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

[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