21 Years ago Fox Mulder was abducted by aliens now his sister works to uncover the paranormal with the X-files. Dana Scully has just been assigned to work with Spooky Sam and her life is about to change. AU Also does Sam count as an OC?
Massive what if it's probably been done before, but I am new to this site and haven't done the legwork to find out. What if Fox was taken instead of Samantha. I really hope people like this but if they don't I can't help it. I am endeavouring to take on the entire series but I think I might miss some episodes because the aren't as important or condense them down so you'll probably need to have seen the series but if you haven't then why are you here?
I have a real life so it might not be a regular update but then who knows if anyone will read it but I am a total Mulder and Scully shipper so this is mostly for me!
Sitting surrounded by men Agent Dana Scully could tell this was not a normal job placement, she had chosen to work with the FBI because she saw it, as she told the men, as a way to distinguish herself. She had known well into her medical training that whilst she enjoyed the field of medicine there was a lot she struggled to countenance and when the FBI had contacted her about possibly becoming an agent she had felt a thrill of excitement at a new challenge. Now she was worried that these men were expecting something she wouldn't like.
"Are you aware of an Agent named Samantha Mulder?"
"By reputation only" feeling uncomfortable with the tension in the room Scully looked around at the men interviewing her. "Sir?"
"And what do you know of this reputation?"
"She graduated from Harvard a full two years younger than the rest of her class, has a degree in Criminal Psychology and another in Computer Sciences, she worked on the Albertson Shootings during which she was able to analyse the shooters behaviour uncovering a bomb on a college campus saving many lives in the process. Cited as one of the best female minds in the country and generally considered to be throwing her abilities away working here." the insult had not been intentional but had definitely hit home Dana saw them looking displeased. "She had a nickname at the academy that has followed her most of her life, Spooky Sam."
"What I'll also tell you is that Agent Mulder has developed a consuming devotion to an unassigned project outside the bureau mainstream. Are you familiar with the so-called X-Files?"
"I believe they have to do with unexplained phenomenon."
"More or less. The reason you're here, Agent Scully, is we want you to assist Mulder on these X-Files. You will write field reports on your activities, along with your observations on the validity of the work."
"Am I to understand that you want me to debunk the X-Files project, sir?"
"Agent Scully, we trust you'll make the proper scientific analysis. You'll want to contact Agent Mulder shortly. We look forward to seeing your reports"
(–)
"No body in here except the FBI's most unwanted"
It wasn't the most auspicious start as Dana pushed open the door and walked into the office "Agent Mulder?" the walls were mostly bare with a giant cork board on one side of the room filled with newspaper clippings. On the desk a large frame face the back wall and a smaller one was laid face down, the desk it self was organised to standard most people only maintain for an hour after they first start a job.
Behind the desk a pale young woman wearing thin square glasses looked up with an inquisitive look "Oh! You're not who I expected, can I help?" she had long dark curly hair pulled back into a thick ponytail, she removed her glasses so that her wide set dark eyes could take in the newcomer better. Like herself the woman wore the boxy type of suit that most women determined to be taken seriously in the man's world they were working in only Samantha Mulder's jacket was flung across a chair and her shirt sleeves were rolled up.
"My Name is Dana Scully I've been assigned to you" realisation crossed the other woman's face
"Oh Dr Scully, I was expecting you. Now what did you do in a past life to deserve this?"
"I beg your pardon?" Dana raised a brow as she questioned the other woman
"Well come on on you must have pissed someone off big time to be banished down here."
"Actually I'm looking forward to working with you, I've heard a lot about you"
"I was under the impression you were here to spy on me"
"If you doubt my qualifications..."
"Nope, you see I heard you were coming" the woman pushed herself up a smirk on her face "Took a little time to look you up, You're a medical doctor, you taught at the academy. You did your undergraduate degree in physics. "Einstein's Twin Paradox, A New Interpretation. Dana Scully Senior Thesis." You dared to rewrite Einstein... impressive." Dana could feel her hackles rise as she felt herself being mocked.
"Did you even read it?"
"I did, I especially liked the joke on time dilation as an excuse for being late"
"That was in the footnotes"
"I read quickly, it's how I can study 4 times the speed of everyone else." Well that certainly answered a question Dana had long had about the intelligent woman who at almost the same age as herself had achieved so much more. "Good thing you're a Doctor, I'm less Biology more technology I could use a Medical opinion on something." She switched off the lights and started up a projector "Oregon female, age twenty-one, no explainable cause of death. Autopsy shows nothing. There are, however, these two distinct marks on her lower back. Doctor Scully, can you ID these marks?"
