Title: His Influences 
Author: Dana Doggett 
Feedback: danadoggett@yahoo.com
Date: August 18, 2006 
Rating: PG 
Category: Bill Scully, Jr. POV 
Timeline: Redux/Redux II, early season 5

Disclaimer: In my hands these characters really aren't the characters that surfer created, 
they're better than that, they like to explore more extreme possibilities.

Beta: Alexa

Summary: Bill's thoughts on the way Mulder treats his sister.

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I want to help her realize what he's doing to her, but if I do I risk her pushing me even 
further away than she already has. She asked mom not to tell me she has cancer. She's 
afraid to hear the truth from me. Afraid to admit to herself that he is the reason she's 
acquired this disease. If it weren't for him needing her in his life and his personal quests, 
Melissa wouldn't have been murdered, and Dana wouldn't have cancer. She's dying  
because of Mulder.

I want to protect her. I see it clearly the way he's made her feel obligated to follow him. 
She's pushed her family away. She's pushed her friends away. I see she's afraid to 
disappoint him, afraid to have a life outside of work because Mulder expects her personal 
goals to be the same as his personal goals.

He's weakening her. She'll stand up to me, no doubt, but when Mulder presents her with 
wild ideas, she doesn't argue though I know she doesn't believe. She lets Mulder think for 
her now. I hear his influences come from her mouth more often now than her own 
opinions and ideas.

Whether he knows it or not, Mulder is abusing her. Not in a physical way, but 
emotionally, and it's breaking my sister down, tearing us apart.

After I saw Dana in the hospital, I left her room and he was sitting there. He worries for 
her, I'm sure he blames himself and he should, but if he really cared for her well-being, 
wouldn't he have the sense to let her live her own life, stop asking her to drop everything 
for him?

Standing before him, I want nothing but to be the older, immature, protective brother I 
was in grade school, and pop him a good one right there. Of course I don't. The anger 
builds up inside me, my heartache for my sister, and tears sting my eyes.

I cannot stomach the man. I wish I could help my sister, take her away from here, but I 
can't. She's a grown woman now and should be able to make her own decisions.

I just hope she realizes sooner rather than later that this Mulder is no good for her and 
that when she decides to follow her heart, and live her life and not his, that her family 
will be there for her. We love her no matter how far away she pushes us out of her life.

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