Puppy Eyes

by AngelKim

Disclaimers:- I don't own them, don't sue me, 'nuff said.

The Warning Label:- Nothing bad at all, no vioelnce, no subtext, no sex, nothing really, just a short piece about Xena, and how she can never say no.

Summary:- Ares asks Xena for a favour

Authors Notes:- This is very short, and very poorly written, I wrote it yesterday when I was tired, and I had just gotten home from school, so be merciful to this little piece of trash that I call a fan fic.

Feedback:- Hell yeah, give it to me!! angelkim85@hotmail.com

Dedications:- Illy, coz you have always helped me, and Monsoon, 'coz you are a nice chick.

((I don't want to go. I don't see why he made me. Everything that he makes me do is a pain. But I cannot resist him. I have never been able to, and I doubt I ever will. Her gets this look, like a puppy, have you ever seen someone like him give that look? It is gorgeous.)) I think as I pull my shift over my head.

The bard stirs next to me and I pull the leathers on after I had finished with my shift. Things had gone too far again. And this time, I had a feeling that I might not get away with it.

He had come to me, he always comes, but this time had been different. He had tried to make me think that he cared. Did you know that for a moment there I was stupid enough to believe him? Then he hit me with the question, he had asked me to help him steal a treasure. I agreed, much to my dismay, and my shock.

"Xena, what are you doing?"

((Oh shit, she had to wake up didn't she? Why does this always happen when I least want her to?)) My brain demands as I put on a fake smile.

I always have to fake my smile. I hate it, but what do you do? The answer is simple, with a friend like Gabrielle, you can't do anything. As advice to anyone, I would say that before you get a traveling companion, make sure you know what you are getting into, because if they are like Gabrielle, it just isn't worth it.

"Nothing Gabrielle, go back to sleep." I lie through my teeth, I always lie, even though we made a pact not to, but I have no choice, would she really want to know that I am going to Persia to steal some treasure with my worst enemy because he can do puppy-eyes really good? I don't really think so.

I swear that you can hear the moment that she goes to sleep. Her breathing suddenly goes all rhythmic and calm. As soon as I am sure she has fallen into Morpheus clutches I go to her bags.

The bag opens easily enough, and I take out my friends scrolls and start to write with one of her quills, which I have dipped into her ink pot a few seconds before.

**Gabrielle, I will be going to Persia for a few days, please don't come after me. Just wait for me in Delphi. See you soon, Xena**

I don't think that she will stay behind, she will follow me to Persia, she always does. And sometimes I find myself wondering what would have happened if I had never met her. Emotions run through me like they never have before. I for once let them take me as I look down at my friend. I wonder if she will ever know what I have done, why I will never return, why I sent her to Delphi for the rest of her life to wait for someone that will never return.

Ares asked me for a favour, and I told him that I would do as he asked, I am his Chosen after all, and that is the way that it will always be. Gabrielle will ask herself about this one day, and why it was that I left, when knew that I was signing my own death warrant.

What had Ares asked me to do…

That you will never know.

THE END