Making Them Believe
The three were walking into AD Skinner's office. Scully opened the door, and her and
Mulder walked in, the door, being on one of those hinges that close slowly and then speed up and
slam shut, did just that and smacked Allison in the process. She squeaked and with great effort
shoved the door open and stumbled in.
"Sorry, the door accosted me." She said flatly. Skinner gave a look of question to Mulder,
who shrugged. They all had a seat.
"Agent Mulder, Agent Scully, please explain to me what this is all about." Skinner said
impatiently.
"Um sir, this will sound strange but this girl, Allison Leung, is from the future." Skinner
stared incredulously at Mulder.
"Come again?"
"She's from the future." Mulder said cautiously.
"Is that so?" Skinner said mockingly. Scully handed him all of the identification Allison
had, as well as her receipts and the magazine, all dated 2001. Skinner looked through it all and
said in a 'don't waste my time' kind of voice. "This proves what now?"
"Well, sir, I believe that this proves that she is from 2001." Skinner re-examined all of
the things.
"How can you be sure that she did not alter all of these things?" Allison looked at him
sharply. He was talking about her as if she wasn't in the room.
"Why would I?" She asked. Skinner turned to her angrily.
"I don't know; why don't you tell me?"
"Uh, sir, we are pretty sure that she could not have altered all of these things; aside from
that she has no motivation to do so." Scully said in defense of Allison who was cowering in her
chair. "We believe that she is from another…" Scully looked up as if asking for help "another
dimension. One in which, our lives are on a television program." Skinner looked at Allison as
though she were crazy.
"Oh really?"
"Well, actually she can prove it." Mulder said. "She knows things about the X-files that
only we know." Mulder turned to Allison, "How did Agent Scully get cancer?"
"She was 'abducted' a few years back, I'm going to guess season 2 or 3, and taken by the
Syndicate to be tested on. The tests left her barren and there was a chip implanted into the back
of her neck that upon removal gave her a rare form of nasal cancer." Allison rambled off.
Skinner raised an eyebrow.
"And how was sure cured?"
"I don't know. I didn't see too many episodes from season 4, which was the one in which
she got cancer. I'm going to assume that AD Skinner bought some cure off of CSM, which he
was trying to do in Memenio Mior, which is the episodes that Scully discovered her cancer."
Now Skinner looked total astonished.
"How did you know that?" He asked in shock.
"I told you, I saw it on the show." Allison said tired of having to repeat herself.
"So then, you must know…everything." He said.
"Well, sheesh, not everything. I have yet to see every episode. I'm a fanatic not a freak."
Allison said as if they should have already known that.
"In addition, she knows about people that no one else would know about." Mulder said.
"Like who?"
"Krycek, Deep Throat, X…all of these men are largely unknown to the populous." Just
then another idea popped into Allison head, she reached into her bag, and pulled out her physics
binder which had Eric's autographed picture of Nick Lea on it. Allison handed it to Skinner. He
looked at it befuddled.
"What the…?" he showed the picture to Mulder and Scully, who only raised their
eyebrows.
"My friend meet Nick Lea (who plays Krycek) at an X-files convention and gave me the
picture."
"Why would you want a picture of Krycek?" Mulder asked.
"Hello! He's f-ing gorgeous." Allison said impatiently. Mulder gave a silent 'ah'. Skinner
shook his head.
"I don't understand." he said futilely, and put the binder down and ran his hand over his
face.
"I told you…this is a show!" Allison said.
"Why would Krycek be going under an alias as an actor?" Skinner muttered to himself.
Allison gave a loud 'argh' and stormed out of the room. Mulder looked at Skinner then followed
Allison outside.
"This is really starting to piss me off." Allison said frustrated leaning against the wall
opposite Skinner's door. Mulder stood to her left.
"What? The fact that no one believes you?" Allison nodded.
"It's, like, so incredibly obvious that I'm from the future…" Allison paused realizing
how strange that sounded. She shook her head, hoping it would clear her mind up--it didn't.
"And that, well, from 'where I come from'" She said making quotation marks with her fingers,
"This is all a TV show." Allison sighed and leaned her head up against the wall, "I just want to
go home and write my freakin' term paper!" Mulder looked at her sympathetically.
