DECEPTIONS PART 2c
By D.virtue
“ Asking, please?”
“ I’ll think about it.” Xena purred as she untied Diana’s hands and Diana went
to sink to the floor, but was caught by Xena’s quick hands, and lifted up
into Xena’s arms and carried to the bed.
Diana rolled to her stomach and buried her head in the pillow and cried into
it as a result. Xena stood back up straight and looked back down at the
trembling body shaking as the young woman cried. Xena sneered and then she
turned and stormed out of the room.
But just before she did, Diana felt something funny radiating from the woman,
not darkness, but as far as Diana could tell through her tears and pain, it
was almost a remorse.
With that thought Diana’s sobs eased, and she laid on the bed and her mind
went to thinking about her Xena.
“ Xena where are you? I need you, I don’t know if I can do this by myself, I’m
so scared, I thought I could do this, but she’s like you in her strength, and
I’m scared. If I fight her, then I risk being hurt and Gabrielle will be left
to try and deal with both of them, but I can’t sleep with her, I won’t sleep
with her!” Diana went quiet for a moment with her prayer, then she spoke more
confidently. “ I have to tell Gabrielle. Ludmilla!!” Diana called as she
covered her backside from view, which caused acute discomfort to her behind,
but she couldn’t let her see what happened to her she would have to many
questions.
“ Yes, Your Highness?”
“ Ludmilla please bring me the silver vile in the top of that dresser drawer?”
Ludmilla turned and went and located the vile and handing it to Diana, Diana
then dismissed her and she left the chamber. Diana put a drop of the liquid on
her tongue, and after a few minutes, the pain was gone and she jumped up out
of the bed, and dressing quickly, despite the redden streaks to her behind and
lower back, she did not feel the pain from them.
She went out into the sitting room to see if Xena was there, and when she did
not see her, she went back into the chamber and getting one of the travellers,
she headed to Questra’s and Diana’s chamber.
On her way she sent a thought to the sleeping Gabrielle.
“ Gabrielle, wake up, I can’t sleep, I’m just so restless right now, come out
and talk to me for a while, please?” Diana said sending a false message to
Gabrielle, just in case.
Gabrielle moaned and then she woke up and opening her eyes she eased out of
Questra’s arms.
“ Where are you going Consort?” Questra asked as she held Gabrielle in her
arms.
“ Hmm....Diana can’t sleep and she just wants to talk for a bit, I’ll be back
as soon as she’s less restless, okay?”
“ I don’t like laying in this bed alone.”
“ I know, but I will be back as soon as I find out what’s on Diana’s mind, I
think it’s just her insatiable appetite, maybe Xena was too tired this
evening, or something like that?”
“ Hmm...I doubt if Xena would ever be to tired to take her Consort, but I’m
going to allow you to go, just don’t be away when I wake up?”
“ Okay.” Gabrielle said as she leaned back and gave a kiss to Questra and then
slid out of the bed.
Gabrielle dressed in her clothes because she did not want to walk around the
palace in her robe just in case Diana wanted to go for a walk. When Gabrielle
came out of the door she saw Diana waiting anxiously for her.
Diana instantly brought her hands to Gabrielle’s mouth and shook her head to
tell her not to speak. She then removed her hands and grabbing Gabrielle’s
hand she pulled her with her out down the corridor and down the backside of
the staircase into one of the empty chambers.
Diana then threw out the traveller and pulled Gabrielle into it with her, when
they came out they were in a city Gabrielle was not familiar with.
“ Where are we? What’s going on Diana?”
“ Gabrielle I needed to get you away from her without her knowing what was
going on.”
“ What do you mean her?”
“ Gabrielle listen to me, I just found out something last night from Nebula.”
“ Nebula?! What was she doing anywhere near you?”
“ Gabrielle forget about that, that’s not important.” Diana scolded gently.
“ What is it Diana?”
“ Gabrielle The Xena and Questra that we have been with the last few months
are.....are not our mates.”
“ What?!” Gabrielle asked with confusion in her eyes.
“ Nebula told me something last night that I couldn’t just ignore.”
“ Diana, I know you miss having Nebula in our lives, but how could you
possible believe anything she says, yet along something like that?”
“ Because Gabrielle, I looked into her eyes and I did not see any lie in
anything she said, and what happened when she kissed me was a result of this
Xena’s influence.”
“ How can that be? You would have know it wasn’t Xena, right?”
“ that’s what I thought, but these two people are Xena and Questra in every
way, except their not ours.”
“ I don’t understand.”
“ Gabrielle their clones.”
“ Clones?”
“ Yes, Clones are people who are made from the D.N.A. of the original person,
or in this case people.”
“ How did they get any of Xena’s and Questra’s D.N.A.?”
“ I don’t know, but that’s not important right now. Right now I have to keep
you safe.”
“ No! I won’t let you handle this by yourself. Where is Questra?”
“ Both she and Xena are supposedly with some God somewhere, but we can’t think
about that right now, otherwise I won’t be able to do this.”
“ Diana I’ve been sleeping with a......” Gabrielle gagged and then she turned
and got sick, and Diana went to her knees and after Gabrielle finished being
sick, she hugged her too her body and rocked her in her arms.
“ I’m sorry Gabrielle, I’m soooo, sorry, but I swear to you I will find a way
to get both Questra and Xena back, I......I...I know it hurts, but I need for
you to be strong for me, okay, come on now, dry your eyes, I need to tell you
my plan and see if you have any ideas on it.”
