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Note: Thank you to Kyouryoku Senshi for being my beta!

Focus

William was miserable. He didn't know how much time had passed, it was impossible to tell day from night. The constant tests and forced therapy didn't help either. There was nothing consistent about the schedule and it threw him off.

Sometimes it would feel like days before he saw another person and then he would be forced to spend all day with on 'trainer' or another.

As time flew by, he began to actually learn how to grow his powers. Shelly, who still was claiming to be his ally, was able to improve his range of hearing.

Currently, he was working on trying to move a pencil with his mind.

He had done it before, but he was under stress in this place. Shelly would tell him to clear his mind and be calm when he was trying to use his powers, but it was hard to do that when you were trapped in some sort of secret test facility wondering if your parents were even alive.

William focus. Shelly's voice came into his mind.

He squeezed his eyes shut and felt the anger in him. Instead of trying to remain calm, he used it.

The pencil flew across the room and imbedded itself in the wall.

Shelly was speechless with her mouth hanging wide open when William opened his eyes.

"I'm done for today. I want to see Diana," William said standing up.

"William that was great! But you are not done and I am sure that she is busy right now," Shelly was scrambling to get up behind him.

"I don't care! I am sick of this! Where are my parents?!"

The table in the room began to shake along with the chairs. Shelly looked paniced and ran for a button on the wall and pushed it as one of the chairs lifted of the ground.

"I want to see my parents! NOW!"

"William, calm down! You can't lose control!" Shelly said backing against the wall making futive glances toward the door.

"I've been calm and have gotten no answers! Maybe you will all pay attention if I just let go!"

By this point, the table was also off of the ground and William was getting madder by the second.

In a flurry, the door burst open and three large men came into the room holding stun guns. Shelly ran out of the room as two of them grabbed William. They held him down until one was hit over the chair with one of the flying chairs.

William pulled free and began to run.

The hallway was shaking with energy and the glass windows on many of the doors burst as he ran by.

William was pretty fast but the men were faster, he knew it would not be long before they caught him no matter how many windows he broke.

"Mulder!" He shouted as he ran. Diana had indicated that Mulder was in the same building. It was impossible to tell how big the place was but shouting was worth a try.

"Mulder! Help!" William continued to scream, but he was running out of breath.

One of the men finally was close enough to grab hold of William and throw him down on the ground.

"DAD!" William screamed before one of the men's giant hands covered his mouth. All three held him down as one administered to him a drug that quickly put him to sleep. His last thoughts were of finding his birth parents.

"Mulder?"
Mulder looked up from his desk to see his wife standing in the doorway smiling at him happily with her hands behind her back.

"Hey, what's up?" He asked leaning back in his chair as she approached.

She came to sit down on his lap and wrapped an arm around his neck.

"I have a surprise for you. Close your eyes."

He did as he was told.

"Ok, open."

When he opened his eyes he was looking at a pregnancy test that read positive. He stared at it for a moment and then it all hit him. He jumped up out of the chair cradling Scully in his arms and kissing her.

They looked happily at one another in between kisses until everything fell apart.

"MULDER!"

The screams were loud in his head and terrifying. The worst part is that Scully didn't even seem to hear the screams she kept smiling at him.

Then he remembered, once again, that none of this was real. Something was disturbing him this time.

"MULDER!"

The image of a smiling young Scully disappeared before his eyes.

"No please! Please I want to stay!" Mulder shouted into the air.

He didn't want it to end. He knew where he would wake up, a nightmare. He would wake alone in a hospital room and all over again would feel the fear for his partner and son.

Despite this the screams continued for another moment until he finally heard the last call, which was louder and more desperate than the others.

"DAD!"

Mulder knew that voice, it was his son. His son was yelling for him; he was in trouble. The fantasy didn't seem to matter anymore.

"William. William!" He began to yell as he started to wake.

His eyes opened to see his own body struggling under the restraints holding him in place.

"William!" He shouted, or at least intended to shout. It came out like a stage whisper.

Diana entered the room quickly with fury in her eyes. She didn't bother to say anything as a nurse followed behind her and administered the drug that would bring him back to the false reality.

He was again torn between the beautiful fake life and the real one where he knew his son needed help.

"Where is William? I heard him! Where is he?" Mulder said thrashing around.

"Fox, William is fine. That is in your mind. Go back, everything will be alright," Diana said seeming suddenly softer. She stroked his face and hair and spoke in a calming voice.

"Let me take care of you, Fox. Everything will be alright," she said as she kissed his forehead.

The room began to swim and everything looked fuzzy to him, "Everything… alright…"

He started to relax but the memory of William's desperate cries came to him again, "William… I need to find my son…" His heart clenched, as he felt helpless. "I need to find Scully… My Scully… Real Scully… Where is she?"

Diana's voice took on a harder tone, "She is fine, Fox. She has moved on with her life."

"Lies… she will come for me… Scully…"

There was so much he wanted to add but his mind and body were failing him. Darkness overtook him and he cursed himself for letting it happen.