Title: Changing the Past
Author: Erin M. Blair
E-Mail: eblair@sonic.net
Classification: SRA---Story, Romance, Angst
Content: Mulder/Scully Romance. Alternate Universe.
Spoiler: Duane Barry, Ascension, One Breath,
Memento Mori. There are some small spoilers from
season five.
Rating: R (for some sex)
Archive: OK to archive at: Gossamer, Xemplary,
FWMfanfic, EP, M&S, and EMXC. Others: Yes, but
please let me know where it's going. =) Please
forward to ATXC.
Disclaimer: Chris Carter owns them. I don't.
Summary: What would happen if Mulder and Scully
decided to change Scully's abduction with
interesting results?
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CHANGING THE PAST
Written by: Erin M. Blair
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X-Files Basement Office
FBI Headquarters
August 1998
"Mulder? It's me," Dana Scully inquired, as she
peered into the basement office.
"I figured that out, Scully," Fox Mulder said, as he looked up
from the stack of paperwork that they had to finish for AD
Skinner as he watched Scully enter the basement office. "I'm
glad that you're here."
Scully sat down on her chair. "When are you going to get me
that desk, Mulder?"
"What desk?" Mulder asked, innocently. He looked at Scully's
melancholy expression, and he knew something was bothering
her. "What's wrong?"
"I'm fine."
"No, you're not."
"It's just that today's the anniversary of my abduction,"
Scully said, with a sigh. "I wish that it had
never happened."
"I wish that it had never happened either," Mulder said. "I
would have done anything to save you...if I could."
Scully drew a deep breath as she knew that Mulder was blaming
himself again. "What happened to me wasn't your fault. You
couldn't have prevented it."
"I know..."
"I know what you're thinking of. Everything that I'd gone
through--my cancer, my ova being harvested, and
finding Emily--was a result of my abduction. I'd thought
of that so many times, Mulder..."
"I wish that it never happened, Scully..."
En Route to Scully's Apartment
Annapolis, MD
August 7, 1994
"Scully, I don't think that we're in Kansas anymore," Mulder
said, as he glanced at Scully as they were sitting in their
blue Ford Taurus. He gazed towards the road, and knew where
they were headed. "I think that we're near where you used to
live before you moved to Georgetown, Scully."
"You don't think that we actually," Scully said, as she
trailed off. "It's not possible."
"May I remind you what you said in your senior thesis?"
"No," Scully said, with a sigh. All she cared about was
why they were headed towards her old apartment. "There's
got to be a reasonable explanation for this..." She saw
her younger version getting out of her car. "Mulder, how
should we handle this?"
"I have some ideas. We could talk to her."
"And scare her?"
"We're not going to scare her. We're gonna tell her
everything so she can her abduction from happening."
"How are we going to do that?" Scully asked, skeptically. "We
also need to talk to *your* younger self."
"I know. That's why you're going to talk to her. Alone," Mulder
said. He parked the car, and turned off the engine. He was
climbing out of the drivers' seat until he heard
Scully's voice.
"Mulder?"
"Yes?"
"There's something on my mind..."
"What is it?"
"What happens if Duane Barry abducts her before I even
have a chance to talk to her?"
"He won't. Remember that Kill Switch case?"
Scully nodded. "What about it?"
Mulder suddenly had a vision of what he wanted
Scully to do. "I want to you to kick his ass, Scully.
He deserves it after what he did to you." He paused.
"I love your moves..."
"That's your fantasy, Mulder."
"Oh, come on, Scully. I'd seen you do that move
before..."
Scully gave him a small smile, and laughed. "You
enjoyed *that* move?" She paused. "You're not
coming on to me, are you?"
"Yes, I am," Mulder said, with a smile. He loved it when
Scully flirted with him, which was a rarity in itself. "I
think that you should talk to her now... Meanwhile, I'll
go find my younger self..." He paused again. He had no idea
what to call him. "Scully, what should I call him? 'Fox'
or 'Mulder'..."
Scully laughed. "I'm having the same problem with my
younger self. Should I call her 'Scully' or 'Dana'..?"
