Nick Knight, Lucien LaCroix and Methos

[marbleglove]

This is just a single scene that has been haunting me. Normally I would write it up as a full story and post it, however it's a crossover between Highlander (my crossover-verse of choice) and Forever Knight (which I have never actually seen an episode of). The fanfic I have read for Forever Knight has let me know mostly that I don't know those characters well enough to write them well. Thus, I'm sending this plot-bunny out to pasture along with the others.

My understanding of Forever Knight is that Lucien LaCroix is a vampire originally from the Roman Empire. During the crusades or thereabout, he sired Nicholas. Nicholas, now called Nick Knight is currently working with a doctor and attempting to become human again because vampires are evil and yadda-yadda. Nick and LaCroix having fights that apparently resemble father vs. teenage boy spats regarding family responsibility and morals and whatnot. LaCroix runs a bar that's for mixed company (both humans and vamps). The "house red" is what you would expect from a vampire. (Nick refuses to drink it because it's human blood and sticks to the less appetizing animal blood.) 

Thus the scene opens with Methos and LaCroix old friends getting together for a drink and a chat. They're both drinking the house red. (With a brother like Caspian, I don't image this is a problem for Methos. LaCroix just thinks its funny.) Nick comes in, is shocked at what this human is drinking. He tries to get the poor human out of there. Methos laughs in his face, and LaCroix informs him that Methos is an old friend.

Nick says, but he has a heart beat.
Methos says, yeah, pacemakers are wonderful thinks, the surgery was tricky but it's worth it for the ability to show a pulse.
LaCroix laughs.
Nick, pacemaker?
Methos, yeah, LaCroix tells me you want to be human again. I can't say I want to be mortal, but I've cultivated a lot of human aspects. I can even eat meat.
Nick, how? (he's excited)
Methos, you have to start slow and work up to anything really solid. Spend a year eating at a burn hospital then try some seared steak.
Nick is appalled.
LaCroix is attempting to keep a straight face (he knows Methos isn't a vampire)

Methos finally takes off, LaCroix wishes him farewell, Nick may or may not know the whole conversation was a prank.

the end

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Hey! I didn't comment here...

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

I found an entry which I didn't comment on! that can't happen!!
I loved the idea for this fic, and it has the sort of humour Methos would
delight in, maybe he met LaCroix still in Rome and with what we said before about each group of friends thinking he has a different preference this would be his there.

Methos, friend of Bartenders everywhere!
(I bet he started to go visit Amanda when she opened her bar)

Re: Hey! I didn't comment here...

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Have you ever watched "Forever Knight"? I tried once and never even managed to make it through a full episode. Sigh. But I do like the fandom. As I recall, I think one of the vampires (Jeannette?) opens another bar (in Paris?). From the fandom, I think Jeannette and Amanda would either get along very well or not at all, and either way it could be funny.

Methos would remember a time (a very, very long time) when it was safer to drink beer than it was to drink water because the alcohol would kill off most of the bacteria. And bartenders everywhere appreciate his loyalty to the beverage!

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[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

I have never watched FK, but I have stumbled on some fics and googled information so I would be able to follow them.
Jeannette and Amanda would get along great, with plenty of trouble to dump on charming men who try to help them.

He would have created the habit and since Beer never goes out of style why change?

I have an idea in my head of seeing Methos doing a world pub tour, or taking two years to visit unknown breweries all across the globe and making friends.

I bet that he went to the bar 'where everyone knows your name'

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[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I bet you're right. Although I bet there's more than one bar that knows him by name (whatever name that happens to be.)

Here's a thought:

Methos knows that money is pretty transitory. You can save up for a couple of centuries and get really wealthy if you know what you're doing and have good luck. But if you're living through millenia, you're pretty much guaranteed to lose all your wealth pretty regularly: when you have to move suddenly, when banks crash, when governments crumble, when mongols invade, etc. So what is the best way to invest your funds? It's spending the money to generally improve the world around him. So he's constantly funding start-up breweries and bars, and making sure that the recipes he likes best will be available as widely as possible so he can get it where ever he goes. And within beer-tasting circles, there're stories of the semi-mythical beer-fairy-godfather who clandestinely helps beer halls. Hee.

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[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

He would be known to a lot of bars, especially those who have a long history!


Methos is the beer-fairy!!!
I love it, and you are right what better way to make sure that good beer continues to exist in world than to fund it an supply recipes? He would have a lot of the good ones stashed and probably straight on owns a few. I would love for him to explain to Joe that he really shouldn't pay his tab, because he is the one responsible for the existence of those brews... so why pay?

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[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Joe could rhapsodize about some old beer aficionado who gave him the original funding for his first bar. He really was nice, although also a bit of a hermit, he'd never met with Joe in person but man did that guy know his beers. And Duncan sees Methos out of the corner of his eye and the old guy is hiding a smile. It take a moment but when the clue finally clicks, Duncan snorts beer out his nose. And Joe wonders what's going on.

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[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

That would be so great, especially if he remembered through which foundation the money came from and Duncan remembers a mention of something like it from Methos' past but which would sound random to anyone else such as "Monks and Row boats"

so Joe would be really confused until he connected the dots from their expressions