"You know, Skinner won't ever believe this; we could give him all the proof in the world
and he still wouldn't believe. So I guess it's up to us to get you home." Allison looked at Mulder
warmly and smiled.
Back in Mulder's apartment, Scully and Allison were trying to contact the 'alter-Allison'
while Mulder listened to Allison's hip-hop CD mix.
"It is frightening beyond all reason to think there is another me in the universe." Allison
said seriously. Scully smirked, and picked up Mulder's phone and dialed the number Allison had
given her that was supposed to be her home number. Scully sighed and hung up.
"Apparently, that number and area code no longer exist."
"Oh wait, what area code did I give you?" Scully looked at the piece of paper in which
the number was written.
"510."
"I think it might have been 925, I'm not quite sure when they changed it." Scully nodded
and re-dialed. In the background the thump of the Jennifer Lopez--Ja Rule song resounded in the
hardwood floors.
"That stereo's got a sick bass." Allison said in awe.
"Yeah, it really 'sick'" Mulder said mocking her.
"So sick it's malignant." Allison retorted.
"Hey, no cancer jokes ok?" Scully said as she placed the phone on its bed.
"Unfortunately, that number doesn't seem to exist either. How about one of your friends'
numbers?" Allison shrugged and slide and an address book across the table to the agent.
"Try anyone you like." Scully opened up the book and choose someone at random.
"How about Colin…" Allison shook her head.
"Uh, anyone but him." Scully gave her an inquisitive look. "He was my amazingly boring
date to a dance…please don't call him." Scully then flipped to someone else.
"Cara?" Allison burst into hysterical laughter.
"Ok." She said between breaths. Scully looked to Mulder for help, but he was too busy
listening to another Jennifer Lopez song. Scully shook her head and dialed up Cara. Allison
watched in amusement, but to no avail Cara's number didn't seem to exist either.
"I guess in other dimensions people don't have the same number." Scully said
conclusively. Allison nodded.
"Why not try my cell phone, I have it with me…I wonder if that will work." Allison
looked at her little Nokia. "But then again, I didn't have a cell phone in 1999 and therefore I
shouldn't have an account with Nokia and then I should even have this and…" Allison shook her
head and confusion, "I'm going to stop talking now." She said slowly and Scully picked up the
phone and dialed her cell phone number. As she did the sound of Allison's cell phone ring
echoed around the room. She looked at it in her hand.
"I guess it works." Scully said.
"I guess so."
"I wonder why…" Scully placed the phone on its receiver. "It does not seem like your
phone should have worked, if you don't even have an account in this, uh dimension."
"Perhaps its still working off of the one Allison had in the 'other dimension'" Mulder
said over "I'm a Slave 4 U". Soon, he began to really get into the music…
"Apparently you cell phone contract works in any dimension." Scully said, "Talk about
no roaming distance." She turned her head to ignore Mulder's mock belly dance to the song.
Allison looked horrified at his dancing.
"My virgin eyes!" She exclaimed and stared at Scully. "Please make him stop."
"If I could, I would have done so…" Scully rolled her eyes as Mulder began to laugh at
their reaction. "In anycase, I suppose your cell phone works just because it's tangible and here
with you." Allison nodded and as she did, the phone began to ring. She looked at Scully as if she
had some hand in it. Mulder stopped his dancing and looked to the phone.
"My caller ID says it's Eric…?" Allison muttered to herself. She slowly answered.
"Eric?"
"Allison! Thank God I got a hold of you! Where are you?" Allison's eyes flicked to the
two FBI agents standing in front of her.
"I don't think you'll believe me if I told you…"
"I don't know where I am. My house got broken into, and I don't knocked out and when I
woke up I was here…" Eric sounded panicked.
"Sounds strangely familiar. Where is 'here' exactly?" She asked.
"Uh…I'm at the street corner Airplane Dr. and Market Rd." Allison looked to the agents.
"Do know where Airplane Dr. and Market Rd. are?" Mulder nodded.
"Yeah that's downtown Langly."
"Well, I think we have another person on the time-traveling bandwagon."
