From: ephemeral@ephemeralfic.org
Date: Sun,  8 Feb 2009 23:57:24 -0600 (CST)
Subject: New Year\\'s Eve Revelations by Pattie
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TITLE: New Year's Eve Revelations 

AUTHOR: Pattie 


RATED: G 


CATEGORY: Kidfic, MSR, After Having Avoided Invasion 


SUMMARY: Mulder feels it's time to tell William and Mandy 
their family history, and how they came to be. The hardest 
part wil be telling them of their siblings that did not 
survive. 


ARCHIVE: ATXC, Gossamer, Ephemeral, Pattie's Pocketful 
Of X-Fics.

FEDBACK: patfiler@hotmail.com 


DISCLAIMER: Fox Studios, Chris Carter and 1013 Productions 
own Mulder, Scully, William, Jeffrey Spender, Samantha Mulder 
and The X-Files, but I tell you the other characters are ALL 
MINE! 


AUTHOR'S NOTE: Yes, I gave them a family! Do you really think 
I'd have the Mytharc left unresolved, either? 


DECEMBER 31, 2008 
MULDER-SCULLY RESIDENCE 
10:50 AM 


With a hectic Christmas having passed, Mulder was sitting in 
the kitchen thinking about all the years that had passed. 
Wow!  A son brought back into the fold, daughters Meg and 
Samantha Ann, the adoption of Mandy, then the reappearance 
of his genuine sister Samantha, who had managed to escape 
from her captors at age 14 and cross the world. Half-brother 
Jeffrey's return, and then saving the world. 


All the years of not even speaking of the emotions between he 
and Scully. Such wasted years chasing after monsters as well 
as the real monsters. He couldn't forget Scully's saving Alison 
Moore, another one of her cloned hybrids, either. The pain 
they'd been through together drew them only closer. 


Well, now was the time, he decided, to tell the children about 
Bobby Jones, the son Scully saw die years after she had found 
and lost Emily to death, and of course Emily. It was time. 
Scully's wounds had healed, strong woman that she was, and so 
resilient. 


Another New Year's Eve, and the tree, naturally, taken down 
as per Scully custom.  All was pretty well "ship shape" in 
order.  Well, there were a few wet boots in the mud room, 
but so what. 


The kids were playing in the basement of their Alexandria house 
while Mulder pondered these things. Eleven in the morning, and 
Scully was already out buying food and treats, fighting the 
massive traffic. What a woman. 


She entered the house with her bounty just as Mulder finished his 
coffee.  "Hey, Mr. Mom, I'm going to need some help unloading 
the car." 


He put on his best smile and replied, "You've got it. So, are 
the roads still a mess?" He donned his coat. 


"Oh, they're a mess, all right. Hey. I know the Oscar winning 
smile.  What's happened now?" 


Mulder slipped on some boots as he said, "I've been going over 
all our adventures and years together in my mind. I think we 
need to do some talking." 


"Well,the milk in the car's going to go sour, so we can talk 
while we're grabbing the rest of the food, and making lunch." 


"Oh, you're going to love this. I know you can take anything 
now." 


So, he began to broach the subject of explaining their unique 
family history.  By the time they had put the groceries away, 
Scully was thinking things over. "All right.  Let's do it. 
But we'll leace Meg and Samantha Ann out of it until they're 
older. You're a psychologist.  I think you know it's best we 
wait until they're old enough to handle it, okay? But we still 
need to get them up to ring in the New Year." 


"Deal. Are you sure you're okay with this?" Mulder put on 
another pot of coffee. 


"Yes. Yes, I think I am. But tonight of all nights? It's New 
Year's Eve, Mulder." 


"I just can't put it off anymore. Mandy already knows most of 
the story, and William is one smart kid. He should know he's 
a miracle child, just like he knows whose miracle child's 
birthday we just celebrated." 


Scully hugged her husband. "Okay. Let's do it. Chili for 
lunch?" 


"Sounds good to me. I'll go see if the computer downstairs is 
still intact. Oh, and I think we've filled them with enough 
Astroboy, Star Trek and Twilight Zone shows they can handle 
anything." 


"Just like your childhood, Mulder!"  Scully smirked as she 
grabbed pots and pans. 


                                *** 


9:30 PM 


Bathtime was like Grand Central Station in this household. 
Although Mady was a teenage and preferred to race her parents 
to the shower in the morning, still, William loved long baths, 
and Meg and Samantha Ann usually fought over who had had the 
most bubbles in their tub, things usually settled down by 
9:30 and the older children were allowed to remain up for a 
bit longer. 


A holiday movie droned in the livingroom as Mulder and Scully 
tucked the two younger girls into bed, while William preferred 
to read almost anything allowed before bedtime. Mandy loved 
movies and music. 


