Hestia watched as all but two of the group, which would help defeat the evil which was nearing, sat around the kitchen table discussing whether or not David should have told the group that he was aware of his own dormant immortality. She had been waiting for this day ever since Ben and Saxton had found David after a year of searching.
It was just as she had planned all along, making them believe that they were doing something against what she in fact wanted all along. David was with the people that needed to forgive him and also will soon be in the presence of the ones that he needed to forgive.
David knew by now that the soul of Saxton and Richie forgave Duncan for what happened that day at the racetrack and was grateful for that knowledge. Conner was the one that David needed to forgive and the only reason he has not forgiven him yet was the fact that he has not been to visit since David was seven years old.
Noticing that all was going to plan Hestia smiled and vanished from the room and then found herself in the living room of a quaint cottage in Scotland and his sole occupant, Conner MacLeod.
Planting the suggestion she needed to, she smiled as he suddenly felt the urge to pay a visit to the Parmer's. Once Conner was heading to his bedroom to start packing for the journey, she left the cottage.
When she reappeared again this time she was in a small kitchen area of a one bedroom flat. The last piece of the puzzle sat hunched over the kitchen table tears slowly falling from her eyes as she remember the friends she has not been in contact with for the last fifteen years to this day.
Although that was not an unusual occurrence between immortals it was in this case. There normally wasn't a year that went by that her friends didn't turn up on her doorstep unrepentantly or called for a quick catch up.
The last time she had seen Saxton it was when she had gone to try and change her mind about killing her teacher to get Duncan's quickening. When she returned from that trip Samantha had already left for parts unknown and had not been in contact since. She felt alone and left out, to not have one single phone call from Saxton who she had called a friend for over twenty five years and in Samantha's case she had known her from the beginning of her immortality over two hundred years ago.
The fact that her friends could forget about her so readily was unbelievable. She had heard through other friends that Saxton was now married to Adam, who was now known as Ben. The thought of not even been informed about that little piece of information felt like someone had just gutted her.
She had stayed where she was, staying well beyond what was advised for an immortal as youthful looking as herself was to stay in the same place hoping that either Samantha or Saxton would remember her.
The only time she now in fact left the flat was when she had to go get the basic groceries and then she tried to spend as little time as possible out and about.
Hestia felt a tear of sadness fall gently down her cheek at the feeling of loneliness that radiated from the immortal before her. Knowing she had to do what had to be done; Hestia put the suggestion in Romona's mind that she had to travel to Seacouver as a matter of urgency.
Something she was not expecting to happen happened; Romona looked up from her hands and looked Hestia in the eyes. That was not possible as Hestia was still invisible to her. Romona nodded, got up from her seat and turned laving the kitchen to her bedroom to pack for her trip.
Hestia was slightly spooked by Romona's apparent knowledge of her presence when she should not have even been aware of her existence at all. Shaking her head in denial Hestia disappeared once again to go back and watch over the Parmer family once again.
It was a few days later when David was the only in the house and he sat in the living room the television flickering in the background which went unnoticed as David typed away on a laptop.
Ben, Saxton and Samantha had all headed to what was now his dojo. Joe had felt it would be appropriate to leave the dojo to David as it was once Duncan's after all. He still found it hard to believe even to this day that Joe left everything to him. The bar, the dojo even his house, hell the only thing he didn't leave to him was most of his money, which was left to his estranged daughter Amy, feeling he was obliged to leave her something as after all she was his daughter.
He missed Joe more then he could possibly believe. He knew him as a friend when he was alive as Duncan MacLeod and then when he had been reincarnated as David Roberts (Renamed Parmer after Saxton and Ben had officially adopted him) and Joe tended to treat him like a grandfather would their grandchild.
He missed the days in which he spent with Joe playing the blues at the bar having learnt how to play from Joe himself, who was always eager to spoil his favourite grandson. From the time he was able to hold a guitar to the very day Joe died, when he got in the way of an immortal challenge between Saxton and a still unknown immortal, David had loved playing the blues with Joe.
David had only just a few days ago found out how Joe had truly died, as Ben and Saxton didn't know how to break the news that Joe died because an immortal who wanted leverage over Saxton.
His first thoughts when he found out was disbelieve, Joe was not an active watcher anymore. Why would he be in the middle of an immortal challenge? That was when he found out that Joe still felt responsible for not getting to Richie in time to save his life and when it looked like Saxton was winning, he moved in to help his friend after the quickening had past, but before Saxton could perform the killing stroke, the mystery immortal jumped and grabbed Joe and held him hostage.
