THE X-FILES

REAWAKENING

SUMMARY: After an accident, Mulder wakes up in a world that's very different to his own. How can he make things right again?

Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Files. Wish I did. SIGH.

Prologue

6.36 PM

Washington DC

Scully glanced over at her partner when he finished complaining. They were driving down a long, gravelly road, heading back to Washington. They'd been out all day on an assignment given to them by AD Kersh. It hadn't been an assignment really, they just interviewed a couple who were suspects in a murder case. Mulder had complained it was another useless case, a waste of their time.

" Sometimes I just wish…" Mulder trailed off.

" You wish what?" Scully asked.

" That things were different."

" Different? In what way?" Scully replied, glancing in the review mirror. There was a car behind them. Thinking nothing of it, she concentrated on the road ahead.

" I don't know…just different to the way things are now." Mulder said.

Scully nodded. She didn't blame him. They've been reassigned and the X-Files, Mulder's life's work was taken away from him.

Scully sighed and looked in the review mirror when she realised the car was still there. The car drove closer and Scully put her foot down on the accelerator just a bit.

" What's wrong?" Mulder asked, opening his eyes.

" We're being followed." Scully replied. Mulder craned his neck to see the car on their tail.

The car bumped them suddenly, making Scully and Mulder jolt forward in their seats. Scully sped up a little faster. She looked up to see the car's headlights glaring in the review mirror, making it hard to see.

There was a loud crash and she desperately tried to regain control of the car as it slid down an embankment and came to a crashing halt.

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Mulder opened his eyes but closed them. The light was too bright.

" Mr. Mulder?" a voice asked, " Mr. Mulder, open your eyes." And Mulder did as he was told. The light was gone but his eyesight was still blurry. He could just make out the shape of a man leaning down, studying him.

" Mr. Mulder, are you going to stick with us now?" the doctor asked, once again shining his light in his eyes.

" W-what happened?" he asked, struggling to sit up but was forced back down again.

" You were in a car accident. How do you feel?"

" My head hurts…my eyes are blurry." Mulder replied, and then remembered Scully. " Scully…where's Scully?"

" You have a concussion and your eyesight will return to normal soon. And I don't know any Scully."

" She was driving…she was in the car with me." Mulder explained.

The doctor gave him a worried frown," Mr. Mulder, you were the only one found in the car by a police officer."

" No…"

A nurse came in and spoke quietly to the doctor.

" You have a visitor." The doctor told him and opened the door. Scully walked in, looking worried.

" Mulder, are you okay?" she asked him lightly touching his shoulder, " When they called me at work and told me you'd been in an accident, I got worried…"

" You were at work?" Mulder answered looking confused, " Scully, you were in the car with me."

Scully exchanged a glance with the doctor.

" He's got a concussion." The doctor said as if that explained everything.

" Mulder, just lie down and rest." Scully advised and noticed Mulder had become fixated something on her left hand.

She was wearing a wedding ring.