2 Years Later

"All three victims where beheaded and the area was scorched," Simon started but Blair hardly heard him as a sense of unease washed over him.

Blair's face paled as he looked at the photos passed to him. His eyes locked on the tattoo on the left wrist of one of the victims. It would have been hard to notice if you didn't know what to look for. His eyes traveled
to the other two headless corpses and noticed that one of them had an identical tattoo. Someone was killing Watchers, someone with a very long lifeline. The question was should he tell Jim the truth and face penalty by the Watchers, or say nothing and have them go up against an Immortal unprepared? He decided that he needed more information...

Jim looked over at Blair puzzled. He could have sworn he had heard his heart rate speed up and now that he thought about it, Blair looked a tad paler too.
"You ok, Chief?"
"Huh? Um..yeah I'm fine," he responded, distracted.
Blair took a deep breath, "I've really gotta get going. I have a class," and with that he hurried out of the room.

"What was that about?" Simon asked, nodding his head in the direction that Blair had just gone.
"Beats me Simon," Jim said studying the pictures. "There's something familiar about the tattoo on two of the victims' wrists."
"Familiar how?"
"I'm not sure..."

Blair had tried to get information on who the Immortal was, but as he was no longer in the Watchers he hadn't gotten any help. In fact, just the opposite. He was now under the Watchers suspicion. Not as the killer of
course, but as a traitor to the society. It seems that one or two Watchers had seen him with Jim and had drawn the conclusion that Jim was an Immortal and that was why he was so interested in him. He had denied it of course, but that didn't seem to matter because he couldn't give them the real reason for why he had quit the Watchers to work with Jim. He wasn't about to tell them about Jim being a Sentinel...
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At an earlier meeting with Watcher Sam Bona

"I noticed that Carol Lawson and Donald Parks are in town. I didn't think there were any new Immortals in Cascade. Do you know who they were assigned to?"

Blair phrased his question carefully not wanting to reveal the case. Or rather, that an Immortal had killed the two Watchers. The last thing they needed was the Hunters starting up again.

"Why do you want the information? So you can go tell your Immortal friend?" Sam asked snidely.
"Immortal friend! What are you talking about, man?" Blair responded surprised.
"Detective James Ellison of course. Becoming personally involved with an Immortal is unexceptable, it doesn't matter if you're a Watcher or just used to be one."
"And sharing information with them....!" he continued shaking his head disapprovingly.
"Jim is not an Immortal!"
"Then why are you so interested in him?"
The silence seemed to answer his question.
"I thought so... The Council will hear about this."

Blair had finally decided to call Joe Dawson, the only Watcher he knew who would give him the information he needed. He was surprised he hadn't thought to call him in the first place. The blood drained from his face when the Immortal's name was mentioned. Kyle Summs--whose cold green eyes seemed to bore into your very soul. He was also the Immortal Blair had Watched.

He knew his file without even looking it up. A loner and murderer who killed with the utmost precision. But as far as he knew had never killed mortals. Well, at least not in the last 1,000 years or so. Not that the man had morals, no the only reason he hadn't bothered with mortals was because he hadn't thought they were worth the trouble or effort. They wouldn't help him achieve The Prize, so why bother? He had instead focused on killing other Immortals ruthlessly, and not all the times by the rules. Now he had somehow
found out about the Watchers and saw them as a threat, and Immortals had excellent memories. He no longer had the tattoo, but would that matter?

Walking down the street afterwards, he felt the sensation of being followed. Blair turned quickly around but saw nothing. He scanned the area nervously running a hand through his hair. Now he knew what an Immortal must feel like. He was almost positive that he was being watched. Maybe he was just being paranoid. But a nagging little voice in his head said that he wasn't. He would feel a little better if he actually knew who was watching him...

Was it the Watchers or Summs? He wasn't sure which was worse. If it was the Watchers and they somehow misconstrued things he could be charged with treason. The penalty for that was standard execution. But, if it was Summs than he was probably going to end up like Carol and Donald. So the question was: did he want to be shot or beheaded? Neither option was very appealing...