#Samantha mulder

[randomfoggytiger]

(Credit to @i-still-want--to-believe -- her edits here.)

I just noticed a parallel between Anne Frank's diary and Samantha Mulder's recovered journal.

Was it intentional? Because, if so... yeah, that's dark.

[battleangel]

Mulder's Quest: 30 Years Later

The Truth Is Out There — 30 Years Later

X Files started in 1993 (Season 1).

Mulder's sister, Samantha, was abducted in 1979 when she was 8 years old & Mulder was 12.

Mulder became an FBI agent because he was convinced aliens abducted his sister. 

He wanted to examine & investigate the X Files in the hopes that she was still alive to find her and bring her back.

By the time the show starts, in Season 1, Mulder is already an FBI agent and is introduced to Scully.

It is May 1993 as of Season 1, Episode 1 of the X Files so 14 years has already passed since Mulder's sister's disappearance in 1979.

So, given that Samantha was 8 and Mulder was 12 when the abduction happened in 1979, Mulder is now 26 at the beginning of Season 1 in 1993.

Throughout over 10 seasons of the show, a series reboot, movies & a videogame, despite Mulder later learning that his father is part of The Syndicate, a shadowy government organization involved in alien human experimentation & preparing for an alien race to secretly colonize Earth, and further learning that his own father actually gave Samantha up in exchange for his silence regarding said alien experimentation along with top secret government projects, Mulder never gives up hope that his sister could potentially still be alive.

As late as the X Files movie which was released in 2007 — nearly 30 years after Samantha's abduction in 1979 — Mulder tells Scully that he "still has some hope" that his sister is alive.

While an alternate theory of Samantha's fate is presented to the audience in "Closure" (Season 7 - 2000), which presents the possibility that beings called Walk Ins saved Samantha from further experimentation, ended her human life and turned her into stardust — the fact remains that the mystery behind Samantha's fate is actually left ambiguous — the audience is never told 1000% if the Walk Ins saved Samantha from further tests and experimentation by converting her into stardust or is it possible that Samantha was not turned into a star and that she is still out there somewhere alive?

X Files presents both of these possibilities to the viewer as viable and it is left to the viewer to decide.

But for almost 30 years — throughout the original X Files series in the 90s, the reboot, the videogame and movie — Mulder persists in his quest to definitively find out what happened to Samantha.

In fact, Mulder is never shown giving up on finding his sister — even decades after her abduction & disappearance.

Samantha's disappearance and Mulder finding her is the sole reason he became an FBI agent with the hopes of looking into the X Files to somehow find the aliens he believed abducted her.

It is revealed as the series continues that one of the members of the aforementioned The Syndicate actually clones Samantha and Mulder finds multiple clones of his sister, each and every single time believing that the clone is actually Samantha.

In Season 5, Mulder believes that a serial killer that he previously apprehended in Season 3 may have killed Samantha but once the remaining victims are identified it turns out that none of them are Samantha.

However, before this is confirmed, Mulder is shown during the episode having many nightmares that Samantha is one of the serial killer's victims, specifically that the serial killer murdered Samantha at the age of 12 after she was abducted and buried her in the woods.

Mulder ends up digging through the soil in the woods with his literal hands to see if of one of the bodies of the victims is Samantha but when the corpse is later identified it is confirmed that it was not his sister.

Despite all these endless twists, turns, developments, traumatizations, nightmares, haunting visions, waking dreams, hypnotic regressions, lies, deceptions & subterfuge, Mulder never gives up on his quest to find Samantha or even slightly wavers.

Mulder is told in Season 7 (Closure - 2000) about the Walk Ins and it is implied that the Walk Ins turned Samantha into stardust thus ending her human life but saving her from further experimentation and that she now lives forever as a shining star.

Seven years after this revelation in Closure (2000), in 2007 when the X Files movie came out, in the movie Mulder is showing telling Scully that he "still has some hope" that Samantha is alive.

Obviously, Mulder would never be able to "prove" that Samantha was actually turned into stardust and is one of the stars shining brightly in the night sky above regardless of the emotional closure depicted in the "Closure" episode, the fact is, there is no literal way for Mulder to know for sure whether or not Samantha has actually been turned into literal stardust by the Walk Ins.

Given this, as stated, Mulder was quoted in the X Files movie as late as 2007 — when the show debuted back in 1993 — that he still believed that Samantha was possibly out there and alive.

