Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 19:47:45 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU This is my first continuation story from 'A Simple Twist of Fate' if you don't have it I seriously suggest you get it off the archive especially if your a HL fan. HL, and FK don't belong to me I'm just borrowing them Do You Remember Me 1/? The crime scene, was crawling with cops, by the time Nick got their. That in it's self was not all that surprising, but what was surprising, was the scene itself. A young woman, had been stabbed with a very sharp item, according to witnesses a sword. "So what do we got Nat?" Natalie turned around and looked at him, her eyes were very tired. "15 year Jenny Horn, was stabbed in the back. But you want to know what's worse Nick? Is the fact that she's a hero, she put her self in front of a sword, that was going to decapitate another woman." Nick look down at the body, of the young woman, to die so bravely, was more than you expected to about hear these days. "Then, she'll get the hero's recognition she desires. Nat, were is the intended victim?" "She's over there, she's very reclusive Nick, I don't know if you'll get a lot, out of her." He nodded, and headed toward the young woman. "I told you I'M FINE!" she said. That voice, Nick stopped in his tracks. It was his little sisters voice! It was Fluer's voice! "Excuse me, is there a problem?" He asked. The paramedic, turned toward him. "Yes, there is, she won't let me get a look at her, and the neighbors say, she was shot in the chest." "I, may not be the best authority on medicine, but I don't think she would be protesting, if she was shot in the chest. By the way, Detective Knight." "You're right, sir, but still, I need to check her out." "Tell you what, if you'll let me talk to her, I'll promise to have our corner, take a look at her." "I don't know about that..." "She's very good at getting people who don't want to be examined, examined." "all right." Nick signaled for her to follow. When they where out of ear shot, of the paramedic. "Fluer how?" She looked at him for a moment, then said. "It's a long story, one I would like to tell, in a less public place." Nick nodded, in a understanding fashion, and signaled Nat to come over. "I'd like you to meet someone, and it should satisfy our critic over there." Fluer smiled, "who is it?" "Her name is Natalie, and she knows what I am, before you ask." Fluer raises her eye brows, as the young woman apporched, she was a pre-immortal, and she was going to be coming over soon. As she approach, Fluer noticed something else, Natalie was also, Nick's unvalidated bondlying. "Nick, what can I do for you?" she said. "Nat, this is Fluer. I need you to fake a check up, for a bullet wound. And I don't even have the whole story, but I have been promised, that it will be told. When we are in a more private place." Fluer smiled, as she extended her hand, "Hi, Fluer, you're Natalie or should I call you Nat?" "Nat's fine, or Natalie if you like. Fluer, that means flower in French, doesn't it?" Fluer opened her shirt, and Natalie started a faked examination. "Yes, it does, we'll tell you that part as well." She smiled at Nick, and mouthed. 'is he here.' Nick smiled, and nodded his head at Fluer. Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 20:00:47 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me (2/?) To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Hope you like it so far heres part 2. Disclaimers in part 1 Do You Remember Me 2/? Later in the car. "So you two are brother and sister?" Asked Natalie, in amazement. "Yes, although we haven't seen each other in 766 years." Fluer said. "What about that time you wrote to me, and said you where dying?" asked Nick. "Oh, I'd almost forgotten about that. I wasn't aging, and I knew I had to get out fast. I couldn't think of anyone else to go to. Did I fool you?" "Yes, I had no idea." Nick turned on the radio, the rest of the conversation, about her life, was silently agreed to be discussed at his loft. She watches him, through tear full eyes. He doesn't wave, and he doesn't say goodbye, But she knows all the things he doesn't say. Hey, do you remember me? I'm the girl left behind, I'm the one you left without a word. Are you looking me? Because, honey I'm looking for you. I just want say I love. Do you love me anymore, or am I just a nameless memory? She turns around one last time before she leaves Her eyes are intense, but her life is meaningless, without him. She walks out of the only life she knows, and heads for the road. Hey, do you remember me? I'm the girl you left behind, I'm the one you left without a word. Are you looking? Because, honey I'm looking for you. I just want to say I love you. Do you love me anymore, or am I just a nameless memory? 10 years down the road, she still hasn't given. Another lead squashed, another lead opening. And she asks up to the sky. Do you love anymore, or am I just a nameless memory? Hey, do you remember me? I'm the girl you left behind, I'm the one you left without a word. Are you looking for me? Because, honey I'm looking for you. I just want to say I love you. Do you love me anymore, or am I just a nameless memory? Fluer hides her face in the seat. "Don't like the song? Personally I love it." Natalie says. "It's okey, I guess. It's just the fact that, that song was composed about me. It's embarrassing!" "I understand, I promise no more mentioning of that song." Natalie smiles at Nick. Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 20:06:39 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me (3/?) To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Disclaimers in part 1 Do You Remember Me 3/? "No don't call him!" Fleur's voice had turned from pleasant to stressed out, in a manner of minutes. "Please, Methos, do us all a favor, and don't call." "Fleur, look this is serious. I think that Micheal, should be informed." Methos said. "I'm fine with that, just let me call him when......" Lacroix had been curious for some time, as to what his son was up to, shock, curiosity, to happiness in just a couple of minutes. HE hadn't wanted to be showed out the door, the minute he arrived. So he was going to go in, through the door, all that, went out of his mind, when he heard her voice. Fleur felt herself being flown around, and faced the man she had not seen in almost 800 years, the man she loved. Methos was going on with his mindless speech, about her not taking this as seriously as she should. "I'll call you back, Methos." "Fleur, how are you still alive" he asked, through shock filled eyes. Her hands began to shake, and she felt herself almost falling, toward the floor. Nick caught her, and guided her to a chair. "Nicholas, what is this about! Why didn't you tell?!" shouted Lacroix. "Lacroix, sit down, in that chair over there. Look, Fleur, has had a rough day, the last thing she needs is you jumping down her throat, and in case you didn't notice she almost fainted!" Nick said, as he made sure Lacroix actually sat down. Nick returned from the kitchen, with a cup of water, "here, this should help." He handed the glass to Fleur. Fleur put the cup to her lips, and gently drank, but her mind was anywhere, but on what she was doing. The concerns and consequences, that she had only thought about, once in awhile before, now where very important. ******************* 1279 Paris. "Did you see him, after the Crusades?" Micheal asked. Fleur looked at her brother, she couldn't tell him the truth, but she couldn't tell him she hadn't seen Nicholas, either. "Yes, I saw him. He was with another immortal, he called him Lucien. I wasn't immortal at the time, so I didn't figure it our until after I realized, what I was. I bereave Lucien, was Nicholas teacher." Amanda, had always said, the best lie is hidden between two truths, she didn't realize how important, that information was until now. "Do I detect a note of jealous? Do you like this Lucien?" "Yes, I like him a lot." "Well, my little sister, has become a woman." ********************* The ringing of the phone, interrupted her thoughts. Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 20:15:19 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me (4/?) To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Disclaimers in part 1. o You Remember Me 4/? Fleur sighed, as the phone rang insistently, she knew who it was. "Hello." "Fleur, what is this about hunters?" "Micheal, Methos just overreacted, it's nothing really." Fleur said. "Overreacted Fleur, you got attacked by hunters, and you say he is overreacting. Maybe your under reacting." Micheal's voice, was becoming stressed, and he was showing how tired he was. Lacroix, listened with fascination. Fleur had at one point had told him, of her brother Micheal, but other than a name, that is all Lacroix knew of him. Fleur, and he had, had so little time together, and Nicholas never talked about him. To anyone. He wondered over to Nicholas, who is keeping a polite distance, and of course not listening in on the phone call. "You had a brother, named Micheal, did you not?" Nick's, entire behavior changed at the mention, of his brothers name. "What do you know of him, Lacroix!" He shouted. "My dear, boy, I have never seen you so upset, by the mention of a name, or a simple question." "This is not a simple question for me Lacroix, so let it drop, and since your wondering, Micheal was my twin brother." He said. Lacroix, watched him walk away, to the other side of the room, obviously upset. But that still left the question of why, what had happened that Nicholas, would never speak of his brother, to anyone? Micheal, had not improved none, actually he had gone down hill. Witch was to be expected, considering that he was tired and scared. Emily gadded the phone, from Micheal. "Fleur, I'll have him call you back, after we are both awake enough to be rational." Fleur smiled, her sister-in-law had always been better at waking up quickly,y than her brother had. Lacroix had returned to his seat, and now was ready for some answers. "Fleur, why didn't you look for me? Don't you love me anymore?" He asked, his eyes full of rejection. "I do love you Lucien, I love you enough, to look for you, for 800 years." "Then why didn't you find me?" HE asked. She looked at him for a moment, then said. "Have you by any chance, noticed that my heart beats?" "What does that have to do with anything?" He asked. "It has everything, to do with everything! A mortal can not find a vampire easily, when they go into a club looking for a specific vampire, the vampires won't talk to them. Because, they could be a hunter. I didn't find you sooner because, no one would talk to me! I've looked, and I've looked, but it was damn hard to find someone, who could point me in the right direction!" "Then how are you still alive? How do we know that you aren't a fraud, trying to get at the community?" He said. She looked at him, a legitimate question. He didn't know about the wound, to the heart, or the fact that someone had tried very hard, to remove her head from her body. "You want proof, I'll give you proof." Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 14:28:12 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me (5/?) repost To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU X-Status: Don't ask me how this happened, but the text didn't get on this post, so I'm sending it again. Do You Remember Me 5/? Fleur walked purposely over the Nick's gun, and picked it up. She then pointed it, at her heart, and shot herself, in the heart. The usual pain followed the shot. 'every time you die it hurts' Amanda's words, floated through her mind, and then utter blackness. The same kind of blackness, that she had experienced the night she came over. Lacroix held her body gently, he wasn't sure what do believe his heart that told him, that she had to be alright, or his brain that said it was most unlikely, that she would be coming back. Fleur, had been precise less, pain, and she stay out less, still when she 'woke up' Lucien was holding her. "You're alright!" Said the two vampires. "Of course I'm all right, I'm an immortal aren't I?" She said. "A what?" "Immortal. I really didn't tell you did I, Lucien?" " No, I think I would have remembered, something like that." HE said. "An immortal as you probably surmised, is very hard to tell between the mortal population, at least for mortals and vampires. We......" The skidding of tires, and Natalie's scream, brought everything to a stop. Fleur leaps out of Lacroix's lap, and heads for the lift, Nick is right behind her. When they make it down, Natalie is lying on the ground, the bag she was caring, has been thrown 3 feet from her, and she is face down. Nick is frozen in place, unable to move, there is no one to blame for what happened, just Natalie's dead body. Fleur, in the mean time had moved over, to Natalie, and had picked her up, and was caring her to the lift. "Nicholas, come on, we have to get her into the loft." Nick followed her, still to much in shock, to realize what is going on. When they get into the loft, Fleur puts Natalie on the coach, and starts to check her over, making sure that she has no wounds that are serious enough to scar, around her neck. She fingers her own wound there, the scare that will never go away, or fade. Nick starts to freak out. Nick grabs Natalie, and holds her to his chest, rocking back and forth calling her name, and asking why. Fleur looks over at Lacroix, her eyes pleading with him, to help her. Lacroix walks over to her. "Is she one of you?" He asks "Yes, and so is Nicholas, but neither of them know it yet. She will, by the end of the night." "What can I do to help?" "You can try to get him, away from her, but I don't think you'll have that much success, with that. You can also call and get some food for us, I'm hungry, and she is going to be starving." "I will get the food, then I will help you calm down Nicholas, it is do able." "I know that it's do able, in most cases, but is it in this one?" She whispered to herself. "We may just have to weight, for her to wake up." Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 15:51:16 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me 10/? To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU X-Status: Disclaimers in part 1. Do You Remember Me 10/? Nick held her close, as he alternated sucking and caressing her lips. Natalie wrapped her arms, around Nick's back, and pulled him closer to her, as close as he could be to her, without actually being part of her own body. She felt him pull away from her lips, and moaned in protest. Nick pulled away from Natalie, not that he didn't want her, because he did. Nick had waited 5 years for this, he could wait a little longer, he had to. "Natalie, wait. I want this to be special, I don't want it to be like this. Not our first time." He pulled away from her, and reached for the vile. Nick handed the vile to Natalie, and she took it. Natalie looked at him for a moment, as if she was trying to figure out why, he had given it to her. Nick's hand gently encompassed hers. "I want you to give it to me Natalie." He whispered. "Nick." She whispered, as he positioned, them so that she was on top of him, and he was laying on the couch. She leaned down, and gently poured the formula, into his mouth. And the world went black. ***************** "A wet cloth across his face, Nick slowly, came back into the world. "Hmm." "Nick? You are alright?" Natalie held the wash cloth, in her hand, and waited for an answer. "Yeah, I'm alright. What happened." Nick said, as he at up. Natalie, jumped into his arms, burying her face, in his shoulder. "I though you where dead! When you heart stopped, and there was this blue light all around your body. Nick, I thought that I would die, too." "I know, Natalie, I felt the same way, when you where hit by the truck. I didn't know what to do, all I knew was that I love you, and you where gone from my life." He held her closer to him. "Nick? You sure you're alright?" She asked feeling his body go perfectly still. "Yes, I'm just great. How about you?" "I couldn't be better." "Nat, I have something to ask you." Nick's voice, was suddenly sounded serious. "Yes, Nick, what is it?" She asked. "Will you marry me?" He asked, as he pulled out a ring. Natalie's eyes, filled with tears of joy, and she said, in a very emotional voice. "Yes, Nick I'll marry you." Nick gently put the ring on her finger, his other hand combing through her hair. "I bought this ring, a year ago, with the hope of giving it to you, when you brought me back across. I think it was, the first time, that I admitted how much I loved." He pulled her to him, and kissed her passionately, on the lips. Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 14:16:21 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: DO You Remember Me 6/? To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU X-Status: Do You Remember Me 6/? The next 30 minutes past in a blur. Fleur had done this so many times, that it was a habit of sorts, she was now on autopilot, not thinking about what would happen next. Her life up till now had been full of searching for Lucien, and now that she had found him. What would she do with the rest of her life? 'I'm happy, but change is never easy. Especially for an immortal, the community has demonstrated that very well, these last few months.' She thought. "How did you know, that he would take it this hard?" Asked Lacroix. "I'm an immortal, I have a sense that neither vampires or mortals have. When this sense is well trained, it can not only pick up other immortals, but tell when they will meet their first death, and if they are bonded or will be to anyone. I picked up that bond between Nick and Natalie, unvalidated, but there none the less." She smiled as she looked at him. "Besides, I've seen the early stages before." "With who?" "With Micheal, Nicholas brother. It's not that surprising, that Natalie looks a lot like Emily. She is similar in character as well, accept she seems to think through what she is going to say, before she says it." Fluer smiled, it had been a long time, since she had felt this complete. "Tell me about Micheal." "Well he's..." The phone rang. "Hello, Oh, hi, we where just talking about you. When do I want to pick you up? Oh, you heard his voice did you. How about tomorrow night, after dark. 2 am that's great we'll see you then." She hung up her cellar, and turned to Lacroix. "That was Micheal, he heard Nick's voice, in the back ground, and Methos will not leave him alone until comes, and makes sure that I'm alright. "So he is coming here?" "Yes, he is. Nick had been holding Natalie, close to him, unable to let go of her, knowing that if he did, all that would be left is her lifeless body. He wouldn't see, the shinning eyes that smiled at him, although she was trying to reprimand him for going off her program. He would never again, hear her voice say. "Nick?" The voice was muffled, by Nick holding her so tight, but it was defiantly, Natalie's. Nick pulled away from her, long enough to assure that he wasn't dreaming, then crushed her, into an all encompassing hug. For Natalie her world was spinning, she had been coming to Nick's loft, with food. When that driver had hit her, she didn't remember anything more, until she woke up with Nick's arms around her. Not that she was complaining mind you, she loved the feel of his arms around her, she always felt safe, and secure in them, but she just couldn't figure out, what happened. She knew enough to discount being brought across. What had happened to her, was not what happened to someone who is brought across, besides shouldn't she hungry, if she was a knew vampire. Fluer walked over, to Nick and Natalie and said. "Nicholas, Natalie, I think we need to talk. Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 20:15:41 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me 7/? To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Here's part 7 hope you are likiing it so far. Disclaimer in part 1. Do You Remember Me 7/? "I think we need to talk." Those very simple words, but they sent Nick's world spinning. "Talk about what?" He asked, his voice much calmer, than he felt. "About what happened to Natalie, and about what I am." Fluer said, she didn't expect him to except this at all, but she had to tell them. "Why now?" Asked Natalie, "why tell us now?" "Because, now is when you need to know, what is going on, and why." Said Fluer. She seated herself on the couch and began. "Natalie, do you feel any different?" Natalie looked at her for a moment, and then said. "Now that you mention it, I do feel a little different, 'changed' in someway, but I don't know how." "That 'change' you feel, is the quickening becoming totally active. What you are now, and have always been is immortal." "What is an immortal?" Asked Nick, joining the conversation. "An immortal, is well, immortal. Not vampires obviously, but we do live forever, and never age after our first death or get sick, we are hard to tell from the general population. What happened to Natalie tonight, is what immortals call the first death. The first death, is when we die for the first time, and come back to life." "What do you mean by die for the first time?" Asked Natalie. "Immortals go through, a regeneration process, or temporary death, when our bodies appear dead, if we are wounded badly enough." Fluer said. "Fluer, how are immortals created?" Asked Nick. "Good question, unfortunately no one has the answer for that, not yet. Some say, that it is in the genes, and some say that when an immortal dies, part of their quickening goes to a female who is pregnant and changes the baby, but no one really knows." Fluer stopped for a moment, and then continued. "There is something else you need to know, before six months ago I would be worrying about you being by yourself, without knowing how to handle a sword, I still do, but not as much as before. Recently, the immortal community as gone through a lot of social upheaval, all centering around the discovery of a scroll, written 5 thousand years ago. What the scroll says, has discounted the biggest thing, in immortal society. Lacroix lay a hand on her shoulder, for support, Fluer during her speech had begun to shake violently trying, to keep her emotions in check. "Fluer, is there something else?" "Yes, the hunters caused this evidence to be believed, they suddenly came back in force. I was almost one of those who lost their lives, because of Horton's crusade against our people." She took a deep breath and smiled. Both Nick and Natalie looked at her for a long moment, as if they were trying to digest all of it. "I'll leave you with that, and this, Nicholas drink it after I've left, we'll talk about the rest tomorrow." Fluer signaled to Lacroix, and they both left the loft, leaving both Nick and Natalie with a lot of questions, and very few answers. Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 20:21:20 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me 8/? To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Disclaimers in part 1. Do You Remember Me 8/? "Nat, I...." Nick started, Natalie gently put her fingers to his lips. "No words Nick, I don't need you to apologize, for something that was bound to happen." She said, as she slid closer to him. Nick's arms wound around her, and pulled her closer to him, he though that he would die, when she had died, and now he didn't want to waste anymore time, waiting for the right moment. 'a life, for a life' the irony had hit him, when he found out about Natalie About Fluer. One life for another, Lacroix had said. Neither he nor Lacroix, had known what that life would be, a life of searching, for a life of living, Nick smiled, irony seemed to like him, a lot. "Nat, that's not what I was going to say, to you." "Then what where you, going to say?" She asked, as she moved closer to him. "That, I love you Natalie. You are my heart, and my soul, without you in my life, I am nothing, nothing at all." Tears ran down Natalie's face, as Nick said those words, words that she had been waiting to hear, for years, words that her own heart echoed. "And I love you Nick, every beat your heart takes mine echoes, every tragedy, and every triumph, I'm here for you." A tenderness washed over Nick, as he took Natalie back into his arms, he had never felt such love as he did for this woman, this immortal, not for Jeanette, not for Alyssa, no one. How long had he loved her? It seemed like forever. From the moment he woke up in her morgue? Or was it the first time they watched movies together? He didn't know. What he did know, is that he had loved her, for almost all of the 5 years, they had been together. "Nick, what is in that bottle that Fluer gave you?" "I don't know. Maybe, I should check, she did seem to think that it was important." Nick tried to reach into the pocket, he had put it in, without jostling Natalie to much. Natalie smiled, as she noticed what he was doing. "Nick, let me help." She said as she reached over, and fiddled with his pocket, to pull the vile out. She noticed, that attached to the vile was a note, she detached it and read it, out loud. Dear Nicholas, If you receive this you are a vampire, and my suspicions are corrected. I have asked Fluer to keep this vile on her, and to give it to you, if she should ever run across you in one of her searches. She thinks that I don't know, about what Lucien is, but I do, he can't be anything else but a vampire, and that would then mean, that you are also a vampire. Inside this vile is a formula, supposedly able to turn a immortal-vampire, into an immortal, without a stake or sunlight. I do hope that she has told you about me, or this will come as a big surprise. To your 'happy' eternal life. Love, your twin brother Micheal. Nick during the entire reading, had been holding Natalie close, so when he tensed up Natalie felt it. She turned around to see what the problem was, all the rest of Nick's color, had drained out of his face. "Nick, what's wrong?" Natalie asked. Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 15:47:45 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me 9/? To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU X-Status: Do You Remember Me 9/? Natalie put her hand on Nick's face, she didn't have to be a doctor, to tell that he was in shock. But about what? She would expect to have Nick happy, after all he could see the sun again. "Nick, talk to me!" She shouted, a depressed Nick she was use to, a happy Nick, but she had never seen, this kind of behavior. Nick's arms, went around Natalie, as he pulled her closer to him. "It's okay Nat, I'm alright." He whispered. "It's just, that it was such a shock, and there are some memories, that are hard for me to deal with." "Nick what happened? Why didn't you tell me about him? He was your twin brother, what is so horrible that you didn't speak a word of him? To me? To anyone?" She asked, lifting herself up, to look him straight in the face. "Micheal and I where very close, we did almost everything together. We played together, and we got in trouble together, we where inseparable. When I was sent to the Crusades, Micheal signed on to go with me. I expected for both of us to come home together, as we always did." Nick stopped, he seemed unable to go on, with his story. "Nick, what happened?" "It was the day we attacked the holy city, Micheal and I where up on one of the higher buildings, I'm not sure what it was, I just know that we where high up. Micheal had his back to me, when I saw him coming toward him, I yelled at him to warn him, but I was to late. The last thing I remember of him, is his face, as he realized that he was going to die. Utter terror Nat, I've never been able to forget, that look, as he fell to his death." Nick stopped tears where running down his face. Nick buried his head, in Natalie's chest seeking comfort, from the emotions that came with the memory. Natalie held him close, trying her best to comfort him. 'my god, poor Nick, but it does all make sense now.' "Nick, does anyone else no about this?" "No, no one else, you are the first person that I have ever told about it. Lacroix might suspect, through my blood, but I have never been able, to actually tell anyone about." His hand gently ran across her face, his eyes still had so much pain in them. "Nick, I wish you told me this sooner, I would have understood, I could have helped." "Nat, I didn't tell anyone, not because of guilt, although I will be the first to admit that it did play a part in my actions at first, but because of the pain, that it causes. I couldn't remember anything about him, without seeing his face, that last few moments. The first year after his death, I tried everything I could to block out his memory, I was terrified death. That's when I met Lacroix. He offered me eternal life. How could I refuse?" "Nick, do you still feel the guilt?" She had to know. "No, I haven't felt the guilt about Micheal's death, in a long time, all that is left is this numbing pain, every time, I think of him. My search for a cure, my choice alone not influe.., no I won't say that, the faces of some of my victims, did remind me of his face, so it that respect yes he influenced me." Nick cup Natalie's face, with his hands. "The person who has influenced me the most, these past few years, is you, you made me live again. I love you." He said, as he leaned down and kissed her. Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 19:00:18 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me? 11/? To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU X-Status: This is going to stich modes again, back to Fluer and Lacroix for a little while, I promise there will be more Nick and Natalie stuff. Disclaimers: in part 1. Do You Remember Me? 11/? The night breeze rustled her hair, but she stood still waiting, waiting for the moment, when it all came tumbling down. When her cool revere crumbled, and all that was left was the emotion that had been bottled, up for far to long. "What was in that vile?" asked Lacroix as they walked toward his house. Fluer turned toward him. "Micheal said, it help bring an immortal turned into a vampire across, without death. I don't know why he gave it to me." Lacroix looked up at the sky. "I should be upset about loosing him, to you, to his brother, but I'm not. Maybe it's seeing you again Fluer, or maybe it's the fact that I have been loosing him for 300 years, I don't feel as worried about loosing him, to another kind of immortality." "Or maybe it's the fact that you won't have to look over his grave, believe me that's the hardest, loosing your child to old age." She looked up at the sky, "I remember looking up the stars with you 800 years ago, and wondering what they are, I still look up at them, and wonder." "The same thing, that you wondered those 800 years ago?" "Yes, and more, so many more questions that I'm only beginning to wonder. I remember, that Darius use to say, the stars are more that objects in the sky, they are the hopes and dreams, of the peoples of earth." "Who was this Darius?" "An old immortal general, who became a monk, he was one of the first immortals, that the hunters killed. I miss him." "We all miss someone, but it is harder when it is one of us, and when it is unexpected." Lacroix voice drifted out into the stars, and was lost and heard in the void of emotion, that seemed to come with the night. ******************************* Later that night. "Sunrise will be here soon, I need to sleep ..." Lacroix looked over at Fluer, for the last half hour she had become less, and less vocal. He walked over to her, and slid his arms around her. "Fluer, tell me, what is wrong?" "I'm alright." her voice was shaky, and Lacroix sensed, that something was seriously wrong. "What is it? I can't help you, if you won't tell me what the problem is." He had seen many things in his life, but this for him was the most terrifying thing, he had ever encountered. "Tell me, what is wrong." She looked at him then, their was terror in her eyes, but not of him, of another man, and another time. "I guess, it caught up with me." "What caught up with you?" "Something that has haunted my dreams, for almost 800 years, something that I've never told anyone, after I found at what I am." Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:15:38 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: NNloop: Adult: XOVER: Do You Remember Me 12/? To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU This has an adult header on it for the mattter that is describe in what I think is very distrubing detail, I tried not to put this under an adult header but when I wrote it I thought that I didn't want anyone under 16 at least reading this. This part does have a distrubing discrition of rape, I'm not an expert on this, but I do know that this distrube me when I reread it so if this might distrube you go to the next part I'll try not to do to much with it in the rest of the story. Disclaimers in part 1. Do You Remember Me? 12/? "What happened to you Fluer?" Lacroix asked. She looked at the wall, for a few moments, as if she was trying to decide what to do. "I was raped." An uncomfortable silence, descended upon the room. Lacroix was unable to believe, what he had just heard. Raped? How? There had been no war, no reason for it to happen, but it had. Fluer looked at him, for a long moment. Her thoughts going from one event to another, she had always been a bit of an oddball for the immortal community, her singular faith in his love, and her inability to become anyone else's lover. But did the last part, have something to do with that day, in 1232? "How?" Fluer heard Lucien ask, his voice seemed almost a whisper. She knew that the knowledge that it happened would taunt him, until he knew exactly what happened, and if the deed was ever avenged. Fluer looked at the room they where sitting in, she was not stalling, but trying to put into words, the events that had happened, events that she had chosen not to face for almost 800 years. "I was making my bed getting ready for a brand new day, some knights from my late father's friends castle had come over. There was a lot of comings and goings between the de Brabants, and the de Clarments in those days. I remember that I was going as slow, as I possibly could, I abhorred these affairs, because, I knew that the young men earning for land of their own, tried to court me, especially if they were from a noble family, but not the eldest son." She stopped for a moment, the events where so clear in her mind at this moment as they always where, when she remembered, she could feel the cloth, and smell the smells around her, this was always the hard part of this memory the part that she always made herself stop remembering. So she wouldn't have to face what, happened after this. "He came in, I don't know how he got into my room, or how he found it, but suddenly he was standing there, and I felt the need to run to get out of the room, before something happened to me. He was drunk, I could smell it on his breath, and see it in his walk as he neared me. He held a knife in one hand, and a letter in the other. 'if you won't marry me, you won't marry anyone else,' he said. I had been scared when I saw the knife, when he said that, I became utterly terrified. I tried to run for the door, but he grabbed me, and threw me on the bed." Fluer hands began to shake, and her face was pale. Lacroix had experienced memories like this before, and he knew how hard it could be sometimes, to remember it let alone express it in words, to the person sitting next to you. "You want something to drink?" "Yes, some brandy if you have it." She accepted the drink, as he put it next to her. For some strange reason holding the drink, made it easier for her to face what happen next. "He used his knife to remove my clothing, I remember closing my eyes and praying that it would all be over soon. I kept wondering why I hadn't followed you, I could have followed you then this wouldn't be happening, I wouldn't be about to die, I would be happy. I guess he didn't like me having my eyes closed, because he cut the left side of my throat deeply with his knife. "Usually people become hysterical, when someone cuts them with a knife, and I did at first to, but after he hit me a couple of times I just watched the blood flow onto to sheets. I had tried detaching my self by closing my eyes, watching the blood was just another way, of doing it. I half heard him tear away the rest of my cloths, and then he entered me. It was painful and mortifying. After he was done, he plunged his knife into my side, that's the last thing I remember, until I woke up when my mother found me. "He was hunted down and killed, and all communications with his father where stopped. I didn't care about anything, for a good long time, I though if I didn't care, no one could hurt me like that again." Lacroix had been listening to her, unsure of what she wanted him to do. Fluer buried her head in his shoulder, and he pulled his arms around her, he tried to hide his angry, rage, and frustration at what he had just heard. Julia - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 19:53:49 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me 13/? To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU I'm not sure if I gaver permission or not, but I would like all my stories on the archieves, and if you want to put my stories on your page please contact me so I know other than that I'm fine with it. Thanx. Disclaimers in part 1. Do You Remember Me 13/? The quite contentment, that had followed the upheaval for both couples, was rudely interrupted, by the rush of the following night. Heart beats rocketed through the ceiling as the time grew nearer, so much had changed in one night, so much could still change. "We'll be late, if we don't leave now!" Natalie said, as she looked at her watch, it read 1:30 am. Her smiled turned toward Nick, last night had been incredible, and she still couldn't quite believe, that it had all happened it one night. 