Date sent: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:29:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Ms Peepers Subject: THE COST OF WHY AUTHOR:MS. PEEPERS TITLE:THE COST OF WHY RATING:PG CLASSIFICATION:ADVENTURE/ANGST SUMMARY:THE CSM MEETS FOUR FAMILIAR FACES BEFORE THEY ARE BORN. DISCLAIMER:I OWN NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS.I WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE THIS AFTER LOVING THE WORLD OF NEW BIRTHS SECTION IN THE SHIRLEY TEMPLE CLASSIC,'The Bluebird' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~He had fallen asleep during his favorite Shirley Temple movie,The Bluebird. He had seen this film a million times but he never tired of it. He needed sleep because tomorrow he had strings to pull. A few hours later,after he had drifted off to sleep he awoke and lighted a cigarrette hoping to fall asleep. As he was about to go to sleepy-bye a bright light permeated the room. Suddenly,before his eyes stood a beautiful blonde lady with baby blue on. She walked towards him,took his hand and then with her assistance they floated ot the window. Soon after floating through the air for what seemed like eons,they soon alit on to a marble floor which had a marble staircase that ascended before them. She spoke. "Come with me John and you shall see what you may have started unwillingly". They started going up the stairs. Then they came to a grand set of doors that opened when they approached it. "This way",she said. He followed. "Here you may see a few faces you recognize,and four in particular you *will* know."She then left him and as he wandered around he saw two boys talking. One of them had a large nose,black hair and was talking the other boy who had large,jutting buck teeth who kept saying 'ba-ba booey'. Then he saw another boy who was telling anyone who would listen that he never did anything with a Monica girl in his office. Then he saw a gorgeous little red head.Her hair was long,with limpid blue eyes. She was standing behind a counter mixing chemicals and tears were coming down her face. "What's the matter?",he asked. "Oh nothing." "Then what are you doing"? "Making an inoculation that will save the human race against a black alien goo that was sent here by said beings." He was shocked. Dana Scully the creator of a vaccine that even *his*people couldn't make. "But this a good thing.Why cry?" "You don't know. I won't live long enough to see its effects do any good. Its just so sad." "I won't let that happen."Oh but you're the one who put us all in this jeopardy." He then looked up and saw Fox. He was staring out a window at a clear blue sky,thinking no doubt. On the steps below him sat Jeffrey and Samantha playing Stratego. "Whatever are you thinking about,young man?" "How to kill you.You'll take my sister from me,thwart my truth seeking,have my father killed,not tell me I have a half brother,not to mention abducting Dana and giving her cancer,causing her never to conceieve a child,almost killing her and then she almost burns to death--that's all--no harm done." "But I'll be looking out for you all." Then an old man appeared and started calling last names,"MacDonald,McRaney-" "Mulder will be called soon and I'll have to leave Dana and the other all alone" "What's this about Dana not living?" Fox looked at him hard. "Two months after her inoculation is distributed she dies of a fatal migraine brought on by her cancer remission in a church on her father's birthday--cool huh?" He looked at him sorrowfully. "Mulder- "His name was called. Dana and the others all clung to hilm as if there lives depended on it. "MULDER!" The old guy,who was Father Time couldn't be kept waiting. "NO! DON"T TAKE HIM! WE ALL WON"T HAVE ENOUGH TIOME TOGETHER!" Dana yelled at the top of lungs. Mulder told her to have courage.Then she went behind him to try to sneak out with him,but Father Time caught her and bade her to go back. She then lay on the floor and cried her little eyes out. The ship that was to bear the childeren to earth sailed slaowly off and the children all waived goodbye to an idyllic life. The csm then sat down,put Dana in his lap and caressed her. "Its alright. You'll see him again and you'll have a wonderful time together.You'll see" As he was rocking Dana silently to sleep kissing her cheeks and stroking her hair, the blue lady appeared. "You have seen all that you were meant to. It is time to go now." As he reluctantly let Dana on the floor and rose to go,she jumped up and kissed him on the cheek and hugged him. He smiled,hugged Jeff and Sam and they all waived to him as he left. He was soon back in his room and the blue lady spoke. "You hopefully have learned a little something tonight-I hope that when this all comes back to you--for you will forget till the appropriate time--you will have learned something. Then she slowly disappeared. He then drifted to sleep--without a cigarrette dreaming of his deeds and how to amend them. And how to help his red headed daughter's pain and her brothers' ans sister's pain all go away. FOX:11 DANA:9 SAMANTHA:8 JEFFREY:7 _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com