Gabrielle composed herself and drying her eyes she and Diana sat down right
where they had come out of the traveller, and Diana told Gabrielle her plans
and she also told her why she couldn’t risk having Gabrielle within arms reach
of either of the two Rulers. She showed Gabrielle the whip marks that were
still very present on her backside, and Gabrielle broke down once again.
“ Do they hurt?”
“ Not anymore, I used the pain relieving elixer. Anyway, this is why you can’t
stay there and help with this.”
“ I can handle it Diana, plus I don’t scar now, thanks to you.”
“ Gabrielle.....you don’t get it, just because I don’t scar and I heal fast,
doesn’t mean that this doesn’t hurt. Gabrielle to be whipped by Xena, and I
would think Questra seeing that she is one of my Chosen, is like a hundred men
rolled into one, and that strength is well controlled, but if Xena ever chose
to truly hurt me. She could, Gabrielle Xena could literally cripple me if she
chose to. I can only imagine if Questra lost her temper with you, or Xena
even, what the consequences would be. No Gabrielle, I can’t allow you to be
hurt by either of these two women, I will handle them.”
“ Diana how are you going to handle two Chosen? The minute Questra discovers
me gone, she’s going to come after you to find out where I am. What are you
going to tell her?
“ I’ll tell her that I don’t know, that the last time I saw you was when you
were heading back to your chamber.”
“ What if she doesn’t believe you?”
“ Then I will have to deal with that, but Gabrielle if you don’t think I’ve
made a case for you to stay here, or somewhere else where they wouldn’t think
to look, then let me make my case. Can you allow yourself to be taken by this
woman, can you pleasure her when she wants that, can you allow her to do that
to you? If you can answer yes to any of those Questions Gabrielle, then I will
allow you to come and help with this.”
Gabrielle’s skin blanched and she looked at Diana for a moment more thinking
about what she had just asked her and suddenly, she turned and got sick again.
“ See Gabrielle, you can’t even stand the idea that you were bedded by her in
the first place, well it’s exactly how I felt, only I just felt sick, anyway,
that’s how I ended up being whipped, because I couldn’t stand the idea of it
either, and what’s worst is she’s told me that everytime I deny her, she will
whip me for it. Could you deal with that thought? I don’t think so, because
it’s almost impossible for me to deal with that thought, A thought that I will
be whipped with her whip by her, every single time I refuse her, it chills me
to my bones, and all I want to do is sit down and cry for Xena, my Xena, you
know Gabrielle, sometimes I think is all of the risk and pain and hurt and
suffering worth my staying and risking all of you. I wonder sometimes what all
of our lives would have been like had I never come into this picture?”
“ I can tell you Diana.” Gabrielle said calmly.
Diana looked at her with thoughtful eyes and Gabrielle took Diana’s silence as
cue for her to continue.
“ Our lives would be horrible, all of ours. Because Xena would never have
changed from the Cruel and unfeeling woman she use to be. I would probably be
a slave somewhere, having lost my innocence to some barbaric Master, Questra
would still be with Callisto and she would have never been inspired to change
from her evil ways if you were not here. And you dear sister, you would still
be under Rah’s manipulation, via your other Chosen, and no telling what he
would have done eventually to your other sisters, one at a time, just slowly
trying to break your spirit. Diana You have made so much difference in all of
our lives, and if it’s meant for us to constantly put our lives on the line,
to protect those who are unable to do so for themselves or because it is our
responsibilities as Rulers to do so, then so be it, I will suffer whatever I
must as long as I know all of you are here for me, especially now that Questra
has come into my life. But even that would have never happened had you not
been here. You have saved this place so many times I can hardly keep count,
the only thing that I hurt about the most is the fact that you end up doing it
alone.”
Diana had tears rolling down her face as she held her gaze on her hands, then
she looked up into Gabrielle’s eyes and a loving smile came to her face.
“ Gabrielle....that’s why your the bard, you have the gift to say the right
thing at the right time. I never feel alone whenever I think about all of you,
and I know your somewhere waiting for me, the only time I ever feel alone is
when I don’t know where you are or I can’t get to you guys. Gabrielle if you
really think you can handle being bedded by Questra then you can come with me
and I will welcome your help, but if you can’t, then I will understand that
and I will be relieved to know you are safe. You know what, if you can find
Nebula, then you two can work together to find the person who sent our mates
away.”
“ Are you sure?”
“ I’m positive.”
“ Okay, you said she was going to look along the area where Xena and Questra
went to that meeting?”
“ Right, when you find her tell her that your going to stay with her until I
call for the two of you to bring the person. I also told Nebula to disappear
with the person until then.”
“ Okay we’ll all disappear until then, but what if things get dangerous
outside of just you?”
“ I thought about that, but right now first things first.”
“ You sound like Xena.”
“ I hope to be just like her one day.”
“ Talk about I have a way of saying the right thing, I know if Xena heard that
her heart would just rupture from the love she would feel.”
“ You think?”
“ I know. Because it’s exactly how I feel about Questra, the more I learn
about, the more I want to be like her, Strong, beautiful, romantic, wise,
smart, loving, gentle, tender, kind, understanding....”
“ Gabrielle?” Diana called breaking Gabrielle’s verbal loving of her mate.
“ Hm?”
“ I think we would be here all morning and night if I let you continue,
because I know their are over a thousand reasons why, and I would understand
all of them. But right now, let me get you to where Nebula might be, since
it’s been at least a day, I would think she is probably not using her
traveller, and therefore she maybe.... in the province where the meeting took
place.” Diana reasoned out, and then she looked at Gabrielle and realizing
Gabrielle would be instantly recognized, Diana told Gabrielle to stay where
she was and she would be right back.
