She had seen this before.

She was sure she had. These 'perfect' replicas of her daily life. Her house, Mulder's apartment, the J. Edgar Hoover building... Her friends, her colleagues, her mom... She'd seen it all before.

It had all been hallucinations, never quite right, there was always something out of place. Shared hallucinations, she recalled. From when she and Mulder had gone to investigate a couple that had supposedly vanished without explanation. Some kind of fungi-like organism had dragged them down into a cave, of sorts... It had effectively knocked them unconscious, wrapping them in a strange goo and slowly digesting it... Or it would have digested them, had they not been found in time.

But why... Why was this happening again? She was nowhere near the same town where that had happened. She had no recent exposure to any similar organisms. Why, then, did she feel like she was having these vivid, perhaps shared hallucinations all over again? Why did her home feel strange, her own body not quite as useful?

And if she was caught by some kind of organism, or whatever was causing this... When would she wake up, and leave? Or even more importantly...

Would Scully ever wake up? Could she?