Mulder is never shown giving up hope that he can find out what truly happened to his sister because if she is still out there somewhere, Mulder absolutely wants to know where she is.

Does she remember Mulder & her parents?

Or does she only remember the Cigarette Smoking Man who raised her after she was abducted and his son, Jeffrey Spender.

Did she start a new life?

Did the trauma of the experiments give her total amnesia?

Mulder never gave up hope and the driving force that led him to become an FBI agent in the first place and all of his endless searches for the truth about what happened to Samantha never ceased.

Why was Samantha abducted in the first place?

Here is the background per Google: The Syndicate was formed at the end of World War II, after the Roswell incident in 1947, when German scientists were brought to the United States to work on developing an alien-human hybrid.

Alvin Kurtzwell and Bill Mulder, Fox Mulder's father, as young men in the military were recruited for a project that they were told was concerned with biological warfare.

Deep Throat claimed that an ultra-secret conference of power brokers signed a multinational treaty that if an alien spacecraft crashed on Earth and the extraterrestrials survived, the country that held them would be responsible for their immediate extermination.

The group that became The Syndicate existed as early as 1952 as a secret group within the State Department.

The Syndicate's activities included experimenting with xenotransplantation, relocating ex-Nazi scientists to the United States after World War II and covering up the "black oil" discovered in the Piper Maru.

The members of the Syndicate were Conrad Strughold, Well-Manicured Man, First Elder, Second Elder, Third Elder, Cigarette Smoking Man, Deep Throat, Victor Klemper, William Mulder (Fox's father), Alex Krycek, Marita Covarrubias, Erika Price & Mr. Y.

The members of this secretive group within the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency officially broke off ties with the United States government in 1973.

On October 13, the Syndicate formally forged their alliance with the alien colonists at El Rico Air Force Base.

The Cigarette Smoking Man personally presented a folded American flag to the aliens, symbolizing their surrender to a superior intergalactic force. 

The Syndicate also commenced work on the Project, which would see an immense effort in creating an alien/human hybrid to serve the aliens as a slave race after colonization.

To allow the Syndicate to develop the hybrid, they were provided an alien fetus from which to extract DNA and begin research.

However, the aliens demanded, in exchange, samples of human DNA.

Members of the Syndicate turned over their loved ones to the aliens as human collateral.

The Cigarette Smoking Man handed over his wife, Cassandra Spender, and William Mulder reluctantly surrendered his daughter, Samantha — Fox's sister — who was abducted from her bed in front of her brother who was helpless to stop it at a later date completely clueless that he and his sister's father had been forced by the Syndicate to betray them.

In fact, William Mulder at first tried to offer his son, Fox, but the aliens wanted a female human to do their hybridization and other experimentation on and insisted on his daughter, Samantha.

Prior to March 7, 1992 — keep in mind Season 1, Episode 1 takes place in May 1993 — FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, William Mulder's son, had been trying to access classified government information but someone at a higher level of power had been blocking his attempts to get at it.

Fox Mulder's attempts to access the information had been blocked because the Syndicate were afraid he would leak the classified information.

On March 6, 1992, the Syndicate was responsible for assigning Special Agent Dana Scully to work with Agent Mulder.

Later in 1999, Scully asked Mulder what more he could possibly hope to do or to find — six years into the X Files — after having done and uncovered so much, such as exposing the secrets of a conspiracy of men who had been doing human experimentation but were now all dead.

Mulder's reply was that he still hoped to find his sister.

When the Cigarette Smoking Man later revealed to Agent Scully that he believed that Samantha Mulder was dead, Scully wondered why the Cigarette Smoking Man had not admitted to this knowledge earlier but his only reply was that there had been "so much" to protect before, all of which was now gone.

What Happened to Samantha Mulder?

Theory #1: Samantha Died in 1987 - Season 7

Let's look at the first theory which is that Samantha died in 1987.

There is testimony shown during Season 7 that the horrendous experimentation that Samantha endured simply killed her and she died in 1987 eight years after being abducted at the age of 8 in 1979.

Testimony - Season 7 “As the next witnesses, Skinner calls, whose ravaged appearance shocks Kallenbrunner and shames the panel. 

After sitting down, Mulder looks at him in astonishment, before nodding slightly in respect, a gesture returned by Spender. 

