Disclaimer: I continue to not own the Highlander universe, much to my dismay.

A/N: This was written in response to the prompt:
Highlander, Methos, scientists are theorising about the formation of the earth and it thrills Methos. Because there was life much so older than him


No Dichotomy


Methos has a thousand interests and preferences and desires, but he is careful to ration them out to each of his personas in a reasonable manner, ensuring that his changing personas don't overlap too much. Adam Pierson liked beer but Matthew had liked wine and Timothy had been a pothead. They all had different music tastes, they had different accents, they had different interests... except for geology.

Ever since geology had become a science, since there had been records, Methos hadn't been able to resist reading about the formation of the Earth. When TV was invented, when the History Channel started showing documentaries, he would watch scientists talk about things that were older than him.

In time lines that included all of humanity as a flash in the pan in comparison to millions of years and geological changes, he is no older than anyone else.

In comparison to a hundred million years, the difference between a few decades and a few millennium hardly matter.

He has long accustomed himself to being in relationships with people who are so much younger than him, to pretending to be so much younger than he is, to living a double life, always.

But thinking about the formation of the earth and the life of the different eras gives him an thrill and an uneasy pleasure. In this, the dichotomy of his personality merges into one entity. Who he always is and who he is for now and who so many other people out there are, are all the same in this: Geology makes them very young.