Title: Bloodlines
Author: Elizabeth L. Iacono
Rating: PG
Category: Vignette
Keywords: None
Spoilers: 1st-6th seasons (to be safe)
Summary: The Consortium's plans from someone who
doesn't want to be involved. Inspired by the
bloodline/Holy Grail chats on Haven's message board.
This story was inspired by all the wonderful and
insightful messages on The Haven's message board
about bloodlines and Grail children and how it's
connected to the X-Files. I just couldn't resist
writing this little vignette.
Note to all noromos: this story has definite shipper
overtones, although no outright shippiness. If you
can't handle this, bail out now, but it should be
safe for most.
Archive: Anywhere, Gossamer especially, anyone else
just send me an e-mail saying where it goes.
Feedback: Sure! My addy is RhiaRamsay@aol.com
Disclaimer: Mulder, Scully, and any other pertinent
XF characters ain't mine. I own Rose LaCroix and
Daisy Ariel.
Bloodlines
Elizabeth L. Iacono
There is a group of men on this planet. Old
men, set in their ways, who have been trying to find
out how to save our race while turning the planet over
to the control of aliens. Thank God most of them are
now crispy critters.
My name is Rose LaCroix. I guess you could say I
work for these men, although work isn't really the word
I would use. It's more like forced into slavery. The
thing is, I have some psychic abilities they can use.
It's a sort of precognition, I get feelings about what's
going to happen in the future. And 99.9 percent of the
time my feelings are dead on.
That's what happened in 1986, when they first
forced me to work for them. I was 22, fresh out of
college, and my English wasn't too great at the time.
I'm from France, a tiny little town called Rennes-le-Chateau
(and if you know your bloodlines that name has some infamous
connotations). They had found out about me and my abilities
somehow, I'm not going to question them, that's gotten too
many people into trouble. They wanted to know things about
the future, especially the role one young man was going to
play in the future. The son of one of their old
colleagues, Bill Mulder.
I told them that the man, Fox, was special.
He would play a big part in the future. I didn't
know how much that was an underestimate. After I
began working with 'Them' I found out they'd been
keeping an eye on this Fox ever since he was a baby.
Without his knowledge they'd been running tests on
him. He's got the potential for some real incredible
abilities, judging by some of the scans done on his
brain. They just hadn't figured how to turn them on yet.
I have to say I was definitely intrigued by this
Fox, or as he prefers to be called, Mulder. I kept
an eye on his career for a few years, he did seem to
be going places. Then, 'They' asked me to get another
feeling on him. Turns out Mulder had began to stumble
on something called the X-Files. I let my mind wander
to get the feeling on him, but it was a very vague
feeling. All I could pick up was that he needed
someone to help him. Someone who would complement him.
Then I found out 'They' already sent someone to
help him with the X-Files. The daughter of one of
the bigwigs in the group, I think Strughold is his
name, was already dating and helping Mulder with his
research on the files. Diana Fowley, that was the
daughter's name, had a background in all things
paranormal, with interests similar to his. A perfect
match, it would seem, at least according to 'Them'.
It seemed to me that 'They' thought that this pair was
fated. If this relationship advanced, 'They' thought
they would create the perfect bloodline.
Having grown up in a small European village with
close ties to the past, I knew all sorts of legends
and stories. Some of my favorites were about the
search for the Holy Grail. Now, they reminded me
of Mulder, who was out there valiantly searching for
his Holy Grail of the truth. The thing was I was
convinced that Diana was not the one Mulder was
supposed to be searching for the truth with. She
just sent chills down my spine. That and my feelings
were acting up again. I was feeling that there was
someone else out there, someone else who would be a
better complement to his search for the truth. Someone
who he would be able to bounce his off the wall theories
on, and would validate them and together they would be
stronger. It almost seemed to me that this right someone
would make him a whole person.
Suddenly, it all fell together. Mulder and this
someone, who I discovered her name was Dana Scully,
would be the ones. Together they would be the ones to
defeat the men I was working for unwillingly and, I
know how lame this sounds, but they would be able to
save the planet. Them and their progeny, though I
wasn't even daring to suggest that one to them yet.
'They' came to me again. 'They' could tell
that the Mulder/Diana thing wasn't working out, no
matter how much they wanted that bloodline to continue.
'They' decided then that without Diana to keep watch over
Mulder that he shouldn't be on the X-Files at all for fear
that he'd stumble on to something 'They' didn't want him
to. So I was asked to get a feeling on who would be the
perfect person to invalidate Mulder's work. Someone with
a scientific background.
Well, I knew someone who fit that description
perfectly. Even though I knew in the end she wouldn't
invalidate his work but make it stronger. Oh, well,
there's always that .01 percent where I'm wrong. I
could always chalk it up to that.
