Title: Life After Mulder: The Fate of a Life (5/6)
All other information is in chapter one.
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They kept following us. Scared and frightened, I held on to Will as tight as I could. As did he. Mulder was concerned, as anyone should be.
"Scully give me Will and climb up into that shaft."
I did as I was told. The shaft looked a lot like the one Mulder and I climbed up the last time we were faced with the same situation, it was only then that I was the one being rescued. Then....
"Mommy!"
I screamed out Will's name and ran after him. The men had caught up to us...
Mulder ran up to the first man and punched him in the face yelling that they better get away from his son. They did not listen at all. Tears escaped my eyes as I watched the men take Will for a second time, but this time Mulder pulled out a gun he had hid in his shoe and took careful aim. He shot the man who had Will. Will was free! Mulder shot at the other men as we ran from them down one of the winding hallways that kept going and going.
Skinner was right there with us cursing under his breath saying that he could lose his job doing this, he was breaching protocol, breaking an entry. I didn't stop to argue with him I just kept running. Mulder caught up to me and took Will out of my arms because I couldn't run any longer holding him. I looked at Mulder, those same deep hazel eyes that Will had inherited and I knew everything would be all right.
We walked through a room with people in ice, much like the chamber I was in. There were aliens in the ice. At that moment when I saw those aliens I believed fully what Mulder did: There was a conspiracy or something with aliens, that we are here because of them, they sparked the beginning of all life only to experiment with us, to destroy us. We reached a doorway and had no idea what was on the other side, but what we saw when we opened the door was something that changed all of our lives forever.
The door opened and my eyes widened. Our lives would change forever if we went through it, but we didn't know who was coming towards us. Oh my god! It was the bounty hunter! Will seemed happy to see him though. The bounty hunter that we had so many times faced alone, both Mulder and I was offering his help. And despite Mulder's reluctance not to trust him, I felt that he was our only way out.
"Do you want to save your son?" He asked.
"Yes, I do!" I replied.
"All of you follow me."
And so we did. Through the door and back to our apartments. With Will.
"Mommy!"
"Yes honey?"
"I don't think its over yet."
"Why do you say that?"
"Mommy, he's coming for me," Will said not at all afraid.
"Who's coming for you sweetheart?" I asked quite afraid to hear whom he'd say.
"They are not done with you yet, Mommy. This is a test of your fate, to see if you are capable to raise Jesus Christ two thousand years later."
I asked him what he was talking about. I took him to church occasionally, but to think he thought he was the Second Coming of Jesus, the beginning of the end for all mankind on Earth.
Mulder, Will, and I stayed at Skinner's apartment that night because we knew our places weren't safe. It was fun, really. Will was fascinated with Skinner's bald head and kept asking, "Is that why my daddy calls you Skin-man?" It was funny. I fell asleep in Mulder's arms on Skinner's couch. All the important moments with Mulder and me always seemed to happen on a couch, strange. I awoke with the sun streaming in through the windows, knowing that today we would find out about everything, maybe the beginning of the end.
I sat there at Skinner's dinning room table just thinking and looking at Mulder sleeping. He seemed so quiet, so peaceful. Both of us had been hurt so badly. To us we lost everything. But, we found a new renewed faith in Will. He was our son. Our flesh and blood. And most of all, our hope.
"Mommy, I'm hungry."
"What do you want sweetheart?" I almost dreaded what he was about to say.
"Bacon, two cups of cuffie and steak." (Cuffie: baby talk for coffee.)
"Oh my god! He's like his father!" I thought to myself.
"How about some cereal, instead."
The next thing I heard was "OH MAN!" I just smiled and went about my business
Mulder awoke and came over to the table to eat breakfast. "Scully do we have bacon, coffee, and steak?" Mulder asked with a grin on his face after he heard what Will said.
"No actually all Skinner has is cereal. Speaking of Skinner where is he?"
"I don't know, you getting eyes for someone else?" Mulder asked with a smirk on his face as he picked up the cereal box.
I picked up a piece of toast that was on my plate and chucked it at him. He took some of the cereal that he had in his bowl and returned the favor. We started an all out food fight and Will joined us. By the time Skinner walked in the door all three of us where covered in food and laughing. Skinner entered through the front door and Will ran up to him.
"Mr. Skin-man would you like some breakfast?" Will asked so politely.
"Agents what are you doing?" Skinner replied laughing at what Will just said and the state of Mulder and I.
"Sir," I tried to not laugh, "We were just eating breakfast."
"I have someone that may help you a lot in what you are doing."
