Part Three
Chapter 2 cont.
**denote thought
~~dreaming
// telepathy
Catherine and Logan were waiting in the gym for Buffy so they could start the training session. Both Catherine and Logan wanted to know what kind of moves thier visitor had. "Hey kid, the blonde does know where the gym is?" Logan said joking. "Yeah the blonde does know where the gym is." Buffy said as she walked in followed by Bobby who decided to watch. Buffy seemed a little peeved about the blonde joke, but Catherine knew that she didn't really mind. "So Buffy whose first me or Logan?" Catherine asked. "Well I think Logan earned that honor with the blonde joke." Buffy said with a smirk. Catherine smiled and Logan had the feeling that he'd been set up.
Buffy and Logan circled each other slowly trying to get a feel for the other's style. Logan decided not to make the same mistake he did with Catherine and didn't hold back. Buffy blocked a flury of blows coming from the mutant and wondered how a guy his age could be in such great shape. She decided not to hold back either. Bufffy delivered a ruthless punch to Logan's jaw and midsection before sending him crashing to the mat. Bobby leaned over to Catherine's ear. "OOOH thats gotta hurt." Bobby had a grin on his face a mile wide. "Hey Logan must be getting old. Buffy's not even a mutant and she's kicking her butt." Bobby laughed while avoiding a very dirty look from Logan. Catherine smirked knowing the truth. Buffy may not be a mutant, but she was more than a match for most of the X-Men when it came down to brute strength. If Rogue and Remy were there they'd really be impressed.
"So Logan, are you giving up or have you just decided to sit on your butt for the rest of the day?" Catherine teased. Logan growled, "You're next darlin." "OOOh I love it when you growl at me." Catherine said in a deep throaty voice as Logan got and prepared himself to take another shot at Buffy. Logan smiled at his sparing partner while Bobby scowled at his older friend. (A.N. OOOh bobby is jealous. :)) Catherine saw that and stiffled a giggle. Buffy thought this exchange was funny too, but she should have been paying attention to Logan.
Logan saw his opportunity and jumped at it literally. Logan literally tackled the young slayer and turned a karate match into a wrestling match as the two of them flipped each other onto the mat. **Man this kid is stronger than she looks and there is something funny and familiar about the way she smells. Yep, there is something different about Cyke's cousin.** Logan thought as he rolled himself on top of her. Just then Scott entered the gym and nearly had a fit. There right before his eyes one of the oldest team members was straddling his teenaged cousin on the gym floor. "LOOOOOOOOOOOOOGAAAAAAAAAN!!!!" Scott yelled. Buffy was blushing, Logan was scowling, and Catherine and Bobby were laughing their heads off.
Downstairs in the Basement lab
"Hank did you hear something?" Willow asked as she studied some of the many scientific journals that littered his desk. "Its probably Scott yelling at my dear friend Bobby for one of his many and way too frequent practical jokes. Bobby is the self proclaimed king of pranksters in the mansion. He's pretty much gotten everyone once, even the professor." Beast stated. "Has Catherine been here long? I mean she seems kind of new." Willow asked out of the blue, changing the subject. Hank thought it was a wierd question but saw no harm in answering it. " Yes, she only came to the school about six months ago. Their was some trouble in her previous home so her parents sent her to live with us." Hank answered obviously leaving out a lot of the finer points. Of course Willow already knew the whole story, but she wanted to know if any of the X-Men would lie to her about it. **Well at least they don't lie. So I guess if the truth about Buffy and I comes out they won't be totally freaked out.** Willow thought. "Oh." Willow said.