'You asked me, and I said yes. Did I really say that?' *Yes you did.* Natalie heard Nick's voice, in her head. *Nick, do you have any idea, what this is all about?* *I talked to Fluer...* *But you seemed more confused after you talked to her, than before?* *She gave me some information, that I found confusing, but what I did grasp is this relationship is the highest any immortal can have, it' called a bond. And you 'ma amoure' are my bondlying.* A clearing throat, brought them both back to attention. "I think you two are going to need, even more tutelage than I though." Fluer said. "Nicholas shall we go, I don't want to leave your brother waiting, it would be a very bad way for me to introduce myself, to your the family." Said Lacroix. * You never told me what was so confusing?* Natalie sent. *I think I can do better than that.* Nick grasp her hand as they walked along, and remembered earlier that evening. *************** "Nicholas, I though you might want to talk to me today." Fluer said. "You expected this?" He asked. "Immortals, especially well trained immortals, can sense those that are to become, and those that have an unvalidated bond. Of course it also helped that I have seen it before." "When? and what is a bond?" "A bond is the highest form of relationship, possible for immortals, and I believe vampires. As to where I saw it, with your brother of course, most twins do bond or at least that is what the ancient ones say, you and Micheal, are the first twins in roughly 1,000 years." She said. "Where they more common back then?" "No, not more common, it's just the last time pairs of twins where born." "If vampires are included in this kind of relationship, you and Lacroix?" She stopped for a moment. "I think so, but I don't yet, I have something I need to get over, before I can go that final step." "Thank you, I think." "Wait, Nicholas, remember that you hold in you, something rare and wonderful, and now Natalie shares it, be careful with it, some will want it for their own." Julia Freewoman - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 20:01:28 -0800 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me 14/? To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Do You Remember Me? 14/? The plane took off. Micheal's hand crushed Emily's, he hated heights, and he hated flying. Methos had more often then not told him, that heights where like horses, you just had to get use to them. Micheal had tried getting use to them, but it hadn't worked, he still dreaded every time he was up high. *Micheal?* Emily sent, as the plane leveled off. *Yes, Em. I'm fine, I just hate these things so much.* *I know, and I hate seeing you like this all tensed up, and afraid. I remember when I first met you at the rally. You where drunk, but I was enchanted by you.* *You where so much a believer, and brave. I would never have willingly approached another immortal at less than 100 years of age, especially one my age.* *I was scared, but my curiosity overcame my caution, I wanted to know what a male immortal was doing at the rally. I never thought that you, would agree with the cause.* Micheal's lips descended to hers, he gave her a very passionate kiss. The world around both of them disappeared, all that remained was there need for each other. When Micheal did pull away from her, it was reluctantly. *I don't think the stewardish would like, what else we would like to do.* *I don't think she would either. Micheal, did you get the feeling that Fluer is trying to hide something, from you?* *Like the fact, that Nicholas is a vampire?* *I mean other than that, I expected that, and so did you, but I go the feeling that she's not telling us something, something important.* *I know, but we have to allow her to tell us in her own time, we both would know if it was something important, all we can do is give her room. I'm glad you're getting use to her enough, that you picked it up.* *She's hard to get use to, I mean most of the time she's off looking for her Lucien. Did it ever drive you crazy, her looking for him, and hardly making any friends?* *I know, but she does have friends, most of them just happen to be female.* *What are you going to say to him?* Micheal leaned back against the seat, and Emily's arm. *I don't know. I can think of all the things, that I would like to say to him, I want to know how his life has been, but where do I start. That was sneaky Emily.* *You do the same thing to me, and when you have a couch, you do the same for you're patients. 'Not talking about the subject when you start into it, helps the patient feel comfortable enough to open up, when it is brought up.'* *You always know when I'm nervous about something.* *It's part of the bond, 'mon amour'* *I know that, 'ma amoure'* "I love you." Micheal said, out loud. "And I love you. Feeling better?" "Yes, just don't point out the scenery." He said, with a smile on his face. Emily tried to keep a straight face, but his humor was contagious and soon but of them where laughing hysterically. Julia Freewoman - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 18:56:25 -0700 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Remember Me 15/? To: FKFIC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU X-Status: Sorry about not posting last weekend, but I had the raugh drapht of my research story due, and I couldn't turn anything with this project late, so I worked on it instead of my story. Do You Remember Me? 15/? Nick paced back and forth, he would sit down for a moment and then he would get back up. It was driving Natalie nuts, she knew that Nick couldn't just sit down, but this back and forth motion, was reeking havoc on her nerves. *Nick, pacing isn't going to help any,* she sent. *I know Nat, but it's hard.* *Thinking, about Micheal, again?* *Nat, what am I going to say to him?* *I know Nick, but this pacing of yours is driving me crazy. Could you please come sit down, and stay seated. I promise, he'll be here any minute.* Nick sat down next to her. He hated this waiting. It was actually funny, here he was an 800 year old immortal, and he couldn't sit still for 10 minutes. "Nicholas, there as some things, that simply try any one's patience. Reunions are one of those things," said Lacroix. He had noticed his son's uneasiness, and had also noticed the silent conversation between Doctor Lambert and him. He realized, that Nicholas' constant movement must be bothering her. "Nicholas, I suspected that Micheal is just as nervous as you are, probably more, since he has been on that plane for 4 hours," said Fluer. Nick nodded, he hadn't expected his master, no former master to understand, but he did. For the first time Nick was seeing Lacroix as something else, but the parent. It was an eye-opening experience. Natalie looked over at her bondlying, and finance. He was seeing Lacroix in a whole new light, not the Lacroix that told him how to act, but the Lacroix that understood what he was going thought. The person Lacroix was around equals, instead of his children, fledglings, and mortals. The intercom buzzed for a moment, and then a voice a female voice said. "Attention now arriving from Seattle, through gate number C flight 359." Nick stood up scanning the crowd, as a buzzing sensation invaded his senses, and he became very aware of the area around him. The sensation put him on alert but, it was also familiar to him. Nick saw Micheal seconds later, and wave. "MICHAEL!, he yelled, when he saw his brother, the brother that he hadn't seen for most of his life. Michael, had already begun to turn toward his brother's quickening, when he heard his