Back at Duncan's place, Amanda began to talk to the youngest Immortal.
"I really don't understand. Which ship on the Atlantic? Hundreds have crossed that ocean," Joe asked.
Amanda thought about the statement before laughing out loud. Both Duncan and Joe looked at her with strange looks while Methos joined her.
"We should've figured it out before. How dense can we get? She doesn't mean the Atlantic as in the ocean. She means the Atlantic as in the ship that sunk off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1873," Amanda told them, still laughing.
"Of course, how dense can we get? How can we not think of that Joe?" Macleod asked him.
"It's about time one of you figured it out. By what she had already given you, I would've thought one of you'd figure it out by now. And yes, both of you are really dense," Methos replied, walking between the two.
Both of them now looked at him with strange looks. Joe shrugged it off and walked up to Elkaryene. He handed her a book and she smiled.
"Thanks a lot Joe. This means much to me. I've been keeping it ever since I could write," she told him.
"What is it?" asked Duncan.
"It's her diary. I am, after all, the one who taught her how to read and write. Her adoptive family couldn't afford for her to go to school," Methos put in.
"You know what you need right now? A girl to girl talk. By what I've heard, you haven't had too many friends who were female. Actually, I don't think you had too many friends period," Amanda said, standing up.
Elkaryene smiled and stood up herself. She followed Amanda to the next room. The three men watched them leave.
"She's amazing," Duncan said to noone in particular.
"Isn't she? She's so young yet she's been through more than someone twice her age," Methos agreed. "And she's only 150 to boot."
"After that incident in 1980, she disappeared so we never had the chance to put a Watcher on her," Joe put in.
"Speaking of the Watchers, how did you figure out it was her?" Methos wondered.
"It's simple really. Charley called her Ella. I ran that through and I came across that file from the Titanic, which was actually misfiled and that one from 1980 along with the journal from the one French boy," Joe explained.
"It's almost as if history as its own game," Macleod said.
The other two looked at him. He looked between them.
"What? What did I say?" he asked them, holding out his hands.
The End
Author's Note-You're probably wondering about all these times in history that I mentioned (Or have lost track, I don't know). Well, here they are again in chronological order.
1873, April 1 - The Atlantic runs aground off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Not many survive.
1912, April, 14/15 - Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland with a horrible loss of life. The two French boys were kidnapped by their father from their mother. The father died on the ship and they became known as the 'Unknown orphans of the Titanic.' (They spoke French, they were young being 2 and 4 at the time and their father was also using an alias.) Their mother recognized them in a French newspaper and arrived in America to reclaim them.
1915, May 7 - The Lusitania is torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland.
1917, December 6 - The Imo and Mont Blanc collide and explode because of ammunitions on board one of the ships, killing 2,000 and injuring thousands more.
1941, December 7 - Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Thousands of Americans die or are injured.
