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Part 5/5 of
Childhood Dreams
December 24
"I'm not sure I should be here..." said Fox. Dana put her hands on his shoulders.
"Fox your part of the family, of course you need to come! We all want you there!"
"It's just..."
"Just what?"
"Just...I don't...deserve a family like you..."
"You're right, you deserve more. Fox, please...for me?"
"...ok, Dana. For you." She squeezed his hand, and the two walked inside.
The Scully's always had a tradition of going to their grandparent's house for the holidays. Maggie's parents always loved when their grandkids came for a visit. They always looked forward to them running around, playing games, and eating warm home cooked meals. Bill and Charlie always loved cracking jokes on their grandma, who's mind was going a little bit. They had rushed in ahead of the rest of the family so they could get to their grandma's cookies.
"Hey wait you guys! I want at least ONE cookie this year!" Missy yelled as the boys rushed in past their mother and father.
"Hey boys, slow down before someone gets hurt." William said as the pile of presents he was carrying threatened it fall.
Fox rested all his weight on his crutches, he looked at the car of the grandparents. Dana walked over and draped her arms over his shoulders and looked at the car with him.
"Come on Fox. Our grandparents are waiting."
"But...what if they don't like me? I don't really belong-"
"Fox. Look at me." they looked into each other's eyes. "We all love you. We all want you here. Stop thinking otherwise." he smiled at her. "Come on."
Fox slowly followed all the Scully's into the house. They where all saying their happy hellos, Fox tried to hide...
It didn't work.
"Now this is…Fred right?" asked Maria, Maggie's mother.
Bill and Charlie snorted and turned so they wouldn't see them laughing.
"That's Fox, mother."
"That's what I said dear. Now, Frank! Come and give your grandma a hug!" she pulled him into a hug.
Fox felt...awkward.
Charlie couldn't hold it and laughed loudly, he quickly covered his mouth and ran from the room, with Bill on his heals. You could hear them laughing in the next room.
Fox tried not to laugh himself; he just smiled and hugged her back with one arm so he wouldn't drop his crutches. Once he pulled back Dana whispered
"She can't hear to well, and she has acute alzheimers."
"Oh…"
The 3 children left in the room followed Bill and Charlie's path into the kitchen and began to laugh.
"So Fred what do you think of grandma?" asked Bill
"Yea, isn't she great, Frank?" Charlie added, the two began to laugh hysterically.
Maggie walked in. "Boys, stop laughing at my mother. It's dinner time."
They all walked into the dining room, all still with laughing smiles on their faces. Soon after a big dinner they where all off to bed, Missy had her own room. Bill and Charlie shared a room as did Fox and Dana, the grand parents used the guest room.
Fox dreamt...to his despair.
Fox looked over the stair railing. He smelled smoke. He was back. That Spender man. How Fox hated him. His parents where screaming as they always did. The words 'Cheated' 'Kill' and 'Samantha' stuck out. Fox...just wanted it to end.His dream shifted.
Fox opened his eyes. There was fire every where all around him. He saw his father unconscious on the floor, he saw a pile of something on fire, he covered his mouth, and walked over...no…the photos of Samantha! He quickly reached into the pile and grabbed a photo out. He yelped in pain and inhaled smoke. He fell to the floor as the pile of photo's flames grew bigger.
His dream shifted again
"FOX!"Fox spun in the darkness looking for his sister's pained cry
"Fox! Their hurting me! Please help me Fox!"
"SAM! SAM-Where are you!"
"Fox...please...Fox..."
"SAM!" Fox flew up in his bed. He looked over, Dana was shifting in bed...but not waking. He quickly, but quietly walked out of the room. He went down stairs. He turned into the kitchen, and poured himself a glass of water in a paper cup. He crumbled the cup and threw it out. He sat in the darkness. The white snow out the window and the Christmas lights his only light, as got up and sat in the living room. He looked at the Christmas tree. It was beautiful.
