Of Love and Her | part two: The Courtyard

Xena, Empress of Rome and wife to Caesar, and Gabrielle, a playwright, find one another in the alternate timeline Caesar created. Though they do not yet know they are victims of Caesar’s selfish interference with fate, their love and passion for one another once again rises, proving—to Caesar’s disappointment—that theirs is a connection that transcends…

Of Love and Her | part one: The Balcony

During the episode, “When Fates Collide,” Xena, Empress of Rome, and Gabrielle, a notable playwright, collide as well. Considering the cast and crew of the show admitted a kiss (or more?) between the two characters had already been written and had to be taken out of the script, it’s easy to give room for a…

Been That, Done Her

Here’s a little scene based on the Season Three episode, Been There, Done That, that I think many of us would have loved to see. What if it weren’t just Xena who knew that the day was repeating itself? What if someone else were using it to their advantage instead? What could possibly go wrong?…

The Stars Outside

Hi friends, So, the journey of A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever is over—or maybe its first part is—and it was a kind, strange, loving ride, and I'm happy of it, and of you. I told you before that I think of fanfic as a prompted fiction—take these characters that someone has already…

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: X

See Chapter One for overall synopsis and disclaimer. X: For Johnette A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:   Its loveliness increases; it will never   Pass into nothingness; but still will keep   A bower quiet for us, and a sleep   Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.           …

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: IX, Part 2 — The Turn of the Screw

See Chapter One for overall synopsis and disclaimer. IX, Part II: The Turn of the Screw Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round…

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: IX, Part I – Cliff of Caving

See Chapter One for overall synopsis and disclaimer. IX, Part I: Cliff of Caving I cannot exist without you—I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again—my Life seems to stop there—I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... It was…

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: VIII

See Chapter One for overall synopsis and disclaimer. VIII: The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. Gabrielle’s body felt hot in the water, hotter than the water, and she wondered…

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: VII

See Chapter One for overall synopsis and disclaimer. VII: Nothing ever becomes real ‘til it is experienced. Touch has a memory. Gabrielle kept her lips on Xena’s and took inventory as her body rose to life. She had no idea she had been this numb. Her chest finally started to expand, her knees shook, her…

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: VI

See Chapter One for overall synopsis and disclaimer. VI: I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion— I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is…