Deceiving Appearances
Author - Nicole
Category - Humor/Romance MSR
Disclaimer - Yup, Mulder's mine, Scully is too, Madison Daison belongs to 1013. right. if it means that much to you, reverse that. Slight spoilers for Arcadia, Takes place somewhere in late season six early season seven.
I started this story a long time ago after seeing Arcadia when it first aired. I stumbled upon it recently and decided to fix it up. Please review it if you want me to continue!
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Mulder and Scully walked into Skinners office early Friday morning, while in front of Kimberly's desk they noticed a teenaged redhead in a suit sitting quietly, reading a novel. She looked up and smiled briefly, Scully smiled back and they continued to walk in.
"Good morning agents"
"Good morning" both replied unenthusiastically.
"Alright, I'm sure you two remember the falls of Arcadia case a year or so ago, correct?"
"How could I forget" Scully rolled her eyes, Skinner handed her a manila folder.
"Well, there is a similar pre-planned community Buena Tierra, Outside of Orlando Florida. It appears that teenagers have been disappearing frequently. With no trace."
"And this is an X-file?" Mulder questioned
"Well you see, these kids only start disappearing if they rebel somehow, baggy pant, colorful hair, piercing and bad music blaring out of their bedrooms."
"Kids like that run away you know." Scully said slightly annoyed, not liking the sound of the case
"But regardless of the way these teens looked, most weren't unhappy, matter- of-fact, a bunch were honor roll students who threw on a pair of chuck Taylor's and got a lip ring or something"
"Chuck Taylor's. so comfortable" Mulder was growing bored
"So, what exactly are we doing?" Scully tried to cover her partner.
"I don't know if you noticed the young girl sitting outside my office. That's Special Agent Madison Daison. She was a gifted student, graduated high school and got through Quantico by the time she was 16. She's been here for 6 months. She'll be playing your daughter. She'll start out an average kid, then over the course of a week she'll dress and act out more and more. I'm sure you know what to do after that" the Agents nodded in response.
"I want you to get started immediately, get Agent Daison on your way out. "
"I'm picking out the names this time" Scully stated dryly as they walked through the door. She was more excited about this case then she was letting off. Her fondness of Mulder and maternal instincts making her want to play house.
They reached Madison she looked down shyly, placed her novel in her messenger bag and got up.
"I take it you two are Mulder and Scully" She smiled "I'm sure AD Skinner told you but I'm Madison Daison, you can call me Daison or Maddie, I don't really care." She extended her hand, Mulder shook it.
"Well hello Maddie, Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you Maddie, I like your nose stud" Scully pointed to the little gem over Maddie's right nostril. She giggled.
The walked got in Mulder's car and drove Maddie to her house, she lived in DC with her Parents and siblings, the car ride was a chance to learn further about the young agent.
"You must be brilliant, how did you get through school so quickly?"
"Well, When I was four my parents put me through placement testing, I had the competency of a fifth grader and a ninth grade reading level. It was strange being five and in fifth grade. I guess I just love to learn. I jumped from grade to grade quickly, I graduated high school at 11 years old. I obtained masters degree in Psychology at Bridgewater State College. I went to Quantico soon after that"
"Why such a small school?" Scully questioned
"I grew up in Massachusetts, Lynn to be exact. My parents couldn't afford special schools for me. Being noticed as a special kid in a City like that, it led to teasing. When I was in high school I got thrown into trash barrels. That didn't phase me much, but after that I decided I wanted to go to a small town for college. I liked it there, I felt more accepted." After hearing her location, her Boston accent became more noticeable.
"I'm going to assume your whole family moved here when you went to Quantico? Tell us about them?" Mulder decided to question further, disregarding a look from Scully.
"Yeah, they were a little over protective of their fourteen year old becoming an agent. It took a lot of fighting with the system to get this far. Not a lot of people can perceive that I am a lot smarter then I let off. Anyway, my family? I have a mom, Sarah, my dad, Bob, My little sister Alison, we call her Allie and my older brother Jameson, we call him Jim. He's a senior in high school and a little envious of me"
"I guess your parents like "Son" names." Mulder deadpanned.
