Title: Childhood Dreams

Note: This is set in modern times...so just work with me here...and I know the geography is all weird, but please be kind! Use your 'suspension of disbelief.' It's The X-Files for crying out loud! Anything can happen! ; )

Summery: Fox Mulder is getting hit around and the Scully family is there to the rescue!

Special Thanks: To my older sister who edited it and made it 15 billion times better...and for being my Bill...I'm the Charlie! HAAA!

Haha, yeah we make a great pair. All the Bill and Charlie moments... yep, that's a knee slapper.

Disclaimer: All the characters and stuff belong to all the people who own them, yadda, yadda... but the awesome new personalities belong to US! Ha! Take that Chris Carter!

October 28

3:15 PM

Dana Scully walked down the street with her sister and 2 brothers. It was Friday...at their new school. Captain Scully had just been transferred to a port in Rhode Island. Martha's Vineyard was the closest town to the port, so the Scullys were just settling into their new house. School had just let out and as they walked home the Scully children were rehashing the day's events. Dana had been in a bad mood all day because Bill accidentally ripped her necklace off her neck while playing tag. Even though he said he was sorry, she couldn't find it anywhere. She wasn't in the mood to listen to any of the stories her brothers and sister were talking about.

As usual Missy was the first to talk.

"I heard some stuff today."

"Like?" asked Bill. They loved listening to Missy's stories.

"You know that Maria girl and Marsi girl I've been talking about?"

"Yea," said Charlie

"Turns out they're GAY."

"WHAT!" screamed the two boys in laughter

"Yup, Anna caught the two kissing."

Dana rolled her eyes and looked away as the other 3 became engaged in conversation.

She saw a lonely boy walking alone on the other side of the street looking dark and sad. She had heard his name was Fox Mulder. 17 years old, apparently turned 17 a few weeks ago...he had no one to celebrate it with. She had seen him around school and evidently had no friends. Everyone thought he was a freak. She felt sorry for the poor boy as she saw him, with his head down, turn on to Hemlock Street.

Right as dinner ended and the Scully children where washing dishes there was a knock at the door. Dana opened it.

A young boy, maybe 6 feet, with poorly cut brown hair, and hazel-gray eyes stood there looking down at Dana, who was about 4"11. The boy from before!

"Um, are you Dana?" he asked

"Yes."

"This is yours then. I found it as I helped clean up the school today." He handed her the necklace. "I-I've seen you wearing it..."

"Omigod! Thank you so much! I don't know what I would have done without it!" she said graciously. She held out her hand "Dana Scully."

"Fox Mulder." They shook hands and Dana could havesworn that there was a spark between their hands. They paused "Well, ok then…" he began to leave.

"Wait, um, we have homemade chocolate pie…my mom made it…would you like a piece?" she asked. He smiled.

"Ok, if you're ok with it." He had watched her at school. She was so beautiful, and not like any of the other girls.

Fox walked in after her as she led them to the kitchen.

"Mom, this is Fox Mulder. He brought back my necklace. Bill ripped it off my neck this morning."

"Hey! I said I was sorry!" Bill yelled back from the kitchen sink.

Dana just rolled her eyes and asked, "Can we have a piece of pie?"

"Of course honey, here." She handed them two pieces "You can eat it in the living room." Maggie knew Fox would feel awkward in the kitchen with the other kids. They had told her about Fox and she wanted him to feel comfortable. Everyone needs a good friend, and it seemed like Fox really needed a friend like Dana.

Fox followed Dana to her living room. Dana felt sorry for him and wanted him to feel comfortable around her. They sat down in front of the couch and began to eat

"So, Fox. I've seen you around school…"

"So you couldn't keep your eyes off me, aye?" Dana laughed because it was true. How could she not notice the 6 foot, lanky boy who looked so down all the time?

"Haha, yeah really. You're too tall to miss. But I don't see you around anyone else. Do you have any good friends?"

Fox looked down slightly. He knew it was true, but he couldn't tell her that. "No one that special, I try to keep it on the down low. I mean how else do you think I keep the ladies off me? I guess I'm a bit spooky."

