Story Summary: In this story, Ares is actually the father to Eve he does not remember his time with Xena and Xena is starting to feel guilty about him not being in their daughters life. The story takes place a few days after Amphipolis Under Siege.
Copyright Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended, I do not own Xena nor the characters of the Xenaverse. Characters belong to Renaissance Pictures and MCA/Universal studios.
Special Thanks: As always a Special thanks to my sweet editor and muse Xentrya. Thanks for your continued support and not giving up on me, I really do appreciate everything that you have done for me and hopefully continue to do for me :D.
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A/N: I realized that I posted the wrong version of this chapter and I wanted to repost the correct version . This version is so much better in my opinion; this is the wonderful work of my dearest muse Xenatrya.
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"Xe, you know I want this more than anything but we have company."
Without even the slightest intention to stop, the dark haired beauty just kept kissing his neck, expertly nibbling on his earlobe, articulating almost absently an : "Tell them to go away." in between kisses, when she suddenly heard an all to familiar baby laugh.
Turning around faster than lightening she saw Aprhodite shielding a laughing Eve's eyes. Xena looked back to Ares with and angry scowl on her face.
"Why didn't you tell me that we had and audience?"
Ares grinned at her before saying:
"I tried to tell you but you kinda jumped on me, and I ..."
He trailed off. Xena just rolled her eyes; Ares looked back at the Love Goddess with a cold face.
"Dite, this better be important or..."
He dropped the phrase though when he noticed the look in Aphrodite's eyes. Something was seriously wrong.
Without warning he and Xena reappeared back on the bathroom floor, fully dressed. The Warrior Princess knew that it sure had to be important, for Ares to dress them in such a hurry. .
"Dite, what's wrong?"
The Goddess looked down instantly. Her her regular, vibrant smile was not present.
"Athena has put a bounty on you and Eve, she has declared that ya'll both must be put to death."
Xena was about to reply but Ares beat her to it.
"Like hell Athena is going to touch my daughter or Xena. I'll slice her to pieces before that happened, I swear it on the river Styx…."
Xena casted him a brief glance, and then a longer one in Eve's direction. She knew this was all her fault.
"We have to fix this; I won't let anything happen to Evie for my stupidity."
Ares looked her in the eyes. A second was all it took for him to realize just how much guilt and remorse she was hiding behind the shades of those blue moons words.
Cupping her chin, he said:
"I know Xe,, but I promise I won't let anything happen to neither of you. They're not taking you from me….I'd blast the entire Olympus if that's what it takes to prevent it.
"We have to finish this together Xe; it's time for the other Gods/Goddess to know who Eve's father is. Besides, I don't think they are stupid enough to mess with two angry Gods, and an overly protective Warrior Princess." Dite added grinning cattishly.
That gave Xena all the extra confidence she needed – she was who she was, that much of the story was true, and she had every intention of showing them what she was made of.
"If they don't believe us, we'll just have to make them believe." she silently told herself.
"Before we go Princess, I want you to do something for me….. I know you are not ready to become immortal yet, but I want you to share my power. When we get there, I want you to show them who is my Enyo, my Goddess of War."
Hearing his plea, Xena just eyed him warily for a few moments. She didn't want him weakened on her behalf. Plus, him giving up on half of his power could prove to be lethal for the three of them if something went wrong.
As if knowing exactly what his Princess was thinking, he quickly answered, on the most reassuring tone possible.
"Don't worry Princess; I'm the strongest God on Olympus. You won't take my power away from me, you will only increase it. As my Chosen you have always increased my power, but as my Enyo you make me almost invincible."
He then leaned down slowly and kissed her , and, it only took one brush of his lips to feel an incredible surge of power go through her. She felt absolutely indestructible.
As if instinctively, she looked down at herself and to her grand surprise, she came to the awareness that she was dressed every part as the Goddess of War. She was wearing a sexy, long leather dress with long slits that made it easy for her to do her normal moves and showed off her long legs. It had a black and red scheme-Ares' favorite.
Aphrodite looked at her in awe- Xena needed to see herself.
"You should see yourself in the mirror, warrior babe you look amazing" Aphrodite couldn't help exclaiming, giggling softly, and magically making a huge mirror appear in front of her future sister in law.
