Summary: Scully has lost so much and now she has been given a chance to finally be a family with the man she loves and hopefully her son as well. What will happen if the great forces against our favorite duo are not gone? What if they want her baby? How will Scully and Mulder protect their new addition? Is there wedding bells in their future? Will they both make it out of this adventure alive?
Disclaimer: Well hello lovelies, I have had this idea rolling around in my head since the season/series finale. Anywho no I do not own any part of the X-files, it is just my healthy addiction. {insert evil grin} Evilregal007.
12121211212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212
Scully grew worried as she waited to hear from Mulder and of course, that's when a bout of nausea decided to hit her. She jumped up and raced up the stairs to the bathroom to empty the contents of her stomach. She knelt near the porcelain God and trembled a bit. When she was sure she was finished, she flushed and stood up to rinse her mouth. Her head started spinning and she leaned over the sink, grasping the edges tightly. Scully took several deep breaths and looked into the mirror at her reflection. She still couldn't believe she was having a baby. Suddenly, she was hit with a series of images...of herself giving birth, an ultrasound, William at a gas station, the smoking man, the UFO over the 14th street bridge, them chasing William at a factory and then Mulder getting shot by the smoking man. Her head hurt and her heart was racing. The sound of her cell phone snapped her out of it and she rushed down the stairs as fast as she could to answer. Hearing Mulder's voice was a relief.
"It was him, wasn't it?" She asked knowingly.
Mulder had told her she was right, that William wasn't on that plane and that he was following William after he had cashed out some lottery tickets at a gas station.
"He's headed North East." Scully let out a long sigh as she began to feel lightheaded once more. "We've got to find him before they do, everything depends on it," she said as she placed her hand on her abdomen. "Every last thing in the world."
He assured her that he would, he was tired of looking at the kid on video after all.
After getting off the phone with Mulder, the first thought to pop into her head was to call Tad O'Malley to inform him of the alien pathogen that she had seen in the vision shared with William. When she finished warning O'Malley, another vision hit her full force and the phone fell from her hand. She could see Mulder and William running, the smoking man, William hiding in a creek tunnel and dead bodies...so many dead bodies...and then herself running on a dock, only she had been too late. Mulder had been shot.
After several gasping breaths, she looked up, realizing she had dropped her phone and disconnected the line with O'Malley. Mulder was in danger. Scully fought her need to throw up, dropping to her knees to pick up the phone to call Mulder, and warn him before it was too late.
Scully placed her right hand on her abdomen as she silently swore to her baby, to her daughter, that she would not grow up without a father. The phone rang once.
"Scully, I got this."
"I know, Mulder, just listen to me for two seconds!"
"Scully, we have to find him, I promised I would bring him back to you and I will."
"Muld…"
"Scully I have to go. I love you!"
"MULD…." The phone went dead once again before Scully could warn Mulder of the imminent danger he was in.
Scully knew what she had to do no matter how much she did not trust him. She needed Skinner if she was going to save Mulder. Making a direct call could be dangerous, so Scully decided to just drive into the city and head straight to the Hoover building.
Jumping up off the floor almost knocked the wind out of Scully followed by a vision.
"Mom" the young woman from her previous vision stood in front of Scully. Closer to her this time, and yet still too far away to touch.
"Please tell me your name?" Scully returned her hands to her abdomen.
"Not yet, I can tell you that you know me and you will see me soon. Mom, you need to be careful, please try not to overwork yourself."
"Are you…. is the baby in danger?"
"Not currently, Mom, but I will do whatever it takes to make sure that things stay that way."
"What does that mean?"
"I have to go, just please be safe."
The vision ended and for the first time, Scully didn't feel the need to throw up. As quickly as she could, Scully grabbed the necessary items she needed including her secret stash of two extra guns, a knife, and four extra loaded clips.
/
The whole drive into the city Scully was anxious and feared for Mulder and the outcome she had seen in his life. About halfway there, Scully was rear-ended by a black sedan that took off at full speed after the accident. It had taken Scully several minutes to calm herself down.
"Mom, it's ok. The baby is fine, breathe and keep driving, it's not safe for you to be alone right now." This time when the woman from Scully's visions spoke, it wasn't a vision. Scully could hear the woman's voice in her head and it made her jump.
"Oh! Sorry, mom, I should have told you I was going to continue communication this way, the visions make you sick and I don't want to cause you any pain. All you have to do is think and if you ever need me, just think Queequeg and I will be here."
Scully sat in the driver's seat with both hands placed protectively over her abdomen. "It's ok love, how do you know that you… the baby is ok?" Scully put the car in drive and continued into the city.