The thought of Joe standing pressed against the immortal's body as an arm wrapped around his throat flashing to his mind and he tried to shake away the scary images. In order to flee and avoid been followed the immortal stabbed Joe with his sword and let him drop boundlessly to the ground. Saxton had rushed him to a hospital, but it was too late. Joe had died in the back seat of their family car.
The doctors had told her that if Joe had been a younger man there would have been a possibility that he would have survived. The memorial they held for him was small; only the few immortal friends of Joe's had came, Amy called Ben to let him know that she couldn't make it too the memorial, to Ben's disappointment.
David found it ironic that Joe lived when he had his legs blown apart in Vietnam thanks to an immortal saving his life only to have another immortal take his life away from him in the end. Most of his friends were either immortals or watchers. In a way some could say he lived for immortals. He had only known that way of living for the longest time and if anybody would have cared to ask him, David was sure he would have replied it was all he wanted.
A tear slowly made its way down David's face at the memory of the friend that taught him everything he knew about the blues and loved like a grandfather drifted through his mind. He was his confidant, who he would trust with the secrets that he remembered and things he didn't feel comfortable discussing with his parents.
A gentle knocking on the door broke into his thoughts. He quickly put the laptop on to the coffee table and wiped a lone tear from his face. He rose from where he had been sitting on the sofa shaking the last of the memories from his clouded mind and walked to the front door.
Opening the door he found himself face to face with a dark haired woman, who looked familiar to him but knew he had never seen her, in this life at least. "Err. Can I help you?"
Romona gave David a curious look and put on a smile on her face that she clearly wasn't feeling. "Maybe. I'm looking for Saxton Thomson. Is she here?"
"No she's out with Dad and some friends. And by the way its Parmer now has been for over fourteen years." David for some reason felt at ease with this woman in a way that he couldn't work out.
Feeling another stab of loneliness at David's word although he didn't realise what he had said, she continued. "Yeah, I forgot she got married to him."
"So you know her then and are not just out for her head?" David asked noticing the heavy bulk of a hidden sword in the folds of her leather jacket. After all he had spent most of his life living with two immortals who liked to hide sword in their jackets, it didn't take much if you know what to look for after all.
Once again Romona was taken by David's words and she almost laughed. "So they told you about immortals then?"
"No I already knew about them." Suddenly David smiled and his face seemed to brighten. "Romona, that's it, it Romona isn't it. I thought I recognised you!"
"You know me?"
"Well yeah" David cut off his explanation not knowing how much Romona know about the whole reincarnation thing. "Well mum's been trying to get hold of you since I was a kid but she could never seem to find you. She got really upset a few years back; I'm guessing she thought you'd lost a challenge or something, when you never responded to any of her messages. Even Sam went looking for you at one point and she couldn't find you. Came back and said that your old place looked like it had been emptied for years." David covered.
"That's not possible. I've been staying in my old flat for the past sixteen years waiting for them to get in touch. Hell I even stayed longer then I should have."
"Well you'll have to ask Mum and Sam when they get home."
"I think that's going to be the best. Where are they anyway?"
"They've gone out to discuss the fact that I've known about immortals for a long time and never told any of them that I knew. They should be back within the hour. Why don't you come and wait inside?"
"Thanks. By the way who are you?"
"David! Mom and Dad adopted me when I was two years old."
"Oh so Ben and Sax are your parents?" Romona guessed.
"Yeah!"
"I never pictured Saxton as the motherly type."
They walked into the living room and Romona took a seat on the sofa as David went into the kitchen and got himself and Romona a drink.
He was just pouring the water out of the kettle into the cups when the back door opened and in came Saxton, Ben, Samantha and Conner.
"Who's here?" Ben asked pulling out his sword.
"Calm down Dad." David shook his head. "Do you really think I'll be making coffee for someone who'd come head hunting you guys?"
"Well, who's here then?" Saxton asked as she put an arm on Ben's arm to stop him from racing through the house until he got some answers.
"Why don't you all go into the living room and find out!?"
"Why should we when you could tell us NOW!"
Smirking David found he couldn't help himself. "But where would all the fun in that be?"
"Fine. We'll go and see who's in the living room." Ben sarcastically drawled, then turned with the rest of them and walked towards the living room and their mystery