Spender states that as part of the syndicate's deal with the colonists, each member was forced to give up a loved one, and that after being taken initially, Mulder's sister lived with Cigarette Smoking Man and him before dying in 1987 after horrendous tests. 

He goes on to say that after he survived being shot, he was subjected to the same tests."

Theory #2: The Walk Ins Saved Samantha - Season 7

An alternate theory is that a Walk In saved Samantha by converting her to starlight energy and turning her into a star that shines in the night sky. This process while ending her human life and causing her death actually literally saved her from horrendous future experimentation and gives her eternal existence as starlight energy aka a star.

The last shot of Closure (Season 7, Episode 11) where Mulder finds out what happened to Samantha ends with a close up of a starry night sky and then a slow gradual zoom in to one specific star that is shining brightly as Mulder speaks a monologue stating that he "wants to believe" — the tagline for the X Files — that a different fate awaited the children who were murdered by the serial killer that Mulder previously apprehended in Season 3 of the X Files who were all killed between the ages of 11 to 14. 

As Mulder says he wants to believe that there was more for these children than the cruel fate that awaited them in the cold earth after they were brutally killed and later found by himself and his fellow FBI agents buried in the woods. 

Mulder he wants to believe in a bigger purpose, in a more metaphysical existence, in a God, in a universe that would somehow provide these children a fate beyond just what Mulder and his FBI cohorts literally unearthed that day as they are shown in the episode zipping the decayed corpses of the murdered children into body bags. 

At that moment in the episode, the murdered children seemingly come to life, exit the ground and their body bags, and excitedly play, talk and laugh and run around to form a circle.

The children however are shown to be glowing with a ghostly like appearance so it is clear they are no longer living yet they are shown very happily and excitedly running around laughing, playing and talking so this may be the "extra" type of metaphysical existence that Mulder alluded to that he "wants to believe in".

Mulder then sees his 12 year old sister, Samantha, as one of the children with the same glowing ghostly demeanor run towards him and hug him.

The children are shown playing in the woods that their murdered corpses were found in earlier by Mulder & his fellow FBI agents but it is now nighttime and the woods are dark and completely deserted.

As the children interact and play together, they then form a circle and the children are then shown one by one leaving earth and dissipating into the starry night sky.

The camera then zooms out and you can see the star-filled night sky above the woods then the camera continues to zoom out further and further into the night sky then zooms in on one single star shining very brightly as Mulder finishes his monologue about how he "wants to believe" and the episode ends with the camera zoomed in focusing in on the lone individual brightly shining star.

This is a possible reference to the walk in concept that was explained to Mulder earlier on in the same episode (Closure).

The walk in is a concept in New Age mysticism of spiritual entities that enter the bodies of humans that have endured extreme severe trauma or multiple traumatic incidents that no longer have a will to live — the spiritual entities walk in and take over the soul and inhabit the body of these humans that no longer want to live and this then frees that soul to leave this realm and enter the afterlife.

When the Walk Ins take over the soul of said humans automatically inherit all of their memories but with none of the host human's original emotions that were attached to those memories.

Additionally, since the Walk Ins are spiritual entities that are not human and they take over the soul of a human typically in their 20s or older who have endured massive and extreme personal trauma, the Walk Ins are inheriting the host's memories without the host's emotions that were attached to the memories, while also inhabiting the body of a human that is in their 20s or older without ever having gone through the human process of childhood, adolescence, listening to authority figures, indoctrination, school, education, religion and so on. 

So, the Walk Ins then get to live as that human whose body they have walked into with all of the human's memories intact, but none of the emotions attached to those memories as well as none of the indoctrination, conditioning, grooming, authoritarian systems, education centers, etc. that any individual in their 20s would have presumably gone through in childhood and adolescence by the time they became adults in their 20s.

The X Files videogame further discusses Walk Ins lending additional credence to the theory that the Walk Ins possibly saved Samantha by turning her into starlight thus ending her human existence and saving her from further experimentation..

As I've made clear, however, Mulder himself states seven years after the events described above in “Closure” (Season 7 - 2000) to Scully in the X Files Movie in 2007 that he “still has some hope” that his sister is alive.

There is no conclusive proof that the experiments done on Samantha after she was abducted killed her nor was her body ever discovered. The fact is, while the Walk Ins theory is possible and Samantha may have been saved by them and in losing her human life been saved from additional experimentation and turned into pure starlight energy aka a shining star — it is just as, if honestly not more probable, that that isn't what happened to her. Consider the fact that there is no proof that the Walk Ins converted Samantha into starlight energy. 

