Part 9 - Explanations
Author's Note: Sorry it's been so long since I've posted last. I've been busy with school and got caught up in another story I was doing. I'm back at it now, so hopefully my posts will be less further apart.
Sapphire and Scully sat at a large table that had been set up in the middle of the what once was the playroom. Across from them Leki stood, watching as Emily climbed up into her mother's lap.
"How is this possible? We can't have kids, They made sure themselves." said Sapphire.
Leki smiled gently at the younger woman. "You see Sapphire, Dana is not like the rest of us. Just as Samantha is not like the rest of us."
Scully looked at her. "I'm different? How?"
Leki pushed a button on the side of the table causing a screen to drop down. An image was projected on it of a DNA strand. "This is Dana's DNA, and next to it," another image was projected along side the first, "is yours Sapphire. You'll notice the differences in the areas that control strength, and reproduction ... along with several others."
"The only one of us They made differently was Samantha. So how is this possible?" asked Scully, staring wide-eyed at the screen.
"Your abduction, which was punishment for helping Mulder, it had a unforseen result. Whatever tests, or "improvements" they made to you then unwittingly undid what They had worked so hard to do in the first place."
"You know one thing I've never understood is that They want to make an army of us right?" said Sapphire, the other women nodded. "So why make us infertile? Don't They want us to make more, so Their army grows?"
"They probably want to control it as much as possible." said Scully, hugging Emily a little tighter. The little girl had fallen asleep in Scully's arms while they had talked.
Leki nodded, "That is our guess as well. However, that's not all that was done-"
"There's more!" said Sapphire.
"Yes, you see what They did, also made Dana's body adjust to the new situations it is put through such as-"
"-The fight with Samantha, that I won." Scully finished.
Leki nodded. "You are now stronger than any one of us. Including Samantha Mulder."
Scully stood and set the sleeping Emily in the chair next to her. "I can't believe this."
"Believe it, you would've have been able to win otherwise." said Sapphire.
Scully just stared at the screen before her, and then dropped to the floor in a dead faint. "Dana," both Leki and Sapphire shouted racing to her side.
Mulder stood in his dark cell, he had been left alone since Samantha joyously left. He had just made up his mind to risk it and contact Scully via the crystal when the door opened.
Samantha stood there glowering, "Damn her brother. She beats me every time, but this time she won't be so lucky." Samantha walked out and slammed the door behind her. Mulder stood there uneasily, fighting the uneasy feeling rising in the pit of his stomach.
Sorry it's so short. Please R&R, my muse needs the inspiration sometimes.