Sarah Companion: Family III
By RocketMan >lebontrager@iname.com<

Disclaimer: M&S belong to CC, however he would be sorely put out with
this version of the X-Files. =-P.  Sarah and Miss Smythe belongs to
Carol Gritton.

Notes: This is an epilogue to Family II, you do need to read it first. I
came up with this as a better way to end it, and thought I'd post it.

Warning: MSR, Rated P

Family III

The phone rang sharply in their office as they cleared out files. In
grabbing it, Scully stirred up the dust already coating his desk an
sneezed loudly. Mulder looked to her and smiled; she stuck her tongue
out at him.

"Scully." she answered the phone.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm looking for a Mr. Mulder."

"This is his phone, hold on a sec."

She handed him his phone and took the stack of files and folders from
him. They were cleaning out their basement office, preparing to be moved
into seperate divisions. The X-Files were now solely Mulder's though he
told her he was going to line her up as co-investigator for every one
anyway. All it meant really was that the government didn't see them as
working together, but they really still were.

She watched his face as he spoke to the women on the phone, the small
frown that started, then changed to a tiny little grin of delight. She
hoped it wasn't one of those 900 numbers that called occassionally.

After a strange conversation, Mulder hung up and turned to her.

"Well that was Sarah's teacher.......Miss Smythe."

Scully frowned. "What's wrong?"

His face took on the calm detatchment it had when explaining a case to
her. The kind that he only gave to her in bits and pieces, letting her
think of ways to disprove his claims before he even gave her all the
information.

"It seems Sarah kept talking about her mother as if she were still
alive."

Scully's face fell and she felt the prick in her heart that came
whenever she thought of Annie, or of Sarah's sadness in missing her
mother.

But Mulder's face remained calm. "Well Miss Smythe was concerned that
she might be, well, going a little crazy or making up stories, just as
children do. So she took Sarah aside and said that she knew that Sarah's
mother had died a while ago, and that it was okay to remember her, but
that she shouldn't make up stories."

Mulder paused and saw the lines of fresh pain carved on Scully's face.

"But Sarah said that she wasn't talking about her first mommy, she was
talking about her second mommy and that she wasn't making the stories
up. Miss Smythe called to ask who Dana was."

Scully's head jerked up and her eyes met his.

<Mommy......>

"She called you mommy, Scully."

Dana's mouth fell open and she stared at him as of she couldn't believe
the words that had come from his lips.

He smiled and kissed her softly. "Congratulations, Scully. You're a
mommy."

She smiled and laughed.

He liked the flecks of gold that appeared in her eyes when she was
laughing. He liked the way her teeth were small and white in her mouth
when she was smiling.

He liked her being happy.

Scully threw her arms around him and squeezed him hard. She buried her
face into his shoulder and laughed again.

"Thank you Mulder.......thank you for letting me in on this...."

end of Family III
adios
RocketMan