Diana dashed off to the town and slipped into the clothier’s shop and taking
the things she would need to thoroughly disguise Gabrielle, she then left some
Dinars on the counter and disappeared the same way she had entered.
After dressing Gabrielle in the disguised clothes and things, they went
through the traveller and came out in the province.
“ Okay Gabrielle if you need me, send a message and I will try to come, or use
the traveller and send a message for me to meet you somewhere?”
“ Okay, be careful Diana.”
“ I will, you too, as soon as you and Nebula find this person, I want you to
disappear and send the message to Nebula. Now I have to get back, I love you.”
“ I love you too.”
The two embrace for a bit and then giving each other a brave smile Diana
turned and threw the traveller back in the direction of the palace and
disappeared through it.
Meanwhile, the watching Xena and Questra had tears rolling, as they sat
silently just watching and listening to everything, on top of having to deal
with the taunts of the Old one.
“ Aw....poor things, they seem so brave, and yet so lost without the two of
you, well...I think they are soooo....interesting, especially that Diana,
she’s brave beyond her years, but she’s also wise, she knows the dangers, and
yet her first thought was to protect her sister....isn’t that just so
sickening, She should just forget about her and everyone else and save
herself, because when I get there, then we will really see some wonderful
carnage, I will destroy all of those goody, goodies, but I will actually allow
my two wonderful servants to have those two, who knows, they may come in handy
another day. What do you think?”
“ I think you better hope I never find a way to destroy you, because if I ever
do, I will make sure to make you suffer. Since you seem to be into pain a and
suffering.’ Xena said dangerously through her teeth.
“ hahahahahahahahahahah....OHHHHH Xena your sooooo....utterly delicious.”
“ HM... we’ll see if you still feel that way one day.” Xena stated curtly and
then went silent once again.
Meanwhile Diana had returned to the palace and went to the library to rest for
a little bit before morning sun came up, and before she had to deal with both
Xena and Questra.
Diana laid down on the sofa and went to sleep for a short while. When she woke
up she heard commotion in the corridor, voices raised and soldiers shouting
orders for chambers to be searched, and as she sat up, she realized what the
commotion was about, she decided to play as if she didn’t hear it and she laid
back down and closing her eyes she waited for the soldiers to find her in the
library, that way she could use the excuse that she had fallen asleep.
Just as she was about to close her eyes, she realized that if she was caught
with the traveller then Xena and Questra would be suspicious. So Diana jumped
up off of the sofa and flew to a window and looking out she saw the stable
loft shutter open, she took aim and seeing a little nook area she threw the
traveller through the open shutter and it landed inside of the nook and straw
flurried over it, thus covering it.
Diana then heard the soldiers approaching the library and she flew back to the
sofa and laying down on the sofa once again she closed her eyes and waited.
“Search the Library!” Came an order from Brenis, one of Xena’s royal soldiers.
The door flew open and over a dozen soldiers entered the chamber and
immediately they spread out and begun searching, and because of the size of
the Library, it took them some time to discover Diana.
Finally one of the soldiers came over to the area where Diana was and seeing
Her Highness asleep on it, the soldier motioned for Brenis.
“ Well, look at that? Our sweet Highness is asleep, she must have been really
tired to fall asleep here and not hear us come in, usually she would have been
on her feet the moment we turned the first corner of the corridor.”
“ Shall we wake her?”
“ We have too, I don’t think Our lord will appreciate anyone touching her
Highness while she is asleep, other than herself. Plus I don’t want to be the
one to enter into the throne room Carrying her highness, do you?”
“ NO! How about if we just send a message to Our Lord That we have found Her
highness?”
“ Yes, that'll work. Do it.”
The message went to the throne room where Xena was holding court and everyone
who came before her was punished harshly for even the smallest of crimes.
“ So you like to steal huh Matais? Your a teacher hmm?”
“ Ye...yes...yes My Lord?”
“ And this is what you teach the children of my Realm? How to steal?”
“ No, no My Lord, I teach history.”
“ History, hmm that’s appropriate, look at you left hand Matais.” When Matais
looked down at his hand, Xena motioned for the punisher to step near and at
her signal to take it off. “ So have you figured out the history lesson yet
Matais?”
Matais started to lower his hand to answer the question, but Xena told him to
keep it there and just to look at it again and think about what the lesson
was, then when his eyes were on the hand, Xena gave the signal and the
punisher’s blade sliced through the wrist, so quickly and efficiently that the
man was still looking at the hand as it separated from his wrist and descended
to the floor of the covered throne room floor.
Then after a moment it registered and the man screamed and then fainted from
the sight and reality of having lost a limb due to his pilfering.
“ Remove him and it from my sight, and send in the next prisoner.” Xena
ordered.
One of the guards begun removing the man and his sever arm from before the
Conqueror, and the other moved rapidly to go and get the next prisoner. In
the interim, one of the Advisors was talking to Xena about some of the other
prisoners, and then one of the soldiers from the search party came into the
chamber and whispering to another Soldier he smiled slightly and then turned
and strided in to inform Lord Xena.
“ My Lord, We have News of her Highness.”
“ Where is she?”
“ She is in the Royal Library.”
“ The Library!” Xena dismissed the soldier and gesturing to her Advisor she
then told him to cancel the rest of the court session.
