AN: Okay I changed the rating to PG13 for now, but it might go back up to R later. We'll see. TTFN

Duncan walked over to the door and placed the sword behind him. Richie stood on the opposite side. The Highlander nodded to him and he opened the door. A very familiar face was standing in the hall.

"Nice to see you too Duncan."

"Conner! What are you doing here?"

"I was in the neighborhood and I thought I'd stop by." He walked in and he and Duncan embraced each other.

Mac clapped him on the back and pulled away. "How have you been?"

"I've kept my head," Conner replied. "And I see you kept the boy."

He turned and looked at Richie.

"Hi Conner."

"How're you doing Richie?"

"Good, thanks."

The three men stood in front of the door way.

"Come in, Conner, sit down."

The three men walked into the living room. Conner and Duncan sat on the couch while Richie took the recliner.

"How did you know we were here?" Mac asked.

"Forwarding address. It wasn't that difficult. Doing renovations I see."

"Yeah, well things have changed since you've been gone."

Conner raised an eyebrow. "Is that so?"

"You have no idea," Richie said.

As if on cue Dri walked out of the bedroom.

"Don't worry," She said not even looking at them. "I'm just getting a drink. Then I'll go right back to 'resting'."

No one said anything. Conner just stared. Dri walked to the fridge and pulled out a coke. She turned around, started walking to her room and stopped. She turned her head to face them.

"Who are you?" She asked rather rudely.

Conner looked at Duncan and then back to Dri.

"My name is Conner MacLeod. Who are you?"

"Dri Carver." She took a few steps towards them. "Are you related to Duncan?"

"Same clan, different vintage," He smiled.

"So is that a yes or no?"

"Dri," Duncan warned. "Drop the attitude."

She shook her head. "Forget I asked anything. Since you guys are having a pow wow or whatever can I go to the park to do my homework?"

"No, you can do your homework in your room."

"Mac," She whined.

"When you start staying awake in class then you can go back to the park to do your work, until then it's done here."

"Fine," She said stomping over to the door. She grabbed her book bag and walked back to her room, slamming the door behind her.

Conner looked at Duncan. "Teenagers."

"Tell me about it."

"Okay," Richie said. "Since you two obviously have a lot of catching up to do I'm going to go run some errands."

"All right Richie. Are you going to be at the warehouse to train tonight?"

He nodded. "Yeah I'll be there."

"All right," Mac said. "I'll see you later."

Richie walked over to the door and grabbed his coat. "See you guys later."

"Bye," Mac and Conner said in unison.

After Richie left Conner turned back to Mac.

"So where did you find the girl?"

"She stole my lunch and I chased after her."

"What is it with you and taking in kids who steal from you?"

"I have a bleeding heart."

"Right."

"So what's her story?"

"It's a long one."

"Duncan, we have 'plenty' of time."

Mac laughed. "I suppose we do."

Duncan spent the next twenty minutes explaining what he knew of Dri's history.

"The kids had it rough," Conner said when he finished. "But hows she doing now?"

"She was doing great up until a week ago."

"What happened?"

Mac shrugged. "I don't know. All of a sudden her attitude starting changing. She seemed to be mad at the world."

Conner was about to respond when the phone rang. Mac leaned over the couch and picked it up.

"Hello. Yes, no. Can't you handle it? Fine I'm on my way." He hung up the phone and turned to Conner.

"I hate to leave you so soon, but there's a problem with an immortal. Joe wants to talk to me about it."

"Not a problem Duncan."

"I'll be right back. I just want to tell Dri I'm leaving."

Conner nodded and stood up, while Duncan walked over to Dri's room. He knocked on the door and there was no answer.

"Dri?"

Still no answer.

"Dri, I'm coming in."

He opened the door. Her room was empty and her window was opened.

"Dammit," He yelled coming out of the room.

"What is it?" Conner asked.

"She's gone out the window. I should have known it was coming."

"She has a habit of running away?"

"Dri didn't run away. She has a thing for climbing down fire escapes."

"I don't get it." Conner replied perplexed.

"Don't worry about it. I know where she is."

"Then what's the problem?"

"Joe said that this was urgent. He doesn't say that unless it's something very bad."

"Calm down Duncan. You go talk to Joe. Tell me where the girl is and I'll get her."

Duncan shook his head. "No Conner. I'm not going to impose on you like that. Besides she's..touchy."

Conner walked over and put a hand on Macs shoulder.

"It's not an imposition and besides I've been around longer than you. I raised a girl before if you recall. Remember Rachel?"

"I know Conner, but Rachel is a lot different than Dri."

"Duncan you told me already. Now trust me to handle it."

Mac smiled. "All right, she's probably at the park sitting by the lake. I shouldn't be long. I'll meet you back here."

The two men nodded at each other and left the apartment.

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