We arrived about an hour ago to almost no traffic so it took us no time to get to the J. Edgar Hoover Building. When we got inside I went straight to the front desk and asked to speak to anybody off the list of: Monica Reyes, John Dogget, Walter Skinner, Dana Scully or Fox Mulder. After a brief pause we were allowed to enter an elevator to go to the 5th floor and a room to go to. It was a series of offices that were in this hallway and one door had the name: AD Skinner on the front of the door. We entered the room; William was slightly behind me. We were in the front rooms of an office that had a couch and a desk with a small women sitting behind it. She looked up as we entered and waved us into another door. When we passed this doorway we found ourselves in an office and found three people sitting there waiting for us.
The first was a slightly older male with a bald crown and he held an air of command; he was Walter Skinner. The second was a younger male with a full head of hair and a very strong New York accent. He introduced himself as John Dogget and the other was a female. She was Hispanic and confident. She also introduced herself, as Monica Reyes. When that was all done I introduced myself and called William "My charge". When asked what this was about; I tossed the folder with the adoption papers and certificates of death on the desk and waited while they all read the papers. Finally Skinner asked: "So what can we help you with?"
"I want to find this "Dana Scully" and see if she is ready, willing and ready to raise her biological son. No other person or persons on the Van de Kamp's list is contactable or able to care for the child, she is his last hope or he goes into the system and might get lost, if you know what I mean."
"What makes you think that we can help you?" Dogget asked
"Because you three and someone called Fox Mulder were mentioned in the adoption papers the most; that and the lady at the adoption agency suggested that I find Agent Reyes to find Scully. So can you help me or do I need to put him in the system?"
"Let me make a call" Agent Reyes slipped out of her chair and went into the hallway. She was gone for a few seconds and William was getting antsy and I put a hand on his arm and gave him a small smile. Dogget just stared at William for a second and then he smiled and looked away; muttering what sounded like "Has her eyes . . . and his face."
"She can come by this place by this evening; they are in town to sell some property and it'll take until this evening to finalize it all. She'll be here in about two hours. I asked that it just be her, but she'll most likely have Mulder with her as well." Reyes told us as she came back into the room.
The next two hours seemed to go by so slow for everybody. Everybody else had work to do while they waited and I sat patiently and William fell asleep and was placed on the couch. Fifteen minutes before the two hour mark everybody was back in the office waiting for her to come. And still William slept. Ten minutes later Skinner got a call and he told them to send them up. Three minutes after that we all could hear the outside office doors opening. Finally the inside door opened and two people entered the room. While everybody got up to give their hellos I watched the two people.
The first one to enter was a short woman. She had long hair that was the color of a dark rich almost auburn red. Her eyes were the same shade and shape as the sleeping boy on the couch; this must be Dana Scully. She was wearing a pea coat and I could see black slacks and high heels. The man following her was almost six feet in height and had dark brown hair and a weird shade of hazel eyes. He was dressed simply in jeans and a long sleeved black shirt. He had and easy-going smile, but his eyes darted all around the room. He had one hand placed in the small of the women's back. I am guessing that this is Fox Mulder; as he is the only one I had yet to see.
I get up to check on William; he seems to be fast asleep and his injuries are healing nicely. Going back to where I had been sitting draws attention to me. And now both of their eyes are on me. This was it; the moment of truth. I took a deep breath as Skinner invites everybody to their seats. Once everybody is seated he looks at me; well her would I am the reason we are all in this room right now.
"Okay I am going to skip the pleasantries; I find them pointless and distracting. I work as a Child Services Case Worker in the state of Wyoming. Three nights ago a family got into their car and started going home; about halfway through they were hit with a drunk driver; who died on impact. All three family members were rushed to a nearby hospital. The driver was not wearing a seatbelt and therefore suffered massive internal bleeding; he died en route to the hospital. The woman next him was turned around in the car at the time of impact and suffered severe blows to the base of the neck severing the C-3 and C-4 vertebrae; She died on an operating table. Their son was also in the car with them in a "Big-Kid" seat thingy they have for the kids these days. He suffered minor injuries from the glass and force of impact. He was then discharged into my care the following afternoon.
"Instructions were left for the boy's care and upbringing in 4 options: Option 1: Grandparents on one side, however they are in a nursing home. Option two: Grandparents from other side; both passed away in the past six months. Option three: Neighbor who about 7 days ago disappeared off the face of the known world. That left me with option four. The child had been adopted and I had the impression that the last option was t track down the biological parents and see if they could take care of the child.
"I talked with the child's case worker at the adoption agency and she told me that the best way to find the biological mother would be to track down one of the people in this room and get them to contact her."
I let this news sink in for a minute as I took a drink of water and moved back to the couch and woke William. I helped him stand up and held his good arm as I led him to the group of adults; he had his eyes on the floor as he walked next to me.
"Dana Scully and I presume, Fox Mulder may I introduce you to William Van de Kamp; born William Scully the third." William looked up as I said his name and then looked at the newcomers. I too looked at the adults; Mulder had gone all tense and had a shocked look on his face as he looked into the eyes that were so much like the woman next to him. Scully on the other hand had a wide eyed look on her face as she tried to get enough air into her lungs. The sound of her almost hyperventilating drew Mulder's gaze to her and he wordlessly pulled her into his arms as she started to sob.