"I can't tell you, because I don't really know how I do it. It's like a sixth sense, I can feel it with William too."
"Why can't you tell me your name? If you don't like it, we can change it!"
"William and I agreed that because of the danger he is in, he can't do this with you and he is also stronger than me so his telekinetic abilities would make you sick either way. We don't have the same abilities, but we do share some. If I were to tell you things that you can't know just yet, William and I have a plan."
"Is there anything I need to know?"
"You need to get Skinner to go with you to find William and our dad. Skinner is going to tell you some things about William and you need to know they are not true. Now when you get to the location, you must not go back outside to Skinner. Mulder will kill Spender on the dock, wait until the third shot then go and find Mulder."
"What? Why wouldn't I go back out to Skinner?" Scully pulled into the Hoover building parking structure.
"Just please don't, promise me you will be safe? I will be there, you won't see me but I will be there. Mom park as close to the door as you can. Wait for me to tell you when to get out."
"I promise, but you have to let me know if your dad needs me."Scully was able to park two stalls away from the entrance that would take her the fastest way to Skinner's office.
"I will, you can go, be safe we will talk later mom." Scully felt a pleasant tingle in the middle of her forehead.
Scully hurried inside and towards Skinner's office. She felt a little whiplash from the fender bender, but as long as the baby was okay, that's all she cared about. She didn't even take the time to look at the back of the car before she went inside.
As she walked down the hall, she saw Skinner pacing outside of Kersh's office on the phone. All she heard was "So if I find him, we'll stop?"
She came up behind him as he hung up the phone. "Sir?"
She watched as he turned to face her and could tell by the look on his face that something was off. Something she and Mulder had felt for the last few months. "I've left you three messages, why aren't you answering?"
"Because I've been getting my ass chewed."
She looked at him suspiciously and sighed. "It's Mulder, he needs your help."
"Oh he needs a lot more than that, Agent Scully. Where is he?"
Scully hesitated. She didn't want to admit it, but she really did need Skinner's help, trust aside. "He's with our son," she said finally. "They're being pursued."
"He needs your help," she repeated. "I need your help."
Skinner sighed. "I've been told to shut you down."
She looked at him incredulously with a steely gaze. "What are you talking about?"
"You're asking for my help when I've been asked to take your badges."
Skinner was a rock in a hard place once again. Scully was infuriated.
"Who said that? Kersh?"
Of all times this had to happen, it had to be now. When they were so close to their son. How dare anyone come in their way.
"Is he in there?" She looked through the glass of the office and began to move towards the door.
"Dana!" he said tersely. The use of her first name caught her by surprise. It had it's desired effect and she turned back towards him.
"He doesn't understand what's happening right now-" She started with urgency.
"Mulder's lit a fuse you cannot put out! He's made outrageous statements on an internet site."
"That wasn't him," she admitted, still standing her ground. "That was me...and they're not outrageous."
At one point, admitting such a thing would have ruined Scully's reputation as a doctor and scientist. Hell, less than six months ago, she told Mulder and Tad O'Malley they were being irresponsible and stupid to even consider going public with these statements. Yet here she was. She was doing it under Mulder's name...something he agreed to, but still...admitting it felt slightly humiliating, even to Skinner.
Skinner looked at her, baffled. He opened his mouth, but couldn't find the words. He looked down at her. Something was different about her, but he couldn't quite explain what it was. Her look of desperation brought him back years ago when she had just found out she was pregnant and was desperate to find Mulder. If he didn't know any better, he would guess she was-no that wasn't possible. He knew her medical background enough to know the first time was a miracle. It wouldn't leave his mind though.
"Where are they?" he asked instead, meeting her gaze.
Scully turned away, trying to see inside of Kersh's office.
"I can't help you, Agent Scully," he continued. "If I don't know what's going on."
Before she could answer, the sound of her phone startled her and she desperately pulled it from her coat. "Mulder?" she said, still looking at Skinner.
"I can't believe what just happened, I lost him, Scully...he's gone."
"Just tell me where you are."
"I'm still in Norfolk."
"Mulder, I'm coming down there."
"He won't listen to reason."
"He'll listen to me," she insisted, looking at Skinner who was watching her intently. "I know he will."
She ended the call and looked up at Skinner. "I gotta go," she said. She had to get to Mulder and her son, no matter what. With or without Skinner's help. Mulder couldn't die, not this time. She couldn't do this without him. Not again.
"I'm supposed to reign you in," Skinner said.
Scully stopped and turned on her heel and opened her mouth, willing the words to come out. Not now, this couldn't happen now.
"This isn't about the FBI, Sir," she said in one last attempt. "This is about our son."
