Disclaimer: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Diana Fowley etc. are the creations and property of Chris Carter, 1013 Productions and the Fox Broadcasting Corporation.The characters of FFVIII belong to Squaresoft/ Square-Enix

Summary: Mulder, Scully, Fowley and Reyes are working together at the X-Files. Mulder never had a relationship with Fowley and he is secretly dating Scully. But there's something wrong with Mulder's behaviour; he always has to go away on weekends and Scully wants to find out why…


CHAPTER ONE


June 1995

2:15 PM, FBI headquarters


"Dad?" called a young girl.

"Who's there?" asked Diana Fowley.

But before she could get an answer a little seven year-old girl with shoulder-length brown hair and big blue eyes opened the door and entered the office.

"Oh!" Said the girl and looked intriguingly at Fowley. She seemed definitely surprised to find this woman sitting in her father's office.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you, I was just looking for my dad, this is his office, I think…"

She had a brief look at the walls, just to make sure she wasn't mistaken and when she saw the big poster saying I want to believe she sighed of relieve and smiled.

"You're dad?" repeated Fowley slightly amazed.

"I'm sorry but I think you've got the wrong office. Little girls can easily lose their way in such a huge building" explained Diana.

"No, I'm absolutely certain that this is the right office" replied the girl.

She seemed very resolute in her affirmation and Diana decided not to contradict her; instead she walked towards the little girl and asked her what her name was.

"Paula" she answered.

"Paula… hmm that's a nice name" said Fowley with a kind voice, now kneeling in order to reach the same height as Paula.

She looked into the girls' dark blue eyes, wondering who her father might be. Could her previous statement be true? Could she be Mulder's daughter?

No, she can't be, Mulder has no time for a private life don't even mention having children.

Paula's affirmation disturbed her but now was not the time for thinking about it; she still had a lot work to do before the end of the day and couldn't afford to lose any supplementary time.

"I'll escort you to the reception where we'll ask someone to find your dad, so you don't get lost a second time, alright?"

"You don't need to do that; really, I'll wait till he comes back."

And after finishing this sentence, Paula walked towards Mulder's desk and took place in his chair, smiling cheerfully. She started playing with his pencils not worrying about Fowley's irritated and annoyed look.

Fowley sighed; she really wasn't good at dealing with children and this one was starting to get on her nerves.

Paula's not the kind of girl that you get easily rid of and Diana just came to understand that.


June 1995

2:40 PM, FBI headquarters


Someone knocked at the door and Diana got up to answer.

"Hello, my name is Edea Loire. I'm visiting the HQ with my students and I just realized that one of the girls got lost, her name's Paula. She's-"

The woman didn't have the time to finish her sentence that Diana interrupted her, opening the door largely and saying "There she is".

Paula had a brief look at a very cross Edea, sensed that she had done something bad and stopped playing with Mulder's pencils at once.

Edea was relieved to finally find Paula in good hands but couldn't hide that she was angry with her student for getting lost.

"I'm sorry, I won't get separate from the group a second time, I promise. Please, please don't be mad at me." said Paula with a little voice, looking at her teacher with those puppy-dog eyes that no one can stand firm to.

"It's ok; I shouldn't have let you out of sight. It's partly my fault."

Edea smiled at the girl and indicated her to come at her side.

"I apologize for the disturbance agent, this won't happen again. Thanks for taking care of Paula. I hope she didn't bother you too much" said Edea.

"No, but next time don't let her out of sight, the FBI's not a kindergarten" said Fowley sharply.

"I won't. Have a nice day." answered Edea

"Goodbye" mumbled Fowley as she watched them both leave the office


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