“ Yes My Lord.”
When the soldier returned with the next prisoner. Xena waited for the advisor
to make the announcement, after he did, she stood up and strided out of the
door that entered at the throne.
Xena sent a soldier to locate Questra and tell her to meet her in the Library.
Meanwhile, Brenis decided to wake Diana.
“ Your Highness?”
“ Mmmm....what is it?”
“ Your highness we have been searching for you.”
Diana opened her eyes and pretended to be focusing on Brenis.
“ What?”
“ We were searching for you, Our Lord Didn’t know where you were and she
became concerned.”
“ Oh, hmm, well I’ll go and talk to her, sorry to have worried you guys.”
“ We’re just relieved that your okay Your Majesty.”
“ Thank you Brenis.” Diana then stretched and then asked again. “ Where is Our
Lord?”
“ Right here Consort.” Came an icy response.
Diana’s eyes looked over at the door and saw Xena and felt her anger.
“ Get Out!! All Of You.” Xena commanded.
After everyone bowed and darted for the door and nearly ran each other over
trying to get out of the double doors, they were closed behind the last person
and Diana and Xena were left alone.
“ So...you run off huh?”
“ Xena, I didn’t run off, I didn’t know if you were going to come back or not,
and I couldn’t sleep because of my backside, but I could hardly walk either,
but I wanted to talk to someone, so I went to go and talk with Gabrielle, we
came down here and talked for a while and then afterwards she went back to her
chamber, but I stayed down here and read for a while, and then before I knew
it, I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I heard was the soldiers.
Why would you think I ran off?” Diana explained as she straighten the sofa up,
thus avoiding letting Xena see her eyes the whole time.
“ Why wouldn’t you? I mean I did whip you, with my whip?”
“ True, but I was thinking about that.”
“ Really?” Xena asked skeptically.
“ Yes. While I thought you were completely wrong for using it on me rather
than a leather strap or something, I understand why you were so angry with me,
and I’m sorry for that.”
“ Really?” Xena said as she now walked slowly around Diana to come and stand
at her side.
“ Yes. I was wrong for taunting you the way I did, it was disrespectful, I was
just feeling extremely frustrated, and tired.”
“ I bet you were frustrated, for more reasons than your saying Consort.” Xena
inserted.
Diana didn’t respond to the statement, but instead stayed on her own course.
Diana had decided while talking to Gabrielle that she would do whatever was
necessary to find a way to capture and restraint the two women.
“ Maybe, I don’t know, but I do know I am ready to make it up to you.” Diana
stated as she glanced over at Xena who was just standing with her arms crossed
studying her.
“ Are you now?”
“ Yes.” Diana stated.
“ Come here.” Xena commanded and Diana turned and went to stand in front of
Xena where she had walked to after a moment by her.
Xena looked down into Diana’s eyes and Diana focused on looking at the Xena in
front of her as her own Xena, that way she could go through the whole thing
and not have her feelings betray the persona she was putting up.
“ How can I make it up to you My Lord?” Diana asked looking up into Xena’s
eyes with humbleness.
Xena’s eyes narrowed for a brief moment, but then when she didn’t feel the lie
from Diana, she cocked her head and truly wondered what the young woman was up
to. But she knew it was something, for her to be offering herself to her,
knowing she was not her Xena.
“ I don’t know right now, I’m very angry with you, and I really feel like
whipping you again for disappearing the way you did.” Xena stated pointedly.
Diana wet her lips slightly, and then with an unsure and small smile, Diana
brought her hands up to Xena’s chest.
“ Maybe I can change that feeling to a more productive one?”
“ Really?”
“ I can try can’t I?” Diana asked as she moved closer to Xena, to where Xena
could feel the heat off of Diana’s lightly covered body.
Diana leaned forward and kissed a bare area of Xena’s neck, as she unfastened
the Royal Robe she was wearing down to where her breast were exposed to
Diana’s gaze.
Diana looked up at Xena and when she saw the flush to Xena’s cheeks she knew
despite the unflinching, steady gaze Xena had leveled on her, Xena’s passion
was running high with anticipation.
Diana stepped closer and bringing her hands down, one to each of Xena’s
breast, Diana lingered for a moment over the jeweled area of Xena’s breast
where her tears had left three jewels that had become a part of Xena’s breast
ever since, she smiled for a moment and then she flicked her tongue over the
areas, and she felt the shiver run up Xena’s body.
Diana then kissed her way down to the peaks as she kneaded the mass of flesh
in her hands. Flicking her tongue over one of them, she heard a moan escape
Xena’s lips, and then looking up at her she covered the peak with her mouth
and then begun suckling it.
Xena’s knees suddenly felt weak, but she stood where she was and let Diana
seduce her out of her anger. Diana then moved to the other peak and did the
same thing, and Xena wondered how far Diana would go to try and convince her
she was serious.
“ Consort?”
“ Hmmm...came the response as Diana held the peak in her mouth, thus sending a
stimulating vibration through Xena, right to her core.
“ If you decide to stop, I will punish you worst than I did this last time. By
the way, how is it that your not in pain?”
Diana sent the response with her mind.
“ I took the elixir, so I could walk without pain.”
Xena pulled Diana off of her breast and glared at her and said in an angry
voice.
“ You dared to undo something that I did?”
“ I needed to talk to Gabrielle, and I couldn’t do it from or chamber.
Besides, do you really want to get into why I’m not in pain, or would you
rather continue what we’re started?”
“ Your lucky Consort, just don’t do it again.”
