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Andy doesn't leave Miranda in Paris, and learns that a single decision can change your life. But the main thing about decisions? You don't get to stop with one.
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- Part 1 of Truth and Measure-verse
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Gabrielle is Alexander’s advisor, strategist, and longtime childhood friend. Xena is the undefeated warrior standing between him and Thrace. To conquer her, Gabrielle must learn her tactics, but the more she studies Xena, the more she discovers there’s more to the woman than strategy alone. Lessons in war become lessons in understanding…and perhaps something far more personal.
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20 Jun 2026
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Xena is the Conqueror. The Empress, the Queen, a feared warlord with more blood on her hands than in her veins. She is feared by all, hated by many, and loved by none. Her empire is vast, but tearing at the seams. She maintains control of her realm as she maintains control within herself; with violence, and with pain.
One night, a choice is laid in her lap. Stay, and follow her present path to death and ruin, and perpetual torture in Tartarus. Stay, and remain soulless, an empty vessel of hate, rage, and pain. Or leave, take the path of change, and take with her a woman who, according to a god who would not reveal her name, carries the key to redeeming her soul. To do this, she must get this woman to forgive her, to trust her, and to unlearn what it is to fear her.
Can she do it? Probably not. Certainly she has her doubts. But does she take the path untrodden?
Yes, yes she does.
Oh, and the name of the woman, this key?
Gabrielle, of course.
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17 Jun 2026
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She’d had mere moments, where Autolycus had had days. And he’d been there in the moment in the spirit realm when Xena kissed her, and time had stopped and the earth had fallen away. He’d felt that, from Xena’s side.
Why did you kiss me? The question had been burning loops in her mind ever since.
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A slow-burn romantic semi-comedy about two useless friends sharing a kiss and then panicking about it for weeks.
Begins with a prologue set the morning after episode s2:e13, The Quest, just before the start of A Necessary Evil. The rest of the story then begins about a month later (but definitely before ADITL).
(I’m using the canonical ‘kiss’ in The Quest as a starting point, but messing with canon a wee bit, since Aphrodite gets involved and technically we hadn’t met her in the Xenaverse yet. But she wrote herself into my story, I was hardly going to say no.)
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16 Jun 2026
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Gabrielle has been finding it harder and harder to share blankets with her warrior friend, especially when Xena keeps complicating things.
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15 Jun 2026