Title: Old times.
Author: DanaMaru
Summary: Dana Scully's first day at yet another new school.
Disclaimer: Mulder, Scully and anyone else you may recognize are not mine. But thanks Chris for letting us borrow them from time to time...
A/N: Just so you know, Dana is 16 and Mulder is 18. Not their real age difference, I know, but hey this is fanfiction!
"Girls, you better be out of bed soon; you don't want to be late on your first day!"
Dana Scully groaned at the sound of her mother's voice. Pulling the covers over her head, she pretended to still be asleep when the bedroom door opened.
"Melissa and Dana Scully get out of bed this instant!"
They threw their quilts down to the bottom of their beds and, both sighing loudly in protest swung their legs so they were sitting, rather than lying on their beds. At that very moment, she revisited her hatred of Bill Scully Senior's choice of career. Don't get me wrong, she loved her father and she actually didn't mind the constant relocation. However, with the opportunity to live in almost anywhere came the fact that, once again, she had to start at yet another new school. Virtually every year, Dana and her brothers and sister started at a new school.
Only this time around, she and Charlie were going to High School whilst Bill Junior and Melissa started college. Bill studying something or other Dana hadn't bothered to listen to, and Melissa had - unsurprisingly - chosen to study sociology. Dana hated High School, because changing schools at least once a year never gave her enough time to actually make any real friends. Not that there'd be any point, as soon as she got to know someone, she'd probably have to move again anyway.
Sighing once more, she stood and quickly gathered a pair of jeans and her new sweater from her closet and disappeared into the bathroom to change. Melissa glared at her retreating form, having been beaten to the bathroom yet again but her younger sister. Not even five minutes later, Dana emerged from the bathroom dressed in her dark blue jeans, deep red sweater and sneakers. She ran downstairs, grabbed a slice of dry toast and made her way to the front door yelling her goodbyes on her way out the door.
"Dana, wait!"
She heard Charlie's voice from behind and slowed her pace to let him catch up.
"Jeez! Do you really have to walk so fast?"
"Well, unlike you Charlie, I actually want to make it to school on time."
She told him sarcastically. Quickening her pace again, she rounded the corner and spotted the building that would be her new school.
Walking through the double doors, it didn't take her long to know who belonged to which groups. To her left were the jocks, in close proximity to the cheerleaders. To her right were the punks - well it was the 80's! - And lastly, the geeks. Dana had never managed to fit into any group. Obviously, she couldn't be a jock... She wasn't popular enough to be a cheerleader. She was as smart as the geeks, but she still wasn't like them either. And as for being a punk? She'd stick to playing her Cher cds rather than listen to the Red-Hot Chili Peppers thank you very much.
Lost in her thoughts, she didn't notice one of the cheerleader's stick a foot in her path as she made her way past. She hit the ground with a loud thump before she even had a chance to realize what had happened. Not that she hadn't been expecting it. She was quite used to such treatment on her first day at any school. She was just too preoccupied.
I doubt Scully would ever actually have been a Cher fan, but again, this is fanfiction lol