Chris's Chronicles Book 2: Part 1:
Miracles and heartbreaks...
1792: What is now Arizona

Jordan and Will had been married almost 50 years, and had spent that time in such a happy bliss, that nothing could destroy their happiness. They were like 2 young newlyweds without a care in the world. They had spent the time traveling across the world, and decided to settle in the western part of the New World. It was the closest thing Will had to remind him of home without being there. Though he had also built a small house for them in Mexico as close to where he grew up as he could without it actually being on the land.

Jordan and Will also wanted to have children more than anything. They knew it was impossible, but they had still gone to every medicine man, cacique, and conjurer they could find in hopes that maybe there was some way. When all else had failed, and they had given up hope, a miracle had happened.

Unbelievably Will had never made it through Wales in his life, and Jordan was happy to return to her place of origin to show her husband where she grew up. Knowing it would help her continued healing, she showed him where Alexander had died and where Mars had beat and raped her. While they were there, they had found three orphans, two boys and a girl. They took them in, and now two years later, the children had come to love Jordan and Will as their own parents.

"Mamma!" Kathleen, the youngest of the three children. She had just turned ten, and was very short and awkward for her age. "Charles is chasing me with the sword again!"

Jordan looked out the window of the ranch Will had built for them, and sighed. She put down the dish she was washing and walked out the door. "Charles Michael leave your sister alone and put that sword up. You know your not allowed to play with it."

"Yes mamma." He said as he walked over and handed Jordan her sword. She playfully whacked him on the rear with the hilt.

"You guys go clean up and prepare for supper. Your father will be home soon." She said. The children nodded and came inside. Moments later, Jordan felt Will's buzz and smiled. She saw him ride into the barn and she went out to greet him.

"Welcome home." She said as she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him.

"I am glad to be home. How was your day?" he said as he let his horse loose into a stall and put his arm around her waist and they walked towards the house.

"I am concerned about Kathleen. The boys are always picking on her, and she can not defend herself."

"That is natural, she is at an awkward age. Give her time, she will learn to stand up for herself."

Jordan stopped walking and looked at him. "Will, she is not one of us, none of them are. She does not have the instincts we do when it comes to fighting. Maybe we should tell them."

"Why? I see know reason why they need to know."

"What are we going to tell them twenty years from now, that we look the same age as we do now, and they look older than us. Alan is already at the age of 16, and he should be thinking of marriage. I have seen the way he looks at Sarah Ann."

"Fine, we can teach her to fight, but I still see no need for them to know what we are unless they ask it of us. Besides, I think I have found the one we should give the sword to." He said as he smiled. The third sword that Will had made when they were married hung over the fireplace. They had decided to wait to give it to the children until they felt the time was right.

Jordan saw the look in his eye and smiled. "You are thinking of Kathleen are you not?"

"It would be a good way to teach her how to fight. The boys already know how, but I guess if her mamma is such a good fighter, then her mamma can teach her."

"Are you saying I am better than you?" she said as she cocked and eyebrow and gave him a wicked but innocent grin.

"I would never admit such a thing." He said as he kissed her. They walked back into the farmhouse in time to see Charles tying Kathleen to a chair and Alan holding the extra sword at her neck. Jordan looked at Will with the *I told you so* look.

"Enough!" Will said. "Boys, go to your rooms and stay there until I say otherwise."

"But dad..." Alan protested.

"Now!" Jordan said as she untied Kathleen who was crying and kicking. The boys did as they were told and Kathleen, once untied, started to run after them. "Kathleen, come here."

"But mamma." She stopped and watched the boys head to their rooms. She turned around and walked back towards the kitchen. "Why do they pick on me? Just because I am smaller than they are doesn't give them the right to do mean things to me."

"Let us go outside and talk. Your dad will take care of things with the boys."

The two women walked outside, and sat down on the porch. Jordan put her arm around daughter and smiled. "Are you going to be ok?"

Kathleen nodded. "I usually am. I want to learn to fight. Please mamma. I know women aren't suppose to fight, but sometimes the boys scare me."

"Your father and I were discussing that and we decided it is a good idea. I will start training you tomorrow."

"You?"

"You would be surprised at what I know and at what I can do. I want to tell you something, but you have to promise..." she stopped as she felt an unfamiliar buzz. Jordan stood up and looked away. She could see a man on a horse riding up towards the east side of the farm. "Go inside and tell your father to come out here." She said. Right as Kathleen entered the house, Will came out.

"Have you seen him?" he asked.

