Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 20:14:17 -0500 Reply-To: LGreeneyes@AOL.COM Sender: Highlander TV show stories From: Laura Schomberg Subject: First Time Out Epilogue X-To: SHRINKERLU@aol.com, spock@interoz.com, dok@falcon.cc.ukans.edu First Time Out Epilogue by Laura F. Schomberg Joe's house midnight Duncan, Richie, and Adam had finished disposing of Hamman's body and were sitting in Joe's dining room with Ellie and Joe, drinking. No one spoke. Each person seemed lost in thought. Ellie finished her third drink, setting the glass on the table. "Want another?" "No. Thanks, Joe. I think I've had enough for now." "What are you going to do now?" Richie asked. Ellie shrugged. "I don't know. I'd go to Israel for Janek's funeral but I don't think I could make it in time." "You could go anyway." Ellie nodded. She sighed as she put her head in her hands. Her shoulders started to shake and the men could hear Ellie sobbing. Richie put an arm around her shoulders. Slowly her sobs eased and she took her hands away from her face and wiped the tears from her eyes. "I'm sorry. I've kept it all in for so long. I just couldn't keep it in anymore." Richie squeezed her shoulders and said, "Don't worry about it. We all understand." "Thanks, Richie," Ellie said before turning to Adam. "Can I talk to you?" Duncan stood up as he said, "Why don't we clear this table." Richie and Joe quickly agreed. The three men gathered up the glasses and went into the kitchen. Adam watched them go and then turned to look at Ellie. She reached out and took his hand. "Methos, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gotten so angry." "You had every right to be mad at me. What I did was foolish." "Maybe but as I received Hamman's Quickening I realized that I have spent too many years being mad at people. Hell, I was even mad at Danka for not being strong enough to face her immortality." "It's okay." "No, its not. My anger made me make mistakes. And it almost cost me a friend." Adam squeezed her hand. "I am sorry." "I know." They were still holding hands when the other men decided to venture back into the room. End of First Time Out Authors Notes: 1> First off I want to thank Monica Jordan for her help proofreading my story. No matter how many times I read it I still missed words that were spelled correctly but weren't the right word. Spellcheck only goes so far, unfortunately. They have yet to perfect a program that will say "Whoa, stupid! You want "spoke" not "spook". Monica also put up with getting parts in dribs and drabs due to modem problems on my end. I must also apologize to Monica for not correcting all the errors she pointed out. Making corrections late at night is something I wont do again. And while I know she wont see this, I want to thank my friend Sonia who was extremely kind to let me send the parts out on her computer. I also want to thank Samantha Copeland for letting me pick her brain about fighting styles for someone of not too tall stature. And last but not least I want to thank Lori Goldman for letting me use her description of Joe's house for my story. 2> With the exception of the series characters, Ellianna, and Rabbi Abram Yahil all the names used in this story belonged to people who actually existed. All of the names of the Jewish people in this story came from the movie "Schindler's List". The first and last names were mixed up, however. Hamman did exist. He was in charge of the commandos who cleared the Lithuanian ghettos of Jews. Captain Eric Hageman was named after a friend from high school. I used his name in retaliation for his comments (when asked what he did for the government) "I would tell you but then I'd have to kill you." And Ricardo Matos is the name of one of the kids that I work with at the middle school. Why? Believe it or not I know only two Hispanic male friends. I have several Hispanic female friends but no male friends. Comes from working in a female dominated area, I guess 3> Please let me know what you think about Ellie's name changes. A problem that I have always had with "Highlander" was that Duncan MacLeod has always been Duncan MacLeod. If it was confusing please tell me and I wont do it again, maybe ;-). 4> About the title First Time Out. It's purpose is twofold. It represents Ellie's first time hunting another immortal and it also represents the first time that I have ever written a fanfic. I hope you all liked it. Laura =========================================================================