Disclaimer: I do not own Highlander Davis/Panzer does, this story is only written for fun and enjoyment not for profit. Rated M for language and mature situations.

I want to thank my Beta reader R.J. Bingham. I encourage everyone to go and read R.J. Bingham's Fan-fictions; they are all well written and very enjoyable.

Chapter 15

Methos, you fix what you broke, or get out!

Mac hadn't returned all day but Joe had his own problems, Methos was still arguing with Gwen after she finally woke up and her mood wasn't any better. Gwen decided to take Luke up to the roof for his daily lesson and take it out on him. This only got Methos angrier and he decided to get into the mead in Joe's den. Connor seeing the tension in the house decided to leave and took his family and Cassandra for a drive to see the island, leaving Joe to deal with Gwen and Methos. Gwen had a long talk with Luke up on the roof and decided Luke and she would work out in the Dojo instead. Luke was Gwen's friend besides being her student and did make her see the light that keeping such a huge secret from Methos all these years, was something he had a right to be angry about. After they finished their workout, Gwen went down to talk to him discovering Methos was drunker than she had seen him in years.

Joe just sat at his desk looking through papers as if he was really busy and watching Methos talk to Gwen. Joe spoke first saying. "What did you expect; Methos to give you flowers, I mean Gwen you should have told him you were married to Kronos." Then Joe realized he was taking his friends position over Gwen's. "Anyway it was over 4,000 years ago both of you should just forget it, both of you have to stop living in the past."

"I wasn't married to Kronos; I was married to a man named Cron, who became Kronos. I had no control over him, I know Joe I should have killed him. Could you kill your first love? I was young and stupid back then." Gwen was interrupted by Methos.

"You could say that again, you were stupid, I killed my first immortal lover. Gwennie you should have done what you had to do to stay alive, and Kronos didn't deserve to live after what he did to you. Gwennie I don't think you were being sentimental, I think you wanted to cause him as much pain as he caused you. When was the last time you saw him?" Methos stood up and yelled. "ANSWER ME GWENNIE, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW KRONOS?"

"In Greece in 1996 on my way here to New Zealand, he said he was looking for you Methos, but I told him nothing, I lied and said I hadn't seen you in over 2000 years." She answered him quietly.

"So what else did Kronos say to you?" Methos angrily insisted.

"The same things he always said to me." Gwen recited.

"TELL ME GWENNIE, TELL ME!" Methos continued to yell.

"Methos It's not important any more, he is dead." Gwen answered.

"It's important to me, Joe can't you make her understand." Methos pleaded with his friend.

Gwen looked at Methos, "I never lied to you Methos, I always told you I loved my husband, and he always loved me. It's just he forfeited any right to my affection for what he did to me. I am sorry but I could never bring myself to kill him. You don't understand Methos I really was in love so few times my life, I could not have ever killed you either. Yes I was stronger than Kronos because of my mystic powers so he couldn't defeat me. So I made a deal with him, a deal with the devil. Sure I got the pleasure of seeing him suffer because he could not ever again have me, but it wasn't for that reason. Kronos was going to kill you Methos."

"Why would he do that, we were brothers? Kronos certainly would never kill me over a mere woman." Methos breathed in heavily and looked straight into Gwen's big brown eyes.

"No, Not over a mere woman, but over his property, over the fact he believed you had stolen me and stolen my love. If you had brought me back to him directly as he had instructed you to do, Kronos believed I would fall back in love with him. Kronos wanted me to stand by his side for eternity. Instead I returned to him fifty years later as your lover, his enemy, and the only one that could destroy him. But I didn't destroy him, and made him swear to not take your life, and in turn I swore not to interfere with the horsemen. I made him swear an oath I would always be safe if I came to the camp and never to retaliate and punish you for seeing me. Yes you are right I should have killed Kronos, when I had the chance. But I didn't know how you would react to me killing your friend." Gwen said.

"You're making up excuses Gwennie, why didn't you just tell me the truth back then, instead of making up a lie and making a pact to deal with Kronos?" Methos demanded as Joe looked on.

"I was afraid to tell you the truth, that you would be angry at me like you were today. It was easier to make a deal with the devil than face the idea that you might hate me or worse yet mock me for having been Kronos mortal wife. I was much less confident back then and hated myself, for what Kronos had done to me. I blamed myself for all of it. Even when I had him pinned to the ground with a knife in each limb, he could still manipulate me with his words. Like you yourself did the day I left Seacouver, to come here. Maybe we shouldn't get married Joe, because I can never escape my past. I will always be the little whore that can never die, and always wished I had. Damn you Methos"

"Gwennie you haven't changed one bit, you still are the whore who tried to redeem herself by bathing in blood and quickening's. You became a head hunter think by killing those you deemed evil taking their quickening's that would somehow redeem the fact you let the world's greatest mass murderer go free. But nothing will ever do that because you will always be the whore I bought that late winter day near the Aegean Sea. You can never be faithful to any one man. No man can ever fill the emptiness you have inside of you. God knows I tried and always failed." Methos angrily cursed at Gwen.

Gwen looked into Methos eyes, then into Joe's eyes and ran out of the room and out of the house, got in her car and drove off without saying another word.

"What the hell did you think you were doing by saying those things to Gwen Methos?" Joe yelled at his friend.

"Joe I was trying to get her to face her demons." Methos replied "Plus I am still angry at her. Joe it's all true, that's what she did, and your Gwen isn't the sweet kind immortal you think she is. Honestly Joe get with it you were a watcher for over 30 years you know we're all really killers underneath." Methos spat back at him

"Great thank a lot Methos! Well we all know what you are but you of all people know that over the years people change? I have seen Gwen change during the time I've known her. My God I have seen you change since I met you. For once in your life just give up on that damn pragmatic viewpoint and see the world for what it really is." Joe put his hand on Methos shoulder to comfort him.

