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The Warriors Bard (warriorsbard) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-09-19 20:03:00

Entry tags:

complete, dahak, day 16, gabrielle, kidnapping

Who: Gabrielle and Dahak.
What: The Kidnapping- Day 16
When: Mid-morning
Where: The stables, for now.
Rating: PG:13[for now!]
Status: Incomplete

Gabrielle had not been herself as of late, she was distant and most of the time refused to leave the room, taking comfort in writing her scrolls. Her mind was plagued with thoughts of Hope, the memories of her daughter not to mention her own faults as a mother. She hated that she had let Hope down. the thoughts and memories only seemed to bring her more pain and depression. She hadn't found the right time to talk to Xena about it, the warrior usually not around much either, though she usually knew where she was. Leading some training session. The bard tried not to let it bother her because she knew deep down Xena couldn’t pass up an opportunity to train. After all, she was a warrior.

Waking up, she found herself alone, wondering where Xena was off to today. The bard decided she wasn’t going to spend the day inside, though it was cloudy outside, she wasn’t going to let it bother her. The amazon queen needed out, needed fresh air and something to distract her. She got up and quickly showered then got dressed before leaving the room, venturing out to the tables, hoping by chance that she would find Xena along the way but the warrior princess was nowhere in sight.

She felt that things had changed since the day her feelings came out but hoped that wasn’t the case. The last thing she wanted was for Xena and her to drift apart because of shared feelings. Entering the stables, she walked over to where Argo was being held. She reached for a brush and moved into the stall. “Hello girl.” She whispered, brushing the horses main and her coat, sensing that Argo was enjoying the attention.

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dahak
2008-10-07 08:59 pm UTC (link)

Dahak's whole face began to change as Gabrielle spoke. It wasn't that he loved her, or even that he was capable of such a thing, but rather, he had come to enjoy the sin the two of them had shared together. He'd had such high hopes for her, for what she could have possibly done, could have become if she'd allowed herself to slip down a little further down the dark path. True, she'd already sacrificed so much of herself to him by simply allowing herself to be seduced by him, but there was so much more to give. She'd not taken a life in anger, not destroyed someone for her own benefit... not conquered a land which was innocent and full of joy. There was so much further for her to go, and here she was, timidly backing away from the path he'd laid out for her even before he'd gotten her to do something that was truly awful.

His dark eyes narrowed slowly as she pratically begged him to go to Xena. "You'll meet Xena, soon enough, Gabrielle..." he said, the darkness in his voice returning as he stepped away from her and held out his hands to the room, from the floor a puddle of blackness, almost like ink seemed to seep at his feet and then crawled up his ankles, then legs, gravity seeming almost inversed as it trickled up his legs rather than down. Slowly his head rose to look at the ceiling as the last inches of it covered him, and once again he was in the silver mask that only the villians had so far seen. He would keep his identity secret for a while longer yet, it still had it's uses, especially if Xena acted the way he hoped she would.

Raising a hand up in Gabrielle's direction, she would feel her head start to throb, and from that point on, if she dared to think on the memories with him, she would find the details of what he had looked like, fuzzy. She would still remember giving herself to him, no, Dahak would not rob her of that sweet torment, however, the attractiveness of his features would now be gone, and she would realize the memory of his face had been taken from her. He hoped that it drove her mad, like a splinter in her brain, trying to figure out who he was, for indeed why else would he have erased the memory of himself except that she wouldn't know who he was to warn the others about him. Now he could approach Xena, or anyone, with the same disguise... none of them aware.

"It's a pity it has to be like this, Gabrielle... I would have made you my dark queen, to stand by my side while I dominated those here, and escape with me when I finally freed myself from this festering pit of a world... instead, I will have to use you, unfortunately. It is a shame, but then, you used me in a moment of weakness... now I suppose it's my turn..." Raising a hand towards her face it began to glow with the dark fire, and her head would suddenly feel heavy, as the muscles in her body began to grow weak. "Sleep, Gabrielle... you're going to need to rest up for what I have in store for you..."

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