"Yeah and. wow I don't know your first name to shoot something back at you" She glared.
Scully laughed "Throwing stones at Glass houses are we Fox?" Mulder shot an evil look at Scully.
"I'm not even going to say anything about that one, Mulder" Maddie smiled they pulled up to two floor colonial house.
Mulder smiled "We'll be back in two hours, we have to catch a plane in four" She nodded and hopped out of the car.
"Not even cool, Scully"
"I know, I'm sorry. you set yourself up there"
"She seems like a nice kid"
"Yes, I just hope she's not afraid of near death experiences. We have a tendency to drag people into those" She stared out the window.
TWO HOURS LATER
Mulder and Scully drove up to the young girl's house. She walked out of the house with a big rolling suitcase. She was dressed in flare legged jeans, white chuck Taylor's, and a yellow "Ecko Red" sweatshirt. Mulder studied the girl, she was very pretty, about five feet tall with short reddish brown hair that was angled to be short in the back and longer in the front. She could easily pass as their daughter. He would never speak of it but secretly hoped that someday he and Scully would have a daughter like that.
Scully interrupted his train of thoughts, "Mulder pop the trunk for her" Maddie put her suitcase in the trunk and sat in the backseat.
"Long time no see, thanks for picking me up"
"Not a problem, So Scully any thoughts on our alias'?"
"Yes, I have them all picked out. Mulder your Nick Lynnfield, I'm Carmen Lynnfield and Maddie, your Soleil Lynnfield"
"Way to name me after the girl who played Punky Brewster and A suburb of where I grew up" Maddie laughed "I'm kidding, I like it"
"I don't look like a Nick" Mulder whined
"I didn't look like a Laura Petrie either"
They soon got to the airport and about two hours later arrived in Orlando. After a fight with a car rental person at Budget they got a Caravan and drove off to Buena Tierra
"How nauseatingly soccer mom" Maddie Scoffed
"I agree with her Mulder" Scully smiled
" Well that's just too bad isn't it? Maybe we'll have to enroll our little Soleil into soccer, so it will make sense"
"Um, no. I played freshman JV soccer in High school and nearly got killed"
"Were you any good?"
"Not at all, I'm short as it is, I was a midget compared to everyone else at that age, they trampled me!" She chuckled.
They pulled into the driveway of a white ranch style house. The moving truck had beat them their.
"Aw crap I forgot to pack my bedroom" Maddie said sarcastically
Scully laughed "I wonder what the Bureau packed for us this time"
They got out of the car and started to load things out of the truck. With the help of some movers, they were done by 7:00pm. 'Apparently this planned community doesn't have as strict of rules. just kid killers" Mulder thought.
Soon their neighbors started to come to the door. The Bakers were first.
"Hello, you must be our new neighbors! Well well! Let me introduce myself I'm Carla Baker, this is my husband Marc and this is our lovely son Tim" she grabbed the hand of the small boy who looked completely terrified.
"Hi, I'm Carmen Lynnfield. This is my husband Nick and our daughter Soleil." She put her hand on Maddie's shoulder.
:"Nice to meet you" Maddie said sheepishly.
"How convenient, moving here during summer vacation! What grade are you going into Soleil?"
"I gra- Um I'm gonna be a junior" Her junior came out as Joon-ya. Maddie blushed at her obvious accent.
"Is that a Boston accent I hear?"
"No, no. we're from outside of Miami. Our little Sol likes to try out different accents. She's going to make a great actress someday"
"Yeah, I had to be from Boston in my last school play" Maddie said nervously.
"That's WONDERFUL! Well I hope to see you all again soon, I must be tending to dinner, can't let little Timmy starve you know!" The enthusiastic lady said 'you wouldn't even know with how skinny that little boy is' Scully thought sarcastically. They waved and closed the door. Mulder laughed at Maddie.