Like Dana...
Like this Family...
Like his new life...
But something didn't feel right. Fox looked out the window and jumped. He rubbed his eyes and looked again, she was gone. He could have sworn he saw his mom's face in the window, Teena's not Maggie's. He looked back at the tree. And jumped once more when he heard Dana.
"Couldn't sleep?"
"Nah, not really."
She came over and hugged him.
"I heard you wake up..."
"Oh…Sorry."
"No It's all right...wanna talk about it?"
Tears began to well up in his eyes...
"I just miss her so much..."
"Who?"
"...Sam..." he broke into sobs and Dana pulled him into a hug. She stroked his back.
January 5
Fox and all the Scully children where in the living room. The two adults came in with a cake. Fox looked confused but every one else looked overjoyed.
"What's going on?"
"The papers are signed, the flies are filed! You are now officially our son!"
A huge grin spread across his face.
"I get a cake?"
"Well you part of the family now son!"
Every one got a slice and the party moved to the dining room. Fox sat at the head of the table. Dana next to him.
He was so happy, so overjoyed. The whole family together, he was now apart of this...whoa...he felt so dizzy...he heard slurred voices as his vision blurred, and spun.
"Fox?"
"Fox what's wrong?"
"Are you ok?"
The world was beginning to go black...the last thing he remembered was the sent and taste of the cake.
Dana sat next to Fox at the table, they where celebrating his official join to the family. She looked at Fox. He was looking pale and sick.
"Fox?"
Everyone looked up to see he was looking sick. Maggie came over.
"Fox, what's wrong?"
"Are you ok?" asked Missy
Fox closed his eyes and fell face first into his cake.
"Fox!" cried out Dana. Maggie and Dana pulled Fox off his cake, and wiped his face off as they called out orders.
"Call an ambulance!" cried Maggie.
Missy had her hands over her mouth as she cried.
Charlie and Bill stared in shock.
"What the fu…" started Bill but was to shocked to finish. Charlie looked like he was on the verge of tears, he looked at Bill.
"What's happening?" whispered the youngest to the oldest.
"I don't know…"
"Come on Fox, wake up...come on..." said Dana in a soothing voice.
"Their on their way!" said William in a rushed voice.
He held Missy as he tried to calm her.
Georgetown Medical Center.
Maggie held sobbing Dana, as William did Missy. Bill and Charlie sat shoulder-to-shoulder looking at the floor.
The doctor walked into the waiting room.
"Ms...Scull-"
All the Scully's immediately stood up. He ushered them out into the hall. He began to explain why Fox collapsed.
"Fox has a brain tumor about the size of a pee. It's operational if we do it immediately... and with your consent of course."
"A tumor...?" whispered Dana
"Of...of course! Operate all you need."
All the Scully's stood in silence. Dana reached for her necklace to hold it as she always did when she was worried.
It was how she met him...and now she's praying for his life with it.
Fox was being wheeled into the operation bay.
They all looked away in sadness. Dana just looked at his face.
"I love you." She thought
2 days later
Fox awoke to find Dana at his side. He had bandages wrapped around his head. He took a deep breath and said in a raspy voice.
"Dana?"
"Fox? O thank god your awake!" She hugged him.
"Hospital again?" he asked in a distressed voice.
"You...fell unconscious at the party..."
"Why?"
"...you had a brain tumor..."
"..." He just looked at her. "And you paid for it?"
"Fox..." she said annoyed "Don't start..."
"Dana-"
"Fox your family, this would be exactly the same if it were me in that bed and not you."
"But Dana-"
"No. Fox...just rest..." she stroked his hair.
"Is it gone?"
She looked at him for a moment "Yes, it's gone...come on get some rest..." she said tucking him in. Fox smiled did as he was told and fell asleep.
June 16
And also it consisted of Fox and Bill's graduation. Fox and Bill sat in the tuxes. They looked so cute. They got their diplomas, and their sports awards. Fox was valedictorian, for he had the best grades.
