Highlander / Harry Dresden Crossover

Disclaimer - The Dresden files are the sole property of Jim Butcher. Highlander (Methos) is the property of Davis-Panzer Productions. I wish to thank my editor BCF for correcting all my crazy spelling. I wish to thank my Beta Reader RJ Bingham and I would encourage everyone to go read his stories, they are both well written and fun. They can be found at (.net/u/2428181/R_J_Bingham)

Chapter 11

Are there Benefits to Becoming a Knight?

Methos' Narrative:

I was fast asleep until Karrin came in to the room, then viola I was wide awake. Well I had slept a whole hour and a half, not enough sleep, but I was glad to see Karrin.

"Sorry I woke you up Methos. I just was too tired to drive home and thought I would grab a nap at the church. The Father told me he had set up some cots back here I did not know you were sleeping. " Karrin said softly.

"I understand perfectly, sorry it was such a difficult day for you. I blame myself I should have never have left Amoracchius behind in your car. I left myself defenseless. It was a thick-headed and asinine thing of me to have done." I felt like a real jerk, Methos the most paranoid immortal ever to live, went to I-Hop and left his sword in the car. Ok it was a really big sword but I could have brought it in.

"Methos stop blaming yourself, you walked to the can for less than five minutes and then Tessa kidnapped you. She seems to have a grudge against you. I am so sorry for what she did to you." Karrin said in a soft kind non police voice.

"Karrin, Tessa and I have a past." I thought about if I should be telling Karrin all this. Thank you Amoracchius for opening up my humanity and my heart! The last thing I needed right now was to fall in love. Damn bloody magical Holy sword! And thank you Harry Dresden for breaking my Ivanhoe and giving me Amoracchius, I swore to myself as I went on to tell Karrin the story about Tessa and me. "She blames me that I didn't save her from becoming a slave to the temple of Isis when she was a child. Years later she offered me and my friend to take up tokens with the fallen angels in them with the promise of imaginable power. She also became my lover." Ok I really didn't want to tell Karrin about this but Amoracchius acted like some kind of truth serum on me sometimes. Especially if I was talking to a person I cared about. "In time I was able to reject both her and the demon, but my friend never did. He died back in 1997 and Tessa wanted his token back. She wanted to seduce me again too and I was having no part of her ever again our relationship ended eons ago. Tessa was enraged with my response, that's why she tortured me." I explained to Karrin the Cliff Notes version of the thousands of years of history that lay between Tessa and myself.

Karrin walked over to where I had been sleeping, I could tell she wanted to sit with me. I was hoping she didn't because I had made a promise to an Archangel for one year of service and doubted falling in love was an option on that contract.

"Methos" Karrin said as she sat gingerly next to me, "I really need to talk to you for a few moments."

"Ok but I need a little more rest and I doubt I can get any rest with a beautiful, intelligent women sitting next to me. Karrin I think its best we do not spend too much time together" I was being honest; I had a challenge at 4am and didn't need the distraction no matter how much I really yearned for it.

"Methos why do you always push people away?" Karrin asked with a fake innocence. She knew all too well there was something forming between us. I just did not understand why she chooses this moment to investigate it. Oh well, I sighed and looked into her deep blue eyes, and then I reached out and touched her curly short soft blond hair.

"Because if spend too much time sitting next to you we both know I will want to kiss you. We both know maybe that not the best ideas right now. I have bonded myself for the next year to be a Knight of the Cross. Karrin you and I are both mature people who understand the consequences of the choices we have made."

"But soon you are going to fight an immortal warlock, and you might die Methos. Don't you think you thing you deserve one slight indiscretion." She said with full knowledge of the situation I was facing.

Funny I could tell Karen didn't speak out pity, more because had felt a kinship with my circumstances. She was a person who had defiantly looked death in the face herself.

"Harry is sure I will not die, I just wish I was as sure as he is. Perhaps one kiss might be an indiscretion we could over look. But in the future we must not repeat this encounter. Karrin my world is not one you should become involved with. I am immortal and now a Knight of the Cross. I live a violent life and do not wish to share that violence with anyone especially some I care about." It was then that I realized just how much I wanted Karrin. The wanting was more than a simple lust it was a deep need. Karrin could be descent to be more than just my lover she could be my soul mate, and equal. I had never met a woman that was her match in all my 5,000 years. Damn you Amoracchius all I wanted now was to hold her in my arms. What if I die tomorrow at least I could die happy with a kiss on my lips from the women I had fallen in love with.

