Disclaimers: The characters are not mine

Notes Crossover over with CSI Miami and Highlander. Very small reference to another TV show as well. (Cupid)

Since he had no intention of staying in Seacouver any longer than was necessary he just parked the LTD outside Joes Blues Bar. The very same bar that he had met a man by the name of Methos in. Switching on the LTDs very unique alarm he headed towards the bar. He quickly walked over to the bar he ordered a beer and sat down. According to the sources he had questioned before coming to Seacouver the alien he was looking for visited the blues bar on an almost daily basis.

"So, I've not seen you in here before. Are you just visiting though or are you planning on staying," Joe asked. He had never seen the man before. A new person in town usually meant trouble and trouble was something he could do without.

"Visiting," jay replied unwilling to divulge any information to a man who he knew to be a watcher of immortals.

"Visiting anyone special," Joe asked there was something about the man he simply didn't trust.

"Not really, just happened to be in town and thought I would visit an old friend while I was here," Jay replied

"Well shouldn't you be visiting this friend instead of coming here for a drink," Joe asked as he turned towards his establishments entrance, were Duncan was currently walking though the door with Methos and a man he didn't know. The ma however did not appear to have any connection to the two immortals. All three men came over to the main bar and sat on barstools next to the stranger he had been speaking to.

"No," turning to the man who had sat down next to him and ignoring the two immortals he added "his already at this bar. It would be rude of me to walk away from him. So why Seacouver, what happened in Miami."

Narrowing his eyes at the Man in Black Ryan bit back the response of go fuck yourself and said; "Vacation. Miami at this time of year is to busy and I took a well deserved vacation. Why do you think I should have chosen another town?"

"No, Seacouver is ok, but I've heard stories about its high death rate and weird ass deaths," Jay said.

"A high death rate, weird ass deaths it's of the norm for me. So why are you here? I don't usually get a visit from one of you unless the old man gets a bug up his ass about an illegal in someplace it shouldn't be," Ryan said

"I'm not going to ask how you knew. I guess ya figured its you I have to take back, vacation over your needed back at work." Jay said fully aware that the other men seated at the bar were listening to the conversation he was having with the illegal.

"Screw work. I'm not going back and the old man can't force me. He did tell you I wasn't actually one of his illegals didn't he. Every damn time he pulls something like this it's because he believes I've turned my back on my duty. I swear he is worse than my ex-watcher," Ryan said whispering the last words so they would only be heard by the Man in Black.

"I have a folder of details about you," Jay said

"Good for you. It used to piss me of when he sent one of you guys every time I took a vacation. I think he is of the opinion that my duty should be put before my own health and well being. You know I actually thought he might let me get away with at least two weeks vacation. So why do I need to go back this time," Ryan asked

"You shouldn't be here according to him, but how do I know your not an illegal," Jay asked

"Don't all illegals have an obvious look about them? You know kinda like a button to open a suit," Ryan asked

"Yeah, but I'm not going to these folks a free show by touching you up like a five dollar hooker," Jay said

"You know five dollars doesn't get you that much from a hooker. So your not going to check for a button, ask me a question about some human fact. You know the sort of freaky shit that only a human would know," Ryan said. He knew that most aliens didn't bother to find out the more useless bits of information about earth.

"How many miles is it to the center of the earth," Jay asked it was one of the only questions he could remember from high school science class.

"Four thousand miles. Now ask me something not out of a high school science class." Ryan asked

"Name a seventh wonder of the world. That was built BC, but destroyed nearly a thousand years later," Jay asked. The only reason he even knew about the seven wonders of the world was because his mom had insisted he should know all about them.

"Statue of Zeus at Olympia. Work began on it around 440 BC. It was destroyed over a thousand years later in 462 AD. It is although a seventh wonder of the ancient world. Ask me something about modern pop culture," Ryan asked.

Who is Kelly Clarkson," Jay asked

"Winner of the first American Idol, about the only one of them that doesn't blow," Ryan said

"Who is howling Mad," Jay asked

"Oh, come on. I said something modern. Howling Mad is Murdock from the A team. Which is in the 1980s, not exactly modern are you," Ryan said.

