HL Fanfic: "Comes but Once a Year"

[brightknightie]

This little Highlander Christmas story is not for any fest or ficathon.  It's just because.  My thanks to batdina for beta-reading, and to celli for Chicago-checking.  As always, constructive criticism is welcome.

•	Title:	"Comes but Once a Year" (also on AO3)
•	Length:	~1,400 words
•	Date:	December 2010
•	Rating:	G
•	Characters:	Starring Joe Dawson.  Also with Lynn Horton and other relatives.
•	Summary:	Joe babysits his sleepy niece on Christmas Eve 1978.
•	Quotation:	"For ten years, Joe had gotten fairly sedate, settled assignments, and it wasn’t like he didn’t know why.  But that was about to change, he told himself."

Posted in the oldschoolfic community.

Comments

[mackiedockie]

I do have more fic scattered elsewhere--some is on HLfiction.net, some short stuff scattered through LJ, IJ and DW over the last few years. I need to pull it together. The LJ and DW stuff ought to be tag searchable.

There are little gems of information hidden in some of the dialog in canon and in the Watcher CDs. The one year training period, for instance, does point out the disadvantage accidental Watchers like Joe have in advancement in the organization compared to traditional guild family Watchers like Jacques Vemas. The tale of the Dawson/Vemas feud through the years would be an epic of its own *g*.