~ When We We Us ~
by Lia Travis
DISCLAIMER: This story contains sexual scenes between two women, as well as emotional scenes and a very brief bit of violence and memories that were never in the series (meaning made up by me, the author). If you do not like the idea of lesbians or homosexual relationships then please do not read any further. All characters besides Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer are the figment of the author's (me) imagination. Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer are owned by those who created them for the show "Xena: The warrior princess." Oh! Also, this story is rather long!
BACKGROUND: This particular story takes place after "Maternal Instincts" but before "Bitter Suite" and would be in the case that there was never another episode or season after that. It is also an episode that takes place in the future?. The two characters have memories of their past lives, that they badly hurt each other then and they have done so again. This is, in fact, an extremely different ending. It is also a recreation of the facts surrounding the relationship between the two (Gabrielle and Xena) and a recreation of the facts of any and all episodes.
Author's Note: I have used the lovely characters of "Xena" to work out my own demons, I hope you like it!
When We Were Us - Part One
The dawn looked sharply on the warrior, as she tossed and turned, fearful even in sleep. "Ahhh!" She awoke with a start and looked around, minutes before her dreams had captured the last moments with her bard. She sighed and rose from the bed she had been so fitfully sleeping in. She walked around her room once and then opened the door to the hallway.
She breathed in the smell of cinnamon and finally remembered just where she was. She had taken Joxer and traveled back to the only friend she had really had, besides Gabrielle. She sighed and padded downstairs to the kitchen. As far as families go, this one was wealthy enough to have a two story house with everything a house could have. Payter and Alison ran a potion shop and were quite well off, their daughter, Isabelle, had been her friend forever, and their son, Dimetre was the only boy who had not wanted something from her other than friendship. She smiled as she remembered why, Dime, as they called him, was cut of a different cloth, he'd take women's garments off them to wear them himself before he'd take them off to bed a woman.
Xena took a covered bowl from a cupboard and set it on the table, uncovering it she found an apple and a thick piece of French bread, from the fridge she too out a chunk of cheese. She smiled; there was food everywhere in this house. She pulled a chair back, wincing at the sound and settled herself into a chair to eat some food; her appetite had not been good since Gabrielle had left her. Xena cringed as she felt the tears well in her eyes, but before she could wallow for to long she heard footsteps behind her. She was up and ready for a fight before she realized it was Dimetre.
She laughed quietly, "Dime, you need to be more careful around me."
Dime smiled and shook his head slowly, his white-blonde hair glistening in the dark like a light and pulled a chair back.
Sitting down gracefully he said "Tell me what happened honey, must have been hell."
Xena sighed and sat back down, offering some of the bread and cheese to him; she said, "Oh Dime, it really really was like going to hell, it still is... I am not nearly as good at stories as?as?Gabrielle was? but I will try."
And with that she began her story??..
To be continued?.
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