1Title: The Lost and Forgotten

Authors: Shadow's Echo (also known as Cindy from CindyandSandy)

Rating: PG-13 (some swearing!)

Disclaimer: You know what I own and what I do not own. If you cannot tell this with your intelligent little x-phile minds...then you are clearly dumb. But go ahead and read anyway...I like it.

Chapter 19 - Questions

Against even her own thoughts, Scully found herself knocking on the young girl's door. Although she had told Mulder that they should leave her alone, Scully was curious and wondered how the girl was doing. She knew very well that the school had not called Amelia's parents nor had they made any attempt to console her apart from allowing her to stay out of classes for a day or two. One teacher had taken interest in her for a while, but had left her alone. Scully felt she needed something or someone to help her.

As she waited at Amelia's door she glanced around. It had not been easy to escape from Mulder's watchful eye. They were not often apart, and for her to have no excuse for leaving him for more than five minutes, makes it quite impossible to do so. She couldn't lie to herself, though. She loved it. Not many woman can say that there is a man in their life that cares about them that much.

The door slowly cracked open and the little girl peeked out.

"Yes?" Amelia asked.

"I just wanted to see how you were doing. May I come in?" Scully said. Amelia opened the door and allowed agent Scully to step in. She left the door open though. She hated to be alone with strangers, especially adult strangers. "So, how have you been?"

Amelia didn't want to answer questions, nor did she even want agent Scully prying into her personal life. She was trying to plan. But she figured the quicker she answered the questions, the quicker agent Scully would leave. "Fine."

"Aren't you kind of lonely in here? Has anyone come to talk to you?"

"No and no. It's okay though. I'm fine. Don't worry about me."

"Are you sure?" Scully asked.

"Yes." Amelia didn't know how much clearer she could make it. A man started calling for Agent Scully from the hallway.

"Well, I better go. Just come get me if you need anyone to talk to. The office will find me for you." Then agent Scully left. Finally. Amelia needed to get to work. With agent Scully watching over her like that she wasn't sure she could even practice breaking into her own room. She peeked out the door. The minute they were out of sight she would get to work. She had to get it right.

"Mulder, what do you need?" Scully asked Mulder as he turned the corner towards her.

"I just wanted to know where you were. I didn't know where you went for so long," he said.

"I just wanted to check on Amelia. I was worried about her. They don't really seem to worry about her here. I wanted to be sure that she was okay."

"I thought we were going to leave her alone today."

"We were..."

"But not any more?" He flashed her a crooked smile.

"I just had to make sure she was alright. Now just leave her alone. I don't think she wanted me there anyway."

"Okay. Fine. Whatever."

"Mulder..." She glared at him.

"What?" He smiled. "I'm just saying...you can't go and change the rules, Scully, that's just not fair."

"What are you talking about?"

"Nothing, nothing. Let's go talk to Miss Bergan again. See her take on all this."

"Okay," Scully said. Sometimes she didn't know what to think of Mulder. She came to the conclusion that he was a crazy man, but he was her crazy man now. It didn't matter to her. Love sees through all flaws. Even extremely obvious flaws.

They spoke to Miss Bergan, who really had nothing new to say. This had happened so many times before that it was like a normal part of the day. But Mulder remember a teacher who had been there with Amelia after she had fainted. A beautiful brunette that, had it not been for Scully, he would probably had been all over. He hated that he was like that. But he couldn't help it. Men were made like that. At least he was. They set out to speak to Lyla. Mulder knocked on the door and Lyla answered.

"Hello?" She said.

"Lyla? I'm agent Mulder, you may remember agent Scully and me from yesterday with Amelia," Mulder said.

"Oh yes! Of course. Why do you want to speak with me?"

"You know Amelia pretty well, correct?"

"Yes, as much as I can know her in such a short time. She's a good kid."

"How about Libby?" Scully asked.

"Well, Libby was another story, but she did pretty well in school. She just liked to make trouble. Much like any other kid."

"Do you know of anyone that would want to kill her?"

"No. I can't imagine who. But it has to be whoever killed the others. It's all too familiar. My son was the first one."

"He was? The escaped man murdered him?"

"Yes, but I've come to terms with it. I told Amelia of him, hoping it would help her to feel that she wasn't alone," Lyla said, handing them a picture of her son. "He was killed shortly after my divorce. My husband blamed me for putting him in such a terrible school, but I worked here and figured he was safe. I got him his own room because he wasn't a very social boy. He was quite independant." Scully glanced at the picture and felt that she had seen him before. Mulder handed the picture back. They asked a few more questions, but felt that Lyla would be very little help. They decided to take a break for a quick breakfast, and maybe a little case discussion. Amelia, on the other hand, kept working.

A/N:Well, that one was a little longer. The laptop definitely helps. Soon, my loves, soon. Read and Review and you shall receive cookies from God!