It had been a long day at work and all Sam wanted to do when she got home was to sit, relax and read one of her romance novels with a glass of wine close at hand.
She had managed to close the door and select the romance book off the shelf, putting it on the coffee table she then kicked off her shoes. Making her way to the kitchen she poured herself a glass of wine.
There was a knock on the door, which brought her out of her thoughts. She sighed knowing more than likely who it was but hoping that she would at least get about an hour before he turned up, she walked to the front door and opened it.
Unsurprisingly Adam was standing there with a nervous smile on his face. Sam smiled back to reassure him that it was fine for him to call round and she was successful as his smile brightened and become more genuine.
"Do you want a glass?" Sam held out her glass of wine so that he knew what she was asking.
"Yeah, thanks… that would be great."
Without waiting for his answer Sam walked back towards the kitchen knowing Adam would be able to find his way to the living room.
Entering the living room Sam saw that Adam was sat on the sofa flicking through the book that she had got out ready to read.
"Well I never pictured you as the type to read romance..." Sam smiled. Adam looked up from the book and looked at her with a cheeky smile on his face.
"Well… they're not my favourite type of book but if it's all you have to read and you have nothing else to do then… I read the romance novel… no big deal" Adam smiled sheepishly.
"Yeah but most men wouldn't ever admit to reading a romance novel" Sam let out a small laugh when Adam nodded in agreement.
"So" Adam wasn't sure where exactly to start with what he wanted to discuss.
"So… What?" Sam looked at Adam puzzled.
"I just wanted to know how do you're feeling about the whole… immortal… cutting heads off thing."
"Oh… that… well I… I'm still not 100 comfortable with it… there's still a part of me not wanting to believe it in it's entirety but I'm getting used to it I think" Sam smiled a half smile.
"That's understandable… it's a lot to take in"
"Yeah… I'm sorry it's just that I'm finding it difficult to take all this in and basically re-learning everything that I thought I already knew"
"Well you've reacted a lot better than some of the people that's found out about the whole immortal thing…it's…" Adam trailed off as he felt the buzz of an approaching immortal.
Sam saw the look on Adam's face and was concerned by it. "Adam… what is it?… What's the matter?"
"There's another immortal approaching"
"What, how can you tell?…"
Adam looked at her and clearly saw the puzzlement showing on her face. "Immortals get a kind of buzz when there's another immortal in the area… kind of like an immortal detector alarm."
"Oh" was all Sam could think of saying. Someone knocking on the door disturbed her thoughts for the second time in an hour.
"Sorry… let me just get that" Sam got up from where she had been sitting and walked to the front door not noticing that Adam was still on guard after feeling the buzz of another immortal.
"Cassie," Sam said as she opened the door to see Cassie and Janet standing there.
"Hey Sam," Janet said as she passed Sam and walked into the house closely followed by Cassie with Sam following them both. Janet seemed to be a bit wary as well Sam noticed.
"You got anymore wine Sam" Janet said over her shoulder heading to the kitchen.
"Yeah you know where it is… get Cassie something as well while you're in there." Looking at Cassie she smiled and said "Come on Cass" Sam led Cassie to the sitting room.
They walked into the front room and Cassie stopped dead in her tracks at seeing Adam sitting on the sofa.
"Sam," Cassie looked up at Sam expectedly waiting for her to introduce.
"Cassie this is Adam… Adam mean Cassie… She's Janet Fraiser's daughter… Janet'll be in here in a second she just getting a drink.
"Nice to meet you Cassie" Adam smiled friendly at Cassie which she quickly returned then went to sit on the sofa next to him.
Sam went back and sat on the sofa that she was seated on a few minutes before.
Suddenly there came the sound of crashing glass from the doorway to the kitchen. All three faces turned to see a look of shock and anger on Janet's face.
"Cassie, go to the car please" the shock on Janet's face depleted from her face but the anger still remained vigilant.
"Mum"
"Janet"
Both Cassie and Sam asked unsure of what was running through her mind.
"NO CASSIE… GO"
Cassie left the room then the house still unsure of what was happening, Sam was still looking over at Janet confused.
"Janet… What's going on?"
Ignoring Sam and walking to about a meter away from Adam she stopped, staring at him her eyes burning with anger. "What the hell do you think your doing here?" Janet almost sneered at Adam.
"Same as you… I'm visiting Sam" Adam answered calmly and unmoving from the sofa.
"And what business would 'Death' have visiting Sam" Janet threw back while glaring daggers at him.
"Would someone please tell me what's going on" Sam looked from one to the other wanting an answer.
"Sam… do you know who this is?" Janet pointed at Adam in disbelief.
"Yeah… it's Adam Person… Daniel's friend, the one that I was telling you about, the one I met in Paris… What going on?" Sam couldn't keep the look of puzzlement from her face.
"No Sam… this is my ex."
"But I thought your ex was called Matthew?"
"Matthew?…" Adam almost choked on the name, "God that's a horrible name… you could at least have picked a better one?" Adam shook his head in disgust.
"Well let me see there's always 'Death' or 'Methos' or as your going by now… Adam." Janet spat at him.
"Oh sure just print it in a paper, I'm sure there's a few immortals out there that wouldn't mind getting their chance at battling the oldest immortal or there's always the people who want to get there revenge on one of the four horsemen… I'd never get a moments peace for the next century if not longer."
"Ok I think I need to sit down… WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?… and I mean it, if I don't get an answer then that's it I'll kick you both out of my house" Sam was starting to get annoyed now.
"Ok… sit down and I'll explain"
"No… Sam I'm sorry but I've got to go… I can't be here or I may just have to take his head… and I 'really' don't want his quickening," with that Janet walked out of the house leaving silence between Adam and Sam.
TBC