Disclaimer: Ok people, let's run through it again, shall we? I. Do. Not.
Own. These. Characters. Or. The. Song. At. The. End. Of. This. Work. Of.
Fiction.
Author's Note: This is alternate universe. A what if kinda thing. It's also a really really really long song fic. I know those are normally short, but this one just started growing. I would call it loosely based on the song.
The Love Song
"Hey Fox, there's a new family moving in next door," Samantha Mulder shouted as she threw open her older brother's bedroom door and dumped her tennis gear on the floor, kicking off her white tennis shoes.
"Sam, get your stuff off my floor," Fox said distractedly as he read through the text in his psychology book. "When are they gonna be here?"
"They're here now. Mom and Dad took them on downtown and to dinner. They'll be back in a few hours. They left their kids here and one of them is your age. It's a girl." Fox ignored her last comment. She came over and sat on the edge of his bed, looking over his shoulder as he scribbled notes on a piece of paper. "What are you doing?"
"Homework."
"Fox, its July. We don't have homework. You should be outside coaching your little league team for their game next week."
"We had practice yesterday and they're ready. I'm just getting a head start on for when school starts next month. Dad gave me his old book from college. Phew, Sam, you smell like a garbage can. Take a shower."
"Ok, ok." Samantha got up and gathered up her tennis gear, but accidentally missed one of her tennis shoes.
"Hey Muffin Brain, you forgot one of your shoes!" Fox called out as he jotted down a few more notes.
"I'll get it in a minute Alien Freak, I just stepped into the shower like you commanded me to," Samantha shouted. The bathroom was right next to Fox's room and as she spoke he heard the water turn on. A few seconds later he heard the opening chords from her favorite CD through the wall.
"She must have brought her boom box in there again," he thought. It was only a matter of time before.
"Bye, bye, bye!" Samantha started singing along with the CD. Fox groaned and shut his textbook, unable to concentrate with the yowling coming from the bathroom. He decided to at least get a look at the neighbors before returning to his isolated world.
"Hey Sam, I'm going to check out the new neighbors," he called out as he walked past the bathroom door.
"OK!" Samantha yelled over the music.
Fox rolled his eyes and opened the front door before running into smack into the screen door. He kept on forgetting that it was there. His father had just put it in last week. After managing to get out on the front porch he stopped suddenly once again as he saw his new neighbors, or rather one neighbor in particular.
All four kids were playing basketball in the cove. The boy that held the ball looked about 24 and the girl who was guarding him looked around 20. The youngest boy looked about 14, but they weren't whom he noticed. The girl who was guarding the 14 year old was dressed in cutoff shorts and a red halter-top. Her auburn hair was pulled up into a ponytail and she was barefoot. When she turned towards him and caught his gaze, her smile seemed to slow time. She turned her attention back to the game and time resumed its normal course. She must be the one Samantha was talking about, he thought. She was short, but she looked around 17. His age.
Just then the oldest boy tried to the throw the ball to the younger one, but over shot. The ball bounced down the street before coming to rest in the large bushes in front of Fox's house.
"I'll get it!" yelled the pretty girl who caught Fox's eye. She jogged over and smiled apologetically at Fox. "I'm sorry. I'll just get it out and." She bent down and crawled in to where the ball was hidden.
"I wouldn't do that. There're wasps and ants in there." Fox said hurriedly as he scrambled over the railing and directly into the bushes next to her.
"Ouch!"
"Sorry," said Fox, thinking he'd stepped on her.
"No, something stung me. There's ants everywhere!" Fox helped her out of the bushes and saw ants crawling all over her legs and a large bump on her neck where the wasp had stung her.
"Dana?" called the boy from the cove. All three of them started running over. Fox grabbed Dana and dragged her into the house. They ran down the hall and Fox banged on the bathroom door.
"Samantha get your butt our of the shower NOW! This is an emergency."
Samantha opened the door with a towel wrapped around her. She had an annoyed expression on her face, but when she saw Dana and her ant collection, she pulled her into the bathroom and slammed the door.
"Strip," she commanded as she turned on the shower. Dana obliged and Sam shoved her into the cold spray. All the ants were washed away and angry red welts were popping up all over her legs and arms. "Are you allergic to ants or wasps stings?" Samantha asked as she rummaged through the medicine cabinet for first aid cream.
"I don't know. I've never been bitten this bad before and I've only been stung by a wasp once before." Dana was shivering in the cold water and turned it off. Samantha tossed her a large blue terrycloth robe.
"Its Fox's, so I imagine it'll be big on you."
Dana pulled it on and sat down on the edge of the tub. A few seconds later there was a cry of triumph from Samantha as she found what she was looking for. Before she could walk over to see Dana's wounds, there was an insistent knock on the door.
"Dana?" came a woman's voice.
"That's my sister Melissa," said Dana. "You can let her in."