"See you later, Scully," Mulder said, with hope that he'll
see her again. He watched her nod and she smiled at him as
she walked toward her old apartment to warn Young Scully.
Dana Scully's apartment
Annapolis, MD
August 7, 1994
Scully walked near her old apartment, and rang the bell. For
a few seconds, she waited for her younger self to answer it.
She could tell from her facial expression that she was startled
to see her older self. "I understand that it's shocking to see
your thesis coming true, but I need to warn you."
"Are you really from the future?" Young Scully's blue eyes were
a mixture of disbelief and wonder. Although she'd written about
it in her senior thesis, she never seen anything like this
before. She led her older self into her apartment. Her older
self was standing before, and she can find out all the answers
to questions that Mulder and herself had been seeking out for
quite sometime.
"Yes, I am," Scully said. She gave her younger self a warm,
friendly smile. "I can't get over how you look. You look
so young...so innocent. I wish that I was like that." She
paused. "Of course, I don't have my hair like that anymore..."
"Why not?"
"I don't know," Scully said, with a shrug. "I guess that I
wanted to look more sophisticated."
Although Young Scully had yet to tell Fox Mulder about how
much she loved him, she could tell that her older self hadn't
any opportunity. She knew how much she loves him. "To impress
Mulder?"
"Not really, Dana. I need to give you a warning..."
Young Scully looked alarmed. "I know that Mulder has always
done something crazy a few times... Is the warning about him?"
"No, Dana. It's about me. You see, in fifteen minutes from
now, you're about to be abducted by Duane Barry. The abduction
will change your life forever..."
With determination, Young Scully gave her older self a small
smile. "I can handle him." She paused. "I know I can."
"I couldn't. He was too quick and powerful. Very dangerous
for me to handle since he was a former FBI agent," Scully
said, with a sigh. "I could take him now since I learned
some...ah...new moves."
"Like what?"
"Karate. Kung fu. Mulder likes the new moves," Scully said,
with a grin. "Anyway, at the time, I couldn't take him down
like I really wanted to. The thing is that he had taken me
to *them* and my ova was stolen from me. Not only that, I
had an inoperable form of cancer."
"Oh my God," Young Scully said, with a groan. "If I change
this, all of that would go away." She was beginning
to understand a bit more clearly. "How would this affect
your relationship with Fox Mulder?"
"I don't know."
"I know you want him..."
"What?"
"You want him. I know you do. You haven't made any progress
with him?"
"Well, we almost kissed in the hallway at the hospital
when I was being "treated" for cancer..."
"I'm sure that he wants you too. It sounds that way
to me," Young Scully said, with a smile. She loved
talking with her future older self, and she knew
what she wanted to do. "I'll change the abduction if
you promise me that you'll tell Mulder how much you
love him."
"All right. It's a deal," Scully said. "Dana, I want
you to go out of the apartment now."
"Why?"
Scully waved her hand towards the window. "Duane Barry
broke the glass while I was on the phone to Mulder."
"I was just going to call him."
"Don't. Go see Mulder yourself, and tell him what you
found in person," Scully said, with determination. She
had an another thought. "Why don't tell him how you
feel?"
"Ok. Where's Mulder?"
"He's at Casey's Bar."
Both Scully and Young Scully walked out of the apartment a
few minutes later. She watched Young Scully locking her
apartment, and they walked towards her car. "I have a
question, Scully," Young Scully said. She paused. "Is
that all right if I call you that?" Scully nodded. "Do
I have a desk yet?"
"No," Scully said, with a sigh. "Mulder said that he'll
get me one, but I think that's a big step for him to
take in our relationship."
"I see. If I reveal my love to him, what will happen to
us?"
"That's for the both of you to decide."
Casey's Bar
Washington DC
Same day, same time.
Mulder had a clear view on his younger self sitting at the
bar, drinking a vodka. He remembered how exhausted he was
after interrogating Duane Barry. *If I had been at my
apartment, I would have saved Scully. I have to make sure
that things would be different this time,* Mulder thought,
as he sat down on the barstool beside his younger self.