"The east side. Here he comes."

Will drew his sword and walked towards the fence. Jordan stayed on the porch and watched as her husband talked to the man and then hugged him. She walked towards them as they started laughing.

"And this must be the beautiful Jordan." The man said as he kissed her hand. "You are even lovelier than Will spoke about."

Jordan eyed Will cautiously. This tall skinny man, had brownish hair, and an accent similar to her own, only more drawn out.

"Jordan, this is the man who I owe my life to. This is the man that told me what I was and trained me. Jordan, meet Methos."

"But you may call me Greg, as that is what I am going by these days."

"I am glad to finally meet you, Will has spoken of you often."

"I forgot to tell you I met Greg in town and invited him to dinner. I hope you don't mind."

Jordan shook her head. "Not at all. And since the boys will not be eating there will be more than enough. Come, I am sure by now supper is cold." She said as the three Immortals walked towards the farmhouse.

The next day

"She is really good." Greg said to Will as he watched Jordan try to teach Kathleen how to fight.

Will sighed. "Sometimes I think about the Final Gathering, if it came down between the two of us, who would win. I don't think I could fight her."

"You would have to. I know it's hard to imagine, but that is the way we live our lives and a risk we have to take."

Will nodded. "So, you never told me what brought you here. There must have been a reason."

"Actually there is. I was traveling through Mexico and I come bearing news."

"They ruins have been discovered, I know."

"Only parts of it have surfaced. Not really much. But they have found a journal by a priest that was there. He mentioned the place of where you died."

Will nodded again. "We were there when it was found and news spread."

Jordan stopped teaching and Kathleen went into the house. She walked over to the porch where the men were sitting. "She is a quick learner. I do not think the boys will be tormenting her anytime soon." She said as she sat down next to Will and took his hand.

"She has a good teacher." Methos said. "Rebecca taught you well."

"Will has also been an excellent teacher. So what were you two men talking about? Me I presume."

"My homeland. It is close to being discovered."

Jordan saw the pain in Will's eyes. As much as he would have loved to see the full beauty of it again, parts of him wished it would remain untouched and sacred.

"I remember the day the temple was built by..." He said as he starred off into space.

*Uxmal, around 590 AD

"The Alux has challenged the governor to a challenge of strength!" Will's father said as he entered the family hut. "Can anyone imagine that little dwarf full grown into a man in less than a year beating the governor. No one has been able to beat him."

Will had just turned 22, and laughed. "I am the strongest among our people and I have yet challenged the governor. When will the challenge take place."

"During the lunar eclipse in a 2 moon phase."

Two Weeks Later

"He did it! In one night, that Alux built a great temple!" Will's father said as he walked into the hut early one morning.

Will and his mother walked outside the hut and stood in awe as they stared at a huge pyramid with steep slopes. "Impossible!" his mother said. "Only a God could do that."

"That is what the Governor has said and so now there will be a fight to the death. The winner will become the new governor."

***

"What happened?" Methos asked.

"The dwarf won and became the ruler of the land. I wondered for a time if he was one of us, after I learned what I was, but it's unlikely. Though I was always given special treatment by him."

"You want to go home do you not?" Jordan asked. She could hear the quiver in his voice that he often had when he talked about what it was like.

"This is my home now, and I am happy. In time I will return, but until then, this is where I belong." He said as he stood up and walked into the house.

Jordan sighed and looked at Methos. "I wish there was something more I could do for him."

"You're doing all you can for him. He's dealing with the fact that everything he once knew is about to change. Once they start excavating the ruins, you know it'll never be the same."

"I know, but I wish he did not have to go through so much pain." The words he said on their honeymoon echoed through her mind. *But you're safe with me, and as long as you will have me, I will never let anything happen to you again.* She knew he meant it and she felt the same way towards him. He had taught her to live and love and had always been there when she needed him. But lately, he seemed so heart broken she felt she couldn't reach him.

"Maybe things will blow over in a while. After all, it could be anything they found. I doubt it was the pyramid." Methos said.

"I'm sure your right." She said some what distracted.

Methos knew she needed to get her mind of things. "Does he still have his penis pierced? I thought he was crazy when I first saw that thing." Jordan cracked a wide grin and nodded. She was trying not to laugh.

**"You and me both. I had never seen such a thing done to a person. Not there."

"I thought that would bring a smile to your face. You need to get your mind of things. How about fighting with me, just to see how good you really are?" he said as he gave her a cocky grin.

"Sure, why not." She said as they stood up and walked out into the fields.