Methos closed his eyes, what was happening, Joe was losing the women he loved and Joe was taking time to comfort the bastard that was causing all the problems! Joe was trying to help him?

Then Joe thought to himself "What the hell am I going to do now, I haven't seen her like this since that night on weirs beach. I can't run after her, I am going to the travel office maybe she went there, can you help look for her Methos?" Joe said with somewhat of a panic in his voice. "I'll call Connor and Duncan too; maybe they've got a clue where she might have gone"

"We could just wait for her to come back, that what I always used to do." Methos suggested.

"I am not an immortal, I don't have twenty or thirty years to wait for her to get her shit together. Plus Methos you don't know her very well anymore; Gwen would never run out on me unless she really was scared. We have a real firm foundation to our relationship. Our relationship isn't like the one you had with her. Gwen loves me. Now because of you bringing up all this shit from the past she is now having 2nd thoughts, and I don't care what went down between the two of you. I don't care what happened thousands of years ago. I don't care about your past with her or Kronos or anybody else's past with her. I just care that I love her right now. Get Luke to help, listen to me, if you are my friend Methos, right now all I want you to do is give a rat's ass about getting Gwen back here and marrying me. Do you understand Methos, fix what you broke, or get out of my life forever! I spent too many years staying away from Gwen because you saw her first. Call my cell if you find her. Methos help me or get out!." Joe spat at Methos as he headed for the garage and his car.

Methos walked out to talk to Luke who had overheard the conversation. "Well I never saw Joe so angry before, well was that part of your plan oh wise one. I think you messed things up like only you can do." Luke shook his head at the old immortal.

"I should have never reminded Gwennie of where she came from. It was always a sore subject with her and I knew it, I am such an ass, when my pride is on the line." Methos sighed.

Just then the doorbell rang, "It's an immortal" Methos said "It's your place you get the door Luke."

"Gee thanks." Luke said as he opened the door to find Amanda and Richie standing there.

"Hi Luke, Methos, have you guys seen Mac? I came for the wedding." Amanda smiled.

"Me too, why did Joe drive off in such a hurry?" Richie asked.

"Mac's been missing all day, Gwen just ran out with pre-wedding gitters, second thoughts and Methos has been causing trouble all day. Besides Methos is still really drunk. Could you two drive him and I can go look for the bride myself. Joe was about ready to blow a gasket. Methos you can explain to Amanda and Richie what's been happening. I am getting my car and searching some of Gwen's favorite haunts. Methos got my cell number thanks Amanda, you're a doll. Nice to see you Richie, I'd love to kiss you but I would be giving you the wrong impression and things are so messed up right now I just can't deal with anything." Luke said as he gave Amanda a kiss on the cheek and headed out of the door.

"Forget it Amanda, Rich, I'll explain in the car, it's a long story, can you call Mac for me. I've been fighting with Gwennie and I took it a little too far and now my ass is on the line for this runaway bride." Methos said as he tried to whisk Amanda and Richie out of the door.

"Hey one minute, aren't you and Gwen always arguing, or making love and since she marrying Joe the sexual tensions between you two must be higher than normal, so the arguments have been getting worse? I know how you really feel about her Methos; you can't hide it from me." Amanda concluded.

"Amanda, my dear you do not understand something, I want Gwennie to marry Joe. It's just she has kept a secret from me and I thought we didn't have any secrets between us. When I found out about this particular secret I got angrier than I have in a long time. This caused me to push Gwennie more than I should have. It all my fault, and now Gwennie's back doubting herself again, reliving being the little whore I found near the Aegean Sea and thinking she shouldn't marry Joe." Methos confessed. "So instead of helping I demolished the wedding."

"Methos, it's a pattern you have with her. You like to have power over Gwen, it will continue until you decide to break it. You were her lord and master, she was your slave. It still feels good to you even still these many eons later. It's like with the horsemen, you had changed, but part of you still loved the power. I understand I love the power of when I can plan and execute a robbery. I don't do it anymore but the thrill, it will never leave me. I am not saying I understand Gwen and your relationship, but until you really let her go and love her for the immortal she is and not the immortal she was, it's always going to be some sort of sick thing between the two of you." Amanda gave Methos a hug. "Let get you a cup of coffee before we go out, I see you're sobering up already"

"Amanda you have amazing insight on me, why did we never date?" Methos asked.

"Well first it was you with Rebecca, then me with Mac, I guess we never caught ourselves in-between lovers." She smiled at Methos.

"Well, I think I have twenty years to kill, and I saw Mac with Amy, she's Joe's daughter, and they were giving each other the look. You know what look I am talking about Amanda, so just think about it, we always said we'd be great together." Methos smiled.

"And you're still intoxicated. Drink the coffee and let's find Gwen. Methos we will talk about US another time. If you even remember what you said." Amanda laughed.

"Oh I will remember if anything in my long life I have been cursed with a good memory, but don't tell Mac. I don't want to blow my cover of being a total cyanic." Methos said as he finished the coffee and made his way to Amanda's car with Richie in tow to help find Gwen the runaway bride.

"OH guys what was the comment Luke said about kissing me?" Richie innocently asked.

I think you need a cup of coffee too Rich and I should explain to you too, it's not your fault you're such a cutie pie Rich!" Amanda said as she pinched Richie's cheeks as Richie looked at her with a blank expression. "Honey Luke is gay and I think he likes you." Amanda giggled.

End chapter 15

Chapter 16

Life is Not a Fairy Tale; Can True Love's Kiss Fix Everything?