Her voice was laced with a desperation he couldn't ignore. He sighed, having already made up his mind.
"I'll drive."
Scully sighed with relief as he turned and walked ahead of her. She followed him to the parking garage.
Skinner happened to look over to where Scully had parked and immediately recognized her car. "Isn't that your car? What the hell happened, Dana?"
She had forgotten all about the accident in her determination to get Skinner.
"I was in an accident on the way here. I was rear ended by a black SUV and they took off. Only I don't think it was an accident."
Skinner looked at her in concern. "Are you okay?"
Scully's hand unconsciously went to her abdomen as she recalled the incident. "Yes."
The motion didn't go unnoticed by Skinner, however.
He nodded, deciding not to say anything further as he unlocked his car. It wasn't his business if she didn't want to volunteer the information. She hurried to the passenger side and got in.
They sat in silence until it became uncomfortable for Scully and she dialled Mulder again. Scully was growing anxious with each passing minute.
Skinner thought back to a similar time. Before they came back to work for the FBI, when Scully had asked for his help to find Mulder who had once again taken off at the first opportunity. Some things never changed. He always busted his ass to get them out of trouble. A part of him didn't mind though and he told them recently why he often bent the rules because he believed in the same things they did.
"He's not answering," he heard Scully say, drawing him out of his thoughts.
Skinner's phone vibrated on the phone mount and he grabbed it, glancing at the screen to notice that Kersh had unsurprisingly blown up his phone with text messages.
"Well, apparently he's making news again. Kersh is blowing up my phone."
"Why are you violating his direct orders, sir?" Scully asked, even though she already knew the answer. As much as she needed his help, she didn't like the thought of Skinner getting into trouble because of their personal quest. The notion had bothered her and Mulder since Kersh had told them straight that they were the ones responsible for Skinner's lack of growth at the FBI.
"Right now we need to find your son," Skinner said, obviously avoiding the question.
Scully continued to press until she got an answer, especially with the way Skinner had been acting lately. "But why would you risk your career?"
"I think I've been pretty clear about that."
Scully recalled Skinner's personal quest and his own reason for lack of faith in the government. He had made a mistake in the past that he hoped to correct and decided to follow what he believed in, even if that didn't align with the government's personal agenda. Skinner was still an enigma after all these years. That begged another question, however.
"Who were you on the phone with outside of Kersh's office? Who was that?" She had a feeling she knew who it was if her visions were any indication.
Skinner sighed. He couldn't keep up with the lie. Not only because he wanted to be true to his own beliefs, but Scully had a right to know. The smoking man said Scully would have to make a choice between William and Mulder. She deserved to be able to make the right one, especially if what he suspected about her was true.
"There's something you need to know," he said, glancing over at her. "Something you may not want to hear."
Scully looked over at him with a sense of dread. She began to feel nauseous again and the fast car ride wasn't helping. Men and their mid-life mobiles. That would need to change once Mulder knew about the baby. She reached out and gripped the door as Skinner continued.
"It's about your son," he said.
She began to breath heavily and suddenly she could hear the sound of her heart pounding in her eardrums.
"And who his father is."
"What are you talking about?!" She demanded suddenly in a tone that nearly startled Skinner.
"You asked me who I was talking with. Well, three months ago the smoking bastard confronted me. I had no idea how he was alive. He should have been dead. But then he told me he had access to this alien science. He also had access to a virus that could wipe out the planet with the exception of a few people. He also had Monica Reyes with him."
Scully remembered her discussion with Monica from her first vision.
He went on to explain that the population would be wiped with the exception of a few and confirmed that he too was offered the vaccine. So the smoking sonofabitch had not only gotten to Monica Reyes, but Skinner as well.
"The smoking man said he was William's father," he said finally. Skinner couldn't bring himself to tell Scully the rest of the story, however.
Scully felt sick when she recalled the weekend she spent with the bastard. "What the-that's impossible!" she screamed.
"Forgive me, but how the fuck could you believe such a thing? I ran test after test when I was pregnant and afterwards as well. William is ours," she had to stop herself from going on about mentioning the second baby. Mulder needed to be the first one she told. She needed to get to him. He had to live.
"I didn't want to tell you!" Skinner said defensively. "I knew hearing it would be a shock, but I thought you should know."
Just then, they were startled by the sight of Mulder's Mustang.
"That was Mulder!"
/
As soon as Scully and Skinner pulled up to the old sugar factory, Scully jumped out of the car. Wasting no time, Scully ran into the building to find Mulder and William.
"Mulder? Don't run!"
"William! William!" Scully looked around for her son. Hearing gunshots from outside of the building she forgot what the girl had told her and started to make her way outside when someone stopped her.
