rivestra | Highlander Commentfic

Kinda bunnied myself over on the three sentences challenge on

comment_fic . Let’s not look too closely at how many sentences this *could* have been, ‘kay?

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The things they could have done with 400 years – he’d like to have seen the shining city rebuilt, to watch as the good man before him remembered himself fully and became again the great man he once had been. Really though, the choice was remarkably easy, standing there under the bridge, the Seine sloshing gently at their feet, Duncan’s sword resting against his neck, and he let go of his regret with a soft exaltation of air, briefly wishing it could have been Excalibur, not some nameless Katana biting into his throat. Softly, Merlin ground out, “Do it,” into the night air, his first honest prayer in millennia, and it was all he could do to finish it with “Highlander” instead of “Sire.”

Prompt: Highlander, Duncan/Methos, remembering a prayer, which both is and isn’t what I did. I absolutely cannot shake how much Merlin reminds me of a young Methos - it's not like it's actually stated anywhere in HL canon that Methos lived all of his 5000 years *linearly*, right? And OMG is Duncan a good fit for Arthur.

Hopefully, this will get this idea out of my system. And yeah, I realize that the scene’s not an exact match, but… I only had three sentences! (Also, I didn’t bother to look up a transcript until after I’d posted it. Bad writer!)

Highlander Commentfic

Wow