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ghostisclearfandom: xena warrior princess
ship: gabrielle/xena
rating: teen
additional info: post s03e02 Been There Done That
words: 160
notes: for the sapphic summer prompt 'any/any - did you let me die in your arms in the time loop?'
— original post date: summer 2023
It's been days—all of them blessedly and wholly new—since Xena was freed from the hopelessly repeating day of conflict between Houses Lycost and Menos.
When things get too quiet—she finds herself back in the loop.
Smiles at her friends and her mind reminds her of the countless days of her countless days that she spent mourning them—trying to save them and failing and knowing that when she woke up she would try and fail again.
Holds Gabrielle in her arms—so terrifyingly and familiarly still as she sleeps—and recalls cradling her while she drew her last breaths.
Watches embers float from the firepit and hears herself singing again and again at Gabrielle's pyre.
Each morning she wakes and is no longer in the barn still startles her, but today—
Today, she rises and Gabrielle is grinning at her, happily chatting about Xena sleeping in late.
Today, she's safe.
And Xena would suffer through it all again to have this one moment.
ship: gabrielle/xena
rating: teen
additional info: post s03e02 Been There Done That
words: 160
notes: for the sapphic summer prompt 'any/any - did you let me die in your arms in the time loop?'
— original post date: summer 2023
It's been days—all of them blessedly and wholly new—since Xena was freed from the hopelessly repeating day of conflict between Houses Lycost and Menos.
When things get too quiet—she finds herself back in the loop.
Smiles at her friends and her mind reminds her of the countless days of her countless days that she spent mourning them—trying to save them and failing and knowing that when she woke up she would try and fail again.
Holds Gabrielle in her arms—so terrifyingly and familiarly still as she sleeps—and recalls cradling her while she drew her last breaths.
Watches embers float from the firepit and hears herself singing again and again at Gabrielle's pyre.
Each morning she wakes and is no longer in the barn still startles her, but today—
Today, she rises and Gabrielle is grinning at her, happily chatting about Xena sleeping in late.
Today, she's safe.
And Xena would suffer through it all again to have this one moment.
