Title: Chapter 14- Some of the 50 Most Beautiful
Author: Gillian Leigh
Summary: Aaaaaaaand the conclusion.. sorry if it's a little weak. I'm tired of writing.
Author's Notes at the end of the chapter.
-X- One year later -X-
In a coffee shop, a man picked up the latest issue of People Magazine; the 50 Most Beautiful People, and sat down at the nearest table, with a large cup of coffee, black with two sugars, and began to read. He instinctively flipped to the back of the magazine, and opened to a section of the aforementioned 50 Most Beautiful People. Seven of the spots were taken up by one particular family. Intrigued, he began to read.
"The Miraculous Mulders: [They were, he noticed, the only ones to get an adjective in their headline] (From left to right): Fox Mulder, 42; his wife Dana, 37; their children, William, 5; Charleston, 4; Weston, 4; Ava, 2; and Anna, 1.
"Fox and Dana Mulder, are two people we consider pioneers in the medical field. But not so long ago, he was simply a teacher at the FBI's Quantico Academy, and she was a general practitioner at Georgetown University Hospital. They were raising their eldest son William, and twin sons Charlie and Wes, and expecting their fourth child, when tragedy struck. William fell became deathly ill with something that his doctors had never seen and did not know how to treat. His mother and father, however, had seen this illness before, but though they knew what it was, they didn't know what to do to make it better. Years before William's birth, Dana had a daughter Emily from a previous relationship. Emily was seemingly healthy until she became very ill with a fever one day, and became a victim of a disease which affected her DNA. It was a cancer-like illness that none of her doctors, or other doctors the world over, had ever seen before. Emily lapsed into a coma and passed away less than a week later; she was four years old.
"Dana Mulder, having full access to the medical laboratories at the hospital, set to work finding a cure for their son. The disease affected William's blood and DNA, just as it had his half-sister, Emily. Dr. Mulder realized that there was a great possibility that the disease was genetic, and she then performed tests on her twin sons, and her unborn child, (Ava) , whom she was eight months pregnant with at the time. When the results came back, they contained devastation and hope. Both Charlie and Wes were infected with the disease, but the unborn baby, the child who would be called Ava, was not. The trait was something that she carried on one of her X chromosomes, and he carried it on his Y, which is why only their male children were affected. This varies from carrier to carrier, because it is apparent that Emily's father carried the trait on his X chromosome. Because the illness is sex-linked and recessive, both the mother and father must be carriers for the child to have the illness, but if only one has the trait, the child can be a carrier. It was later found, that a sample of their daughter's blood, when placed in the same environment as their son's blood, began killing off the infected blood cells. They had discovered a cure. Labor was induced, and the cord and placenta blood were saved and used in a bone marrow transplant, which saved William, but another problem arose. There was not enough blood to perform the life saving transplants in both twins. Unwilling to choose between their children, the Mulders opted to wait, and freeze what cord blood they had. They realized that another genetically perfect child was their only option in ridding the twins of the virus. After a successful in-vitro fertilization, their daughter Anna was conceived, and after her birth, her cord blood was used to cure her brothers. What was left over was then fashioned into a vaccine which her parents were injected with to eliminate then trait they carried from their bodies. Through more laboratory work over the next year, Mr. and Dr. Mulder created and were able to produce a vaccine which effectively cured the illness now called, "Emily's Syndrome" which had been identified in less than ten children world-wide. Prior to the vaccine, how many children who died from the above ailment cannot be known. For information on Emily's Syndrome, visit www.emilyssyndrome.com
"Currently, the Mulders have regained the normalcy in their lives. Fox and Dana are living in rural Georgetown with their five children.
Fox Mulder, paid for his coffee and the issue of People, of which they had several at home already, and left the coffee shop. Once he reached his home, he opened the door to find himself face to face with his wife, who was trying to get her sons to stop arguing and put a doll's head back on to cease her daughters' crying. She practically pulled him in the door before handing him a positive pregnancy test and saying,
"I could kill you for this."
-le fin-
*Author's Notes: Alright, I know the ending is a little....different, but I was so sick of this story that I just needed to finish it. And I know the timeline is *way* off, but we'll say that everything happened just like it did in the X-Files, but a few years earlier. Otherwise, Scully would have been 40-something and having Anna. So I just pushed everything back a little bit...artistic license, dontcha know. Alright, well I hope you liked it. I'm working on other stuff (of the AU persuasion) and I hope to have some of it posted soon.
