until two years later, when Follmer, by now an Assistant Director, called Reyes while she was staying at a Washington, D.C. hotel, two days after she had been assigned to the X-Files. Reyes lied to him by claiming that his phone call had not woken her but, when he invited her to visit his office at the FBI's headquarters, she hesitantly accepted the invitation.
Although Reyes was initially determined to keep their relationship strictly professional, pulling away when he tried to kiss her and ignoring him when he commented that she looked "hot", she later asked him out after he presented her with a video tape that could potentially end her assignment to the X-Files and, during their date, she appealed to him for help. 
After Follmer discovered she had been helping to conduct an unauthorized autopsy, Reyes clashed with the Assistant Director and refused to be persuaded by his advice that she distance herself from Doggett, who had recently initiated his investigation of Deputy Director Kersh. 
This proved to be a temporary conflict, however, as, shortly thereafter, Reyes again appealed to Follmer for help - specifically, for files pertaining to Shannon McMahon - and tried to convince him that Doggett and herself were not at fault but were being set up. Even though Follmer indicated that he would not be able to acquire the files, Reyes managed to obtain a peek at the documents and her relationship with Follmer became less strained but remained professional. 
In the series of events that only she was ultimately aware of, Reyes was approached by AD Follmer upon entering Washington Memorial Hospital, shortly after she had received news that Doggett had been shot and had subsequently been hospitalized there. Reyes was initially surprised to see Follmer at the hospital. After he vowed to find the person who had shot Doggett, Reyes insisted that she had been with Doggett when she had received news of the shooting, but her claim merely confused Follmer.
At a police station, Reyes was later questioned by Follmer about the incident and attempted to clarify to him that she had not been with Doggett when he had been shot but had been with him when she had first learned of the shooting. Despite mounting evidence that she had apparently shot Doggett herself (including the testimony of supposed "eyewitness" Irwin Timothy Lukesh), Reyes was confused and appalled at Follmer's accusations.
Reyes' presence was later indirectly requested by AD Follmer, who had returned to Washington Memorial Hospital and wanted her to talk to Doggett. Accompanying Skinner, Reyes met with Follmer, as well as Scully, at the hospital, where she was instructed by him to ask only the questions he wanted asked and avoid shading Doggett's testimony in any way. She alone was then permitted by Follmer to enter Doggett's room, as Doggett had mentioned neither Scully nor Skinner. Reyes was watched by Follmer as she proceeded to question Doggett, and Follmer directed her, at one point, to ask Doggett who his shooter had been. As a result of her compliance with his instructions, both Reyes and Follmer learned the confusing news that Lukesh had killed her and had tried to kill Doggett.
Moments after Follmer and Skinner interrogated Lukesh at the police station, Reyes was confronted and quietly threatened by Lukesh as he left the station and, while he paced away from her, Follmer asked her if she was alright but she did not reply, at least not at first.
Reyes' apartment was later the subject of FBI surveillance, in which Follmer partook. She was captured by Lukesh but Follmer doubted that the killer could possibly be inside her home. Her life was seemingly about to be taken by Lukesh when Follmer burst through her door and speedily shot the killer once, killing the criminal and thereby saving Reyes. She seemed to be calmed by Follmer's vocal reassurances that she was okay and that the ordeal was over. 
In 2002, Reyes, as well as Doggett, learned from Scully that Follmer had been among a group of senior FBI staff who had asked Scully to identify some rubbings from the spacecraft in Canada. 
After Doggett was hospitalized at St. Mary Medical Center following his encounter with William's female kidnapper and Reyes helped Scully in an unsuccessful effort to catch the kidnapper, Reyes prayed in the chapel of the medical center, until Follmer entered. It was then that he commented that praying in the chapel seemed somewhat traditional for her, mentioning that they had known each other for a long time. Reyes figuratively expressed her distress and sense of being lost, so Follmer initiated an embrace that she was seemingly grateful to accept, closing her eyes as they hugged. She ended their embrace after he implied that he was aware of her assistance with the effort to apprehend the kidnapper. Even though Follmer tried to explain that he and his task force could have acted faster than Reyes' search effort and might have even captured the kidnapper, Reyes implied that she preferred not to discuss the subject with him, expecting that he wanted to "bust" her for what she had done.
Instead, Reyes' cooperation was petitioned by Follmer, who let her know that Agent Comer had recently regained consciousness and showed her that Comer – who had also been hospitalized at St. Mary Medical Center, like Doggett had been – had written, on a scrap of paper, a small note that read "jacket". As Follmer was ignorant of the message's significance, Reyes was asked by him to find out, from Scully, what the note meant. Reyes followed Follmer's instructions but refused to divulge the source of the note to Scully.