Back upstairs
Catherine and Bobby were rolling on the floor in laughter. Scott was completely going overboard. He went into an entire rant about not being Duncan and how he would never allow anyone he was related to get envolved with an older man especially his teenaged cousin. Logan and Buffy just laid on the matt just staring at him like he had completely lost his mind. "Is he always like this or is this something new?" Buffy asked Logan. "It's definately new. He's got some problems with Bobby and Catherine being together, but thats a long story." Logan said still staring at the ranting X-Man. **Oh, I know the story. Hard to believe that Catherine is younger than me, a witch, and going to be an immortal. I thought my life was complicated.** Buffy thought as her cousin slowly calmed down and Bobby and Catherine were turning blue from lack of air. "Should we try to talk to him now or should we just leave?" Buffy asked. "I'll leave, you just don't let Cyke start playing soldier boy and start bossing you around." Logan said with a grin. Buffy grinned back and watched as her new friend walked out of the gym ignoring her cousin. As a result Catherine and Buffy never got to spar with each other, but agreed to finish at a later time. Both girls wanted to see what the other really could do.
That evening Catherine decided to call her father Duncan and cousin Conner and invite them over for dinner so they could meet Buffy and Willow. Buffy and Willow were (for lack of a better word) drooling when Duncan and Conner entered. Duncan was casual as usual wearing a dark blue cotton dress shirt that showed off his well built chest and some cotton kaky slacks. The outfit was topped off with a short black letter jacket and his long hair in a low ponytail held by a silver celtic men's hair clip. Conner on the other hand was anything but casual in tanned suit and white dress shirt, accented by tanned leather duster. He would have looked ready for a business meeting if not for the three top buttons of his shirt that were left open. Buffy couldn't help but stare at the two gorgeous men and leaned over to Catherine to ask if she were sure these guys were her dad and cousin. Catherine leaned her head toward Buffy and said, "Well good looks do run in the family." And this was true, Catherine was the perfect mixture of Amanda and Duncan and her new older form showed it. Catherine had retained her mother's looks and parts of her flamboyant personality, but was now nearly 6 feet in height with a sculpted muscular build. Her new age was only enhanced by her seriousness and determination that she inherited from her father, and to top it all off she'd also inherited the brooding and introspective nature that all Macleods seemed to exude, but she still managed to keep things light like Amanda.
Dinner was mostly quiet until Bobby decided to tell everyone about Scott's ranting session in the gym, even the professor had to laugh, at least inwardly. Conner thought it was hillarious while Duncan didn't appriciate the crack about his parenting skills and gave Scott a look that could have frozen a lake faster than Storm. After dinner everyone retired to the den where Catherine said she had a surprise for them.
"Okay everybody ready for the surprise?" Catherine asked. She mostly got nods and some wary looks from the professor and the Macleods. They knew anyone with Amanda's DNA could not be trusted with the word surprise. "Don't give me that look guys, its not bad. Rogue and Remy sent us a video letter from Paris, I thought it would be nice to share it with our new friends." Catherine said with a hint of sarcasim. With that said she popped the tape into the VCR.
# "Hi yall." Rogue's picture came up on the screen. "Remy and I are fine and I thought I'd put together this little tape to show ya what we been up ta." The tape cut to shot of Remy sleeping soundly and a digital clock that was flashing 1:00pm. "Remy get up ya hav ta go to the office. Ya momma been calling fo ya fo an hour." They heard Rogue yell. Remy rolled over and grumbled something about being hung over and having a girlfriend was more trouble than it was worth. "So I'm trouble am I." Rogue said in a not too pleasent voice. "Well ya hav the count of three ta get up or else." Rogue counted to three and quickly dumped him and his mattress on the floor. Quickly the camera zoomed in the shocked expression of the groggy Cajun. "Alright woman I'm up I'm up." Remy groaned.## Everyone was rolling especially Catherine. She really like her big bro's girl. Rogue definately had a style all her own.
