Title: Page 65
Author: Doctor C.
Disclaimer: I don't own the cast of the X Files, Chris Carter and 1013
productions do. I don't own the Baltimore Oreals either. But, i do own
Martian Munchies and Alien Adventures.
Summary: Mulder and Scully as school friends, with a twist.
Archives: Gossamer, anywhere else, email me.
Feedback: Yes, send all feedback to laura_c@imagin.net
Note:This story is deticated to one of my best friends, Didi, who got me into
The X Files in the first place.
Key Words/Category: Pre-X Files
"Fox, you are going to be late for school! Wake up!" Tina Mulder yelled to her
son. Mulder pulled the covers over his head and went back to sleep. A loud
thump and a heavy object that was on his bed interrupted him from dreamland.
"Foxy, Mommy says that it is six thirty, and you will miss the bus." Samantha
said as she bounced up and down. Mulder pushed his sister aside and walked
slowly down the hallway. There was nothing he hated more than school. He had
no friends, because all of his peers thought he was insane because he liked
UFOs. He had many enemies at school, and he hoped he wouldn't get beat up
today. Sam was lucky. She had to go to kindergarten in the afternoon. He
stepped into the bathroom. His hair was sticking up in every direction. He
looked like a walking zombie. He slowly started dressing. It will be.. an
alien slime green color shirt today. He slid down the banister and he met his
Father's gaze. He was staring at him. Mulder looked away with defeat. He had
only fifteen minutes now until the bus left. "Mommy made you a surprise in
your lunch!" Samantha said with enthusiasm. "WOW, I'm so excited." Mulder said
sarcastically as he sat down with his cereal and his favorite comic book
(Alien Adventures of course). As he was chomping down on his Martian Munchies,
his mother gave him a two-minute warning until the bus came. He stopped
eating, grabbed his lunch and hurried out the door. This was the day in the
life of eight year old Fox William Mulder.
"Dana, Bill, Melissa, let's get ready for school. I don't want you to be
late on your first day." Maggie yelled to her procrastinating children.
"Stupid school. Why did we even have to move, mom?" Dana said as she came
downstairs with her shoulder length red hair in a sloppy ponytail, she grabbed
a banana as she walked into the kitchen. "You will fix your hair won't you,
honey? Do you want me to help?" Maggie asked as Dana shook her head violently.
"I can do my own hair, I'm not a two year old! Besides I don't care what I
look like, everyone will hate me just like the other 3 schools." She said in
between bites. "Dana don't chew with your mouth full. Charlie, get that out of
your mouth right now!" She yelled as the two-year-old looked at his mother as
if she just announced his death sentence. "Bill, Melissa, Dana, get your
school books and get the hell out of my hair!" Mrs. Scully said as she shooed
them out the door. "Mommy said Hell! Mommy said hell!" Charlie chanted, as he
giggled. She rolled her eyes as she kissed them all goodbye and sighed with
relief. A day in the life of seven year old Dana Katherine Scully.
"Class, settle down now." Miss Neilson told her class of riled up second
graders.
"Hush, NOW!" she yelled as the classroom hushed with silence.
"Now, class I would like you all to say hello to Dana Scully. She will be
joining our class for the rest of this year."
Mulder had been daydreaming and looking out the window, but now he was
attentive and alert. WOW, she was so beautiful. Her hair and her eyes and
her.. He was suddenly distracted by the sound of the name his parents had
unfortunately given him.
"Fox!" Miss Neilson yelled for the third time.
"Dana will sit in front of you." She said as she pointed to the empty desk and
Dana sat down. Mulder tried to make eye contact, but she looked to the ground.
He put on his best smile, tapped her on the shoulder, and said,
"We are on page sixty five. Just thought you'd like to know."
She never looked at him. She whispered thank you in such a soft voice, he
could barely hear her.
"So, where are you from?" He asked trying to make conversation.
"Baltimore." She said, slowly.
"Fox, Dana, pay attention." Miss Neilson snapped as Fox went back to work, and
Dana blushed with embarrassment.
The morning went by quickly and soon it was recess. Mulder hated recess
because this was the time he always got picked on. It seemed though that his
familiar foes had someone else to pick on.
