Reyes had picked up the phone and put it down half a dozen times before finally calling her mother to tell her that she was going to be moving in with Doggett. She had no idea how her mother would react, and a part of her thought she should wait until her parents came to stay at the New Year, she and Doggett had agreed to leave the move until Christmas and New Year were out of the way, but she couldn't wait that long to tell her mother she was going to be living with someone. She dialled the number and her father answered the phone.

She was glad because she knew her father wouldn't show much emotion over the phone, he would just hug Doggett and kiss him when he met him, she would forget to mention that to Doggett... Her mother was out, so she told her father her news and asked him to tell her mother. She felt a little as if she was copping out, but her father would know better how to hide from her mother if she was angry rather than Reyes have her shouting down the phone to her. Her father handled the news fine, he was happy for her, and he was looking forward to meeting John Doggett at New Years.

When she hung up the phone she sighed with relief and sat back into her chair. She looked at the clock and realised that Doggett should have been back an hour ago. She stood up and glanced down at the bin. The envelope that Mulder had left for her to look in was still in the bin. She hesitated for a long while before finally bending down and picking the envelope up. She took out the photographs and looked at them all several times. She didn't know what relevance they had or what reason Mulder had had for leaving them, but they meant nothing to her and she was sure that they must mean something to him. She was about to call him when Doggett walked in.

"Hey, you're late."

"I know, sorry, I bumped into Dana."

"Oh, how is she?"

"She's good. Having a few problems with Mulder, but then so would anybody that was dating that guy."

"Why what did she say?"

"It's nothing."

"Come on, what's going on?"

"Its just Mulder being a complete ass hole as usual. With this adoption crap."

"My adoption?"

"Yeah."

"Well what's he saying now?"

Doggett looked at Reyes and he had the solemn look in his eyes that Reyes hated because it was the look he gave her when he thought something he was about to say might upset or anger her.

"He's got some crazy theory that..."

"What?"

"That... you're his sister."

Doggett was sat studying the calendar on his desk. Christmas Day was on a Thursday, and he wasn't working, he also had Boxing Day off, and New Years Eve and Day. But he had to work the weekend in order to get those holidays because he had been late booking them. When it had been holiday booking time he and Reyes had only been dating a few months and he didn't want to make any assumptions about what the two of them would be doing.

Reyes however had managed to get Christmas Day through New Years Day off work and would be breaking up on Christmas Eve until January 2nd 2004. He had thought about asking her to start packing her things whilst he was at

work and she wasn't, but now that things had changed that wasn't going to happen.

After he had told Reyes what Scully had told him Reyes had left the office to see when she could on a flight to New Mexico. She was going to see her parents and ask them some questions that she had never wanted to ask them. But if Mulder was going to be this crazy about her origins, then she needed to know before he did. Doggett was fuming. Chances were that he and Reyes wouldn't be together for Christmas and he was finding it difficult to not beg Reyes to wait until her parents were in DC to ask them any questions that she had.

He knew that it was selfish of him to think like that, but he couldn't help it. Just that morning everything had been great. Reyes was moving in with him, they were spending Christmas and New Year together, he had bought her another nice gift to go with the ones he had already bought. He had never spent so much money on one person at Christmas. Not even when he had been married. But now his perfect Holiday was going to be ruined by Fox Mulder. The man that he hated, and now believed that he would always hate.

Doggett was yelling at somebody down the phone when Reyes walked into the office. He had his back to the door and didn't even notice anybody had walked in. After he had hung up the phone and cursed a few times Reyes walked right up to him and put her hands over his eyes from behind.

"Wow, is this an early Christmas present."

"No."

"Well, you wont be here Christmas Day, so are we doing gifts before or after?"

"I'm not going." Doggett took Reyes' hands down from his face and turned to face her.

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm not going, every flight to New Mexico is booked for Christmas and New Year, I never thought that so many people flew to New Mexico for the Holidays."

"You're really not going?"

"Really not going. I figured I'm not going to let Fox Mulder ruin my plans, I'll talk to my parents when they get here. Besides, there's someone that I should really stay in DC for."

"Oh yeah? Who's that?"

"Oliver. It's his first Christmas with us."

Reyes smiled and Doggett tried to look hurt but kissed her in stead. He didn't care why she was staying, the fact was she was staying.