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The Fatted Calf by Beren (NC-17)
Fandom: HIGHLANDER
Pairing: Richie/Methos
Length: 3,419
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beren_writes
Author Website: Highlander fics
Why this must be read: Beren has come up with a unique fix-it for Richie. Before the whole Ahriman incident, Richie was bitten & infected by a werewolf. And the only thing that can kill a werewolf is silver. So what happens when Duncan kills Richie at Ahriman's behest? Well... for one thing, he wakes up three weeks later, alive and hale. Not being a stupid Immortal, he decides that maybe it would be best to avoid Duncan for the time being, seeing as his mentor has tried to kill him twice in the last few years. In this short piece, Richie finally returns to Paris, meets up with Methos and they proceed to discuss everyone's favorite Highlander. Beren writes a humorous if sexy piece here that is well worth the read. There is some great insight into Richie, Methos and even Duncan.
Hollywood and horror writers had a lot to answer for in the obscuring of the realities of some situations; not that Richie really minded, because it made his life easier. There was only one thing that could kill a werewolf and that was silver, nothing more, nothing less. A silver bullet in the heart or the brain and it was all over for a normal werewolf, anything else, including decapitation and dismemberment was not fatal and not permanent.
Richie knew this because he had been decapitated and that was supposedly the only way he could die. He'd woken up three weeks later, as far as he had managed to work out afterwards, buried in a Paris grave and everything with Ahriman had been over. He remembered being killed, which was very, very creepy even now, so many years later, because he'd felt his Quickening start to leave his body before his mind had shut down in self-defence only to reawaken once he was no longer in two pieces.
He'd still been Immortal, he'd healed several small injuries while digging himself out of the ground, and he'd honestly had no idea what had happened to him. About all he had really known at the time was that he had had it with MacLeod; he'd been bitten one too many times and so he'd gone as far in the opposite direction to anywhere he knew the Highlander frequented as possible and stayed there. The werewolf thing he'd figured out after his first full moon, which was less, slathering beasts out to kill innocents and more just being stuck in animal form for a day a month.
The Fatted Calf can be found here
Pairing: Richie/Methos
Length: 3,419
Author on LJ:
beren_writesAuthor Website: Highlander fics
Why this must be read: Beren has come up with a unique fix-it for Richie. Before the whole Ahriman incident, Richie was bitten & infected by a werewolf. And the only thing that can kill a werewolf is silver. So what happens when Duncan kills Richie at Ahriman's behest? Well... for one thing, he wakes up three weeks later, alive and hale. Not being a stupid Immortal, he decides that maybe it would be best to avoid Duncan for the time being, seeing as his mentor has tried to kill him twice in the last few years. In this short piece, Richie finally returns to Paris, meets up with Methos and they proceed to discuss everyone's favorite Highlander. Beren writes a humorous if sexy piece here that is well worth the read. There is some great insight into Richie, Methos and even Duncan.
Hollywood and horror writers had a lot to answer for in the obscuring of the realities of some situations; not that Richie really minded, because it made his life easier. There was only one thing that could kill a werewolf and that was silver, nothing more, nothing less. A silver bullet in the heart or the brain and it was all over for a normal werewolf, anything else, including decapitation and dismemberment was not fatal and not permanent.
Richie knew this because he had been decapitated and that was supposedly the only way he could die. He'd woken up three weeks later, as far as he had managed to work out afterwards, buried in a Paris grave and everything with Ahriman had been over. He remembered being killed, which was very, very creepy even now, so many years later, because he'd felt his Quickening start to leave his body before his mind had shut down in self-defence only to reawaken once he was no longer in two pieces.
He'd still been Immortal, he'd healed several small injuries while digging himself out of the ground, and he'd honestly had no idea what had happened to him. About all he had really known at the time was that he had had it with MacLeod; he'd been bitten one too many times and so he'd gone as far in the opposite direction to anywhere he knew the Highlander frequented as possible and stayed there. The werewolf thing he'd figured out after his first full moon, which was less, slathering beasts out to kill innocents and more just being stuck in animal form for a day a month.
The Fatted Calf can be found here
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