Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 16:18:37 +0500 Reply-To: Stephanie Barrett Sender: Highlander TV show stories From: Stephanie Barrett Subject: New Story I thought Methos needed a woman to keep him on his toes. on his toes. Obviously, there are a lot of immortals in soap operas. After all, how else do you explain all those characters coming back from the dead? (This one fell in a vat of boiling oil. Only an immortal could survive that!) Girl Talk "And after I left the jewels with him, I don't know why, MacLeod seemed to be just the tiniest bit upset" Amanda said, taking a sip from her wine glass. Gina looked at her with the contented smile that only the lady of an immortal could wear. "Yes, dating an immortal man has its' hazards. Why, it took two drownings, a leap from 3 stories, a shooting and finally a plunge from fourteen stories before Methos convinced me I was immortal" "And now you're glad of it, aren't you?" "Yes. And glad he's in my life" "They are hard on the furniture, though. Duncan and I broke the couch again last week." "That's nothing. The old devil put his sword through a waterbed last month. There was water everywhere." "How?" "It slipped. The embarrassing thing, besides the fact that we kept on,um, getting undressed, was that we weren't registered at the hotel" "Oh?" "It was a science fiction convention. They had a series of panels on King Arthur and Methos wanted to kibbitz." "Why were you in a hotel room?" "It was dinner break time. We'd grabbed something in the con suite and still had an hour or so to kill. We thought noone would notice." "The guest staying in the room wouldn't notice?" "It was the guest of honor's suite. Since Adrian Paul was speaking at the banquet, we figured we'd have plenty of time" "For someone well over 5,000, he still likes a bit of excitement" "Yes. This was almost too exciting. "Oh?" "Yes. Boskone has a very strict weapons policy. The swords are supposed to be dull and sheathed for costume only." "Boskone?" "It's the name of the convention. They having been going on for almost thirty years and Methos loves it. These people are weirder than he is and make worse puns." "Now that is punishment" "Ouch. Anyway, mostly when he goes to cons he either has a ceremonial sword that looks fake, or else relies on hidden knives. But since the theme was Camelot, he had to bring Excalibur. That thing can slice through metal, and it isn't exactly incons picuous, even at a con." "Did you get arrested?" "Nope. He told them we had been brought over from Europe to do a demonstration for the costume competition. " "And security believed this?" "Yes. But since he'd cleared no such thing with the convention's organizers, we slipped out ASAP. I doubt even Methos could convince Adrian Pual of anything like a convention use for Excalibur." "How odd. That reminds me of the time Macleod and I got lost in Turkey and ....." =========================================================================