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Two Such People the Adventures of John Steed and Emma Peel THE Two Such People The Adventures of John Steed and Emma Peel THE AVENGERS By Caroline Miniscule Table of Contents The Adventures Alpha Omega, aka The Transformed Man - A drama in 5 acts 3 The Steed Identity (SEDDI) - A drama in 5 acts 69 Do Not Forsake Me - A drama in 1 act 102 Alternate Reality Who's Who? In which Patrick Macnee meets Emma Peel 112 Desideratum White Christmas - Events after Too Many Christmas Trees (SEDDI) 140 The Aftermath - Events after The Maneater of Surrey Green (SEDDI) 150 The Howliween - In which Steed and Mrs. Peel visit America 157 Sole Remedy - A little Grand Guignol in France 174 Requiem For A Lightweight In which Steed and Mrs. Peel celebrate Christmas 188 This is a collection of fan fiction. The Avengers is owned by Canal +/Image UK and no infringement of copyright is intended. Screencaps retain their copyright Two Such People: The Adventures of John Steed and Emma Peel... The Avengers 3 Alpha Omega aka The Transformed Man A drama in five acts When John Steed teamed up with Emma Peel, his persona changed dramatically from what it was during his partnership with Cathy Gale. This story explains that transformation. Act One: Auto-de-Fe - Cathy Gale goes on holiday Act Two: Every Steed Needs a Knight - John Steed meets Emma Peel Act Three: The Transformed Man: Before - Steed and Cathy Gale go to The Murder Market Act Four: Every Knight Needs a Steed - Emma Peel meets Max Prendergast Act Five: The Transformed Man: After: Emma Peel joins the Circus Act One: What a day, what a day, for an Auto-de-Fe I. London, England. 1964 Brilliant golden flames leapt everywhere about her. The heat seared her skin. Cathy Gale stood in the center of the room, spinning around, eyes searching desperately for a way out. There was none. She was doomed...she would be burned to death. She could barely breathe, her lungs seared with every intake of air.... No, it couldn't end this way. Standing here spinning like a top and waiting for the end. She had to try something! Cathy grit her teeth in determination. There! That way....that's the way she would go. She started running forward, low down, with smoke pouring over her, the heat melting her shoes...she wasn't going to make it....she stumbled forward nevertheless...keep going...keep going or else! Suddenly a strong arm was around her, helping her to her feet....Steed! Steed had come at last...Cathy forced her eyes open...there was the familiar bowler, but below that was not Steed's sardonic smile but the gaping grin of a skeleton, with flames glowing in the eyeless sockets.....one skeletal hand held her up and the other hand held a gleaming scythe. Anger surged through her and she yelled at the thing furiously, "Steed!" She began to beat Two Such People: The Adventures of John Steed and Emma Peel... The Avengers 4 at the thing furiously, striking to kill. Cathy Gale jerked up in bed, eyes wide open, mouth open in a soundless scream. Her breasts heaved as she forced herself to suck in air. Just a dream....just a dream....She had flung off all her covers during her dream...but she was hot...her skin was burning up, but inside she felt the coldness of the grave. Cathy swung out of bed and strode into her bathroom, stepped into the shower and turned on the water without bothering to undress. What was happening to her? She had faced death many times in her life, and defeated it every time. Even before she'd started working with John Steed and his Department S she'd faced death...the death of a charging rhino or lion...and for two years she'd faced death at the hands of violent men and had come through unscathed, physically and mentally. But her most recent escape from the burning houseboat...that had scarred her terribly. Not physically, of course, her burns had been only superficial. But mentally....mentally her confidence was shaken..not in herself, surely...but in John Steed....Steed was the grim reaper with a bowler instead of a cowl and an umbrella instead of a scythe...and a gleaming, heartless smile. Cathy took a deep breath. Irrational...irrational feelings...Steed had put her in danger many a time but had never let her down...he put himself in danger as well and knew that she'd pull his fat out of the fire if need be....Cathy laughed weakly...fire, fire...'what a day, what a day for an auto de fe....' "Now this is getting ridiculous," she said aloud, "when I start singing Candide I know there's something wrong." She stripped, wrapped herself in a kimono and went into her library. The walls were lined floor to ceiling with bookshelves, interspersed among the books were African tribal masks and various other memorabilia from her time in Kenya. On a tremendously large 'lazy Susan' placed in front of her comfy leather chair were arranged four chess sets, each in various stages of play. A pile of letters and postcards lay on one table, for a week she had not looked at her mail...now she sorted through the envelopes and took out only the postcards, for they were chess-by-mail postcards. She glanced through them, and found one signed Dan Dare. Cathy smiled. 