Joxer tapped his chest plate. “Well come on she’s like your sister and she sees you as her family. I just don’t understand why you’re fighting you never fought like this before.” He took another drink. “Breaks my heart to see you fight, it only hurts you both.” Xena finished her tankard thank the gods that he didn’t realize that she was in love with Gabrielle. More because it would hurt his own heart to much although he never said it aloud she knew that he was just as in love with her. She’d just never had the heart to tell him how she felt about Gabrielle, it wouldn’t be fair on anyone and he wasn’t ready to take in that kind of information so it was better for him to never know the truth. Not that this truth would ever come to be but if it ever did she owed it to him not to hurt his pride he had suffered more of that than most people. No man deserved to have his heart broken in that way, mo woman deserved it ether. She put a hand on his shoulder. “So tell me how is your mother doing?”

8

Aphrodite eyed Artemis who said nothing as she leaned over the pool of sight which was next to Zeus’s throne. “So this is like your plan?” Artemis moved a gloved white hand through the water watching the mortal’s image in it closely. “You don’t see any sense in my plan for my chosen Aphrodite?” Aphrodite folded her arms feeling her pink see through ropes sway. “It’s so pointless she’s just a mortal and you’re going to give her that stupid pendent. What are you thinking of turning her in to the greatest warrior even known?” Artemis looked at the long blonde curly haired woman her with sea blue eyes. “One of these days you’re going to have to admit that you like my chosen.”

Aphrodite folded her arms. “Yeah like that’s ever going to happen she’s an annoying mortal.” Artemis watched as her half sister tapped her pink sandalled foot. She adjusted her cream bodice as she pushed her long warm red hair back. “As for mighty warrior, no that is not my plan, but that day will come one day, I have seen it in my visions.” Aphrodite shook her head. “This is like, so stupid I don’t see your vision, Gabrielle is clumsy and won’t be a great warrior not now and not ever. On top of that Xena just won’t admit her feelings for her. My son Cupid has already hit her with his arrow things more than once but it always seems to fail, their burning hormones just won’t connect.” She looked up slightly. “What makes you think that you can succeed with this plan?” Artemis felt her smile slowly widen she moved her gloved white hand slowly though Gabrielle’s image in the water. “Because I know that when you want something you never realize it until you realize that you might loose it, then you want it all the more.”