"Dana is a carrot-head." They chanted as Mulder fumed.
"Krycek, leave her alone." He yelled.
"Oh, what is it foxy, you don't want me to hurt your little girlfriend here?
Make me!" He said as he grabbed Dana and pushed her down on the dirt. Mulder
was on him faster than you can say "ratboy" They kicked and punched and
fought. A small crowd had gathered by now and Miss Neilson was the person to
break up the fight. Krycek was (as usual) unharmed, but Mulder had a bloody
nose and a black eye forming.
"Dana, will you lead Fox to the nurse, so he doesn't injure himself any more.
And you, Alex, you know better than to try to hit a girl. you are going to see
your friend, the principal." She said as she led him off by the ear.
"Come on, Fox." Dana said as she told him to wait outside the girl's bathroom,
while she got some toilet paper for his nose.
"Hold that on there and squeeze. Don't hold your head up, you'll choke." She
said as he brought his nose down. They were fairly silent on the way. Dana
broke that.
"Thanks for getting me out of that mess... umm" She didn't know what to call
him since she knew he winced at the name Fox.
"Call me Mulder, I even make my parents call me that, either that or
'Spooky.'" He said as he chuckled.
She raised an eyebrow,
"Mulder it is, then. You can call me Scully." She said as they walked down the
hall.
"Scully, can I ask you a question?"
"Sure, shoot."
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
"A doctor, you?"
"I'm not sure right now, maybe the FBI?"
"That would be cool, carrying a gun and all."
"Well, this is the nurse's office. I'd better get back to class." Scully said
as she started to walk off. "Oh, and Mulder, maybe you could come over
sometime. Give me a call, I'm in the book." She said as she flashed him a
toothy grin (with her two front ones missing of course). "Bye Mulder." She
said as she smiled on the outside and on the inside.
This was the beginning of a wonderful friendship.
PART 2
Four Years Later
There was a knock at the door. Bill Scully knew that knock. It was his
sister's friend. The one he despised He opened the door slowly.
"Mulder.."
"Bill.. Is Scully around?"
"Which one?" he said sarcastically.
Then Scully came bounding down the stairs.
"Bill leave him alone, go away."
"Why is he coming over so late, huh Dana?" He asked.
"I'm not sure."
"It's a surprise." He said as he grinned.
"Bill, tell mother I'll be late." Dana said as she left.
They walked silently, and then they were there. Mulder's spot.
"Wow! You can see all of Washington from up here!" She said as she gasped at
the large hill.
"Scully, lay down, like this." Mulder said as he got on his back. She did as
instructed and waited.
"Look at the stars, Scully. See those three in the line, that's Orion, the
hunter." He said as he pointed to the twinkling specks in the sky.
"See that really bright one? That's not a star, because you see, that is
Mars." He said as he pointed it out. Scully turned to face him now, her eyes
were glowing with delight.
"Mulder, this is the most fun I have ever had. I would have never thought star
gazing would be fun, but it is, because I did it with you." She said as she
smiled.
"We'd better get back, I have to watch Samantha for my mother tonight. She has
this conference or something. I'll walk you home if you like." He said as they
climbed down the "hill of wishes".
Mulder was home now, and he and Sam were playing his new video game. He was
very focused on it, but something startled him to make him loose. It was a
kind of whooshing sound and there was a bright light, like helicopters for
search parties.
The window was open and it let the summer breeze flow in. It was as if he was
paralized then, unable to move, unable to speak. Even unable to think. Then in
the light shining through the window lifted her up, and out of the room. The
light went out. Mulder watched the ship carry away his sister through his
blurring vision, fromt the tears. He ran to the phone, he didn't call his mom,
nor the police, he called the one true person he could rely on. He dialed her
number without a thought.
"Scully, please I need to talk to you. Can I come over?" He pleaded, sobbing
now.
"Mulder, of course. Be here in five minutes." She said, wondering.
He was at her house in a flash. He climbed up the grapevines to her room, and
climbed into the window. His cheeks were wet and his eyes were red and
swollen. She didn't ask why or how, she just comforted him. She put her arms
around him and hugged him tight.
