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After the Quest	By : Ellixer Category: S through Z > Xena Views: 4860 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-After the Quest
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Note: I did my best to keep this in character, not sure I’m happy with it. Lemme know.

The water tickles my toes as it flows gently under my feet. We’ve been traveling so far, it feels good to rest my feet. Xena has a pole in the water, yelling every time she catches a fish. I lean back on my elbows and lift my face to the sun.
‘Isn’t it beautiful?’
‘It’s a good day for fishing.’ She grunts as she struggles with a particularly large fish. I lay back, hands grasped behind my head, letting the sun wash over me. Sometimes it’s good to stop and just be. Xena yells in triumph having won the battle against the fish. After a few minutes she flops down next to me.
‘You smell like fish guts.’ I wrinkle my nose at her. Bringing her hands up to her nose she sniffs. She gets back up and starts to scrub them in the water.
‘There, all better.’ She shoves her hands in my face as she sits back down.
‘Xena!’ I swat her hands away. She laughs leaning back against the grass. The bubbling water is the background to our silence. I’m comfortable this way, it’s completely peaceful; something I get so little of.
‘Can I ask you something?’ She sounds a bit hesitant.
‘Of course.’ I roll to my side, propping my head in my hand. She doesn’t look at me however. ‘What is it?’ I’m starting to get a little worried, something is bothering her.
‘Remember when I said I love you?’ I sigh, falling back to the grass.
‘Yeah. A friend love, I know.’ She growls under her breath.
‘That’s not what I said.’
‘It’s what you meant.’
‘Don’t tell me how I feel!’ Her anger doesn’t faze me. I laugh.
‘Things have been good, lets just keep it that way.’
‘I don’t want to keep it that way.’ This makes me sit up, finally looking at her.
‘I don’t think I care.’ Pain shoots across her face. My resolve doesn’t falter however. ‘I’m your sidekick, I’m your friend. That’s all.’ My eyes narrow.
‘You’re more than that.’ Her voice sounds sincere, but I don’t care. I shoot up to my feet, beginning to pace as a millions thoughts come to my mind at once.
‘Can we not play this game again?’ Xena gets up, grabbing my arms in an attempt to still me. Her eyes search mine.
‘It’s not a game.’ I laugh at her.
‘What would you call it then?’ Her head shakes in frustration as she lets go of my arms.
‘Gabrielle I meant it.’ She speaks through gritted teeth.
‘I remember you seemed to love Ulysses too, and me not so much. Now I’m going to go cook the fish.’
‘Would you stop and listen!’ Her voice seems to roar. This day started out so nice too.
‘What?’ I sigh, throwing my hands up in defeat.
‘I didn’t really love him.’ I begin to say something but she cuts me off. ‘Don’t! Just listen, that’s all I’m asking.’ I shrug, that’s about all the response she’s going to get from me.
‘It’s not like I planned that to happen.’ She runs her hand roughly through her hair. ‘I felt something but it wasn’t love. I don’t know what it was, but when he said we were soulmates… it didn’t feel right.’ She steps up to me, taking my hands in hers. ‘I’m sorry.’ I just look at her, not sure what to say or do. ‘I just want a chance.’ She’s pleading; this is not the Xena I know.
‘Stop.’ I barely manage to whisper. Her hands grip mine harder.
‘Please.’ Why exactly did she have to say all this? We’ve been doing just fine as we were.
‘Maybe I don’t want this.’ Apparently she hadn’t thought I’d say this. She drops my hands, a tear falls down her cheek. I bet she never cried as much as she does with me. I do want it of course, but somehow I feel she deserves some pain. It’s wrong I know.
‘That’s not true.’ This sounds more like a question than a statement.
‘Xena..’ I throw my hands up. ‘I don’t want to be second best, I don’t want to be disposable. I’ll stick by your side but I don’t know that you will stick by mine.’ It’s time for me to stop this conversation, and the fish will go bad any minute now. I leave her standing there, I don’t intend to look back.

We’ve been quiet, sitting on separate sides of the fire. But she keeps looking at me, maybe hoping that I’ll look back, I don’t. At this point I wonder what damage has been done to our friendship. It feels a little like this might be an end. Not one we want, but at least it’s an end.
‘Look I’ll head towards home in the morning.’ I say this just to bother her. She doesn’t respond for a few minutes.
‘Why?’
‘We can’t go back and we can’t go forward.’ Her eyes narrow at me.
‘So we just give up everything?’ I shrug at her. I have no idea why I’m saying these things, it just seems like I’m supposed to. ‘Stop acting like you don’t care.’
‘I do care, and that’s the problem Xena.’ She gets up rushing towards me.
‘I can fix this.’ She crouches down.
‘Your chakram cant fix this.’ I give her a small smile. I’m all about forgiveness and second chances aren’t I? ‘ok.’ I sigh.
‘Ok what?’ Hope flares in her eyes and on her face.
‘We can start over. Go back to being friends, and…..see what happens. Deal?’ I offer my hand and Xena readily grabs it.
‘Deal.’
‘Good now I’m going to sleep, you can clean the frying pan.’
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