Mulder is simply told than an eyewitness saw "light beings" take his sister and then a separate individual explains the Walk Ins concept to Mulder and the explanation closely aligns with what the eyewitness claimed she saw but that is absolutely the extent of anything resembling proof that is ever presented to the audience that Walk Ins "saved" Samantha.

Obviously, as a human being, unless Mulder is also converted into starlight energy, there is just no literal way for Mulder, the "eyewitness" or anyone else to unequivocally prove that the "star in the sky" is actually Samantha Mulder.

But that's the point — it is possible that Samantha survived the experimentation and somehow escaped and restarted her life over somewhere else with or without her childhood memories prior to her abduction intact.

But in the absence of discovering her body or finding Samantha alive, Mulder has every reason as he is shown in the X Files movie in 2007 to persist in his belief that his sister can still be alive as it is more than possible.

As Mulder said nearly 30 years after becoming an FBI agent solely for the purpose of finding his sister in the X Files movie,  he “still has hope”.

Mulder "wants to believe" that his sister is still alive.

Mulders Quest:

[philosopherking1887]

OK, why does Mulder get sucked into thinking this serial killer abducted his sister instead of the aliens when he literally saw a mute clone of her on a farm full of mutant bees in Alberta? That seems like a pretty good indication that crazy alien shit was involved.

[rawbutprecious]

[pilotinthestars]

chapter 4 - the holding-her-breath girl

rating: t | total word count: 6.1k | @today-in-fic

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February 6th, 1976

3:03 p.m.

Samantha’s scream echoed throughout the dentist’s office. Fox jumped, the comic he’d been holding sliding out of his hand and onto the old carpet of the waiting room. His mother, standing near the front counter, talking to the receptionist, dropped her purse from shock as the two of them made eye contact. It took less than a second for both of them to start running, Fox ahead, aided by the lankiness he’d gained as a teenager.

Fox sprinted down the hallway, peering into each and every room, full of other patients confused at the noise, only stopping when he heard a distinct sob from the farthest option. His stomach twisted into a series of knots.

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Read the rest on AO3.

[loubetcha]

Eternally thinking about an au where Samantha hasn’t yet returned bc she’s off with the rebels

oh as always i love this. if i’m being honest the rebels always confused me a bit because what they were doing was often cruel as well but that doesn’t mean they weren’t better than the syndicate. and if samantha were to be part of the rebels she probably wouldn’t support burning people alive and i could see her convincing some of the non-human/alien rebels that there were other ways to stop colonization and the syndicate. a true leader. and it’d also be a great way to set up a fox & samantha reunion because he’s encountered the rebels many times. also a little angst could ensue if he thinks she has been killing people too, but she explains and yadiyadiyada idk it’s probably much more formed in your brain than mine lol. i’d love to hear your thoughts! they’re always good ones. long story short- star wars adjacent.

[mytardisisparked]

I am absolutely on the FLOOR about the fact that the agent Mulder sees in the hallway at the beginning of the movie is played by the actress who played Young Samantha Mulder.

[i-am-a-stupid-robot]

I am on my KNEES begging someone with skills and access to please make an X-Files edit/amv to "Dark Road" by ITG Studios. It's so Mulder + Samantha coded. Pretty please?

[seapotty]

Letter to Samantha

[beholdthemem]

I'm still stuck on the fact that Mulder's parents canonically named one child Fox and the other one SAMANTHA. And Fox is the older one! It's not like they started off in the realms of normality and then thought 'You know what, this time around let's call our kid something a little more unique :)', Fox was their starting point. What?

Frankly I think they're cowards for not sticking with the animal theme. Call your daughter Robin or something and COMMIT TO YOUR IDEALS.

[randomfoggytiger]

Collector's Edition: Samantha Mulder's (Many) Returns

In honor of anon's request: "I was wondering if you had any fic recommendations in which Mulder found Samantha? I'm having a hard time with closure ahah."

(Here are some previous Samantha fic lists:

Meet the Mulders    

Redux II Samantha Was Real

Little Samantha’s Life in Capture

A Tribute to Samantha's 50th Anniversary)

Loose chronological order below~

CANON-DIVERGENT

Pequod's Way Beyond Blue

He summoned up all the courage he'd ever had, or ever needed and walked into his future.

