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EPILOGUE

A week later, Anna was standing on the terrace of a friend's home back in LA. When she had returned for the closing of her house, her friends surprised her with a fund-raising party. As she stood there, looking out over the beautiful valley, she reflected on all the events of the past week, especially the ones including Duncan MacLeod. How her heart ached when she thought of him.

"Anna," her friend, Reg, called to her. She turned and smiled at him. Reg was one of the dearest people in her life right now, even though he did tend to be a pain in the ass sometimes. "I have someone I want you to meet." She gave him the 'Please don't be trying to fix me up' look. He just grinned. "Now Anna, I think you'll like him," he whispered. He led her over to the terrace doors where she found herself looking into the face of one Duncan MacLeod. But it can't be Duncan. He's in Seacouver. This guy must be his counterpart. The man with Duncan's face smiled sweetly at her. "Anna, this is Enrico Pazzoli. Enrico, this is Anna McGowan."

"Charmed to make your acquaintance," Enrico said with a charming Italian accent, kissing her hand. "Never before have I met such a beautiful woman.

Anna smiled back. "Thank you, Enrico. I'm pleased to make your acquaintance as well," she told him as linked her arm through his and allowed him to lead her back into the party.

FINIS

Village Mystic and anyone else who might be reading this: Just a few notes for you.

1) As far as the Methos age thing goes, I couldn't resist. So much was always made of the fact that no one knew his age, not even him, I just had to add it. As one of the late Flip Wilson's characters used to say, "The devil made me do it."

2) As this Epilogue shows, Anna's not in our dimension. If you don't know, Enrico was a character was from movie Adrian did called "Love Potion Number 9." It was one of Sandra Bullock's early movies.

3) The fight scene was written the way it was for several reasons: One is that, before Kevin showed up, Anna was a different person. What he did and what had happened to her as a result changed her into what you saw in the beginning of the story. This was a way for her to finally take back what he stole from her. Another is Duncan always saves the day...saves others. Anna, being the genetically engineered super-human she is, doesn't need anyone to come to her rescue and I thought it would be nice for a change that Duncan was the one being saved, much to his chagrin. And the third, laziness. I'd worked on this story for about a year and, after many rewrites, was just too tired and wanted the story over with. The original fight scene was supposed to be both Anna and Duncan taking him on, but I scrapped it and went with this. And actually I prefer it, basically because of the first two reasons I gave.

4) And last, I had contemplated writing other stories about Anna. In fact, the first draft of the Epilogue contained an extra scene where it was a cut back to the warehouse basement. Yep, in a huge wooden box was another dimensional travel portal for her to get sucked into some other world or worlds. I had also contemplated telling the story about what exactly happened with Kevin Corrigan, but it would be rather gruesome and violent, so I opted out. None of these stories came about because real life reared its ugly head and I just didn't have the time. I wanted to start writing again last year, but my left arm is all screwed up due to a problem with my neck. At times, writing for extended periods of time is difficult. So, at present, I don't know when and if I'll write again.