| It was cold and dark, the aftermath of the snow that was settling throughout the woods. There, Agent Dana Scully walks endlessly, shouting out her sister's name. "Melissa...Melissa" she screams as the coldness seems to be pushing her back. All of a sudden a rustle is heard. Scully, unable to stand the wind any longer, is pushed onto the ground. There, she looks up into the barren night sky. She is startled as she relizes a figure is looking down at her. The moonlight shines on her face. "Melissa...?" Scully whispers. Scully wakes up on her apartment floor feeling the hotness of the July weather. "Owww" she mumbles holding her head, looking towards the bed she had just fallen from. She gets herself up and starts pacing her room, back and forth, thoughts whisping through her head. normally she didn't worry about dreams. To her they were just images in your mind that were picturized when you slept. But this was different. This was about her sister. Not to mention she'd been having the same dream all week long. She knew Melissa was dead, that Krycek had shot her in the apartment five years ago. But she just didn't understand. She sits back down on her bed. "Should I contact some kind of dream analizer?" she questions herself. She smiles "I'll contact Mulder." "Well Scully...what do you think it means?" Mulder asks her. The two of them are sitting at Mulder's desk in their office. "I came down here for you to ask me what 'I' think it means!!!" she screams, pounding her fist on the stack of papers that always seems to be on Mulder's desk. "Calm down, Scully" he responds "its just the normal dream analizing proceedure" Scully gives him a strange look. "Anyway" he continues "Something must have triggered these dreams." "But thats just it" Scully says with a worried look on her face "they just came out of nowhere!" Mulder looks at her "Could it be a sign- "Mulder don't be stupid" Scully says. She sighs and places her head on the end of the desk. "A sign of what anyway?" questions Scully. "Don't know" Mulder replies, preoccupied, looking towards the ceiling. Scully looks at her watch blindly and gets up. "Well... thank you Dr. Mulder for all of your help" she says sarcastically. Mulder smiles and watches her walk out of the room. Scully continues down the hallway and stops before the file room. She peers through the small square window at the top of the door, coated with dust, and quietly walks in. The room, not to small but not too big either, is walled with files, arranged in alphabetical order. Scully quickly proceeds to the S's. She glances at her own folder, unsure of what may be inside, but moves along to the next one. Her eyes focus on a folder reading; Scully, Melissa. All of a sudden she feels someone behind her. She screams in shock and turns around. "Hey,hey...its only me" Mulder says putting his hand on her shoulder trying to calm her down. "Sorry" Scully says catching her breath "I was just..." her hand rests on her sister's folder "I've never seen it." she whispers. "Well... not all of it, since her case was dropped" she corrects herself. Mulder looks at her. "I'd rather you not, Scully" he tells her "There's FBI photographs-" "I've seen dead people before Mulder" snaps Scully. "But... this is your sister" Mulder convinces. "Its alright" Scully persists, carefully pulling out the file and placing it on a nearby table. Mulder dosn't move. She opens up the folder, skimming through some typed papers. Soon she discovers a photo. She looks at it. She picks it up and stares at it, as if she wanted to burn a hole right through it with her eyes. Mulder finnaly moves. "See" he says "I told you...I knew you were gonna react like this. Whenever I warn you about things, you always ignore me. You just never listen to me, Scully. You always wanna be the best...don't you? Well there are some things in this world that even you can't handle. Like seeing your sister with a bullet shot through her head or- "No" Scully says quietly "Thats not it." "Huh?" Mulder mumbles out of breath. "Come here" she motions him. Mulder walks up behind her and looks down at the picture. Scully looks up at him "You've seen my sister, Mulder. Does that look like her? It doesn't. It's...not her!" "But I always thought-" Mulder says unsure of what to say "Well...her hair is a little darker but-" "Mulder" Scully whispers, looking at him "What if she's still alive...?" |