After Follmer later discovered that Agent Comer had died about the same time that Reyes and Scully had been in his room, Reyes was brought back to the room due to Follmer's advice that both she and Scully be returned there. Reyes began shouting that Comer had been alive and had been brought back to life by a small metal artifact – which had been present in Comer's jacket, as he had indicated – but, amid her bluster, Follmer quietly but firmly addressed her by name, more forcefully stating her first name in response to her finally demanding that the Toothpick Man be searched in suspicion of the death. Reyes eventually desisted, as Follmer had been attempting to persuade her to do, and left the room in search of Scully. 
When, later that year, Doggett began to suspect that Mafia member Nicholas Rigali had killed Luke Doggett but was bribing someone to keep him out of trouble, Reyes suspected that Follmer was the person who Rigali had been bribing. Accompanying Doggett, she returned to AD Follmer's office at FBI Headquarters, where she finally admitted to Follmer that she had witnessed him take a stack of money from a Mafia man. When he questioned her about the way in which she had dealt with what she had witnessed, Reyes told Follmer that she had cared about him and that she now was not defending her actions of having left him and their workplace. Even though Follmer answered Reyes' accusations by claiming that the man he had met had been a confidential informant who Follmer had been paying, Reyes denied that Follmer's account was the truth. He insisted to her that he could prove his account but, in reality, he had indeed been taking the money from Regali, to make an indictment go away.
Near the end of the conversation in Follmer's office, Reyes was surprised by his news that the man she knew as Rudolph Hayes was a former mental patient named Stuart Mimms. After she helped to arrest him in suspicion of having killed Luke Doggett, she waited outside an interrogation room with Follmer while the suspect was questioned, inside the room, by Scully and Doggett. Upon Scully exiting with news that the suspect had told them a story of uncertain truth, Reyes glanced in frustration at Follmer before departing, Follmer watching her as she left shortly before he, in a craze, ultimately shot Regali to death. 
===Colleagues and Mentors===
====John Doggett====
In 1993, Monica Reyes worked with John Doggett, at that time a detective in the New York City Police Department, in an attempt to find his missing son They searched together for three days, during which Reyes sensed that Doggett was afraid his son was dead, a fear that was tragically justified when they found his son's deceased body After Reyes had a vision of the body as if it had transformed into ashes, Doggett told her that he had seen the same thing. In 2001, however, Reyes claimed that Doggett had spent the last few years trying to forget what he had seen and also admitted that she couldn't begin to imagine what the extremely hard case had been like for him. 
Following their work in 1993, Reyes was reunited with Doggett, who had since followed her example by becoming an FBI agent, in 2001 after she responded to his request for assistance on a case he was working on. During a meeting in which Doggett introduced her to fellow FBI investigators Scully and Skinner, Reyes acted nervously playful towards Doggett but merely offered theories provided seriously to the others. Some of her theories regarding the case differed from Doggett's but they nevertheless presented a generally synchronised evaluation of the case to Scully and Skinner.
While alone with Doggett, Reyes alluded to their search for his son to remind him that he could relate to Scully's feelings concerning Mulder's disappearance. When he doubted her account of having seen a UFO, Reyes assured Doggett that she would not lie to him. 
Reyes nevertheless intentionally kept some things secret from Doggett; after she saw another vision of a victim's body transform into ashes, similar to her earlier vision of Doggett's deceased son, Reyes opted not to contact Doggett. She believed the incident might lead to finding his son's killer but didn't want to return him to the grief of investigating his son's murder until she was certain that her most recent vision had any significance. After Doggett discovered that she had been researching his son's murder, Reyes did not heed his advice to stop looking for a connection where he believed there was none as she strongly believed that the recent case was somehow important.
Following her discovery of a second victim shot by the same killer as the first, Reyes became curious whether Doggett could see the same thing she had been seeing. Even though he claimed to be unable to see a connection between the most recent murder and his own son's death, Reyes doubted his honesty and believed he was too afraid to accept the connections, preferring to blind himself to them instead. She later succeeded in persuading him to admit that his fear was caused by the chance that he may have failed to do everything humanly possible to save his son, as there were other possibilities that she, Mulder and Scully spoke of that might or might not exist.
After working with Doggett to prevent the killer - Jeb Dukes - from harming his own young cousin, Reyes suggested to Doggett that he return home as the murderer had been hospitalized and she believed there was nothing more he could do to help. Her life was later saved by Doggett, however, after Katha Dukes, the angered mother of Jeb's cousin assaulted her. 
Responding to Doggett's second request for assistance, Reyes helped Scully to escape from supersoldier Billy Miles by taking her to Doggett's birthplace of Democrat Hot Springs, Georgia, after having learned from him that the location had been frequented by people who had come for the waters there, until the springs in the area had dried up. 
