From phuwv@csv.warwick.ac.uk Sat Mar 01 06:25:57 1997 Newsgroups: alt.tv.x-files.creative Subject: NEW: First Encounter 1/1 by Ian Horsewell From: Ian Horsewell Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:25:57 +0000 -------- disclaimer: The characters aren't mine you see In fact they're owned by Fox TV Chris Carter and Ten-Thirteen too I'm doing what I shouldn't do I've just borrowed them for a while To write my very own X-File Archive: Sure, if you want to Spoilers: None - based during the first episode! Rating: Vignette, I guess - alternative universe Warning: suitable for all ages. Summary: Another Elseworlds story - a 'what if' one. Scully, going to the X-Files for the first time. With thanks to Mike - your idea, thanks for letting me write it... and to everyone who's commented on my stories, esp. GSW. This one's for you guys. First Encounter 1/1 by Ian Horsewell Dana Katherine Scully, medical doctor, special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a petite redhead, was nervous. As that thought occured to her for the first time, she smiled to herself, realising that it was truer than she had first thought. After all, this was a fairly unusual assignment... They'd assigned her to a section she'd heard of only in rumours and recounted stories. She hadn't even believed that the X-Files really existed. But, she thought to herself as she walked steadily towards the elevator, she'd certainly heard of the agent in charge. And now she was being asked to spy. to inform her superiors of any improper actions or dubious decisions of her new partner. The doors opened and she stepped inside. For the first time, she pressed the button for the sub-basement, two levels below the ground. It was as if someone wanted the X-Files buried, metaphorically if not literally. As the elevator smoothly moved down, Agent Scully's thoughts focused on the agent she was about to meet, and everything she knew about her new partner. Agent Mulder was well known in the Bureau, and had been well-respected for quite some time. A degree and then a doctorate at Oxford, England. Several years working in violent crimes, as a profiler of serial killers and other repeat offenders, resulting in the nickname 'Spooky' Mulder. But the stories had circulated... the mysterious past, the abduction all those years ago that was thought to have triggered Mulder's obsession with the paranormal. Dana Scully frowned at her distorted reflection in the steel of the doors. The paranormal? She'd never found a situation, a problem, a mystery, that could not be solved using conventional science and a little intelligence. But Agent 'Spooky' Mulder PhD had requested a transfer to the legendary, perhaps mythological X-Files, those which the Bureau could not explain. And the success rate had been surprisingly high... if you believed the reports filed which included suggestions of extra-terrestrials, strange creatures, and a whole host of cases that read like a 'Who's Who in the Paranormal'. The doors opened and she stepped out, one hand automatically smoothing back her hair as she looked along the dusty, somewhat dim corridor. There... past an ancient coffee machine, was a door. The door to the X-Files, where Agent Mulder was waiting for her. She took a deep breath, stepped up to the door and knocked loudly on it. The answer was surprisingly quick in coming. "Come on in... welcome to the FBI's least wanted." Despite herself she smiled at the remark, pushing open the door to step into the dark, cluttered office. A tall figure stood up, turning away from the slide projector and reaching towards a light switch as Dana spoke for the first time. "I'm Special Agent Dana Scully..." The light revealed the figure as a tall brunette, slender, with a tailored suit that fitted her very well. The lopsided smile on her face was matched with a piercing gaze. The woman spoke again in her musical contralto. "I'm Samantha Mulder." THE END FOR NOW So let me know what you think... feedback, send me feedback! Ian Horsewell University Of Warwick: i.j.horsewell@warwick.ac.uk "I may succeed. I may fail. I will never give in."