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[Chili's Restaurant
5:30]

The drive had taken a half an hour, not surprising with rush hour traffic. The three were sitting at a booth enjoying their food. Well, at least Kathryn and Mulder were. Scully was eating something vile looking that she had brought along with her.

When asked about it, she replied, "I'm on a new diet."

When Kathryn looked at Mulder, he merely shrugged as if to say, 'I don't know either.'

Kathryn had already asked the basic "get to know you" questions of the agents. Now it was their turn. They started with the basics. Her favorite band, "An artist, really. Lisa Loeb.", TV shows, "I don't really watch TV".

When Scully asked her if she had a boyfriend, she replied bluntly, "All the boys at my school are egotistical maniacs."

"They really don't get much better." Replied Scully, eyeing Mulder with a slight grin.

Kathryn smiled in response to his "hurt" look. Scully shivered slightly, something Kathryn didn't miss. Her smile didn't seem right with those sad eyes.

Changing the subject, Scully asked, "So, what do you want to do with your life?"

Kathryn sat back, her smile fading a bit. "A complicated question with a complicated answer." She said ominously.

"Well, I think the question is strait forward enough." Said Mulder.

"On the contrary." Countered Kathryn. "There is a difference. What you want to do with your life and what you should do with your life, what you want with your life in the end, all are very different things. Let's start with what I want to do with my life. I want to help people, pure and simple. That's why I want to join the Air Force. Not to blow things up or to shoot people, just to help people." Kathryn was a little out of breath. This was a long speech for her. "Now, what I should do with my life? Many people have told me I'd be better in a research field such as immunology. I suppose that would be helping people to, but not immediately. I want to be out there in the action. Now, what I want at the end of my life… All I want is for someone to say that I've made a difference in their lives."

Mulder and Scully were awed at this display of selflessness from this girl. She had no selfish motives. There was nothing that an ordinary child would want at this age. Their thoughts were disrupted by a wave of unease that swept through the restaurant. The sudden burst of the glass doors inwards confirmed their fears.

Mulder threw Kathryn under the table as she said, "It's them." Scully had already drawn her gun. Mulder quickly followed suit. Tables, chairs, plates, and people eating were thrown outwards in the same patter, Scully guessed, as things were at the Fencing club, the school, and Kathryn's house.

A ghostly voice echoed throughout the building, "Child of the past! Child of the past, come and face your destiny. All those great did not become so hiding from their future." A figure appeared on the wall near them, startling the people hiding in the booth near it. They dove under their table. The figure was of a young little girl with dark hair, and green eyes.

"Jaclyn!" yelled Mulder. He had no time to act on this revelation, because the voice seemed to have a hypnotic effect on Kathryn. She was slowly walking to the figure.

"Kathryn! Kathryn! Don't! Fight through it, Kathryn!" Screamed Mulder. In a very rash and bold move, he ran out into the flying dinner plates and gusting wind. When he grabbed Kathryn's arm, she shook him off. He again grabbed at her, but she was much stronger than she looked. Finally, he jumped and tackled Kathryn, dragging her back to underneath the table. He had been allowed to get out of his sling that day.

"No! I must face my destiny! I must become the child of the past!" She screamed, clawing at his arms and kicking. Mulder grabbed a glass of water off the table and threw it in her face. She seemed to come to her senses.

The shadow on the wall began to fade. Just before it became invisible, it cried, "We will find you, child of the past! You can not escape destiny!" It then disappeared, the wind halting with it. By now all of the other diners in the restaurant were staring at them.

Scully nodded at Mulder, and they stood, Kathryn leaning on the two agents. Scully hauled a waiter out from under the table, handed him money for the meal, and they left. Out in the car, Scully had Kathryn lie down in the back seat.

They checked her for any problems, and then drove back to Kathryn's house. Her father was worried, but after Scully assured him that she was fine, he calmed down. She couldn't make the trip up the stairs, so they made her a place to sleep on the couch.