Sooz woke up in her own bed. She looked at the clock by her bed. 11:21 not
only was she back before school, but she was home before midnight. Feeling
a bit groggy, Sooz made her way downstairs and headed into the kitchen.
"You're not supposed to drink from the carton." Sooz jumped at the sound of her father's voice.
"Sorry dad." Sooz put the orange juice back in the fridge with a sheepish grin on her face.
"So how was it?"
"The usual, updating my tracking device, checked my stabilizing chip, and collected my observations on the current government issues." Sooz paused, lowered her gaze to the floor, then shot her gaze back to her father's eyes. "I want to know about William, Emily and Sam." Mulder almost choked.
"How did you?"
"How did I know about them? Dad, I've been given the power to posses all the knowledge in the world, what makes you think I wouldn't want to know what came before me?"
"Honey, it's really hard to explain right now."
"It's not like I'm asking you the intimate details of an X-File from 1919! I'm asking about my past, your past, mom's past. For god sake, you dedicate your whole life to the X-Files, ALL of them except me. I am an X-File, and yet you don't want to investigate my origins." Sooz ran up to her room and slammed the door.
Sooz knew from the day she was born she wasn't normal, she could remember everything about that day. She can recall every though she ever had, every conversation that she has ever had or overheard. She remembers coming home in her mother's arms, her father tripping over the suitcase he'd just set down. Most of all she remembers being in her mothers arms as she looked at two photos, one of a little girl, and one of a baby boy…
"I wish they could meet her, even just for a moment." Scully whispered to Mulder.
"I do too. She's our baby, she's our life, and yet she'll never know of her siblings, her aunt, grandparents. She'll only have us. We have to protect her Dana, we have to hold her every second of every day until she can protect herself. We can't let them take her like they took William."
"Fox, Mulder, We couldn't have known they'd take William. We did the best we could, we tried to protect him."
Sooz paced around her room. She usually didn't have to try so hard to recall conversations and events. But for some reason he first night at home was being blocked by something. She remembered her fifth birthday, she was supposed to be in bed, but she couldn't sleep. She heard her mom and dad arguing…
"Put them away? Mulder are you crazy?"
"We have to, the more she knows about our past the more danger she's in. Do you really think I want to lock away the few reminders I have of Sam? I pray that I'll find her, every day I wish she'll come back to me. Scully, you and I both can't deny the things we've seen. We've seen so much, we can't let Susie know anything, she's too innocent."
"But why? Why do I have to hide Emily and Will from her? Why can't we lie to her, tell her they're dead."
"We can't lie to our daughter. Besides, even if we could she'll keep asking questions until she knows the truth, after all she is my daughter."
Sooz gave up for the night and decided to get some sleep. As she drifted off to sleep she dreamed of what life would have been like if her family were there. Suddenly she bolted up in her bed screaming.
"You're not supposed to drink from the carton." Sooz jumped at the sound of her father's voice.
"Sorry dad." Sooz put the orange juice back in the fridge with a sheepish grin on her face.
"So how was it?"
"The usual, updating my tracking device, checked my stabilizing chip, and collected my observations on the current government issues." Sooz paused, lowered her gaze to the floor, then shot her gaze back to her father's eyes. "I want to know about William, Emily and Sam." Mulder almost choked.
"How did you?"
"How did I know about them? Dad, I've been given the power to posses all the knowledge in the world, what makes you think I wouldn't want to know what came before me?"
"Honey, it's really hard to explain right now."
"It's not like I'm asking you the intimate details of an X-File from 1919! I'm asking about my past, your past, mom's past. For god sake, you dedicate your whole life to the X-Files, ALL of them except me. I am an X-File, and yet you don't want to investigate my origins." Sooz ran up to her room and slammed the door.
Sooz knew from the day she was born she wasn't normal, she could remember everything about that day. She can recall every though she ever had, every conversation that she has ever had or overheard. She remembers coming home in her mother's arms, her father tripping over the suitcase he'd just set down. Most of all she remembers being in her mothers arms as she looked at two photos, one of a little girl, and one of a baby boy…
"I wish they could meet her, even just for a moment." Scully whispered to Mulder.
"I do too. She's our baby, she's our life, and yet she'll never know of her siblings, her aunt, grandparents. She'll only have us. We have to protect her Dana, we have to hold her every second of every day until she can protect herself. We can't let them take her like they took William."
"Fox, Mulder, We couldn't have known they'd take William. We did the best we could, we tried to protect him."
Sooz paced around her room. She usually didn't have to try so hard to recall conversations and events. But for some reason he first night at home was being blocked by something. She remembered her fifth birthday, she was supposed to be in bed, but she couldn't sleep. She heard her mom and dad arguing…
"Put them away? Mulder are you crazy?"
"We have to, the more she knows about our past the more danger she's in. Do you really think I want to lock away the few reminders I have of Sam? I pray that I'll find her, every day I wish she'll come back to me. Scully, you and I both can't deny the things we've seen. We've seen so much, we can't let Susie know anything, she's too innocent."
"But why? Why do I have to hide Emily and Will from her? Why can't we lie to her, tell her they're dead."
"We can't lie to our daughter. Besides, even if we could she'll keep asking questions until she knows the truth, after all she is my daughter."
Sooz gave up for the night and decided to get some sleep. As she drifted off to sleep she dreamed of what life would have been like if her family were there. Suddenly she bolted up in her bed screaming.