Dana liked the way he could joke about everything, it was nice to know someone had her sense of humor around this town. "So, not even any brothers or sisters?" She knew she hit a sour note when she mentioned this because his face seemed to go from being lighthearted to that familiar dark look he always bore.

"Well, I guess that depends on what time of my life you are referring to."

Dana was a little confused by the comment, What is THAT supposed to mean? she wondered. She was about to ask him about it when his cell phone rang. He gave an apologetic look, it had only been about ten minutes but they felt like good friends already.

"Hello. Mom? Yea I'm at a friend's house…ok I'll come home." he hung up. "I have to go…" he said.

"Wait Fox, come over tomorrow around 12, ok?"

He smiled, "Ok…this is my cell number, call me whenever." He wrote it down on a sheet of paper and she walked him to the door.

Dana walked into the kitchen and put the dirty plates into the sink. She looked at the number he wrote on the paper and sat down at the table with her siblings and mother, who were all eating their piece of pie. She knew there was more to Fox then he was telling, but what?

"Oooo! Dana-has-a-boy-friend!" sang Charlie at the site of the paper. Bill and Charlie began to sing the famous 'Sitting in a Tree' song when Maggie shot them a look that said don't tease your sister.

"No I don't. I just want him to have a friend. He looks so sad all the time, but he's actually really funny. You'd like him." Dana said to Bill and Charlie.

"Interesting..." they said together, smirking at the thought of another joker to hang with. Oh the trouble they could cause...

"Fox huh? I hear stuff about him you know." Missy said.

"How?"

"I hear about him ALLLLLLLLLLLL the time!" she said sipping her milk

"Hear about him how?" the boys asked eagerly.

"People talk about him Dans." she replied, ignoring the boys excited looks. God, they loved gossip just as much as any other girl.

"Why is he so upset then?" asked Dana

"Well, ok, so he had a sister, but she disappeared-"

"So that's what he meant..."

"What?"

"Well, I asked if he had siblings and he said 'I guess which period of my life your referring to..."

"GO ON!" cried the boys

"Ok, well, rumors say the dad killed her but there was never a body found. People say he chopped her up and buried her in different caves near the beach!"

"That's horrible!" Dana and Maggie said, their hands over their mouths.

"COOL!" yelled Charlie and Bill. They were going to have to go cave hunting this summer.

After Maggie told them that it really wasn't cool, Missy continued. "So anyway, his father started leaving home early and coming home late, and the next day Fox would have bruises in different spots and once even a broken arm. He would always just say he played rough sports…." she trailed off

Dana's mouth hung open.

"Poor boy…" whispered Mrs. Scully. She'd definitely have to tell her husband about this.

"Well, um...he's coming over tomorrow at 12." said Dana

"Cool!" said her brothers, wanting to know more about him.

"Boys! Watch out or you'll get chocolate all over your clean shirts!" Maggie warned as Bill's elbow slammed right in the center of his pie.

"Eww, sick man!" snickered Charlie. Bill grabbed Charlie's foot and smashed it into his pie when Maggie's back was turned to them. Missy and Dana had quite enough and groaned as they headed upstairs to bed.

When they reached the top of the stairs they could just hear their mom exclaim, "Now how did you boys manage to get his foot in there?"

Somehow the boys found this extremely amusing.

October 29

7:23 AM

The next morning the Scully family sat down to a pancake breakfast. Maggie even made her chocolate chip pancakes that no child could resist.

"Now boys, I don't want ANY body parts in your breakfast, understand?"

"Oh don't worry mom." replied Charlie a little too cheery. When she continued to make the pancakes, Bill and Charlie stuck their old Power Ranger action figures into the center of their stacks. When Maggie heard the boys giggling she knew they had done something... again.

"Oh boys! Those smelly old things? In the center of my famous chocolate chip pancakes?"

"Well mom, you didn't say anything about Power Ranger limbs in the food, just ours." replied Bill with a little bit of a wise-ass tone.

