Chapter Six

"You think this is wise?" Xena asked.

"Yes, let her go spend two weeks with Ronald in California, its segregated yes, but they're much more tolerate than in the south. I'm glad they were able to go on a vacation there at the last minute." Xena nodded.

"I was more worried about Ares."

"Don't worry, I'm keeping an eye on her." Xena nodded and mentally made sure she was as well before they kissed her cheek and promised that her room would be ready when she arrived in London and headed out to their country home. They weren't up to living in the city just yet, while they still had business.

"He can't hurt me can he?"

"No, no sweetheart don't you worry, we're keeping an eye on you at all times. If you need us just call, but we'll probably be there before you can do that," Xena assured her. Once she was comforted they got her on a plane.

"All right come on I have to get to the school." Hercules nodded. He drove to the school and Xena handed in her resignation on account of the fact her house had burned down and she was being called back to England to her family. To make sure things went smoothly everyone had a little bit of a pay off and she was released from her contract right away. She knew her students would be a little disappointed. They spent a week taking care of things about the house and reconstruction was started immediately before they had a little smaller get together with just adults to say goodbye.

"I really wish you wouldn't let your wife drag you all the way back to England," Mr. Kent told him. "What are you going to do in Britain anyway?"

"Oh my wife's family owns a Museum we're going to be the curators there. I'm afraid she knows a little more than I do. Eventually she'll go back to teaching and I'll be there full-time. But first we have to deal with the impending death of a family member." Mr. Kent nodded.

"Well could you do me one more favor before you leave."

"Depends sir."

"The thing is Thomas your wife had a profound influence over mine I don't particularly like, good for the boy, but not for me. But now she demands I get her priceless pearls. Where did you get yours?"

"Oh I literally scuba dived until I found enough pearls, it took me years."

"Would you sell your wife's pearls?"

"Do I look like I have a death wish sir?" Hercules asked. Mr. Kent shook his head. "Look you can order pearls that look just the same from Tiffany's."

"How much?"

"A thousand if you want the same quality, maybe more." Mr. Kent groaned. Hercules helped him order it.

"He finally got her the pearls?" Xena asked as they sat on a plane that night.

"Yep, he wanted to buy yours, but I wouldn't dare sell something I made for you out of love." Xena grinned and kissed him.

"We should join the mile high club." Xena chuckled quietly as she sipped her drink after sitting back.

"Oh no its been too long for the first time to be a quickie on a plane, besides we agreed to put it off until we were both somewhere special alone."

"Fine, but next time on a plane we join." Xena chuckled and agreed. She took a deep breath of England air when they finally stepped outside. She fit right in, in Hercules opinion Aphrodite could only be proud.

"Hey warrior babe!" Aphrodite greeted. Naturally Aphrodite was truly behind the whole mod image. They were stopping at her London studio without temples or worshipers she had more free time. And her worshippers had become her fans. "Hey bro, Xena you look absolutely stunning and you thought this wouldn't take off."

"Aphrodite I have never doubted your talent as a designer, plus I knew I'd look good in it." Aphrodite laughed and pulled her off to show her the newest additions to her mod collection. Aphrodite was more than happy to fill her and Michelle's wardrobe.

"Oh we're going to need to fill Eve's wardrobe as well, she says she hasn't kept up, you know she's been in the Amazon for twenty years." Aphrodite made a face not because she was there because she knew her clothes were seriously out dated.

"Oh we're going to fix that you tell Eve not to worry her Auntie Aphrodite is going to fix everything."

"Have you seen the new Chanel line lately, her new fashions are delightful."

"Oh I know, she's the daughter worth visiting."

"She's your only daughter," Xena replied. Aphrodite shrugged. "I knew about the others, but I had no idea Coco Chanel was your daughter."

"She's doing the mortal thing really well even in old age, and the girl has a gift you should have known." Xena nodded.

"She doesn't look half bad either."

"Of course she looks great, I'm her mother," Aphrodite said as if it was obvious and Xena had to admit it was. "I had her send over a wardrobe for Hercules, it's over here."

