S layerHawk Part 2:
The Slayer Met

By: Kate R.
Colonel Mike Merino, known to the general population of Limbo Galaxy as Bluegrass, landed the Miraj in Hawk Haven’s hanger.  He was in shock of all that he’d learned tonight and he had no idea of what to do with the information.  Will had fought vampires.  Gentle SteelWill.  Bluegrass  never knew Will was capable of the kind of violence he’d witnessed tonight. He never knew Will could move like he had tonight either.  Bullets, wooden stakes, a sword, knives, vials of Holy water; Bluegrass didn’t know Will could use such primitive weapons.  And the motorcycle - Bluegrass was in awe of  that.  Will rode it as if it was second nature to him.  Bluegrass was amazed by the riding skill as well as the fighting skills.  What he had most  noticed however were the physical and wardrobe changes.  A long black duster,  black jeans, black boots, gray T-shirt, black fingerless gloves, long hair,  pony-tail, black sunglasses, and the hoop earring.  From what Bluegrass had seen, the earring was gold.

Bluegrass got out of his plane and went to the commander’s office. Maybe Commander Stargazer could help him understand what he’d seen.   Or at least make sense of it.  Bluegrass knocked on the door and heard a terse “Come” from the commander.  He went in as SteelHeart and Quicksilver were leaving.  Bluegrass stood at attention until the commander told him to  sit down.  Bluegrass sat, knowing he looked shocky.

”What did you see out there, Tex?”  Stargazer asked knowingly after he soundproofed his office.  

Bluegrass swallowed hard, took a deep breath and told him all of it beginning with him going out on patrol.   “I thought I was dead,” he said as he recounted the attack.  ”Then there was this thud on my wing and this really big guy was fighting them off.  It was odd because I heard what sounded like a gunshot from those old movies. I heard about six gunshots actually.  Then this black blur was fighting with the things that attacked me.  I didn’t know it was a man until he stopped and the dust settled around him. I mean that literally, by the way. The things turned to dust when he rammed the wooden stakes through ‘em.”

“Who was it Tex?” Stargazer asked.  Bluegrass shook his head.

“You ain’t gonna believe me sir.  I barely believe it myself.  He was a big  guy.  I mean tall and broad shouldered.  Not nearly as broad as he was the  last time I saw him though...”

“I take it you saw Will tonight, Bluegrass?  How did he look?”

“Well, aside from morbid.  Lotta black he was wearing anyway.  He looked good. Different, really different.”

“Tell me colonel, how different?”

“Well, sir he was human.  Completely human.  He said this stuff is exo-skeletal.  Oh, and he’s married.”

“To who, Bluegrass?”  Commander Stargazer asked curiously.  He’d known when he’d let Will go with the immortals that there was a chance of this happening but he hadn’t expected it so soon.   

“His wife’s name is Amanda.  She’s nice looking lady but she looked too wild for my taste.  Anyway, he rides a black motor -  hey, what’s so funny?”  Commander Stargazer had begun to laugh hard at that.  He knew how much of a handful Amanda could be.   

“It’s nothing you said Bluegrass,” Stargazer said to him.  ”It’s just I’m seeing the irony in this.  Will was the gentlest of you all.  He was the quietest and in some ways the shyest.  Amanda is anything but.  It must be an odd match for them to be together.”

“They looked comfortable to me.  Besides, he don’t seem quite so shy to me no more.  His whole manner was different and he spoke different too.  Not one football metaphor.  And he let someone pierce his left ear.  I think he was wearing a gold hoop earring,” Bluegrass said. He blushed a little thinking about the kiss Will had exchanged with his wife.  Commander Stargazer nodded to himself at the list of things Bluegrass gave him.

“I suspect we’ve only seen the surface changes.  I think we may see even more changes before he - . His left ear is What?!?!”

“Uh, pierced sir,” Bluegrass repeated.  ”He was wearing a gold hoop earring.”

Commander Stargazer nodded as he digested that information.  ”What did he tell you, Tex?”

