Disclaimers:  Ok here we go again! (Joy!!!! :P)  The 
characters in this story don't belong to me (all though I 
would be happy if they did) I'm just borrowing them from 
the almighty Chris Carter (Please don't sue me!  I don't 
have anything of much value for ya so you won't get 
anything if you do sue me...sorry).  This story is for the 
entertainment of EMXC members only, if you got it from 
anyone else, please let me know.  If you wish to distribute 
this please ask me first.   This story doesn't really have a 
special time frame in which it should take place, I guess 
you could stick it anywhere in third season.  It's just kind of 
a little story about Mulder and Scully thinking about their 
lives and about how things were before and after they met.  
All flames, comments, bullets, etc. can be sent to 
AgntSpooky@aol.com.

Note:  The little speech at the beginning that continues at 
the end is copyright of Pam Tillis, I borrowed it from her 
video "The River and the Highway" along with the song, 
which is in this story somewhere.  The indian that gives the 
speech is talking about a tree branch so keep that in mind 
because if you don't I don't think the speech makes much 
sense.  Since I wanted to relate this story to the speech just 
pretend that Albert Hostein said it, that way Mulder and 
Scully will be able to remember what was said, ok?



Before and After
By: AgntSpooky



"Two people come together,  they have two different 
personalities and it's very difficult to bring two 
personalities together  hat are pretty much independent and 
they make an attempt to go down lifes path and sometimes 
they come in there life to a junction and one goes down this 
way as in this story here.  This one becomes the river.  It 
has many tributaries.  And this one is the highway, it has 
many junctions it goes on and on, virtually never ending 
but then when the people come back together and they 
mature, they turn their lives around. Then in their maturity, 
in their waiting years then they travel together as one, they 
make decisions together in unison.  They support  each 
other, one mind one body and one spirit as they travel 
together."


She follows the path 
Of least resistance.
She doesn't care to
See the mountain top.
She twists and turns
With no regard to distance
She never comes to a stop.

Special Agent Dana Katherine Scully  sat at her desk 
thinking about her partner.  She couldn't believe that they 
had been working together for three years.  It seemed like 
just yesterday that Chief Blevins had called her in and told 
her her new assignment.  So much had happened since 
then, so much that she would never forget.  She loved her 
job, she loved the mystery behind all of their cases but 
sometimes she wondered what things would have been like 
if she had stayed in medical school. 

And she rolls
She's a river.
Where she goes
Time will tell.
Heaven knows
He can't go with her
And she rolls 
All by herself.

She could be a rich and maybe even famous doctor by now, 
but she had made her choice, she had joined the FBI taking 
on what she had known would be a difficult task, a task to 
prove to everyone that she was just as good as any man.  
She had known it was going to be hard, but she had not 
expected to be working on the cases that she was.  She had 
expected to work in violent crimes as a forensic 
pathologist, she had never considered anything else.  She 
didn't really want to be a field agent, she wanted to work in 
a lab, stick with things bound by the laws of science, but 
then she had been transferred.

He's headed for
A single destination.
He doesn't care what's 
Standing in his path.
He's a line between 
Two points of separation.
He ends just where
It says to on the map.

Special Agent Fox William Mulder trudged down the hall 
to his small basement office thinking about his partner.  
Today was the anniversary of the day they were assigned to 
work together.  He sometimes wondered what would have 
happened if he hadn't joined the FBI, if he hadn't continued 
his search for his sister Samantha.

And he rolls
He's a highway.
Where he goes
Time will tell.
Heaven knows 
She can't go with him
And he rolls 
All by himself.

He could be a rich business man or a psychologist or 
something like that, he could have escaped from the 
memories of that night, but he had chosen to continue on, 
to find the truth.  He had joined the FBI in search of 
security, he knew he had the skills he needed to work for 
violent crimes as a profiler, he could almost get into the 
minds of the killers.  He was well known and respected  
until he discovered the X -Files, the cases that the 
government denied existed.  He hoped that he could find 
some proof that his sister was ok, that she was still alive.  
He had always believed that she had been taken by aliens 
but now he thought that he could get the proof he needed to 
find her.  Then to make things worse, Chief Blevins had 
given him a partner.  Some kid just out of medical school 
and the academy.  He didn't like the idea of a partner and 
he hoped that this one would be like the last and get too 
stressed out and just quit.  Was he ever wrong.....

And every now and then 
He offers her a shoulder.
And every now and then
She overflows.
And every now and then
A bridge crosses over.
It's a moment that 
Every lover knows.


"Hi Scully."

"Oh, hi Mulder, I didn't hear you come in."

"Scully, do you know what today is?"

"Um....ET's birthday??"

"Nope...it's our anniversary!"

"Mulder are you feeling ok??  We don't have an 
anniversary...Am I involved in something here that I don't 
know about?"

"No,  it was three year's ago today that Blevins assigned 
you to your death trap, working with me."

"Oh, really?  It was that long ago???  I didn't realize it!  So 
Mulder does this call for a celebration?"

"Of course!  I talked Skinner into letting us have the rest of 
the day off.  Come on, let's go copper....I have a surprise for 
you."

"Oh this I have to see!"


And she rolls
And he rolls
She's a river
He's a highway
Where she goes
Where he goes
Time will tell
Heaven knows
He can't go with her
She can't go with him
And she rolls all by herself
And he rolls all by himself
Fare thee way......

"Lifes path goes on and on and on and in their maturity 
they travel together as one, one mind one body and one 
spirit."

*End*