The next scene was a few hours later according to the tape and it was a candid shot of Amanda and Remy having a fighting over whether or not Amanda should steal a Degas from a local merchant. Duncan groaned and said something about Amanda never changing and bringing her entire family down with her. Catherine grinned. Professor Xavier made a mental note to make some quiet inquiries about the monet she gave him for his birthday last year. Buffy and Willow were slightly confused until Catherine explained that Amanda was an 'alleged' semi-retired thief. Catherine also made a mental note to destroy the tape later, never can be too careful especially when there were at least three different police organizations after your mom.
The final scene was one of Rogue and Remy dancing in Amanda's nightclub. Amanda had the camera this time. "Ouch didn't know Rogue and Remy could move like that." Jubilee said with a whistle. "Yeah you've got to love the nightlife in Paris and right now Mom's club is the place to be." Catherine chimed in with a hint of sadness in her voice. Both Duncan and Bobby moved to put their arm around her in a reassuring hug but ended up having some kind of sissy one-armed slap fight that only caused Catherine to look at them funny and go sit in Conner's lap across the room. Bobby and Duncan stared at each other glaring. Catherine just decided to ignore them and hope that they would grow up someday. Conner just put his arm around his cousin and gave her a reassuring look. //Conner how old is my father again?// Catherine thought to Conner. Conner opened his mind and thought, //too old. But you should ask Joe about some of his and Amanda's antics through the years, now thats funny.// Conner turned his mouth up in a smirk. //Have you found any trace of Methos?// Catherine asked. //None yet. You're really worried about him aren't you.// Conner thought. //Yeah, sometimes in my sleep I can feel his guilt reaching out to me, its like he wants to apologize for everything that happened, but at the same time he knows its not his fault at all. He's really confused and a confused immortal isn't good.// Catherine thought. //Have you found any sign of Richie?// Catherine asked. //Once but we lost him. If you don't mind me saying so, maybe its best if he comes to you instead of vice versa. We don't know where his loyalties are.// Conner thought.
Catherine didn't answer. She felt bad for Richie. She could sense his confusion too, along with some other emotions that they needed to talk about. Her mind kept racing back to the club that night and the words he said. (Why couldn't you love me?) The cold hard truth was that she did love Richie, but not the way he wanted her to. He was the first brother she ever had and her first student. She felt responsible for his actions and his confusion. **Did I do anything or say anything that would make him fall in love with me? Where are you Richie? We need to talk. Maybe I should go see Joe tomorrow. Good thing Buffy and Willow are here, at least with them around I don't feel so weird.** Thought Catherine to herself. AN. Read Of mutants and Immortals. Richie was basically Catherine's apprentice when he sought the expertise of our favorite thief and her daughter. Thats why she feels so bad.
Meanwhile across the room
Buffy and Willow had caught the sad expression on thier new friend's face. Catherine's life was so close to thier's it was scary. Prophecies, bad guys, and magic. Buffy wished that she could share her other life with her family and friends so openly. Everyone in the room knew about Catherine and wrote it off like it was a regular occurance. **Man they are so calm around her. Even with Giles and the others and everything that's happened to us there are still those odd moments of silence. I hope she knows that she has a great thing here. Being a Slayer is really lonely most of the time.** Willow looked around the room and wondered how everyone here would react to the secrets that she and Buffy shared. She had a feeling in the pit of her stomach that said that it was all going to spill before thier little vaction was over. After an hour more of talking everyone agreed that it was really time to turn in. Conner and Duncan stayed the night since it was a weekend and the store was closed on Saturdays and Sundays. Catherine grimaced because she knew that at sunrise the two immortals would be drilling her on technique and promptly at eight she and Logan would be sparing in thier usual spot in the glenn. **Yeah, my day is going to be rough.** Catherine had no idea how true that statement would be.
Okay thats enough for now. Just thought I'd put this out so my readers don't get mad and forget about me. If you haven't guessed already who the bad guy is in this fic, shame on you, its kind of obvious. Yeah, I know not much happening here, but wait until part 4, its really going to hit the fan. Plus two kinds of Watcher are going to size each other up. As always read and Review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need IMPUT!!!!!!!!