Scully decided to grab William out of his reverie and pull 
Mandy out of her star-struck trance at about 10:00. There 
wasn't going to be much time to talk before midnight came around, 
and as she'd already made a few little refreshments for all 
to celebrate New Year's 2009, she felt ready for "The Talk". 
Mulder was in the basement defragmenting the children's 
computer, and running a virus remover. (Yes, Mandy tended to 
download a lot of songs and videos.) 


He climbed the stairs and he, Scully, Mandy and William sat down 
in the livingroom for a very serious discussion. 


"It's gonna be a Rockin' New Year's Eve," Mandy remarked."I can 
tell." 


"NOT!" William argued. 


Scully immediately put a stop to the bickering. "Okay, you two. 
Listen up because we've got a few things to tell you." 


"You got us new ipods!" Mandy exclaimed. 


"No," Mulder said seriously. "Mandy, you know you were adopted, 
you had a pretty rough early upbringing in Canada, and we 
brought you here because your mother finally found out who you 
were while we investigated your mother and father's deaths, right?" 


Mandy's face turned ashen.  "Right." 


"And William, you know you were a very special gift to me and 
I had to send you somewhere where the Van deKamps would take 
good care of you for me, right?"  Scully mussed up her son's 
hair more for her own comfort than his. 


"Yes. Why couldn't you take care of me, Mom?" 


Scully looked to Mulder for solace. 


"Okay," Mulder began. "Your mother didn't know she could have a 
baby before you came along, and then we had to go to work to 
protect you and everybody else. There were very bad doctors 
who did some horrible experiments on your mother, and they 
even took some of her eggs.  You know how babies are made. 
But Mandy was made differently than you, and it was from one 
of her eggs. We had to have her medically checked, and your 
Uncle Jeffrey had to give you some medicine to cure a disease 
that you and your mother had been given. You even once had a sister 
we didn't know about. Her mother died, she had been adopted as 
well, and when we found Emily she was VERY ill. She had come from
one of your mother's egs, too. We could not save her. She died
and your mother only knew her for a very short time. She was
four."


"What disease?" 


"We can talk about that another day," Scully said. "The main 
thing is we're all right now.   And... you had other brothers 
and sisters who were made from my eggs by the horrible doctors. 
We found a brother named Bobby, and you know your sister Alison 
because she writes to you a lot and we see her, right?" 


"Right."  William was both sad and puzzled. 


"Why does Alison look so much like me?" Mandy asked. She had 
been wondering about that a lot. 


"Because," Mulder explained, "You're almost like twins." 


"Oh. So we were cloned! Now I get it. I watch TLC, you know." 


"Right!" Scully admitted. "But we want you to make us a very 
special promise." 


"What's that?" William asked. 


"Please let us tell Meg and Samantha Ann about this. And William, 
they're just as normal as you two are now, and just too little 
to know about this." 


"We swear," Mandy replied. 


"Yeah, we do." 


Mulder smiled.  "So, at midnight we bring in a brand new year, 
with your sisters.  Why don't we just all sit around, relax, 
watch whatever your mother decides, have a little snack at 
midnight and remember we're all family! Hey, I can take you guys 
for a walk for just about half an hour and then it's PAARRRRTAY!" 


"Cool!" William shouted. 


"Shh," Scully admonished William. "Let your sisters rest up 
before we start!" 


                                *** 


The sidewalks had all been cleared, so Mulder, William and Mandy 
had an easy walk.  It was relatively mild outside, but refreshing. 


By the time they returned home, Scully had hot chocolate and 
coffee waiting for them, and had dimmed the livingroom lights. 


The two children went downstairs to the computer for a while to 
let their mother prepare the remainder of treats, and then before 
they knew it, it was 11:30. Time to get the little ones awake and 
ready for a little holiday fun. 


Mulder lit the fireplace and Scully turned the channel to 
Rockin' New Year's Eve while all four children huddled on the 
couch. Then crackers and coldcuts were placed on the coffee table, 
with some cookies and hot cider. 


It was now time for the grand countdown. 


As the ball fell in Times Square, every one who could count started 
shouting: "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,1 HAPPY NEW YEAR!" 


As Auld Lang Syne played, Mulder kissed Scully and William said 
EWW!" 


Scully remarked, "The world didn't end again!" 


"What?" Mandy inquired. 


Mulder winked and said, "Another story you'll just have to wait 
for." 


"But the Earth moved," Scully whispered into Mulder's ear. She 
received a knowing grin. 


Mulder thought a minute, then asked, "So.  Anyone have any New 
Year's Resolutions?" 


William, asking as spokesman for the family replied, "We'll write 
them out tomorrow, but my first one will be not to put things 
off." 


His parents laughed, and as they all toasted each other, Mom 
and Dad felt like the luckiest people in the world. 


                                END