-1A Family Affair

Disclaimer: Don't own it, wish I did, but I don't. Honestly, if I did own it, there would be a lot more MSR going on, plus there'd still be season after season of X-Files going on. I do take credit for the new girl and the storyline, that's really it.

Spoilers: None specifically; this is set way after the finale.

Chapter One: Samantha

"Mr. and Mrs. Fox?" the nurse held a clipboard out in front of her as she scanned the small waiting room. Her eyes stopped on a the middle-aged couple holding hands across the room. The woman rose first, brushing a strand of fiery red hair out of her face. She turned to her husband who shot her a nervous look. He too rose and they made their way towards the nurse slowly.

Though Fox Mulder and Dana Scully no longer went by those names, they still looked and acted the same. Scully had kept her relaxed look of jeans and tighter t-shirts and Mulder still wore his hair messy and his leather jacket. Being on the run from the government never stopped them from trying to keep some sort of normalcy in their lives.

As the reached the nurse, Mulder looked at Scully once more. She smiled up at him in her reassuring way before they both looked back at the nurse.

"Samantha doesn't get many visitors. She's quite lonely since her father stopped visiting. We heard he died about five years ago, but we haven't seen much on it, mostly hearsay. Not a lot was know about Samantha when she came here about twenty years ago except her name and that she suffered from paranoia and delusions. She can be temperamental, but I believe this will be a good meeting for her. She's right through here." She pointed through the door at a long table. A middle aged woman sat stoically near the end of the table, staring towards the far wall.

Mulder and Scully made their way to the table and stood across from the woman. "Hello Samantha, my name is Laura and this is my husband William."

"Nurse Ratched actually seemed civil when you came in, a miracle in the least." She did not look up, but spoke sarcastically at the couple.

"Samantha," Mulder began as he sat across from her, "we came here to talk to you. We want to get to know you."

"Really?" She looked up at him and then to Scully. "If you want to talk, lady, park it."

Scully took a seat next to Mulder. She looked across the table at Samantha who continued to stare at the couple. "Samantha-"

"Call me Sam." She leaned back in her chair and relaxed her body so that she looked more comfortable as she sat there. She no longer stared, but looked slightly at Scully, blinking normally.

"Sam, we wanted to know a little more about you."

"Honestly, anything I tell you, you might as well forget as soon as I say it. They all think I'm totally crazy. That's why I'm here, they don't believe in anything I say, anything I think happened to me."

"What happened to you?" Mulder asked. He couldn't help but notice how much this woman looked like what he believed his sister would. He wanted to believe that he had been contacted about his sister and not just someone who shared her name. There was nothing to say that this was in fact Samantha Mulder, but there was a sinking suspicion in Mulder's mind that it was his long lost sister he was sitting across from.

"I was kidnapped, locked up, and had tests run on me. When I tried to get away, they brought me here so that no one would believe what happened to me. They didn't want anyone to know what they were doing."

"Who?"

"The government."

Scully and Mulder looked at each other as if they knew what she said was true, but didn't want anyone else to know that what Samantha said was true.

"You don't believe me, no one does."

"We do, really," Mulder said.

"No you don't, but that's fine. I don't know why you care anyway, it's not like you can do anything about it anyway. You're a writer," she said looking at Scully, "and you work for a bank." She pointed at Mulder. She knew what they did. She knew who they were, but how?

Scully had been writing science fiction stories for a magazine, with the help of her years as part of the X-Files and Mulder worked as a loans officer at a local bank. Neither were using the skills they had spent years perfecting, but they had to keep as low of a profile as they could. They were posing as people who didn't exist and as such needed no one to know who they were or what they were doing. Now a woman in a mental institution in San Francisco knew them well. Hopefully as she learned of them, they could learn of her.

If she was Samantha Mulder, Laura and William Fox would find out, even if it took them reverting back to their former selves, and risking their safety from a government they were once dedicated to.

Okay, there's chapter 1. Not much happened here and there's not really any answers to what's going on, but the next chapter should answer most of them. Who knows of anyone is going to like this, but I hope someone does. Please review, even if you hate it I'd really like to know.