Title: the crimson rags of war
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Shiloh
Warnings: AUish
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 170
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, A fair fight is a sign of poor tactics
Duncan is an idealist. He knows there are people who won't fight fair, but he will meet them head-on anyway. It'll get him killed one day.
Methos will probably avenge him, unless he's the one to take the boy's head.
In all his long life, Methos has never fought a fair fight. When he pulls his sword, everything has already been planned out. He knows exactly how things will go. That was true when he first met MacLeod and was being hunted by Kalas, and was true when Kronos fell with the other Horsemen, and will be true in the challenge that kills Methos.
Methos has died before; no one hunts for a dead man. And the truest of survivors will never fight fair.
Duncan can't understand that. But Methos has outlived ideals and virtues and any belief in honor or mankind's better nature. Methos will kill anyone to see another sunrise. Even himself.
He thinks a few times that Joe gets it, but in the end he's wrong.