English does it all the time.

"My Latin professor told me that the only thing he has against homosexuality is that you’re mixing a Greek prefix with a Latin root."
(I found this here.)

"Oh no, why let a little thing like being BLOWN UP come between us, huh?"

So, I found a ficcer who does lots of awesome stories about minor one-shot or infrequently-recurring characters from Highlander: The Series. I especially like the fics about Cory Raines, Matthew McCormick, and Carl Robinson. (Matthew taught both of the other two.) There's a load of them that are crossovers with X-Files, because Matthew is an FBI agent when we see him in the "present", and Cory was played by Nick Lea, who played Krycek on X-Files. Now, I've seen maybe three episodes of X-Files, and none of them had Krycek, but I enjoyed the stories, for the most part. I mean, an Immortal double? An Immortal running into someone who looks just like his first student? Fighting aliens? This is often cool.

{Hilariously, Matthew's Watcher is an FBI agent named Donna Sculder. I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, WRITERS.}

[Ooh! Apparently the Matthew McCormick character was specifically created for the actor who played him and the producers considered giving him his own spin-off series. He ended up starring in Will & Grace instead. *sigh*]

«I wonder why there aren't more Once A Thief crossovers for Cory... or Leverage, or White Collar, or Breaking In, or...»

(I wish some of Matthew and Cory's history had actually been in the show, as opposed to just on the Watcher's CD, because it's strongly indicated that Matthew is actually the one who killed Cory the first time. Hung him for poaching the King's deer. (Cory is basically Robin Hood.) And then trained him. How did that conversation go, I wonder? XD)

There was also a pretty cool (on-going) crossover with Stargate focussing on Rebecca (Amanda's teacher) and her ability to find extraordinary objects (in the show, the Methuselah Stone; in the fics, various Alteran or Goa'uld thingies); it's an AU where Amanda died instead of Rebecca).

Also, a couple of stories assuming that Ramirez did, in fact, actually manage to teach Connor MacLeod some of his sorcerous tricks like, for example, breathing water. :Dd (I mentioned this to taichara, since she liked Conner, and she said she though he was too thick to pick that up. XD "Post-like, compared to Ramirez", she says.)

SO, ANYWAY, THE POINT OF THIS POST is that I figured I might want to watch the episodes involving Matthew, Cory, and Carl (Carl has two episodes, Matthew is in the second one of those), so I looked them up. I sort of remembered Carl, actually.

But I had forgotten he was played by Bruce A. Young. aka Captain Simon Banks from The Sentinel! with HL and TS being My Two Shows Set In Not-Seattle (Cascade and Seacouver, respectively, both meant to be expys of Seattle but filmed in Vancouver), and both having a lot of guest appearences (Immortals, criminals, Jim's old Army buddies...) I shouldn't be surprised by overlap. But it amuses me. XD

I suppose I should link to that ficcer, too. XD About half her stuff is gen, and half is slash. Check for pairing lists -- and for warnings, a few of her stories are dark. Oh! And don't miss any of the Greg Powers & Oz fics! :D They're great.
Author: Gryphonrhi AO3 link