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Call It Destiny
“But I just got here. Gabrielle and I were making plans to….”
“That doesn’t matter. You have to leave.”
“And if I don’t?”
“This is my house and my property, and if I tell you to go, you will leave.”
“This is Gabrielle’s home, too. I think she might have something to say about it.”
“Not as much as you think. She’s my wife, not my equal. Look, I don’t want to be unreasonable about this, but if you care anything about Gabrielle at all, if you care about her happiness, then you won’t make her choose one of us over the other. It’s not fair to her and it’s not fair to me.”
“Maybe you’re right, but that doesn’t mean I have to leave after being here less than a day.”
“Yes, it does. Tomorrow morning you and Gabrielle say your goodbyes, then I want you to ride out of here. Maybe in a year or so you can come back to visit. But right now, I want you gone.”
“I can’t believe he said that. You should have told me!”
“If I had it would only have started an argument between you two, and I didn’t want to do that. So I just left. But that’s in the past. Lila said he was visiting women in other villages.”
Gabrielle nodded. “He wanted a child, a son, and I was beginning to think it would never happen, but….”
Xena got a strange feeling something was coming. “But what?”
Gabrielle got an odd look on her face and her eyes got moist again.
“Xena, I – I’m pregnant!”
“What! Are you sure?”
“It’s been two months since I had my woman’s time. I’ve never gone that long before.”
“Then, that’s good news! Right? Isn’t that what Perdicus wanted?”
“Sure it is. But after us being married for a year and nothing happening, and then right after seeing Joxer coming out of the house after spending the night I turn up pregnant, what’s he going to think?”
Xena didn’t answer right away and Gabrielle looked at her, hoping for a quick solution.
Then Xena said, “Gabrielle, I don’t want you to take this the wrong way, but when Joxer spent the night, you’re sure you and he didn’t – I mean….”


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