"Needle punctures, maybe? An animal bite. Electrocution of some kind."
"How's your chemistry? This is the substance found in the surrounding tissue."
"It's organic. I don't know, is it some kind of synthetic protein?"
"Strangely no one had identified it yet." The two women met each other's gaze and Dana found herself smiling at her new co-worker "You and I are going to put the I into FBI... you know they say the best test of a relationship is to take a trip together."
"Am I to guess we're going to Oregon?"
"Now is that feminine intuition or are you reading my mind?"
"Conan Doyle would call it a deductive leap"
"Doyle? He believed in the paranormal you know" she fixed Dana with a hard look "Pop Quiz do you believe in the existence of extraterrestrials?"
"Logically, I would have to say no!" the other woman seemed disappointed so Scully felt a need to carry on "Given the distances needed to travel from the far reaches of space, the energy requirements..."
"That's fine, all I needed to know was yes or no, my pop quiz questions are always yes or no" Samantha picked up her jacket and handed Scully a case file "See you bright and early tomorrow, we fly to Oregon 8am!"
(–)
The Oregon case was becoming a good test for her working relationship with Scully, her pedantic and unimaginative nature was frustrating. Sam had ordered separate rooms which wasn't necessary as the two women could easily share under FBI policy but she had felt the need for space, it had been a good decision. The Doctor refused to accept anything other worldly about the body they had exhumed and her attitude at the hospital had been almost insulting. Usually a cheerful person it had annoyed Sam that there was so little they could really share, she'd hoped working with a woman would be easier than when she'd been partnered with men but Scully had refused to believe er about the lost time instead staring at her in the rain like she was an idiot, even the car suddenly restarting hadn't convinced her...
The power went out and Sam sighed she hated motels when this happened it always made her think that Norman Bates was on the prowl, she pulled out her wind up torch and soon had it lit up. She was just abut to climb into bed when there was a knock at the door.
"Scully?" The woman was wearing a robe and slippers but if Sam had to guess she's imagine there was little else under there.
"I want you to look at something."
"Sure. Come in."
Scully walked in, and immediately started to lower her robe, Sam was about to make a joke about FBI relationships within departments as Dana was clad in her underwear but as she looks at the bare back before her she sees it, two little bumps.
"What are they? Mulder?"
Leaning down Sam inspected them before concluding "Mosquito bites."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. I got a lot myself out there." The relief was palpable and the two women began to laugh, reaching her arms around Dana Sam found herself realising that she had briefly been almost as worried as her partner was.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, sorry I just..."
"You're shaking. Here" Sam indicated the bed "sit down."
"Thanks"
Later the two women were lying on the bed and having discussed a lot of nonsensical things Samantha soon found herself telling Dana everything that she normally kept under wraps.
"When I was eight my brother was taken, we were sitting on the floor playing and arguing over the TV, he wanted to watch some Magician." Samantha took a deep sigh and rubbed her eyes. "Mom and Dad were out and it was just a normal evening then suddenly there was a loud banging and it was like the whole room was shaking my head hurt and there was this pressure." Unable to help herself as the memory came back she rubbed her forehead as if feeling the pressure again "There was light everywhere so blinding. It was like I was being lifted and then Fox's arms are around me and he's pulling me down. I think they wanted me but he got in the way, I saw a thin strange figure in the doorway and then it was Fox that was being lifted. I fell to the ground screaming, just screaming and then it was over. Done. One of the neighbours heard me still screaming and found me in the middle of the floor."
Samantha looked over at her fellow agent who was staring at her in shock
"I know it all sounds unbelievable but it happened and I've spent my life trying to make sense of it."
"But your brother... doesn't he work in Violent Crimes?"
"He doesn't remember any of it. He was missing for over six months but he remembers none of it. He was found wandering through some remote area near San Bernardino. There was no evidence of assault, no ransoms were ever requested, he was just gone and then he just showed up. He didn't even remember who he was he kept saying the name Sam Mulder, they assumed it was his name. Afterwards we took a trip just the four of us to our lake house and spent the time reminding him who he was, a lot of it never came back but he remembered them trying to tell him he had no family but he could remember one thing. Me."
"And that's why he told them he was Sam Mulder?"
"I guess so but he did always hate the name Fox. He said there were men wanting to do tests on him but he kept asking them where I was, for weeks after his return he wouldn't let me out of his sight I think in the back of his mind he remembered that they were trying to take me first, that he was afraid I would be taken."
