crack_van | Waiting For Methuselah by Lanna Michaels (PG)

Fandom: HIGHLANDER
Pairing: Methos/Joe Dawson
Length: 1300 words
Author on LJ:

lannamichaels
Author Website: My Homosexual Agenda
Why this must be read:

I probably have a soft spot for the stories that deal with Joe's mortality, and this one does it in a really excellent way. I love how Methos,

lannamichaels' unique Methos, is here shown through Joe's eyes. It is a rather short story, yet not only does it pack an emotional punch, it also contains more layers than I can properly articulate (even the premise is kind of indefinite inside-turning spiral - Joe watching Methos watch Joe). It is at once foreign and familiar, beautiful, bitterly humorous and sad and terrifying and resigned and hopeful - a bit like the life itself.

Joe lets Adam be the gatekeeper now. Now that he's old and dying, he tells Adam he's going to be selfish. He's giving himself the right to be that mean old bastard who always lived down the block and who everybody was secretly glad when he finally kicked it. Adam agreed. Joe thinks it's only because Adam loves telling the Watchers to shove it up their ass, but only loves Adam the more for it. Adam's the one who's going to have to live with the Watchers after this. He's going to have to live with this as a line in his Chronicle.

And then the great and legendary Methos took a vacation to nurse Joe Dawson to death.

Waiting For Methuselah