Highlands full of Grace
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Note: Highlander Gabriel Knight cross over… well yesss. After End Game and GK3. Methos is in need of the ancient Ritter knowledge, lets just say his basement flooded again and he can't read his texts. Grace is gone and Gabe is unsure of what to do next, does he help Methos? Or will his own darkness consume him?
Gabriel sat in his study in front of Sidney, his writing program open. He was supporting his head with one hand and pressing the same key over and over again with the index finger of the other.
His last case had the makings of the perfect novel; drama, secret societies, treasure, plot twist, murder, love and loss… Mostly loss. But wasn't the hero suppose to get the girl in the end? Even if in the next instalment she was gone from memory? Lost in a sea of inconveniency? She never left the hero before the end.
So why did Grace? What made her leave? Was he so horrible? They where getting along fine, though they didn't always know how to handle a case, lacked the right training as she would say, could you really be trained for this? Shattënjagers where born from a promise made long ago, it lived in his family, his veins. Why didn't Grace understand that?
Gabriel was pulled from his rumbling thoughts by Gerde.
"Gabriel? Someone is here to see the shadow hunter. He knew your uncle…" Her voice trailed off, but her expression was puzzled, scared, unsure. She seemed to have seen a ghost as it were.
"What's wrong?" Gabriel's voice was as tired as he was, drained like his face.
"It's just I swear I remember him, when I was younger and use to visit Wolfgang, it's just he doesn't seem to have aged."
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"Herr Ritter?"
"Um Knight actually."
"I see the talisman is back where it belongs."
"Yes well. If you don't mind your name sir?"
"Now see there lies a problem. I would give my name but since I don't know if you are willing to help I might not want it spread to people who don't need to know."
Gabriel was confused. This man, clearly younger than he was, was making his head spin. Hmm what's in a name? And refuse a case? He's never. Granted Grace was there to back him up, not that he always wanted her to but he could handle a case on his own, couldn't he?
Inside Gabriel was pulling himself into the vital position. Did he really need Grace this much? Grace….
"Mister Knight are you listing?"
"Yes, sorry. So what should I call you?"
"For now? Adam will do Adam Pierson."
"Please call me Gabriel."
"Do you have somewhere to speak in private? Good, lead the way"
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"An immortal? Yes I believe I read something about you on Sidney…, my um database. But why do you need my help? There is mention of an immortal in several of the Ritter diaries, never a name. Is that you?"
Methos was impressed, a kid that actually did his homework. Though Knight was a writer and cooped up in this castle for a good six months in winter. Still he needed to make sure he was going to be helped.
It all felt rather silly, asking the last of the Shattënjagers to help him when he use to help them from time to time when other immortals where misbehaving and playing with things that didn't belong to them.
In fact that is why he was here.
"Gabriel, have you ever heard of Pandora's box?"
"Sure who hasn't?"
"What about her pendant?"
"Her what?"
"Pendant. After Pandora let out all the evil in the world she was damned to live until all the evil was gathered back into the box. The only hope that remained was a Pendant that remained in the box, the wearer got immortality, but also the guilt and shame of Pandora herself needing to fill the box until the person could no longer carry on.
"Well that is how it's suppose to work. The Pendant was buried and lost, now an immortal is after it. She will stop at nothing to find it and if she does she will never die, not even through decapitation. She will gather up every last immortal soul, become the most powerful being in the universe and rule the world, if not everything. Which with no doubt you realise is bad."
There was a moment of silence. On the one hand Gabriel thought this Adam guy was off his rocker, then again a few years back he though vampires, werewolves and possessions where Hollywood lies.
"So what do you need from me?"
"The Ritter library, it was the Ritters who hid the Pendant. I need clues, I might even need you… um your help to get in to where ever it was hid. The Pendant was hidden before the Talisman was lost."
"why not kill her, this immortal?"
"Thought of that, she lives on holy ground. Can't do it, it's the rules. And before you ask. She was a Ritter born, it's only a matter of time before her human servants find the resting place."
"Very well. I will help you however I can."
"Good. Then let me introduce myself. I am Methos. I am the oldest immortal alive. 5000 years and counting…
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Now Gabriel's head was really spinning