Author's Note: Written for a Non-Dialogue Challenge for March,
2006, at Mulder's Refuge.  I have never written a completely
narrative story -- not even in elementary nor high school. So,
please clobber me kindly if I mess up! It's also the 161st
X-Files story for me, and that's if I don't break down two long
series into smaller parts!

 

Written March 16, 2006.

 

There is an office deep in the bowels of the J. Edgar Hoover
Building, the national headquarters of the FBI. The X-Files
file cabinets were set aside specifically for unexplained,
unsolved cases, and some of those were of the most unbelievable
nature.

 

When Fox Mulder found out about these files, he was a young,
idealistic FBI Agent investigating violent crimes. Word was
out that this young man had sworn his sister had been kidnapped
by aliens. He just couldn't get anyone to believe his story.

He also believed in paranormal phenomena, and was open to the
idea of extraterrestrial life possibly visiting our planet.
Spooky? Yes. In fact, that was his nickname at the FBI
Academy. 'Spooky Mulder'.

 

One day, he met a man named Arthur Dales. Dales had worked with
Bill Mulder, Fox's father, at one point in his career, and
contacted the younger Mulder. The tales of a couple of cases
the man had seen were almost too extreme for even Mulder to
grasp, but the more he thought about them, the more intrigued
he was. After all, when someone as intelligent as Fox Mulder
meets with something that cannot be understood, often a long
quest for the meaning of unknown and uncommon origin results.
(In other words, tell a kid there's a candy bar hidden in
Mom's dresser, and he just might look for it. Mulder was that
type of kid.)

 

Intense curiosity, as just mentioned, leads to a quest for
answers, causes, any and all information. After all, when
Banting and Best tried to find a life saving treatment for
diabetes, they eventually discovered that pancreatic cells
in dogs produced insulin -- a hormone necessary for the proper
metabolism of blood sugars.

 

Mulder was not only on a quest to explain hauntings, paranormal
phenomena, freaks of nature and extrasensory preception. He
came to believe that a secret government agenda may well have
been behind his sister's disappearance at the age of eight.
The guilt he felt for not being able to prevent the girl from
being taken only made the twelve-year-old boy more determined
to do everything he possibly could to educate himself not only
in Criminology, but also Parapsychology and Psychology. He
would start out as a criminal profiler, and keep going from
there. With the help of Arthur Dales' account of the X-Files,
he would then go on to pursue a career in the non-mainstream
cases, in the basement of the Hoover.

 

He had a short partnership with Agent Diana Fowley, who opted
for a transfer not long into their working relationship. That
worked out for the best, because they had become lovers for a
short time, and the relationship ended abruptly. Former lovers
do not make the best workmates.

 

In 1993, Special Agent Dana Scully, a young FBI Agent recruited
out of medical school, had a strong scientific background. She
was assigned to debunk Mulder's studies into the unexplained,
and especially the ever growing accounts of people having
been abducted by aliens since the Roswell crash in 1947. Little
did they know that Dana Scully was not easily manipulated.

Despite all attempts to censure Special Agent Fox Mulder, his
new partner would go on to be his most vociferous ally. She had
a mind of her own, and could see beneath the agenda of her
superiors at The Hoover. In fact, at the first meeting with
Section Chief Blevins, she saw that someone wanted something
to stay quiet, and someone to keep Mulder away from that quiet
little secret. Little secrets have a way of covering up much
bigger secrets, just as little lies become bigger lies as time
goes by.

 

Case by case, year after year, there seemed a consistent pattern
in the response of Mulder and Scully's superiors until, in 1998,
after all that they had been exposed to and threatened to expose,
the X-Files Office was shut down and files destroyed. Yet, the
search went on, because of their tenacity, and because there
were people who were tiring of the lies, the conspiracies in
dark, smokey rooms, and the mismanagement of a deal with the
Devil that went terribly wrong.

 

The X-Files office was reopened after only a few months of
inactivity. The men who had infiltrated the FBI were convinced
that Mulder and Scully were best kept in tow right back where
they began their quest for answers to a now very big question.

 

If push came to shove, there would be a way of dealing with
both of them. If Scully had not learned something from her
abduction early in the partnership, perhaps she could be of
better use to the aliens and conspirators some time in the
future. After all, she wanted a child some day. What better way
to make good on another deal with the Devil than to have her
produce a child that could stave off invasion and Colonization
by extraterrestrials, and/or their opponents, also not of this
world?

 

Then, there was Mulder himself. He could be used to their
advantage and silenced at the same time. Well, much as they
tried so to do that, Mulder survived an alien virus to return
to Scully's side.

 

Yet despite grievous injuries to both agents in the line of
duty and outside of the mainstream cases, these two individuals
only grew closer to each other, agreed more with their
informants' opinions, and rallied from many dangerous, near-death
experiences to become even more determined to expose the lies
and deceptions their employers threw onto their path.

 

Scully was trying to concieve a child by in-vitro fertilization,
and even asked Mulder to donate sperm to the cause. For some
reason, Scully became pregnant with Mulder's child. The child
would be much sought after by men fostering a hidden agenda
of a 'super soldier race', capable of withstanding pretty much
anything, including a viral war, and not welcome hosts to
the virus known as 'Purity'. These 'super soldiers' were to
be impervious to 'black oil' acting as a carrier for a gray
race of aliens.

 

Well, the result of Scully's pregnancy was a baby boy who was
not the wonder child desired by the enemy, and the 'super
soldier' people who saw this wondrous creature left the boy
with Scully. What did they know about little William?

 

Perhaps
they had a sense that this child was most likely not of any
use to them.

Throughout the previous years, a man who was out to stymie,
stall and stump Fox Mulder was actually Mulder's safeguard
of sorts. This man, C.G.B. Spender, was Mulder's biological
father. His other son was also an FBI Agent, had been taken
by aliens, as had Scully and Mulder on separate occasions, and
STILL he could not stop any of them from seeking 'The Truth".

The 'other son', Jeffrey Spender, became allied with the two
intrepid agents, and provided a serum to render the baby boy's
alien DNA, what little there was, inactive.

 

Although there was danger, death, illness, even a threatened
execution resulting from false murder charges for Fox Mulder,
'The Truth' was revealed. Spender the elder informed Mulder
that there was a planned Armageddon between the government
sponsored 'super soldiers', the greys, and those who were
bounty hunters, due to occur on December 22, 2012 AD. Mulder,
a wanted fugitive, had been aided by Scully and several FBI
agents to escape military prison and a death sentence, and now
the two people most likely not to agree in 1993, and who had
become closer in some ways more than family members, are now on
the run from the Consortium of conspirators, the aliens, the
shadowy figures who had infiltrated the FBI, and from the law.
The shadowy figures at the FBI were not human, as one Gibson
Praise, a boy genius and one of a very few humans gifted with
remnant DNA which was alive, and enabling him to detect those
aliens, had announced at Mulder's trial.

 

To this day, Mulder and Scully are the best of friends, the
most loyal, steadfast partners, with a love and trust most
people envy. With their determination and trust in a higher
power, as well as their keen instincts, some day they will not
only save the world -- they will find their son.

 

Why have I told this tale? Who am I? That's not important.
But if ever you see a tall man with brown hair alongside a
petite woman with red hair, walking with a remarkably
intelligent little boy... Well, let's just say they may have
saved the world for us, with a little help from their friends
who remained at the FBI to join in that venture.

 

The biggest of lies can often be reduced to powder with the
smallest truth, a lot of trust, and love. Yes, love.

 

How will it be done? Wait and watch. They will succeed just as
surely as the sun rises.

 

                             END