chapter 5
When Scully woke up, her baby was gone. Fear rose and caught in her throat. She ran into the living room. Her baby sat on Mulder's lap, giggling. Mulder was baby-talking. Scully, her instinctive protectiveness taking over, darted across the room and snatched her baby from Mulder. Hurt flashed in Mulder's eyes, but Scully was too distant to see it.
"I was only playing with him. He woke up about twenty minutes ago and I didn't want to wake you." Scully just stared at Mulder. He continued, "I made coffee. There is some in the kitchen."
"If there's iced tea in that bag, it could be love."
"What? Scully, do you remember that?" he jumped, walking over to her.
"It's root beer."
"Scully," he said, placing his hands on her shoulders and looking into her eyes, searching for the real Scully.
"It's raining sleeping bags."
By this time, Mulder was about ready to burst. He thought he had his Scully back. [wait!! *my* Scully?! when did i start referring to her as mine?]
Then, Mulder's face fell as Scully snapped from her trance. She just stared at him and walked back into the bedroom. Mulder sighed. He thought she just had a breakthrough, but it all seemed so weird. He instinctively called his friends.
"Lone Gunmen."
"It's Mulder, turn off the recorder."
**click**
"Mulder, how is Scully?" Frohike asked curiously.
"I don't know. Um..is Byers around?"
"Hold on."
"Mulder," Byers greeted Mulder.
"Hey. Scully hasn't seemed to remember me or even herself. But this morning when I told her we had coffee she started rambling of things we have said to each other. It was like she was in some kind of trance."
"What kind of things?"
"She said, 'If there's iced tea in the bag, it could be love.' and then she said 'It's root beer.' It was some little piece of a conversation I had with her on a case years ago. And then she said, 'It's raining sleeping bags.' One time I was joking around with her on a case and I said something like 'too bad it's not raining sleeping bags' or something. I thought maybe her memory came back but then she just shook her head and it was like she had snapped out of some hypnotic state. What gives?"
"With identity and memory loss, patients have been known, in early stages, to just blurt out something from their past experience. This is what Scully did. But you are right, she is regaining some of her memory. This is just the first step."
"So, now what?"
"Just keep acting like she *is* Scully. It'll come back to her. It just takes time."
"Thanks, Byers."
"Anytime."
After hanging up the phone, Mulder glanced at Scully. She just continued to stare. Mulder
opened his mouth to say something, and she disappeared.