On Your Doorstep

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On Your Doorstep

They ended up on your doorstep, quite literally. Bloody, possibly. Bruised, most definitely, though the wounds may be mental. You probably don't know them from Adam, yet you couldn't find it in you to turn them away - whether they wanted you to or not. So you opened up your home, just for a little while.

But it's getting to be more than a little while. Both of you are finding a comfort zone, because you didn't simply open up your home. Admit it or don't, but you've opened up your heart all the same.

Their's is slowly following, if its reluctant at all.

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duncan macleod | highlander

[moralcode]

[probably the taker-in. ota gen; ask before shipping.]

[1stmacleod]

[Well fancy meeting you here. Up for mildly non-canon shenanigans? Obviously no physical injuries, but they've both been through mental trauma in their long lives...]

[moralcode]

[ o7 howdy. mild non-canon shenanigans are fine with me. :) ]

[1stmacleod]

[Let me know if this doesn't work? Following an AU/Connor lives version of EndGame... Timeline thingy here if that's useful.]

The fight against Jacob Kell could have gone better.

It also could have gone worse.

After the sudden and terrible deaths of Rachel, Alexandra, and his adopted son John, Connor MacLeod vanished for ten years, and whether he went into the Sanctuary willingly or not is a question nobody has given a solid answer on yet. Of course Duncan only heard of the place after it was destroyed, with Connor the only survivor. Their reunion was brief, first a few words exchanged in a graveyard, then an ugly fight in which Connor tried to force his younger kinsman to take his head. The reasoning, that neither Connor nor Duncan was strong enough to take on Kell alone, was practical enough. The conclusion that forcing Duncan to take his head was a wise move was clearly born of a fractured mind.

Somehow, Duncan won that fight without taking his old teacher's Quickening, and somehow, Connor went on to defeat Kell. The resulting Quickening was one for the Watcher's record books, and afterward Connor went underground so thoroughly even they couldn't find him. There have been, wrenched out of Joe over the following years, one or two reports of Connor wandering the States in a junker car (never the same one twice), and taking a head or two in self defense. He's always been quick to vanish again, wise to the Watcher's methods. Connor has always been one to play things close to the vest, a sullen and near-silent contrast to the friendly younger MacLeod. This time, he seems to be going to extraordinary measures to put a distance between himself and anyone else.

It's a hell of a surprise, then, when he shows up one night standing in the rain, more or less at Duncan's door. If he was trying a second time for having his head taken, showing up unannounced by anything except the buzz of presence is a good way to do it, but that may not be his real intent.