“Well… that was different,” Gabrielle said. “Sleeping with my best friend just took on a whole new meaning,” she grinned.
Xena chuckled, “Yeah, I guess it did at that. Of course that’s the first time I’ve experienced it that way… I wonder who did this to me? And why?”
The two women looked at each other and both said, “Ares!” The God of War, however, did not appear this time or any of the many other times the women called for him to show himself. He remained conspicuously absent.
Finally Gabrielle suggested, “Maybe Aphrodite could help you with your ‘little’ problem.”
“Hey!” Xena quipped, “It’s not exactly little.”
“True, bigger than some I’ve seen,” replied Gabrielle sweetly. “No, seriously, though I wonder if Aph could fix things for you.”
“Bad choice of words… ‘fix’,” Xena shuddered, “but it couldn’t hurt to ask her if she can correct the problem – return me to the way I was when I woke up this morning. Give her a call Gabrielle, she responds better to you anyway…”
So Gabrielle called out for Aphrodite, on the third call the Goddess of Love decided to show herself. “Alright! All right, enough with the pages already. I’ve got a life too ya know.” Quickly Gabrielle explained the problem to Aphrodite.
“Yup, that was Ares alright… he’s been grinning all morning. He looked like the cat who swallowed the canary. I’d wondered what he’d been up to. Can’t believe he’d pull a trick like this on my two favorite warrior babes.”
“Aphrodite, can you fix… I mean correct the problem,” Gabrielle amended at the painful jab in the ribs Xena had given her.
“Sure I can fix it,” said the Goddess of Love grinning at Xena. “Course if it got you two to finally hook up, maybe I should leave things well enough alone.”
“We were well enough on our way to ‘hooking up’ as you put it before this happened,” huffed Xena gesturing at the offending appendage.
“You were, huh?” grinned Aphrodite. “It’s about time. You are two of the most stubborn mortals I’ve worked with. Cupie and I’ve been working on you two since the day you met trying to get one of you to make a move, but nooooooo you had to be secretive and hide your feelings from each other. Give me a break!”
“Aphrodite!” cried Gabrielle exasperated, “Will you please just return Xena to the way she was so we can get on with things?”
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