"Oh thanks, but you know I don't wear designer."

"He'll write her a thank you letter and send her the money." Aphrodite nodded smiling happily knowing that Hercules would do as she said. Hercules through his hands up in defeat making Aphrodite chuckle and Xena give him a look.

"So what's the deal with Ares, he hasn't contacted me and he's not watching I always know when he's watching." Xena nodded her agreement.

"He escaped and set our house on fire, which is why we're back here to stay so soon after our visit," Hercules told her. Aphrodite frowned.

"He's really lost it, under normal circumstances he would just go after you Hercules, but destroying the house I imagine he was banking on you being there Xena." Xena nodded her agreement. She loved Aphrodite, she couldn't remember why everyone thought she was stupid.

"It's upsetting," Xena told her. Aphrodite nodded.

"Don't you worry about it warrior babe we'll fix him or wait what are we going to do, the world can't live without war." They nodded.

"We'll have to get him back in the coffin, once he's in there it won't even matter if anyone else excavates the sight. They'll still need Xena to get him out or even move the damn thing." Aphrodite nodded.

"It won't be so simple, we're thinking we need to find a new sight, I don't really want it disturbed at all, maybe some underwater cave or something." Hercules nodded.

"I'll start looking, I know there's a few Poseidon showed me."

"All right."

"I'll have to head there now, can you set everything up without me?"

"Yes, the girls and I will be find on the estate it's sealed." He nodded and kissed her forehead. He disappeared after hugging Aphrodite.

"Aphrodite how would you like to help me design Michelle's room?"

"Do I look great right now?"

"Aphrodite if you didn't want to help all you had to say was no," Xena told her sadly with a slight teasing tone.

"Don't even tease me like that as if I weren't beautiful, we've got shopping and measurements to do."

"Oh Aphrodite I think we out did our selves."

"Yes, yes we did." Michelle's room appeared to be under water. The sound of the ocean filled the room as many creatures swam by and the sound of whales and dolphins could be heard, it was obvious that to some degree the room was not normal. She even had a latter that took her upstairs to a balcony. Along the walls there were books shelves, they weren't completely full as she would fill them, and than there were two glass doors that opened out onto the outside balcony. From there she could relax or if she wanted take the slide down to her new in home Olympic size pool. They went through her walk in closet and organized according to occasion and material. They did the same for her and Hercules closet.

"Oh these clothes are from the nineteen forties, some of these chanel suits can stay, but other things must go," Aphrodite told her as she stepped out to get the phone. She knew Xena could still hear her however.

"I know, if it weren't for that stupid fire we'd at least have up to date clothes waiting to be brought in." Aphrodite nodded as Xena threw a dress or two into a box.

"Are you two still not having sex?"

"Yes."

"I'll never understand," Aphrodite commented.

"It just happened Aphrodite its not from a lack of passion or anything like that. Its just we've found other things to occupy that time."

"You're missing out, there's new positions, and new toys."

"The positions have always been there."

"Fine new toys that can only get better the way I see it." The phone rang and Xena sighed. She went back to get it, at first it was the museum and than it was for Aphrodite before she could even take two steps.

"All right I'm on my way calm down."

"Another fashion crisis?"

"You know it," Aphrodite said. "Catch ya later warrior babe, we'll go surfing sometime." Xena nodded as she disappeared. She finished her wardrobe, before she moved on to Eve's. Eve's wardrobe took two days out of the second week. That left five days for her and Eve, who was arriving. She took the car into London and met her at the airport with a change of clothes so she could blend in at her request.

"Mother!"

"Eve!" They hugged fiercely and drank the sight of the other in. "Oh I've missed you darling." Xena kissed her cheek

"You dyed your hair my color."

"Yeah, does it look bad?"

"No, no not at all in fact now I really look like you." They chuckled. Xena helped her change and a hat covered her hair. "I'm a mess if Aunt Aphrodite saw me she would freak." Xena chuckled.