Pre-Sein und Zeit Mulder has a prophetic dream.

eponine119's

Odyssey

"I'm supposed to believe you did him a *favor* when you killed a little girl and - what, paid some workmen - to plant her scoured bones in that basement?" demanded Scully.

Pre-Sein und Zeit Scully is commanded by CSM not to tell Mulder that Samantha is dead.

Searching in Vain

Fingers moving through disturbed earth over bone. He couldn't look and yet he had to. The right size. The right injuries. Including that final, horrible one.

AU-- Mulder is suppressing the true nature of Samantha's twisted death.

Glimpse

The hours dissolved as he sat entranced, watching himself on videotape in situations where he knew he'd never been. A wedding. To Scully, a beautiful bride. Surprisingly, the tears didn't come when he saw Samantha on the tape, alive and grown and lovely. The tears came when he saw the children on video.

AU-- Mulder is shot into a horrific alternate universe where he gained (and lost) a happy ending.

@agent-troi's This Heart That I Misplaced

She looked just like the others… but something was missing. Something essential had been taken from her, and somehow that convinced him beyond any last shred of doubt that this was in fact his Samantha.

AU-- Pre-Closure nurse died saving Samantha's life; and her sacrifice kicks off the finale of Mulder's journey.

Justin Glasser's (xphilefic) Orrery

I don't remember a lot about where I was before I was here. I remember someplace else. There was water there, and I wasn't too warm all the time. And I remember that I miss it, but I don't know why. Here is okay, when there are no tests. Jeffrey lets me pet his dog.

AU-- Post Closure Mulder's happy ending is torn from him after Harold's son is found alive.

amorfati3215's The 5 Ads for If Samantha Was Found Alive

“My name is Claire,” she replies softly. “But I used to be called Samantha.”

AU-- Closure Scully tracks down the nurse who rescued and raised Samantha.

@all-these-ghosts's (Ao3) happily ever after

“She was married for a few years, but her husband passed away. Georgie and Lauren moved back in with me after. Lauren was just a baby when it happened.”

AU-- Closure Mulder and Samantha reunite.

DaynaFox's The Return of Samantha Mulder

“Are you another cop?” she asked him. “Did you find my Mom and Dad yet? They only went next store, to visit the Galbrands. Did you ask the Galbrands where they went?”

Samantha, the Galbrands have both been dead for over 15 years… Mulder thought as he gazed at her. 

AU-- Post Closure Mulder is given a call from the authorities: his sister is not dead; and has been returned, not a day older, with no memory of her disappearance.

AU

@ghostbustermelanieking/skuls's

AU: The Mulders adopted Samantha instead of her being abducted.

Later on, he’s kind of glad he’s an only child.

What it says on the tin.

november 27, 1973

Her mother cries, pulls her into her lap and holds her tightly, says, “My baby, my baby,” over and over again. Samantha asks for cookies, and her mother takes her to the kitchen and pours her a glass of milk and stacks three cookies in front of her even though the rule is no more than 2 and not after bedtime. It’s past her bedtime, but she eats them anyway, has never remembered being this hungry.

Different endings to Samantha's abduction.

california winter

Fox gulped. He wanted to change his mind in that moment, but he heard Samantha and Jeffrey crying in the closet and he couldn't say a word. He had to be the brave big brother. He had to protect him.

Mulder and Samantha are both taken; and devise a plan of escape with little Jeffrey in tow.

X-Files Fictober: woman, socks, locker. setting: abandoned storage unit.

He turns and sees the girl, much younger than her with dark hair curling down her back, dressed in the same hospital gown as her. No shoes, just socks.

One Breath Scully escapes with Samantha.

Half-Light Universe

You have another chance to figure out what happened to Samantha. She may not be dead. All of it… you get another chance.

He wonders if it’s worth it.

Revival Mulder and Scully are shot back to those nine minutes they lost in the Pilot, with a chance to make everything-- or more things-- right.

@pilotinthestars's the holding-her-breath girl (Ao3)

It hit him then. She’d never been to this house, the one Teena had bought after the divorce in Connecticut.

Samantha is gone; Samantha is returned; and Samantha might not stay.

Erin M. Blair's

Turning Nine

"It's not your fault, Fox."