“ Okay.” Diana said as she went back to what she was doing, and trying to
focus on keeping the repulsiveness she was feeling from overwhelming her.
Diana slowly lowered herself down Xena’s body as she unfastened fastener,
after fastener. Xena watched intrigues and completely impassioned, that Diana
would give herself to her, it actually sent a shiver of excitement and respect
that the young woman was brave enough to be doing such a thing, despite what
she knew, then a random went through Xena’s mind.
“ Maybe she really don’t mind, because I am her Xena in every way, maybe she
really could be my Consort.”
Then Xena shook her head of the absurdity of the thoughts and looking down at
Diana still lowering down Xena’s slowly exposing body. Just when Diana was
about to touch the soft hairs of Xena’s jewel, the library door flew open, and
Diana startled enough to come back t her feet, While Xena simply cut her eyes
to the offending door and the intruder.
“ Questra?! Your timing is very bad.” Xena stated, irritated and more
frustrated as a result of Diana stopping.
“ I was told to meet you here. So did she tell you?”
“ Did I tell you what Xena?” Diana asked as she turned to face the angry woman
storming towards her, with one of Xena’s arm wrapped around Diana’s waist,
almost protectively.
“ Where Gabrielle is?” Xena answered.
Diana turned around to face Xena and with a confused look on her face she then
turned back around and asked Questra what she was thinking.
“ What do you mean where is Gabrielle? She was with you?”
“ No, she left our bed to go and talk with you early this morning.”
“ I know, we came down here and we talked for a while, because I couldn’t
sleep, and I wanted someone to talk to, Xena was upset with me, and I didn’t
feel comfortable waking you up, so I figure Gabrielle was the perfect person
to talk to, I mean we are sisters and things, anyway, we talked and then she
said she had to get back to your chamber, so that you wouldn’t wake up alone
in the bed without her, she was real concerned about that, and I understood
that, so we said good night again and she went back to your chamber.” Diana
explained as she made purposeful efforts to avoid looking Questra in the eye
the whole time by looking down at the sofa and then turning and sitting down.
“ Well I woke up alone, and since you were the last to talk to her I figured
you were the best person to start with.”
“ That makes sense. Maybe she told her personal servant where she was going?
Did you ask her?”
“ Yes, but she said she hadn’t seen her since yesterday evening.”
“ Maybe she was called to the Amazon Nation for some reason?”
“ You sure are coming up with a lot of reasons why she’s not here?” Questra
said noticing the trend.
“ Questra...” Diana started, but noticing the bared teeth at the address she
corrected herself.
“ Forgive me, Lord Questra, I’m only coming up with possibilities of where she
could be, I’d rather think she just went somewhere to take care of some
business,and forgot to leave you a message, than to think that something has
happened to my sister.” Diana said feigning having been offended.
“ Is that right?”
“ Yes that’s right. Guard!!!” Diana shouted, and after a second or so four
guards came running into the the library.
“ Yes Your Majesty?”
“ Has my sister been located?!!”
“ Not yet your majesty.”
“ Where have you searched?!”
“ All of her known places, her parents home, the Amazons, the Bards Inn, the
city of Gabrielle, and a lot of other places,she normally visited.”
Diana used the knowledge of not knowing where Nebula and Gabrielle really
were, and she made herself feel the anger and anxiety.
“ Find her, and if anything has happened to my sister....there’ll be Tartarus
to pay, and I’ll be the collector. Now go and find my sister.” Diana said
through her teeth.
Diana then turned her attention back to Questra.
“ If something happened to my sister, I’ll tear the heart out of the person
who hurt her.”
“ Are you accusing me of having done something to her?” Questra asked with
flames in her eyes.
Xena saw and felt Questra’s rage and moving in front of Diana, protectively
for some reason which was beyond her, but she couldn’t let Questra lose her
temper on Diana.
“ Questra, I’m sure that’s not what Diana was saying, right Consort?”
Diana didn’t answer for a moment, and then when Xena looked back at Diana with
a raised brow, Diana saw an opportunity.
“ Of course not, why would I think such a thing? I mean the love Gabrielle has
for Lord Questra is almost as deep as our own. “ Diana said as she came to her
feet behind Xena. “ I’m sorry that I gave you the impression that I was
accusing you, it wasn’t what I meant to do, I was just letting the two of you
know my intentions should someone have hurt my sister.”
“ Fine. Apology accepted, just be careful how you say things.”
“ I will.”
“ Xena we can’t practice without Gabrielle, we have to find her.”
“ We will Lord Questra.”
“ Plus the fact of me not having my Consort to relieve my tension?”
“ We’ll find her.”
“ Fine. I’m heading out to help in the search.”
“ Very well, if we hear anything we’ll let you know, right Consort?”
“ Oh, yes, definitely.” Diana said as she let her hands slide down the back of
Xena’s robe and slowly she lifted it while Xena and Questra continued their
conversation about where Questra would start her search.
Xena’s cheeks were begin to flush once again as Diana caressed the firm
muscles. Questra saw the flush and her brows knitted and she sent a thought to
Xena.
“ What’s going on?”
“ She wants me to take her, and I will accommodate her.”
“ she wants to do this, despite knowing you aren’t her Xena?’
“ Yes.”
“ I think she’s up to something, and I think she knows where Gabrielle is, if
you give me a chance I’m sure I could find out the truth?”
“ I think she’s up to something as well, but I felt her anger at the thought
that something might have happened to her sister, I don’t believe she knows
where she is, but if I discover she’s lied to me, then I will make her pay.”