"Don't even worry about it between the two of us you'll be a sixties fashionista in no time."

"I have no doubt."

"So tell me how are the children?" Xena asked as they sat in the car. "Did the money cover all the expenses for the medicine." Eve couldn't heal too much with her powers in these times. Sometimes she just had to leave it up to modern medicine.

"Great, they're doing better, and yes, it covered the medicines, but you know, supplies only last so long."

"Yes, of course, when you decide to go back, take whatever you need." Eve nodded.

"They've got the resources to survive now without me too much, I'm going to Africa." Xena nodded recalling how bad Africa was.

"I'll donate three million, but I'll wire you, your personal money." Eve nodded.

"Thanks mom, they really need it." Xena nodded. "So do I finally get to meet this replacer you call Michelle." Xena could tell Eve didn't really hate her sister, she just felt a little left out.

"No, not for another week, she's visiting her brother in California, I wanted us to have some time alone." Eve smiled. "You'll love her though and she in no way replaces you. She can never do that."

"Good to know." Xena squeezed her hand. "Tell me the story of my birth." Xena sighed making Eve chuckle. She loved the story of her birth, but she realized it was stressful time for her mother.

"Did I cry a lot?" Eve asked as Xena put rollers in her hair. Xena chuckled.

"Whenever we were just trying to find a few moments peace you would start crying and I knew you weren't hungry or had a dirty diaper because that the first thing I did because it wasn't often the Gods let you get a full meal in. And you would drop off to sleep, but as soon as I did you would cry. I was dead tired, I still get tired just thinking about it."

"Were you angry with me?"

"No, I was the same, I didn't much like sleeping or eating on my mother's schedule either." They both chuckled.

"Do you ever regret it?" Eve asked needing reassurance that she didn't as usual. After she had done her job as the messenger she had been left with eternal life after a martyr death, which was faked in her case and the ability to heal. And in the end she didn't know what she had expected to feel, but it wasn't the emptiness or the feeling of loss at her mother having to die for twenty-five years.

"Regret what?" Xena asked.

"Having me," Eve told her. "You weren't exactly given a choice."

"No, never Eve," Xena told her looking at her directly in the eye in the mirror. "You were my second chance, I was determined to be a good mother to you and not even the Gods were going to stop me. The only thing I regret is that Ares put Gabrielle and I in an ice tomb and twenty-five years of your life passed me by. Until you finally decide to Grace us with grandchildren you won't even be able to imagine the pain I felt. I died when I found out how long it had been since I had held you." Eve hugged her.

"I love you mommy."

"I love you too Evie." She kissed her forehead. "Now come on let's finish your hair." Eve smiled knowing Xena had put hours into getting her hair back its glory. They spent lots of time together over the next four days before they went to the airport to meet Michelle.

"You sure she won't mind if I tag along?" Eve asked. She wanted to spend a couple of years with her family and working in the museum.

"Eve, you're her sister, she loves you already and she hasn't even met you."

"All right, but I'm telling you, she's going to hate me. She's a little girl." They waited at her gate, she was the last one to get off as she politely thanked the stewardess and look among the masses for Xena and Hercules. "Can she spot us?"

"Oh she will, I'm the only one in Chanel." Michelle's eyes stopped on her and only her. She ran straight for her dodging people as best she could with a hasty excuse me. Xena lift her up easily and Michelle wrapped her legs around her waist and her arms around her neck so she couldn't be put down.

"Mommy!" She gave her a kiss and launched immediately into her tale about California. Eve was uncomfortable as Xena let her finish a few sentences before interrupting.

"Michelle, I want you to meet your big sister Eve."

"Nice to meet you Michelle." Michelle let out a little scream that attracted people's attention, but lost it almost immediately.

"You are thee messenger of Eli." Eve chuckled.

"Yeah, I was."

"You are so mean."

"Michelle," Xena said.

"No, mommy, she hurt you, she's the worse daughter ever."

