They named her Evelyn Samantha Scully- Mulder. Scully found her first name in a baby name meanings book. Evelyn meaning 'wished for child', and truly she was wished for. It also was the only one they both loved. Samantha was an obvious choice for a middle name and Scully insisted. All that Mulder really wanted was for his last name to be included which Scully happily agree too.
She was born on January 1st 2004, 6 pounds 3 ounces, with eyes as blue as the ocean at sunset, speckled with different shades and filled with light. Her head was topped with a mess of raven hair. Evelyn was healthy and happy and well loved from the moment she was born.
For the two days they were in the hospital she watched the procession of misfits and family that came through the room. The Gunmen came bearing gifts like the three wise men. It reminded Scully so much of when they first saw William that a lump formed in her throat as she thanked them. Skinner brought flowers and stood awkwardly trying to make small talk before he bid farewell and ducked out the door.
Maggie Scully stayed in a hotel near the hospital and spent her time doting on her new granddaughter. Charlie Scully called his sister on a satellite phone to congratulate her but was unable to visit since he was studying the isolated tribes of Madagascar. When Maggie informed her daughter that Bill would be stopping by she was slightly nervous. Bill, however, was on his best behavior. Scully had been worried that her brother would bring up her failure with William or Mulder's absence during that time, both topics he had brought up when he heard that she was pregnant. Instead Bill fussed over his niece and mostly ignored Mulder aside from a stiff handshake.
In preparation for the baby Mulder and Scully had decorated the extra room in their unremarkable house. It was painted soft lavender with sky blue curtains. Even thought she would not be sleeping in her lovingly decorated room for a few weeks, happily residing in a bassinet next to her parent's bed.
During her pregnancy Scully dealt with her own fears. She once again wondered about the origins of the child and about her own ability to care for her. As the pregnancy went on her anxieties grew but when the child was born she found her fears slowly disappearing. Every time she grew afraid just a look at her perfect daughter seemed to set things right. Mulder, on the other hand, rarely slept after Evelyn was born, of course, he rarely slept anyway. He found himself unable to miss a moment of her life. When he was able to sleep his dreams were filled with images of his son that haunted him during the day.
These dreams rattled him, and left him with an intense need to hold his infant daughter. He moved around to Scully's side of the bed where the baby slept and was met with her already opened eyes. The cool sapphire of her eyes reminded him of her mother and comforted him in the same way.
She was a curious baby. He wondered how long she had been awake. Mulder picked her up feeling her weight in his arms and kissed her head. He moved to the rocking chair over by the window and sat down with the baby. She gurgled in his arms and kicked her feet as he rocked in the chair.
A small noise woke Scully up around 2:00am. She panicked when she saw that Evelyn was not in her bassinet, scanning the room, she was calmed when she heard the baby's little whimpers by the window. Evie was rooting in Mulder's sleeping arms, head motioning from side to side. It was time for a feeding. She quietly took their daughter out of his sleeping arms and kissed his forehead.
Scully felt a wave of happiness that she felt every time she looked at their daughter. Along with it came the usual feeling of guilt that she tucked away as quickly as she could. She wondered if she had the right to be so happy with their daughter when she had given up their son. Scully shook her head free of the thoughts as she watched her daughter feed from her breast.
Mulder woke up not long after Scully took Evelyn and returned to bed.
"Hey sleepy head." Scully said smiling at him.
He lay down next to her and watched as Evelyn ate.
"Nightmares?" Scully brushed her hand through his hair.
"Yeah."
"You can always wake me up."
Mulder took her hand and kissed her palm, "You need your sleep."
"So do you."
"No reason for both of us to be falling asleep all day."
She smiled at him and stroked his cheek, "She's not going anywhere. Get some sleep."
Evelyn grew up beautifully. She transformed from a quiet little baby to a Mulder-like toddler, which was a lot for Scully to handle. Mulder spend most of his days at home with Evie trying to write his accounts of the X Files while keeping track of an inquisitive three year old. Scully went back to med school to get recertified when Evelyn was about a year old. She was offered a position at MedStar Washington Hospital Center almost immediately; there she worked part time in their lab and part time as needed. It was perfect for her and it was a 9-5 job, which was what she wanted.
In the first few months of Evelyn's life Scully and Mulder had watched her carefully for any sighs of the strange abilities that were found in William. Besides hitting most of her milestones early there was nothing out of the ordinary. However, a few months after her second birthday Scully found her standing in her room talking into nothing.
