Doggett kissed Reyes as she lay sleeping beside him; he wanted her to wake up. When she finally opened her eyes it was with a great smile and a kiss to return the few dozen Doggett had given her to wake her up. It was snowing. Doggett had wanted her to see the snow falling against the window. It was beautiful.

"This is so perfect. I wish every morning was like this."

Doggett looked down at Reyes, as she lay snuggled in his arms under the covers watching the snow hit his bedroom window.

"So lets make every morning like this."

"What do you mean?"

"Move in with me."

Reyes turned over and looked into Doggett's eyes. She had half expected him to be smiling, or even holding back laughter, but he was completely straight faced.

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah, why the hell not? I love you, I don't want to keep picking you up from your place and driving to work."

"Well then I'll pick you up for a change."

"Monica..."

"No I know, but John, are you really sure that this is what you want?"

"Yes. More than anything. What do you want?"

Reyes looked back to the window and the snow had stopped falling. It was almost as if the snow was holding it's breath for her answer. The snow was waiting for her to move in with her boyfriend. She looked back over at him and turned completely round so that she was facing him. She kissed him and pulled him closer to her, they

held each other under the covers and Reyes whispered into Doggett's ear.

"I want to live with you."

He briefly lifted up his head to smile at her and then he kissed her repeatedly until they were both sure that they would be in bed celebrating their news for quite some time...

Mulder looked at the ring in its tiny black box and smiled. This was going to be perfect. He and Scully were going out for dinner on Christmas Eve, and he was going to ask her to marry him. He knew that it was going to work out, and he knew that it would be that last token to Scully to prove to her how much she meant to him. And he was so sure that they would get William back that he couldn't help but see himself in a years time as a married man looking forward to celebrating Christmas with his wife and son.

He had bought the ring on the way to the airport and throughout his flight he just kept whipping it out and looking at it, he tried to picture Scully's face when she saw it, he hoped she liked it, but he had checked that he could change it if she didn't like it, it had to be perfect.

His flight landed at midday, he was due to get on a flight back at six the same day. He

was sure that it would be enough time. He had called social services in his home town to see if there were any reports that fit the description of Reyes or his sister, and he had been told that three days before Reyes turned up in New Mexico someone fitting her description had been found wandering around in the streets wearing her nightgown. The girl had been taken into care and then disappeared late one evening from her room before anyone got to her to see if she fit any of the missing persons descriptions.

She had never been seen again, so Mulder contacted the local police to check how far they searched for someone when they went missing. The man he spoke to said they get neighbouring states to keep their eyes open and send descriptions to most states further a field, but that back in the seventies it was all anybody could do to have enough resources to find someone missing in the state they lived in.

As much as this angered Mulder, it didn't disprove his theory. If nobody had looked for his sister anywhere but Massachusetts, and possibly New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York then there was more than a small chance that Samantha could have been dropped in New Mexico after her abduction. It wasn't written in any abduction law that when a person is abducted they are always returned to the place they were taken from, there were many cases that he had investigated himself where the abductee had been dropped in a completely different state and had no recollection of how they got there or how long they had been gone for.

Mulder truly believed that he had enough proof now to go back to Reyes and get her to listen to him. He would also have to tell Scully what he had found. But the only way he could find out now for sure was if Reyes agreed to a DNA test to prove whether she was biologically related to Mulder or his parents. He didn't know what he would want the results to be because whenever he had dreamt of finding his sister he had always expected her to be able to remember him and their parents, if Reyes was Samantha, she had no idea of that fact and it was going to prove incredibly difficult for Mulder to get her to believe what he could show her.