Chapter 2 cont.
**denote thought
~~dreaming
// telepathy
Catherine and Logan were waiting in the gym for Buffy so they could start the training session. Both Catherine and Logan wanted to know what kind of moves thier visitor had. "Hey kid, the blonde does know where the gym is?" Logan said joking. "Yeah the blonde does know where the gym is." Buffy said as she walked in followed by Bobby who decided to watch. Buffy seemed a little peeved about the blonde joke, but Catherine knew that she didn't really mind. "So Buffy whose first me or Logan?" Catherine asked. "Well I think Logan earned that honor with the blonde joke." Buffy said with a smirk. Catherine smiled and Logan had the feeling that he'd been set up.
Buffy and Logan circled each other slowly trying to get a feel for the other's style. Logan decided not to make the same mistake he did with Catherine and didn't hold back. Buffy blocked a flury of blows coming from the mutant and wondered how a guy his age could be in such great shape. She decided not to hold back either. Bufffy delivered a ruthless punch to Logan's jaw and midsection before sending him crashing to the mat. Bobby leaned over to Catherine's ear. "OOOH thats gotta hurt." Bobby had a grin on his face a mile wide. "Hey Logan must be getting old. Buffy's not even a mutant and she's kicking her butt." Bobby laughed while avoiding a very dirty look from Logan. Catherine smirked knowing the truth. Buffy may not be a mutant, but she was more than a match for most of the X-Men when it came down to brute strength. If Rogue and Remy were there they'd really be impressed.
"So Logan, are you giving up or have you just decided to sit on your butt for the rest of the day?" Catherine teased. Logan growled, "You're next darlin." "OOOh I love it when you growl at me." Catherine said in a deep throaty voice as Logan got and prepared himself to take another shot at Buffy. Logan smiled at his sparing partner while Bobby scowled at his older friend. (A.N. OOOh bobby is jealous. :)) Catherine saw that and stiffled a giggle. Buffy thought this exchange was funny too, but she should have been paying attention to Logan.
Logan saw his opportunity and jumped at it literally. Logan literally tackled the young slayer and turned a karate match into a wrestling match as the two of them flipped each other onto the mat. **Man this kid is stronger than she looks and there is something funny and familiar about the way she smells. Yep, there is something different about Cyke's cousin.** Logan thought as he rolled himself on top of her. Just then Scott entered the gym and nearly had a fit. There right before his eyes one of the oldest team members was straddling his teenaged cousin on the gym floor. "LOOOOOOOOOOOOOGAAAAAAAAAN!!!!" Scott yelled. Buffy was blushing, Logan was scowling, and Catherine and Bobby were laughing their heads off.
Downstairs in the Basement lab
"Hank did you hear something?" Willow asked as she studied some of the many scientific journals that littered his desk. "Its probably Scott yelling at my dear friend Bobby for one of his many and way too frequent practical jokes. Bobby is the self proclaimed king of pranksters in the mansion. He's pretty much gotten everyone once, even the professor." Beast stated. "Has Catherine been here long? I mean she seems kind of new." Willow asked out of the blue, changing the subject. Hank thought it was a wierd question but saw no harm in answering it. " Yes, she only came to the school about six months ago. Their was some trouble in her previous home so her parents sent her to live with us." Hank answered obviously leaving out a lot of the finer points. Of course Willow already knew the whole story, but she wanted to know if any of the X-Men would lie to her about it. **Well at least they don't lie. So I guess if the truth about Buffy and I comes out they won't be totally freaked out.** Willow thought. "Oh." Willow said.
