Voices in my head

Having already written The Gambit Pileup, in which both Arthur (of Inception) and Methos (of Highlander) get caught up in an attempted bank robbery (much to the detriment of the robbers), from Arthur's perspective, I couldn't resist another ficlet telling the same tale from Methos' perspective.

Thus: Not Everybody Can Be Xanatos

A couple of ficlets:

prompt #1: Highlander, Methos, if anyone is a god to Methos that is likely quite beyond the ken of humans - and he probably doesn't worship it anyway

ficlet #1: This Too Shall Pass


prompt #2: Inception/Highlander, Methos + Dream Team, Methos' mind is not one you'd want to be stuck in

ficlet #2: What Dreams May Come

Plus: A snippet that was written for me!

Comment-fic is highly addictive.


prompt #1: SG-1, Tealc, Samson

Ficlet #1: No freedom here


prompt #2: Any, any, Hurts - Wonderful Life

Ficlet #2: (inception, Arthur) Everybody grieves in their own way

I have not actually watched Inception. Real life is giving me a beating and when it comes to ways I can spend my time, watching movies falls below reading fanfic, both of which should fall below doing my work, but reading fanfic is putting up a fight and watching movies has mostly resigned itself.

Thus, despite not having watched the movie, I have read Inception fanfic and while I don’t quite understand the nuances of the technology, (and I'm dubious that watching the movie would clear that up anyway,) I really, really, really want someone to try to use it to steal an idea from Adam Pierson (aka Methos, but they don’t know that.)

As it turns out, going up against Methos’ subconscious protections is a fairly bad idea. (Although I suppose it could be worse… they could be trying to steal from Bruce Banner. They go in, they get squashed, they wake up. Bing-bing-bing, it’s over. No one’s been able to last long enough to blink.)

I have this idea that they go in, and, first of all, it’s not a city. It’s a small village out in the middle of the plains. This is odd, because most people are complicated enough to be a full city, but hey, they figure some people must just have simple personalities.

Except that, well, the small cottages tend to be larger on the inside, with more twist and turns and hidden passages and mirror rooms than Versailles. And the shadows, well, some of them are darker than they should be. And if you go into one of those, you don’t come out. Not in a die-and-wake-up way, but a you-go-brain-dead-in-the-real-world way.

There are people in the village but most of them wear Adam Pierson’s face even if they have completely different personalities and different names (like Dr Benjamin Adams). And the people who don’t (like, Morgan Walker) each have a grudge against one of the Adam Pierson look-alikes.

And as if that weren’t enough, there appear to be a few other villages in the distance that are just faintly visible on the horizon, with smoke rising from a few chimneys. But between visitors and those other villages is a heard of the most beautiful wild white horses imaginable and they will trample to death anyone who strays too far from the village.

Anyway, I’m not quite sure what the plot would be.

Maybe Adam Pierson left the Watchers and the Watchers want to know why?

Maybe Adam Pierson got a new job as a translator for top secret government meetings and someone wants to know one of those secrets. (And the funny thing is, is that since it’s one of Adam Pierson’s secrets rather than one of Methos’ secrets, it’s actually fairly easy to find in one of the main cottages, it’s just not considered that much of a secret and so everyone overlooks it for a really long time.)

Maybe in the end, the inception team figures out about Immortals.

Or maybe they all die.

Or maybe they give it up as a lost cause and recruit Adam Pierson to their side instead, because he has mad skills with getting into peoples’ heads.