========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:20:15 -0400 Reply-To: Nagem3520@AOL.COM Sender: Highlander TV show stories From: "Megan L. Lavey" Subject: "The Third Disk" part four Author's Note: A small fact was brought to my attention that I forgot to tell you. For the sake of this story alone, Richie is not considered dead in France. He is on the series, but not in this story. Just wanted to let ya'll know. Paris -- Houseboat "So, what are you doing here?" Duncan asked Connor as they were walking back to the houseboat. They had met up with Amanda not long after they had left the warehouse. She told them that Richie and Methos had already headed back to the boat. "Well, I was here on business with my friend Gerald Hunston." "Where is he?" Duncan asked. "You said you saw a Quickening from the airport?" "Yeah." "That was him. I saw the man who killed Gerald kill a mortal just a few minutes before. That's when he came after us." "You suppose that was his Watcher?" Amanda asked. "Watcher?" Connor asked. "Remember the group of people I wrote to you about who observe us Immortals? That's who I'm talking about. My friend, Joe Dawson is a Watcher." Duncan said. "Your Watcher, right?" "Yeah." "So why kill a Watcher?" "He's killing the Watchers to get to the Immortals. He knows what city the Immortals live in, but only the Watchers know exactly where the Immortals are at all times." "Does he have a name?" "Goes by either Barry Kandis or Barry Kandish." "So it was the same guy," Amanda confirmed. "Yep." "How'd you guys find each other?" Connor laughed. "We nearly took each other's heads, that's what." "Well that was smart. While we're out looking for Kandish, you two are trying to behead each other." "It was an accident," Duncan said. "Yeah, we each thought the other was Kandish," Connor put in. The three walked up the ramp to the door, and saw Richie leaning against one of the posts. "What's going on?" Duncan asked. Richie jerked his thumb at the door. "Methos is trying to tell Joe about the third disk." "Oh, great," Duncan muttered, as he reached for the doorknob. He walked in the room just as Joe exploded. "WHAT?!?!?!?!? There's a third disk?!?!?!?!?" he yelled. Methos spotted Duncan and silently pleaded for help. "I, uh...." he tried to explain, but not even 5,000 years of history could help him now. "You said that there wasn't a third copy!" Joe waved his cane at him. Amanda, Richie, and Connor walked in the room behind Duncan. "I didn't know. How could I possibily know? I've been in Athens, remember? Besides, I didn't even think there was one backup copy to begin with, much less two." "Great, Just great." Joe began pacing the floor. "You know, if I could, you're head would be gone now. And if this guy isn't stopped, it could be one of the next to go." "Is that what he's doing?" Richie asked. "Using the disk to locate Immortals?" "No." Duncan put in. "I think Kandish is operating much in the same way Kalas did. He's using the disk to locate the Watchers. The Watchers lead him to the Immortals. It all boils down to the same point in the end: There can be only one." "You won't think he'll try to take this to the media like last time?" Amanda asked. "I don't think so," Duncan said. "What would Kandish have to gain from releasing the disk? Not only would he know the locales of all other Immortals, but they would know his location as well. It's just having that knowledge will be enough for him." "Great," Joe said. "Three Immortals and their Watchers are dead because of this guy." "Why kill the Watchers?" Richie asked. "The Watchers know where the Immortal is at all times. The disk only gives out what city the Immortal is currently living in," Methos said. "I wonder who he'll strike next?" Joe wondered aloud. Duncan remembered the scene in the alley. "You and me." "Huh?" "We all met up with Kandish in an alley near the airport. From his actions, I could tell that he porbably going to come after us next." "Great. I'm not scared you know. You know that I'll gladly give my life for the Watchers." "You're scared, Joe. We're all scared. I'm scared everytime I face another Immortal. You're scared because you never know when an Immortal is going to find out your secret and kill you. But I have a plan." Paris -- Effiel Tower Duncan walked toward the Effiel Tower. His plan to catch Kandish was to have the Immortals watch Joe everywhere he went so when Kandish did attack him, an Immortal would be there to take his head. It was rather odd, the Immortals watching the Watcher, but they figured out that Kandish probably wouldn't know the difference anyways. Duncan, Richie, and Joe had spent most of the morning and on into the afternoon visiting Maurice and other old friends. Then, Methos had picked up Richie, and the two were currently dirving around the city, checking out possible leads to where Kandish was hiding out. Connor had relieved Duncan of watching duty, and he had set out to try to find Amanda, whom noone had heard from since this morning. Duncan finally found Amanda, who was at the Effiel Tower. He saw her alone on one of the balconies. She waved to him, and came down to meet him. "Hi," she said, walking over to him. "What're you doing here?" "Trying to find you. Here, Connor's going to beep you when you need to go meet them," Duncan handed Amanda a beeper. "Thanks. Any word from Methos and Richie?" "No, not yet. I think we're all eventually going back to the houseboat. Joe said he wanted to stop by Shakespeare and Co. He said that he just had a hunch that Kandish might try looking there." Amanda and Duncan looked up at the tower, the top barely visible in the night sky. "Remember what we did here last year?" Amanda asked. "Yeah, we nearly jumped off the tower in broad daylight." Amanda had been thinking about that all day. She decided that it had been three hundred years. If he hadn't said it by now, she was just going to have to trick him. She was pretty good at that. "Not that. Remember what we told each other?" Duncan nodded, remembering the scene well. "Well, I can't seem to remember," she lied. "What were we saying?" "That we cared for each other. A great deal." "Cared for each other?" "Well, you know what I meant." "You can't say it." A grin broke out on Amanda's face and she clapped. "You can't say it!!" she repeated, gleefully. "Say what?" Duncan looked dead serious, but his eyes were twinkling. "Those three little words. I can't believe it!!" Amanda put her final part of her plan into action. "A MacLeod afraid of saying those three little words." Just as she expected, those words hit home. Duncan got angry. "A MacLeod is never afraid to say I love you," he shot back. Then he realized what he'd just said out loud. Amanda grinned. "You tricked me!" he said. "Yeah, I spent all day figuring out how I was going to do that." Duncan grabbed Amanda's arm. "Now you have to say it," he said, sweetly, but his grasp was hard. "Excuse me?" "You make me say it, I make you say it." Anger shot through Amanda's eyes. "You really think that you can convince me to say that I love you too?" Her eyes grew wide as she realized what she'd just said. "Great," she said, jerking her arms from Duncan's hold. "Now what do we do?" "I don't know," Duncan admitted. The two of them stared at each other. Then they began kissing under the nighttime Paris sky. End Part Four