Author's Note :
I know I really shouldn't be starting a new fic - but it's 3 am and I couldn't sleep. So when this came into my mind, I just had to type it out. It combines my love for all the things that I've shipped since I've discovered the world of fan fiction.
Anyways, hope you enjoy! Lemme know what you think!
See, the thing is, I really liked Xena : Warrior Princess. Sure, that absolutely made me a geek, but what the heck, I didn't care.
Actually, it wasn't really Xena I was into. No. I was more into blondes and Gabrielle - well, let's just say that she fit the bill more than Xena ever did.
So it wasn't all too surprising when I found myself searching the Internet for all things Xena related before I finally stumbled into the world of fan fiction. Oh sweet lord, thank you for fan fiction.
And whoa ... What an eye opener that was. Two women can do that? So what I've been seeing all along in tv religiously every week wasn't just my own mind playing tricks on me? It wasn't merely subtext, but more like main text? What, you mean there are other people just as obsessed as I am with XWP? Wow.
So it definitely didn't seem abnormal for me to have found a Yahoo group for people just like me - people who were die hard fans of the show, Xenites we call ourselves, people who were also just as obsessed with fan fiction as I was because really, sometimes certain authors definitely write the story lines much better than the actual writers. You know, the TPTB - The Powers That Be? Jeez, really, you've never heard of that before? Lame.
And you know what else was extremely lame? The fact that Gabrielle chose Perdicus over Xena - like hello? Red shirt guy wasn't even hot. Puke.
So anyway, it's no wonder that I found fan fiction so addictive then. It totally filled in the abyss in my heart where X/G should be together. Yup. I was a die hard shipper all right.
It's also no wonder that I found the list to join that gave me real time unbeta-ed updates to my favourite writer's stories as she wrote. How cool was that?
So the thing with lists - large ones especially, was that the members were encouraged to introduce themselves. Oh you know, the usual nick and a/s/l? Oh. You didn't know that? Hmm.
So lemme introduce myself.
gabbyluvsxe4eva Santana Lopez/14/Female/Ohio
When the usual members replied to my post with the polite hellos and welcome to the lists, it didn't come as a surprise. What was surprising was a pm - private message, duh - from a xeluvsgabby4eva.
Well, lookit that. A perfect match to my nickname. Sweet.
So hello, I find myself exchanging emails with this girl - I think she's a girl - for a few days about your mutual love for the BGSB (Billous Green Sports Bra, you don't know, seriously?) and the breast plates, I find myself wondering just who I was chatting to. So ok, a/s/l it was.
Later the same night, as I waited patiently for my Hotmail inbox to chime, it did. And ahah! Finally. A name to your mystery girl (told you she was a girl) as well as a number to her ICQ. (It's 16238504 if you are wondering) Score!
Brittany Pierce/21/Female/New York
Oh crap. Did my previous emails sound too immature? Especially to a 21 year old? Damn. Shoulda asked earlier.