"Michelle, no she didn't, that was not Eve, she wasn't herself." Eve looked absolutely hurt, but quickly hid it in a Xena like fashion.

"I don't care," Michelle told her before looking at Eve again. "You stay away from my mommy, I love her, not you."

"Michelle, don't say that..." Xena began to scold her. Michelle got down.

"You hate me and would choose her over me!" Michelle ran and Xena was highly confused.

"How did we get to me hating her, come on Eve apparently we all have some more talking to do." She turned to take Eve's hand so they could hurry after Michelle, but found her gone too. "Eve!" Xena sighed she knew where Eve would go to cry, but she gathered Michelle after finding her asking for a ticket back to America.

"Michelle, I really almost don't know what to say to you. I'm hurt that you would feel like I don't love you. I love you with all my heart as much as I love Eve. And she loves me with all her heart. Eve was someone else when she committed those crimes it was not who she was meant to be, and yes I was hurt, but I knew it wasn't my daughter. And when she became my daughter things changed drastically. So when you see Eve again what are you going to do?"

"I Apologize mommy," Michelle apologized quietly.

"I'm not the one who deserves the apology." She nodded. "Good, now you can sit here in the car until you get home and write Eve and Mommy love me very much."

"Yes ma'am." Xena disappeared reassured that the two could form a relationship. Michelle stared at the space she had occupied blankly. It had never occurred to her why her mother and father had lived so long though there was the subconscious automatic exception that she was immortal, but never a Goddess. Than she quickly began to write with the paper and pen that suddenly appeared knowing that Xena was watching her.

"How did you find me?" Eve asked. She found her in the Museum among her things like an old saddlebag she had eventually donated, her leathers, and her saddle from Argo. There were a few other things like the fake bearskin, which Xena sat next to Eve on, but more importantly she rested her head on her saddlebags.

"Because when you were a baby and old enough to crawl whenever you were upset, which was usually when we were all on edge before a period of like rest and than the next idea they decided to throw at us. In any case I had a feeling you've still been doing it all your life or at least possibly picked up the habit again, my next guess would have been a church." Eve chuckled.

"I wouldn't dare set foot in a church, not when they've gone so far from God's vision. They put so much emphasis on going to hell, they scare people into worshiping. The God of Love does not teach with fear, but love. I failed that's why he hasn't talk to me."

"Eve, have you ever considered that we've done our parts and what's happened now is just the result of others who came after you. But there's also the fact that mortals prefer to strike fear into their hearts. It's just their nature. There have been too many huge battles."

"The world wars, I hurt so much during that time especially the Second World War, it was over the hatred of others. He hated mother with a passion, I can't think when I have ever seen or felt such hate."

"I'm not surprised."

"No, you don't understand, you or I we never zeroed in on a specific person or people. Not even you mother could have hated Caesar as much as he hated the Jews and the countless other victims."

"He was a horrid little man. I saved many from right under his nose under the pretence of servants and fake identification. Did the ones I send you make it there all right?"

"Yes, they helped me out a lot, but when the war was over they wanted to go back."

"Good for them, but we're avoiding the real subject here and you know it." Eve smiled a little, she could never get anything pass Xena. Eve than began to frown as she thought about what Michelle had said and the past.

"I hurt you a lot, you were angry that I wouldn't listen to you, that I slaughtered all those people."

"I was never angry at you for what you had become. I was very angry at Octavius because he watched you turn into me knowing full well dead or a live that's not what I wanted for you. I didn't want you to wake up one day and feel the guilt I still feel at times."

"But I hurt you," Eve said.

"Yes, Eve, I was hurt, but it was more that I had failed you and broke my promise to you. That's what made me hurt not your actions. Let's face it if you knew before hand I was your mother, you wouldn't have necessarily said some of the things you said."

"They probably would have been worse."

"Depends," Xena said stroking her head just like she did when she was a baby.

"I was never able to just be a child. Romans make terrible parents." Xena chuckled.

"Agreed."

"Do you forgive me?"