“ Fine.”
“ I’ll talk to you later Questra. “ Xena called as Questra headed for the door
of the Library.
“ Very well.” Questra called back and then disappeared out the door.
Xena then reached behind her and brought Diana around to the front of her and
she planted a searing kiss on Diana, who despite her hate of the woman, found
herself moaning into the woman’s throat.
Xena heard it and her heart raced as a result of the possibility that Diana
really did want her. Xena stripped Diana out of her clothing and when Diana
did not recoil, Xena had to stop and look at her to see if Diana was truly
responding to her touch the way she assumed she was.
“ What?” Diana asked breathlessly.”
“ Nothing.” Xena said as she claimed Diana’s sweet lips once again, and the
two feasted on each others mouth as if there were no barriers between them.
Diana kept telling herself that this was Xena and therefore she was able to
keep her feelings from betraying the acting she was doing, although there was
no acting the stimulation her body was feeling.
Xena lowered them to the floor and laying over top of Diana she slid her hand
down to her flower and caressing the slick peak, she hungrily feasted on
Diana’s mouth and then moved down to her breast where she cover the taut peak
with her mouth and moaning and greedily sucking hard on the peak and hearing
Diana’s pleasure sounds only fed her desire.
Xena felt the heat from Diana’s body burning against her own hot body, and
sliding her hand down further into Diana’s flower, she buried her fingers deep
inside of Diana’s flower and hearing the catch of Diana’s breath, sent Xena
into a frenzy. Xena thrusted purposefully in and out of Diana and after a bit,
she felt Diana’s core begin to quiver continuously, and because of her own
excitement, she whispered in Diana’s ear, slightly huskily.
“ Give yourself to me Consort.”
Diana’s heart stopped for a moment, at least that’s what she thought happened
when she heard the words, and for a split second her guard dropped and she
felt the hate of the woman taking her, but then she immediately put it back up
and falling over into her bliss she called out Xena’s name, deceivingly.
Xena thought she was calling her name out in bliss, when she was actually
calling her Xena’s name in bliss. Xena’s orgasm struck her like lightening,
and she shouted Diana’s name out, in ecstasy. Diana felt the emotions racing
through Xena and although she didn’t say anything she found herself stunned
none the less.
When Xena and Diana’s orgasms ended, they laid spent and trying to catch their
breath. Xena didn’t feel any deception in Diana, and because of it, she pulled
Diana to her, and when Diana snuggled close Xena felt a strange closeness to
the young woman laying in her arms now fast asleep.
Xena hugged the woman tighter to her body and just revelled in the afterglow
of what had just happened between her and Diana.
Later that day when Questra had returned, Xena had left Diana in their chamber
and she went to go and talk with Questra.
“ You look like you just swallowed the canary Xena?”
“ I think I did. After you left, Diana and I had the most incredible sex.”
“ Xena you two always do, what was so different about this time?”
“ She called out MY name at the height of her passion.”
“ Really? Wait, did you think that maybe she was calling out her Xena’s name,
I mean you both have the same name?”
“ I thought about that, but I didn’t feel any different emotion from her at
that point, and what makes me believe she was really calling out my name and
not her other Xena, was because, just before she released, I told her to give
herself to me, and she did, completely.” I feel sooooo.....full.” Xena stated
as a shiver ran through her.
“ If I didn’t know better Xena.....I'd think you actually had feeling for the
your Consort?” Questra said with a sneer, and repulsion at the thought of
love.
“ This has nothing to do with love, it’s all about having what I want,
whenever I want.”
“ Okay, that’s wonderful for you, but we still have not found my Consort!”
Questra reminded Xena.
“ I’ll ask Diana again and see if she knows anything.”
“ And if you see she’s lying to you?”
“ Then she’ll feel my wrath for her bad judgment.”
“ As long as we understand each other.” Questra stated as she felt relief with
Xena’s answer.
Xena then turned and went back to their chamber and looking down at Diana as
she slept she sat down on the side of the bed and with some hesitation, she
brought her hand up to caress the ebony tresses of Diana’s long thick hair,
that seem to cover her body like a silken blanket over her back.
Xena marveled at how beautiful Diana’s hair was, and how perfect it fit her,
as well as how the darkness of the tresses brought out Diana’s features even
more. Xena noticed how long Diana’s lashes were and how they matched her hair
color perfectly, along with the matching eyebrows.
Xena only saw one side of Diana’s face seeing how she was laying on her
stomach, with her head turned to the side. Xena sat there just looking at the
sleeping woman and thinking about how things could be if she did really want
her.
Xena then sneered, and pulled her hand away at the thought, realizing once
again that Diana didn’t know she knew she wasn’t her Xena. Xena then stood up
and stormed over to the table and pouring herself some port, she drunk it down
in one gulp.
Xena then walked back over to the bed and sitting down, she gave Diana’s
behind a shake to wake her.
“ Mmm?” Diana moaned in her groggy state.
“ Wake up Consort.” Xena stated as she stood up and walked over to the window
and looked out.
“ what is it Xena, have they found Gabrielle yet?” Diana asked as she aroused
and went into her act.
“ No. But you know what I think?”
“ What?” Diana said as she moved her hair out of her face.
“ I think you know where she is? I didn’t want to say anything yesterday,
because I know Questra would have a way to find you alone and possibly hurt
you, and I can’t have anyone else punishing my Consort, right?”