“He said not to go out alone no more.  He seemed adamant about it.”

“You take Krysten with you from now on Tex.  I wont risk any of you.  If the Slayer says don’t go out alone anymore, you don’t go out alone anymore.”

“Slayer, sir? What’s the Slayer?”

“The Slayer is a person who can and does fight vampires.  Until Will, the Slayer was always female but I guess with hybrid vampires, we need a Hybrid Slayer who is capable of dealing with them.  Will is strong enough to deal with them so he must have been chosen for that reason.

“So he’s really doing his job out there?  I think I understand why he lives out there now.  Quick and ‘Heart would never understand would they?”

“No, Tex,” Stargazer said.  ”Neither of them would. You’ve heard some of the things Steel Heart has called Will since he’s been gone.  Unless I miss my guess, she’s been that vindictive to him for a long time and he was just used to it.  Or trained by his family to take it.  Whichever, the longer he’s away from her, the better the chance of him finding himself instead of being the person he was abused in to being.”

“I take it he’s not coming back for awhile?” The Commander asked after a few minutes of silence.

“He said he doubted he’d ever come back here permanently.  That he was happy where he was, doing what he was doing.”  Bluegrass told him and sighed.

“All right Tex,” The commander said.  ”You get to bed and rest.  I think this station is going to be hopping for a while now and also since you ran into him out there; you get to be liaison to him.  And his family.”

Bluegrass headed down to the hanger to clean up the Miraj when he noticed Stee Heart sniping at Krys.  He began to get an idea from that about what Will’s life had been like before he’d left.  Bluegrass missed the buffer Will provided for them between the team and his sister’s vindictiveness, but he was glad Will was away from her.  No one should have to put up with the kind of shit Emily was spouting off right now. Bluegrass decided to shut her up and save Krysten at least one headache.  He walked over and put himself between them.

“Your supposed to be on watch right now, ‘Heart,” he said to her.  Emily Heart looked at him like he was crazy and he just looked right back.   “If I were you, I’d get myself up to the control room before QuickSilver realizes you’re playin’ hooky.  We all know what kinda mood he’s been in since your brother left on that Special Assignment for the commander.”  Bluegrass turned away and then turned back snapping his fingers.

“Reminds me ‘Heart,” he began.  ”I saw Will tonight.”

SteelHeart spun around to grab him.

“WHAT?!  Why didn’t you bring him back?  He belongs here, with me,” SteelHeart yelled.

“He said he didn’t want to come back. That he’s happy where he is, doing what he’s doing. ‘Sides, he ain’t finished his job yet.  He also said something about you taking your pissy attitude and going to hell.  After what I heard you say about him last night, I’m beginning to understand why he said it.”  Bluegrass told her. “’Sides which fact it ain’t my job to live his life for him and it ain’t yours neither.  You and the lieutenant had better leave off badgering the commander about sending for him and putting Quicksilver in his place.  Quick wouldn’t last five minutes doing what Will is doing.”

SteelHeart left to do her shift on watch and Krysten looked at Bluegrass.  “I’ve never met Will, have I, Mike?”  She asked him.  Bluegrass shook his head no and led her over to the Miraj to sit for a few minutes.   

“Tell me why he left Mike.  You said you saw him tonight. Is he doing all right?  You guys never told me what kind of Special Assignment he was on,” Krys said to him.  Bluegrass smiled and touched her shoulder.

“Will is Emily’s twin brother.  He was quieter and nicer than she is.  He also had the patience of a saint to put up with her.  What she says to you isn’t half what she called him I think. Anyway, we didn’t tell you because none of us knew what he was doing.  I found out the hard way tonight.  He ended up rescuing me from some vampires,” Bluegrass told her, hoping she wouldn’t laugh. Krysten stared at him for a minute and nodded.

“Then it was true what they said in my time.  Vampires are real and someone has to fight them?”