Graduation day was also the 8-month anniversary of the day Fox and Dana met. It seems so much longer though.
June 20
The spring with the Scully's consisted of picnics, amusement parks and all that fun stuff. Fox was actually starting to feel like part of the family.
He bit another sunflower seed.
"Fox, why do you love those sun-flower seeds so much?" asked Dana
"My mom and dad used to take me and Sam to the sunflower fields...you got to pick your own sunflower seeds...that's the last place we went as a real family..."
"Oh...where...where did you go?"
"Smilely Sun-Flower Seed Fields..."
"Oh...um...can I have one?"
"Sure." without looking up from his basket ball encyclopedia he handed her some.
He looked up and saw his mother's face in the window. He had had this experience to many times. Fox got up and got his coat.
"Fox where are you going?" asked Dana
"For a walk." he closed the door.
He walked to his old house...his blood mother's. Teena's.
He knocked.
"Hello-Fox?"
"Hi Teena."
"Call me mom."
"But your not anymore."
He never really loved his mother and she never really loved him. He hated her more than he hated he dead father...at least he used to be nice to Fox...she never really was.
"If you just came to insult me you can leave."
"Teena, you...haven't been around the house have you?"
"...no...why?" she said slightly to quickly
"I just...thought I saw you...never mind. I'd better be getting back..."
"No, come inside."
"Ok..." he walked inside and the two sat down at the oh-to-familiar kitchen table.
"So, Fox how are you doing?"
"Ok...and yourself?"
"I could be better. All I ever needed was a family Fox."
"You had one and you ruined it."
"I need one who loved me..."
He stood. "So did I, Teena, you could have gotten my love...if you had protected me...I was your son!"
"You still are-!"
"NO! I'm not, I have a family who loves me now. I never got that from you." He walked out and slammed the door. She threw it back open and screamed after him
"YOU'RE MY SON! YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A MULDER! YOU WILL NEVER BE A SCULLY! YOU ARE A MULDER!"
"I'll never be a Scully..."
As Fox walked home, he cried. About everything.
About Samantha...
About Teena...
About his dead father...
About his past...
About the conversation he just had...
About that he would never be a Scully...
And no matter how much he hated his mother...and never listened to her...he knew this time...
"She's right..."
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Fox came home, he saw the two cars in the drive way.
"Joy..." he whispered, knowing they would want to know where he went. Tears still flowing down his cheeks he walked inside and went to the room he and Dana shared.
He began to feel sick. He laid down on his bed and covered his face with the pillow. He felt extremely nauseous. He ran to the bathroom that connected all three children's rooms. He began to throw up into the toilet seat. Before he knew it Maggie was at his side rubbing his back. She flushed the toilet and wiped off his face, and she got his a glass of water to clean out his mouth. He began to sob, and she hugged him.
"What's wrong Fox?"
He looked her in the eyes and cried: "I'll never be a Scully! I'll always be a Mulder!" he spat out the last word as if it where something so, vulgar, so distasteful, worse than the F word...
She led him back to the bed room and let him sleep. She turned off the light and just looked at him as he drifted off to sleep...
"You will all ways be a Scully..." she whispered...and shut the door.
At Dinner
"Where's Fox?" asked Dana
"He's not feeling well tonight. He's sleeping."
"Oh...mom? May I be excused?"
"Sure, are you feeling all right?"
"Yea...I'm just a bit tiered."
"Ok Hun."
Dana felt worried, she walked up the stairs and slowly opened the door to her bed room. He was awake.
"Hey Fox..."
"Hey..."
"Fox, what's wrong, where did you go?"
"Teena's..."
"What? Why?"
"I just keep seeing her..."
"Fox..."
"No...Dana...she...was right..."
"About what?"
"I'll never be a Scully...I'll always be a Mulder."