Karrin wasn't a woman to be toyed with and she bite right back at me "You don't thing I know all about living a violent life? Methos I am cop with Special Investigations. That's not when I not hanging out with Harry." Karrin laughed "Your life doesn't scare me. I taught Harry most of his fighting styles, plus I'm a first rate marksman and sword women myself. I come from a family of cops where my father took his own life; a werewolf ripped my partner's apart right in front of my eyes. I lost too many friends and seen my share of gristly murders so you are wrong if you think I do not understand all about what it is like to have a violent life. See you today wasn't the worst I seen either! So get off you high horse Mr. Big Bad Immortal, I been there too." Karrin spit the word back at me in frustration.

"Karrin I know life has been difficult for you and today was no picnic. But I told you I have had worst days."

"Yea you told Butter and me, the canibals," Karrin said with a straight face.

I couldn't help but laugh, "Yea well still I could not help see you were upset by what Tessa did to me. But even though you were shaken you stayed at my side, why did you do that?" I was asking a question I hoped I knew the answer to already.

"You asks silly question that you already know the answer to" Karrin looked away from me and down at the floor.

"Maybe I need to hear your answer Karrin" I whispered with my hands still softly stroking her hair.

You're still a Martian, Methos it was because the alternative was unthinkable." Karrin had stolen a phrase she had heard me use when I told her why I married Alexa. She knew it too, because a wicked smile came over her face after she said the words.

"Karrin you should move away from me," I whispered to her

"Why, you think I am some silly girl who doesn't have a real clue to what kind of man you really are?" she answered me back.

"No, I know you understand exactly what kind of man I am, it's just this wasn't in the plan. I didn't want to feel this way about you" I said as I reached up and touched her neck and ran my hands across her face.

"Well how do you feel about me" She teased me know the answer.

"You really want me to tell you, I do not think it is really is not a good idea for me to be talking about this. I have to fight an immortal warlock in a couple of hours, and I have just become a Knight of the Cross. I don't think this is the time to start a new relationship."

"Again Methos stop being a Martian" Karen spat back at me.

I still had no idea what being a Martian was, but I was backed in to a corner to I had to tell Karrin a lie and give up on this new amazing love. So the power of Amoracchius, that brilliant sword of love seemed push me in the uncomfortable direction of telling the truth. Something I really did not enjoy doing.

"Karrin you are the most remarkable, strong, intelligent, brave, sexy, crazy women I have ever met. There is more I just can't remember it all under this pressure. Karen you are my soul-mate and I will never meet any one like you again if I live to 10,000 years old." I knew my brain was bursting and all I wanted to do was ravish her. This whole thing was very asinine and impractical considering the circumstance we were in.

Karrin closed the scant distant between us and then pressing her lips to mine. I let her take the lead, promising myself I stop at her first sigh of hesitation. But caution seemed to fade and we were lost in our kiss. Thankfully I was all dressed up in the Knight of the cross outfit and all I was going to do was kiss Karrin. It had been over 12 years since I kissed anyone, since my beloved Alexa had died. I guess kissing is like riding a bike, you never forget how and Karrin responded kissing me back. I could have stayed up all night kissing Karrin until it was time for my challenge but I knew that was not practical and I needed more rest. So I knew I had to end it, as much as it pained me to do so. I just wished I could hold her all night, but the reality of our situation snuck in to my brain.

I broke our kiss and held Karen in my arms. "Karrin we have to stop this, please understand it's not that I want to stop, but trust me I wish things were different but I have a job to do in a few hours. I really need a couple more sleep. Now that might be impossible because I really would rather do something else than sleep. But that not going to happen, tonight or anytime soon beside Dresden has feeling for you also …."

Karrin interrupted me "A long time ago Dresden and I decided we are not going to be a couple, so Methos you're not trespassing on anyone territory. I am a free agent. I know you have a big gig tomorrow I just wanted to let you know I do care for you. So cut the crap about reasonability I know the drill and we are both adults. So if I want us to get involved, you need to realize I not any stupid virgin. I been divorced twice and I know what and who you are. Don't you ever try to handle me, because if you do I will know you are doing it. I hate to be dealt with; I think you're smart enough of a guy to know what I talking about. I am a cop it's not like I don't have a clue. Methos you have to stop be such a Martian, I mean after 5,000 years and 68 wives you must have learned something about women?" Karrin gave me a serious look.

