by Insane Englishwoman

Disclaimers: I don’t own ‘em. Oh God I wish, I wish! I wish the blonde (the two legged one not the four legged one) owned me. All the characters are owned by Rob Tapert, Renaissance Pictures and Universal.

This is a Xena: Warrior Princess fanfiction and is written just for fun and not for profit.

This was my answer to a challenge that was made on the Bard’s Village yahoo group. And is a very short piece, too short to be a proper story but too long to be a drabble.

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Copyright © 2005 by Insane Englishwoman. All Rights Reserved.

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She couldn't of course. There was nothing she could do. It was all the fault of that other blonde and nothing she could do or say would bring a smile back to her beloved Xena's lips.

Xena stopped. There was a small clearing beside the path and a stream to one side. The grass looked soft and the water cool.

"Whaddya think, good place to camp tonight??" Xena looked at her at last.

Her heart broke as she looked into Xena's eyes. The spark had left them. Desperate to do something, anything to at least try and cheer Xena up, she rested her head on Xena's shoulder and nuzzled her neck.

Xena leaned against the proffered head, burying her face in the loosely flowing golden hair, drying the tears from her eyes as she did so.

"You miss her too, hey girl?? It's for the best, she could never have loved me the way I wanted her too, the way I love her. I would only have ended up getting her killed. She's better where she is. Perdicus is a good man."

Argo nuzzled Xena again. ‘She's a fool,’ the horse thought ‘that Gabrielle is such a blind fool.’

The End

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