DISCLAIMER: Dont own the x-files or any of the characters

A/N: First chapter! Plz review with ideas and stuff :) Also big thanks to my sis Chloe for all her help with this story!

Chapter 1: Emily

After helping with a case after they had left the FBI, Scully and Mulder were persuaded to do another case almost 4 years later by had been to several different departments of the FBI and left each team stumped. Each of the victims looked uncannily alike. that was as far as anyone got, each agent that investigated unable to carry on because there was nothing to tie the murders to anyone. Skinner had desperately rung them late one night, admitting he had nothing else he could do. Scully and Mulder had been living together since their last case at the FBI and were married. After that, Scully went back to work at the hospital, whereas Mulder did some profiling work with the police and a psychology class at the local school.

Scully and Mulder walked together through the familiar hallway of the FBI building towards their old basement office. As they got in the elevator, Mulder's phone rang and he answered it. "Looks like we got the case Scully" he smiles "we're going to Los Angeles"

"Cmon Scully, it'll be fun" he tried to convince her upon seeing that she still wasn't impressed.

"that's what you always say and then we end up with a psychopath chasing us"

"Always the skeptic, Scully. You blame psychopaths and I blame aliens, what have the x-files taught you?" he joked

"You're crazy Mulder" she raised an eyebrow

"hardly" he muttered looking offended. "besides, we have to keep our minds open"

"Mulder, if your mind is any more open than it is now, your brain will fall out" scully laughed

"Now where have I heard that before?" he joked with her, all grudges forgotten.

Later that day, when Scully and Mulder get off the plane, they head to a small town just out of the city, where several mysterious disappearances have been noted by local police. There has been no evidence except a small charm left at each site.
They leave their suitcases at a nearby motel and head to the school, to ask around as most of the people who had disappeared had some connection to the school, may it be teacher or student. As they walked into one of the year 8 classrooms, where one of the students had recently disappeared, the teacher introduced them to the class and scully looked around the room. It was small and white, with the desks arranged into three neat rows and assignments plastered all over the walls. But there was one thing that caught her eye. The girl that was sitting at the back of the room, whispering and giggling with the other girls around her. She looked so familiar. Her eyes, though were the things that surprised her the most. They were so icy blue, like the ocean on a calm day or looking into the deep end of a swimming pool. They were piercing, and yet so beautiful. If someone told her the eyes were the window to the soul now, she would believe them with the whole of her heart.
"Scully?" mulder interrupted her thoughts, She looked at him questioningly, and he asked her again. "what was the evidence, scully?" she looked away, ashamed she had been caught staring, and she explained about the lack of evidence, not looking at her audience but instead at the back wall. As she finished and mulder was talking to the teacher, the girl at the back of the room suddenly pushed back her chair and pushed by scully, walking out of the door and into the wide hallway. Scully glanced at mulder and followed her out, noticing how the girl looked slightly wobbly. Almost without warning, scully watched as the girl fell to the ground.

Scully ran to her side, feeling for a pulse and realizing the girl was regaining consciousness, she leant her up against the lockers. "do you know your name?" Scully asked, not quite sure what to expect. "what sort of a question is that?" the girl moaned, "course I know my name. Emily. Emily Blake"

Scully reeled for a moment, shocked when she realized where she had recognized her from. Not knowing what else to do, she knelt beside Emily and rang mulder.

"Mulder? It's me" she said and without waiting for him to reply she started talking. "do you know where the school nurse is? Oh, stuff that idea, can you get down here now? Just turn left out of the classroom and keep walking"

Once mulder was there, she helped Emily up and held onto her arm as they walked to the school nurse. The nurse welcomed them at the door, and took Emily inside to be checked out and have her parents called.

"mulder, I realized I knew her from somewhere" she started, but looked away unsure of what to tell him.

"oh, yeah scully, where from?" he replied distractedly and she looked back at him with tears in her eyes.

