drabble: Highlander/NCIS:Los Angeles

[marbleglove]

 
Despite evidence to the contrary, I actually don't watch that much TV. Tuesday evenings are the one time when I watch NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles back-to-back. NCIS, as I have mentioned before, has grabbed a hold of me and won't let go. The Los Angeles spin-off is less well-done but it's growing on me. 

Anyway, I don't have a particular plot-bunny at this point, but I do have a scene that's probably in an epilogue to some unwritten greater story. If anyone else knows the plot, feel free to let me know. It's a Highlander crossover. 

Epilogue

Hetty was the last of the team to say her goodbyes to Professor Pierson, the resource she had brought in to help on the case. The rest of the team stared in covert awe as the man actually lifted Hetty up off her feet in order to give her a quite thorough kiss.

Actually, the stares weren’t all that covert, but the two principals in the drama were ignoring them for now.

“That certainly takes me back. Will I be seeing you again?” Hetty spoke in her regular dry fashion.

“No. I’m afraid Adam Pierson is overdue for a fatal accident.” This comment got a few side-long looks from most of the observers, but G was clearly less than surprised and Hetty merely tsk’d.

“Pity. Am I in the will?”

“You’ll just have to wait and see.” Then with another kiss, he put her down and was out the door.

Hetty watched him go with a fond look. “Such a lovely man.”

Finally she turned to Kensi and said, “Some advice. Never get into a relationship with a man who has a price on his head larger than your mortgage. It never ends well. What? Oh, I never did anything, but some days I couldn’t help but consider. Sadly, that was enough. He could always tell what I was thinking. Well, back to work.”

She ignored the shocked agents she left behind.

G finally broke the silence. “I… don’t even know what to say to that.”

Sam knew exactly what to say. “I’m wondering how much the price is, who’s offering, and why. And what we were doing working with someone with a price like that.”

“And yet we’re never going to know,” Nate pointed out, “because looking would require researching one of Hetty’s exes.”

That was a very good point. And they had other, less dangerous, work to do, like tracking down killers. They got back to it. 

Comments

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

Well I havent sen NCIS/LA soI need do research but I am sure that w can come up with a proper plot...maybe eveno tha ges into who ethos might have beenbefoe Pierson... ad if h was gtting ready to spend a while as a scholar and grad student then he lkely trie to party it all out before, or searched fo fun...


and he did say he had been on stage with he rolling stones...

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

And Hetty is constantly dropping references to the fact that she was quite the swinger in her youth and very possibly still is. She knows all sorts of interesting characters and apparently had quite the flirtation going with Fred Astaire.

The actress, Linda Hunt, is only 4'9" and born in 1945. The character also wears quite thick glasses. I haven't decided yet if I think she's immortal or not.

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

Maybe not immortl but an old Gt found out his secret, or just a more colourful friend with benefits...

there are many possibilities with her beig young during the sixties, all sorts of things going on during student movements in europes, many more in the music biz. And if she said no to Sinatra she might have been more on the Stones crowd and had met a roadie there.

afterwards maybe some years later she recognizes him as having the same age and a different name. Methos as he really likes her and she seems like the kind who could keep secrets reveals a little of himself to her, but of course saying he is reasonably young, no more than 60 or 100 years old at most...

thought what she might have been doing and him during the second meeting

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

I think you're right: she's probably mortal. An old girl friend (or possibly an ex-wife/widow?) I'm inclined to think that another immortal tried to bribe her to set Methos up for him.

I think she knows exactly who Methos is and how old he is. She's the type of character who has ways of knowing things. Maybe the other immortal told her. Maybe she dated a Watcher for a bit and discovered all about immortals through pillow talk. Maybe she hung out at Darius' church for a bit (she does like odd teas.)

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

I am really starting to get angry with my laptop, it keeps eating letters and words... sorry about that!

I like the Girlfriend bit, but instead of knowing exactly who is it would be unlikely,,, maybe just know he is around greece's age... or older but not exactly the age, i imagine that before kalas only very very few people knew his exact age, most only knew he was old, older than he would admit...

and instead of using Darius, why not say she dated Fitz, who probably told her about immortals, and some years later she sees methos again, or whatever name had been and connects with immortality, but finds out about his age maybe through Rebecca somehow?

I like the idea that Rebecca had a wild side, and a very colourful friendship with Methos, probably started in the temples of Baccus and Dyonisius

during the 70s or even still in the 60s the old BF she knew to be dead appears in a party thrown by one of her friends accompained by Rebecca.

To make matters more interesting maybe constantine is around... i remember reading somewhere that the immortals in Pariswho spent a while in ROME had a poker game at Marcus' on occasion so maybe the old ones also had other reunions every few decades, or to avoid previsibility, whenever a certain star allignement occured (like every 164 years) a party at a holy ground/former temple would be thrown

a real toga party, in holy ground done in the way of old with plenty of wine and not much modesty or worries, with select mortals invited... those who could and would be able to enjoy such an occasion

do you know what hetty did before ncis? or if she is married?

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

I think the writers are currently being coy about Hetty's past. They just like to have her drop these outrageous hints that sort of intrigue and appall her coworkers at the same time. But they (the coworkers) are way too scared to follow up on any of it. And she's too self-sufficient and capable for them (the writers) to have brought her personal life into the plot just yet.

Ooh... Fitz. Definitely Fitz. Although that doesn't mean she couldn't have also dated a Watcher. There could have been quite the dating scene. If Fitz stole her from his own Watcher or the other way around. And she discovers about immortals in their squabbling.

"What happened to never interfering? This is MY girl!"

"Ha! You immortal fop! The lovely Henrietta needs someone who could give her a REAL family."

"I say. That's a bit below the belt."

Hetty: "Hmm."

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

Oh I could really see that, and imagine you know that Fitz would have been friends with Astaire as well, as his own watcher... it would make for a great triangle...

just the tought of what sorts of hell fitz had been raizing in the years of freedom,

well the writers being coy gives us a lot to work with, and if she is married she could have married the watcher, and still maintained her swinger style... its a way she could have met dr. Pierson as a young guy

i figure most watchers once they start families retire from active field duty so the Tribunal would be none the wiser one of their field agents was friends with his immortal... since not much attention is called to that... unlike with Joe

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Or maybe the Tribunal did step in. They could have executed the Watcher and scared off the Immortal and Hetty is left to enter NCIS.

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

hummm yes, but somehow from the image i got fromher i dont think that the tribunal or the watchers would have been able to guard themselves from some retribution if they made her husband disappear

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Oh surely. But probably not taking them down entirely, just doing something particularly nasty. Possibly there was a regime change after she was through and it took a couple of decades before they next tried to execute someone (ie Joe) and had to relearn exactly why this was a bad idea.

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

I like the tried bit, they might have gotten close but not actually executed him before Hetty made sure they would all retire her and leave her alone... like with dossiers on main watcher's and their crimes done during watching

not to mention files about the organization ready to be sent to the nastiest immortals on file should even a tornado harm her and those who had been involved in the incident