Methos hijacked my brain and Trowa and Quatre are breeding plotbunnies

It never ceases to amuse me that when I set out to write something what ends up on the page - or flickering screen- so rarely resembles what I originally set out to write. When I am lucky what emerges is better: wittier or deeper than the original story, often it is not. This latest highlander story I am writing though is just different. When I set out to write it, it had a clear purpose and a slightly less clear plot, instead I have a different story and Methos has once again taken over the pages. Somehow Methos has changed from one of several characters into the  main character, he is mentioned in every paragraph (even the one's he is not present for). For someone who spends so much time hiding, he sure likes to be the centre of things. Someday I will write a highlander story in which he doesn't appear at all and thus get my own back.

My other HL story has also been hijacked by Methos, that one is finished or almost so but there is something missing from it. It is very irritating I can't quite figure out how to get from almost the end to the end and each time I try, Methos opens his mouth again and starts baiting the other characters and I get another paragraph of banter that does nothing to move the story forward. It's all Methos' fault....

In other news (or rather other fandoms) I think I have Trowa and Quatre on the brain, have been writing their meeting into my zero X prequel and am suddenly hit with 3x4 plotbunnies which I am hiding from. They do not fit into any of the stories I'm writing and I am too busy to start another one.