Reyes and Doggett had a great Christmas, and they spent most of the day in bed together opening gifts and watching the world go by out of the bedroom window. It was perfect. Boxing Day they actually got up and took Oliver out for the day walking, it was incredibly romantic and Reyes managed to forget about everything else that had been plaguing her mind lately. She would deal with all of that when the time came. Right now she was enjoying the holidays with the man that she loved.

They had showered each other with gifts and had loved doing nothing but lying with each other all day, they felt incredibly lucky to be able to do this, they knew that by moving in together they would have to be extra careful about keeping their relationship out of the bureau's viewpoint, but they had done it for over a year now already, how hard could it be to continue to do so now? They always arrived together in the morning, and they always left together at night. No one would have to know any differently.

After spending two full days with each other and having to think about nothing but how happy they were, it was a big task to get Doggett out of bed and ready for work on the 27th. He hated working between Christmas and New Year. It was like never really having a holiday. But at least when he got home he could look forward to spending another night with Reyes.

After he had left for work Reyes got up and got dressed herself. She wanted to pop to her own apartment to check her messages and her mail. She pulled up outside her building and let Oliver out of the back of the car, he walked beside her up the steps and was happy to follow her wherever she went. As she reached out to open her front door someone called from behind and she turned to see who it was.

"Ma'am, are you Agent Reyes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation?"

"Yes."

"I need you to sign for this."

Reyes took the deliveryman's pen and signed her name before even thinking about what this was or what she was signing. When the man left she walked inside and sat down as she read the front of the big envelope. It was from the DNA lab at the bureau,

Scully had put a rush on the test and these were the results.

Reyes sat for a long time just holding the envelope in her hands. She knew it was ridiculous to be worrying like this. She held the end to all of the crap that she had been dealing with from Mulder in her hands. Oliver was sat beside her and had given up on the hope of leaving the apartment, he had settled down on the sofa and was waiting patiently for Reyes to do something.

Finally she ripped open the envelope and took out the sheets of paper that had been fastened together so as not to fly out and land on the floor. She read and re-read the letter and couldn't believe what it was telling her. She finally jumped up, scaring the dog half to death and grabbed her coat. She wanted some answers and there was only one person who could give them to her.

"Did you see the look on Bill's face when I asked you?"

"No, but I got the speech from him telling me that he hoped I knew what I was doing."

"At least Charles seemed to have a better opinion of me."

"He's a little more romantic, he was impressed by you coming after me like that."

"So was I, I was terrified." Scully laughed and Mulder kissed her softly and smiled.

"I'm glad I came though."

"I'm glad you came too. My mom thinks you're wonderful. She holds you responsible for my being alive still after all these years, and then she, like Charles, thinks it's romantic that we fell in love whilst on a quest for the truth."

"You're family are a little sappy Scully, it's gotta be said."

Scully playfully hit Mulder and was about to object to his teasing when a loud banging on the door startled them both. Scully got up to answer it and opened the door to a very confused Reyes.

"Monica, what's wrong?"

Reyes walked over to Mulder and didn't even acknowledge Scully.

"Read it."

She thrust the DNA results into Mulder's hands and stood and waited until he had read it all. Like her he had needed to re-read parts of it and when he was finished he stood up and looked at Reyes.

"I don't understand."

"That's a real shame because I was hoping you could explain it to me."

Scully stood closer and Mulder looked at her.

"What does it say?"

"They ran a complete DNA test through the whole Mulder family that they had on record from my dad working at the bureau, the test shows that whilst Monica is conclusively not Samantha, she shares DNA with me, and our father..."

"How is that possible?"

Mulder shook his head in confusion before really trying to understand it.

"I think it means that, Samantha had a different father..."

"But smoking man was your father?"

"No. The test shows that Bill Mulder was my biological father... but not Samantha's. And Monica has a different mother, but the same father as me."

Scully tried to get her head around what she was hearing. Why would somebody have planned to make Mulder believe that the man he hated most in the world was his father when in fact he wasn't? After all these years it was finally proven that Bill Mulder was Fox Mulder's father, after all of the guessing and the stories.

Scully looked at Reyes. She looked like she was carrying so many thoughts and feelings that she was about to explode.

Reyes took the letter from Mulder and shoved it back into the envelope. He looked at her and tried to think of something to say, but he couldn't get any words to form a sentence in his head. She was so confused and he wanted to help her but he didn't know how.

"Monica... I don't know what to say... My dad worked away a lot, I guess he must have met someone... He must have..."

"Yeah I get it. But in New Mexico?"

"It's possible He travelled all over."

Reyes turned around to leave and she didn't turn around as Mulder called her back, but instead she fought against her desire to cry. There was nothing here to cry about. She just needed more answers than she had been given.