Chap. One
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2 days later:
Scully walked into the basement office and slumped into a chair in front of her partners desk, "ok Mulder, it's Saturday, 8:45 in the morning, why am I here? Furthermore, why are YOU here?"
"A case."
"I should've guessed. What is it this time?"
"An abduction."
"Is that their opinion or yours?"
"Mine. They think that it was a kidnapping."
"Then why are we on it?"
"Because, what the girls sister describes is exactly like…" he trailed off, a distant look in his eyes, "like what I remembered after Sam disappeared. Not after I did hypnosis, exactly after it happened."
Scully sighed, "when do we leave?"
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12:56pm
Scully grabbed her bags as did Mulder and they made their way to rent a car. After they had rented the car they went to find their hotel, not motel, hotel. For the first time in awhile they'd be staying somewhere that had clear reception and a swimming pool. Mulder stopped in front of the Holiday Inn Express and they went in to get their rooms.
After throwing her things down on her bed she knocked on the door that connected her room with Mulder's. He opened the door quickly, as if he expected her, and stood to the side to let her in. She walked in and sat down on his bed. "So Mulder, when exactly are we going to meet with these people. And what can you tell me about this case, like what does the girl say she remembers."
"Well, they're expecting us at 2, and I think it best to let Brittany tell us what she witnessed. It wouldn't be the same coming from me, I wasn't there. I don't know what she witnessed."
"But she in no way thinks that this was aliens?"
"I doubt she even believes in them Scully, she is only 14 years old."
Scully nods her head, "alright. About this girl who is missing, what can you tell me about her?"
"Her name is Alicia Lynn Adkins, Brittany is her twin sister, 14 years old, 15 in May, freshman in high school, on the track and wintergaurd team, straight A student. She's never done anything wrong, all her teachers give her high marks, was Miss North Carolina in 1999-2000, much brighter and better than most of the teenagers we've come across."
"Mulder, we're in Tennessee, and she was Miss North Carolina?"
"Her father is in the marines, they've since moved from South Carolina too her, North Carolina came before South. You know how that kind of life is."
"Yeah, and if she's anything like I was she hates the moving." Scully sighed, "we'll we'd better get going if we want to be there at 2."
Mulder nodded and they walked out of the hotel room. They got into their rental car and Mulder drove to the Adkins residence.
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1320 McGregor Drive.
1:56
Scully shut the door to the car and looked at the wood A framed house, they walked onto the porch and she knocked on the door. A woman around her age, maybe 2 or 3 years older, answered the door. Her face dropped and there were large bags under her eyes. All is expected, Scully mused, her daughter is missing, I wouldn't be able to sleep a wink either.
"Hi, Mrs. Adkins?"
"Yes." The woman says.
"Im Agent Fox Mulder, this is Agent Dana Scully, may we come in?"
She nodded her head and moved aside as to let them in the door. She lead them into her living room and they sat down on the couch. She asked them to wait a moment while she got her daughters. She walked away and moments later returned with two teenagers. All three of them sat down on the couch.
"My husband is at the police station, he should be home soon." She stated, "these are my daughters Brittany and Brandy. Girls, this is agents Mulder and Scully with the FBI."
The girls gave halfhearted smiles and mumbled something along the lines of hello. The youngest, Brittany, looked even worse than her mother did, Scully imagined that she too didn't sleep, but it was taking its toll on her younger body faster than it would a woman in her late 30's. Her left shoulder was in a sling. The older daughter, Brandy, also had the bags that plagued her mother and sister, but being as she was 18 they weren't as bad as her sisters.
"We were wonder if we could ask you a few questions." Mulder asks, looking directly at Brittany, who he feels knows the most about her sisters disappearance, but being around the same age as he was when Sam disappeared her mind probably couldn't deal with what had happened. Or if it had been aliens, as Mulder so adamantly stated, then her memories had been tampered with.
"Well, I don't know how good a help I can be." Mrs. Adkins stated, "I wasn't there when it happened." She got a distant look in her eyes, "if you'll excuse me." She got up and hurried out of the room.
Brittany watched her mother leave and then turned to the agents, "I don't remember much. All I can remember is a light, a bright light, blinding almost, and then I woke up on Alicia's bedroom floor, her window was opened, and she was gone. I woke Brandy up, she was asleep on the couch, and asked her if she knew where she was. She said that she guessed she was in her bedroom, she had been pretty wiped out after track practice. I glanced at the clock, it was 11 minutes after 9. I remembered that I saw the light at 9:02. You know what strikes me as odd though? My sister has this things with 11's, every time she would look at a clock there it would either be 11 something or 11 past."
"Is there anybody that would want to harm your sister?"
"Alicia? Oh no, im sure there are some people who could care less about me, or even Brandy, but nobody would want to do anything to Alicia. She's just one of those people who gets along with everybody, she's effervescent." She chuckled for a moment, "that means 'bubbly', Alicia's told me that she was effervescent on many occasions. I use to always tease her about her high vocabulary, she always has to explain at least one word when she's talking to somebody." She smiled, recalling the memories of her sister.