Samantha opened the door and let in Melissa who quickly came over to her younger sister. "Dana are you alright? Charlie went to go call Mom and Dad and Bill's out in the hall with that boy who brought you in."
"Fox, his name is Fox," said Samantha. She gently moved Melissa out of the way and came over to Dana who was shivering, despite having dried out. "Let me see your legs."
Dana moved the robe of her legs and Samantha and Melissa gasped. Her legs were swollen and red and they looked infected already. Her teeth chattered and she started shaking. "Missy, I. I think I'm going into shock." Since Dana was the one studying for medical school, Melissa wasn't about to contradict her.
"Quick, get my brother! The hospital is only ten minutes away from here. He can get her there faster in his truck than if we called 911." Samantha said.
Melissa went out into the hall, but Fox and her brother were no longer there. She heard voices coming from the kitchen and she ran down the hall. "Bill, Fox, Dana's gone into shock. I think she's having an allergic reaction."
Quickly the two young men made their way into the bathroom where Samantha was wrapping blankets around a barely conscious Dana. "She's in a bad way, Fox. You need to hurry."
Tenderly Fox lifted Dana in his arms and began carrying her out to his truck. Bill, Melissa, Charlie, and Samantha, now dressed in a bathrobe, followed him out. Bill began to protest when Fox got into the car after he put Dana in the passenger seat. "I think I should go with you. I'm the oldest family member present and I'll be the only one who can fill out her forms."
Fox shook his head no. "There's only room for two in here."
"So let me drive."
"But I'm the one who knows where the hospital. Look, I'm sure my parent's will take your parents straight to the hospital and you can meet up with them later, but right now I need to get your sister to a doctor."
"Bill," said Melissa softly as she laid a hand on his arm. He looked at her before turning his gaze to Fox and then his baby sister. She opened her eyes and whispered, "I'll be fine Bill, but we need to go." Reluctantly Bill nodded and Fox put the truck into gear. As the car faded from view, Charlie, who had been unusually silent during everything, said, "She'll be ok with him Bill. I can feel it."
Bill looked over at his younger brother and smiled faintly, but inside he still had his doubts about this Fox Mulder character. He didn't trust him for some reason.
"I'm going inside to change. You all can come in if you want." Samantha turned and went inside the house, shutting the screen door, but leaving the inner door open.
------------------ Comments? Questions? Praise? You know what to do. I just realized that in practically all of my fics Scully gets bashed really hard and I nearly always start out with Mulder. I find that weird because I really do like Scully's character and I'm usually really nervous about portraying Mulder. Oh well. enough rambling. ~ATX~
Author's Note: This is alternate universe. A what if kinda thing. It's also a really really really long song fic. I know those are normally short, but this one just started growing. I would call it loosely based on the song.
The Love Song
"Hey Fox, there's a new family moving in next door," Samantha Mulder shouted as she threw open her older brother's bedroom door and dumped her tennis gear on the floor, kicking off her white tennis shoes.
"Sam, get your stuff off my floor," Fox said distractedly as he read through the text in his psychology book. "When are they gonna be here?"
"They're here now. Mom and Dad took them on downtown and to dinner. They'll be back in a few hours. They left their kids here and one of them is your age. It's a girl." Fox ignored her last comment. She came over and sat on the edge of his bed, looking over his shoulder as he scribbled notes on a piece of paper. "What are you doing?"
"Homework."
"Fox, its July. We don't have homework. You should be outside coaching your little league team for their game next week."
"We had practice yesterday and they're ready. I'm just getting a head start on for when school starts next month. Dad gave me his old book from college. Phew, Sam, you smell like a garbage can. Take a shower."
"Ok, ok." Samantha got up and gathered up her tennis gear, but accidentally missed one of her tennis shoes.
"Hey Muffin Brain, you forgot one of your shoes!" Fox called out as he jotted down a few more notes.
"I'll get it in a minute Alien Freak, I just stepped into the shower like you commanded me to," Samantha shouted. The bathroom was right next to Fox's room and as she spoke he heard the water turn on. A few seconds later he heard the opening chords from her favorite CD through the wall.
"She must have brought her boom box in there again," he thought. It was only a matter of time before.
"Bye, bye, bye!" Samantha started singing along with the CD. Fox groaned and shut his textbook, unable to concentrate with the yowling coming from the bathroom. He decided to at least get a look at the neighbors before returning to his isolated world.
"Hey Sam, I'm going to check out the new neighbors," he called out as he walked past the bathroom door.
"OK!" Samantha yelled over the music.
Fox rolled his eyes and opened the front door before running into smack into the screen door. He kept on forgetting that it was there. His father had just put it in last week. After managing to get out on the front porch he stopped suddenly once again as he saw his new neighbors, or rather one neighbor in particular.
