Emergence by Killa (NC-17)

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Fandom:  Highlander
Pairing:  Duncan/Methos
Author on LJ:  killabeez
Author Website:  Killa's Adventures in Melodrama
Why this must be read:  Because sometimes it's about teh HOT!  Killa is one of the premier writers in Highlander (and whatever other fandoms she blesses with her multi-talented gifts), and it is my good fortune that this story, which was originally a zine story posted in Crossed Swords and Senses, was recently made available online.  It is a classic first-time story, set immediately after Richie's deadly encounter with the peace-loving false Methos.  It is lush and very, very sexy.

A soft, sharply indrawn breath told him that he had surprised Duncan after all. The dark eyes widened, his nostrils flaring faintly. For an instant, Methos thought he'd miscalculated; he could see a hundred questions flicker in Duncan's eyes, a hundred possible responses considered and rejected in barely more than a second. Duncan had gone absolutely still, tension coiling in all his muscles, drawing taut against Methos' grip. But he did not, quite, pull free.

That broad hand resting against his aroused sex made Methos' heart race, made heat curl in his belly and a faint sweat break out at his pulse points. He forced himself to calm, waiting. Letting Duncan feel the hunger he felt, the pulse of blood, as honest and direct as he knew how to be.

He felt it when it happened, the moment when something shifted, the tension between them changing indefinably. Duncan's body language altered, the lines of his face easing subtly, eyes nearly black as his pupils dilated. "I'm listening," he said, voice dropping into a register that made Methos tingle in places that hadn't tingled like that in a long time.

Emergence