“ Right, but Xena I don’t know where Gabrielle is, if I did don’t you think I
would tell Questra, I mean why would I want to see her hurting and worried?”
“ Would you tell her?”
“ Xena, I can’t believe you would doubt me, especially after we made up in the
library? Gabrielle is my sister and I would never want anything to happen to
her.”
“ I know. That’s why I think you know where she is. So why don’t you stop
lying to me and just tell me where she is?”
“ Xena I don’t know where she is.” Diana stated as she sat up in the bed
looking at the woman who stood by the window and didn’t look at her once.
“ Diana I’ve been wondering something since Gabrielle’s been gone?”
“ What’s that?”
“ Why is it that your not anxious to find Gabrielle?” Xena asked as she turned
to finally look at Diana.
“ What do you mean, I very anxious to find my sister?”
“ Are you? And why is it that you refer to Gabrielle as your sister, when you
talk to me, rather than as Gabrielle?”
“ What do you mean?” Diana asked as she watched Xena move towards the bed, and
she came to her knees and begun moving back towards Xena side of the bed.
“ You sound as though your talking to a stranger, rather than someone your
heart belongs too, why is that?”
“ I don’t know what you mean Xena?”
“ Don’t you? Would you like to know what I think?”
“ Does it involve me being punished?”
A smirk came to Xena’s lips as a result of Diana’s sincere concern.
“ Maybe, maybe not, it all depends on you?”
“ Okay.”
“ I think you don’t trust me or Questra for some reason? I think you think we
aren’t ourselves or something?”
“ Why would I think that? I mean if you weren’t my Xena, do you think I would
let you bed me?”
“ Yes.”
“ Yes?? How do you figure?”
“ Because of the pain I could inflict on you if you denied me, and the fact
that I could take you even if you fault me.”
“ Okay, you have a point there, but then you would feel not only my fear, but
also my repulsion of you, if you were some strange person, I mean my body
would still respond to you if you were some exact likeness , something like
a.....clone for instance, I mean if that were the case then you and Questra
would be connected to me and Gabrielle just like a real Xena and Questra...”
Diana then paused for a moment and realized that Xena may actually know that
she knew, so she decided to play it up. “ Besides, it wouldn’t make much of a
difference with me and you if you were.”
“ Really?”
“ Yes, I mean I think that would be too wonderful, I mean think about it from
my point of view? I would have to of the same person who I am totally in love
with! Gods....what a thought!! Two Xena’s exactly alike in every way...OOOOO
the thought sends chills through me. Hmmm it’s also quite a turn on. You think
you could manage to quite this sudden storm in me?” Diana asked seductively as
she leaned forward and leaned close to Xena’s lips and then looking up in her
eyes, Diana visualized it was her Xena gazing at her, studying her, raking her
eyes over her body, and doing such a good job at imaging, a blush ran up
Diana’s body and came to stop in her cheeks.
Xena saw it and her eyes lit in response.
“ So.....my consort wants to play who is she making love to, is it the real
Xena, or am I only a clone?” Xena brought her hand to Diana’s cheeks and
caressed the delicate skin, as she watched the woman.
“ Hmm...it shouldn’t be hard to play, I mean you haven’t really being acting
like yourself anyway, so how hard could it be to pretend?” Diana said as she
moved back to the middle of the bed.
Xena caught Diana’s chin and pulled her back to her and while looking at her
eyes she brought their lips together and Diana closed her eyes as she imaged
once again that it was her Xena.
Xena laid Diana back on the bed and turning her own body she covered Diana’s
and as her hands went to caressing Diana’s body, she gave Diana a command.
“ Diana I want you to open your eyes and keep them on me, I want you to see
who your making love to.”
Diana hesitated for a moment and then she opened them.
“ Why? I know who I’m making love to?”
“ Do you?”
“ Of course I do Xena.”
“ We’ll see?”
The hairs on the back of Diana’s neck started to stand up and a shiver ran
down her spine, she was beginning to feel something dangerous about the Xena
over top of her, and she didn’t want to be in a vulnerable position if that
was the case.
Suddenly, Diana rolled them over and had Xena on the bottom. Xena’s eyes
started to darken with suspicion, and Diana saw them, Diana suddenly begun
kissing Xena with all of the passion she could muster, and hearing Xena moan ,
sent a shudder through Diana, at what the Xena under her must be thinking.
Diana figured she had only one shot, and she couldn’t take anymore chances,
she had decided that Xena knew and this was all a test and Xena had plans for
her. The thought sent a shudder through her that Xena felt and responded to as
if Diana were turned on to her, she started to caress Diana’s body, but Diana
caught her hands with her own and brought them over their heads, Diana kissed
and sucked on Xena’s neck, and Xena was trying to bring her hands back down to
touch Diana’s hot body, but Diana was trying to do something else.
When Diana felt Xena start to use her strength to get her arms down Diana let
her arms come down so that Xena would not get suspicious of her. Xena’s hands
found Diana’s behind and immediately began kneading the firm muscles. Diana
moaned at the caress and then she caught Xena hands again and once again she
brought them up above their heads.
“ Why do you keep doing that?’ Xena finally asked.
“ Because I want to see if you can handle my passion without touching me,
until I say you can?”
“ Really?” Xena asked suspiciously.
“ Yessss.....”
“ I think you have another plan?”
“ No love, no other, just what I’ve told you.” Diana purred as she made it to
Xena’s breast and begun licking over the tip of one of Xena’s nipples.
“ And you think you can hold my arms up here while your going downwards?”
