========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 22:12:00 PDT Reply-To: Mike Goldman Sender: Highlander TV show stories From: Mike Goldman Subject: "A Dangerous Game" (3/22) HL Story "Like a warning light glimmering in red..." Joe hit the freeway at about 80 miles an hour, the three passengers holding on for dear life. "Joe?" Anne asked. "Can you slow down a bit? We don't need a ticket along with everything else." He nodded and slowed down a bit. Rory, sitting in the seat beside him, turned around. "I don't think we've met." she said to Anne. "Anne Lindsay. Rory Malone." Duncan offered. "She's one of us." he told Anne. "I gathered that when I saw the Thorazine having no effect." She turned more towards Rory. "How old are you?" "I was born in 1317." she replied. "So that would make you--" said Joe. "Don't say it!" Rory warned. There was quiet in the car for a moment, then... "What's that smell?" Macleod asked. Rory started turning red as the others cautiously sniffed the air. "Eau de maintenance cart." she said. "What was *in* there?" "Year old haggis for all I know!" she snapped, "I didn't exactly take an inventory. Crack open a window, OK?" She turned back around in the seat as Duncan took her advice, rolling down his window. She looked at Joe. "You didn't bring anything to eat, did you? The food there was atrocious." Joe shook his head. "We can stop somewhere on the way home." He scratched his beard. "Um, why did they give you Thorazine and shock treatment?" "Oh, I don't know." Rory said, "They had some cockamamie story about me being violent when they first brought me onto the ward." "Were you?" Joe asked. "Was I what?" she responded, looking blankly at him. "Violent?" "I don't remember a thing beyond fighting with Kostorov. Next thing I knew, I woke up in that place and Nurse Ratchett was staring down at me." She turned back around. "Did you get my sword?" she asked Mac. He nodded and held up the plastic-wrapped bundle. "Thanks." They continued to drive, only stopping briefly at a drive-thru so Rory could get something to eat. As she inhaled the food, both Duncan and Joe tried to ask her some more questions about her fight with Nyko, but she was unwilling to or uncomfortable with talking about it in front of Anne, so they dropped it. As Rory balled up the paper bag the food had come in, Joe turned to ask her if she'd gotten enough to eat, but the words died on his lips as he realized that Rory's normally blue eyes were now dark brown. She stared at him. "What did you say? I didn't catch it." Joe's attention was jerked away by a car merging into his lane. When he turned back, she was still looking at him, but her eyes were blue again. "Nothing." he said, trying to shrug it off, but it nagged at him all the way home. Lori mgoldman@cts.com Bass Player/Musical Director for the SJD Kick-Ass House Band CFW/WAR Chief for Smokin' Joe Dawson in the first HL WAR