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Dreaming

They made their way out of the school and headed to a McDonalds that was across the street. Once seated with drinks and a meal Talon opened up his laptop.

"So I was randomly looking around last night on the Lone Gunmen sight when I couldn't sleep and I came across this." He turned the laptop around so William could see the screen. William took a quick sip of his coke and pulled the laptop closer.

The page read: 'Miraculous conception or a Government/alien conspiracy?'

He scanned down and read an unbelievable story about to unnamed FBI agents. The female agent had known for a few years that she would be unable to have children but mysteriously found herself pregnant with not much of an explanation as to how the child came to be. The writer of the article speculated that this child was either some kind of anomaly created the old fashioned way or was apart of a larger conspiracy to create an alien slave race. William felt a strange connection to the story but did not understand how this was connected to him.

"What? Do you think I am the baby they are talking about?" William asked skeptically.

"At first I thought nothing of it but if you keep scrolling down you will see a later entry about the birth of the baby. It was amazing. The child was born in a secret location surrounded by on lookers that they call 'super soldiers'. But the thing is that they only have two more publications one details the abduction of the kid's father and the other tells of the baby who they say had some kind of powers that let him move things with his mind. Then I found a follow up article that explained the death of the guys who ran this paper."

"Ok but I still don't see the connection."

"The kid could move things with his mind Will! You've done that before!"

"Yeah a couple times and only things that are really small."

"You say that like it is something everyone can do." Talon said dryly.

"Sorry I just am not really in the mood." William shut the laptop.
"That's ok. I was hoping it would help you to feel better."

"It's just…the dream that I had during class… It was awful. I think I understand why she gave me up. I don't know what was happening but it was really bad." William felt tears prickle at his eyes. "But the worst was this whole time I had this feeling that something bad is gonna happen. Like really bad. At the very end of the dream I felt it. She looked at me and it was like a small voice said, 'she needs you'. I don't understand!" William laid his head on the table in a gesture of defeat.

Talon sat quietly for a moment before saying quietly, "What do you think is going to happen?"

William looked up at him, "I think I am going to have to dream more to find out. The thing is though that I don't want to find out! I didn't ask for any of this! If my parent's lives were so dangerous and supernatural why would they even have me!?"

"Well you saw the report on it. Your mom never thought she could have a kid. They were probably over the moon."

"Well she didn't think she could protect me so how could I ever hope to protect her from whatever is coming?"

"Like you said: you need another dream."

There was still a few hours left in school but the boys did not want to go back so they decided to sneak back to Talon's house since his parents worked during the day. They had decided that William should try to go back to sleep to see what else he could figure out.

William was exhausted so falling asleep was not too hard except for the fear that he felt in the back of his mind. As his eyes closed a vision began right away.

This vision was different than the others though it seemed more like a message. William could not shake the feeling that someone or something was orchestrating this and his concerns were confirmed when he heard a voice say, 'everything will be fine but they need you'. As the voice trailed off William found himself in a classroom filled with what looked like college students. He turned his head and was startled to find a very young version of his birth mother.

She was chewing on her pencil as she concentrated on the words coming from the professor. Right as he was wondering if she could see him she looked up and gave him a small smile. His heart stopped for a moment and he was about to reach out when he found himself somewhere else.

It was a tiny dark room. William surmised that it was a basement based off the one window in the room that was at the very top of the celling. He turned when he heard footsteps entering the room. There walking into the room holding two boxes filled with who knows what was his father who also looked much younger than in previous dreams. He didn't seem to take notice of William as he unpacked his boxes and hummed unintelligible tunes.

William watched in wonder as his birth father unraveled a poster featuring a flying saucer with the words 'I WANT TO BELIEVE' stamped across the bottom. His father stood back and looked at it for a moment and then got back to work unpacking his boxes.

Next thing William knew he was standing in a small dark apartment. He heard the sounds of a TV and turned to see both his birth parents sitting on the couch watching a movie. Beers and pizza in hand they both looked intently at the TV as if something very important was unfolding.

"Mulder this is ridiculous and frankly pretty gross. I'm eating!" His birth mother said looking disgusted at the TV.

"Oh come on Scully you preform autopsies like once a week and you can't stomach animal/alien births!?" His father replied sounding astonished.

"Yes but not while eating! And anyways I see no proof of anything alien just unusual animal births." She said with a mouth full.

"But Scully did you see the last one when…"

The sound of playful arguing faded as he was transported to another memory.

He was in a hospital room. He saw his father lying on the bed and next to him sat his mother. He had his hand on her cheek, which was covered by her own.

"So I see I missed a lot." He said nodding pointedly at her. William took a few quiet steps closer and realized that she was pregnant and looked pretty far along.

He could tell she had been crying but she looked so happy at the same time. She gave a small sad laugh in response and said, "Not too much. Pretty boring around here." There was a slight twinkle in her eyes and she kissed his hand.

"So… How? How is it possible?"

"I don't know Mulder." A few stray tears made tracks down her face but a small smile remained. "There are no explanations. I am kind of scared of what the answers could be."
"Did they do anything to you?" He said slightly more alert.
"No. I found out the night you were abducted. That's why I was so sick. I passed out while I was with the Gunmen and they ran me to the hospital. When they told me I didn't know how to feel. My first reaction was thinking how excited I was to tell you and not a few minutes later Byers came in and told me you were missing."

He just looked at her sadly.

"I need you for this." She said meaningfully. "I don't know how this child came to be but I need you. He will need you."

A smile broke out onto his fathers face, "He?"

His mother nodded, "But don't tell anyone. It's a secret."

The last image of them was of his birth parents looking at each other smiling and full of love.

He was not prepared for what came next. He was in a jail cell looking at his parents sitting on the floor. His father was in an orange prison uniform and looked like he had gone through hell. His mother was crying.

"… You have no idea how much has already been lost. What I've had to do." She said breathlessly.

"I do know. Skinner told me." He said carefully.

This seemed to make her heart break even more, "Our son, Mulder… I gave him up. "

He embraced her wordlessly and she continued, "Our son. I'm so afraid you could never forgive me."

"I know you had no choice." He spoke into her hair. "I just missed both of you so much."

Everything around William grew dark and the image of his parents crying and holding each other slipped away.