"She's gone, Scully. I let her go."
"Who Mulder?" She asked.
"Sam, I let them take her. There was a bright light, like the kind from Mr.
Spock or Obi-Wan-Kenobi." He sobbed as she hugged him tighter. After he cried
himself out, he told her everything.
"Mulder, you should stay here tonight, since I don't think you want to face
your parents." She said as he nodded slowly.
She took her nightgown and changed (in the bathroom of course) He crawled into
the full sized bed, so warm and comfortable and waited for Dana. Finally, she
came out, wearing an oversized T-shirt with the Baltimore Oriels on it. She
laid in the bed and prayed. For Mulder, for Sam, for everything to be okay."
"Goodnight Mulder." She said as hugged him. She could hear muffled sobs coming
from his pillow, so she didn't let go. And two friends slept in each other's
arms, as enemies watched from above.
"Dana?" Bill burst into the room of his little sister. "Oh dear God! I don't
want to ask." He said as he saw Fox and Dana looking quite surprised. He left
the room with a strange look on his face.
"Dana, Fox," Mrs. Scully walked into the room. "Fox, your mother has been
looking for you. And where is your sister?" She asked as Dana shook her head
and Mulder lowered his.
"I'm not sure, Miss Maggie." He had called her that since second grade.
"Well, anyway, come on you will be late for school." She said. Mulder and
Scully dressed and ate. Then they set out on a journey that would test their
friendship, love, and lives.
Part 3
DISCLAIMER: SEE part 1
Scully and Mulder had almost an hour before school started. They went to the
library. When they walked in, people around them started whispering and
giggling. Then, the Lone Gunmen took Mulder and Scully into the "bookroom"
"There are rumors spreading that your sister got kidnapped last night, Mulder.
And that you two, you know...." Frohike's voice trailed off.
"You don't mean... Eww, that's gross. That is anything but true." Scully said
in disgust.
"How would they know that?" Mulder asked Scully.
"The only people that saw us were mother and..." she was deep in thought.
"Bill." Mulder finished.
"Scully, don't worry. I am behind you every step of the way. Just deny
everything." Mulder said as he gripped Scully's arm.
"Come on, let's go to he computers." He said, leading her to hers. They each
had a computer in the library they called their own. They were side by side
and when one got there they would save the other's until they got there.
Scully usually looked up medicine. Pathology to be exact. Mulder was always
checking out the unusual phenomena. Today, though he checked out the FBI site
to see if his mom had put a MPR on Samantha yet. As he clicked the mouse, he
felt a hand on top of his.
"Mulder, don't we come here to forget about the world, and everything. Go to a
different site." She said sweetly.
"The site I want to go to is blocked." He said as she rolled her eyes.
Then they heard something no child wants to hear in a school. Gunshots, ear
piercing, fatal gunshots, coming closer. Mulder and Scully hid under their
computer desk.
"Get down or you will all die." It was a voice that sounded familiar, deadly
familiar. It was Alex Krycek and he was going to get his revenge. He turned to
Mulder under the table.
"Hey Foxy, where's daddy. You know they all have a special name for kids like
you. Bastard." He said that and pulled the trigger. Just as Mulder thought his
little twelve-year-old life was over, he felt a shadow in front of him. A
barrier, a shield. It was her. Krycek was shocked. He had hit the wrong
person. Mulder crawled over to the heap in the corner.
"Scully, talk to me, please." He watched the blood seep onto her new white
blouse, turning it red.
"Mulder, remember when we first met, and you saved me from getting beat up. I
said that I owed you a favor. That favor is owed up." She said as she lost
conscious. "Scully, Dana. You are my best friend. And I love you so much.
Please wake up." He begged as he sobbed over her body.
"I need some help in here." He yelled as he turned and he saw Krycek hit him
with his fist. He hit the computer table on the way down, and was out like a
light, he never even knew what hit him.
He woke up in a hospital bed with a bandage on his head. He jolted up when he
remembered what happened. "Scully, where's Scully?" He yelled to one of the
nurses as she left to get his mother.
"Oh Fox, my baby. You woke up." Tina said as she kissed and hugged her son. He
wiggled out of her reach and his face grew serious.
