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Chapter 3: Forgetting
Emily always knew she was different, special somehow. She could see things, she knew things other people didn't. She looked ordinary, thankfully with long dark hair and icy blue eyes. She knew there must be others like her, who could see strange things, but she knew better than to talk about it.
When she was young her parents were protective of her. They adopted her when she was two and nobody knew anything about her before that. When Scully and Mulder came, she was scared. People wearing suits had tried to take her away when she was young, and her parents death was no accident. She had tried to deny it for so long, to forget, but she couldnt. Her foster parents she had met when she was 12, and had been with them ever since, until now when she was 14.
That night, she woke up after a nightmare and Katie was gone. Katie was like her sister. She was only six but Emily almost felt like she was supposed to look after her. She had panicked, ran outside in the pouring rain and ran towards the jetty. Katie was stood on the beach, and that was the last thing she saw before she heard Mulder calling her name.
Then she was at the hospital and someone else disappeared. She was sent back to her room and told herself she would be fine, but really she was terrified.
Scully and Mulder had left straight after the incident and Emily was left alone in her room. She made shapes out of the shadows on the ceiling, and shivered as the cold air blew in through the open window.
She was woken by a bright light, startled she shaded her eyes and sat up. She saw Scully and Mulder standing at the door. They were whispering about safe places and Scully walked over to the side of her hospital bed.
"Do you recognize this girl?" Scully was showing her a picture. She squinted. It looked exactly like her.
"Is that me?"
"No, that's one of the other girls that disappeared"
"we're gonna take you somewhere safe, it isn't safe here" Mulder interrupted, Grabbing Emily's arm and leading her to the door. She shook him off.
"Please, can we go home first, I want to say goodbye." She looked down.
They headed to the home and as they reached the door, Emily saw it was open and ran inside. It was wrecked. Tables upturned and things strewn around the room. Emily screamed as she saw her foster mum lying on the floor. Scully phoned an ambulance as Mulder steered Emily away. She glanced back as she walked up the stairs, but had to look away again. She jogged into katie's room.
"Katie" she said quietly and listened intently. Looking around, she walked slowly over to the closet and opened the door. It was an old closet and the door was stiff, so someone could have easily dismissed it. She saw Katie staring back at her.
"Scully, you'd better get up here" shouted Mulder, but the little girl was too scared to move even when Mulder yelled. Scully climbed up the stairs as paramedics came to collect Mrs Kale. Emily waited quietly as Scully picked up a terrified Katie, and she broke down crying, knowing this was all her fault. She didn't know why, or what she had ever done but she knew that someone wanted to kill her.
"Don't move" Mulder instructed, as a black car pulled up outside.
"Mulder, we need to get out of here"
She could smell cigarettes.
Mulder prised open the window as quietly as possible, and slid down onto the window ledge. He then dropped onto the ground with a thump.
"Jump, Emily, be quick" Mulder whispered up to her and she looked at Scully for reassurance. Scully nodded, and Emily sat in the window, concentrating on breathing. She was scared, so scared but she jumped anyway and all she felt was falling. Mulder caught her, and then Katie came down, Followed closely by Scully. They all ran to the car, and Mulder pulled off sharply before anyone could notice them.
Katie had fallen asleep in the back, and Scully looked Pretty tired. Emily sat silently in the back, she could hear something. Focusing hard, the world around her went black and she heard voices.
Once again, she was woken by Scully and Mulder. She guessed she must have fallen asleep, and felt groggy as she sat up. She was in the car, but they had stopped. Scully was arguing with Mulder about some men with guns that he wanted to call. The 'gunmen' he was saying, that it would be safe where they used to live, but Scully argued that it would be too obvious. So it was all decided now, Emily was to leave her old life behind forever.