"What?" she put her hands on her hips and cocked her head.
"You gotta go pahk ya cah?" He teased.
"Shut up its not that bad is it, Scully?"
She smiled and said, "No, I can't believe that lady even noticed"
They sat on the couch; Maddie sat on the coffee table changing the batteries in her CD player.
Mulder then felt it was time to change the subject. "Maddie, how are you going to go upon making yourself noticed in the neighborhood?"
She smiled, these people didn't know her at all.
"Well, first off I'm going to change my nose stud to a ring. Then I'll start wearing my Lime green chucks instead these boring white one. I also have my black ones packed if I need them. After that, I'll start wearing my normal clothes."
"Aren't those normal clothes?" Scully pointed to her outfit.
"Hardly." She opened up her suitcase and pulled out a pair of black pants with red trim big enough to cover ones feet "These are my favorite pants, I got them at hot topic for Christmas. Then she pulled out a red tank top with black fishnet arms barely connected. "Along with this, I got it when I went to Harvard Square earlier in the year"
"Wow, I never would've expected."
"That a child prodigy like myself would dress like a Goth? I know, I hear it all the time. I get dirty looks from people while I'll hang out at the mall with my friends in Massachusetts. And in my head I'm thinking, wow, I'm doing these peoples dream jobs and they think I'm just scum. Isn't life ironic?"
"I guess it is" Scully said in surprise.
"Enough about me, we've been talking about me all day. Tell me about yourselves"
"What do you want to know?" Mulder raised an eyebrow
"How long have you two worked together?"
"Since 1993" Scully Smiled
"Wow. are you guys involved or anything."
"No!" they both said in unison 'But I wish we were' thought Scully, she didn't know Mulder was thinking the same.
Maddie was kind of weirded out by the quickness of the responses "um, ok. Well, tell me, what was your most interesting case?"
"Well, we had to go to Texas to investigate a whole bunch of things, we ended up running through a bee dome, then, they tried to close down the X- files. When I was trying to convince Scully to stay in D.C rather then go to Salt Lake City, she got stung by one of the bees. It infected her with a Virus and we ended up in Antarctica." Mulder smiled. Maddie looked at him wondering why he seemed so nostalgic. She noticed Scully smirking too.
"And then we returned to DC with no proof." Scully said bitterly.
"Wow. That's unbelievable. I'm going to go to bed now. See you tomorrow" Maddie put her stuff back in her suitcase and walked to her room, her CD player remained on the coffee table. 'Nothing going on between them my ass'
Mulder and Scully stayed on the couch engulfed in their own thought. Remembering all those times they had nearly lost each other. Mulder decided to say something.
"That day scared the crap out of me"
Scully was startled "huh?"
"I thought I was going to lose you. Then I almost did"
"Yeah, we never really talked about that"
"We should"
"Yeah"
"Just not today"
"I agree"
They sat for a few more moments in thoughtful silence this time Scully spoke up.
"I'm still bothered by Bumblebees"
Mulder decided to tread on thin ice, " What do you think would've happened.?"
"If...?" she avoided the question
"The bee didn't sting you"
"Oh" She looked uncomfortable 'I would've had the happiest moment of my life!' her mind screamed. She didn't realize she had said it until she looked at Mulder smiling.
"There's no bee's around" he turned towards her.
"I know" she murmured as he cupped her face. He began to lean in. She turned away for a second. 'Damn it all!' he thought. Then she turned to face him again, before he could, she lent in. She brushed her lips against his. He kissed her back. They were becoming more and more passionate, they didn't notice the door open, but they did notice a tiny gasp from Maddie.
"Um, yeah. I forgot my CD player. uh sorry" She picked it up and started back to her room.
"You guys are sucky liars!" She laughed before closing her bedroom door.
Mulder looked at Scully who was smiling like he'd never seen before.
"So where do we go from here?"
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Well there you are, part one. Please review! that's what will keep this story alive. Constructive criticism is always welcomed. Flames are a waste so don't bother with them.