I stopped laughing and looked at him. I asked him what he was talking about and he went to the door. He opened it slowly, my breath caught in my throat. When the door opened I saw something that took my breathe away, on the other side of the door was Gibson Praise, the child that Mulder and I hadn't seen for almost four years. Gibson was accompanied by the alien bounty hunter, the alien that had led us to safety just little over a night ago. The truth was coming, actually it was standing right there in front of me, waiting for me to accept it.
I looked through Skinner's front door and saw a teenage Gibson. He had a scar on his head where they did the surgery four years ago. "You are surprised to see me. No, I was not killed four years ago. He saved me," Gibson said this reading the questions from inside my head and then pointing to the alien bounty hunter.
Mulder told me that when he was abducted the alien bounty hunter kept him safe and helped him come home. I couldn't believe this, this man or alien had saved Mulder, Gibson, and Will. It was impossible for me to at all comprehend.
"We have to go and meet them," the bounty hunter told me softly, "It is your only chance to survive."
"I don't understand," I told him quite confused and scared. I wondered if this were a trick and again Gibson read my mind, telling me this was the only way to survive. Since I was the mother of 'the savior,' as Gibson called Will. I was entitled to be saved.
I looked into Mulder deep, hazel eyes wondering what to do. "It's okay Scully, they know what they are talking about."
"Mulder did you just read my mind?" I asked him quite concerned. "Scully your voice is and has always been the only voice I heard in my head. When I was gone I heard your silent pleas for me to come home and that is why I sent you that message."
I stared at him in shock and asked, "Well, am I the only one who doesn't read minds."
"Scully I'm with you on this one. I can't read minds either," Skinner replied.
I asked him how he knew where to find Gibson and he told me that Gibson had found him, found all of us.
We left that morning in search of our destiny, maybe our godsend lives laid before us. A life that was free of crime, free of pain that we were to receive when the final extinction of all mankind happened. According to Gibson, Mulder, and Will we would be saved.
Will, I guess, had heard something and ran for the window.
"Mommy, what's going on?"
"Will, get away from there." I grabbed Will and pulled him to a safe distance.
"It has started. The colonization. We must hurry. There is no time to waste." the bounty hunter told us.
We started for the door. Our hearts pounding, racing, throbbing. Not knowing where they should go. Uncertainty swept through my mind like a blanket. We didn't know what we were about to face, but something told me that we would find out whether we wanted to or not.
"Mulder, if anything should happen to me, I want you to take Will as far as you can. He doesn't need to see this."
"Scully, I won't let them hurt you. Not anymore. I love you Scully. And I love our son. I would die first before I let anything happen to any of you."
His words were music. He said that he loved Will! That was something I had waited for. Thank you, God!
The alien bounty hunter took us through a secret passage way to an underground room. I couldn't believe there were so many secret passageways all over the place. I held on to Will not letting him go for a minute. I was so scared and started to shake.
"Mommy everything's all right. This was meant to be," Will said in my arms holding on around my neck.
"Mulder what is going to happen?" I asked afraid of what was going to be said.
"They will take us on a spaceship, where we will live until the colonization is over. Then we will come back down to Earth and live in a peaceful, non-violent world. Where people communicate not by speaking, but telepathically," Mulder said like he had already lived that life sometime long ago, or maybe it was very recent.
I told them they couldn't save just us, and leave six billion people back on Earth. We had to stop the colonization. Even though a peaceful world sounded great, I couldn't imagine it. I was afraid to. The last time they tried to start colonization another alien race came and destroyed them, the rebels.
"Scully what do you mean you think the rebels will come?" Mulder asked once again reading my thoughts.
"Mulder they stopped it once, what's stopping them from doing it again?"
The alien bounty hunter led us through yet another door and he turned and looked at me. His piercing eyes went right down to my heart and he stopped dead in his tracks.
"She's right," he said, "If we go to where the others are meeting we will be killed. We have to stop the colonization or the alien rebels will take over. They will destroy the aliens that have already came to earth colonizing, along with the humans."
I found myself once again fighting the future, not knowing if we would succeeded or die trying, but I was determined to live, to marry Mulder among other things. Be with Mulder, grow old with him and die in a warm bed curled up in his arms 40 or 50 years from now, not in the prime of my life fighting a rebel alien race. To watch Will grow into a man, see him marry, have children. I saw everything ahead of me and knew we had to win this battle against all evil, overcome the terror and save us all.
TO BE CONTINUED….
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"All the choice would then lead to this very moment, one wrong trun and we wouldn't be sitting here this very moment." –Mulder "all things"