"I think the real question is do you forgive me, no matter what you do or have done I will always love you. Nothing you say or do will ever make me stop."

"Even if I killed Michelle."

"Even if you killed Michelle, though I do hope you wouldn't," Xena told her in a slightly humorous tone. Eve laughed.

"I won't mother." Xena smiled Eve was silent for a moment when another frown hit her face.

"What?" Xena asked.

"Why does she get to call you mommy and all I get is a lousy mother." Xena laughed.

"That was all you honey. I just thought that was what you were comfortable with so I never pushed the issue."

"Oh well I'm calling you mommy from now on, I always thought that was horrible I got deprived of that." Xena laughed.

"You and I both." They were silent before Eve spoke again.

"Mommy, I'm not mad at you for not being there, I never was at least until you showed up."

"What do you mean?"

"I have a very good memory, but mostly from faces before I learned to speak. I remembered your face very well and we use to share our dreams." Xena chuckled.

"The more child safe ones I hope." Eve nodded. "I think we still do, when we say I'll see you in my dreams, I think we mean it."

"I was wondering about that. You and I we always did have our own connection."

"Yes we do, but the second time I saw you and got a really good look at you, I knew you were my mother. Its not like I didn't dream about you. I got really angry because I thought he had lied, you hadn't died protecting me after all. I thought you really had abandoned me and came back to ruin my life."

"I'm sorry, I wish we had all gone about things differently maybe things would be different today." Eve nodded.

"Can't change the past, our experiences are what they are for a reason." Xena nodded. "I wish I could experience having you as a mother as a child though."

"Maybe one day stranger things have happened, but here's a hint grandchildren."

"I'll think about it more if I'm ever destined to be with someone I love."

"Don't worry dear you are, you just have to find him." Eve nodded.

"You could always have more children in the mean time."

"Hercules and I were contemplating it and not just adopting when Ares is back in his coffin."

"You should mommy, I want more brothers." Xena laughed.

"No sisters?" Eve shrugged.

"To be honest, I like being your only daughter that you gave birth too."

"Well that's too bad because if I get pregnant you could very well end up with a sister."

"Than I have a sister, but I'm just saying think boy." Xena laughed.

"Okay, I'll try, but I make no promises." Xena looked at her watch.

"Come on, let's get back home, Michelle will be arriving there soon and I need to get her settled in." Eve nodded. "Bring the saddlebags." Eve's smile widened as she grabbed them.

"Are you sure they won't be missed from the Museum?"

"Well no I'll know where they're at." Eve laughed.

"Oh that's right I keep forgetting that you and Hercules were responsible for putting this great museum together its very accurate even for you guys."

"In your eyes, but trust me its not." Xena took her hand and they disappeared. They appeared in the foyer just as the car was pulling up into the circle drive way, Xena could already see Michelle's face pressed up against the window in pure delight. Eve put her saddlebags away in her room.

"Heinz, bring her to the kitchen." Xena went to the kitchen and placed lunch on the table for everyone, she had made it before she left. At the moment there was only one live in butler, who knew their secret naturally and one live in maid, who kept things manageable and three other maids who came three times a week to make sure the house was cleaned thoroughly. There was a gardener who came every other day to cover the vast grounds and the butler could usually fix anything broken himself if Xena and Hercules didn't do it.

"Ma'am, would you like me to do anything?" The maid asked.

"No, you can take your break just keep a look out, oh and go check on that puppy, I haven't seen it in two days." She nodded. Eve walked in the kitchen just as Michelle was talking to Heinz and asked him what his job was and eventually Heinz figured out she was probing and let her know she didn't have to beat around the bush.

"Mommy Heinz says he'll play with me whenever he can." Xena smiled at her.

"Than you're definitely going to have a lot of fun." Michelle smiled and than frowned as she turned towards Eve.

"I'm sorry I was mean, you didn't hurt mommy, I just want her all to myself."

