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One for the Road, by Kat Allison (R)
Fandom: HIGHLANDER
Pairing: Methos/Duncan
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katallison
Author Website: http://www.kat.mrks.org/
Why this must be read:
Methos leaves; it's canon, it's fanon, and the likelihood that he'll ultimately pick up and leave Duncan is one of the bittersweet tristes topiques we love to chew on.
This is the best portrait of Methos leaving I've read. It may be my favorite depiction of Methos, period.
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Seeing country like this—so rich, so lovely, so soft—tickles something very ancient in me, something atavistic. Makes my mouth water, just a little. It's like the feeling I sometimes have, moving my lips over a lover's belly, and thinking of what lies under the smooth skin—the layers of muscle, the gleaming viscera, the blood. A thought that lends a little extra fillip to the proceedings, just a tickle of excitement.
It's not something I want anymore, mind you. A man might feel his mouth water at the memory of a childhood sweetmeat that would nauseate him today. Mac would have had trouble grasping that fact, understanding how someone can get a tingle from a memory of something they no longer want, so I never mentioned any of it to him. Never really felt it around him, even, it wasn't part of who I was with him. But he's not here, and I let the tingle ghost through me and disappear. Not even a hint of a temptation to do anything beyond run an appraising eye over this lush land, and drive on.
I still have a taste for plunder, to be sure, but it's grown far more refined over the millennia. I still take what I want and ride on, but instead of leaving a havoc of fire and blood, I leave a man lying alone, asleep, in a rented room. Does this constitute progress? I could've asked Mac, I'm sure he'd have an opinion on it. But I don't really want to know.
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One for the Road
I'm Unovis, and I'll be driving the Crack Van for Highlander this month.
Pairing: Methos/Duncan
Author on LJ:
katallisonAuthor Website: http://www.kat.mrks.org/
Why this must be read:
Methos leaves; it's canon, it's fanon, and the likelihood that he'll ultimately pick up and leave Duncan is one of the bittersweet tristes topiques we love to chew on.
This is the best portrait of Methos leaving I've read. It may be my favorite depiction of Methos, period.
***
Seeing country like this—so rich, so lovely, so soft—tickles something very ancient in me, something atavistic. Makes my mouth water, just a little. It's like the feeling I sometimes have, moving my lips over a lover's belly, and thinking of what lies under the smooth skin—the layers of muscle, the gleaming viscera, the blood. A thought that lends a little extra fillip to the proceedings, just a tickle of excitement.
It's not something I want anymore, mind you. A man might feel his mouth water at the memory of a childhood sweetmeat that would nauseate him today. Mac would have had trouble grasping that fact, understanding how someone can get a tingle from a memory of something they no longer want, so I never mentioned any of it to him. Never really felt it around him, even, it wasn't part of who I was with him. But he's not here, and I let the tingle ghost through me and disappear. Not even a hint of a temptation to do anything beyond run an appraising eye over this lush land, and drive on.
I still have a taste for plunder, to be sure, but it's grown far more refined over the millennia. I still take what I want and ride on, but instead of leaving a havoc of fire and blood, I leave a man lying alone, asleep, in a rented room. Does this constitute progress? I could've asked Mac, I'm sure he'd have an opinion on it. But I don't really want to know.
***
One for the Road
I'm Unovis, and I'll be driving the Crack Van for Highlander this month.
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