Reyes was assigned to the X-Files by Agent Doggett after she returned to Washington, D.C. and continued to develop a professional relationship with him A romantic relationship was often hinted at between the two, but it never came to fruition. However, Audrey hinted that John really do love Monica. Also in Doggett's vision while losing hope bringing Monica back to life, he was thinking that they kissed the night before Monica hit an accident. 
====Dana Scully====
In 2001, Reyes first met Dana Scully, who was initially frustrated at Doggett wanting her and Skinner to hear Reyes' theories on the case as abductee Theresa Hoese had recently gone missing from St. Jean Hospital and Scully was doubtful that Reyes – with her expertise in ritualistic crime – would be of any practical help regarding that disappearance. Reyes began to reveal her beliefs about the case but Scully was vocal in her resistance to hearing Reyes' spiel, criticizing Reyes' observations on several occasions and insisting that – even though the case involved Mulder, Scully's former FBI partner – Reyes maintain that her remarks were strictly factual without making them personal to Scully, as it was indefinite whether Mulder was involved in the case. This initial encounter between Reyes and Scully ended when the latter agent, finding fault with Reyes' conclusions, walked away from her.
During this meeting, Reyes' belief that Mulder had not been abducted but had joined a form of UFO group led Scully to assume that Reyes was a disbeliever in the alien abduction phenomenon. Reyes later corrected Scully at the hospital, while searching x-rays of Theresa Hoese for signs of implants – commonly considered to be evidence of alien abduction. Reyes told Scully about the effort she made to stay open to extreme possibilities and her belief that she was sensitive to feelings that she believed were energies in the universe. She also revealed that she was sensing fear from Scully, remarking that such anxiety would not help in Scully's search for the missing individuals and suggested that she too could try to keep an open mind. Reyes smiled at Scully before leaving to search the hills with Doggett, as Scully had – prior to this particular meeting – expected Reyes to already be doing. Reyes believed that Scully's feelings regarding Mulder were a modern equivalent of Doggett's feelings while he had searched for his son.
During the subsequent raid on Absalom's cult compound, Reyes was with Scully when the latter agent found Theresa Hoese but left to carry out Scully's instructions of bringing Skinner and Doggett to see Theresa Hoese. Reyes was also with Scully when, shortly after Theresa Hoese was found, Scully believed she saw Mulder in a darkened room of the compound; Reyes was informed of this sight by Scully, moments after the fact.
Reyes – having apparently been somewhat indirectly inspired by Scully to search through video tapes from the compound – showed her, Skinner and Doggett a certain portion of footage from the tapes and worked with Scully, in particular, to identify a man who appeared on this footage as Jeremiah Smith. After determining that Smith could physically and radically transform, Reyes accompanied Scully as she singled out one man from an intermingled group of the cult followers and was alone with Scully as she questioned the man, trying to make him admit that he was Smith. Reyes soon left Scully and the man she was interrogating, only to return with Skinner to bring Scully the news that Mulder had been found. 
After Scully was hospitalized due to complications related to her pregnancy, Reyes told Mulder – who had referred to Scully merely as a "sick friend" – that she hoped Scully made a successful recovery, adding that the X-Files basement office needed at least one person with an open mind and implying that she was referring to Scully as that "one person", because the usually open-minded Mulder was doubting Reyes' theories on a case. When news of Reyes' work later reached Scully via Mulder, a seemingly surprised Scully told him that she liked Reyes and, even though Mulder posited that she and Reyes were nothing alike, Scully reminded him that the same was true of themselves. 
Reyes later helped Scully escape from super-soldier Billy Miles. Following a failed initial escape attempt in which Reyes witnessed Miles approach Scully as she tried to make her way to Doggett and Reyes in the basement of FBI Headquarters, Reyes drove Scully away from the building's basement in a car into which she had guided the pregnant agent, their exit only briefly stalled by a passing garbage truck. 
En route, Reyes drove while Scully slept but, after Scully awoke, Reyes told her where they were and agreed with her that the circumstances necessitated them being so far from home. 
====Fox Mulder====
Reyes first learned about Agent Mulder in 2001, following his abduction from Oregon in the previous year Reyes was told that Mulder was a true believer in alien abductions, completely convinced in the phenomenon, and was called upon to help search for him, as well as several other like-minded individuals who had also gone missing. 
Reyes met Mulder for the first time after he recovered from his experience having been called in by Doggett to assist with the case. Reyes was familiar with Mulder's eccentric behavior, unorthodox approach, and predilection for belief in the supernatural and extraterrestrial. Reyes immediately identified with Mulder as a believer, unlike Doggett or Scully and Skinner early on. Perhaps unnerved with her quick acceptance of him, Mulder shied away from Reyes, and basically allowed himself to be coerced by her into helping her with the Jeb Dukes case that would otherwise be too emotionally jarring for Doggett Mulder came to respect Reyes and the two were very much involved in the safe delivery of Scully's baby when the time came. Reyes would not see Mulder again for nearly a year, at which time she defended him at his trial and helped him escape an unjust death sentence. 