“Yeah Krys, it’s true.  I saw proof of that tonight myself.  The commander wants you to go out with me from now on.  Will said he don’t want to have to rescue any of us again.”   
Krysten nodded and the two went up to the mess hall to get something to eat.   While they ate Bluegrass filled her on Will and what his job was before he left.  He’d been gone a Limbo Year before Krysten came.

Krysten listened to what Mike told her about SteelWill while they ate.  He sounded like a nice guy in Krysten’s book.  
 
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Three days later, BlueGrass was walking down the hall outside of the commander’s office when he saw a short girl with a long, honey-brown braid coming out.  She was looking for someone when her eyes lit on him and she smiled.

“You’re Bluegrass, right?”  She asked him.  Bluegrass nodded and smiled charmingly.

“Yep, I am,” he told her.  ”But my friends call me Tex.”

“Will said you were a smoothie, Tex,” She replied.  ”Speaking of the big guy, he told me to give this to you.”  The girl handed him a small black box, about the size of a pager.

“What is it?” Bluegrass asked.  The girl grinned and pointed out a red button.

“It’s for emergencies,” she told him.  ”You get in trouble and you hit this little button and the cavalry will come to the rescue.  Usually Will is the cavalry and whoever is on patrol with him.”

“Sounds like fun. Why give it to me and not the lieutenant or his sister?”

“You should know that by now.  He trusts you not to call unless it really is an emergency,” the girl told him. Bluegrass nodded and looked at her closely.

“Who are you?” He asked confused.

“I’m part of the cavalry,” she said.  ”But my friends call me Jenny.  See you around, Tex,” She said as she walked off down the hall.  Bluegrass watched her go with shock and surprise.  He had never seen anyone just walk into Hawk Haven before.  This girl was special, apparently.  And she knew the Commander obviously.  The man himself came out of his office a minute later and looked at Bluegrass.

“You met Jenny I take it?  She’s kind of an adopted Niece. Walk with me a minute, Tex, and I’ll explain it to you.”

Bluegrass and the commander walked around HawkHaven.

“Jenny and the people Will is with now are called Immortals.  I think you know the legend of how earth won the Sladian war.  I’m going to tell you that it wasn’t a legend; the war was really won by the man who sacked Rome.  He was called the General by the high Military because he never gave them his name.   I know for a fact that he isn’t related to Quicksilver because the General only had seven children and one of them is dead.  It’s an Immortal thing.   They have to be 200 to have children.  Anyway, Will is also one of the General’s children and so is Jenny.  You met her just now.”

“Is Emily?” Bluegrass asked.

“Yes,” the commander replied.  ”But the twins were raised in our century and where Will retained his father’s personality, Emily became what our time tends to make of certain people.  Will was always kind as far as I could tell.”

“He isn’t to Vampires sir,” Bluegrass pointed out.

“He is to certain Vampires, Tex.  It’s only the evil ones he kills.  Those that would take over the galaxy and make all living people a feast for themselves or slaves.  Will is also the one who fights demons.  We haven’t come across any of those yet but I’m sure there are some out here.”

“Is Will an Immortal?”  Bluegrass asked.

“Yes,” The commander replied.  ”And so is Emily.  I think you may all be and that’s why you all survived modification.”

“So some people did die, sir?”  Bluegrass asked.  Stargazer nodded sadly.   

“I think I missed something in the application process.  Like my memories of the armor aren’t complete.  I don’t know why that is, but I’m beginning to suspect. Anyway, now you know why Will is out there and I’ve given you an idea of the kinds of people he lives and works with. Can you understand why I think he’s better off with them?”

“Yes sir, I can,” Bluegrass told him.  ”I heard some of the things Emily’s called him and I understand now why he was always so quiet.  I think she wants to control him - “

“She does, Tex,” the commander told him.  ”And she can’t now which is why she’s been worse to Krysten lately.  She knows he’s out of her reach because she can’t get a lock on him.  I think that’s the Immortals of the Joining shielding him.”