“ No. I thought I would trust you to keep your arms above your head, besides
it stretches the muscles in a very exciting way?”
“ So your not going to try to hold my hands and arms?”
“ No, remember this is a test?”
“ Okay, we’ll do it your way for the moment.” Xena then lifted her hands back
up and finding the head bars to hold onto Xena made herself comfortable.
Diana came up from Xena’s breast and looking down into her eyes, she let a
smile come to her face and then she leaned down and just before she kissed
Xena, she whispered, “ Thank you.” Then Diana kissed her, and using her mind
Diana brought the restraints her and Xena used on each other when they played
around, and before Xena knew it, the shackles locked around her wrist.
Diana jumped up off of her and Diana felt the powerful rage radiating from
Xena’s body.
“ Unlock these Diana.” Xena hissed with a icy tone.
“ I can’t.”
Xena began to thrash around on the bed violently and turning onto her stomach
and then going to her knees, she pulled at the restraints trying to pull them
from the wall. But because the inside of the wall was made with the Metal of
Hephaestus, she could not pull it out.
Diana then thought about something, and as a result she found something to
cover Xena’s mouth with, but the problem would be how to get it over her
mouth. Xena saw the problem and a wick grin came to her mouth.
“ Soo....you realize you have to get that over my mouth, but you have no idea
how your going to do it? Well little girl, I’d say you have a problem?”
Diana didn’t say anything, she just begun moving slowly around the bed trying
to find away around Xena’s long powerful legs. Xena just followed her with her
eyes, and when Diana started to climb on the bed Xena didn’t move she just
watched her, and when Diana was close enough, she swung her long legs around
and caught Diana on the side of the face with her foot, and Diana flew
backwards off of the bed, and landed hard against the wall.
Xena let out and evil laugh as she saw Diana stagger and then lean hard
against one of the window sills. Diana chewed her lip, and just looked at
Xena, and then when Xena stopped laughing she raised a brow at the young
woman.
“ Would you like to try again?”
“ No.” Diana threw down the cloth and getting the leather straps that were
used to hold Xena when they were out in the garden or one of the Inns, Diana
then turned and left the room followed by Xena’s evil laughter.
Diana went to go and find Questra and then decided to have Questra meet her in
the dungeon.
“ Tell Lord Questra that there is a prisoner in the dungeon who knows where
Gabrielle maybe, but don’t tell her I told you, if she ask where the message
came from just tell her a messager came to tell Lord Xena, but she wasn’t in
and so I went to go check it out. Alright Dancea?”
“ Okay.”
Dancea went and found Questra and delivered Diana’s message and Lord Questra
flew to the dungeon to interrogate the prisoner as well. When she got there
she found Diana supposedly chained. She walked over to her and looked at the
chains that held her and then a smirk came to her face.
“ What happened to you?”
“ He caught me from behind, I woke up here?”
Questra let out a hearty laugh and then leaned close to Diana.
“ And I suppose you want me to unfasten you?”
“ Yes.”
“ Why should I?”
“ Why wouldn’t you?”
“ What’s in it for me?”
“ Well if you unfasten me, then we can catch the guy who knows where Gabrielle
is?”
“ Hmm..okay.” Questra then reached up and unfastened one of the shackles from
Diana’s wrist and then just as she unfastened the next, and was about to lower
her hands Diana clamped the shackles around her wrist and then moved out of
her reach.
“ What in Tartarus is going on?!!” Questra shouted.
Diana ripped out a cloth and quickly tied it over Questra’s mouth and then
moved away again.
“ I had to do this.” Diana said as she watched the woman struggle to get free.
Then Questra sent Diana a thought.
“ Why?!”
“ I couldn’t take the chance that you would come after me when Xena called for
you to tell you what I had done. I can’t handle both of you at the same time,
GODS!! I can barely handle one of you. I know your not our mates, and I know
that your plan is to take over this planet and then move on to the others in
the solar system. I can’t let you do that.”
“ How are you alone going to stop us?” Questra asked using her mind only.
“ I don’t know.”
“ So it was you who sent Gabrielle away?”
“ Yes. I couldn’t let her get hurt.”
“ Why would I hurt her?”
“ Because you have no feelings for her except lust, and even that feeling
would be buried when your plan came to bare.”
“ Actually I did sort of like the little one, but your right, a different lust
would flame up the moment He arrived.”
“ I know.”
“ So...what do you plan on doing now?”
“ I’m going to go and talk to your friend.”
“ You mean your Xena?”
“ She’s not my Xena.” Diana said as she turned and headed out the chamber.
“ Your wrong.”
Diana stopped and asked over her shoulder without looking back, “ About
what?”
“ She is your Xena, just like I’m Gabrielle’s Questra.”
Diana glanced over her shoulder and then turned back around and continued out
the door and left.
“ First No one is to enter this chamber unless you hear it from my lips
personally. Don’t even look in there. I’ve locked the door and closed the peep
hole door, I have the key to the door and I will hold onto it. If something
happens I will be in my chamber. I will send 50 more soldiers here to stand
watch as well, the person in that room is deadly, if the person gets loose,
you all will die by her hands, and painfully. So don’t do anything except
stand ready at all times. Do you understand?” Diana asked the anxiety obvious
in her voice.
“ Yes Your Majesty.”
“ Good.” Diana then turned and strided out of the dungeon area and just as she
was heading back up the staircase to their chamber and with each step she felt
her heartbeat increase. Diana resolved to herself that whatever happens, at
least she tried.