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The alleyway was empty but Mulder – ever the faithful paranoiac – was convinced that someone was following him.  He ducked down around a corner to wait for the person to pass by.  He was about to jump out and put a gun in the person’s face, when he realised that it was just an old woman.  Mentally he kicked himself for jumping to conclusions.  Especially when it came to jumped conclusions that led to jumping old ladies!  No, he may have been desperate to get laid, but not *that* desperate.

It was fortunate that he stumbled into that alleyway, or he may never have found it.  The odd humming noise alerted him first.
 
Then he saw the light.

Just a small glow, hidden behind a heap of trash.  He’d dug through the filth, instinctively realising that he needed to find the source of that glow.  Then there it was.  Up close, it was a ball of light with no obvious means of fuel or casing.  Reaching out to touch it, Mulder was shot through with a bolt of electricity and he realised what he’d found.

The Truth.

In that one moment of connection he discovered everything.  And it wasn’t bad.  It was good.  In fact it was great.  They *had* been working for the good of mankind.  That instinct again told him that this was for real and that it could be trusted.  He’d found the truth.

It was quickly followed by another realisation.  He was in love with Scully.  All these years had blinded him, but now the truth was spreading like a virus through the world.  Everyone would know it soon and they would be the better for it.  He needed to talk to Scully, to beg her to marry him.  At last they had a shot at happiness.  He had the truth.

He ran out of the alleyway and crashed headlong into a young woman.
“Watch it buddy!”  She exclaimed and threw the hair out of her eyes.  Mulder stared in shock.  It was the eyes that clinched it.
“Samantha!”  He practically shrieked her name.  The truth had spread it’s influence and Samantha was wrapped in it too.
“Fox!”  She screamed and threw herself into his arms.

Things just got better and better from there.

It turned out that Samantha hadn’t been experimented on at all and was fine.

Mulder and Scully got married, Samantha was matron of honour.  The Truth told them that Scully wasn’t going to die from any tumours.  In fact no one in the world was ever going to die.  Everyone thought it
was wonderful.  The Truth had made them all happy.

The Truth made Mr. X reveal that was really Elvis and that he *had* faked his own death.

The Truth made Skinner get a hair transplant and made him Director of the FBI.

The Truth made The Lone Gunmen get a life.

The X Files became the biggest and best staffed department in the Bureau, but since the Truth was now Out There in every sense, there wasn’t that much point in investigating anything.  They already knew the Truth.

Mulder and Scully had twelve children, but Scully didn’t feel pressured in any way to give up her work because Mulder was so great at helping her out with them.  *Everything* was great.

The Truth even made Cancerman admit *his* identity.  It turned out that his name was in fact Chris Carter –  a well-known writer of several popular TV shows – and that he had hired an actor to pretend to be him so that he could get away with manipulating people and stopping them from finding the Truth.  In fact, he’d been the one who’d hid the Truth under the pile of trash that Mulder had found it in.

Then he died, the last person that ever did.
 

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