'Dan Dare' was the name of the British astronaut who appeared in the comic strips. It was an in-joke between her and a scientist Miniscule - 4 Two Such People: The Adventures of John Steed and Emma Peel... The Avengers 5 friend, a man who intended to build and man the first rocket ship into space. She hadn't heard from him in over two months. He was in the Bahamas, doing some kind of work at the United States missile tracking station there. Cathy spun the lazy Susan so that Dan's board was in front of her - each of the boards she used had been designed by her, using her wood-carving skills, to reflect the personality of her opponent....for games with Dan she had carved a space motif - rocket ships straight out of Dan Dare for the pawns, things like that. She read Dan's move and played the move on the board. Absently, while she studied the board, she took a cigarette from its box and flicked her lighter. Suddenly her eyes were caught by that flickering flame and she stared at it, mesmerized. Abruptly she snapped the lighter shut, grabbed up her cigarettes and tossed them into the rubbish bin. She took a long, calming breath. She closed her eyes, took another breath, visualized calmness returning to her body. Something would have to be done. These nightmares were coming more frequently and becoming worse and worse. Never before had she seen Steed as the Grim Reaper, but obviously in her sub-conscious that was now how she thought of him...and her thoughts for him, sub-consciously at least, were thoughts of hatred. But not hatred for Steed, Cathy told herself. Hatred for herself, hatred that she had lived through her ordeal by fire but was now afraid, afraid. Afraid that when she had to confront death again she would not have the courage to do so. "I need a vacation," she told herself. "I need to test myself. Scuba diving...sky diving...that's the ticket. Live life to the edge and prove to myself that I'm not turning into a coward....and...get away from Steed." She hadn't seen Steed since it had happened. It would be best if she did not see him. Cathy nodded to herself as she spun the lazy Susan around idly, watching the chess boards spin around, their pieces spinning around helplessly at her whim. The morning sun arrived while Cathy was still engrossed over her chessboards - this time with her countering moves to her opponents. As soon as she noticed the sun rising over the horizon she went out into her yard to watch the sunrise, breathing in deeply of the sweet smelling air. Miniscule - 5 Two Such People: The Adventures of John Steed and Emma Peel... The Avengers 6 She was calm now. She'd made her decision. She went back to bed, set her alarm for ten in the morning, and then nestled under the covers and allowed herself to drift to sleep. She did not fear the fiery dreams, and she did not have any. When she wakened at ten o'clock she showered again, dressed, and then called her travel agent and booked passage to the Bahamas. Scuba diving, sky diving, and she'd visit Dan Dare and listen to his dreams for the stars. She spent the rest of the afternoon at the library, researching the history of the Bahamas and making plans for things she'd like to see. When she returned home there was a message on her answer phone from Steed, inviting her to tea the next day. Cathy nodded to herself slowly. Tomorrow was the day she would break away. She was round to Steed flat's on the dot of the time he had suggested. Knowing her knack for punctuality he'd already had the tea on the boil, and handed her a cup. As she drank, Steed puttered around his flat somewhat nervously. He, too, seemed different, more forced, somehow. But his voice was as flippant as usual when he said, "You really look wonderful, my dear." Cathy handed him her empty cup, and he put it away.
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