Brothers and Other Strangers

[moonprincessnat]

So, someone on one of the many fan fiction related mailing lists I'm on requested a recommendation for a Duncan/Methos amnesia fic. Immediately, Brothers and Other Strangers by Valentin came to mind. The story picks up after Revelation 6:8, and Methos has just returned to Paris. Depressed about the whole Horsemen fiasco and certain that Macleod will never want anything more to do with him, Methos drinks himself into oblivion. The next morning, Adam Pierson, age 35, doctoral candidate and owner of a bookstore, grabs a light jacket and heads out the door. Concerned when he discovers that Methos isn't carrying a sword and claims no knowledge of the Watchers, Joe Dawson sends Macleod to check up on him. Macleod, of course, thinks it's all a trick by the master manipulator, but events prove him wrong. Faced with Adam, a quiet scholar who absolutely refuses to touch a sword, Macleod slowly begins to realize that maybe what he thought he wanted (a gentler, kinder Methos), isn't what he wanted at all. I really love the dialog in this story--Adam's responses to the impossible situation in which he finds himself are just too funny!