Happy Holidays, mackiedockie (It's a twofer!)

[amand_r]

Title: Guess who's coming to dinner
Author: Prancer aka chinae
Written for: mackiedockie
Characters: Joe, Amy and Methos
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 876 words
Author's Notes: Enjoy!
Summary: Sometimes a road comes to a full circle.

Comments

[mackiedockie]

A Two-fer means twice the fun! I opened my present and got two! Most excellent, and many thanks to my benefactor...benefactrix? *Muchas Gracias*

"Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" is a great present, about a time that I've never been able to write in Joe's life, his time after he has to let MacLeod go, and retreat from his life's work. This short but very sweet tale gives Joe a full and meaningful life beyond the Watchers, and a second chance he'd thought forever beyond reach. I love where it leaves off--with family around him.

"Four Times Joe Dawson Almost Met Methos..." is a rollercoaster that makes my imagination fire off about every scenario. The short sketches raise questions about both characters. Who was Joe's mother, anyway (and why would she be in Kansas? Travelling through to meet her husband's troop train? Caught in a blizzard?) And Methos, head down in a small midwestern hospital after the war, hiding from what? Or who?

The glimpse into Joe's nightmare in Vietnam painted a tiny ray of hope over a very dark olive canvas. If Methos wasn't there, he should have been.

All the Watchers over all the beers over all the centuries...so much speculation, so little verification! As the Great Immortal Myth, Methos saved young Watchers from growing into stultifying bores, or worse, going back to school and becoming econ majors.

Methos pumping Joe for information over the phone--Methos is such an arrant operator, under his student haircut and chameleon clothes. Joe is such a romantic, under his blue-collar work ethic. I love the way they never really change.

But the last Meeting that never really happened (or did it?) is the most fleeting slice of time, when the way Joe has always figured the world was, gets flipped on its head, robbing him of one of his balance points. A man he knows closely, who he has trusted becomes a complete and alien stranger. For that brief moment, even a man like Joe can lose touch with his faith in the universe, and in a friend. That kind of hurt revisits old scars. A tough, and hopefully fleeting, time indeed.

Many thanks again, for both my presents!!!! And to all a Feliz Festivus!!!!

[rodlox]

>Who was Joe's mother, anyway (and why would she be in Kansas? Travelling through to meet her husband's troop train?
during WW2, many military families were stationed in Kansas, both while and a bit after the men were out fighting.