Dunclan Macleod hurried out as fast as as he could after getting the phone call from Joe. The mortal seemed to be upset about something. The 400-year-old remembered Joe saying something happening to Methos and Elkaryene but he didn't go into detail.

'What was it? What happened to them? It has to be serious enough to call me,' he thought to himself as he climbed into the car.

He began to hurry as quicly as he could to the position that Joe told him about. As he arrived, he began to sense the two Immortals nearby as he looked over Joe. He quickly climbed out of the car.

"Joe?" Duncan asked as he hurried over to the mortal.

Joe simply looked at him before glancing back over to where he was looking before. Duncan followed his gaze to see two familiar, yet lifeless, forms on the ground.

"What happened to them?" Duncan wondered as he hurried towards the two.

"I not quite sure myself. All I know is that two people ran off when I got here. Probably two Immortals who challenged them to a fight and then ran off when I arrived," Joe replied as he watched Duncan.

"This is impossible Joe! Methos was challenged and almost lost his head! He's about 5,000 years old! I don't see him losing his head anytime soon because of how good he is!" Duncan almost cried out.

"But don't forget about Elkaryene. He's kept an eye out for her for almost a century. Both of us know that Charley is dead, particularly you. Why would Methos stop protecting her now?" wondered Joe. "And besides, Charley was only one Immortal that we knew of that was after her, how do we know there was no one else?"

"We don't. That's what worries me," Duncan replied as he glanced up at Joe.

Joe nodded in agreement as he watched as Duncan pulled Methos and Elkaryene's bodies into the car. He had already pulled the swords out of their bodies.

'I have never seen something like this before. What happened?' wondered Duncan.

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Methos began to hear voices around him. He began to see stars before his closed eyes before he decided to give a groan and lift himself up slightly. He immediately noticed that the voices stopped and he managed to open his eyes to look up at Duncan and Joe.

"Hi Methos. Welcome back to the land of the living," Joe told him with a smile on his face.

"Some welcome," Methos managed to cough as he tried to climb to a sitting position. "Where's Kari? How is she?"

Duncan sighed as he looked at Elkaryene lying on a nearby couch.

"She woke up about five minutes ago but she could barely keep her eyes open. She's fast asleep at the moment. All I want to know now is what happened? I have never seen you lose a fight and nearly lose your head," Duncan wondered as he sat on the edge of the bed.

Methos sighed as his stare went between Joe, Duncan and Elkaryene.

"You know how it is Macleod. I am capable of of winning the fights I am in but all I could think about was Kari. You know she's not as experienced as you or I andshe does want to live. She hasn't directly told me but she has in her own way. I was caught off-guard," Methos explained.

"Who were those two anyway? Did you know them?" asked Joe.

"Well, I don't know. Never met them before in my entire life or even heard of them. Called themselves Bobby and Anna Smith. Did you ever hear of them Joe?" Methos replied as he faced Joe.

Joe thought about the names for a moment and gave a slight nod of the head.

"I've heard the names before. I'd have to check out the Watcher Files for more informationabout them though. It's not like I've come across them often," Joe replied.

Methos sighed as his stare soon came to Elkaryene.

"Looks like she's going to have some training again," he told her. "I personally want her prepared for I know they're going to be back."

He looked over at Joe and Macleod, who both were just as worried as he was.

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Elkaryene lifted her sword to block Methos' and he knocked it yet again to the ground.

"Kari, have you been practicing like I remember telling you?" Methos had to ask.

"Since we parted last, I really haven't really fought much nor have I had someone to practice with either," Elkaryenen replied as she lifted up the sword.

"It shows a bit," he told her as Joe and Duncan watched.

"Don't tell me that you haven't gone through a time where you haven't gone up against anyone or fell back in your swordfighting," Elkaryene told him.

Methos winced at those words for he knew them to be correct. After all, he did go 200 years without a battle against another Immortal: although he didn't want to admit that to her just yet.

"Well? Have you? she repeated, really wanting to know.

"Well..." he started.

"You have, haven't you? When and how long?" she demanded to know, a smile creeping onto her face. "Tell me."

"Can we stop talking about this?" Methos demanded.

"I will when you tell me this. I'd like to know and I might not stop until you tell me," she replied with a smile.

Duncan laughed for he knew how long it was.

"Hey Elkaryene!" Duncan called over to her.

"What Duncan? I'm trying to get some informtaion out of him here. Information that could prove useful in the future," she replied.

"I was just going to say that if he doesn't tell you, that I will. I know that answer," Duncan said with a laugh.

An evil looking smile crept upon Elkaryene's face once she heard that. She began to laugh quietly to herself and Methos gave an exasperated sigh as he he stared at Duncan with an angry look on his face.

"Thanks Macleod. Now she knows she can go to you for things that I won't tell her," Methos told him.

"That's the beauty of it though. I mean, she's known you for a century Methos and she's really just getting to know you. Why can't she know a bit about you? You've been in places that she's never been in and she's curious about them," Duncan explained.

"Right. Just like the time not too long ago when she asked about the Bronze Age. What a time to ask about," Methos muttered to himself, looking away from the Highlander and Elkaryene.

He knew that his time as one of the Four Horsemen resided in that time. He didn't tell her everything about it... yet. He knew that she would be interested in something like that.

"I'm sorry Methos. What was that again? I don't think we caught that," Duncan wondered.

'I think he likes taunting me like this,' Methos thought to himself as he heard Elkaryene begin to laugh.

"Be prepared for more of my questions. You have been forewarned and there will be many of them," she told him.

Joe wasn't really paying attention. He glanced up to watch the two from time to time but he was searching the Watcher Database for anything on the two Immortals that attacked Methos and Elkaryene. He wasn't finding much until a file popped up onto his screen.

"What's this?" he asked out loud.

The three Immortals stopped with what they were doing and looked over at Joe.

"What's wrong Joe? What did you find?" Methos asked as he hurried over to the Watcher.

"Some information about places that this Anna and Bobby have been. I've been trying to see if they have been in places where they might have crossed paths with you," Joe replied.

"But we haven't met them before, whether it be up close or from afar," Elkaryene protested. "Yet they know who the two of us are. All I have to say is, I don't know how they found out, but they do."

"Well, you haven't obviously since the two of you say that you've never met these two," Joe replied.

"What was so interesting just now? It sounded like something that might be of use to figure the recent attack on us," Methos told him.

Joe sighed as he scratched his head, his stare returning to the screen.

"It is interesting since I never expected them to be there," Joe told them.

"Where? When?" Duncan wanted to know.

"They were at Pearl Harbor... about a month after the attack," Joe told them.

TBC...