“The Joining, sir?” Bluegrass asked confused. Stargazer sighed and sat on one of the seats in the hallway.

“There used to be wars among the immortals for power before Jenny and Richie came along. Twin immortals.  Like Will and Emily, but completely different in how they treat each other.  Anyway, these two shared a Quickening.  Like our twins do but again, differently.  At some point, they pulled in three other immortals and then began to add others. Starting with the man known in history books as the General who was a catholic priest at the time.  With the Joining, it was discovered that a mortal who was the child of an immortal and had a half-activated buzz could be made into a full immortal.  One child of Jenny and Richie’s adopted uncle was dying of Radiation poisoning from a Neo-Genics experiment gone horribly wrong.  The experiment partially activated his latent immortality and between Jenny and Connor they brought him fully online as an immortal.  Connor was his father.  The Joining has also been used to heal shattered souls and end three thousand year old grudges.  It’s also reunited teachers with students and Parents with children.”

Bluegrass whistled and sat lost in thought for a few minutes. “So Will is finally where he belongs, huh?”  He asked.

The commander nodded and they went back up to the commander’s office where there was a woman waiting to meet him. Joe Dawson recognized her as Edward Stargazer’s daughter but he didn’t know what to tell her about himself.  He had had Stargazer’s memories put in his head when he was first brought here but he didn’t know anything about the man’s family.  This began an interesting verbal match between the two of them seeing as how he had to act as if he was sorry for leaving her mother when he hadn’t even known the woman.  He was saved by the call for help from a freighter in space heading towards Bedlama.   Creatures both the commander and Bluegrass recognized as Vampires were attacking the freighter.

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The Silver Hawks arrived at the scene to find the freighter being attacked and breached by Vampires.  None of the weapons that the guards had seemed to be doing much to stop them.  The Silver Hawks joined the fight but soon found themselves hopelessly out matched.  A least until the first wooden bullet hit a vamp.  Bluegrass looked up with absolute relief.  He didn’t know all the people heading for the fight, but he did recognize Will and Amanda from three days ago.

“Thank God,” he thought to himself as the new arrivals began hacking the vampires to pieces with shiny swords.  Bluegrass heard a roar and watched as two very big animals joined the fight as well. One was a back Jaguar and it was HUGE. The other was a silver Wolf.  Not nearly as big as the jag but still bigger than average.  The animals did as much damage as the people to the vamps.  Suddenly from out of the freighter, came a petite, blond, girl. She had a vampire by the throat as she wrestled it to the ground.

“Stake!” she yelled.  Bluegrass watched Will toss her one from his belt.   The girl grinned and staked it hard.  It turned to dust.  Others from the ship were also attacking the vampires.  Some had fangs and one even had a face like the attackers but he was protecting a smallish girl.  He was swinging a pipe at the vampires hard as he knocked a few heads off and Bluegrass saw that the method worked as well as staking and wooden bullets.

“Well,” he thought to himself as he saw the different methods of Vamp killing being displayed.  ”This is certainly educational - “ He was knocked out of the Hotseat at that point and fell until a vice-like grip around his wrist stooped his free fall.  He looked up sheepishly into the face of the same man who had saved him last time.

“Hi, Will,” he said. Will laughed and pulled him up behind him onto the bike. “This is getting to be habit forming, Tex,” he said as they went back to the hot seat.  ”Have to see about asking Connor to make you set of your own wings.  Don’t touch anything.  The triggers are hair pulls.”

Bluegrass nodded as they reached the hot seat and Will deposited him in it. “Get yourself a seat belt, too, Tex,” he said as he turned the bike into the fight again. He went after the nearest vampire with the gun that had fired wooden bullets.  The vamp turned to dust.  Will then threw a knife of some kind at a demon-looking think that shrieked before it died.  Bluegrass briefly wondered what was in the knife to cause it.  Will had also thrown some small silver throwing stars at the vamps he couldn’t reach at once.  They howled in pain and the closest vamp killer took them down.  All but the ones with fangs went after those and Bluegrass realized it was something on whatever Will had thrown that caused the reaction in the vamps.