====Walter Skinner====
As with her earliest encounter with Scully, Reyes first met Assistant Director Skinner in 2001 when they were introduced to each other in a field in Helena, Montana. Her theories on the case that he was investigating with Agents Doggett and Scully were met with objection on several occasions by the Assistant Director, though he was less vocal in his arguments against her beliefs regarding the case than Scully was. When Doggett followed Scully away from the meeting, Reyes was left standing alone with Skinner and smiled at him.
Together, the two later witnessed Doggett and Scully question a suspect who called himself Absalom and agreed that he was hiding some information. Reyes alone accompanied Skinner when he was tasked with informing Scully that Mulder's body had been found In 2016 Skinner find out that she was working with the and was surprised that she held him to a gunpoint. However, Moniva didn't want to harm him as it turned out during the events of When the CSM pressed her foot on the gas in order t run over Skinner. Ultimately, Skinner brought her demise as he shot her in the head,killing her without showing any remorse
====Alvin Kersh====
In 2001, Reyes' actions were criticized by Deputy Director Kersh after she and Doggett submitted an X-file to him that included her account of Scully's recent birth. The fact that Reyes had signed the X-file was noted by Kersh, who was angered that she had been assigned to investigate the files by Agent Doggett, who declared – while Reyes was present – that he intended to investigate Kersh. 
Two days later, Reyes learned that the investigation of Kersh was "big news" and that he had originally assigned Doggett to the X-Files. After learning that evidence regarding his secret involvement with super-soldiers had been removed, she believed that the investigation of Kersh might not only prove to be extremely difficult but actually impossible. Nevertheless, despite consequent risk to her name and career, she involved herself in the investigation into Kersh's activities, even though she simultaneously suspected it would be dropped by the FBI. 
She was alone in the X-Files office when Kersh secretly left an obituary outside the door to the room; Reyes was unaware that the visitor had been Kersh (as she saw only his shadow and a pair of elevator doors close behind him as he vacated the area) but she used the obituary he had left to subsequently direct the investigation. 
During her search for Doggett, Reyes' confirmation that a photograph – a blow-up from a security camera – was of her missing FBI partner reached Kersh, via Scully and Skinner, who also told him that Reyes was still in San Antonio, Texas and had been raised in Mexico. At Scully's and Skinner's behest, Reyes was permitted, by Kersh, to help the Mexican Federal Police in their search for Doggett at her discretion, as long as she remained on the US side of the border. Reyes was disappointed that Kersh shut down the FBI's San Antonio field office and was curious, upon being visited by Scully there, to see how she had escaped "Kersh's cost-cutting regimen", although she learned from Scully that Kersh neither knew that Scully was there nor that Skinner was headed to Mexico to consult with the Federal Police. Soon thereafter, Reyes disobeyed Kersh's instructions by entering Mexico, even though doing so ultimately allowed her to find Doggett. 
Reyes was later observed by Kersh as she presented her testimony at Mulder's trial, but her statement was abruptly brought to an end by Agent Kallenbrunner. When she then began angrily talking to Kallenbrunner, Kersh loudly addressed her by her rank and surname but, rather than end her diatribe, she turned her fury on him and continued, accusing him of not caring about what Mulder, Scully or their associates had sacrificed over the past nine years nor what had been lost to their cause. She also accused Kersh of making a mockery of what her associates had lost or sacrificed, suggesting that he was merely glad that those sacrifices proved his point. Even though Kersh again demanded that she desist, she continued without acknowledging that he had spoken, questioning the point of the trial. Outraged, she questioningly suggested two possible but destructive motives – implying that she believed they were the only possibilities – and contemptuously concluded that, whichever of those purposes was accurate, the trial's panel inevitably lost. She stared at Kersh in silence for a moment before finally leaving the room.
When Kersh later helped Mulder escape from the USMC Base Brig, Reyes looked at Kersh in puzzlement and with a frown while holding open a hole in the fence that surrounded the base. During her later call to Skinner after the X-Files had been packed up, she learned that he was trying to contact Kersh about the issue, a meeting that was thereafter apparently arranged by the Toothpick Man – Reyes, together with Doggett and Gibson Praise, watching as Skinner entered Kersh's office. She alone also vocally recalled Kersh's advice for Mulder and Scully to head to the Canadian border but almost immediately learned, from the telepathic Gibson Praise, that they had not actually headed there. 
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