"She looked exactly like Emily"

Mulder looked at her carefully, and hugged her. They stayed like that for a while, but then the door of the office opened and the nurse walked out followed by Emily so they pulled apart, ashamed of being caught.

"Sorry, agent Scully, but would you be able to take Emily out to the front of the school to wait for her parents? I would do it myself but I have a few things to be doing"

"of course, I hope you don't mind but I'll let my partner take her, I'd like to ask you a few questions"

Scully headed into the office as mulder walked down the hallway and through the school gates to wait with Emily. As he looked at her he could see the resemblance and decided to do some research of his own.

Meanwhile, scully asked the nurse about the disappearances, but when she was satisfied that she wouldn't get any information she started to ask about Emily.

By the time she was done, she knew that Emily was in a foster home with a few other children, and that her parents had died in a car crash 2 years ago. She took a copy of the records back to the motel to look at and waited for Mulder.

scully was woken by a ringing noise. Startled at first, she looked around unsure of where she was. Then it dawned on her, she was in the motel. Emily. The school records. No Mulder.

She glanced at the clock at the side of her bed. 2:01am, it read. She thought about just letting it ring, she was so sick of Mulder ringing her when he couldn't sleep, but she answered it anyway. "Agent Scully"

"Agent scully, It's Mrs Kale, Emily's foster mum, Please you have to help me, she's missing!"

Scully jumped up, grabbing her keys. "I'll be there soon" she promised and ran out the door. She drove quickly to the foster home, which was opposite the beach. Knocking on the door loudly, she faced a frantic Mrs Kale. Mrs Kale was young, with long blonde hair and bright blue eyes.

"She went looking for Katie" Mrs kale whispered, shivering. "theyre like sisters, Katie is only six, but they couldn't live without eachother"

"do you have any idea where she might go?"

"none, Katie came back almost an hour ago and kept going on and on about jetties, I sent her to bed, she sees the jetty near us every day"

"have you checked the jetty?"

"Emily wouldn't dare go there, it looks the same as the bridge from the car accident, besides, the old jetty's falling apart, it would be silly to go out there, especially when the sea's this rough"

Quickly calling mulder, Scully felt herself shiver. She couldn't let anything happen, she couldn't.

"Mulder, Its me, meet me at the old jetty in 5 minutes"

Getting in her car once again, she raced down the road, her eyes frantically searching for any sign of movement in the darkness. As the old jetty came into view, scully also noticed Mulder's car, and she pulled over next to him.

It looked stormy now, and the sea was as rough as ever in the dark. Mulder and Scully stayed close as they walked towards the old jetty. Once they were closer, Scully noticed movement on the top of the jetty.

"Oh my god Mulder, there's something there"

"Stay here Scully"

He ran towards the jetty, and Scully followed him, despite him telling her not to. As they ran, the 'something' became clearer, there was someone there. As they reached the bottom of the jetty, the person seemed to look towards them. A bright red glow filled the sky and seemed to follow the direction of which the mystery person was looking. She felt Mulder shield her, from the light and was no longer scared.

When the light disappeared as unexpectedly as it had come, Scully bolted up the stairs to the jetty, and once she was up there she was aware of how unstable it really was, one wrong step could bring it crashing down.

She felt Mulder beside her, and was somewhat comforted by him simply being there. She watched as he carefully picked his way along the jetty, and then watched in horror as the person standing there turned around. It was Emily. Scully started to walk towards her, but Emily jogged to the end of the wrecked jetty as though she had done it a million times. She looked back at Scully and then let herself fall off the end of the jetty.

Mulder ran as carefully as he could, the jetty creaking dangerously inder his feet. He took off his jacket and dived into the freezing water without a second thought as the water swirled, the huge waves hiding Emily from sight. Scully stood there, paralyzed as Mulder looked around desperately, this couldn't be happening. What had she ever done to deserve this? Emily was only a child, it was so unfair. It was like a replay of seeing little Emily all over again. Scully fell to her knees, tears rolling down her cheeks as Mulder went underwater.