I told them that the result of my feeling and a
little research said that one Dana Scully would be the
perfect person to 'invalidate' Mulder's work. She was
a doctor, and a scientist at heart. Someone who would
think that Mulder was crazy as a coot at first sight. Right?
Eventually 'They' began to catch onto this too. Mulder
hadn't ended up in the looney bin yet and Scully hadn't run
off screaming. 'They' were beginning to wonder if their
original plans for a bloodline with Mulder and Diana
(which they still were thinking that bloodwise would be
the perfect match) should be altered. 'They' began
looking at me like this was my fault, but even 'They' knew
my abilities weren't perfect. In order to split them up
'They' sent the orders to shut down the X-Files division.
Did that keep them from ever seeing each other again?
Yeah, right.
Then, 'They' made what I consider the stupidest move
yet: entering Dana Scully into 'Their' abduction program.
I had attempted to protest against this, but I couldn't
do that without revealing that I knew more than what I
was telling 'Them'. What 'They' did to her was the
equivalent of medical rape, implanting a chip in her, taking
away her ability to have children, therefore wrecking part
of my vision. Though 'They' managed to circumvent that.
Sort of.
'They' used the ova taken from Scully to create one
of 'Their' clones. A sweet little child called Emily,
half human, half alien. She got sent to foster parents
to live a normal life, although being a clone she always
had to have certain medicines. I remember hearing that
Scully had found Emily, but that their time together was
short because Emily had died shortly after.
I was so tempted to tell her about the other part of
'Their' experiment. They had created another child from
her ova, Emily's twin sister. A grail child, so to speak.
The one difference with this child is that she's human,
with a human father. This was 'Their' first flirting
with the idea of an alternate bloodline, different from
the original proposed Mulder/Diana bloodline. Yes, Mulder
was the father of this child. I guess my feelings weren't
that inaccurate after all.
Seeing as I wasn't really doing much except taking up
space living on one of 'Their' compounds and providing my
feelings every once in a while, I was given charge of
raising the child. I named her Daisy Ariel, it seemed to
fit her.
As I was watching Daisy grow up Mulder and Scully
went through the trials. Their lives seemed more and
more like a old fashioned mediaeval quest every day,
searching for the Grail. I must say they went through
the wringer, only to come out stronger with each encounter.
They're getting close. Mulder and Scully, they're
getting closer to finding the ultimate truth, the one
that will help them complete their quest and save
humankind. Then maybe I can hand Daisy over to them,
once things are safe for them. Their relationship is
astounding. I've been following their actions for years,
and I think they've finally admitted to themselves that
they're in love with each other. I think the other knows
it too, but they're not really bringing it up. But it's
there, and it's very subtle.
Maybe that would make Daisy's introduction easier on
them. Daisy is such an incredible little girl. She's
only four and a half years old but she's so intelligent.
From Mulder's records I saw that he was the same way as a
child. She looks more like her mother though, with long,
auburn colored hair and bright blue eyes. She's tiny too,
looking like she could break at the slightest touch,
although I've seen her bounce back from some wicked
falls. She must have a whole flock of guardian angels
watching over her. She's also got a very impish streak in
her, which I'm pretty sure she gets a little bit from both
her parents.
I've tried to give Daisy a varied background. At
four and a half she's traveled to more cities and seen
more things than many adults. Since I'm in charge of her
education and my job provides me with some sort of freedom,
we've traveled to all sorts of cities. I've taken her to
London, Paris, my little hometown of Rennes-le-Chateau,
New York, San Francisco, even a daring trip into Washington
D.C. Daisy's so inquisitive, always wondering about
everything, so I try to show her rather than just telling
her.
She's asked about her parents too. Even though she's
spent her childhood mostly isolated, growing up in one of
'Their' compounds with usually just me for company, from
watching TV she knows that most kids have two parents, a
mother and a father. I don't kid her by saying I'm her
mother, she deserves better than that. I tell her that
someday she'll meet them. I've no doubt of that, my
feelings strangely assure me of that fact. But I do
tell Daisy stories of her parents, versions of fractured
fairy tales.
"Once upon a time, there was a man called Fox,
your father, who was in search of an elusive thing
called the truth. And one day, he found the only
person who could help him find it, your mother, Dana..."
The End!
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I hope than anyone who frequents Haven's Shipper message
boards reads this and appreciates the references in this,
the subtle shippers and the Grail Children as some of them.
I realize that this story doesn't say exactly what was on the
message board, and that my knowledge of Grail legends is not
much, but this story was greatly inspired by it. Thanks to
all patrons of the message board.
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'True love, it's the
greatest thing in
the world.'
Miracle Max
The Princess Bride
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'Men will fight bravely
and be heroes, but for
a last ditch defense
against any odds, get
a mother.'
Lightbringer
High Wizardry
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