name called out. His eyes filled with tears when he saw his brother waving at him, and calling him. At that moment, he felt like the small hole in his heart had been filled, and he was complete, totally complete. Their lives had come full circle, each taking different paths, but both taking similar ones. If it was there destiny to reunite immortals and vampires, so be it. For beginning with this day, they had bridge part of that gap already, and revealed themselves to vampires. What good or evil came out of it, he did not know, but it had happened, and all they could do was respond. He looked at Emily, and went to meet his future. Julia Freewoman - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 16:54:45 -0700 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER: Do You Rember Me 16/? To: FKFIC-L@psuvm.psu.edu Here we go part 16, this should be done in about 5 more parts. Disclaimers in part 1. Do You Remember Me 16/? The two brothers faced each other, each had lead a different lives, but somehow by some predestined twist those lives had not been as different as they could have been. 800 years apart from each other in the heat of a battle, but it didn't matter to them now things had come full circle again, and the thing that was most important was that they remembered each other. "I told you that we'd see each other again Nicholas." Said Micheal finally regaining his voice. "You did when?" Nick asked, he was trying to remember when his brother had hinted about this. "The night before we went to battle I said I'll miss while I'm gone. I had a dream right before my death of not seeing you for a very long time." Micheal smiled at his brother. "It's good to see you again, Nicholas." "It's good to see you again to, Micheal," Nick said through tear filled eyes. Lacroix had noticed the brothers similarities almost immediately, but the what had struck him as interesting as was the woman at Micheal's side could be Dr. Lambert's sister. She was smaller than Natalie, and thinner, her hair was thin instead of thick, and her eyes were violet, but other than that she bore a striking resemblances to *his* son's bondlying. "Are you going to introduce us to the young woman at your side," he said to Micheal. Micheal noticed for the first time the others around him other than Nicholas and Emily. "I'm sorry. This is my bondlying and wife Emily." Emily smiled at them, "And you sir, who might you be?" She said, her accent had an effect on everyone around her, it was a mixture of two very unlikely cultures so no one was quite sure what it was. "It's Southern with some French, everyone is taken aback by it, when they first meet me." "Lucien Lacroix." "Fluer is he your Lucien?," asked Micheal. "Yes, Micheal, there's something we need to talk about when you have a minute." Micheal simply nodded and smiled at Emily he knew what it was, that they needed to discuss. "Micheal, this is my bondlying and fiance', Natalie Lambert." Nick had put his arm around Natalie at that moment. "Just bonded to I see." "How did you know that?" asked Natalie "Natalie, I am not only a twin, but I am also someone who has been bonded for about 70 years you two show all the sighs of recently bonded immortals or vampires," Micheal nodded at Lacroix when he said 'vampires.' "You just let him know that you know what he is you know," whispered Nick. "I know," said Micheal. "I was giving him a signal of acceptance as well, Fluer is after all my sister. What do you think of the relationship?" "I'm not sure yet," said Nick. Julia Freewoman - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 20:02:42 -0700 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER:Do You Remember Me 17/? To: FKFIC-L@psuvm.psu.edu Disclaimers in part one. Do You Remember Me 17/? "Fluer spoke of something, that Natalie and I have, that others will want," said Nick. "Can you tell me more about what it is?" Michael put down his napkin, "I told her not to tell you until I did. Oh, well what's done is done. What she spoke of is the twins incredible strength and ability. We are all born immortals, vampires and yes even mortals with a kind of reception toward others, and other things, as we grow older this perception of each other becomes more sensitive toward the other's *quickenings* or souls, as that happens we begin to have s six sense if you will. Now immortals and vampires both have extra senses other than mortals due, like you being able to know when the sun is going down or to know if your prey is sick or healthy, and to be able to tell a vampire from a mortal, immortals are more intuned to the quickening it's self we can tell many things as we get older about a person by their quickening, how old they are if they are immortal or not, and how much power this has person is. For most immortals for about 1,000 years that's all they can do unless they are trained to do more, but for twins the powers, the ancient ones develop whether they are trained or not start to come out at about 150 years and they will keep adding throughout the rest of the twins life." "What are these powers, and what does it have to do with me?" Asked Natalie. "The powers are based on the quickening, and until recently was believed to steam from the taking of another immortals quickenings. Heightened sensibility to others around you, the ability to help the sick and dying with their pain, being faster and stronger, and most of our six sense is heightened to the point where we can tell if a female is caring a immortal child," Michael stopped for a moment, as if deciding on how he should go on from that point. "Natalie, in immortals those who bond have a power that no others due and we only recently learned of this, the power to have a child, but that is not the only power bondlyings share and join their quickenings and their memories, so that you have all of Nick's powers and memories and he has yours. Their are those right now who think that it is the twins fault, that their game is over and would do anything to get it back, and since they believe that they will inherit your power they will try to kill you." "Why are twins so powerful," asked Nick. "Because we share the same quickening, it's believed that when the quickening has to increase to compensate for two bodies instead of one, it keeps growing at an excellerated rate. That is also the reason that twins tend to bond more often, then immortals they need more than anyone else, someone to help them balance their power." "You spoke of a change in the immortal community?" Nick asked his stomach was twisting around in circles, at the very thought of the power he possessed and had never realized, and he found that he really didn't want it. "Recently, it has come to light, in the shape of the stroll what the phrase 'there can be only one' comes from. Apparently it was the one of the lines in a poem at the time, by a young immortal girl, right before the massacre. That as she says almost destroyed our entire memory. She apparently according to the scroll, would go around to people before she to was found and killed and say 'there can be only one' to mortals. Apparently she went crazy, and in her eyes she was cruising the people who had destroyed her people." "And she nearly wiped out her own in the process." Nick whispered. "Yes, with all her rage she was unable to realize or remember how fragile the entire population can be, and how those words could be taken. She didn't realize it until it was to late to do anything about, the game had begun and it couldn't stop, until a young immortal named Richie Ryan found it at a pawn shop." Julia Freewoman - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 