"Did he get his memory back?"
"Not really, he could still read and write at the same level, he was still obsessed with basketball and baseball he just couldn't remember anything, his friends, his school, mom and dad decided to send him to a secure boarding school and he headed to England for further education with all new people he seemed happier and no one cared that he was a year younger than them."
"Do you two ever talk about what happened?"
"No, he rather dislikes my obsession with what happened. When he joined the bureau it was around the same time as me and he begged me to stop being spooky Samantha. Luckily we are in different areas, he does the profiling so spends his time in an office making leaps and I proved myself to the bureau, made them see me as a golden girl and so when I found the X-Files it was like everything I'd done so far was working towards that place, it looked like a garbage dump for UFO sightings, alien abduction reports, the kind of stuff that most people laugh at as being ridiculous. But I was fascinated. I read all the cases I could get my hands on, hundreds of them. I read everything I could about paranormal phenomenon, about the occult and..." Should she tell her? "There's classified government information I've being trying to access, but someone has been blocking my attempts to get at it"
"Who, why?"
"Someone at a higher level, if it weren't for my success stories my connections they would have closed me down years ago. And then there's you the spy sent to shut me down."
"Mulder I will only ever report what I see and hear and discover, you need to trust me that even though I might not believe you I am not going to lie to help them close you down."
"Catholic guilt keeping you honest?"
"Something like that" there was a flash of something on Scully's face
"What?"
"I'm not sure if I can tell you"
"After my story about my brother being abducted by aliens?"
"I joined the FBI partly because I was trying to escape something." Dana sighed and rubbed her eyes "One of my professors and I got close, he was intelligent and had this air that thrilled me so much more than the men my own age."
"A professor? So people would have gossiped about how you passed?"
"I was more concerned that his wife... who I knew nothing about at first" Dana rushed to add when Samantha's eyebrows raised in surprise "I was more concerned about her. I am not a homewrecker I was starting to be an officially lapsed catholic but marriage is so important to my parents and in the church, also he had children a daughter closer to my own age than I liked."
"So you like the older men" the teasing tone reassured Dana that her co-worker was not judging her. "I'll keep you away from my dad although the divorce was a long time ago and he's still alone."
"I honestly didn't know, he didn't wear a ring when he was teaching and there's a part of me that wondered how many other women were there before me, he told me I was special to him but I didn't hear him denying that there had been other students."
"You did the right thing, I think the FBI and I are lucky to have you"
"Even if I spend my time proving you wrong?"
"Even then"
The phone rang and Sam leaned over to answer it
"Hello? What? Who is this? Who is thi..." Sam dropped the phone down and turned to Dana "That was some woman... she just said Peggy O'Dell was dead."
"The girl in the wheelchair?"
(–)
Losing the evidence and their belongings in a fire was almost worth it when it made Dana start to trust her, made her start to think there could be more to this. They travelled the town looking for answers and when the two women stood at one point in the rain and another in a hospital corridor discussing the case Scully was finally starting to agree with Mulder and her mind was starting to open up to new possibilities. Sam couldn't quite put into words how exciting it had been to see Billy Miles standing ready to be taken into a space ship and it frustrated her no end that her fellow agent had missed the big moment that could have proved Sam right but Sam could tell that the woman was becoming an ally. It felt a little like corruption and Samantha felt like laughing until she entered her office and froze, someone had been in here.
Picking up her phone she pulled up the number she had for the DA's office and started what would be the first of several phone calls. When she was finally finished she ran a hand through her hair and let it down from it's usual tidy ponytail. Frustration was mounting and she began to wish for her brother's eidetic memory as she looked over her own report trying to remember if anything had been missed.
"They chewed me out for not being able to substantiate my report" Dana announced entering the office and dumping her briefcase onto the desk.
"I warned you, writing the truth without proof makes you a goof" as Dana raised an eyebrow at the bad rhyme she shrugged "look siding with me gets you in trouble, welcome to my world!"
"I understand why they did it, had I read someone else's report and it had so little evidence I'd feel the same way."
"Yeah me too, but it's annoying isn't it, when you know it all happened and can't do anything to do with it?" Dana nodded but seemed to sense she wasn't done "there's more Scully"
"Oh Yeah?"
"I just talked to the D.A.'s office in Raymon County. There's no case file on Billy Miles. The paperwork we filed is all gone."
"Dammit" the redhead kicked the wall and then sank heavily into the chair by the filing cabinet muttering curses. Sam grinned at the reaction, it was one she had so often herself so it was nice to share it.