"Not really, when I fall in love it's with both feet and my eyes closed. But Sergeant Murphy I will stop trying to handle you and stop being such a Martian." Ok I still had no clue what a Martian was but I wasn't going to let Karen know that. "Please understand I doubt I have ever known a mortal woman who is like you before. You are someone who is my equal and that is very difficult for me to find unless it was a woman immortal. That sort of relationship never seemed end well."

"Why" Murphy looked up at me with her big blue eyes asking as if she was completely innocent.

"Sooner or later we would argue and that usually involve swords"

"Ya I can see your point," she laughed. I loved her laugh and I started to kiss her again, well this could go on all night and maybe that was ok too, sleep is underrated. After about another 30 minutes Karrin stopped this time, and got up to leave,

"Methos come back safely ok. Maybe we can continue this conversation in the privacy of my house or your condo. Promise me you will be smart and careful and come back to me," she asked.

"I promise I am always smart and careful when I battle another immortal. Thank you for being there for me today. Karrin I need to tell you one thing just in case I don't come back. I think I am in love with you." I chocked the words out. Ok it was very really early in the relationship to use the L word but I might die tonight, and I needed to say it just in case I never had the chance. One thing about carrying Amoracchius was that I was changing. I was becoming more honest with myself and less afraid to feel my own emotions. Wow it was weird, I stated to feel more human, dropping some of my armor, damn this sword, it was really the sword of love and I could feel it in my very soul.

Karen gently touched my face and told me "Ok cowboy, I don't know if I ready to use the L word yet but I really care a damn lot about you. I find you sexy as hell too, so just come back and we will talk about the L word later. Get some rest Methos, and in case you were wondering you are an excellent kisser too. I can't wait to see you in action in what comes after the kissing. Please try to get some rest," and Karrin gave me one of the softer sweet kisses I could remember in century's, and then got up and left the room. Now I wasn't very sleepy at all. So I decide to sharpen my blade and go talk to Dresden on just how those spells where going to work.

It must have been past 2 am now and sleep was out of the question, I was mentally preparing myself for the battle, that when I surprised Harry.

"I thought you were sleeping" He said to me in his usual grumpy annoyed wizard way.

"Nope, I can't, I wanted to know about these spells you have been working on, and we have to leave in an hour or so. I want to get there first and have home field advantage." I told my wizard friend.

"Murphy found you didn't she, that why you can't sleep! Star and stones women they are always skewing with us guys heads!" Harry cursed.

"Yes she found me. Harry you are with that Captain of the Warden's right? Karrin said she said you and she decide not to be a couple, Harry can I ask you why?" I didn't like asking him personal questions but I needed to know the answer to this particular question.

"Methos don't ask my permission to date Murphy because that would be a no. But you know Karrin she always is as headstrong as any man and she will do as she likes. I can tell she likes you. I just would rather not talk about Murphy if it's ok with you." Dresden shot back at me.

"No really why Dresden it's a simple question why did you decide not to date" I was pushing but I needed to know.

"Wizards live very long lives Karrin wanted someone she could grow old with and have a family with and I am not that guy, Ok Methos" he was angry I had pushed.

"Ok Harry, then why do you think she would want to see me? I am immortal, and I cannot even have children. This whole thing makes no sense at all" I was crushed, the first chance at love in 12 years and it was all futile and Harry could see it in my face.

"Methos you such an ass, have you seen the way she looks at you, or the way you look at her! The sexual chemistry the two of you have is practically explosive. How can you be 5,000 years old and not see the obvious! Sure Murphy says wants a normal family life but the last man she dated was Kincaid and he is a Hell-hound! At least you're one of the good guys! Murphy may say she say wants the typical little family but she is always hanging around with me and my little band of misfits. I think Karrin Murphy wants a little more than an average life. But that up to her, not me, and you have work out your own love life without my help. Just stop being an idiot, honestly how many times were you married? Didn't you ever learn a damn thing about women? Now can we stop talking about this and concentrate on what important, the battle with the immortal warlock?" Harry was really pissed at me about Karrin, and he was already a relationship with the captain of the wardens! I decided to drop the subject and accept the fact I knew nothing about women, well at least nothing about one woman; Karrin Murphy.