Back upstairs
Catherine and Bobby were rolling on the floor in laughter. Scott was completely going overboard. He went into an entire rant about not being Duncan and how he would never allow anyone he was related to get envolved with an older man especially his teenaged cousin. Logan and Buffy just laid on the matt just staring at him like he had completely lost his mind. "Is he always like this or is this something new?" Buffy asked Logan. "It's definately new. He's got some problems with Bobby and Catherine being together, but thats a long story." Logan said still staring at the ranting X-Man. **Oh, I know the story. Hard to believe that Catherine is younger than me, a witch, and going to be an immortal. I thought my life was complicated.** Buffy thought as her cousin slowly calmed down and Bobby and Catherine were turning blue from lack of air. "Should we try to talk to him now or should we just leave?" Buffy asked. "I'll leave, you just don't let Cyke start playing soldier boy and start bossing you around." Logan said with a grin. Buffy grinned back and watched as her new friend walked out of the gym ignoring her cousin. As a result Catherine and Buffy never got to spar with each other, but agreed to finish at a later time. Both girls wanted to see what the other really could do.
That evening Catherine decided to call her father Duncan and cousin Conner and invite them over for dinner so they could meet Buffy and Willow. Buffy and Willow were (for lack of a better word) drooling when Duncan and Conner entered. Duncan was casual as usual wearing a dark blue cotton dress shirt that showed off his well built chest and some cotton kaky slacks. The outfit was topped off with a short black letter jacket and his long hair in a low ponytail held by a silver celtic men's hair clip. Conner on the other hand was anything but casual in tanned suit and white dress shirt, accented by tanned leather duster. He would have looked ready for a business meeting if not for the three top buttons of his shirt that were left open. Buffy couldn't help but stare at the two gorgeous men and leaned over to Catherine to ask if she were sure these guys were her dad and cousin. Catherine leaned her head toward Buffy and said, "Well good looks do run in the family." And this was true, Catherine was the perfect mixture of Amanda and Duncan and her new older form showed it. Catherine had retained her mother's looks and parts of her flamboyant personality, but was now nearly 6 feet in height with a sculpted muscular build. Her new age was only enhanced by her seriousness and determination that she inherited from her father, and to top it all off she'd also inherited the brooding and introspective nature that all Macleods seemed to exude, but she still managed to keep things light like Amanda.
Dinner was mostly quiet until Bobby decided to tell everyone about Scott's ranting session in the gym, even the professor had to laugh, at least inwardly. Conner thought it was hillarious while Duncan didn't appriciate the crack about his parenting skills and gave Scott a look that could have frozen a lake faster than Storm. After dinner everyone retired to the den where Catherine said she had a surprise for them.
"Okay everybody ready for the surprise?" Catherine asked. She mostly got nods and some wary looks from the professor and the Macleods. They knew anyone with Amanda's DNA could not be trusted with the word surprise. "Don't give me that look guys, its not bad. Rogue and Remy sent us a video letter from Paris, I thought it would be nice to share it with our new friends." Catherine said with a hint of sarcasim. With that said she popped the tape into the VCR.
# "Hi yall." Rogue's picture came up on the screen. "Remy and I are fine and I thought I'd put together this little tape to show ya what we been up ta." The tape cut to shot of Remy sleeping soundly and a digital clock that was flashing 1:00pm. "Remy get up ya hav ta go to the office. Ya momma been calling fo ya fo an hour." They heard Rogue yell. Remy rolled over and grumbled something about being hung over and having a girlfriend was more trouble than it was worth. "So I'm trouble am I." Rogue said in a not too pleasent voice. "Well ya hav the count of three ta get up or else." Rogue counted to three and quickly dumped him and his mattress on the floor. Quickly the camera zoomed in the shocked expression of the groggy Cajun. "Alright woman I'm up I'm up." Remy groaned.## Everyone was rolling especially Catherine. She really like her big bro's girl. Rogue definately had a style all her own.
