Pregnant or not?
"What do you think, pregnant or not?" Xena asked the healer.
"I can't tell, and when that happens you should go to the temple of Apollo." Xena sighed and nodded. The last thing she wanted was to enter the temple of one of the Gods. Who knows Apollo might tell Ares and if she were pregnant, she didn't want him to find out. "But I don't see any obvious illness, if you're not pregnant I'm sure you will be fine." Xena nodded again.
"Thank you." She paid the woman and hurried off towards Apollo's temple. She needed a definite answer that day. She was thankful to find it empty for once. A priestess led her to her room and performed a ritual on her.
"Well?" Xena asked once it was over.
"You will bare a son in six months time," The priestess announced. "If you don't wish to have this baby this will get rid of it. Undress and stand in that tub than dump it into the fire." Xena merely nodded. Xena remained silent as the priestess left her to her thoughts and her decision. She undressed herself and stood in the tub and brought the herb up to her lips, but just as she was about to take a bite she felt a light flutter in her stomach. Her body immediately recognized that feeling. She felt it four more times before her mind could fully understand what was going on. Her right hand dropped the herb and went to her stomach.
She would bare the son of Ares. Unlike any of his other children he would not leave her son to live his life in peace. She had to get out of Greece. She ran out of the temple and back to tavern. She packed all her things and saddled Argo. She left a scroll for Gabrielle explaining nothing. She told her one day she would return but until than not to look for her. She needed to be alone.