Immortal's Holocaust: Part 4:
A week later.

"Uncle Joe?" Mary said as she walked out onto the porch. "I'm worried about Cat. No one has seen or heard from her in a week. Not since she found out about Duncan."

"Have you checked in with Megan? She is Cats Watcher so she should know something."

"Meg lost track of her a few days ago in California. I've checked the Watcher files and she hasn't been involved in a confrontation, so hopefully she still has her head."

"She can take care of herself. I'm sure she's fine. I know Cat pretty well, and sooner or later she'll turn up."

Mary sat next to Joe on the porch swing "I know Cat wasn't my responsibility, but both Cat and Meg are my best friends. When Meg's worried I'm worried. And with this war going on, Cat's not safe. What if she gets into trouble? Who will she go to for help? I wish we knew something definite. I wish we knew how to get in touch with her."

Joe put his arm around his goddaughter and smiled. "Cat's always into trouble. Watching Chris all this time, you should have figured that out by now." Joe wiped a tear from Mary's face. "If you're that concerned, I'll see what I can do. I may not be a Watcher anymore, but I can still pull a few strings. Will that make you feel better?" Mary nodded. "Ok, then let's go get some lunch, I'm hungry."

Later That Day- Paris

Cat returned to Paris for the first time since she had suffered her first death, to search for some answers. This is where it had started 25 years ago. It was her first experience into what she would soon become. She went to the Eiffel Tower and went to the spot where Franz had been beheaded on Cat's 15th birthday.

*** Paris, 25 years ago ***

Franz got the buzz, and looked around him and then at Cat. "Caitlynn, go and hide yourself, and don't come out until I say it's safe. If anything happens to me, pull the loose brick in the fireplace and take the letter you find to Duncan MacLeod. Go!"

Cat hid just in time. Jayden walked onto the observation deck where Franz was and looked around. "Where is the girl? I know she's here."

"What do you want with her, she means nothing." Franz asked.

"She means more to me than you think." he said as he took his sword out of his trench coat.

"It was you, wasn't it?" Franz asked. "You tried to kill her. You killed her mother and then you killed her father."

"Now I will kill her. I will kill you if I have to."

The two men who once trained together, now stood before each other ready to fight. The two raised their swords and began the battle. Both were strong, and the fight was long. Finally after an hour, Jayden knocked Franz down on his hands and knees. "Go ahead, finish what you've started. I trained you better than this."

"Tell me where the girl is, and I'll let you live."

"I'll never tell you."

"Then it comes to this." Jayden raised his sword and took his masters head. "There can be only one!" The quickening was strong and powerful. Three hundred and fifty years of power both good and evil escaped Franz's body and struck Jayden with a bolt of lightning.

***

Cat had no idea that night what had happened until a few days later when she became Immortal and Duncan explained things to her. A few months later, she took Jayden's head and his Quickening.

"I miss you Franz." She said as she placed a rose at the spot where Franz's head had fallen 25 years ago. "Nothing's the same anymore."

"It never is." Cat heard Franz's voice and looked around. She was alone, but she could hear him as if he was standing right next to her. "I am with you and always have been."

"I'm so scared and I feel alone."

"I know you are scared, but I am part of you and am here for you. When you took Jayden's head, you took in my power with his. It's not easy being what you are, but you have handled it well, as I know you will handle this war."

"But how? Ever since I was little, I've lost everyone I ever cared about. I had to leave the Safe Haven where I was where I had people that cared for me, because I couldn't hurt them any more. I wind up hurting everyone."

"You never hurt me." Came another familiar voice.

"Chris? I hurt you most of all. I let you down, and you suffered the ultimate price for me. It's all my fault."

"It is the war. We both knew we were not safe, and you can not blame yourself for something you had no control over."

"But it should have been me!"

"My Caitlynn," Franz said. "Everything happens for a reason. It was your destiny to live on."

"But why? You both have been around longer. You should've been the ones to live on, not me."

"Our Quickenings are part of you, and by that, we are living on." Chris answered.

"We are living through you. I know it is scary and confusing, these times, but you must keep the faith." Franz replied and the voices stopped.

Cat had learned after watching Duncan experienced the Dark Quickening, that the power you take carries the personality of that Immortal plus all the others they have taken. "Great, all I need now are voices inside my head."

An hour later, Cat left the Eiffel Tower and headed towards Duncan's barge. She still couldn't believe he was gone. She had found out by spying on her Watcher, Meg, that he had been beheaded in Paris by mortals. She couldn't believe of all people, Duncan would be one of those who fell victim to the war. She had to see it for herself, to have some sort of proof. After all this time, the barge still looks the same from the outside. As far as Cat knew, Duncan had never changed the way the barge looked, even after the fire. In the more than thirty years that he had owned the barge, the only thing that had changed was the furniture inside, and that was only when he felt like updating his styles.

Cat walked up the dock to the front door, and was about to knock, when the buzz hit her. "Duncan?!"