The next scene was a few hours later according to the tape and it was a candid shot of Amanda and Remy having a fighting over whether or not Amanda should steal a Degas from a local merchant. Duncan groaned and said something about Amanda never changing and bringing her entire family down with her. Catherine grinned. Professor Xavier made a mental note to make some quiet inquiries about the monet she gave him for his birthday last year. Buffy and Willow were slightly confused until Catherine explained that Amanda was an 'alleged' semi-retired thief. Catherine also made a mental note to destroy the tape later, never can be too careful especially when there were at least three different police organizations after your mom.
The final scene was one of Rogue and Remy dancing in Amanda's nightclub. Amanda had the camera this time. "Ouch didn't know Rogue and Remy could move like that." Jubilee said with a whistle. "Yeah you've got to love the nightlife in Paris and right now Mom's club is the place to be." Catherine chimed in with a hint of sadness in her voice. Both Duncan and Bobby moved to put their arm around her in a reassuring hug but ended up having some kind of sissy one-armed slap fight that only caused Catherine to look at them funny and go sit in Conner's lap across the room. Bobby and Duncan stared at each other glaring. Catherine just decided to ignore them and hope that they would grow up someday. Conner just put his arm around his cousin and gave her a reassuring look. //Conner how old is my father again?// Catherine thought to Conner. Conner opened his mind and thought, //too old. But you should ask Joe about some of his and Amanda's antics through the years, now thats funny.// Conner turned his mouth up in a smirk. //Have you found any trace of Methos?// Catherine asked. //None yet. You're really worried about him aren't you.// Conner thought. //Yeah, sometimes in my sleep I can feel his guilt reaching out to me, its like he wants to apologize for everything that happened, but at the same time he knows its not his fault at all. He's really confused and a confused immortal isn't good.// Catherine thought. //Have you found any sign of Richie?// Catherine asked. //Once but we lost him. If you don't mind me saying so, maybe its best if he comes to you instead of vice versa. We don't know where his loyalties are.// Conner thought.
Catherine didn't answer. She felt bad for Richie. She could sense his confusion too, along with some other emotions that they needed to talk about. Her mind kept racing back to the club that night and the words he said. (Why couldn't you love me?) The cold hard truth was that she did love Richie, but not the way he wanted her to. He was the first brother she ever had and her first student. She felt responsible for his actions and his confusion. **Did I do anything or say anything that would make him fall in love with me? Where are you Richie? We need to talk. Maybe I should go see Joe tomorrow. Good thing Buffy and Willow are here, at least with them around I don't feel so weird.** Thought Catherine to herself. AN. Read Of mutants and Immortals. Richie was basically Catherine's apprentice when he sought the expertise of our favorite thief and her daughter. Thats why she feels so bad.
Meanwhile across the room
Buffy and Willow had caught the sad expression on thier new friend's face. Catherine's life was so close to thier's it was scary. Prophecies, bad guys, and magic. Buffy wished that she could share her other life with her family and friends so openly. Everyone in the room knew about Catherine and wrote it off like it was a regular occurance. **Man they are so calm around her. Even with Giles and the others and everything that's happened to us there are still those odd moments of silence. I hope she knows that she has a great thing here. Being a Slayer is really lonely most of the time.** Willow looked around the room and wondered how everyone here would react to the secrets that she and Buffy shared. She had a feeling in the pit of her stomach that said that it was all going to spill before thier little vaction was over. After an hour more of talking everyone agreed that it was really time to turn in. Conner and Duncan stayed the night since it was a weekend and the store was closed on Saturdays and Sundays. Catherine grimaced because she knew that at sunrise the two immortals would be drilling her on technique and promptly at eight she and Logan would be sparing in thier usual spot in the glenn. **Yeah, my day is going to be rough.** Catherine had no idea how true that statement would be.
Okay thats enough for now. Just thought I'd put this out so my readers don't get mad and forget about me. If you haven't guessed already who the bad guy is in this fic, shame on you, its kind of obvious. Yeah, I know not much happening here, but wait until part 4, its really going to hit the fan. Plus two kinds of Watcher are going to size each other up. As always read and Review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need IMPUT!!!!!!!!