Dana sighed and opening up her bag pulled out her planner "Well at least I'm back to still have time for my trip." she smiled to herself Ethan was looking forward to spending time with her and she hoped she wouldn't be too distracted.
"Trip?"
"My boyfriend and I have a B&B booked, when you and I went to Oregon I was supposed to be there but he managed to get the booking moved."
"Ah, sounds nice"
"What about you, any plans?" It was difficult to talk about normal things when their work was so unusual and Sam was rather closed off.
"No, I'm recently single my ex thought I spent too much time on my work." Dana's lips twisted in an amused smile getting ready to point out that it was a distinct possibility when Sam interrupted "I know it's probably true but there were other issues as well. Our families didn't like each other or us together. Two years we were together and it's weird being single again."
"I'm sorry" Dana was about to say something else when there was a knock at the door
"Nobody in here except the FBI's most unwanted" Sam yelled and the door opened to reveal an attractive man wearing an ID badge and a rather nice suit.
"Ha ha" the man didn't seem to notice Dana as he headed straight to Sam "I actually need your opinion on something so don't be a butt head."
"Nice" Sam grinned as she leaned to look at Dana "He's usually a little more mature in public" The man had jumped when he realised they weren't alone and immediately looked a little embarrassed.
"Sorry I didn't realise you had company." the man straightened his tie and smiled a rather charming smile at her, standing Dana held out her hand. "I'm Fox Mulder"
"Dana Scully, and I could tell" she smiled looking over at Samantha "You two do look alike" she noticed that although Fox Mulder seemed unwilling to talk with her in the room he was also looking her up and down appreciatively. "I'm going to go pick up lunch, you want anything?"
"If you're going to the sandwich guy upstairs a Turkey on Rye and some chips."
"No Problem" Dana moved to leave but Fox seemed to purposefully stay a little in her way so that she had to brush against him to get by "Do you want something?" she challenged him and he smiled
"Not from the sandwich guy" he teased and she found herself rolling her eyes, behind her Sam made a disgusted noise and when she was gone she overheard the siblings arguing. No matter how spooky the Mulder's might be they were completely normal in one respect.
(–)
Samantha Mulder stretched as she walked into her apartment, it had been three months since Charlie had walked out on her and she was starting to get a little worried about the rent. When it had been two of them the costs had been easily manageable but now she was on a strict budget that she didn't like keeping to, her phone rang but she let it go to her machine not wanting to get into another apologetic drunken conversation with her ex.
Her mother's voice echoed through the apartment asking her to call her when she could, her tennis club friends had just had a dinner party and there were lots of lovely women with sons she had to meet, could she set something up?
Samantha was going to kill whoever had let it slip to her mother that she was once again single, probably Fox, Charlie had been great but her mother had never been happy with the relationship. Now it was over the woman was desperate to get her daughter matched up, she made it no secret that she wanted her out of the office and in the kitchen to become just another home maker.
Relieved she'd let the machine pick up Samantha opened her freezer and stared miserably at the frozen dinners there, whatever other troubles they'd had together with Charlie her fridge had been filled with real food. Choosing a random chicken and pasta meal she threw it into the microwave and headed for the shower. Her mind was full of questions about the case but mostly she focussed on her new partner, she was pretty but a little serious for her tastes and though she really wasn't keen to work with her preferring to be alone she couldn't help but be pleased that maybe she'd found a friend. She'd never had a lot of friends and the X-files had made her life a little lonelier as she dropped dinner's and lunches to follow leads letting friends and family down as she grew more desperate to get at the truth.
OK so Samantha Mulder looks mostly like the clone version played by Megan Leitch just in my mind her eyes are closer to Mulder's in colour and shape. In this story Fox was not missing for too long because I still ship him with Scully and that's tricky if he's dead, not impossible in X-files but definitely tricky. In the series other people did come back (like Cassandra Spender) and had a relatively normal life and I have decided that the reason Samantha was kept away from her family for so long was partly as punishment on CGB's part or possibly there was something special about her that there wasn't about Fox. It's also easier to wipe the memories of an 8 year old as they are more trusting but as an almost teenager it didn't work on Mulder and was easier to just let him go.
I will work on this very slowly as if I do try to cover the whole series it will take a long time, I will not do every episode but I'll definitely do the most relevant ones and hopefully a scene or two from each one to bridge the gaps. I doubt I'll create any new mysteries as this is going to be quite the undertaking. Hopefully I'll update every other week.