"Exhausting day?"
"Yes," Young Mulder said, with a sigh.
"We need to talk... I'm here because your partner's in
serious jeopardy."
"Krycek?"
"No---your "real" partner, Dana Scully. Mulder, she needs
you..."
"How did you know our names, especially mine?" Young Mulder
asked, curious.
"Can we go outside to talk in private?" Mulder asked, as his
younger self nodded. He sighed. "I don't want others to
eavesdrop."
"I can't believe how paranoid you are," Young Mulder said,
in awe.
Mulder shrugged. He wasn't sure what to say to that. "I hope
that you'd never become as paranoid as I am." He paused. "This
is a matter of life and death."
Young Mulder nodded, and he looked at Mulder. "You're me," he
whispered. "Aren't you?" They walked outside near the garbage
dumps, and he watched Mulder nod.
"Yes. I'm from the future," Mulder said, simply. He hoped that
Young Mulder wouldn't ask him questions about Samantha for he
had no clue about where she is.
No such luck.
"What happened to Samantha?" Young Mulder asked, as his hazel
eyes widened with a burst of hope.
Mulder forgot how idealistic he was before Scully's abduction
and before he learned the government's role in the conspiracy.
He didn't want his younger self to ever lose that idealism. If
he can help Scully to stop her abduction, maybe he wouldn't
become so cynical? "I can't tell you, but yes, she's alive."
He paused. "You've got to keep looking for the truth, but
Scully's the one that you care about the most. Don't deny
your feelings towards her..."
"What do you mean?"
"You know about Duane Barry, don't you?"
Young Mulder nodded as his hazel eyes narrowed at his older
self. "What about him? What does he have to do with Scully?"
He spoke in a demanding voice, and Mulder knew he had to tell
him what happened to her.
"He abducted Scully to *them*," Mulder said, as he paused for
a second. He wanted to make certain that his younger self
knew the serious nature of what he was trying to say. Scully's
future depended on it. "They gave her cancer when they took
her ova..."
"I heard what aliens can do to a woman's female organs," Young
Mulder said, as he nod with understanding. "Why would they
do that to Scully?"
"I don't know. That doesn't matter to me, but Scully does. I
want to stop her abduction from occurring. If I had known
what I told you, I could've saved her from being abducted. I'd
always blamed myself for this just like I'd blamed myself for
Samantha's abduction," Mulder said, with a sigh. He watched his
younger self nod with compassion.
It took a few seconds for Young Mulder to grasp the information
that Mulder gave him, but he finally spoke. When he did, Mulder
could tell that he had feelings for Scully even then. "I'll do
anything for Scully."
"I know that you'll do anything to save her," Mulder said, with
assurance. He paused. "I know how much you care about Scully."
"It's more than that, Fox. I know how much I---we---hate that
name, but I think that I can call you that. Fox, it's more
than caring. In fact, I love her."
"I love Scully too. I'd never stopped."
"Can I ask you something?"
"Sure."
"Would she say yes?"
Mulder looked at his idealistic, younger self with puzzlement.
"What do you ask?"
"Scully," Young Mulder said, simply. "I think that I should
finally tell her how much I love her." He paused. "Do you
think that I should tell her?"
Mulder looked at Young Mulder, and he gave him a smile. "You
know what I say. Just go with it." They walked back inside,
and Mulder was startled to see Scully talking with her
younger self. He nodded to Young Mulder, as he walked towards
a booth while Mulder approached Scully. Mulder leaned
in close to Scully, and he motioned her over to farther end
of the bar. "How did it go?"
"You mean how much I loved to talk to my younger, skeptical
self? Mulder, I can appeciate what *you* go through with
me."
He laughed at Scully's comment. "I'm glad that you finally
understand." He calmed down a bit, and then, looked at her
seriously. "Did she?"
"Don't worry, Mulder. She understood. I told her that
we had to find *you* so that Duane Barry couldn't find
her." She paused. "I meant---"
"I know what you mean," Mulder said, as he gazed into
Scully's blue eyes. He watched their younger selves sat
beside each other at a booth. "Look, Scully."
