Chapter 43:Passions

Ares POV

Kissing her, having her in my arms again was like Elysian Fields on earth...Nothing could beat that… That moment I knew that I could have spent my whole life in her arms and I wouldn't have had one single complain about it.

I slammed her back into a tree as the fear that she could have changed her mind seized me, and began kissing her feverishly...lips, neck, cheeks, all that I found while looking for the fastenings of her dress -her armor was long gone, resting to our feet-

But our fun was put unfortunately to a hold all too soon when 3 tugs came rushing into the clearing.

"Look what we have here guys…" the one who must have been their leader said.

I stopped kissing my Princess, letting out a frustrated sighing. She wasn't happy about the interruption either.

"Two doves..." the same idiot uttered.

I retracted myself back from my princess and took a good look at them...At first I just saw 3 of them, but seconds later at the whistle of the one in charge, 10 more came into the clearing surrounding us.

Xena just gazed them without flinching a muscle, obviously not at all impressed by their number.

"I would say to leave that pretty horse to us and all your belongings."

"In your dreams."

Xena replied spitefully to him and turned to see his face.

"You wouldn't want to say that lady..."

She just laughed sarcastically in return.

"B…Boss..."

One of them that stood more in the back suddenly uttered in a trembling voice.

"What do you want Tarly?"

The leader asked harshly, his eyes still firmly glued on us.

"He…We've found him..."

"Found who you stupid drunk?"

"The…The God of War…"

My eyes widened. How could they have known and why were they looking for me in the first place?

Xena just gave me a blank stare.

"What?"

"My father…ser…served him and I saw him once when I was little, well not so little but...It's him…it's definitely him..." he babbled, while pointing fingers at me.

The leader looked from me to Tarly and back, still having trouble in believing what he had heard.

"Well boys it seems that our search party has stopped. We've found him...Take him..."

"They never learn…"

Xena grunted, and taking her sword of the ground she prepared for battle.

Everything lasted for but a couple of minutes...They were just common tugs, so no real skills to display, briefly, they were no match for my Princess, not by a long shot.

...It was beyond exciting to see her working again, kicking their butts...It was rejuvenating...I even stopped to look at her take a flip and that battle cry...gods...How I loved her…everything about her was simply amazing.

Everyone took their flights after we put them to the ground...I was tented to kill, they were after me though but no, that wouldn't score me points with Xena. The last that fell was the leader and Xena put the pinch on him.

"In 30 seconds you will be dead if you don't spit out why did you were searching for the God of War!"

I came closely to hear that too. It was in my best interest after all.

"A…A bounty miss…1 million dinars for his head."

Xena took the pinch of him and let him run.

"I wonder who is that...Athena, Discord or…" Xena said pensively…"Why aren't you worried?" she asked when our gazes met again, a bit surprised by my ridiculously calm attitude.

"Why should I? …I have you..."

I smiled and she just looked at me returning that smile, but making sure to throw me off balance a bit when she put her sword at my throat.

"Now…do you want that reward?"

I lifted my sword too and without the slightest warning we began fighting...It was almost as good as making love, almost…

"You like dancing too much…"

She said, taunting.

"You too..." I threw her sword away with a speed blow…and mine was thrown away just as fast, a second after.

"What did you say?"

Before I could see her, she flipped over me, giving me a strong kick on my back and sending me flying to the ground. I groaned in pain.

"Are you ok?"

She run next to me and then I had her. I took her arms and locked her in my embrace.

"You...Bastard..."

She playfully protested, kissing me hard on the lips.

"Don't move too much, you can break something…"

I added, returning the favor.

"You won't escape me now…not this time..."

Soon, our tongues began their eternal dance, forgetting anything else.

I let her arms go free and they instantly went behind my neck, resting there...I took her in my arms and made some more steps before I let her on her feet…We were standing now in front of her bedroll. I stopped all my ministrations and looked her in the eyes.

"Xena..."

She put her finger on my lips.

"Shh…I want you too...Make love to me Ares."

And that was all I needed to know. There was no way going back from that any more...It disappeared along with her words.

I kissed her passionately and lied her down on the bedroll...Her hands were now roaming across my bare back and mine were still having trouble unlacing the fastenings of her tunic…. She let out a bemused chuckle at my visible efforts…For once, despite the fact that she was laughing at me, I couldn't help laughing too.

Once we escaped from all those bothersome clothes, I started kissing her face, eyes, and lips and continued with all her body in very slow motions…

"Ares…" she murmured, and Gods I simply loved the way my name sounded from her mouth.

"Patience Sweet…"

She smiled deviously and changed our position so that now she was the one on top, the one in control, and yes, her touches were pure heaven but this time I wanted her to feel loved and cherished and that's what I intended…Just as fast she was back under me.

"No Xena...Let me..." I pleaded with her.

I couldn't count how many times I had envisioned us making love, not just sex…In the past it was always wild…It wasn't that it wasn't good cause I didn't quite have the words to describe it accurately but now…now it was different…my feelings for her were fully exposed and she was giving herself to me after all those years of pain that we had caused to each other…It was definitely something else.

"Ares...please…" she moaned when my mouth found a nipple and I began paying attention to it, my hands searching all her body, expertly finding that sensitive spot that cried for being touched.

"Ares…" the sound of my name on her lips made my heart beat faster. I took her hands in mine intertwining my fingers with hers and placing our now together hands above her head and then kissed her hard one more time before looking into her eyes:

"I missed you so much my beautiful Warrior Princess…!"

She responded, her warm breath taunting on my lips.

"I want you...now!"

When her words- filled with all that raw passion and need- reached my brain and her strong legs circled my waist, urging me to skip a couple of romantic stages of our lovemaking, with one push, I was already inside her, my eyes never leaving hers, seeing her gasp at the contact, tears glistening in her eyes, but I kissed them away and after some more time I began a slow pace which I intensified after that with each thrust till we reached our peak.

Moans of pleasure were heard through the woods and without realizing the words somehow poured from my mouth as sweet as honey…

"I love you Xena."

She froze.

"I…" she began but she was speechless.

"I just wanted you to know."

I said, taking the weight of my words off her shoulders just as fast.

She kissed me with passion; a tear escaping her eye which I brushed away and took her in my arms.

"Sleep now Princess..."

"We need to leave. I promised Eve that we would hurry back."

"Rest for now, a couple of hours and then we can leave."

I kissed her head and she closed her eyes and made herself even more comfortable in my arms.

I slept as never before.