All four kids were playing basketball in the cove. The boy that held the ball looked about 24 and the girl who was guarding him looked around 20. The youngest boy looked about 14, but they weren't whom he noticed. The girl who was guarding the 14 year old was dressed in cutoff shorts and a red halter-top. Her auburn hair was pulled up into a ponytail and she was barefoot. When she turned towards him and caught his gaze, her smile seemed to slow time. She turned her attention back to the game and time resumed its normal course. She must be the one Samantha was talking about, he thought. She was short, but she looked around 17. His age.
Just then the oldest boy tried to the throw the ball to the younger one, but over shot. The ball bounced down the street before coming to rest in the large bushes in front of Fox's house.
"I'll get it!" yelled the pretty girl who caught Fox's eye. She jogged over and smiled apologetically at Fox. "I'm sorry. I'll just get it out and." She bent down and crawled in to where the ball was hidden.
"I wouldn't do that. There're wasps and ants in there." Fox said hurriedly as he scrambled over the railing and directly into the bushes next to her.
"Ouch!"
"Sorry," said Fox, thinking he'd stepped on her.
"No, something stung me. There's ants everywhere!" Fox helped her out of the bushes and saw ants crawling all over her legs and a large bump on her neck where the wasp had stung her.
"Dana?" called the boy from the cove. All three of them started running over. Fox grabbed Dana and dragged her into the house. They ran down the hall and Fox banged on the bathroom door.
"Samantha get your butt our of the shower NOW! This is an emergency."
Samantha opened the door with a towel wrapped around her. She had an annoyed expression on her face, but when she saw Dana and her ant collection, she pulled her into the bathroom and slammed the door.
"Strip," she commanded as she turned on the shower. Dana obliged and Sam shoved her into the cold spray. All the ants were washed away and angry red welts were popping up all over her legs and arms. "Are you allergic to ants or wasps stings?" Samantha asked as she rummaged through the medicine cabinet for first aid cream.
"I don't know. I've never been bitten this bad before and I've only been stung by a wasp once before." Dana was shivering in the cold water and turned it off. Samantha tossed her a large blue terrycloth robe.
"Its Fox's, so I imagine it'll be big on you."
Dana pulled it on and sat down on the edge of the tub. A few seconds later there was a cry of triumph from Samantha as she found what she was looking for. Before she could walk over to see Dana's wounds, there was an insistent knock on the door.
"Dana?" came a woman's voice.
"That's my sister Melissa," said Dana. "You can let her in."
Samantha opened the door and let in Melissa who quickly came over to her younger sister. "Dana are you alright? Charlie went to go call Mom and Dad and Bill's out in the hall with that boy who brought you in."
"Fox, his name is Fox," said Samantha. She gently moved Melissa out of the way and came over to Dana who was shivering, despite having dried out. "Let me see your legs."
Dana moved the robe of her legs and Samantha and Melissa gasped. Her legs were swollen and red and they looked infected already. Her teeth chattered and she started shaking. "Missy, I. I think I'm going into shock." Since Dana was the one studying for medical school, Melissa wasn't about to contradict her.
"Quick, get my brother! The hospital is only ten minutes away from here. He can get her there faster in his truck than if we called 911." Samantha said.
Melissa went out into the hall, but Fox and her brother were no longer there. She heard voices coming from the kitchen and she ran down the hall. "Bill, Fox, Dana's gone into shock. I think she's having an allergic reaction."
Quickly the two young men made their way into the bathroom where Samantha was wrapping blankets around a barely conscious Dana. "She's in a bad way, Fox. You need to hurry."
Tenderly Fox lifted Dana in his arms and began carrying her out to his truck. Bill, Melissa, Charlie, and Samantha, now dressed in a bathrobe, followed him out. Bill began to protest when Fox got into the car after he put Dana in the passenger seat. "I think I should go with you. I'm the oldest family member present and I'll be the only one who can fill out her forms."
Fox shook his head no. "There's only room for two in here."
"So let me drive."
"But I'm the one who knows where the hospital. Look, I'm sure my parent's will take your parents straight to the hospital and you can meet up with them later, but right now I need to get your sister to a doctor."
"Bill," said Melissa softly as she laid a hand on his arm. He looked at her before turning his gaze to Fox and then his baby sister. She opened her eyes and whispered, "I'll be fine Bill, but we need to go." Reluctantly Bill nodded and Fox put the truck into gear. As the car faded from view, Charlie, who had been unusually silent during everything, said, "She'll be ok with him Bill. I can feel it."
Bill looked over at his younger brother and smiled faintly, but inside he still had his doubts about this Fox Mulder character. He didn't trust him for some reason.
"I'm going inside to change. You all can come in if you want." Samantha turned and went inside the house, shutting the screen door, but leaving the inner door open.
------------------ Comments? Questions? Praise? You know what to do. I just realized that in practically all of my fics Scully gets bashed really hard and I nearly always start out with Mulder. I find that weird because I really do like Scully's character and I'm usually really nervous about portraying Mulder. Oh well. enough rambling. ~ATX~