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Chapter 57: Helpless

Aphrodite POV

That was like the best...maybe not the best of my weeks but near enough...One week with my Hephie away was just like a second honeymoon...I just forgot about anyone and anything and kept tabs on nothing so I was really... dying to know how it was going with my Studmuffin and the Warrior babe.

I left my luggage on my bed and just materialized in the Halls of War...Hephie was back to his work so I didn't have much to do...

The place was so dark and cold, as if nobody had lived in there for centuries even if I had been away for no more than a week. So...why did it look so deserted?...Duhhh...because he was probably with her...I couldn't wait anymore, so I was just getting ready to open a portal, avoiding to just call and interrupt something when I heard the flash and I turned to see if it was Ares…and it was him indeed but not quite him if that makes sense...What happened? I found no answer to that question, but still, my mind couldn't help creating scenarios…

"I would have loved you…so so much...Shh…Shut up!"Adam started crying and I just knew that something was wrong…very wrong…Ares would have never shouted like that at his son.

"I will hurt her just as much as she hurt me and you are my only weapon to do that..." How is that? I wondered.

"Bro..." I whispered, trying not to startle him. He looked horrible...tired and...

"Why is Adam with you?" I didn't know why the question came out so terrifying. Did he...no...he wouldn't dare steal him.

"You...What are you doing here? Leave...!" he ordered and looked at me but it was as if I was looking to a wall...My brother was gone…I couldn't comprehend what could have happened to make him so...so...not him.

He placed his son on the marble table in front of the throne and made a knife appear in his hand and then it struck me…

"Ar...Ares!"

"If you don't want to witness this just leave...!" his voice thundered in the room. Ohh Gods...what was I supposed to do now? Me...the Goddess of Love…how could I defend the little child from his father…the God of War...with flower petals? I materialized the next second and took Adam in my arms, the first instinct that I had...Ares looked at me with a murderous look on his face...

"Dite...what are you doing? PUT him down..."

"Ares you can't do this…!"

"Why ever not? If he dies...Xena might just suffer as bad as I'm suffering right now...I want to hurt her..."

"I know you are angry with her...tired...but no…not like this..."

"Put him down already dammit...or do you want to get hurt too, is that it?"

His eyes were so cold and he looked like a complete lunatic to me.

"He is your son...you can't..."

"HE IS NOT! I won't say this one more time because…"

I tried to vanish, but I found out that I couldn't…His powers must have restrained me there.

"Do you think that I'm stupid? You won't go anywhere right now...Just give him to me…"

"No..." I took a step back… "I won't let you destroy your son, Xena and yourself in the process too..."

He laughed madly and I felt the fireball going into me and smash me to the wall...Adam was crying again...but he wasn't in my arms anymore...I tried to get up but I couldn't...I just couldn't...My tears began flowing down my face…For the first time in my life I felt helpless.

"No...no...Ares look at him..." I said desperately… "He is your son...just look…really look..." I needed for Adam's, Xena's and his sake to get through to him, to reach him somehow cause until now, it was as if speaking to a wall.

"Shut up!"

"Please...He is your copy...He has your hair, your eyes, your mouth…You gave up everything for him…don't you remember?...don't you? Don't you brother?"

The knife was still over his head but still, he was refusing to go down and strike.

I quickly realized that it must have been the Furies' work…How could he be possessed by those devilish creatures when that didn't work on us gods just on humans? It must have been Athena who convinced them...I remembered her hateful stare- one week ago, up on Olynmpus-...it must have been her...

I got up slowly and made my way to him and turned him so I could see his face.

"He is your son Ares...yours...only yours…just please give me that…" I put my hands on the knife and I took it slowly from his trembling hands and then he broke out in tears collapsing at my feet.

"Dite...what have I done?"

"Nothing...nothing..." I answered, relieved when hearing his normal self again.

"I almost killed him…my son…"

He was trembling so hard that he terrified me.

"Shh..." I took him in my arms and kissed his head. I took Adam and placed him in his father's arms.

"Forgive me son...forgive me..."

"Come..." I took his arm and led him to his bedchambers... "Sleep a little...I will take Adam to his mother ok?"

He nodded.

"She must be really worried..."

I was really upset with her...so upset that I wanted to beat her up...Why would she not understand that it was all my fault not Ares's...I will make her understand…

Ares kissed his son one more time and then I vanished with him in my arms…Xena was in one of Ares's temples screaming his name, trying to convince him to show up and face her. I was there too by now but I remained a moment invisible...I know that playing with a mother's heart is not to be done but I was angry with her…

"Xena..." I said.

She turned and when she saw her little kid in my arms she came desperately to me.

"Adam...oh Adam...Thanks Dite...!" She kissed him and checked him out.

"We must talk!" I added seriously.