Edan’s Bountiful Blessings

By Donna and Abs

After the excitement caused by the rather spectacular arrival of Endora's twins settled down, everyone sat down at the tables laden with the bountiful fruits of Edan's first harvest. Even though it was a very tough act to follow, Methos still managed to rise to the occasion.  

"I don't know," he said slowly, "if I could have chosen a better event to symbolize this time and place." He waved his arm, encompassing the laden tables, and the even more laden women.  "Everything is just bursting with ripeness. And even the things that have already ripened," he stooped to pick up his son from Faia's arms, "are wonderful. This truly is a fertile paradise!" 

As he sat down, he looked across the table at his friend Duncan, who was seated next to the lovely Sarah Jo. The nurse was carrying the Highlander’s child inside of her, and pregnancy definitely suited her. Duncan grinned back at him and winked. He was always teasing Methos about his newfound fertility here on Edan. It seemed like everyone the Old Man slept with ended up pregnant!  

And that might have been so.  He had been the first into Edan, after all.  Methos grinned at the wink and then looked at Crystal. He also cast a furtive glance at Lupe when he thought no one was looking. 

Lupe was happily playing with her babies as those around her filled up a plate for her. As his eye roamed the tables further, he spotted Katherine, who was nursing her daughter, a blanket thrown over her shoulder for modesty sake. She smiled back at him. If it were true, that all women he slept with got pregnant, then the tiny girl under the blanket was also his! 

Unfortunately, he would never know for sure. At least in that case. He looked around some more, chuckling as he saw Doc Adams, one of his younger selves, slid in between the two women in his life.  If hair color was warmth, Doc certainly was well heated!  He wondered why that self was so attracted to redheads, then remembered some titan-tressed beauties he had once known.  The memories made him smile, and he silently forgave Doc his passion. 

He glanced over at the other doctors, who strangely enough, all looked like him! Giles was doing his best to keep his daughter from curiously buzzing over the table! He had attached a little harness of sorts to her dress, so at least she couldn't fly too far away from him.  

Well, he couldn't say the place was ordinary.  They were finally able to have children and some of those children would be...different than mortal children on Earth. But he sure wasn't going to complain - and he didn't think Giles would, either.  In fact, he suspected he and Melissa would be having more buzzing bees soon! 

Methos chuckled as he saw the now very tanned and relaxed looking vet, Tom Kirby, steal a kiss from the equally tanned wildlife biologist, Wyoming Davis. The two of them had just returned from Tom Kirby's enforced vacation at cove, and they both looked fit and healthy. Methos cocked his head, studying Wy for a moment. The woman was positively glowing, and he couldn't help but wonder if the two of them knew something that no one else did yet.  

He wouldn't have been surprised if they were going to add to the population as well!  He already knew there would be an addition to the army  - at least if you counted the offspring of the soldiers - since Larina and Dan Hagman (they had apparently eloped on Halloween) were also expecting! 

The thought of marriage made him smile again, thinking about all the weddings that had taken place and the ones planned for the near future. Even two of the priests had found women that they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with! He turned and glanced at the table where most of the clergy was seated. Father Philip was teasing his beautiful bride about something. She was pregnant with twins as a result of him trying to cool off in Endora's fountain! Thinking of Endora made him laugh out loud. If what she said was true, that vixen Amanda was now a walking time bomb!  

Next time she and Lancelot made love, she'd be caught! Then again, Duncan had said once that she was maternally deprived - and one had only to look at the way she acted around that horrendous Kenny to see that he was right! 

He looked at the other couple who had *caught* one of Endora's twins. Another Irish priest no less! The woman, Monica, he had seen around, but he didn't know too much about her yet. She wasn't fae, he knew that. And she wasn't Immortal. But there was something different about her and Joe's new singer, Tess, that he couldn't put his finger on just yet.  

Liam was Immortal, but he did not personally know him well; although he was a friend of Amanda's, the Amanda they had in town was from the past, and she did not seem to remember him.  From the short conversations Methos had had with him, he was very non-violent and devout.  At the same time, he was not overly critical of the married clergy, so perhaps there was a chance there! 

In fact, the only one that had been against allowing priests to marry had been the first to be tripped up! Looking over at Herrara and Hydra, he could see from the way they looked at each other they where deeply in love.  

Her middle was expanding at a greatly increased rate, but of course, Methos understood why!  With women having shorter pregnancies (at least the fae ones), the place was going to be populated *very* quickly!