A/n: I'm sorry this is so late, and worse yet so short, but it's four in the morning I have to wake up soon, I need to sleep, hopefully next time my muse doesn't choose this time to write and I can write longer. Hope you enjoy :)

Sentencing

"Ving, former General of our neighbors, you are charged with treason against the throne of our neighbors Angel wall and our homeland Arcadia. You are also charged with the murder of our late King in an unlawful war, murder of King Evan of Angel wall, attempted unlawful marriage of Queen Bridget of Angel wall, kidnapping the crown princess, aiding a criminal, war crimes against the amazons, and attempted murder of our future Queen of Arcadia, the Archduchess of Glacia and Crown Princess, Lady Xena. War crimes against the people of Angel wall and Arcadia."

Ving stood before them in chains looking more than pissed off, dirty, and injured from the beating he had taken from Drake though Xena suspected that some guards had beaten him a little more in their anger. She would have to see to them treating prisoners respectfully.

"Do you have anything to say for yourself?" Drake asked Ving coldly. Drake and Xena sat in royal finery on thrones. King Rodrigo sat to the side on a lesser throne with Cyrene next to him on his Right and his mother dressed in Royal finery to his left. Normally Xena would sit with him, but as she was to be fully married to Drake soon protocol allowed her to sit with him. Also their neighbors also sat on their own thrones agreeing to prosecute Ving for his crimes against them

"I spit at all your feet, you need me to rule over you all."

"You're a filthy bastard Ving," The queen of Angel wall stated. "It was a great day for Angel wall when Arcadia defeated you, I'm only sorry you escaped into another realm." He spit her way getting gasps and outrage from the crowd inside the courtroom. Those outside of the courtroom were already calling for his blood. A court appointed lawyer from Glacial was representing Ving, while a lawyer from Arcadia prosecuted Ving. Xena and Drake however bother knew that they weren't giving Ving a fair trial with them presiding over it. They both had every intention of finding him guilty they considered that the evidence against him was irrefutable.

"Take him away if he'll behave like this, he won't be allowed to listen at his own trial," Drake told the guards. They moved forward and grabbed Ving who began to fling obscenities at the monarchs.

"Dirty bastard," Fiona muttered from her seat. She was filled with such hatred to lay eyes on the man who had stolen her husband from her. Opening arguments began as Drake made every effort to pretend as if he hadn't already decided Ving's fate.

"Mother I need to know the rest," Drake told her later. Fiona looked at him from where she sat with Melody in her arms snuggling happily. Eve lay in Xena's arms under a blanket where as Llyr found himself sitting with Drake dozing in his human form for once. Cyrene sat quietly sewing in front of the fire pretended not to be listening though Xena had already told her what Fiona had revealed. Fiona sighed knowing that Cyrene already knew.

"Where did I leave off?"

"You had sex in the carriage with Drake's father and his sister was conceived," Xena supplied eagerly. Fiona nodded as she played with a thread on Melody's blanket.

"My father wasn't pleased to know our prince had stolen my virginity and got me with child. Actually he didn't believe me and fired the driver for lying for me and for letting it happen."

"My sister where is she?" Drake asked.

"Well my father hid me away telling everyone I was on extended stay up north because my aunt was sick, and she had no daughter. I gave birth and my father took her away after two days. I just know she was placed with a good family in the east and when I was thirty-three we found she had died in childbirth with her only child." Drake looked sad.

"I'm sorry mother." Fiona shook her head and patted his hand. "I still have you and my granddaughters….and grandson." She added Llyr as an afterthought.

"Did Drake's father know?" Xena asked knowing better than to tell Fiona she was sorry for her loss.

"Yes, he came back I told him, and he said it was for the best because we weren't married. I being young and in love agreed with him. My father wasn't pleased that I kept turning up pregnant, so he kept giving away your sisters to my pain. We had the most beautiful little girls your father and I." She smiled at the memory of them. Cyrene felt for Fiona as well, but held back, her sympathy would not be appreciated.

"How did you end up married, did grandfather do anything?"

"Well your father often made himself scarce with your grandfather, but he came around often to see your sisters before they were given away. And then I had a boy one year, back than boys out of wed lock were more prized than girls, I was lucky my girls weren't killed like so many others. Because of my continuous pregnancy I purposely put on weight so my father would allow me out and about. No one could tell the difference, and my father refused all marriage proposals as the Prince began to shower my family with gifts. It was then he started to believe me, but when our first son was born I was twenty years old."

"Wow that long," Xena whispered. Fiona nodded.

"His marriage was on the rocks, and once again I faced losing my child despite his value, I planned on killing myself, I couldn't refuse the prince it was against the law back then, and I couldn't bear to be denied love and my children any longer."

"What stopped you?" Cyrene asked.

"He divorced her Princess Tangeliene, and my father was still trying to decide what to do about his grandson as it wasn't as easy a choice for him when he came for me. He asked my father for my hand in marriage so that he could claim his son. My father of course agreed immediately more than happy I had managed to keep the affections of the crown prince, by than his father was so old your father practically had the crown on his head. He was what kept the Prince married to Princess Tangeliene, but no longer."

"So how did I end up as King, and my older brothers and sister?"

"They went back to the Orient with their mother, five years into our marriage there was a plague, his four eldest children died. Actually a lot of people died, and most of your sisters were not exempt. You have two sisters still living today, but they're so cozy in their lives that I have never revealed to them the truth, so late in life I can not reveal it to them and shatter their words. All that matters to me is that they're happy." Cyrene quietly wiped away a tear as Xena held her own back.

"My brother?" Drake asked.

"Gave up his claim to the crown when you were born, and ran off with some girl, he claims to hate me and his father, so I don't know what became of him. You had twin brothers, one of which would have taken his place, but they were mentally ill and threw themselves off the palace walls in Moscow." Xena shivered at the thought and hugged Eve close. This story wasn't so pleasing anymore. "So that left only you. We tried for more kids just in case something happened to you or was wrong like your brothers, but we never had another child, and you were so happy and healthy. None of the others were as strong as you, we loved you so much. You are our miracle child." Fiona held his hand.

"I'm glad I could live up to your expectations."

"After so much, we were just happy you were healthy and loving." Fiona stood with Melody. She gently handed her to Xena, who kissed Melody's head as she got comfortable. Xena thought for a moment she thought she saw a longing in Fiona's eyes for her daughters. Once Fiona had gone Cyrene quickly departed to sort through her own feelings.

"They won't leave us," Drake told her before she could speak.

"No, as long as we love them with open minds," Xena stated as she made a silent promise to herself to let them know they were loved unconditionally.

"Ving, former General of Angel wall and illegal regent. You were charged with Treason against the throne of Angel wall, Treason against the throne of Arcadia, murder of the late King in an unlawful war, murder of King Evan of Angel wall, attempted illegal force marriage of the Queen of Angel wall, attempted murder of future Queen of Arcadia Archduchess of Glacial and crown princess of Sultry; Lady Xena, war crimes against the people of Angel wall. Do you have anything to say before we read your sentence?" Ving gave them all a rude gesture.

"Just read me my sentence asshole." Drake ignored his insult as he stood up followed by everyone in the room.

"Ving the high court of Arcadia hear by sentences you to death by beheading." There was cheering all around as word spread throughout the land.