"So what do you suggest I ask," Jay asked. Even though he was now 99.999 percent sure that the man he was talking to was in fact human he still had to find that question.

"Ask me about music, my work," Ryan suggested

"What was the last album you bought and what is your job," Jay asked

"Back to bedlam, by James Blunt. My favorite song on that album is No bravery, reminds me of my life sometimes. As for work that's with the Miami Crime Lab, I'm a CSI Level One. I work with Horatio Caine, who I know is with speedle but I'm not meant to know that. I apparently can't be trusted with a lot of things Ryan said

"I know you're not an illegal, but why does the old man want you back," Jay asked

"I used to do some work for your organization, back before I was a cop or a CSI. He used to send me on the missions no sane person wanted to go on and at the time I enjoyed those missions," Ryan admitted

"What happened to change that," jay asked

"Mostly the whole dying for a third time. Kinda took al the enthusiasm I had for the work," Ryan said.

"You can't die three times unless, well your one of them," Jay said he wanted to say immortal, but he didn't want the two immortals and watcher to know who he was or how much he knew about them.

"I'm not one of them." Ryan said even though bit wasn't exactly the truth. Since he had been gifted with eternal life, but he wasn't that kind of an immortal. It was one of the two things in his life that he was thankful for.

"So how do you explain dying" Jay asked ignoring the men seated next to him who at one point during his conversation with the illegal ha been talking, but now they were strangely silent.

"I don't.," Ryan replied as he finished his beer in one go, before adding "You can tell him I'm not coming back and could he stop sending people after me every time I take a vacation. Unlike you or any of the others I didn't sign my life away. I just agreed to do a few missions for him. I've done my time and I'm not going back, unless its end of the world serious," Ryan said

"I'll tell him," Jay said

"Yeah, but he won't listen. He never does," Ryan said

"How many of us have you seen before me," Jay asked curios to know how many MIB agents Zed had sent after the man who was not an illegal.

"You must be the seventh one and to be honest it's getting to be annoying. Hell, you're the only one who hasn't tried to use that little handy pen device. Every time they do try to use that pen I break one of there bones," Ryan said

"Seventh one. He knows you have no intention of going back, so why does he keep sending us after you," jay asked

"Who knows, his never been the sort of person to disclose his feelings behind the matter. So enough about me and the old man, before you became one of them what did you do," Ryan asked

"Detective" Jay replied

"So do you prefer this line of work to being a detective," Ryan asked

"Yeah I've seen so many different things, saved the world couple of times. I've discovered that many of the famous amongst us are illegals. I have a partner Kay, who if I was still a detective I wouldn't get on with. He is the one who taught me all the ropes," Jay said

"This Kay is he your partner in all aspects of your life," Ryan asked with a grin

"Man, that's a personal question," Jay grumbled. It wasn't he question which had rubbed him up the wrong way, but the easy way the illegal has asked it. Was he really that obvious when it came to Kay?

"You asked me if I was one of them in this bar of all places. So the matter of your personal life isn't that hard of a question to answer," Ryan said

"The answer is yes, but with the job we do it's not something we can be to open with. Our boss knows, as do a few trusted friends, but that's all. "Jay said. I felt good admitting to something he would never be able to share with his family.

"Do you miss them," Ryan asked

"Every damn day, but with this job its worth them not knowing me. I help keep the world safe and how many people get to say that," jay said

"I can say that, but I don't. The people I work with wouldn't believe me. Listen, when you back tell him I'm ok. Life is treating me well and for the most part I'm happy," Ryan said

Getting up from his barstool, jay put on his sunglasses, reached inside his pocket and pulled out what the illegal had referred to as the pen device.

"Don't make me break something," Ryan said. He was smiling, it wasn't meant as a joke, but a promise.

Jay put the pen device away, but left his sunglasses on and said; "I don't exist."

"Yeah, just like cupid you're not real," Ryan replied. Even though he knew that cupid was in exile from Olympus, until he reunited 100 couples. Last he heard cupid was calling himself and working in a bar called taggertys.