-Nikka
Author - Nicole
Category - Humor/Romance MSR
Disclaimer - Yup, Mulder's mine, Scully is too, Madison Daison belongs to 1013. right. if it means that much to you, reverse that. Slight spoilers for Arcadia, Takes place somewhere in late season six early season seven.
I started this story a long time ago after seeing Arcadia when it first aired. I stumbled upon it recently and decided to fix it up. Please review it if you want me to continue!
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Mulder and Scully walked into Skinners office early Friday morning, while in front of Kimberly's desk they noticed a teenaged redhead in a suit sitting quietly, reading a novel. She looked up and smiled briefly, Scully smiled back and they continued to walk in.
"Good morning agents"
"Good morning" both replied unenthusiastically.
"Alright, I'm sure you two remember the falls of Arcadia case a year or so ago, correct?"
"How could I forget" Scully rolled her eyes, Skinner handed her a manila folder.
"Well, there is a similar pre-planned community Buena Tierra, Outside of Orlando Florida. It appears that teenagers have been disappearing frequently. With no trace."
"And this is an X-file?" Mulder questioned
"Well you see, these kids only start disappearing if they rebel somehow, baggy pant, colorful hair, piercing and bad music blaring out of their bedrooms."
"Kids like that run away you know." Scully said slightly annoyed, not liking the sound of the case
"But regardless of the way these teens looked, most weren't unhappy, matter- of-fact, a bunch were honor roll students who threw on a pair of chuck Taylor's and got a lip ring or something"
"Chuck Taylor's. so comfortable" Mulder was growing bored
"So, what exactly are we doing?" Scully tried to cover her partner.
"I don't know if you noticed the young girl sitting outside my office. That's Special Agent Madison Daison. She was a gifted student, graduated high school and got through Quantico by the time she was 16. She's been here for 6 months. She'll be playing your daughter. She'll start out an average kid, then over the course of a week she'll dress and act out more and more. I'm sure you know what to do after that" the Agents nodded in response.
"I want you to get started immediately, get Agent Daison on your way out. "
"I'm picking out the names this time" Scully stated dryly as they walked through the door. She was more excited about this case then she was letting off. Her fondness of Mulder and maternal instincts making her want to play house.
They reached Madison she looked down shyly, placed her novel in her messenger bag and got up.
"I take it you two are Mulder and Scully" She smiled "I'm sure AD Skinner told you but I'm Madison Daison, you can call me Daison or Maddie, I don't really care." She extended her hand, Mulder shook it.
"Well hello Maddie, Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you Maddie, I like your nose stud" Scully pointed to the little gem over Maddie's right nostril. She giggled.
The walked got in Mulder's car and drove Maddie to her house, she lived in DC with her Parents and siblings, the car ride was a chance to learn further about the young agent.
"You must be brilliant, how did you get through school so quickly?"
"Well, When I was four my parents put me through placement testing, I had the competency of a fifth grader and a ninth grade reading level. It was strange being five and in fifth grade. I guess I just love to learn. I jumped from grade to grade quickly, I graduated high school at 11 years old. I obtained masters degree in Psychology at Bridgewater State College. I went to Quantico soon after that"
"Why such a small school?" Scully questioned
"I grew up in Massachusetts, Lynn to be exact. My parents couldn't afford special schools for me. Being noticed as a special kid in a City like that, it led to teasing. When I was in high school I got thrown into trash barrels. That didn't phase me much, but after that I decided I wanted to go to a small town for college. I liked it there, I felt more accepted." After hearing her location, her Boston accent became more noticeable.
"I'm going to assume your whole family moved here when you went to Quantico? Tell us about them?" Mulder decided to question further, disregarding a look from Scully.
"Yeah, they were a little over protective of their fourteen year old becoming an agent. It took a lot of fighting with the system to get this far. Not a lot of people can perceive that I am a lot smarter then I let off. Anyway, my family? I have a mom, Sarah, my dad, Bob, My little sister Alison, we call her Allie and my older brother Jameson, we call him Jim. He's a senior in high school and a little envious of me"
"I guess your parents like "Son" names." Mulder deadpanned.
