Everything's Changed
DDR
DISCLAIMER> I don't own these characters!
SUMMARY> Xena reflects on the event from the third season episode "The Deliverer"
A/N> This has nothing to do with this story, but if anyone who is reading this story was reading my last story "Expecting the Unexpected" I am going to finish posting it... I have seem to have miss placed the written copy while moving into our new house so if you would please just be patient. Thanks!
THE STORY>
As I sit here tonight I wonder what tomorrow will bring. Today was the most pivotal day in mine and Gabrielle's life. Well, not so much mine as Gabrielle's, but I know that our life together will never be the same. Poor Gabrielle. The sweet and innocent bard is forever changed. Her innocence has escaped her and I feel that I am the one responsible. I know Gabrielle, and if I had been paying attention to her and Krafstar instead of letting my hatred for Caesar blind me, I would have seen that she was in trouble. When I entered that temple and found Gabrielle crawling on the floor with her hands covered in blood I feared the worst. I tried to deny that she had killed Myridian, I tried to make excuses, but she told me that she murdered that girl. Everything that had happened was worse than the worst. Gabrielle lost her blood innocence for a cause that meant nothing and for a man who betrayed her. To Gabrielle, her blood innocence meant everything and losing it robbed her of everything that she thought the future had held for her. Dayhak isn't a god, he's a demon! When he took Gabrielle into his flames he crossed the line. As I watched I could feel Gabrielle's terror mixing with my own and all I wanted was to free her, but Krafstar wouldn't let me and was going to stop me from rescuing Gabrielle by killing me. After everything was over we sat in the ruins of that temple and Gabrielle told me that she hurt inside . I know that she did and that she still does. I also know that her pain will never really go away, it will just dull. Now, Gabrielle has escaped to sleep for a while. I hope that she dreams of something happy. She cried herself to sleep in my arms tonight. I wish that I could make the pain leave her. I shouldn't have brought her here to Britannia with me and Ares was right, I should have destroyed the temple in the first place. If I had, Gabrielle would be free from everything that she has and will have to endure. Gabrielle said it herself, however, now everything's changed.
DDR