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"Handled with a Chain" by Rhiannon Shaw (NC-17)
Fandom: HIGHLANDER
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gryphonrhi
Author Website: Rhiannon's Eyrie
Characters: James Horton, Joe Dawson
Why this must be read: If Highlander had a weakness, it was it's villains. They were often caricatures. Even when well-acted, they were never fleshed out as characters. So when I read fanfic that makes me really get one of the bad guys, it makes the whole show work better for me.
This short story by Rhi delves into the mind of James Horton. As leader of the Hunters, Horton was guilty of murder, betrayal, and fanatic hatred of Immortals. Read this story and you'll understand just what pushed him over the edge.
My eyes hurt from too much time under florescent flat caffeine lights in coffee houses and bars, all night diners and cheap hotels, composing reports that no one reads, reading directives from people who have no idea what it's really like in the field, no idea what the monsters we're studying are really like.
How could they? They aren't here. All they see are reports, cold, crisp black letters on a sterile white page, names and dates, 'Closing reports' and 'New suspect reported.' For those of us in the field, though, those events are written in dark, arterial blood on dirt-colored parchment that smells of the copper and feces stench of death.
Read Handled with a Chain.
Author on LJ:
gryphonrhiAuthor Website: Rhiannon's Eyrie
Characters: James Horton, Joe Dawson
Why this must be read: If Highlander had a weakness, it was it's villains. They were often caricatures. Even when well-acted, they were never fleshed out as characters. So when I read fanfic that makes me really get one of the bad guys, it makes the whole show work better for me.
This short story by Rhi delves into the mind of James Horton. As leader of the Hunters, Horton was guilty of murder, betrayal, and fanatic hatred of Immortals. Read this story and you'll understand just what pushed him over the edge.
My eyes hurt from too much time under florescent flat caffeine lights in coffee houses and bars, all night diners and cheap hotels, composing reports that no one reads, reading directives from people who have no idea what it's really like in the field, no idea what the monsters we're studying are really like.
How could they? They aren't here. All they see are reports, cold, crisp black letters on a sterile white page, names and dates, 'Closing reports' and 'New suspect reported.' For those of us in the field, though, those events are written in dark, arterial blood on dirt-colored parchment that smells of the copper and feces stench of death.
Read Handled with a Chain.