Dani often felt all alone. She would glance all around her at the dinner table and feel painfully isolated. Maggie and Sarah were always giggling at private jokes they shared between themselves. Missy and Samantha were always doing the same. Ari was hardly ever there, since they shipped her off to boarding school in Taiwan. Mulder and Scully were always cooing to each other sweetly and mumbling words of joy about their soon-to-be-born child. And Dani would sit there all by herself, swirling her fork through her food.
Sometimes she found herself wishing she were closer to Wally. Even though Wally was a twisted psychopath, neither Maggie nor Sarah seemed to mind having a nutcase for a twin. Sometimes, Dani had dreams that Wally wasn't really who she seemed, and that they were as close as the other twins in her family. But every time she had the dream, it didn't look like Wally. She had long brown hair and blue eyes, much like what Dani had looked like before her hair-dye escapade, though defenitly not exactly.
Dani sat on the swing on the front porch rocking slowly while Maggie and Sarah had an intense lightsaber battle. Maggie had her teeth gritted, and Sarah's eyes blazed like fire as they tried to thwack each other with long fabric tubes. Maggie's slipped and hit Sarah's elbow. Immediatly, Maggie dropped her lightsaber and ran over to make sure her sister was alright. Dani remembered when Sarah accidently banged her in the head with a lightsaber and then laughed. She felt her eyes sting with tears, wishing she had Wally with her.
It was then that there came a funky smell.
Dani shot straight up. She knew that smell, she knew it all too well. It was the smell of a dead rodent, mixed with hydrochloric acid.
It was Roberto Ratboy.
"Sarah! Maggie!" shrieked Dani.
They looked up and their eyes filled with fear as the stench greeted them. Maggie whimpered and began to tremble. Sarah clutched her hand, and they ran to the porch. The EW girls huddled in a tight circle to protect themselves.
Suddenly, Maggie's head tipped to the side. "Do you hear something?" she whispered.
"No, I just smell," Dani moaned, plugging her nose.
Maggie snorted. "You can say that again."
Sarah paused too. "No, I can hear it! It sounds like someone screaming...sort of..."
Dani felt in a daze. "He's holding someone captive!" she cried. "We've got to help them!"
Maggie moaned. "Remember he wanted to sacrifice the babies to the Mayan Gods?"
"Oh Toaster!" they all cried, running full speed for the bushes where the smell seemed to be coming from.
Duct taped on her ankles and wrists to a chair, with duct tape over her mouth, sat a terrified girl with a schmatta over her head. All around her were large, ceremonial rocks, and next to her, Roberto Ratboy crouched, drooling and rubbing his hands together, occasionally smacking his lips. His hands were covered in rat blood, and rat carcasses were spread around.
"Roberto!" screamed Dani. "Stop it!"
Roberto jumped up and snorted. "Well hello ladies," he cackled in a manic sort of way. "Care to join me for din-din?"
"Float in purgatory!" Maggie screamed as she and Sarah tackled him to the ground, moaning from the horrible smell. "Don't you shower?" wailed Sarah.
Maggie and Sarah duct-taped Roberto to a rock while Dani pulled the schmatta off of the girls head.
The girl looked at her with wide, terrified and grateful eyes. Dani gasped. "Wally?!" she shrieked.
The girl shook her head, and whispered, "My name is Tèa..."
Suddenly, Dani heard in her mind, 'Can you hear me?'
Dani's eyes opened wider. She thought back to the girl, 'You?'
The girl smiled. "It's you!" she cried. "You're not dead! I'm your quadruplet!"
Suddenly, a flood of memories that weren't hers came rushing at her. Dani suddenly learned that she was one of four. The oldest, Eve, fell off a cliff when she was two. Wally, well, we know Wally's story. Dani, we know her story too. And Tèa, she was raised by Angela White...
Dani screamed. "We only have the same alien parent! Are your mother and father who you claim they are?!"
Tèa nodded solemnly. "Fox Mulder and Angela White, though I was raised by a woman named BJ. Intriguing..."
"Fox Mulder is my adoptive father!" cried Dani, clapping her hands together. Her eyes then lit up...
"I have an idea."
"This was fun, let's do it again sometime." Sarah said as Maggie put the finishing touches on Roberto's bindings.
"Maybe later." Roberto said, then tripped Maggie with his foot, and took his duct taped arms and put her in a headlock, Maggie screaming and threatening to bite him the whole time. Sarah grabbed her staple gun out of her pocket and screamed, "Freeze! FBBN!"
"I'll let her go if you loosen these sticky silver things which bind me together."
Sarah sighed and reluctantly untaped Roberto, who ran off into the sunset screaming something about revenge. The twins turned to Dani, who was talking quietly to a girl who looked a lot like her.
Suddenly, Dani and the girl got up and walked into the house. Sarah and Maggie, instantly curious, followed them.
"My name is Tèa," the girl began as the twins walked into the kitchen to see Dani and Tèa standing, facing Mulder and Scully.
Scully's jaw tightened. "Oh?" she asked in a small, pissy kind of voice.
"Dani and I, we're part of quadruplets. Besides us, there's Wally and Eve. Wally, well, you know her story, and Eve fell off a cliff when she was two. We were all split up when we were six months old, after we formed a psychic bond. We were all sent to be raised by other people. See, we have the same alien parent, but our human parents are different. Dani's are Clyde Bruckman and Marita Covarrubias, Eve's were Darren Oswald and Terri Roberts, Wally's are Walter Skinner and Sally Kendrick, and mine are you, Fox Mulder, and Angela White..."
"WHAT?!" Scully screamed, pushing Mulder hard in the chest. He slammed against the refridgerator door and groaned in pain. "Angela White?!" she screamed. "You rat bastard!"
"It's not my fault! You have a baby with Krycek!"
Scully sank to her knees and started to cry hysterically. Tèa looked horrified. "Hormones," Dani mumbled. "She's five months pregnant."
"Oh," Tèa said, nodding in a knowing sort of way.
Mulder tried to comfort her. "Get away!" Scully yelled, biting his arm.
"GO MOM!" screamed Sarah and Maggie, who were suddenly eating hotdogs and waving banners. Sarah had a big rubber hand on one of hers, with the index finger pointing straight up.
"Look, calm down," Mulder said, tending to his bleeding forearms. "Neither of us could help it. When we had the chance to help it, we came out with Missy, Samantha and this baby," he said.
"If you could have helped us, you wouldn't have," Maggie and Sarah screamed simultaneously.
"True," Mulder admitted. "So let's just let Tèa live with us and forget any of this ever happened, okay?"
"I want a cookie," demanded Scully.
"Me too!" cried Sarah.
"Me nine!" cried Samantha, who had been sitting in a corner sucking her fingers, watching this family tragedy unfold.
Mulder sighed and got cookies for everyone, except Maggie who demanded a jar of pickles.
"Fine," Scully said, an evil look in her eye. "Tèa stays. But she's now our eternal slave."
"Scully!" Mulder cried. "No child of mine will be a slave!"
"You sent my child off to boarding school in Taiwan!" cried Scully.
"You wanted to."
She grinned sheepishly. "Oh yeah. Fine. You don't have to be a slave, but don't expect any royal treatment."
Dani smiled. "Come on Tèa...I'll show you our room..."
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