Chapter Twelve

"Ready to go on a picnic?" Hercules asked. Xena nodded. They set off for their favorite spot to have a picnic and make love. They rode Argo out to their spot.

"Xena!" Cyrene exclaimed when she came looking for them. They broke their kiss and looked at Cyrene.

"Mother, what are you doing here?" Xena asked a little miffed that her fun was interrupted now that she was definitely in the mood.

"Solan fell asleep and I came looking for you, I want to ask you if you knew anyone who could get me a good deal on figs from Alexandria," Cyrene informed her."And if you two are going to have premarital sex than I don't want you two going off alone anymore specifically you Xena."

"We weren't, we were just making out," Xena lied. Hercules remained silent to embarrassed to speak.

"Well just in case I'll see to it that Alceme make her way up here somehow to keep an eye on her son, in the mean time you're not allowed to leave my side unless you're with Solan."

"You can't do that."

"I can and I will now let's go." Xena sighed not seeing any point in staying if they couldn't really talk. In the absence of sex there was a whole lot more touching than usual and a strain to keep the PDAing to a bare minimum. Sexual tension could be felt between the two. Xena tried to act as normal as possible and managed to every other day when they managed to have a quickie. That was before Alceme arrived.

"Either propose or stay away from her sexually," Alceme had ordered him upon her arrival. So he had proposed, but Xena refused saying that when he proposed it wouldn't be because his mother had ordered him too. He shrugging knowing full well what her reply would be. It didn't matter to him at all because he planned on proposing to her in private in a romantic setting.

"Try putting some of your weight on it. " Solan put his weight on his newly healed leg.

"There's still some pain, but I think its because I haven't been on it in so long," Solan told her. Xena nodded and made him sit back down. She wrapped his leg tightly in gauze.

"You can walk around, but I don't want you getting up for unnecessary reasons."

"Yes ma'am, now can I get some real school work?" Xena laughed.

"Of course, I've got just the thing for you." She helped him over to the desk and left the room. She came back with a thick book.

"Read to chapter 10 by tomorrow let me know when you get there, but as you go along I want you to write down every word you don't know." Solan nodded knowing the hard part would come later. He opened the book to find that the hard part was the book and immediately began copying every word he read in his mind. Hercules knocked and Xena opened the door.

"Yes?" Xena asked.

"Hey Hercules."

"Hey Solan, I just came to give you this cane I made for you, so you can get around easier and you won't have to stay off your leg as often because you'll be leaning on the cane."

"Oh cool, mother look at all the animals and centaur symbols he craved in," Solan said to her."Oh wow I love it and now I can point a lion's head at people." He laughed as he role played. They laughed with him knowing once it stopped helping him walk it would become a toy.

"Wow you're reading that already, you must be pretty darn smart for Xena to give you that, much harder than that baby stuff Gabrielle gave you."

"Excuse me?" Gabrielle asked at the door." What I gave Solan was hard and Xena this is way to hard for a boy his age."

"Actually I was doing that stuff with I was three, and the stuff you give him I could complete at one," Xena told her.

"I could do the stuff she gave him in my sleep, but I didn't get to what Solan's doing until I was five."

"Well I've never done that."

"Well they only talk about Eli's last conundrum to the very smart, its assumed they didn't pay much attention to your genius."

"Oh this is math?" Solan asked. Xena nodded.

"Gees why didn't you say so now I understand this all math is in Latin, here I was thinking Greek while reading latin." He laughed at himself as he crossed out multiple words on his list until there was only one before continuing to read.

"I don't believe this how could they not teach me Eli's last conundrum I am just as smart as you two put together."

"Maybe not put together, but you're smart," Hercules corrected. Gabrielle huffed and walked out saying she was paying a short little visit to Potedia to straighten things out while everyone enjoyed the peace and quiet without her.