"Mum, how much longer until we get home?" Emily asked impatiently. They had boarded the plane in London about three hours ago, and taken off two and a half hours earlier.

"About five and a half hours sweetheart, I know you want to get home quickly and I'm sorry this is taking so long." Scully tried to say as she observed Emily.

Mulder wasn't kidding when he said that Emily looked more and more like her everyday. Emily had the classic Scully red hair, freckles in practically the same place as her mother, and her mothers smile. The only real difference was that Emily's eyes had changed color from the icy blue that her sister and mother shared, to a soft almsot emerald green. Scully wondered if she had chameloen eyes that could change colors depending on what she was wearing or her mood, but no one in her family possesed that trait. The girl was also, like her mother and sister, short to put it lightly.

"That's not that long Mum, I can wait." Emily said showing her mother her brilliant smile. Scully smiled back as Emily turned in her seat and decided to use Scully as a pillow. She was asleep within minutes. Scully turned her head to see Mulder in much the same position with Clarice. She loved watching the two of them together, it made her feel like she was finally getting her family. He must have sensed her stare because he suddenly looked up and locked eyes with her. They clasped hands on the arm rest and communicated silently while their daughthers were asleep.

"Can I get you anything?" a stewardess asked as she stood next to the family.

"No thank you." Mulder said not breaking eye contact with Scully. Neither of them noticed it was the same stewardess as their last flight.

"Alright then." she said with fake enthusiasm. She walked purposely back to the steward's area and once again threw the curtain closed. She grabbed the phone roughly off the hook, pushing the buttons harshly as she dialed.

"Yes?" a man answered.

"Jack, put him on. Now." she demanded.

"Of course ma'am." Jack said. The line was silent for a few moments.

"Hello Rachel." another man said smoothly.

"What the hell did you do?" she growled, "She is with them! I thought you told me that was never going to happen? I only agreed to raise her because I thought I'd be keeping her! Not being a stand in until they showed up!"

The man paused breifly, making sure she was done, "Rachel, calm down. We both knew that you were incapable of caring for the girl properly. She spent much more time with me than with you." he explained.

"So why didn't you keep her?" she questioned angrily, "Why give her to them? Why give away my baby girl?" she demanded to know.

"It's simple really Rachel." the man said pausing and she could just see him taking a puff of a cigarette, "They will never bother us again. With the teenager only they may have not quite the bureau, she is old enough to stay home alone for a little while. Causing that accident wasn't enough. Now that they have Emily, they will follow my ultimatum exactly to keep her. They will quite the bureau and we will never hear from them again. They are the only people capable of exposing us and now they will be to busy with their perfect little family to worry about us."

Rachel gasped, "You gave them my daughter...for your...your business?" she asked shocked.

"She's not you daughter Rachel, never has been, and she knew it. She is with her parents now, the only people she every considered her parents. Leave her alone. She's happy." the man said softly, "Let her be happy."

"We were happy." Rachel whispered softly.

"YOU were happy." the man corrected, "She was waiting for her parents to save her."

Rachel stood motionless for a minute, before slamming the phone into it's craddle. She snuck over to the curtain and drew it back just enough to see them. The man, Mulder, was gazing down at the woman, Scully, who had now also fallen asleep. The teenager, Clarice, slept peacefully against Mulder's shoulder and her daughter, Emily, was clinging to Scully even in her sleep and Scully was holding her tightly, "I hope you're happy." Rachel whispered bitterly. She'd leave them alone, if only for Emily's sake, but she wouldn't be happy about it.

"Girls?" Scully asked as the wind blew her hair and dress around her. She was once again on the beach but the girls and Mulder were no where to be seen. She started walking in the direction she thought her children would be.

After a little while the outline of the house was starting to get visible. Scully could feel herself smile as she heard laughter that the wind had carried to her ears. As she rounded a sand dune a huge sand castle came into her view. It had to be at least three feet high and the whole thing looked very complicated and was covered in intrecate designs.

"Mama!" Scully heard yelled from on of the other sand dunes that lined the path up to the house. She saw little William jump off of the hill and start running down the path. He jumped into her arms as soon as he was close enough to her and buried his head in her neck when she craddeled him close, "Hi mama." he whispered as she felt him smile against her neck.

"Hi there baby boy." Scully said running her hand up and down his back, "What have you been up to?" she asked happily.

William looked up at her and, if possible, his smile grew wider, "Building a sand castle mama, do you like it?" he asked sweetly. He looked simply adorable.

"I love it." she said kissing his cheek lightly which made him giggle and smile again, "Did you do it all by yourself?" she asked faking shock.

"Course not mama." William exclaimed giggling at her silliness, "Come with me." he said wriggling to be let down. As soon as she set him down he grabbed her hand and started running back up the path towards the sand pile he'd been playing on. They rounded the hill and Scully gasped, stopping dead in her tracks. Emily sat braiding a little girls hair while she and Clarice talked. When William had run around the corner they all looked over at her, and sort of froze. Emily and Clarice smiled, and the little girl just stared at her. Quietly she got up and just stood there. Scully fell down onto her knee's to be at the little girls height. the girl started running towards Scully as soon as her knee's touched the ground.

"Hi mama." the girl whispered as she clung tightly to Scully.

Scully took a shaky breathe before barely whispering, "Hi Melissa."