After the fight, which didn’t last long once the strange group had arrived, the two teams stared at each other.  Will pretty much ignored his sister as he went about checking the passengers for bites or other injuries.

"Any injuries?"  The petite blond asked.  Will shook his head no and looked up at her.  He was slammed with a sense of Déjà vu as he looked at her.  He knew her, from a long time ago.  She smiled back at him and looked towards the freighter.

"Hey, Xander," she called.  "You're old friend from when you and Anya were doing the baby sitting thing is here."

A dark haired young man dropped out of the freighter next.  He looked at Will and grinned.

"Hey, you actually lived long enough to grow up.  Cool.

Will turned at a vicious send from his sister.  He smiled blandly and went back to what he was doing.

"That could be considered annoying if I cared enough to look at her," he said casually to Connor. Will picked up his Leather trench coat off the ground where he'd dropped it when he'd gone to hand to hand combat earlier.  He looked at his former teammates and sighed.

"Easy or hard?" he asked.  Everyone backed up so he knew they were opting for easy.  Will knew his tendency towards mass violence had probably upset a few of them.
Will noticed a few new faces as he began to gather his salvageable, reusable equipment together.  Will was about to turn away when his sister grabbed his arm.  He looked down at her coldly.

"Let go of me NOW!"  He growled angrily.  "I am not a toy to be grabbed."

"You heard him Emily," a cold voice said.  "Let him go."  She turned and found herself facing a girl with a long honey brown braid.  The girl forced her to let go of Will's arm and back up.  It was obvious to anyone that the girl didn't like Steel Heart at all

"You okay, son?" a tall man asked.  Will looked at him and nodded gratefully.

"Fine dad," Will said.  "Thanks for the shield."

The tall man nodded and began to help Will pick up the pieces he could re-use.  The smallish, dark haired girl bounded over to Will at the same time he received a message from Amanda about who the girl was.  She jumped for his arms and Will caught her easily.

"Hi daddy," she said happily.  "I'm Dawn.  Your step daughter."

"Hello Dawn my step daughter," Will replied amusedly.  "How are you?"

Dawn giggled and tucked her head under his chin.  Will became aware of his sister standing behind him so he sighed and turned around reluctantly to face her.

"Make it fast Em," he said to her.  "I have to go in about five minutes."

"You aren't going anywhere Will." she replied coldly.  "Except back to Hawk Haven with me.  Where you belong."

"Wanna bet?"  A woman with short, dark hair asked.  Emily found herself surrounded by people with drawn swords.

"Will goes where he wants to go, bitch," the same girl with the long braid said.  "He doesn't belong to you."

"It's okay guys," Will said to the group.  "I'm used to her behavior."  Will turned his back on her.  Emily's eyes narrowed but it wasn't Will who responded to the black send.  It was a man with only one arm.  He reacted like he'd had a bolt of white hot metal pushed into his back.  The people surrounded him and Will turned on Emily with cold fury in his eyes.

"Don't you ever do that again," he said icily.  "The next member of my family who is hurt by one of your spiteful little attacks is going to hurt you.  Dad, is Curt all right?

"Yes Will," the tall man replied.  "He's fine, just a slight headache."

"Mmm," Will replied. "Must be his empathy.  Left him wide open to that, Jenny, no.  Despite my anger at her, Emily is as much my sister as you and Richie are my siblings.  I can't hate her.  I do still love her."  

"How can you still lover her when she obviously hates you?"  Jenny asked.  Will shook his head.

"She doesn't hate me Jen," he answered.  "It's involved and when I have more time, I'll tell you all about it."

Will again turned to leave.  This time no one stopped him.  The woman with short, dark hair followed him.  Will heard his sister's thoughts as they left.  They amounted to Be careful.  He smiled softly to himself.  

I always am, he sent back to her gently.  And I don't hate you.  Regardless of what life has made either of us.