"Fox...it's ok to be a Mulder...because you're different kind of Mulder...but Fox...look at me." He gazed up into her deep blue ocean eyes...god he could look into them forever...
"No matter what anyone says...you will always be a Scully too..."
He nodded and the two hugged.
One week later. Missy and Dana where washing dishes, Charlie was doing laundry, Bill was vacuuming, Fox came in.
"I finished dusting."
"Thank you Fox, will you take the trash out now?"
"Of course." he grabbed the bag, and walked outside. He put it in their can, he didn't know why but he felt like someone was staring at him...he looked around...no one was there...
"I'm to damn paranoid." he said to himself
He turned to go towards the house. When he felt something hit the back of his head...and everything went black.
Inside
"Mom, I'm done...where's Fox?" asked Dana
"He went to take the trash out several minutes ago...check out side."
She did, he wasn't there.
"He's not out side mom."
"Maybe he came back in and we didn't notice..."
They looked around the house calling "Fox?"
"He's not here!" cried out Dana in worry.
"Maybe he just went on a walk..."
After an hour of waiting they decided to call the cops.
Unknown area
Fox opened his eyes. He was tied up in the back of a car...he looked out the window all he saw where pine trees zooming past the night sky.
Where the hell where their pine trees!
He looked at the driver. He became angry when he realized who it was after one glance.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!"
"You can call me mom." she said with no emotion.
"YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER!" he screamed
She made no reply.
"Where are we?"
She stopped the car...
"Smilely Sun-Flower Field."
"But...this place closed down years ago..."
She pulled into park.
"I know."
She pulled Fox out. She look a brick and smashed the door lock. She pulled Fox in, and placed him on a chair. She pulled his arms around the back of the chair.
"TEENA LET ME GO RIGHT F---ING NOW!" he screamed angrily.
She pulled out a syringe out of her purse; she took it from the hospital when she went to work (she was a nurse). She took a bottle, and filled the syringe with it. She began to walk towards Fox.
"No! NO PLEASE DON'T!" He began to struggle. She injected it into his shoulder. His eyes rolled back in his head. She smoothed his hair back.
"Just sleep Fox, mommy's here."
Scully Household
"...he was just going out to take the trash out-"
"Hey, Jones..." said a cop from the door way. "We found this." He held up a rock as big as his fist. It had blood on it. Maggie covered her mouth in fear.. "We think it's the weapon."
"Weapon! You mean he's hurt!" asked Dana in tears
"Well...there was a small trail of blood that stopped at the end of the driveway..."
"Omigod!" sobbed Dana into her father's shoulder.
"Don't worry, we'll track it for finger prints...I suggest you just all try to go on until we find him..."
"Try to go on! TRY TO GO ON! How can we try to go on! HE'S MISSING FOR GODSAKE! HE'S PART OF THE FAMILY!" screamed Dana, Her father pulled her into a hug.
Smilely Sun-Flower Field
Teena walked around the room, setting everything up.
She was cleaning, almost making it look like a nice living room or something.
Fox was still unconscious. She pulled the gun out of her purse. She began to rub it.
Fox slowly opened his eyes...jumping at remembering where he was.
"Teena...w-what are you doing...?"
"It was never supposed to be her you know." she said checking the clip and putting it back into the gun.
"What?"
"It was never supposed to Samantha, who was taken. It was supposed to be you."
"W-what?"
"Why did they have to mess it up? Why did they have to take my baby...why not...you?"
Fox just looked at her.
Scully Household
"Now...we need to find out who took hi-"
"I know who did..." said Dana "Teena Mulder."
"Are you positive-"
"Yes."
"Well we'll look in on her."
"Jones!" came the same voice from before. "We have a match on the finger prints on the rock." they all looked "Her name is Teena Mulder. She has a record."
"She does?"
"Yes, in the past her name was Francine Minces. She was arrested for assault of an officer, and the murder of her first husband and son."