"Mom, where is Dana." Her smile faded.
"Honey, she was shot in the chest. That is where her heart is you know." She
said
"I know that, mother." He yelled sarcastically.
"Anyway. They got the bullet out, but her heart stopped twice during surgery.
They did revive her, but her brain was deprived of oxygen. She is in a coma
right now." She turned to her son who was taking this all in slowly. Trying to
grasp it all in one reach.
"Fox, baby, do you need a hug?" his mom asked in concern.
"No, mom, I want to be alone right now." He said as she left the room.
Scully had put her life on hold for him. She was his best friend, and he
didn't know if he could go on without her. He couldn't bear loosing her.
"Mom," he called as he waved her back into the room.
"May I see her, mom?" He asked as she walked to his bedside and sat down.
"Honey, I'm not sure if it is a good idea." His mom said
"Mom I wan.. I need to see her, mom. I don't want her to be alone. I need to
talk to her." He said as his mom slowly nodded and took his hand as she lead
him down the hallway to his destiny.
PART 4
He wasn't prepared for what he was about to see. The nurse had warned him, but
he didn't really know the extent of things until he saw it for his own eyes.
He walked into the room. She was hooked up to monitors of all sorts plus a
ventilator that breathed life into her. The nurse was behind him.
"Nurse Fisher, can I touch her?" He asked the curly-hair nurse.
"Of course, dearie, just be careful of the ventilator. You can hold her hand
but watch out for the pulsometer and just talk to her. I think she'd like
that." The nurse smiled and left the room. He pulled up a chair beside her and
sat down. She looked so peaceful, so happy, sleeping like that.
"Hey Scully." He said slowly. "You have to get better, okay. We have to find
Sam, and the aliens. We have to go on, together. Not just me, but we. We are a
team, Scully. We have been for the past four years. Did I ever tell you that
before I met you I was seriously thinking about killing myself. You see,
Scully you didn't save me once, you saved me twice. I saw your red hair that
day with the lighting just right. I knew then, Scully. I knew that life was so
wonderful. It's so precious, so delicate, you can't really grasp it until you
really know the power it holds. Hold on to it, Scully, hold on to it with dear
life. You will grow up and be the doctor, not the patient." He sighed as he
leaned closer. "Remember when we were stargazing, you know what I thought,
Dana?" he leaned closer and whispered in her ear. "I thought that Ahab had
stolen the stars from the sky, and you know where he put them? In your eyes
Scully. He put them in your eyes." He said as he took her hand. "Your hand is
so soft, so warm. You can't just give up life, when you have so many years.
You can't die at eleven. It's barely even anything. You have at least sixty
ears left, and I don't want you to die defending a friend." He said. "I just
want to stay here and hold your hand forever, Scully."
Maggie Scully and Tina Mulder looked in at their children. "Her eyes always
lit up when she saw him or talked about him. She just glowed from head to
toe."
"They really were best friends." Tina said. "Fox actually sat at the dinner
table with us, after he met Dana. Before, he used to eat in his room, solitary
confinement."
"They were all alone until they found each other."
Five days had past. Mulder had never left her side (except for trips to the
bathroom of course). He slept on a cot and ate there too. He started reading
to her, he thought she liked the sound of his voice. She was growing better.
The doctors had taken her off the ventilator, so she was breathing on her own.
He was in the middle of reading Moby Dick, her favorite book. He read, but
sometimes he stopped when he thought of something.
"Dana, remember the pact we made in fourth grade that in twenty years, we
would get married if neither of us found anyone. You still have to keep that
promise." He said as he dozed off into a world of other things. Happy things.
He thought he felt her move. He jerked up. It was his wishful thinking that
was acting up again. But then he felt it again. Her hand. She was squeezing
his hand. Not too much at first, but then she squeezed, long and hard. He
smiled the same smile he had when they first met (this time, Mulder had his
two front teeth). Then her blue eyes opened. The first thing she saw was him.
She picked up the book he was reading and smiled.
"We're on page sixty five. Just thought you'd like to know." She said in a
hoarse voice.
Two different children, from two different families, by fate were brought
together and have the strongest bond that changed both of their lives,
forever.