Evelyn had been acting up more than usual and the house was a mess. That combined with her lack of sleep made for a very long day. She'd spent the night before clutching onto Mulder and going over all the mistakes she'd ever made. The sounds of a squealing new born, her own screaming voice, and helicopter blades filled the few hours of sleep she did get.
Any other day it would not be unusual to see Evelyn talking to herself but it was the conversation that caught Scully's attention.
"Happy Birthday! Did you got cake?" Evie asked as she sat smiling on the play rug in her room.
She nodded as if whomever she was talking to was answering her.
"I got a princess cake for my birthday." She said matter of fact.
The reason why the conversation struck Scully as odd was because it was taking place on William's birthday.
She walked into her daughter's room and Evelyn smiled up at her.
"Hey honey, who are you talking to?" Scully sat down on the rug next to Evie.
"I'm talking to my friend! It's his birthday!"
"What is your friends name?"
"His name is Will."
Scully froze, for some reason she had expected that answer but it still shocked her. The image of William's tiny little body came to mind. She remembered the day she had decided to name him William. It was the day after they had found Mulder's body and Scully was inconsolable. She'd been lying on his bed staring at a picture of the two of them that she had stolen from the X Files office. She knew, deep down, that the child was Mulder's and she wanted to express that somehow. If the child was a girl she could name her Samantha or Teena as for a boy Scully would not name their child Fox and she doubted that Mulder would even want that. William was her next choice and it made sense. There were Williams on her side as well but she would be naming him for Mulder's father. A real reminder of whose child he was.
Scully braved another question, "How old is he turning?"
"6!"
Scully sat there for a moment not sure what to say. Tears prickled her eyes but she blinked them back, not wanting to upset her daughter.
"He says he knows you and daddy."
She looked at Evie's face, which was very serious, and she felt a chill down her spine.
"How often do you talk to Will?" She ran her hands through her daughter's soft thick hair that reminded her so much of Mulder's.
"A lot. He tells me stories."
"What kind of stories?"
"About creepy crawly stuff like Daddy does! He said he has three dogs and a thrillion horses!"
"A thrillion horses? My goodness that is a lot of horses." Scully couldn't help giving a small smile at Evelyn's excitement.
"Can we get a doggie?" Evelyn's little two-year-old brain had moved on to bigger and better things.
That night Scully told Mulder all about it and Mulder, naturally, believed that the children must have a physic connection. Scully was not so sure but had no other explanation.
"Scully you said that William had special abilities." Mulder said. As frustrated as the conversation him it reminded him of when they were working the X Files. Arguments like this were almost foreplay for them back then.
"I don't know what I saw."
This conversation, however, didn't really feel like foreplay to him.
"You have got to be kidding me! That is such a classic Scully line! You should have it trademarked!" He threw his arms in the air to convey his irritation.
Scully just gave him a disapproving look, "Quiet down or you will wake her up. And I am not going back in there to read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie for the thirtieth time." Her raised eyebrow completed the classic Scully image.
Mulder lowered his voice, "All I'm saying is, is that it is not that big of a leap from an infant moving things with his mind to a kid communicating physically."
"I want you to repeat that sentence back to yourself so you can hear how crazy you sound. I thought that I saw him move something from across the room and that is very different than believing that he can communicate in his mind with a biological sister that he's never met from an unknown location."
Scully turned off the light and laid on her side facing away from him, effectively ending the conversation
As time went by Evelyn would often talk about Will and what he was doing or what funny thing he had told her.
"He lives in a place called 'Oming where there is a lot of room and cowboys!" She exclaimed one day.
"Do you mean Wyoming Evie?" Mulder asked trying to get information.
She nodded her head, "He gots to ride horses!"
Mulder began to keep track of the different pieces of information that their daughter would randomly drop about William. He did not tell Scully this because he knew that she already was weary of Evelyn 'talking' to William and she did not want Mulder to encourage it.
After a year it was a relatively short list:
• He lives in Wyoming on what seems like a farm.
• He has a lot of pets and likes to play with them outside.
• His favorite color is green.
• He has freckles. (Like Scully.)
• His favorite sport is Baseball. (This one in particular made Mulder misty.)
• He may or may not have some memories of his infancy.
• His favorite subject was history.
• And he loved space movies.
Mulder became convinced that this was there son who was communicating with Evelyn.
Mulder asked his daughter about her 'imaginary' friend when Scully wasn't around and it became like a mission for him to know who his son was.