"It's me." William disguised as Mulder stood infront of his mother just as she was about to run back outside to help Skinner.
"I just saw him. He's here."
"I know. He doesn't want to be found."
" I just want to talk to him, Mulder."
"I talked to him. He told me everything that he's afraid of."
"I know what he's afraid of."
"Stop. It's no use."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm asking you to let him go."
"What are you talking about, Mulder?" Scully looked at him with pure disbelief.
"There's nothing we can do."
"We can protect him."
"No, we can't protect him. No one can, He knows that you love him."
"How can he know that? How can he possibly know that?"
"Scully! Stop him!" A second Mulder yelled out to Scully. Even though William wanted to keep talking to his mom, he knew that it was too dangerous to let them get too close to him before he could save his father. William wanted so badly to be able to hug her in his true appearance and learn everything he could about her.
"William?" Scully looked back at her son and for a brief moment, William was himself before he took off running. Scully and Mulder took off running after him close behind. He had no choice but to jump over railings and into the second building.
William POV
I ran as fast as I could, I had to get to the pier before my parents did, it's the only way to save my father. The smoking man is weak and I know that when Mulder sees the smoking man 'kill' me he will not hesitate to kill his father. It's the only way to keep my sister safe from the people of the organization that tore my parents lives apart piece by piece.
I reached the end of the pie and heard the gun click. I knew would be in the hands of the smoking man. I turned to face the man whom I had never met, but held so much hatred for.
"You really don't give up, do you? But then you have so much to 's what we have in common."
"We have nothing in common!" I snapped back
"I need the boy," Spender began to become frustrated "The boy is mine."
"The boy would rather die first, now that he knows the truth."
"That I'm the one who made him? That I'm William's creator?
"You'd shoot your own firstborn son?"
"I shot my second-born son once. But I need you to know, Fox, when I gave you life, I never fathomed the moment would come when I would need to end it."
"I don't think you can do it."
"Then you don't know me very well!" The smoking man pulled the trigger and one shot went straight into my forehead. It hurt like hell.
/
"Hey!" Mulder screamed as he fired four rounds into Spender who stumbled back a little. Mulder walked up to his birth father and pushed him into the water, where unbeknownst to Mulder, William blew Spender's body apart ensuring that he could no longer hurt anyone.
As Mulder looked into the water he could hear footsteps hitting the pavement from behind. He didn't even have to look to know it was the love of his life who would soon know that he had failed their son. She was breathless as she reached his side.
"He's gone. He's gone, Scully. He shot him. And he shot me," Mulder threw the gun into the harbor
"Mulder...he..he wanted us to let him go. He wasn't meant to be."
"William was our son." Mulder couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"No."
"Scully, he was our son!"
" was an experiment, Mulder."
"What are you talking about?"
"Mulder, He was an in a laboratory."
"But you were his mother."
"No, I….. I carried I bore I was never a mother to him. I wasn't. William…..William wasn't..."
The realization came down on Mulder like a ton of bricks. He was crushed, the knowledge that he had a son out there was the only thing that kept him going after Scully left.
"For so long, I am I now if I'm not a father? "
He looked at Scully as she smiled briefly through tears. "You are a father." Tears began to fall from Scully's eyes.
"What are you talking about?"
Scully took Mulder's right hand and gently placed it on her abdomen. There was a discernable bump there. He couldn't believe it.
"That's impossible."
"I know. I know it is...It's more than impossible," she said in a shaky breath. Mulder pulled Scully into his chest and held her as tight and close as possible.
"We're going to have a baby, Scully," he said finally. "And no one in this world, not a single living or dead human, animal, or otherwise is ever going to take this baby from you…. from us!" Mulder placed a soft kiss on Scully's head.
"Mulder, I'm cold, let's go." Scully began to shiver.
The pair walked back through the building and out to the cars. Monica and Skinner looked dazed and confused, but both were unharmed.
"Mom it's ok, William healed them, he is on his way to fix the problem with Kersh. There is no law enforcement coming. Do not tell dad that William is alive. He can't go looking for him, there is one last set of people who are part of the same organization as Spender."
Scully smiled slightly as she heard her daughter's voice reassuring her that everything was going to be okay and that William was alive. Yet there were still more people out there who wanted her babies. It sent a chill down her spine. She wanted to believe she could protect this child.
1212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121212121
Whew! Long chapter but now we are out of the episode and on to many new surprises and twists! R&R pretty please. Happy reading {evilregal007}
I was so happy to write the scene with Skinner. I felt like we got cheated out of it in the episode, so I hope you guys enjoyed it. :) {KyouryokuSenshi}
