The days went by fast and Xena began to get her
things in order for when she would be leaving with Ulysses and his
parents. Throughout the next two days, she went around doing
everything that she could do and that she promised her mother and
brothers she would do and still managed to make the time to go on
her daily walks with Marguerite and Julian.

 

 

“So Xena, you really want to marry my
son?” Julian asked and Xena grinned as she looked into
Julian’s eyes, “I really, really do. I don’t know
if you’ve seen it with the short time you’ve been here,
but I really love Ulysses.” She said as she looked at them
and they looked at her. “We see that you care for each other
very deeply,” Marguerite said and Xena looked at her.
“Is that all you see Marguerite, or is that all you want to
see? Does it really upset you that your son is in love with a
peasant?” Xena asked and Marguerite looked into Xena’s
eyes as she spoke, “Xena, there are things here which you
don’t understand, which Ulysses has yet to understand.

 

 

It doesn’t bother me that you’re a
peasant, I just need to know the type of woman you are, the type of
wife you will be and the type of Queen you will become.”
Marguerite said and Xena nodded, “I know that you love
Ulysses and you only want the best for him and I promise you, I
swear to you, that it is me. I love Ulysses,” Xena said as
she looked into their eyes and they looked into hers, “I love
him and I know I’ll make him happy, I’ll be a great
wife and I’m sure with your help I’ll become a great
Queen.” Xena said and they looked at her then at each other
and she let out a breath, “look, we can sit here for hours,
days, weeks and months but it won’t change the fact that I
love Ulysses and he loves me. I’m not going to keep trying to
convince you on how much we love each other and that my intentions
towards him are honest and true.

 

 

I’m just trying to get you guys see that no
matter what, we are getting married, with or without your blessing
or your approval but we would prefer, I would prefer, to have them
both.” Xena said and they looked at her, “we just need
time Xena but we do like you and I believe that the more time we
spend with each other the more we’ll get to know you,”
Julian said and Xena grinned and nodded. “That’s all I
can ask for,” she said and they grinned at her. They sat
there for ten more minutes talking before they headed back to the
Inn. Between all of what was going on with her getting ready to go
and everything else, Xena exhausted herself to the point where all
she could do at night was fall down on the bed.