Scully glanced at Young Scully and Young Mulder looking
at each other. "It looks like we're changing the past."
Casey's Bar
Washington DC
Same time, same day
Young Scully walked to the bar, and found her partner.
She knew some vital information regarding the chip
from Duane Barry's stomach. "Mulder?"
"Scully, what are you doing here?"
Young Scully sat down beside him at the bar, and she gave
Young Mulder a thoughtful look. "I had a feeling you'd be
here." She remembered her conversation with her older
self, and knew what she had to do. "Mulder, you wouldn't
believe who I saw." She turned towards their older
selves, and still had a hard time believing that this
really occurred. "I had an interesting conversation
that you would believe."
"Scully, I had an *interesting* conversation that *you*
wouldn't believe," Young Mulder said, as he remembered
his conversation with his older self. "It was about how
you were abducted..."
"Abducted?" Young Scully inquired, skeptically. "My older
self said the same thing." She paused. "What did your
older self told you?"
"I should do everything in my power to save you."
"Really? My older self told me that I was experiment
upon. My ova was being harvested and having an inoperable
brain tumor... Nasopharyngeal mass." She paused. "They're
trying to prevent that." She caught sight of their older
selves at an another booth. "Mulder, look."
Young Mulder glanced behind him and he smiled softly.
"You're right, Scully." He remembered something else
what Mulder told him. "I take it that you can't stay
at your apartment tonight."
"No. It's either staying at my Mom's or staying
with you."
"I prefer that you stay with me," Young Mulder said,
gently. He smiled at Young Scully, and he knew that
he has enough courage to finally tell her how much
she means to him.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
Meanwhile, Mulder and Scully watched their younger
selves walk out of the bar. "Scully, do you think
that we've got some sense into them?"
"Maybe. Maybe not," Scully said, as she glanced
at them. "Wanna continue our stakeout?"
"Sure," Mulder replied. He paused. "Do you think
that it'll change us?" He got up and he followed
Scully to the door. They could smell the fresh,
cool air.
Scully faced him. "In what way?" She smiled as she
thought of another idea. "I just had a thought. Do
you think that we're closer in the new timeline?"
"How closer?"
"I think that you have an idea," Scully said, as she
opened the car door to climb into the passenger seat.
She watched as Mulder sat in the driver's seat of their
blue Ford Taurus.
"No, I don't."
"Come on, Mulder, I know you."
Mulder inwardly smiled at himself. Scully was right. He
*did* have an idea of how close they're going to be. "I
think that we have to get them to break down their walls."
"I agree," Scully said, with a sigh. She looked out of
the window, and she noticed her younger self enter Young
Mulder's apartment. "Mulder, look."
"This is going to be interesting."
Scully looked at her watch. "Pretty soon, the abduction
took place."
"I know. Is it time?"
Scully nodded. "But the younger me hasn't come out
yet. Therefore---"
"Therefore, the abduction never took place." Mulder
paused. "This time, we warned our younger selves.
They know something was going to happen to you. Our
younger selves stopped it from happening."
"I know," Scully said, as she murmured. "Mulder?"
"Yes?" Mulder asked. "What are you talking about?"
He paused. "Is it about us?"
"Yes, it is. You know that I had a talk with my
younger self?"
Mulder nodded. "And?"
"She wanted me to tell you how much I want you.
That's not an exact quote. Mulder, I'd always
loved you. I still love you. I've been afraid
to tell you, Mulder. I felt insecure when I saw
Diana in the hallway with you, but I wanted to
tell you how much you made me feel whole,"
Scully said, as she gazed into Mulder's hazel
eyes.
Mulder smiled. "I'm glad that you've told me. I
love you, Scully. Ever since you walked into
my life, I've felt this way about you." He leaned
towards her, and he felt her warm lips on his. With
great passion, he kissed her. "I want you, Scully."
"And I want you."
Young Mulder's Apartment
Alexandria, VA
August 7, 1994
7:00 p.m.
Young Scully walked towards Young Mulder, and
they sat together on the couch. She could feel
his hand on her neck, caressing it. "That feels
good, Mulder."
