What are your thoughts on love?I have only loved two people in my life, Perdicas and Xena, but I have only been in love once. I thought I was in love with Perdicas, it killed me when Callisto murdered him. I wanted vengeance and I wanted blood. It didn't matter that I had never killed before, or that killing would change everything. I wanted Callisto to die for that.
At least that's what I thought. But when I had the chance, when I had the tip of a sword to her throat I couldn't do it. It wasn't anything noble inside of me, it was because of Xena. I heard her praying to the gods. Xena prayed, that was something she would never do, ask for a favor from the gods or anyone, but she did. She didn't want to see the light go out of me and that was the only thing that stopped me. In the end, I couldn't do it. I couldn't take a life and become like Callisto.
Love is putting someone else before your own needs. It's selfless. That was when I began to realize that not only did I love Xena but that I was in love with her. Xena and I will walk many paths and many lives together. Naima, the Darsham, saw our Karmic lives. Even if she hadn't, I would have believed that Xena and I would be together for eternity.
Xena once told me that even in death she would follow me and that's how I feel about her. I gladly died on Caesar's cross with her beside me. I chose the Way of Friendship and ultimately the Way of Love.
Muse: Gabrielle
Fandom: Xena the Warrior Princess
Word Count: 276
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