"Yeah and. wow I don't know your first name to shoot something back at you" She glared.
Scully laughed "Throwing stones at Glass houses are we Fox?" Mulder shot an evil look at Scully.
"I'm not even going to say anything about that one, Mulder" Maddie smiled they pulled up to two floor colonial house.
Mulder smiled "We'll be back in two hours, we have to catch a plane in four" She nodded and hopped out of the car.
"Not even cool, Scully"
"I know, I'm sorry. you set yourself up there"
"She seems like a nice kid"
"Yes, I just hope she's not afraid of near death experiences. We have a tendency to drag people into those" She stared out the window.
TWO HOURS LATER
Mulder and Scully drove up to the young girl's house. She walked out of the house with a big rolling suitcase. She was dressed in flare legged jeans, white chuck Taylor's, and a yellow "Ecko Red" sweatshirt. Mulder studied the girl, she was very pretty, about five feet tall with short reddish brown hair that was angled to be short in the back and longer in the front. She could easily pass as their daughter. He would never speak of it but secretly hoped that someday he and Scully would have a daughter like that.
Scully interrupted his train of thoughts, "Mulder pop the trunk for her" Maddie put her suitcase in the trunk and sat in the backseat.
"Long time no see, thanks for picking me up"
"Not a problem, So Scully any thoughts on our alias'?"
"Yes, I have them all picked out. Mulder your Nick Lynnfield, I'm Carmen Lynnfield and Maddie, your Soleil Lynnfield"
"Way to name me after the girl who played Punky Brewster and A suburb of where I grew up" Maddie laughed "I'm kidding, I like it"
"I don't look like a Nick" Mulder whined
"I didn't look like a Laura Petrie either"
They soon got to the airport and about two hours later arrived in Orlando. After a fight with a car rental person at Budget they got a Caravan and drove off to Buena Tierra
"How nauseatingly soccer mom" Maddie Scoffed
"I agree with her Mulder" Scully smiled
" Well that's just too bad isn't it? Maybe we'll have to enroll our little Soleil into soccer, so it will make sense"
"Um, no. I played freshman JV soccer in High school and nearly got killed"
"Were you any good?"
"Not at all, I'm short as it is, I was a midget compared to everyone else at that age, they trampled me!" She chuckled.
They pulled into the driveway of a white ranch style house. The moving truck had beat them their.
"Aw crap I forgot to pack my bedroom" Maddie said sarcastically
Scully laughed "I wonder what the Bureau packed for us this time"
They got out of the car and started to load things out of the truck. With the help of some movers, they were done by 7:00pm. 'Apparently this planned community doesn't have as strict of rules. just kid killers" Mulder thought.
Soon their neighbors started to come to the door. The Bakers were first.
"Hello, you must be our new neighbors! Well well! Let me introduce myself I'm Carla Baker, this is my husband Marc and this is our lovely son Tim" she grabbed the hand of the small boy who looked completely terrified.
"Hi, I'm Carmen Lynnfield. This is my husband Nick and our daughter Soleil." She put her hand on Maddie's shoulder.
:"Nice to meet you" Maddie said sheepishly.
"How convenient, moving here during summer vacation! What grade are you going into Soleil?"
"I gra- Um I'm gonna be a junior" Her junior came out as Joon-ya. Maddie blushed at her obvious accent.
"Is that a Boston accent I hear?"
"No, no. we're from outside of Miami. Our little Sol likes to try out different accents. She's going to make a great actress someday"
"Yeah, I had to be from Boston in my last school play" Maddie said nervously.
"That's WONDERFUL! Well I hope to see you all again soon, I must be tending to dinner, can't let little Timmy starve you know!" The enthusiastic lady said 'you wouldn't even know with how skinny that little boy is' Scully thought sarcastically. They waved and closed the door. Mulder laughed at Maddie.
