Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 07:15:22 -0500 Reply-To: LGreeneyes@AOL.COM Sender: Highlander TV show stories From: Laura Schomberg Subject: First Time Out part 6 X-To: mariwri@cyberramp.net, dok@falcon.cc.ukans.edu First Time Out Part 6 by Laura Schomberg The loft 3:20 pm Ellie stood at the side window. Waiting. She didn't mind wearing Duncan's black robe but she wanted to put on some real clothes. She had been wearing clothes that were too big for the past few days and was beginning to find it rather tiresome. Adam would know what she'd like she thought. It wasn't the first time he had helped her out this way. "Ellie. I want to ask you something." "What Joe?" Ellie asked without turning around. "How old are you? I asked Adam but he wouldn't answer me." "I'm sure your records are accurate." "Yeah, right." Joe sounded disgusted. "Our records on you are extremely spotty. Just tell me if we have the right ball park figure." Ellie turned to look at Joe. "The best we have is that you're somewhere between 350 and 550 years old." "Not bad." Joe hadn't missed Richie snap his head towards Ellie when he had asked his question. Ellie, for her part, never even blinked. Based on Richie's reaction Joe figured that the Watchers' ball park figure was not even close. Joe watched as the three immortals all turned toward the door as if their heads were all attached by strings. He was beginning to feel like he wasn't being let in on a secret. Not that he didn't know who was coming. Adam. Adam walked through the door carrying a bag from a nearby clothing store. "Here you go, Ellie. Real clothes." Ellie walked over to Adam and took the bag. "Thanks. Could you come with me?" She didn't wait for his answer. Instead she turned and headed to Duncan's bathroom. On her way she grabbed the coat that she was wearing when she originally arrived. Adam looked to the others then shrugged and followed Ellie to the bathroom. ----------- Adam stepped into the bathroom just as Ellie allowed Duncan's robe to fall to the floor. He turned toward the door as he shut it and then stayed that way as Ellie put on the clothes he had bought. "Gees, Adam. Richie being embarrassed I expect. After all its not considered proper behavior in this day and age. But you? You weren't raised in these times anymore than I was." Adam turned to look at the now dressed Ellianna. "I guess MacLeod is rubbing off on me." Adam thought that he had done a pretty good job shopping for Ellie. She was now wearing a pair of black stirrup jeans that hugged her hips instead of engulfing them. He had gotten her a lilac colored shirt which she had tied at the waist before buttoning it up leaving only the top two buttons undone. The color complimented her eyes perfectly if he must say so himself. "What age did you put in your disc?" She asked as she pulled on the black ankle length boots that Adam had also bought. "Why are you still worried about that? I told you it was destroyed." "What age?" She asked again as she moved to the coat that she had brought into the bathroom and pulled something out of a pocket. Adam's blood ran cold when he saw what she now held out to him. It was a CD-ROM disc. "What's that?" He asked. Afraid he already knew the answer. "The copy of your database that you didn't know about. I was actually surprised when I found it. For some reason your Watcher's forgot about that bookstore and didn't clear it out like they usually do." Adam sat down on the bathroom counter top. "So you've seen it." "Yes," she answered before suddenly exploding, "How dare you! How dare you imply that I'm any older than the Watchers' already know!" "I just put together reports that they already had about you. I thought that it was just a matter of time until someone in the Watcher organization put them all together." "That's crap and you know it! I saw what it said, remember. 'Reports about Ellianna can be traced back to the year 504 B.C.' You forget that I had a Watcher plant who showed me everything that the organization had on me. Including every report he could ever find of an unknown female immortal at any time in the history of the organization. Not a single report could ever be conclusively linked to me and you know it." "It was just.....I....hell," Adam finally stammered. "I wasn't thinking when I made the disc and I wasn't thinking when I put that in." Ellie turned her back on Adam. He could tell by the set of her shoulders that she was as angry as he had ever seen her. Adam had known Ellie for a long time. Longer than the disc even implied and he didn't want to lose her friendship. "Ellie, I'm sorry." "That may not be enough," she said, turning back to look at Adam. The rage had burned out of her eyes. They were now very cold. Ellie walked out the door as Adam quietly said, "I'm sorry Ellie. I never meant to hurt you." -------- Ellie noticed that the three people left in the loft were staring at her as she came through the door. She took a deep breath before asking, "How much did you hear?" "Pretty much all of it," Richie answered looking slightly confused. "Sorry." "Why? It's not your fault that I lost control in there." Richie shrugged, "I know how important it is to you to keep your life secret." Ellie turned to Joe, "Are you going to change your records?" Joe looked at Ellie for a long time before answering, "I don't know. If past reports can be connected to you without a doubt I'm afraid we'll have to." "But you're not going to just change the information without explanation?" "No. That would raise too many questions." "I guess I can't ask for anything else." "Joe, do you have to assign anyone to work on checking out old reports?" "What do you mean by that MacLeod?" "I mean can't you just let things stay as they are until someone, on their own, puts the reports together?" Joe considered Duncan's suggestion before he answered, "Alright. That may not help though. Her new watcher will try to learn everything about her. He or she may even see if they can connect her to other reports. It has happened before." "I can live with that." "Not to change the subject, but how did you get Janek to agree to be a plant?" Duncan asked. "I'm sorry, Ellie, but I told them that you two were once lovers," Adam said as he came out of the bathroom. A look of disgust crossed Ellie's face. "That's gross. How old did you think Janek was when you met him in '47 anyway?" "I don't know. He looked like he was in his mid-twenties." "When I first met him in '43 he had just turned 13 years old. Now I may have been passed from one man to the next at that age but it doesn't mean that I agree with that type of a relationship with a child." "You mean he was only 17 when I met him? But his records said that he turned 75 this year." "The records of his birth were lost during the war. He knew the camps had aged him and he didn't want to be put in an orphanage so he lied about his age." Only Richie didn't seem confused by what Ellie had said. "Then how did you get him to help you?" Joe asked. Ellie walked back to the window and resumed contemplating the outside world. "He grew up with Danka. They may have been lovers. I don't know. I didn't want to know. They were in love. That I know." "We ran into each other a few months after the war ended. I told him about Danka. Well not that she was immortal but what Hamann did to her. I did tell him that Hamann was one of us though. He wanted Hamann dead as much as I did. As much as I still do." "What happened in Peru?" Duncan asked her. "Why didn't you take your weapons?" Ellie turned back to the window. She wasn't sure if she wanted to relive that night or not. It was a long time before she spook. End of Part 6 =========================================================================