"Its okay Michelle, I want her all to myself too. So why don't we just agree to hate each other for taking mommy and than be sisters." Michelle smiled and nodded. Xena was very happy they were getting along now. They had lunch before they showed Melissa her new room and she screamed with delight especially when she saw the slide to the pool.

"Can we go swimming please?" Michelle asked. Xena nodded. Michelle came back down and ran into her closet.

"Have fun," Eve told her.

"Oh no you're swimming too," Xena told her. "I want to see which one of you will win."

"Too bad I don't have a swimsuit."

"I have several bikinis don't worry I've been wearing them since before that actress in Dr. No two years ago." They went to her room and Xena changed into her white one, while Eve settled for the green one.

"Man I keep forgetting how hot I am," Eve commented. Xena chuckled.

"Eve really your going to have to cut the ego in half, its bad enough Hercules' takes up space around here." Eve chuckled as she put her hair in a ponytail like Xena before they went back to Michelle's room.

"Come on let's take the slide." They followed her up. Michelle took the slide. Xena stood on the rail and dived. Eve followed Michelle in the slide. They were splashing, racing, and diving.

"Eve how old are you?" Michelle asked.

"Almost as old as mother."

"How much younger?"

"Five in body and in mind I've lost count."

"You're lucky you look like mommy, she's beautiful." Xena smiled and brushed her hair careful of her wet nails on her hands.

"Oh I think you might look a little like her too," Eve told her. Michelle shook her head.

"I'm adopted remember I can't look like mommy." She seemed sad.

"That's not true," Xena told her. "Meg looked like me and we weren't related, for all you know, you might look like me even just a little bit when you get older. I personally think right now you have my eyes, they're intelligent." Michelle smiled.

"Really?"

"Let me take a look to confirm," Eve told her. Michelle stared at her and Eve nodded her head. "Yep, your eyes definitely mirror mother's, so intelligent." Michelle's smile grew wider.

"Am I going to school?" Michelle asked.

"Yes, your Uncle Cupid just started a school. And you start training at the local pool two weeks after school starts." Michelle smiled.

"We're still going to Tokyo."

"Yes, if you're on your best behavior and don't give me a reason for you not to go."

"Oh mommy, can't I go even if I'm bad?" Michelle asked looking up at her where she sat behind her.

"I don't know depends on what you're planning." Michelle looked at her innocently.

"Nothing mommy."

"Yeah that I'm sure of," Xena told her sarcastically. Aphrodite appeared again in her robe and wet nails.

"I swear you would think that they could let me be for one night."

"Oh you brought it on yourself, you run a tight ship," Xena told her as she put down her pug. It was just a year old.

"Aunt Dite I thought your pug was older in your letters," Eve pointed out as like Xena she lay back on her chair as Michelle took her seat with her growing Doberman.

"Oh you mean Captain Wrinkle, he like totally died on me, so I got Bailey here. You two should get a pug, and join the country club. You need a pug to join."

"Are the same people still there?" Xena asked. "Why do you suddenly need a pug?"

"Well I just brought Captain Wrinkle there when I was still pretending to be my own mother, and you know pugs are popular here, so now to gain entrance your wife must have a pug or you if you're a woman. I mean that's just one of the stimulations, but you cover them all. And no there are new more interesting people you know."

"Hmm...we'll see."

"You may as well I guarantee that we'll only be able to put any plans into motion until Ares decides to show himself." Xena nodded.

"Aunt Dite's right our lives need not stop just for him."

"Agreed."

"I know a seller you can get a year old pug from."

"Okay," Eve said looking for anything to fill her social calendar. Xena nodded as well.

"Though I'd much rather prefer an Alaskan Husky that I can take on trips to the mountains."

"We could probably get one of those too," Aphrodite told her.

"No, we've got a Doberman, that's enough big dogs."

"Mommy, you should get a big dog."

"No."

"Gabrielle says she can't be around small dogs all the time," Michelle told her after pretending to listen to something the dog was saying. Everyone chuckled.

"I'm sure she did."