"What?" she put her hands on her hips and cocked her head.
"You gotta go pahk ya cah?" He teased.
"Shut up its not that bad is it, Scully?"
She smiled and said, "No, I can't believe that lady even noticed"
They sat on the couch; Maddie sat on the coffee table changing the batteries in her CD player.
Mulder then felt it was time to change the subject. "Maddie, how are you going to go upon making yourself noticed in the neighborhood?"
She smiled, these people didn't know her at all.
"Well, first off I'm going to change my nose stud to a ring. Then I'll start wearing my Lime green chucks instead these boring white one. I also have my black ones packed if I need them. After that, I'll start wearing my normal clothes."
"Aren't those normal clothes?" Scully pointed to her outfit.
"Hardly." She opened up her suitcase and pulled out a pair of black pants with red trim big enough to cover ones feet "These are my favorite pants, I got them at hot topic for Christmas. Then she pulled out a red tank top with black fishnet arms barely connected. "Along with this, I got it when I went to Harvard Square earlier in the year"
"Wow, I never would've expected."
"That a child prodigy like myself would dress like a Goth? I know, I hear it all the time. I get dirty looks from people while I'll hang out at the mall with my friends in Massachusetts. And in my head I'm thinking, wow, I'm doing these peoples dream jobs and they think I'm just scum. Isn't life ironic?"
"I guess it is" Scully said in surprise.
"Enough about me, we've been talking about me all day. Tell me about yourselves"
"What do you want to know?" Mulder raised an eyebrow
"How long have you two worked together?"
"Since 1993" Scully Smiled
"Wow. are you guys involved or anything."
"No!" they both said in unison 'But I wish we were' thought Scully, she didn't know Mulder was thinking the same.
Maddie was kind of weirded out by the quickness of the responses "um, ok. Well, tell me, what was your most interesting case?"
"Well, we had to go to Texas to investigate a whole bunch of things, we ended up running through a bee dome, then, they tried to close down the X- files. When I was trying to convince Scully to stay in D.C rather then go to Salt Lake City, she got stung by one of the bees. It infected her with a Virus and we ended up in Antarctica." Mulder smiled. Maddie looked at him wondering why he seemed so nostalgic. She noticed Scully smirking too.
"And then we returned to DC with no proof." Scully said bitterly.
"Wow. That's unbelievable. I'm going to go to bed now. See you tomorrow" Maddie put her stuff back in her suitcase and walked to her room, her CD player remained on the coffee table. 'Nothing going on between them my ass'
Mulder and Scully stayed on the couch engulfed in their own thought. Remembering all those times they had nearly lost each other. Mulder decided to say something.
"That day scared the crap out of me"
Scully was startled "huh?"
"I thought I was going to lose you. Then I almost did"
"Yeah, we never really talked about that"
"We should"
"Yeah"
"Just not today"
"I agree"
They sat for a few more moments in thoughtful silence this time Scully spoke up.
"I'm still bothered by Bumblebees"
Mulder decided to tread on thin ice, " What do you think would've happened.?"
"If...?" she avoided the question
"The bee didn't sting you"
"Oh" She looked uncomfortable 'I would've had the happiest moment of my life!' her mind screamed. She didn't realize she had said it until she looked at Mulder smiling.
"There's no bee's around" he turned towards her.
"I know" she murmured as he cupped her face. He began to lean in. She turned away for a second. 'Damn it all!' he thought. Then she turned to face him again, before he could, she lent in. She brushed her lips against his. He kissed her back. They were becoming more and more passionate, they didn't notice the door open, but they did notice a tiny gasp from Maddie.
"Um, yeah. I forgot my CD player. uh sorry" She picked it up and started back to her room.
"You guys are sucky liars!" She laughed before closing her bedroom door.
Mulder looked at Scully who was smiling like he'd never seen before.
"So where do we go from here?"
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Well there you are, part one. Please review! that's what will keep this story alive. Constructive criticism is always welcomed. Flames are a waste so don't bother with them.
-Nikka