Samantha is returned from her abduction; and refuses to tell anyone except Mulder about her experiences.

Newfound Love

"I know," said Samantha as she took the photo from Scully. "I want to find him...."

Mulder, not Samantha, was abducted; and she and Scully (with the help of Deep Throat) help rescue him years later.

Discovery Of Samantha

"You look as though you had seen a ghost," Jennifer remarked, with a wry sense of humor.

Mulder and Scully are happily married (despite Diana's machinations); and find out one of their friends is Samantha.

@discordantwords's (Ao3) Lethe

She cannot remember the song, cannot remember her mother's name. But she remembers the sound of laughter, the red polka dots on her dress, bare toes in thick pile carpet.

Pre-One Breath Scully finds Samantha on the train car.

@i-gaze-at-scully's AU where the Samantha clone was actually the real Samatha

Mulder doesn’t attend the funeral. Can’t face his parents, can’t face the finality of two decades’ worth of his quest finally ending. Can’t face the 28 year old cold body of his 8 year old sister.

End Game Samantha wasn't a clone.

Mystic's

Misnomer

She watched them run test on her blood and her skin, they were exited by everything about her. She didn't understand.

X tells Mulder where to find Samantha... but, as always, nothing is ever clean-cut.

Secrets in the Forest

"Scully there's something you have to know about Kinnear. The night's are cold. I don't mean Washington D.C. cold, I mean cold." Samantha said accenting that last 'cold'.

Mulder and Scully inadvertently find Samantha while investigating a UFO case.

JLB's Lost and Found

"The test results determined that there is a match," she says quietly. "This is Samantha."

DNA confirms that one of Roche's victims was Samantha; and Scully tries to keep Mulder from falling completely apart.

@officialmulder/specialagentpao's broken hearts, paper hearts

It was going to be a snowy day. Mulder smiled to himself. Samantha liked snowy days. It was an excuse to stay in bed and drink hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows. They were allowed to do it once or twice a year.

Roche did kill Samantha; and Tena Mulder blames her son.

@slippinmickeys's

AU where Roche DID kill Samantha (Ao3)

In a photo in the lower right-hand corner, Samantha was posing with a brand new bike, dressed in a floral nightgown, the tree behind her covered in garish amounts of tinsel.

Post Memento Mori Mulder finds evidence that the last girl was Samantha, after all.

Livia Balaban's

180-Word Self-Imposed Challenge: Samantha's Fate - Version Four

And now a new lie. That she is my sister. I look into her unblinking Hazel gaze, and shake my head. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Redux II Samantha appears, again; but Mulder doesn't believe she's his sister.

Cunegund's Restoration I & II

Nine-year-old Samantha sits with us, another addition to our new family, and Krycek seems impossibly pleased with himself as he eats his own omelet with his right hand while he stirs his coffee with his left.

Post Requiem Mulder returns-- via the efforts of Krycek, TLG, and even Morris Fletcher-- with the abductees and his still young sister... right in time for his growing family to go into hiding.

Susanne Barringer's Thicker than Blood

Mulder stepped into the kitchen and immediately Samantha dropped Scully's hand. She shifted her position to put some distance between them, and her face turned hard.

Post Redux II Samantha appears again... and not for benevolent purposes.

Amy's Where Are You, China Blue?

"You're not listening."

"Yes, I am."

"Then stop it, Daddy. Just hear me out. I don't care anymore."

Post Redux II Samantha is sick and tired of CSM's games.

@writingwell/RocketMan's (xanadu) A Jerry Maguire Ending

"Why are you still here, Mulder? Your life long quest has ended. Samantha is back, and you know the reasons behind it, if not the purpose. What keeps you here?"

Post Redux II Samantha is incensed that her brother doesn't want to quit the files.

Susan Proto's

Familiar Faces

There was no doubt in his mind it was Samantha.

Or a clone.

Post Fight the Future Mulder and Scully see a Samantha lookalike; and Scully decides to do some investigating.

Miracles

"Fox, you're wrong. He can help your partner," Christeena attempted to convince. "He cured me, and he can cure Dana. Fox, I swear. I swear on your sister's life."

Scully is pregnant and in a coma, Maggie doesn't consider Mulder 'family', and Tena has known all along her daughter is still alive.

Jennifer Maurer's Perfect Gifts

"Yes. I have Agent Mulder's sister Samantha."

