Chapter Six

"What do I have to do to prove to you I'm telling the truth?" Xena asked Solan. He was stuck down in a deep ridge. He'd fell off a horse, and now he had a broken leg. When Hercules and Iolaus had gone to sleep he'd ran away at his first chance, but that was after they explained to him that they weren't here to help him escape, because their was nothing to escape from. Xena was a good person now. Xena nearly died when she found him gone. She went after him immediately. She was amazed at how far he managed to travel, but than again he had stolen a horse.

"You can't do nothing." Solan said as she climbed down with her healer's kit. She checked him for other injuries.

"Look you and I both know your disappointed I'm your mother, I'm sure you had some vision of your mother looking quite different and being a completely different person," Xena said," I'm sorry I'm not who you thought I was, but you have to realize that the real me is not the bad person you keep telling yourself I am, I did not kill your father, and I love you." She bandaged his his head and proceeded to clean the small cuts.

"If you were my mother and you loved me, you wouldn't have left me the way you did." Solan said angrily. It was than Xena knew that it didn't matter who she use to be or whether or not she had killed his father. At this point, after loosing everyone he loved and finding out that his mother was a live, it was all about her love and why she abandoned him. She would have to bare her soul completely to her son.

"Solan, I understand that you feel abandoned by me, and I feel like I did that to you, and it nearly broke my heart to do so, but I kept going just in case you would need me like now, and I can't change what I did in the past but I had to protect you from my enemies," Xena said," I love you more than I think I even realize and the thought of someone hurting you because of me scares me."

"I want to get out of here." Solan said looking up as it started to snow. It was no use in him running now and it took to much out of him at this point to be mean, so he decided to just be silent. Xena sighed.

"Your leg is broken, and I'm going to have to reset it before I can take you to the healer's in town." Solan only nodded as she used a pressure point to dull the pain. She position him, so it was like someone held his head.

"On the count of three," Solan nodded and shut his eyes," One...two...three..CRACK!"

"AHHHHHH!" cried Solan. Xena immediately had him in her arms holding him as the pain vibrated throughout his body.

"Shhh...its ok your mother's here." Xena said. She sang to him and she gave him one of the things he had longed to hear from a mother he thought dead.