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🅧 Please explain to me the scientific nature of 'the whammy'

[ n a m e ; ] | Dana Katherine Scully |
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"1979?"
The memories of Craiger are... difficult, to say the least, but distant enough that she can talk about it. At least some of it. In spite of herself, she feels a smile tugging at the corner of her lips.
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Which is to say: He does remember her, given sufficient context clues. With those details - and with her hair a little fluffier than it was when they started the day - he can see the girl she was. He might be kicking himself for not figuring it out earlier, but at least he has it now.
"Did I end up getting you into hot water?" he asks, since it's not like he ever got the answer at the time. "With your family, I mean."
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"You're only saying that because you didn't meet my sister," she says with a smile that's small but suffused with warmth. Melissa would've been a better encounter for him than Bill, though she might not have lived it down either way.
"But no-- it was fine. Bill didn't say anything." Which she'd half expected. "Anyway-- I've never me another Fox, so it stuck in my memory."
Danas are a dime a dozen, probably. She's not offended that he didn't remember.
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If she'd ended up getting bawled out for their afternoon together, it wouldn't have made a difference in the long run - she's made it to the FBI, she's fine - but it's nice to know that her brother seethed for a while without letting his issues boil over on her. At the time, it seemed like it just ate him up to see his sister talking to a boy.
After a moment, he adds, "I thought about going back, seeing if I could find you again. But I ran out of time - and after a few years out of the country..."
Priorities change. Dana becomes an odd little summer memory, and Mulder moves on with his life.
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"I think my parents stopped feeling safe. That autumn there were a series of murders," she admits. "We didn't even finish out the school year."
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Not surprising, considering he was half a world away by then, but it's still strange to hear about it now, and know - distantly - that death had found its way to Dana Scully's door.
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"It involved someone from the store, actually. Not Carinda-- one of the other employees, a man calling himself Sunlight." Easy, casual, just things that happened. She tries not to picture him. She manages, through long practice, not to shudder.
"He was trying to build a cult-- he was utterly delusional-- and he murdered several people who didn't turn out to be the cultists he wanted. They were made to look like accidents. Mostly teenagers-- I imagine they tried not to let it get much publicity, out of respect for the families."
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If she'd asked before explaining, though, he'd never have thought he was capable of starting a cult, let alone committing serial murders. That he hadn't heard about it isn't surprising - even if it had garnered media attention, it probably wouldn't have crossed the Atlantic - but it's disquieting to encounter the subject now. "How close were you to the victims?"
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"Not very," she finally says, because it's true enough. "We were so new in town we didn't know many people, not before school started, and the deaths had started before we moved in though everyone thought they were accidents. I guess we were close to it because my sister and I spent time at the store, but we didn't really know the kids who died."
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"Our parents weren't thrilled with how often we went to begin with," she says with a shrug. Just childhood mischief, really. Getting drawn into psychic cults by self-declared Nephilim. Who couldn't relate?
"I was certainly closer than I should've been. I guess I had no room to criticize your looking for trouble," she adds with a rueful smile.
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"We moved back to California, I went to medical school, and then... the FBI was recruiting pathologists." She shrugs a shoulder. "I'm glad you didn't run into any trouble with Sunlight, at least."
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"Or he was trying to gauge whether she'd be a good cult target. I'm not sure that's better." It's an awful thought. She hesitates a little, before adding.
"Carinda wasn't involved-- I really believe she had no idea before it all came out. I don't know if you ever ended up talking to her but... I think she meant well."
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"A little," he says, because probably he did, who would go back and check. "We spent most of our time in one of the classes. I didn't develop any magickal powers, unfortunately."
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She hasn't forgotten that either, though-- all these years later-- she knows better than to ask.
"Anyway-- as terrible as it all was, I can't imagine the story got too far. I suppose in some ways the experience lead me to embrace science-- seeing what unchecked superstition can do to a community."