Scully nodded. "And there's no chance your sister would run away."
Brandy spoke up this time, "she would be offended by the mere thought of it."
"Every teen has problems, agents, but my sister's were few and far between. Her biggest worry was her competitions, and the fact that every time she would talk on the phone with Derek I would intrude on their conversation and annoy her for awhile."
"Derek?" Mulder asks.
Brandy smiles, "one of Alicia's friends. Although if you asked anybody else they would tell you they're more like boyfriend and girlfriend, minus the affection. They talk at least once a day, and their conversations usually last for hours. I've never actually met him, but I've seen him before. Brittany knows him."
"I hope you're not wondering if Derek had anything to do with what happened to Alicia. Because, Derek doesn't even know Alicia is missing, unless he's seen it on the TV, he doesn't go to school with us. He's home schooled. And as for if Alicia would run away with him, that would never happen, Alicia is very reserved, and she loves us too much to even think about leaving. She's a bright girl, she knows better than something like that. Besides, where would they go, and how would they get their money? They're both only 14."
Mulder nods his head again. "You went to your sisters room, correct Brittany?"
"Yes, im not sure why exactly, I think I panicked when I saw the light. I don't know why I was either. But I woke up on her floor with a dislocated shoulder. Alicia's door was broken and swinging off of it's hinges. I guess I broke the door down in an attempt to get into the room."
"I'd like to try something." Mulder states, "would you two be up for being put under hypnosis?"
"Absolutely not." Brandy states, looking at her sister, sure about her decision.
Brittany, on the other hand, doesn't look as sure. "I'll do it." She says in a meek voice.
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a/n: I hope you guys liked this chapter, I wasn't so sure about where I was going with this story, still not so sure I think. But most of the things I wrote about in here are true, my sister was Miss NC 1999-2000, she is a straight A student (I however am not that lucky, although other than French all my grades are above a 90) 11's plague Alicia and she absolutely hates it, although I find it hilarious. Alicia does talk to Derek for more than 2 or 3 hours at a time, once she even talked to him for over 8 hours in a 24 hour period. Not from 12 in the morning to 12 at night, more like 5 in the afternoon to 5 in the afternoon, but nonetheless that's 1/3 of the day. And the shocker, they're not dating! Basically, my sister is a preppy goody goody. Please, please, review.
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2 days later:
Scully walked into the basement office and slumped into a chair in front of her partners desk, "ok Mulder, it's Saturday, 8:45 in the morning, why am I here? Furthermore, why are YOU here?"
"A case."
"I should've guessed. What is it this time?"
"An abduction."
"Is that their opinion or yours?"
"Mine. They think that it was a kidnapping."
"Then why are we on it?"
"Because, what the girls sister describes is exactly like…" he trailed off, a distant look in his eyes, "like what I remembered after Sam disappeared. Not after I did hypnosis, exactly after it happened."
Scully sighed, "when do we leave?"
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12:56pm
Scully grabbed her bags as did Mulder and they made their way to rent a car. After they had rented the car they went to find their hotel, not motel, hotel. For the first time in awhile they'd be staying somewhere that had clear reception and a swimming pool. Mulder stopped in front of the Holiday Inn Express and they went in to get their rooms.
After throwing her things down on her bed she knocked on the door that connected her room with Mulder's. He opened the door quickly, as if he expected her, and stood to the side to let her in. She walked in and sat down on his bed. "So Mulder, when exactly are we going to meet with these people. And what can you tell me about this case, like what does the girl say she remembers."
"Well, they're expecting us at 2, and I think it best to let Brittany tell us what she witnessed. It wouldn't be the same coming from me, I wasn't there. I don't know what she witnessed."
"But she in no way thinks that this was aliens?"
"I doubt she even believes in them Scully, she is only 14 years old."
Scully nods her head, "alright. About this girl who is missing, what can you tell me about her?"
"Her name is Alicia Lynn Adkins, Brittany is her twin sister, 14 years old, 15 in May, freshman in high school, on the track and wintergaurd team, straight A student. She's never done anything wrong, all her teachers give her high marks, was Miss North Carolina in 1999-2000, much brighter and better than most of the teenagers we've come across."
"Mulder, we're in Tennessee, and she was Miss North Carolina?"
"Her father is in the marines, they've since moved from South Carolina too her, North Carolina came before South. You know how that kind of life is."
"Yeah, and if she's anything like I was she hates the moving." Scully sighed, "we'll we'd better get going if we want to be there at 2."
Mulder nodded and they walked out of the hotel room. They got into their rental car and Mulder drove to the Adkins residence.
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1320 McGregor Drive.