Scully makes a Christmas monkey paw deal for Samantha's return.

Lauren's (MC) The Return

The side profile of the child looked vaguely familiar. Mulder squinted his eyes to look closer. He suddenly felt the strength drain from his body as recognition registered for a brief minute.

Samantha is briefly returned; and CSM tries to use that to his advantage, luring Mulder into a death trap.

Sarah Ellen Parsons's 180-Word Self-Imposed Challenge: Samantha's Fate - Version One

I look at them suspended in greenish liquid - my children.

Samantha is a co-conspirator in the clone project.

Mish's Contact

His eyes swim with unshed tears but his words are steady. "I had the Gunmen search for her. Actually, she seems to be leading a pretty normal, happy life." His lips curve in a watery smile.

Post The Unnatural Mulder brings Scully to watch a little league baseball game; and has one more surprise in store for her.

@cecilysass's The Boy on the Beach (Ao3)

He recounted it like it was an exciting action tale, like it was a comic book, and Samantha just stared at him, gimlet-eyed. Maybe it was right to trust him to handle his own sister. Then again, he had a well-documented tendency to make reckless moves, even when he was in his thirties.

Post Amor Fati Scully is whisked back in time, resigning herself to being trapped in the past forever if she can save Samantha from being abducted.

@o6666666's (Ao3) What's your headcanon for if Samantha was found?

“I’m fine,” Scully calls to her, eyes still beating down on Pfaster. “I’m fine, Samantha!” But she is shaking from head to toe, teeth chattering as if her apartment’s cold. 

Scully, Mulder, and Samantha adjust to the latter's return, riding the ups and downs of Season 7 together.

 finisterre's The Tunnel at the End of the Light

It's her, the woman from the video, peering out of the door. I can only see the right half of her face in the murk of the room. I relax a little; this has to be the right place.

Samantha and her two sons escape, looking for Mulder's help-- not knowing he'd recently been abducted.

Gillian Leigh's (MC) Visitor in the Desert (MC)

"Samantha?" The woman stared at him without recognition for a moment, and then her own hazel eyes widened behind the simple frames of her glasses.

Season 9 Mulder is visited by his daughter from the future-- who helps him prevent William's adoption and reunites him with his sister (and Scully's brothers) in an underground colony.

Donna's After the Future

The atmosphere was nothing like when he had been a child. He could remember hiding in the loft with Samantha watching their parents fight or their father conspire against humankind.

Part II to a Colonization timeline, Scully barters for Samatha's life so Mulder (and their biological and adopted children) can be at peace.

@mldrgrl's Some Other Me

There’s a Fox Mulder whose sister wasn’t taken from him by aliens.  Instead, she died in a drowning accident at their summer home when she was four.

A series of AUs for Mulder, Scully, and Samantha.

@wexleresque/hellsteeth's the holidays linger like bad perfume (Ao3)

“I grew up here, my parents both still live here, but they’re separated. My sister…isn’t well. They share the responsibility of caring for her, and as they’ve gotten older, I’ve been trying to come back more often and help out.”

Mulder and Scully briefly meet on the Vineyard, and swap some intriguing family history.

Leni's Partnership

It had taken a year of partnership to learn about Mulder's little sister. 

Mulder is an author, penning out the stories he'd told his late sister growing up.

@swinging-stars-from-satellites's no but the concept of Samantha Mulder being returned to the world at 14

she wants to know her own history and what Changed Her and it worries her, gets her deep enough into her head — Mulders, conscious of it or not, have depressive, obsessive tendencies — that she finally tries regression hypnotherapy....

Samantha, amnesic and happily adopted, works tirelessly to learn about her old life.

Keri Gontarek's Reunited II

"Yes. And she's fine. A little weak--apparently, Krycek was pumping her full of morphine and other drugs, but she's recovering."

Scully is an FBI Director when Mulder rejoins her life. In part one, it's revealed they have a son. In part two, they find and rescue Samantha.

Taverl's Notes II

But he took it even worse than I had imagined, shutting himself off from anyone and everyone. Especially me. After seventeen years of friendship and almost eleven of marriage, I know Mulder too well not to realize that he never held me responsible for the fact that he didn't find Samantha until it was too late. It was his own innate and well-honed sense of guilt that made him hurl accusations at me; that made him blame me for not finding her it time to save her. That didn't make it hurt any less, though.