The three were walking into AD Skinner's office. Scully opened the door, and her and
Mulder walked in, the door, being on one of those hinges that close slowly and then speed up and
slam shut, did just that and smacked Allison in the process. She squeaked and with great effort
shoved the door open and stumbled in.
"Sorry, the door accosted me." She said flatly. Skinner gave a look of question to Mulder,
who shrugged. They all had a seat.
"Agent Mulder, Agent Scully, please explain to me what this is all about." Skinner said
impatiently.
"Um sir, this will sound strange but this girl, Allison Leung, is from the future." Skinner
stared incredulously at Mulder.
"Come again?"
"She's from the future." Mulder said cautiously.
"Is that so?" Skinner said mockingly. Scully handed him all of the identification Allison
had, as well as her receipts and the magazine, all dated 2001. Skinner looked through it all and
said in a 'don't waste my time' kind of voice. "This proves what now?"
"Well, sir, I believe that this proves that she is from 2001." Skinner re-examined all of
the things.
"How can you be sure that she did not alter all of these things?" Allison looked at him
sharply. He was talking about her as if she wasn't in the room.
"Why would I?" She asked. Skinner turned to her angrily.
"I don't know; why don't you tell me?"
"Uh, sir, we are pretty sure that she could not have altered all of these things; aside from
that she has no motivation to do so." Scully said in defense of Allison who was cowering in her
chair. "We believe that she is from another…" Scully looked up as if asking for help "another
dimension. One in which, our lives are on a television program." Skinner looked at Allison as
though she were crazy.
"Oh really?"
"Well, actually she can prove it." Mulder said. "She knows things about the X-files that
only we know." Mulder turned to Allison, "How did Agent Scully get cancer?"
"She was 'abducted' a few years back, I'm going to guess season 2 or 3, and taken by the
Syndicate to be tested on. The tests left her barren and there was a chip implanted into the back
of her neck that upon removal gave her a rare form of nasal cancer." Allison rambled off.
Skinner raised an eyebrow.
"And how was sure cured?"
"I don't know. I didn't see too many episodes from season 4, which was the one in which
she got cancer. I'm going to assume that AD Skinner bought some cure off of CSM, which he
was trying to do in Memenio Mior, which is the episodes that Scully discovered her cancer."
Now Skinner looked total astonished.
"How did you know that?" He asked in shock.
"I told you, I saw it on the show." Allison said tired of having to repeat herself.
"So then, you must know…everything." He said.
"Well, sheesh, not everything. I have yet to see every episode. I'm a fanatic not a freak."
Allison said as if they should have already known that.
"In addition, she knows about people that no one else would know about." Mulder said.
"Like who?"
"Krycek, Deep Throat, X…all of these men are largely unknown to the populous." Just
then another idea popped into Allison head, she reached into her bag, and pulled out her physics
binder which had Eric's autographed picture of Nick Lea on it. Allison handed it to Skinner. He
looked at it befuddled.
"What the…?" he showed the picture to Mulder and Scully, who only raised their
eyebrows.
"My friend meet Nick Lea (who plays Krycek) at an X-files convention and gave me the
picture."
"Why would you want a picture of Krycek?" Mulder asked.
"Hello! He's f-ing gorgeous." Allison said impatiently. Mulder gave a silent 'ah'. Skinner
shook his head.
"I don't understand." he said futilely, and put the binder down and ran his hand over his
face.
"I told you…this is a show!" Allison said.
"Why would Krycek be going under an alias as an actor?" Skinner muttered to himself.
Allison gave a loud 'argh' and stormed out of the room. Mulder looked at Skinner then followed
Allison outside.
"This is really starting to piss me off." Allison said frustrated leaning against the wall
opposite Skinner's door. Mulder stood to her left.
"What? The fact that no one believes you?" Allison nodded.
"It's, like, so incredibly obvious that I'm from the future…" Allison paused realizing
how strange that sounded. She shook her head, hoping it would clear her mind up--it didn't.
"And that, well, from 'where I come from'" She said making quotation marks with her fingers,
"This is all a TV show." Allison sighed and leaned her head up against the wall, "I just want to
go home and write my freakin' term paper!" Mulder looked at her sympathetically.
