-1Page Taylor Scott, at least that was her name at the moment. In her two thousand plus year history this was the longest she had used one name, or a variation of that name. For most of the time it was Paige. A stroke of genius, at least according to her, caused her to remove the "i" from her name. However, none of that is particularly important. Her name did not matter, at least not to her, it was only a name. what mattered to Page was history, preserving history. Telling her story.
Page's life has always been out of the ordinary. She has never been what most would call normal. For starters, she was born over two thousand years ago in Rome. Page is Immortal. Because of this, complications in her life never seem to cease. Only one man knows her real name. This is not for some secretive reason, it is simply because she hated it and decided not to use it again. Page has to think very hard to even remember what she was called before she became Immortal. For centuries Page was a loner. She kept to herself and never let anyone close to her. Page rarely spoke and spent most of her years blending in. She was far from a skilled fighter, and on several occasions nearly lost her head. Two men in her life, at very different times, were responsible for shaping Page into the woman she is today.
The first was a man from the Scottish Highlands. She first met him early in the seventeen century. His name, was Duncan MacLeod. Duncan brought out a more aggressive side to Page. She stopped hiding in the corner. Though she would remain quite shy for at least two and a half more centuries. Duncan became very close to her. In a way, as he grew older and wiser he became a surrogate father to Page, even though he was over a thousand years younger than Page. Duncan taught her how to live. He taught her how to master swords, which in turn became a mastery of most bladed weapons. Knives and daggers in particular are Page's forte.
Duncan MacLeod was the reason Page was so opinionated now. He taught her to stand up for what she believed in and never back down. Still she was reserved, quiet. Not like the girl most know when they think of Page. The cycle of shyness ended in the mid 1800s when Page met a mysterious man named Jack. He was nothing special when she first met him. Well, aside from the fact that he was incredibly charismatic and had astonishing good looks, and women melted wherever her went. Still there was nothing spectacular about him. He would not have been a man to stand the test of time in Page's memory if it were not for their second meeting.
The second time she met Jack was fifty years later. He had not aged a day. For a moment she thought it might have been the man's son, but even then… Fifty years? The time did not match up. Normally something like this would not have surprised Page. She was over 1800 years old herself and still looked to be in her mid twenties. There were many of her kind. Immortals. They were all able to sense one another when one was nearby. Page found it odd when she saw Jack again. She could not sense him. There was no familiar tightening of her stomach or ringing in her ears. He was not an Immortal, but yet he was Immortal.
Their second encounter was short, only a few days at most but it left some marks (literally and figuratively). Jack brought out the long dormant almost child-like love of life in Page. He gave her this Carpe Diem kind of attitude. Seize the day. It was this part of her personality combined with the aggressive passionate part that Duncan gave her that turned Page into the woman she is today. About every ten or fifteen years Page ran into Jack. A couple times she witnessed the man's death. He never did stay dead though. Page could relate. That was probably why she connected with Jack so well, because she could relate to that aspect of his life. When they first met she went by Paige, but by the time of their last meeting in 1980 she had changed the spelling.
Page's life had never been normal, but the last few months took the cake. If you told her two-thousand years ago she would be running around Wales chasing weevils she would have thought you were insane. Hell, if you told her that eight months ago she would have thought you were insane. That is exactly what she is doing though. However, we can not just jump in during the middle of the story. We need to start at the beginning, about eight months ago.