Mulder's marriage falls apart after finding his dead sister; and Scully (and Skinner) finds him, half dead, in the tub.

@dreamingofscully's Surely, to the sea (Ao3)

She sighed, then stepped forward and took one of his hands. “Years ago. Samantha.”

Mulder’s eyes dropped to the floor and his hand went limp in hers. Silence draped over them as he processed her words. She knew what he was thinking, because the same ideas flitted around her own mind. 

Samantha's mysterious illness is mentioned as part of a larger casefile (featuring married paranormal investigators Mulder and Scully.)

Medusa's Sandcastles

"Samantha?"

She smiled at him. The most beautiful smile he'd ever seen, bar one.

Mulder wakes from a coma, having dreamt the X-files as an entire, false life.

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[limnsaber]

SAMANTHA SHOULD HAVE BEEN OFF IN THE STARS!!! SORRY THE X FILES SEASON 7 EP 11 I DEFINITELY DO NOT UNDERSTAND!!!! WHAT IS THE POINT!!!!

[scullaaaaaay]

Mulder finally getting closure about Samantha was so beautiful. The way David played him acting relieved, how much he wanted to uncover the truth and finally be rid of this guilt. I have no words. On the other hand, all Samantha went through to the point the best outcome was to die at 14 is so depressing. The Mulder children deserved SO MUCH BETTER

[rawbutprecious]

Samantha Ann Mulder

FC: Either Megan Charpentier or Melissa Benoist depending on the verse

content warning: Cancer, Illness, Alien Abduction, PTSD, Trauma

My name is Samantha Ann Mulder. I am the daughter to Teena and William Mulder. My brother is Fox Mulder. I have not seen any of them for a very, very long time. I barely remember their faces and their names, but I keep repeating those things so that I don't forget completely. My life was pretty normal for the first few years of life. But then one day I started to feel off. I had a headache, ear ache, buzzing in the ear, and even a few nosebleeds. I got taken to a lot of appointments and was diagnosed with Nasopharyngeal Cancer. The doctor's couldn't treat it. They didn't know what to do. As they were planning, or maybe this was part of the plan I was abducted by Aliens. Right from my bed. I was whisked away to outer space. They barely spoke to me. I barely spoke to them. I slept a lot. I think they put me in a coma or something at one point. There's not a whole lot I remember. But there were lots of wires and tests and medications. It wasn't fun. The first human I ever got to see on this ship was a lady with the prettiest red hair I'd ever seen. I don't know why the aliens did that. But they tested on her just like they tested on me. Knowing how scary this place was, I comfort her as much as I can. I can't do a lot though. I get tired easily and have to rest a lot. I struggle with my hearing, swallowing and dizziness. I sometimes feel real sad and can't help but cry. The aliens had kept me to try and help improve that, which I guess I understand. I do want to go home. I want to find Fox in particular - although I don't know why. I'm glad to be here because the red-haired lady needs comfort (at least I think so). She doesn't stay long though. I don't know how long I am here after meeting the redhead. But her absence leads me feeling very lonely. Maybe the aliens sensed that. Maybe not. But, while in a deep sleep, I find myself transported to Earth. What am I supposed to do? Will someone help me? Will I find my brother and the redhead?

[pilotinthestars]

chapter 3 - the holding-her-breath girl

rating: t | total word count: 4.6k | @today-in-fic

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December 20th, 1975

7:10 p.m. 

“How about cats? If you're afraid of cats, you have ailurophasia.”

“Well, sort of, but I'm not sure.”

“Are you afraid of staircases? If you are, then you have climacophobia. Maybe you have thalassophobia. This is fear of the ocean. Or gephyrophobia, which is the fear of crossing bridges. Or maybe you have pantophobia. Do you think you have pantophobia?”

“What's pantophobia?”

“The fear of everything.”

“THAT’S IT!”

Fox glanced over to Samantha as she laughed at Charlie Brown’s outburst. Kimbo opened his eyes and lifted his head, but settled down as she stroked his back. The beagle had taken a liking to her over the past two weeks and she had grown fond of playing with him. 

She still didn’t talk much or want to talk much about what had happened, where she had been. Every doctor and therapist she’d spoken to reported back that she continuously claimed she knew nothing and remembered nothing. At the very least, she seemed alright and happy. Everything would be a process, apparently. It was everyone’s new favorite word.

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still walking into that room // fox and samantha