Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 02:49:00 +0100 Reply-To: Sascha Regh Sender: Highlander TV show stories From: Sascha Regh Organization: S.Regh Subject: From The Dawn Of Time They Came - Part 7 No comments any more? Did the story become that bad? If I am incorrect about Joe's flat or other details, please mail me. As I said, the series has not been shown very far here. ---- Today the episode 'Bless the Child' was shown on TV. Very suitable. ----- I hope this will be about the last part of the lenghty 'explaining' parts. I'll try my best. -------- I thought I had posted that part already, but now I found it as unposted. I am not sure, so they might be a double posting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FROM THE DAWN OF TIME THEY CAME Part 7 Seattle Isis settled down for a quiet evening. She had set her laptop to check for e-mail every hour, just in case Yamo sent a message wanted to catch up on their missed chat. She had also given him Joe's phone number and told him that it would be save to call in the evening. She checked the baby and then settled down with a bag of chips and a book. The phone rang. She lifted the receiver and said: "Hello." "Isis." Yamo. It sounded as if he were crying. "Yes, it's me, what happened?" "He killed him. He just slaughtered him. He is dead. Isis!" "Who killed whom? The Shadow? Whom? Connor? He found him?" But he would not have cried for Connor. "No, Jerry. He butchered him, and then left his sing on the wall." He continued telling her details that made her hair stand up but she listened. He had to talk now. "Where are you?" "I am in my hotel." "Did Jerry have the address? Is it in his flat? The police must not catch you. Not now!" "I think - I don't know - I don't think he wrote it down, I stayed with him all the time so he did not need it." Yamo still sounded very confused. She'd better do the thinking now: "Check out there NOW. Go to the other end of the town, better sleep in a park or something. Yamo, you don't even have papers. And you were his lover, you'll be prime suspect. Even if you can prove yourself innocent, there would be too many questions, and it would take too much time. Is there anything left of you in his flat? "A pair of dirty socks and some underwear. I guess my fingerprints are all over the place as well. You are right, I leave here, I call you again. But this bastard, I have not felt him near for 2 days now, and he knew all the time." There was a break, and then Yamo just said "I'll call later." and hung up. Isis thought that he must have really felt something for that Jerry, or he would not be that wrecked. Good luck at least that Yamo usually carried everything important with him or kept it in a safe place. That the police had his finger prints was bad, but unavoidable. And after all, Yamo had quite some experience in hiding. It was vital now that the Shadow was found before he found Conner. She did not even want to know what would happen if the Shadow found him. Unfortunately she had an idea about it. She went into Joe's study and switched his computer on. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * New York Yamo packed his few belongings into the plastic bags from the supermarket and tried not to think of the dinner he had wanted to cook. There would be time for mourning later. Now he had to act. His room was paid for another 3 days, and so probably nobody would notice. He managed to sneak out of the hotel without being seen. Then he started to look for a place to sleep and cry in peace. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Seattle When Joe came home Isis sat in the living room and was typing into her computer. He went into his study to put something down and noticed that someone had tampered with his computer. Well, someone - that someone was sitting right into his living room. Very angrily he checked what she had done, but she had not gotten very far. He noticed, though, that she had come very close with one password. He went into the living room and planted himself in front of her. She did not look up, but stopped typing. "Isis, I *thought* we had an agreement!" "Has been cancelled due to an emergency." She still did not look up. "Oh, and who cancelled it?" "Guess it has been me." That remark did very little to cool of Joe's anger. "Yes, that is quite an educated guess. Isis, look at me. I trusted you." She looked up, and he saw that something was troubling her profoundly. "Isis, what is it. Why did you do this?" Instead she asked: "Would you have given me the information I need?" "Not if it was something about Watchers and immortals." "See." "Isis, listen, I would like an answer. What happened?" Isis looked at Joe. She could not make up her mind to trust him, but then she had done so before and it had worked, at least so far. She just was not used to trust anybody she had not known for a few hundred years - at the very least. But what choice had she? "The Shadow has killed someone. You see, Yamo came to New York the day I fled from there. He went to my flat, but he too felt the Shadow around. He did not know where I was, so he stayed. He also knew the moment he felt the Shadow that he had to find Connor MacLeod. And that is also the information I wanted to get out of your computer tonight." "Isis, try the whole story. I can't even guess what you are trying to tell me. Who is the Shadow, and whom did he kill? And what does that have to do with Connor?" "Right, let's start with the worst. In your opinion I guess that the Kurgan was about the worst that could happen. Well, he was not." "Oh great. I guess I should get myself a drink before you continue." After Joe had finally settled down, Isis continued. "You see, I said that you can either follow the light or the darkness. Well, the Shadow *is* the darkness." "You know, I doubt a bit that there is anything more evil than the Kurgan was." "Try the 3rd Reich. But seriously, the Shadow is not just evil, as far as we know it is the most powerful agent the darkness has. 'And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.' You see, the void, being without form, total entropy - that is the what we call the darkness. And the dove upon the waters - that is the light. The darkness has just one aim. To return to the entropy. Absolute stagnation. Even scientists say so nowadays. But the power of the light is equally strong. Every single leaf of grass is a sign of the power of the light. Every thought that is thought, every house that is build, every tree that is planted is a way to fight the darkness. That way, even evil things can be part of the light. As I said, even my brother stayed away from total darkness because he knew about this total destruction. On the other hand evil is of course a way towards the darkness. But nobody with a grain of intelligence would ever give themselves up to the darkness knowingly." Joe stared into his glass and thought. Then he said: "But the Shadow is human I suppose, so what happened?" "We do have to thank my brother for that. He knew about the power of the darkness, and he thought it might help him to find me, to gain the powers finally. But he did not want to find out by himself. He looked for somebody who would access the powers of the darkness for him. What he found was a young immortal who had tried black magic before, not very successfully, but he had tried. Shantao, that was his name, had become more than a bit mad when he discovered his immortality. The ideal victim. Together they worked for years and years, and finally Shantao accessed the powers of the darkness. That was about two minutes before my brother found out why he had not tried it himself. Shantao went totally over the edge. The very first thing he did was trying to kill my brother. I know that after that my brother spent *lot* of his time to run away from the Shadow. Serves him right. Because now the Shadow knew for absolute power he needed two things - my brothers quickening and mine." "Why, if he mastered the darkness already?" "Because our quickenings combined would enable him to rule the powers of the light as well." "Ouch" said Joe. "But you said he killed somebody. Whom, if not Connor?" Isis explained: "Yamo met this guy, Jerry was his name, well, they met, and they liked each other, and Jerry proved helpful, so they stayed together." "You mean they became friends?" Joe asked. Isis looked at him and said: "They became a bit more than that." Joe tried not to analyse the feelings that arose in him. Instead he asked: "And why did the Shadow kill him?" "Just for the fun of it, I suppose, and he does not like Yamo very much, because he always was on my side. Also a reminder that he is still around, even if he seems to have lost track of both me and Connor." "Nice guy. I somehow have a feeling that I should abandon a few watcher's rules and help you as far as I can." "I'd appreciate that. "Isis answered. *S.Regh@puti.dinoco.de* ## CrossPoint v3.1 ## =========================================================================