15:38:32 -0700 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER:Do You Remember Me 18/19 To: FKFIC-L@psuvm.psu.edu Disclaimers in part 1. Do You Remember Me 18/19 "How are children conceived?" Nick asked, his voice finally returning after the revelation, he still didn't understand it all, but he was beginning to get a better grasp of it. "A bit of planning and a bit of luck," Michael said. "What is that suppose to mean?" asked Natalie. Emily for the first time in the discussion, spoke up, "it means that first you have to learn each others cycles. Immortals don't have a population decrease, it is keep at a constant population, by part of the quickening finding a pregnant mortal and changing the baby. The cycles are natural occurrences in all beings." "You mean like a menstrual cycle for the female?" Asked Natalie. "Yes, but for immortals it is a little more complicated, bondlyings are the only beings whose cycles tend to run in unison, once they have been bonded for a couple of years, but to have a child you have to conceive exactly and I do mean exactly when the egg is dropped no sooner no later, and your quickening has to be at full strength." "Do you mean by conceive that we have to be....," Nick trailed off his face flushing red. "Yes, that's exactly what I mean." Said Emily. Both Michael and Emily sensed that Nick and Natalie would need some heart to heart with someone, other than their mate about this, someone who had been throughout this already. "Nick, why don't we go outside for a moment." Nick got up to follow Michael, while Emily scooted closer to Natalie. "Now, how the hell am I going to do that? Right." Emily said. "Yes, and I also keep thinking shouldn't we even try, I mean it's guaranteed that this child will be immortal. What if it doesn't like being immortal, or what if it has problems controlling it's powers the other children will notice." "Natalie, listen. When Michael and I first discovered that we could have children, we both had those same kind of questions, let alone the fact that we thought we couldn't do it, but you know what? It's possible, and Michael and I realized something else, we all at one point or another want to be something else, it's how the parents act that decides how the child will behave." "It's possible then?" "I'm one month pregnant." "Does Michael know?" "Yes, he's the one who told me." ************************ "What right do I have to bring another life into this world. Right?" Michael said. Nick turned to his brother, they had always known each others troubles, this time was no exception. "But, do I? That child will grow up different, what if it's powers isolate it from it's peers, and the moving, that's no life for a child, and I don't know when my quickening is at full strength let alone the exact moment Natalie releases an egg." "Nick, this child will grow up loved, and I don't know any immortal child who doesn't grow up a little different from all the other children, whether the parents are immortal or mortal, the child is different. The right you do have is to hope for a better future, many of the ancient quickenings have been lost to do the massacre or the hunters, they where unable to find a female with child. We not only need to bring our race's population up again, we need to renew, to teach our people the ways of peace, and ultimately it's the parent who has the biggest effect on the child, not the world around it." "Is it even possible?" "It took Emily and myself two years after we discovered that it was possible, to be able to conceive, she is now one month pregnant." "I guess our people do need a new beginning, and this time we will not build it on hatred." Julia Freewoman - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR. Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 15:49:24 -0700 Reply-To: Julia Freewoman Sender: Forever Knight TV show stories From: Julia Freewoman Subject: XOVER:DO You Remember Me 19/19 To: FKFIC-L@psuvm.psu.edu Here's the last part!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd really like to know what you thought of it, oh by the way all of the theories in this story and history are going to stay pretty much the same in most of my stories even if it's not on the 'Do You Remember Me' time line. The song at the end is written by me, well Emily in my story, and it's kind of a hello to Fluer and Lacroix. Disclaimers in part one. Do You Remember Me 19/19 Epilogue. 3 months later. The trains whistle blew. Michael turned toward his sister, "you're sure that you and Lucien won't come with us?" "I'm sure," said Fluer. "There is a lot that the vampire community needs to learn, and we are just the two to teach it, my place is here, and yours is in Europe." "I know, it's finally calmed down there enough so that cubs aren't being followed everywhere they go, by nervous teachers, but we have a long way to go before any kind of balance can be restored, but this time we are going to get it right. Good-bye and write me once in awhile, won't you." Michael turned toward the train, and Emily. Nick turned to Lacroix, his tormentor, master, and father they had a relationship that seemed intent on staying, even through the change of heart and form. "You're sure that your not coming with us?" "No, Nicholas for once this is your battle and not mine, mine is here, where the head enforcer office is now, but I will miss you my son." "Irony seems to like me Lacroix our promise 'a life for a life' we never thought that if would end up like this, with the two of us parting ways a equals, instead of prot=E9g=E9 and master." "It may not be my people=92s way, but it is yours. Irony does seem to like you, all the things you did that seemed against your nature, where with the nature that you where born to embrace whether you knew of it or not. I wish you well my son." "And I wish you well my father, and good luck with the community your going to need it." Nick turned toward the train, Natalie and his destiny. ***************************** The train past out of sight, of mortal and finally immortal and vampire eyes, and Lacroix and Fluer left. They both knew that the road that Michael and Nicholas had chosen was a dangerous one, but so was the one they where about to embark on, but at least they had somewhere to start. For those four, they where about to walk into a confused and disorganized society, and they hoped to bring order to it. Maybe after, he and Fluer had made their announcement to the enforcers, they would offer some help, but there was always the chance that this would take awhile. ********************** MY PAYERS ARE WITH US, BOTH by Emily de Brabant We parted ways that day,=20 by he side of the train,=20 both of us where heading toward the great unknown,=20 I'm calling you over a distance,=20 not because we where lovers,=20 but simply because I want to tell you,=20 that my prayers are with us, both. I don't how you=92re doing,=20 I don't if you've succeed or if you=92ve fallen, all I know is that I miss, and I hope you miss too. I'm calling you over a distance, not because we where lovers, but simply because I want to tell you, that my prayers are with us, both. We're both searches, since the day we where born,=20 sometimes went in the same direction, sometimes we didn't, but I just wanted to say my prayers are with you I'm calling you over a distance, not because we where lovers, but simply because I want to you, that my prayers are with us, both. Julia Freewoman - julia@humboldt1.com Nick&NatPacker Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and matyrdom becomes spiritual pride-Martin Luther King, JR.