"Xe, Eve you two should come model for me, I've got a new line of bikinis and no one will wear it. They're still uncomfortable with it and I don't want some playboy model or nude dancer gracing the pages or cover of my magazine. This year is not the year for any major controversy. Coco has got it covered." They laughed.

"Sure," They agreed.

"How old is Coco now?" Eve asked.

"Eighty-one can you believe she got old like her father, ugh, I was so unhappy."

"Dite she's mortal," Xena told her.

"Oh I know, but do you know Hercules was born like eighty years before you I swear, the only reason his mother was a live was because of Zeus."

"Really?" Xena asked making a face. "And he looked my age."

"I know, I thought that would be the same for Gabrielle I mean Coco, I keep forgetting sometimes. Anyway I thought we at least had a few more decades together."

"She may end up living until she's a hundred something," Eve pointed out. Aphrodite shrugged.

"I don't know, what about Christian Dior, it's only been what seven years and now my daughter could go any day. I just hate that his line has fallen into hands that could never match him, and so will Coco's. I'm sure. I have no doubt they'll keep the line up, but they'll be missing Coco and Christian."

"Well those are just two of them," Eve told her. "What about the Italian one, what's his name?"

"Cristóbal Balenciaga Eisaguirre," Xena supplied.

"Yes," Eve said.

"Oh don't even remind me of him, he's sixty-nine and looks it."

"Oh Cristóbal poor man," Xena said losing herself in her thoughts for a moment of his fashion.

"Mom you got a little crush on your nephew?" Eve teased. Xena chuckled.

"I'm in love with his clothes, the man is a genius, I mean lately I've been wearing chanel and mod, but all my evening gowns are Cristóbal and other stuff, that just make me look absolutely gorgeous, he's better that Dite."

"Its true, I even wear his clothes more than my own," Aphrodite told him.

"Do I wear them?" Michelle asked.

"He made your favorite dress."

"I love him," Michelle said. They all chuckled.

"Let's not talk about him or we'll all get sad, so um... what about Valentino?" Xena asked.

"He's in, I just have this feeling that he's going to really hit some big thing. You may want to look into his evening gowns, now he knows a woman's shape, he's like Christian's twin I swear, but he really makes it for the ladies."

"You know I'm going to check him out, I've actually haven't been on top of my fashion in the past couple of years in surburbia, America, I mean it was terribly hard to mix it up."

"I bet, see that's why I can't do the whole surburbia thing," Aphrodite told her. "Oh and Valentino, he's aging too, I think he's thirty-two now. I still have a few decades with him unless something else kills him."

"Good, I can count on some outstanding fashion from him," Xena told her. "How's Elsa, is she thinking about getting her business back up, I mean she was dominating the fashion world along side Coco between the two wars, but she closed in the fifties to my dismay."

"Oh I know girl had a gift. But she just couldn't handle how Christian had changed the fashion world, and she retired the same time Coco decided to make a come back you know they hated each other." Xena nodded.

"Sad, really loved her sportswear."

"Well at least she gave me a grandchild, and that grandchild has given me great-grandchildren. But they're not fashion like Elsa so I don't really talk to them just give them free clothes."

"Naturally because that's the best reason not to talk to them," Xena told her sarcastically. "Do you even talk to Bliss?"

"Of course, he's got to help Daddy and Grandma do their job." They all shook their heads. "No seriously he helps me around the couture house. He's actually pretty good with silk."

"Nice."

"Do you have other fashion designer children?" Michelle asked.

"Yes, there's Giorgio Armani, I still got a few decades in him too. Madeleine Vionnet, Jeanne Lanvin, the girl made wonder mother-daughter outfits, but she's dead. Yves Saint-Laurent, the one that worked at Dior just after Christian's death, Christian would have been proud of his brother. He and his romantic partner have their own fashion house now."

"I should check up on his fashions than," Xena told her. Aphrodite nodded.

"So who's who at the country club?" Eve asked. Aphrodite immediately launched into everyone by name and some sort of description along with their various scandals.