Author: Sam Brace
Category: MSR Charles Scully story
Rating: R (for mention of Charlie catching M&S in the act)
and a few swear words thrown in for measure.
Keywords: MSR Charlie Scully Story
Summery: Response to MSR Preservation Society December Improv Challenge. Set mid season Seven.
Spoilers: Oh lots of them - here's all the ones I can think of: Roland (mention of Scully having two brothers); Beyond the Sea; Christmas Carol/Emily; Home; Duane Barry; Ascension; One Breath; Host; The Blessing Way; Paper Clip; Memento Mori; Redux; Redux ii; The End; Fight The Future; Early season six in general; Titohnus.
Challenge Elements: Can be found at end of story.
Feedback: Welcomed and famed on my wall!
Archive: I'll do Gossamer, Anywhere else welcomed as long as I can visit.
Disclaimer: I swear to God I never touched them honest - they touched themselves! I don't own them, CC, Ten Thirteen Productions and Fox own them I'm just borrowing them. However I do own this version of Charlie he was inspired by Christy's version in the Interstice series and Donna's version from After The Future series. I also borrowed the character of Mary from Donna I hope she doesn't mind. Anyone else you don't recognise belongs to me!
Author's notes: I love the character of Charlie and was greatly inspired to write in response to the challenge, as it had Mulder meeting Charlie for the first time. I like the fact that people can make Charlie out to be anything. I put in the fact that he used to smoke which is a characteristic Christy gave him. Donna made him a family man who was a college professor, I just gave him a major to teach and changed his kids names with those of my own two nephews, and used more family names for characters! Okay more author notes at the end.
You are here to enable the divine
purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
- Eckhart Tolle
Surprise!
Part 1
Of all the people in my life, why did she have to be the one to surprise me the most? I am of course talking about my big sister, Dana Scully.
Hi, my name is Charles Scully, otherwise known as Charlie or Chuckles,
Dana's younger brother. Dana has surprised me many times through the years.
Take last year when we were on the phone (I was the one calling for a change).
She admitted to me that there was a time when she was 14, she crept
out onto the porch one night, when everyone had gone to
bed and smoked one of our mother's cigarettes.
Dana admitted that she didn't like the taste and wondered how the hell
I smoked for as long as I did - I told her I did it to piss
the Captain off but in the end it was our Mom who was upset the most.
I gave up smoking when my wife Mary fell pregnant with George 8 years ago.
It was pure hell trying to quit but I managed, it helped having a reason to
quit and since then I haven't been tempted back in fact I feel sick when I'm
near someone who's smoking.
Dana surprised us all when she went to Quantico instead of going into practice, then again she surprised us when she chose to do Pathology as her major instead of something like trauma or Orthopaedics or Cardiology or even being an obstetrician. But no, Dana wanted to be a pathologist; solving the mysteries of death and maybe save a life in the process. That's our Dana for you: always keeping you guessing. Dana surprised us when she became a field Agent (much to the Captain's disdain of course - he didn't like the idea of his "little Starbuck" facing down dangerous criminals Guess you can't always have everything you want then).
When the Captain died, I managed to make it to the memorial service Mom and Dana had for him, but Mary couldn't go as she was heavily pregnant with George. Missy wasn't around and hadn't been home for a few years - not since the Christmas after Dana announced she was joining the F.B.I. Bill was out at sea; his then girlfriend, now wife, Tara came in his place and our Cousin Michael and his two boys Tom and Jamie came as well. Just after the memorial, Dana's view of her partner Fox Mulder changed slightly.
Whenever we spoke on the phone and the topic of work came up, she spoke highly of him. Then when the department she and Mulder were working in was closed down Dana opened up to me a lot, saying she was worried about how Mulder was taking the re-assignment and that she missed being out in the field and working with Mulder; she missed the banter they shared. She was worried that he might do something stupid and without her there to watch his back, that he might die. A few weeks later Dana seemed to be happier when I spoke to her she said that Mulder was off his previous assignment and was back out in the field - she was assisting Mulder by doing autopsies and research for him.
A month later Mom phoned me and told me that Dana had
been taken from her apartment by a suspect that Mulder (with the help of Dana)
had apprehended earlier that day. Mom was beside herself with worry,
but I was unable to fly out to D.C. as Mary was sick and
I needed to help with looking after George and to prepare for the mid year tests
(I'm a English Literature lecturer at Ohio State University).
I offered to try and come to D.C. but Mom flat out refused to let me,
she said she'd be fine and that if she needed
anything she was sure Mr. Mulder would help.
A few weeks later Mom phoned to tell me there was no new information
but "Fox" was sure that Dana was still alive and that Mom would live with that hope.
Almost 3 months after Dana was taken Mom called. She told me that the statistics say that if someone isn't returned after a few weeks then they aren't coming back. Mom was going to arrange a memorial service for Dana and wanted to know if Mary and I could make it. I told her there was nothing on earth going to stop me from being there. Two days later Mom phoned and told me Dana had been returned, but it didn't look good; she was in a coma and it didn't look like she was going to make it. Mom said that when Fox arrived he was beside himself. He went berserk demanding to know how Dana came to arrived at the hospital in that condition and had to be hauled out by security until he calmed down.
The doctors spoke with Mom and Fox and that's when Mom found out that Mulder was the witness to her living will. I knew about this, as Dana had asked my advice on whether or not to ask Mulder to witness the will. I told her if she trusted him as much as she had told me, then ask him: the worst he could say was No. As it turned out he asked her to reciprocate. I managed to get a Flight to D.C. and spent some time there with Dana but never met Fox Mulder. Missy did and said how wonderful he and Dana would be together; that despite his 'darkness' he and Dana were well suited to one another. I kept on wondering why I never met him the whole time I was there - I asked Mom one night and she told me that he always visited when it was night time, when he could be alone with Dana and his grief. A few days later Dana came out of the coma when we had, I'm sorry to say, given up. Mulder had spent the whole night there talking to Dana telling her not to give up - I guess she listened to him.
End of Part 1