What Xena saw shocked her. Everything about her seemed more radiant and more beautiful. Her hair was done up neatly with a simple, beautiful silver tiara sitting on her head, incrusted with red rubies. She was even wearing earrings- something that she normally hated from the bottom of her heart, but something looked very appealing about this pair : it resembled strikingly to the one that Ares was wearing. To top it all, around her neck, there was an amazing necklace, to match.
The one part she loved the most though, was seeing two crisscrossed samurai swords placed where her normal sword had been. That was like the cherry on top of the cake. They were both beautiful she noticed, and they had red rubies on them too, even her chackram had them now. An outstanding change! As much as she tried, the Warrior Princess really couldn't get over her new appearance.
Turning her head slightly, she looked up at Ares and it was literally impossible for her to stop a warm smile from teasing her lips when she noticed that sparkle in the War God's eyes, love and admiration radiating from their shining surface.
"You are beauty incarnated, my Enyo."
Xena's smile stretched even more, he was always a gentleman when it came to complimenting a woman.
The next thing she wanted was to test her new powers of course, so, throwing a red lightening bolt at the bathroom doors and blow them up really seamed like the best solution at the time.. The doors turned to dust instead, and, Ares starting to grumble about the finely adorned items that she had just uselessly wasted was like the funniest thing on the planet, and, as Aphrodite just couldn't stop laughing looking at his displeased expression, Xena just waved her hand in a lame attempt to fix them back - or that's what she tried to do anyway cause the result was lousy, only managing to replicate some weird looking barn doors…..That only made the Love Goddess laugh even harder and the War God to shake his head in disapproval.
Xena simply smirked and shrugged her shoulders.
"Not bad for a beginner" Aphrodite broke out wiping out her tears.
After fixing her mess, Ares just wrapped his hands around her waist in the most loving manner possible. In the end, he couldn't care less about some stupid bathroom doors, and as one hand began roaming up and down his love's back, the other began caressing her hair, and in no time he was claiming her mouth again, in what grew to be such a passionate kiss that Aphrodite couldn't help sighing deeply, the most daydreaming expression imaginable painted on her pretty visage.
"Love…so beautiful…Well, I'm sorry to ruin the love fest but ya'll can play kissy face after we clear all this up."
Ares broke the kiss and spoke to Xena in a husky voice.
"We could wait say… 10 more minutes?"
Xena looked back at him bemusedly, shaking her head.
"No Ares, Dite is right we need to go get this over with, you know…."
The War God pouted playfully, bringing into use his regularly unbeatable "puppy eyes "card which Xena could have bet he was about to use. And despite the fact that she declined his offer, she decided to cheer him up nontheless, at least a little bit:
"Besides… what I'm planning to do to you is very likely going to take days not minutes, and, if you promise to be a good War God and behave, I might just let you have your wicked way with me."
Ares smiled in excitement at the idea of what she had planned for them later.
"Fine….let's get this show on the road. But first I think it's best if I'm the one holding Eve."
Reaching for Eve, he noticed that she was wearing a pink outfit just like his ditsy sister was, so he rolled his eyes….
"Seriously Sis, don't you like anything besides pink?! Your lucky my Evie looks good in anything, but still, just this once, it would be better if she matched her mommy and daddy."
Dite smiled brightly. She knew Ares had already forgiven her.
After placing Eve in his arms, the God made sure to change both of their clothes, adding a red scheme into all that black mix to match Xena's.
Eve was wearing a cute little red and black princess dress, with a mini tiara to match her mother's, giggling up at her daddy and reaching for his hand. Ares already knew he had fallen in love with his daughter, and he would give her anything she could ever ask for.
"Daddy missed you to sweetheart."
Ares looked to Xena and Aphrodite. He was obviously anxious to get this over with
"Let's hurry up and get this done. Daddy's got a hot date with mommy tonight!"
Seconds later, they all appeared in the main Halls of Olympus, and, instead of Ares's regular blue flash, they appeared in an intense red one. Everyone turned around to look at them in shock of course. Athena stood up from her throne instantly. She couldn't believe her eyes.
"What is the meaning of this?, Why is that whore dressed like your Enyo?"
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