"You know, Skinner won't ever believe this; we could give him all the proof in the world
and he still wouldn't believe. So I guess it's up to us to get you home." Allison looked at Mulder
warmly and smiled.
Back in Mulder's apartment, Scully and Allison were trying to contact the 'alter-Allison'
while Mulder listened to Allison's hip-hop CD mix.
"It is frightening beyond all reason to think there is another me in the universe." Allison
said seriously. Scully smirked, and picked up Mulder's phone and dialed the number Allison had
given her that was supposed to be her home number. Scully sighed and hung up.
"Apparently, that number and area code no longer exist."
"Oh wait, what area code did I give you?" Scully looked at the piece of paper in which
the number was written.
"510."
"I think it might have been 925, I'm not quite sure when they changed it." Scully nodded
and re-dialed. In the background the thump of the Jennifer Lopez--Ja Rule song resounded in the
hardwood floors.
"That stereo's got a sick bass." Allison said in awe.
"Yeah, it really 'sick'" Mulder said mocking her.
"So sick it's malignant." Allison retorted.
"Hey, no cancer jokes ok?" Scully said as she placed the phone on its bed.
"Unfortunately, that number doesn't seem to exist either. How about one of your friends'
numbers?" Allison shrugged and slide and an address book across the table to the agent.
"Try anyone you like." Scully opened up the book and choose someone at random.
"How about Colin…" Allison shook her head.
"Uh, anyone but him." Scully gave her an inquisitive look. "He was my amazingly boring
date to a dance…please don't call him." Scully then flipped to someone else.
"Cara?" Allison burst into hysterical laughter.
"Ok." She said between breaths. Scully looked to Mulder for help, but he was too busy
listening to another Jennifer Lopez song. Scully shook her head and dialed up Cara. Allison
watched in amusement, but to no avail Cara's number didn't seem to exist either.
"I guess in other dimensions people don't have the same number." Scully said
conclusively. Allison nodded.
"Why not try my cell phone, I have it with me…I wonder if that will work." Allison
looked at her little Nokia. "But then again, I didn't have a cell phone in 1999 and therefore I
shouldn't have an account with Nokia and then I should even have this and…" Allison shook her
head and confusion, "I'm going to stop talking now." She said slowly and Scully picked up the
phone and dialed her cell phone number. As she did the sound of Allison's cell phone ring
echoed around the room. She looked at it in her hand.
"I guess it works." Scully said.
"I guess so."
"I wonder why…" Scully placed the phone on its receiver. "It does not seem like your
phone should have worked, if you don't even have an account in this, uh dimension."
"Perhaps its still working off of the one Allison had in the 'other dimension'" Mulder
said over "I'm a Slave 4 U". Soon, he began to really get into the music…
"Apparently you cell phone contract works in any dimension." Scully said, "Talk about
no roaming distance." She turned her head to ignore Mulder's mock belly dance to the song.
Allison looked horrified at his dancing.
"My virgin eyes!" She exclaimed and stared at Scully. "Please make him stop."
"If I could, I would have done so…" Scully rolled her eyes as Mulder began to laugh at
their reaction. "In anycase, I suppose your cell phone works just because it's tangible and here
with you." Allison nodded and as she did, the phone began to ring. She looked at Scully as if she
had some hand in it. Mulder stopped his dancing and looked to the phone.
"My caller ID says it's Eric…?" Allison muttered to herself. She slowly answered.
"Eric?"
"Allison! Thank God I got a hold of you! Where are you?" Allison's eyes flicked to the
two FBI agents standing in front of her.
"I don't think you'll believe me if I told you…"
"I don't know where I am. My house got broken into, and I don't knocked out and when I
woke up I was here…" Eric sounded panicked.
"Sounds strangely familiar. Where is 'here' exactly?" She asked.
"Uh…I'm at the street corner Airplane Dr. and Market Rd." Allison looked to the agents.
"Do know where Airplane Dr. and Market Rd. are?" Mulder nodded.
"Yeah that's downtown Langly."
"Well, I think we have another person on the time-traveling bandwagon."
