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    Deja vu and the Clones

    Chapter Two

    Face to Face

    "Xena, I can't believe you stole ten dollars from that guy. What if he needs it when he wakes up?"

    "All he's going to do is buy wine with it. I actually did him a favor."

    "But Xena, stealing? You don’t do that. Besides, all you're doing is squandering it on this." Gabrielle indicated the two plates of rum cake and the two cups of double mocha latte in front of them.

    "So what? We need this. I am getting so sick of the food at the shelter. And you can't say this isn't worth it."

    "Maybe so. But we're better than robbing some poor man who doesn't have as much as we do. It's bad enough we had to steal these clothes."

    Xena shook her head. "We do what we have to do to survive. Once we get used to this world and the way things work, THEN we'll be okay. But for now that Greater Good crap's going to have to take a back seat."

    "That's another thing. You talk like the Greater Good is – nothing. Or like it's a philosophy for losers. Whether you want to admit it or not, thanks to Alti you still have the Evil Xena inside you."

    "Hey! I broke you out of jail, and I killed Alti, AND I saved those geeks who were working for her. I did a LOT of good!"

    "I know you did, it's just that – wait, did you hear that?"

    "Hear what?"

    "Listen."

    "Well, thank you very much. Took you long enough!"

    "It is just me, or does that sound like Joxer?" Gabrielle asked.

    "Yeah, right!" Xena replied. "Like he'd be here?"

    Gabrielle stood up to look over at the counter, and her jaw dropped. "By the gods, Xena that's Joxer. Look!"

    Xena stood up and looked at him.

    "So some guy looks like Joxer. It could happen."

    "And sound just like him? I think it  IS  him."

    "And just how could that happen?"

    "I don't know. What if somehow Alti got some of Joxer's DNA and cloned him first, just to make sure it would work?"

    "Okay, you say it's Joxer. Let's go find out."

    They left the table and followed the Joxer look-alike outside. Just before he got to his car, Xena yelled out to him. "Hey, you! Joxer!"

    At first  he ignored them, then slowly turned around. For a second he just stared at them. "Okay," he said. "What's the joke?"

    "What are you talking about?" Gabrielle asked.

    "What? Did you follow me here?  I know you guys are good, but….  And what's with the hair? Oh, I get it! This has to do with the anniversary. You want to look like the old days. I can dig it."

    "What are you talking about?" Xena asked. "You act like we're supposed to look different."

    Harry shook his head. "You're not fooling me. The hair's the same. Cool wigs, by the way, but you should have gotten into costume."

    "We couldn't keep wearing our warrior clothes," Gabrielle said. "They were just a bit too conspicuous."

    "Then why the wigs? I don't understand what the joke is."

    "Xena, I don't think he knows who we are. Maybe I was wrong and Alti didn't clone him."

    "Alti? Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while," Harry said. "Who else are you going name-drop? Hercules? Salmoneus? Callisto?"

    Xena grabbed Harry by the lapel in anger, then realized what he said.

    "How do you know those names if you weren't cloned?"

    "Because," suddenly Harry suspected that these two WEREN'T Annie and Mattie. "Because I was Joxer, way back when. I was reincarnated into Annie's body. And Xena was reincarnate into this body. But Ares switched us."

    "Ares!" Xena exclaimed. "Don't tell me HE's still around!'

    "You know, you two should come with me. I think there are a couple of people you need to meet."

    Fifteen minutes later, Harry stuck his head inside the door to Annie and Mattie's office.

    "Well, it's about time," Annie said. "I hope you brought lunch."

    "I've got something better than that. Girls –"

    Harry stood aside to let Xena and Gabrielle walk through the door.  Both Annie and Mattie stood up as they watched their doubles come into the office.

    "Annie, this is Xena, I think," Harry said. "And Mattie – Gabrielle."

    All four of them were speechless, and could only stare at their almost-twins. Momentarily Annie and Mattie, and Xena and Gabrielle, looked at the other's companion, then looked back at themselves.

     

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