"Kids, get the toys out of the food. Now." ordered William, who had just walked in to hear the tail end of the conversation. The boys quickly took the toys out and waved them in front of the girls who had just walked in.

"You guys are such dorks." sighed Missy, who felt it was a little too early to be pulling any pranks. That was until she sat down and heard loud fart go off. Everyone looked at her and she looked under her seat cushion and saw the boys' whoopee cushion.

"Oh, you guys will pay!" hissed Missy. Everyone else erupted into laughter, even William chuckled a little bit. Bill and Charlie gave each other a high five, they were on a roll today.

As everyone calmed down finally and dug into their pancakes they heard the doorbell ring.

"Who would be here this early?" asked William, who hadn't looked away from his morning paper. All four children went running to answer the door. Dana rushed out and got to the door first while the other three were stuck in the kitchen door.

"Hello? Oh, Fox! What are you doing here this early? My mom made chocolate chip pancakes! Come on in...Fox?"

She looked at him and realized he hadn't moved since she opened the door. She was almost afraid to see what he was trying to hide. Slowly she lifted his head up and gasped.

"Numnuts you're blocking the door...omigod Fox! What happened?" asked a suddenly concerned Charlie. Bill and Missy came up behind Charlie and stopped dead in their tracks.

His right cheek was bruised, his left eye was swollen shut, and his bottom lip was busted open bleeding all over his chin. Fox looked down again, self-conscious at all their staring.

"I shouldn't of come...never mind-" he mumbled to himself, as if no one else was there.

Dana grabbed his arm, trying to say it wasn't a mistake at all, but he flinched like she had punched him in that swollen face of his.

"Fox, what the hell happened to you?" asked Bill. He had never seen someone so beat up before, not even on that COPS show he and Charlie made fun of all the time.

"...Come inside..." said Missy, who realized the neighbors were starting to stare. She knew Fox had a bad enough reputation as it was and didn't want anything else for the bottom suckers to feed off of.

As they ushered him inside, they saw what a bad limp he had on his right leg. Dana and Bill each grabbed an arm and Charlie shut the door behind them. Slowly they supported him to the living room couch where he sank into the soft cushions, completely exhausted.

"Who is it?" asked Maggie from the kitchen.

"I'll get mom and dad." said Missy running out.

William and Maggie walked into the living room. They saw Fox, his hands locked in between his knees, his head down, and his shoulders hunched. William looked at Maggie and walked over. He knelt down in front of the broken boy and put his hand on his shoulder. Fox flinched away as if preparing to be hit.

"Fox?" he asked gently. Fox looked up and William saw the damage.

"Oh God Fox...what happened..." then it clicked "Was it...your father?"

Tears welled up in the young boy's eyes, and to every one's surprise he threw his arms around William and hugged him tight, like a child would hug his father after falling and scraping his knee. William was like the father Fox would never have.

"Fox we need to do something about this!" cried Maggie, kneeling next to her husband and putting her hand on Fox's knee.

"Do you honestly think you're the first person to make that social services call? One day I came into school limping, apparently my teacher had had enough, and she called the police. My father worked high in the government and by the time I came home the call was made to have never happened. That night my father snapped my arm like a twig...please don't make that call!" he begged "He'll kill me!"

"Well..."

"Then you'll be staying the night until forever." said Dana confidently. Fox smiled at them. Missy, Bill, and Charlie all gave him the thumbs up like he was already part of the family.

Maggie looked into the boy's eyes,(the good one at least) he looked exhausted.

"Did you sleep at all last night?"

Fox shook his head, "I couldn't...I had to watch out for...him..." he whispered. Maggie lovingly took the boy into her arms and brought him into the bathroom to fix up his bruises. William ushered his children back into the kitchen to finish up breakfast. No one was in the chipper mood they had been in earlier, not even Bill and Charlie. The rest of breakfast went on uneventful.

When they went to check on Fox and Maggie, he was already asleep on Charlie's bed. Maggie warned them to stay out of Bill and Charlie's room until he woke up. Charlie made a face as if he cared, but then saw how upset his mother was and pretended to whistle.

