I love good guys

I don't talk about it as often, but I am very much a Highlander fan, too.  These days, I read HL mostly via the hl_flash bulletin.  Here are some gen pieces from there that I've enjoyed recently:

• "Fight Another Day" by sholio (PG, ~1K words, Duncan and Methos and Amanda).  Duncan loses a hand (as Xavier St. Cloud did) and holds on to his honor.


• "Watcher" by elistaire (G, 320 words, Joe, implied Duncan/Tessa).  It's the '80s.  As Joe watches Duncan, he also gets to know Tessa.


• "Next Time, Buy a Ferrari" by medie (PG, ~2K words, Methos and Connor and Heather, implied Connor/Heather).  What if Methos, rather than Ramirez, had taught Connor?


• "Convent Mouse" by elistaire (G, ~2K words, original character, Methos, implied Methos/Alexa).  This predator and this prey... are both survivors.


• "Spring" by devohoneybee (G, 69 words, Methos).  A poem.

This is the Highlander story that I wrote for the Summer 2010 oldschoolfic event.  My thanks to karrenia_rune for the prompt, and to batdina for the beta-reading.  (As always, constructive criticism is welcome.)

I'd never written Charlie DeSalvo before, and I'm not sure that I'd ever read a story from Charlie's perspective, either.  When I looked for screenshots from which to make an icon to go with this story on the ficathon, I found only half a dozen unique images of Charlie on the entire Internet.  It's curious.  He really is a significant character, if not as significant as some.

•	Title:	"Present Company" (also on AO3)
•	Length:	~2,900 words
•	Date:	July 2010
•	Rating:	PG
•	Characters:	Starring Charlie.  Also with Richie, Randi, Duncan and Joe.
•	Summary:	Charlie has a lot on his mind when Duncan finally returns to Seacouver.
•	Quotation:	"Charlie thought again about legitimate reasons that a stranger might have popped up like this -- and about how very little he wanted to end up charged with assault -- but the weight in the man's right hand inside his pocket skewed the odds."