| "Scully...thats crazy" Mulder yells "Thats definatly her."- "No its not!" insists Scully. "Yes it is"- "No its not." "Listen, Mulder" Scully says calmly "She could very well have been taken and is living somewhere where she can't reach me- "Scully, think about what your saying!" Mulder screams. Both of them stare at the floor in silence. Mulder looks at her. "Scully, even if thats not her...I wouldn't expect her to be alive." "I don't know that for sure, Mulder" Scully responds "And I don't care whether shes alive or dead, I just wanna find her." Mulder nods his head. "Oh God" says Scully jokingly "My stupid family buried the wrong person." Mulder chuckles. "Hey" he says grabbing the picture "If thats not your sister, who in God's name is that!?!" "You care?" questions Scully. "Well...no I guess" Mulder replies, handing the picture to Scully to put in her pocket. "I better go tell my mom" Scully says, quickly placing the folder back in its place. She hurries out the door leaving Mulder in the room. "She can't possibly be alive" he says to himself following Scully's path out the door. "What!?!" Mrs. Scully screams, dropping her coffie cup and not seeming to care that coffie is dripping all over her kitchen floor. "Mom" convinces Scully "I have a picture- " "Dana!" yells her mom "Don't be putting ideas in my head. I don't like to believe things that aren't true!!" "But..." says Scully, fumbling through her pockets for the photo which she eventually finds "Look. Does that look like Mel?" Mrs. Scully resentfully glances at the photo. "Yes...yes it does" she says confidently. "No mom, look harder" Scully says putting the photo in front of her mom's face. Mrs. Scully stares blankly at it. "Well,it...it kinda looks...ummm...maybe its-" "Mom" Scully screams as she stands up, accidentally knocking over her chair "You know it isn't her!" Tears well up in Mrs. Scully's eyes. "What are you saying?" she questions her daughter. "I'm saying" responds Scully "That there is a good chance that Melissa may still be alive." She watches her mother stare at her. "Oh, mom" she says sweetly giving her a hug "I gotta get to Mulder's. Get a good night's sleep, Okay?" Mrs. Scully nods. Scully walks out the door and gets in her car. She turns on the engine and backs out of the driveway. "What if shes not alive?" she thinks to herself "But she just has to be." She drives a little firther and stops at a red light. While waiting, she boardly glances at the pedestrians walking up the street. All of a sudden she notices a women with long red hair. "Can't be..." she mumbles. She pulls the car over and parks it along the curb. She follows the girl down the street and continues to follow her through a dark alleyway. She looks up ahead and watchs the girl turn the corner. Scully runs up and searches around the corner, looking down the road and up, and relizes she is gone. Mulder sits lazily on his couch watching the 11:00 news. All of a sudden he hears a loud banging on the door. He gets up slowly and stretches as the banging continues. He walks across the room and opens it. Scully bursts through. "I think I...I think I found-" "Scully" Mulder says annoyed "Look at the time! And would you stop jumping! My landlord hates jumping! You know what he says? He says that for all the years I've lived here there has been so much jumping and banging and yelling and shooting and-" "But Mulder" Scully says frantically "I think I found someone, I think I found someone, I think I found someone." "Let me guess" Mulder says amused "You think you found someone...and would you stop jumping already!" Scully stops. "She had red hair and-" "Oh God, Scully" Mulder interrupts "You think you and your sister are the only ones in the world who have red hair!" "Maybe you're right, maybe it isn't her" Scully says "But she really seemed like...I have to see her again." She walks towards the door. Mulder stops her. "So let me get this strait" he says "You come banging on my door and get me up at this time of night just so you can jump around my apartment and yell about a girl with red hair!?!" "Pretty much" Scully replies walking out the door. Mulder sighs and flops back on the couch. Scully drives in her car and once again stops before the alleyway. She walks down it trying to remember which way she went. All of a sudden she stops dead in her tracks as she notices the red-haired girl sitting on a railing next to a door that is strangely hidden in the wall, her back facing Scully as usual. Scully quietly walks up, not making any sound, and stops behind her. "Are you Melissa...?" she says grabbing the girl's shoulder and turning her around. Part III coming soon |