"I thought so," Young Mulder said, with a smile.
He looked into her eyes. "Scully, what's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong. I just want to thank you..."
"For what?"
"For letting me to stay here," Young Scully said,
with a sigh.
"You're welcome," Young Mulder said, with a smile.
He remembered his conversation with his older self
and he knew that he should tell Scully about how
much he loves her. "Scully?"
"Yes?" Young Scully inquired, as she gazed into
his hazel eyes. "What is it?"
"Scully, there's something that I've got to tell
you. I've been scared..."
"Scared of what? Mulder?"
"I've been scared of losing you, Scully. When Skinner
shut us down, I thought that I'd lost everything. The
X-Files. The search for the truth. Samantha. The one
thing that kept me constant was you."
Young Scully grasped his fingers with a firm, gentle
squeeze to give him enough pressure to show him about
how much she was touched by his words. "Mulder, you'll
never lose me."
"I know. In fact, the reason why I hadn't let you call
me Fox was because I didn't want to lose you. I build up
these walls out of fear for what could happen to you."
"I'm not going anywhere," Young Scully said, reassuringly.
"I hope you know that."
"Scully, I would like for you to call me Fox."
"Mul--Fox, I don't know what to say..."
Young Mulder placed his lips onto hers, and he kissed
her passionately. "I want you, Dana."
Young Scully was startled by Young Mulder's revelation,
and it took sometime to get her thoughts together. "I
had always wanted you, Mul---"
"Fox," Young Mulder said, with a grin. He pulled her
closer to him for an embrace. He kissed her again with
passion, and he couldn't hold it any longer. He wanted
her to be his forever. He decided to unbutton Scully's
blouse, and she did the same.
She felt warm in his embrace, and she knew that she had
his whole heart while he undressed her to make love for
the first time. Their kisses were getting even more
passionate, and she could him caressing her body. She could
feel the warmth of his lips on her as she could feel
the ejaculation of the sperm entering her vagina to inseminate
her. "Mulder, we're not protected."
"I know," Young Mulder replied, his voice low with emotion.
"I'm sure that I impregnated you."
Dana and Fox Mulder's Residence
Annapolis, MD
August 1998
"Mommy! Daddy!"
Scully turned over to her side, and waken to see a
four year old girl in front of her. She noticed that
the little girl had shoulder-length auburn hair and
blue eyes. It was the same looks as her own. "Who're you?"
she asked, in a hushed tone.
"Mommy, don't you remember me? I'm Dana. Dana
Katherine Mulder."
Scully looked at her hands, and saw the engagement
and wedding rings. She was---indeed---married to Fox
Mulder. She saw Mulder laying next to her, and tapped
him on the shoulder. She smiled as he started to wake.
"Mulder?"
"What's wrong, Scully?" Mulder asked, as he was still
tired from lack of sleep. He opened up his hazel eyes
and it focused at Scully and a little girl.
"Mulder, we have a little girl. Her name is Dana
Katherine Mulder," Scully said, with a smile. "We're
married."
End of Story
NEXT UP: Changing the Past II
Will Mulder and Scully find out what
happened in the new timeline?
Author's Notes:
This story is set *before* the X-Files movie in
the current X-Files universe, but the office hadn't
burned and they still have the X-Files. The End
hadn't happened at all. Mulder and Scully will go
back in time to Season 2. What they'll change will
be a "new" universe... Got that? =)
For Season 2 Mulder and Scully, they will be known as
"Young Mulder" and "Young Scully". Why?
To avoid confusion with the current season
Mulder and Scully who'll still be called
"Mulder" and "Scully" through out the story.
I thought that this was an interesting concept to
find out what would happen to Mulder and Scully if
she was never abducted by Duane Barry. I enjoyed
writing this story, and I hope that you had enjoyed
reading it.
Feedback: Nice, constructive criticism only. Flames
will be used to line my cat's litter box. Send
to: eblair@sonic.net
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- Erin Blair
- eblair@sonic.net
- "And if I quit now, they win."
- from the X-Files: Fight the Future Movie