1:56
Scully shut the door to the car and looked at the wood A framed house, they walked onto the porch and she knocked on the door. A woman around her age, maybe 2 or 3 years older, answered the door. Her face dropped and there were large bags under her eyes. All is expected, Scully mused, her daughter is missing, I wouldn't be able to sleep a wink either.
"Hi, Mrs. Adkins?"
"Yes." The woman says.
"Im Agent Fox Mulder, this is Agent Dana Scully, may we come in?"
She nodded her head and moved aside as to let them in the door. She lead them into her living room and they sat down on the couch. She asked them to wait a moment while she got her daughters. She walked away and moments later returned with two teenagers. All three of them sat down on the couch.
"My husband is at the police station, he should be home soon." She stated, "these are my daughters Brittany and Brandy. Girls, this is agents Mulder and Scully with the FBI."
The girls gave halfhearted smiles and mumbled something along the lines of hello. The youngest, Brittany, looked even worse than her mother did, Scully imagined that she too didn't sleep, but it was taking its toll on her younger body faster than it would a woman in her late 30's. Her left shoulder was in a sling. The older daughter, Brandy, also had the bags that plagued her mother and sister, but being as she was 18 they weren't as bad as her sisters.
"We were wonder if we could ask you a few questions." Mulder asks, looking directly at Brittany, who he feels knows the most about her sisters disappearance, but being around the same age as he was when Sam disappeared her mind probably couldn't deal with what had happened. Or if it had been aliens, as Mulder so adamantly stated, then her memories had been tampered with.
"Well, I don't know how good a help I can be." Mrs. Adkins stated, "I wasn't there when it happened." She got a distant look in her eyes, "if you'll excuse me." She got up and hurried out of the room.
Brittany watched her mother leave and then turned to the agents, "I don't remember much. All I can remember is a light, a bright light, blinding almost, and then I woke up on Alicia's bedroom floor, her window was opened, and she was gone. I woke Brandy up, she was asleep on the couch, and asked her if she knew where she was. She said that she guessed she was in her bedroom, she had been pretty wiped out after track practice. I glanced at the clock, it was 11 minutes after 9. I remembered that I saw the light at 9:02. You know what strikes me as odd though? My sister has this things with 11's, every time she would look at a clock there it would either be 11 something or 11 past."
"Is there anybody that would want to harm your sister?"
"Alicia? Oh no, im sure there are some people who could care less about me, or even Brandy, but nobody would want to do anything to Alicia. She's just one of those people who gets along with everybody, she's effervescent." She chuckled for a moment, "that means 'bubbly', Alicia's told me that she was effervescent on many occasions. I use to always tease her about her high vocabulary, she always has to explain at least one word when she's talking to somebody." She smiled, recalling the memories of her sister.
Scully nodded. "And there's no chance your sister would run away."
Brandy spoke up this time, "she would be offended by the mere thought of it."
"Every teen has problems, agents, but my sister's were few and far between. Her biggest worry was her competitions, and the fact that every time she would talk on the phone with Derek I would intrude on their conversation and annoy her for awhile."
"Derek?" Mulder asks.
Brandy smiles, "one of Alicia's friends. Although if you asked anybody else they would tell you they're more like boyfriend and girlfriend, minus the affection. They talk at least once a day, and their conversations usually last for hours. I've never actually met him, but I've seen him before. Brittany knows him."
"I hope you're not wondering if Derek had anything to do with what happened to Alicia. Because, Derek doesn't even know Alicia is missing, unless he's seen it on the TV, he doesn't go to school with us. He's home schooled. And as for if Alicia would run away with him, that would never happen, Alicia is very reserved, and she loves us too much to even think about leaving. She's a bright girl, she knows better than something like that. Besides, where would they go, and how would they get their money? They're both only 14."
Mulder nods his head again. "You went to your sisters room, correct Brittany?"
"Yes, im not sure why exactly, I think I panicked when I saw the light. I don't know why I was either. But I woke up on her floor with a dislocated shoulder. Alicia's door was broken and swinging off of it's hinges. I guess I broke the door down in an attempt to get into the room."
"I'd like to try something." Mulder states, "would you two be up for being put under hypnosis?"
"Absolutely not." Brandy states, looking at her sister, sure about her decision.
Brittany, on the other hand, doesn't look as sure. "I'll do it." She says in a meek voice.
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a/n: I hope you guys liked this chapter, I wasn't so sure about where I was going with this story, still not so sure I think. But most of the things I wrote about in here are true, my sister was Miss NC 1999-2000, she is a straight A student (I however am not that lucky, although other than French all my grades are above a 90) 11's plague Alicia and she absolutely hates it, although I find it hilarious. Alicia does talk to Derek for more than 2 or 3 hours at a time, once she even talked to him for over 8 hours in a 24 hour period. Not from 12 in the morning to 12 at night, more like 5 in the afternoon to 5 in the afternoon, but nonetheless that's 1/3 of the day. And the shocker, they're not dating! Basically, my sister is a preppy goody goody. Please, please, review.