Highlander / Vorkosigan Saga: Potential Unfulfilled

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I think this is the fastest I've ever written a drabble - about ten minutes from start to finish, came out at 101 words before final editing. Highlander / Vorkosigan Saga crossover.

Spoilers for Barrayar



Potential Unfulfilled

Marcus L. Rowland

Count Vordarian didn't know he had the potential for immortality, of course. Under other circumstances Cordelia might have told him, trained him. But now her son was endangered - a son she could never have had before the invention of the uterine replicator.

There was little time for pity or remorse. As Bothari's blade came down, as his head rolled across the table, she felt the faint stirring of his quickening, snuffed before its time, and wished it could be otherwise. She whispered "there can be only one," put the head in her bag, and set off to end a war.

End

Notes: In the Highlander universe immortals can't normally have children. But it occurred to me that the uterine replicator might change that... That got me wondering why the first gift Cordelia bought on Barrayar was a sword, and the rest followed very easily.



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Comments

[azurelunatic]

The concept is stunning enough to knock a cackle out of me.

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

Hah. Awesome :)

[danceswithlife]

OOOHHHH! Cordelia as an immortal--totally logical idea. Loved it!

I've been eyeing the complete Highlander DVD collection for a while now, and then I noticed that it's not being produced anymore, and decided I did have to have it, so it's on its way to me. When I finish my thesis in a few months I look forward to watching every episode of it and Babylon 5 again.

BTW...I had a plot idea for a X Files/Highlander crossover, but never got it written. I don't follow fanfic that much (Bujold is an exception) so I don't know how many of those crossovers were written.

And again...wonderful drabble!

Lola

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

Color me fascinated! Cordelia is such an interesting combination of caring and absolutely ruthless. She would make an excellent Immortal.

[carbonel]

Okay, I feel better now. The first time I read this, I somehow skipped over the Vordarian name and read it as Vorkosigan. And I just couldn't believe that one.

I have trouble with the essential premise, though it works as a drabble. We've never heard tell of any pregnant Immortals, so it's probably not a matter of early miscarriages. And Miles was intended to be a body birth, so Cordelia had to have become pregnant in the usual way -- which Immortals can't do.

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

That is one of my favorite moments in fiction and I love this twist to it!