Adult Content Warning

This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.

• Yes, Continue
• No, Go Back

If you accept cookies from our site and you choose "Yes, Continue", you will not be asked again during this session (that is, until you close your browser). If you log in you can store your preference and never be asked again.

1. a prelude (the wanting comes in waves) by lovewornheart

   Fandoms: Xena: Warrior Princess  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   28 Feb 2021

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gabrielle/Xena
   • Gabrielle (Xena)
   • Xena (Xena)
   • When Fates Collide
   • AU
   • The Empress & The Playwright
   • Slow Burn
   • Soulmates
   • otp: for i am dying of such love

   Summary

   Gabrielle’s eyes squeeze shut in a silent plea, Sweet Aphrodite, what am I to do? And when they blink slowly open again she sees it on the desk beside her writing box, in a spare ink pot filled hastily with water - a single, unassuming rose. Her fingers are at the stem before she can register what she’s doing, and this time there’s no hesitation.

   Or: what if the playwright Gabrielle kept the rose tossed at her feet by the Empress of Rome?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   8,225

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   34

   Kudos:

   187

   Bookmarks:

   28

   Hits:

   2,529