They looked in shock.
"How the hell did she get off!"
"She ran. When we saw their prints matched we put the files together."
"They did some research and could never find her until now. She used to live in Olympia, Washington."
"Whoa..."
Dana choked back more tears...god only knew what she was doing...
"The hardest part will be figuring out where they went."
Dana began to rack her brain thinking.
"Fox, why do you love those sunflower seeds so much?"
"My mom and dad used to take me and Sam to the sunflower fields...you got to pick your own sunflower seeds...that's the last place we went as a real family..."
"Oh...where...where did you go?"
"Smilely Sun-Flower Seed Fields..."
Smilely Sun-Flower Seed Fields
"Smilely Sun-Flower Seed Fields!" called out Dana
"What?"
"Smilely Sun-Flower Seed Fields!" she said again. "He told me about them, he said it was the last real family memory he had...She took him there!"
"Let's go check it out."
"Let me come." demanded Dana
"Dana-" started her mom
"NO! I have to go!" she looked at her mom her voice lowering and cracking "I-I need to…please mama?"
Her mom just looked at her.
Smilely Sun-Flower Seed Fields
The cars slowly drove hidden behind the trees.
"Let me go in."
"Dana no, it's dangerous."
"Please, I know what I'm doing, they'll listen to me..."
There was a gun shot inside.
"S---!"
Five minutes and convincing argues later, Dana walked towards the door in a bullet proof vest. The 14 year old took a deep breath and slowly opened the door.
Fox was sitting on a chair, fighting to stay awake. When he saw Dana, he looked at her pleading. He was gagged and his shoulder was bloody, must have shot him there…
"What do you want?" asked Teena checking the clip again. Dana slowly inched towards Fox, as she spoke.
"Please Teena, you know you don't want to hurt anyone..." said Dana, getting closer to Fox.
"He's my son Dana." she said
"Ms. Teena...please...he's your son...yes...but he's in our family now..."
"I love him."
"You can't just say you love him...you have to show it...and I haven't seen that."
She narrowed her eyes, the flames of anger flaring in her eyes. "What do you mean by that?" she asked angered
"Do you know his favorite food?"
"I...uh..."
"Corn Dogs...do you know his favorite band?"
"I don't...er...I-"
"The Beetles. Did you know earlier this year he had a brain tumor?"
"What?"
"See...you can't just claim to love someone...you need to show it...you need to be there for them...Teena...I--please…"
She bit her lip, "I...you..."anger and regret filled tears welled up in her eyes, She lifted the gun to her head.
"NO! Teena don't!"
Another gunshot rang through the air as Teena hit the floor, a bullet from her own gun, killing her.
Dana stood there for a moment in shock.
Then she turned to Fox...his eyes were closed. Dana undid the gag.
"Fox...wake up Fox please wake up..."
He opened his eyes slightly and heaved in a great breath. Getting caught on it...
"Dana..." he whispered
"Shhh…shhh...it's going to be all right."
"I love you..."
He closed his eyes as the paramedics came rushing in. She caressed his cheek and let the paramedics take over.
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Epilogue
Four Years Later
Fox walked into the living room where Dana sat.
"Dana."
"Yes Fox?"
"I have some...stuff to tell you..."
"Sure Fox, what is it?"
"First off, I got into Oxford."
"FOX! That's great!...but isn't that in London?"
Fox sadly nodded.
"Oh...w-what was that other thing?"
"As dumb as this sounds-I-I don't think I'm going to be a Scully anymore..."
"What do you mean Fox?" she asked in pure confusion
"I don't want to be a Scully..."
"Why not!"
"So I can be with you."
"But you'll always be with me..."
"Not like that..."
Her eyes widened slightly. The two inched closer and closer until they could feel the other's body heat...their lips touched. They stayed like that for a while...they pulled away. Gazed into the other's eyes.
"I love you Fox..."
"I love you too Dana."
End