OK that went well I thought to myself, Dresden was in love with her too, great! One thing I learned that thanks to our little talk I was finally seeing I had a real chance with Karrin but I wasn't going to discuss it with Harry again. "OK then let talk about the spells that will keep the warlock from using his black magic on me, Ok Harry?"

"Nothing much to say, unless you can cast a spell" Dresden looked at me, and I shook my head no. "Well then that my department you stick to the swords and I will stick to the magic and with a little luck we both survive the night."

I walked away and back in to the church and stepped outside in to the courtyard, still on holy ground but in to the freezing Chicago night. There I unsheathe Amoracchius and stated up one of my practice routines. I didn't notice I had an audience until about fifteen minutes later, when I saw the Archangel Rafael watching me.

"Oh don't stop my son just because I am watching, I love to see a Knight practice and you have such a fine sword technique it looks like that you were born to hold that sword in your hands." The Archangel Rafael said.

"Maybe because a sword has been in my hands for over 5,000 years" I answered him.

"No Methos you're not listening to me, again, I said it looks like you were born to wield Amoracchius. Amoracchius is not just another sword think of her as an extension of yourself. You have to feel the sword, connect it to your power, you're quickening, and it will become part of you," Archangel Rafael reminded me.

"Excalibur was forged from elfin magic so what your trying to tell me is Amoracchius still has some of that magic still in" I asked with surprise as if I was a child as at charismas time opening my first present from Santa.

"Yes and it has all that and a lot more, it has the power of love of Christ in that sword. Methos haven't you felt deferent since you pick up Amoracchius? Haven't you found that your heart was more open again and the pain you have been holding inside stating to slip away? What about Karrin Murphy, Methos haven't you been not afraid to feel love towards her and finally you letting go the pain of Alexa's death," Now Rafael was touching a nerve, and I needed to know what the deal was here.

"I took on a commitment to be your knight; I can't fall in love right now. Rafael, it's not fair to Karrin, but I can't stop myself either" I stated my case to the Archangel.

"Methos will you just stop talking yourself out of something the sword is leading you too. Why do you think you do not deserve to be loved, accept it, the swords are part of Karrin destiny too." Archangel Rafael looked at me as if I was a child and not 5,000 years old, hoping I would understand his words.

"Fidelacchius, Karrin has already wielded it several times, is she going to become a Knight also?"

"I do not know that is up to her. You humans all have free will and she has yet to choose her path. But I do know that Karrin's destiny is tied to yours Methos. You have to choose to not be afraid anymore, trust Amoracchius and gather your strength from her. Amoracchius is your only hope to live through the night."

I don't understand Rafael, it's just a sword, Amoracchius is not a her" but he was gone again. I took several deep breaths and continued my practice tiring to feel power of Amoracchius's love flow in to me. I didn't think I would ever get used to these Archangels, they were worse than Darius was with their riddles. I laughed to myself wishing I could tell Darius about this experience he would have been thrilled to see me so frustrated by an Archangel. Holy men you got to love them.

It was after 3 am and I was still out in courtyard doing my practice routines when Dresden called me inside.

"Methos you are crazy, come out of the cold Hells Bells you trying to make yourself sick?" Harry said as he piled several blankest on me to warm me up.

"I can't get sick, and I need bonding time with Amoracchius, I saw Rafael and he spoke to me again," I told the wizard.

"So what did he say something helpful I hope?" Harry asked.

"I need to trust Amoracchius and should gather strength from her; she is my only hope to win this battle. He also told me that Amoracchius is filled with ancient elfin magic and Christ's love and I can access the swords power through my quickening. I really do not understand all of it but we better leave now and I hope I can figure it out in the next hour" I tried to reassure myself as much as Harry. "You know Harry I met Jesus, saw his healing and heard about his resurrection from many people. I also met the Apostle to the Gentiles; Paul of Tarsus. He and I had some most interesting conversations, since I was a Gentile. But I still never believed and I still am not sure I do. Here I am wielding Amoracchius the sword of Christ's love, frankly Harry it's a little intimidating." I told Harry still uncertain if I was going to survive the night. I had little choice because I could not let my friends die. Wow what was happening to me? I have only been a Knight for a few hours and now after 5,000 years I am starting to sound like Macleod! Bloody Hell Archangels!

End chapter 11

Chapter 12 – The Clash of the Immortals