The send was private so no one else heard it but he knew she did.  She heard everything he sent to her.  She always had.

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After the two left, Commander Stargazer looked at the group of immortals in front of him.  "Any one care to tell me what you all are doing out here?  I thought you lived beyond our boundaries."

"Normally we do, Little Boy," Methos said cheerfully.  "But it seems that you had a problem of the undead variety and we had to meet our guests here.

"Yes, your guests.  No one bothered to tell me that the others would be coming out here for awhile."

"Oops," Methos said irreverently.  Commander Stargazer just looked at him.

"If you weren't so much older than me, I'd pop you one."

"Sure you would Joe," Methos said. "Sure you would."

"You have absolutely no respect for people with rank do you?" Quicksilver asked.  Methos shook his head and turned back to the commander.  "We have to go now, Joe,"

Methos told him. "We'll be in touch."

"Billy, Jason," Dawn called.  "We're ready to go."

Commander Stargazer watched as Dawn's two life mates dropped out of the plane.  One was dark like his father, Duncan MacLeod.  The other was like his own father and yet different.  He seemed to be half shadow.  After a minute, he was a normal looking again.  Billy L. Cranston and Jason Lee-Scott MacLeod stood by Dawn.  They followed the others to bikes and got on behind them.  The immortals and good vampires left the Silver Hawks Jurisdiction and returned to a place in no man's land called El Shaban Y Tenko Greerma.  Which loosely translated into The Place of Eternal Rest.  The Silver Hawks returned to Hawk Haven XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

"Who the hell are you," Aurora Stargazer demanded.  And why the hell wasn't Sgt. Steel-Will with this team?"

"For all intents and purposes, Ms. Stargazer, I am your father.  You can blame Earth for it too.  I have all of his memories and thoughts as well as my own.  And Will is out doing his real job."

"What real job?" She asked.

"The job that let him know we were in trouble.  I don't have to explain it to Earth and I don't have to explain it to you.  When you can be civil about things, come back and we'll talk some more.  I am not your father and it is not my fault he left you and your family and I will not take any crap about it.  Is that understood?  I do however have his memories and thoughts so when you want to discuss those in relation to your family, I'll be here.”

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Steel Heart looked out at the stars while the argument between the commander and Aurora heated up. She was surprised but also pleased with her brother. He'd done what he was always meant to do despite their foster parents attempts to destroy him. She thought back on what she'd done and felt some remorse. Still, he'd done well where he'd gone and she hoped he stayed there until he was ready to come back.

"Hey 'Heart," Blue Grass said coming up behind her. "Thinkin' 'bout Will?"

"Yeah," she said softly. "I didn't understand his destiny until I saw him tonight and he looked so?complete."

"You should try talking to him sometime honey," Blue Grass said. "He's full of surprises."

"D-Do you think he wants to talk to me?"

"I'm sure he does Emily. He would have completely ignored you if he didn't."

Blue Grass left her looking out at the stars and thinking. Maybe, she thought. Maybe I should.


To Be Continued...

Disclaimer: I own none of the characters.  The characters of Aurora Stargazer  and Krysten Barter belong to Lady MoonHawke and Lady Razorsharp.  The  character of Jenny MacLeod belongs to Mac Xavier. All three were borrowed with  Permission of the owners.  The Characters from Highlander belong  to Davis/Panzer Productions and Republic Pictures.  The characters of the  Sentinel belong to Pet Fly Productions.  The Characters of Poltergeist the  Legacy belong to Sci-Fi channel. The Characters of Buffy The vampire Slayer belong toJoss Whedon; the characters of the X-Files belong to Chris Carter.  Diana Tregarde and Andre Le Brel belong to Mercedes Lackey.  As does  the concept of Guardianship as I’ve used it. The characters of Kung Fu The  Legend Continues belong to Warner Home Entertainment; the characters from the  Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers belong to Saban.  The Characters from  Spiderman belong to the Marvel entertainment group.

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