Joe hummed a little tune as the elevator took him to the second floor. Just as he expected Methos was ensconced there on the king sized bed working a Sudoku puzzle he had scrounged from somewhere. "Hey Professor, Agent Lisbon says I get the room with the bath and elevator," Joe said as he emerged from a seemingly solid wall.
"Wow, Joe, you've got to show me that trick", Methos said smiling. "How'd it go with the Lady Teresa"?
"The World would be a better place with more people like her around my Friend". Joe told him. "Come back to, ahem... MY room after you talk with her so we can figure out some things".
I will - sorry I settled right in - anything I should know"? Methos asked.
"Just be your usual charming self - just you understand that I have already utterly charmed her"! Joe couldn't help a big grin from forming on his face. His smile reaching up to crinkle his eyes.
Though Joe was friends with Matthew Adams and knew he was Methos, the majority of the Watchers did not know where Methos was or even if he really existed. There were rumors he was just a myth and other rumors that he had died during the Bronze Age which was exactly how Methos liked things - off the radar - the fewer people who knew him and where he was, the fewer Immortals who would come looking for him. When Immortals fought the winner received all of the loser's life force. The older the Immortal - the stronger the life force and the more power the winner obtained. Although Methos could fight, and he could fight very well thank you. He didn't want to live his life waiting for the next challenge, looking over his shoulder constantly. He preferred to run, disappear. It's just that sometimes life was so nice to just live. Now was one of those times. He had some friends, a job he liked, it would probably be 15 years, maybe more before people began to notice he hadn't aged. Then he would have to move and establish a new identity.
Methos entered the den where Teresa sat augmenting the recording from Joe's interview. Methos realized she must work at least twice as hard as any man to have gotten to the position she had in such a male-dominated profession. He already thought she was an attractive woman and the thought of how strong she had to be, in turn made her even more beautiful.
Teresa slowed down her writing in order to watch Methos unobtrusively. She was having a harder time reading him when compared to Joe. He hardly seemed old enough to have attained the numerous degrees and scholarly accolades he had that made him a leading medieval scholar - but then, there always were one or two people in school who were amazing. In addition he had done it all himself. Since he was an orphan whose parents had died in a famous railway accident in England when he was just ten.
Kimble Cho arrived, checking in with Teresa to update her. She invited him to sit in on the interview and turned to Patrick suggesting he get some coffee for her, Matthew and Cho. When he brought everyone back a cup of coffee she smiled warmly and asked if he could look in on Joe for her.
Jane chuckled. Walking over to the sconce on the wall, he looked at Methos. "Well then if the coffee was to your liking perhaps you should let Cho know about the elevator", Jane said.
Cho looked at his boss, "an elevator"? asked Cho. Methos had been silently trying to find it but the door seemed to be very cleverly hidden because even though he knew Joe had used one, he could not find any seams.
"Oh Jane, you just have to be theatrical" she said heading over to stand in front of Jane who was standing in front of the sconce. As she reached up to push in the sconce, Jane hugged her. "Jane"! She squeeked. He just smiled over at Cho and Methos as he got in the elevator and went up to Joe's room leaving his boss with red cheeks and a warm feeling.
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Thank you to all who have reviewed my story which explores Jane's childhood and touches on an explanation for his very hypnotic voice and possible physic abilities. I am a hopeless romantic and am pulling for Patrick and Teresa developing a closer relationship, too. All of this is set in a background of blues music and Immortals. Could it sound like more fun?