November 1

12:45 PM

Dana sat in her bedroom with the small TV playing The Twilight Zone. She and Fox where both propped up on the floor with their backs on the bed drinking root beer and eating the stash of candy they were able to keep away from Bill and Charlie. Just yesterday on Halloween they all went trick-or-treating as aliens with tin foil hats and outfits and green makeup all over. Bill and Charlie were even able to scare a group of little girls. That is, until Missy dropped out of a tree on top of them screaming like a banshee. Both of the boys screamed and ran a block away, but then turned around when they realized it was Missy and not a real alien. Fox and Dana were laughing so hard they almost peed through their tin foil outfits. Who knew they could screamed like girls? Missy and Dana would never let this one go.

As they were reflecting on last evening's events, a basketball came flying through the open window hitting the two on the knees. Fox and Dana got up, looked out the window, and saw Bill and Charlie looking up at them, laughing as usual.

"TOLD YOU I COULD GET IT THROUGH!" said Bill triumphantly.

"Ahhh, shut up. HEY GUYS! WE'RE GONNA GO SWIMMING!" Charlie yelled. The town had a heated indoor pool nearby and it was one of the local hangouts for the neighborhood kids. They could go in it whenever, even in the fall. And luckily it had been one of the warmer falls that year.

"Yea we're going now! Today is the last day they have the pool open until spring. Everyone is going there to have one last swim!" Bill yelled as he ran down the street.

"HEY! WAIT FOR ME YOU DOPE!" Charlie screamed after him.

Just then they heard the door slam and saw Missy running after Charlie and Bill screaming, "HURRY UP YOU TWO! IF YOU GET THERE TOO LATE THEN THE JANITOR, OLD MAN HIGGINS, WILL PULL OUT ALL OF YOUR TEETH AND PUT THEM IN HIS RUSTY BAD CHILDREN BUCKET!"

Dana and Fox shrugged their shoulders and ran to get some swimming suits. Sounds like Missy has been talking to Anna again Dana thought.

About 10 minutes later, Dana and Fox ran in (avoiding Old Man Higgins) just in time to see Charlie push Bill into the pool. Following Bill, Fox and Dana jumped in, then Missy and Charlie. Almost everyone from the neighborhood was there, and Bill and Charlie were the center of attention. Everyone watched with wide eyes as they cracked jokes and imitated "Bay Watch." Missy, Dana, and Fox couldn't stop laughing as Bill and Charlie imitated the girls running down the beach, using beach balls for their boobs. At one point they even pretended Dana was a drowning old man and had to save her. Missy spent a lot of time talking with Anna, but after awhile she joined in on Bill and Charlie's mischief. Everyone played a giant game of 'Marco Polo' until the lifeguard finally told them it was time to go.

By the time they looked out the windows, it was starting to get dark. Reluctantly they dried off and said their final season goodbye to the pool. Bill and Charlie put their hands over their hearts and stood at attention saying their final goodbye. Missy rolled her eyes and smacked them both in the head to hurry them up. Just then Fox's cell phone rang. It was his mother, and by the look on his face, it wasn't good. He stayed silent and didn't say another word until Dana held Fox back.

"Fox...what's wrong?" she noticed he wasn't walking towards their house. "Where are you going?"

"My dad's."

"What! FOX! You can't!"

"I'm gonna have to face him sometime! Dana...it might as well be now, I promise I'll be home for dinner."

"Fine." she sighed. She didn't like the thought of him going back to that hell hole.

He nodded and began to walk towards Hemlock Street.

Nov. 2

Next Morning

"Fox should have been home last night!" cried Dana. "I'm going over there to check on him!" she rushed for the door.

She and her siblings where home alone. After he hadn't come home last night for dinner, they all worried what happened to him before would happen again, or maybe worse. Their parents said that although they were worried, he was not their child. There wasn't much they could really do yet.

Dana was almost done putting on her coat when the phone rang.

"Hello?" asked Dana

"D-D-Dana...?" asked a raspy voice.

"Fox!"

"...help..."

End of Part 1/5

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