Gabrielle and Aphrodite appeared in a stone cave just as a tornado started revolving around Zeus and Hera.

"No dad!" Aphrodite screams. The tornado stops and Hera falls to the ground unconscious. Ares appears by his mother and kneels next to her.

"Yeah, no dad," he says without much enthusiasm.

"What are you doing here?" Zeus asked, angry but confused.

"We came from the future. Well actually they came from the future, I just followed." Ares nodded his head towards his half-sister and Gabrielle.

"The future?" Zeus gasped.

"Yes and in the future you are dead. And Athena is dead, and so is Artemis and uncle Hades and the list goes on dad," Aphrodite said to her father.

"The baby killed you then," Zeus said, flaring up again. Gabrielle decided it was time to jump in.

"No, Xena killed them and Hercules killed you." Gabrielle told him.

"What's the bard doing here?"

"Listen to me King of Gods!" Gabrielle finally lost her temper. "You all died because you were afraid of Eve."

"Eve is Xena's child?" He asked, getting some of his sense back.

"Yes! You were about to kill your wife, Hera, Queen of God just because you are afraid of a baby. What does that say about you Zeus?" Gabrielle asked quietly.

"Yeah, listen to the irritating blond dad, she may be on to something." (I won't even have to tell you who said that.)

"But the fates said that this girl...Eve brings the Twilight of the Gods," Zeus said slowly.

"What do the fates know? Weren't those destiny people about to cut Xena's life line if she killed Hope? But she didn't, I did. Why were they preparing to do that if they already knew the future, knew that I would be the one to kill my daughter? Because they don't know the future Zeus, they predict it. They predicted that you would get angry and try to kill Xena and her baby and they predicted that Hercules would protect them, therefore killing you. They predicted the rest of the gods would get angry and they predicted that Xena would kill the rest of the gods to protect her daughter. What would happen if you didn't try to kill the baby?" Gabrielle's confidence grew as she realized the King of Gods was actually listening to her.

"The only thing to fear is fear itself. We make our own destiny, which path do you choose now that you know that Hercules has the power to kill you?" she asked.

"Come on dad!" Aphrodite begged.

"Yeah, come on pops." Ares said sarcastically. Both Gabrielle and Aphrodite glared at him. Hera stirred in Ares's arms. Zeus looked at Gabrielle for a long time before moving over to Hera and kissing her on the forehead.

"Zeus?" Hera whispered.

"Sorry, dear. Everything's going to be okay." Zeus kissed Hera again.

"Let's go welcome a baby," Zeus finally said to the rest of them. Gabrielle and Aphrodite exchanged a look and grinned.

~~~~~~~~~

They appeared somewhere in the forest and saw Hercules who immediately stood in front of Zeus. His father sighed.

"Don't worry son, I'm not here to harm the woman or her child." Hercules looked at him skeptically and led everyone to Xena, although still keeping a very close eye on his father and still holding the rib. Hera immediately bent over Xena to give her instruction on the deliverance. Aphrodite went and helped too. Ares pulled Gabrielle aside and took her to some trees out of listening range of the others.

"Are you crazy? Did you know that he could've fried you? Didn't the dangers occur to you? What possessed you to do something like that? Why is it women always do crazy things? Do you think the future is mended now?" Ares started screaming. He didn't know why he was shouting at the bard who just saved his family. A voice inside him told him that he was concerned about the blond but he pushed it aside. Gabrielle wasn't going to give Ares anything though.

"In answer to your questions. No, yes, yes, Aphrodite, I don't know and I hope so. In that order." Gabrielle said calmly, raising her head and locking glares with Ares.

"So are you saying I went through that farming nonsense for nothing?" he growled. Gabrielle couldn't help laughing.

"Yes." Ares looked livid.

"I'm out of here," He said, clicking his fingers to get ready to disappear.

"Aren't you even going to go see the baby?" Gabrielle asked him.

"Tempting but...no. I've already seen Livia, Gabrielle." And he vanished.

"It's Eve!" The bard shouted at the spot where he was standing. She whirled around and kicked a big stone because she hated the fact that Ares still saw Eve as Livia the Destroyer. The rock flew extremely high and went through the leaves of a tree. Gabrielle then grabbed her foot realizing it's in pain from the kicking and hopped off. Had she had Xena's keen sense of smell she would've realized that the man she was screaming to never left.

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Later when the gods and Hercules had all left, Gabrielle sat down by Xena who was holding the baby.

"Gabrielle, her name is Eve. Solan named her." Xena said softly. Gabrielle smiled.

"Brilliant." She whispered.

~~~~~~~~~

"You're watching her." Aphrodite appeared by Ares's throne in his temple and looked at the image on the wall.

"What do you want?" Ares asked his favourite sister.

"Not much. I went to see the fates. They said the twilight has come and gone."

"Great, so I lost my powers for a while for nothing." Ares drawled loudly. Aphrodite sighed and changed the subject.

"So...why are you watching her? You're in love with her aren't you?"

"Sis..."

"Don't `sis' me Ares! I'm the Goddess of Love, I know these things!"

"Well I'm not so sure about `in love' yet but I do admire her courage and strength a lot. She's beautiful and stunning and she's someone I'll always love no matter what she thinks of me." Aphrodite stomped her feet in anger.

"You're impossible brother!" She cried, "I wasn't talking about Xena!" And with that she disappeared. Ares focused his attention back to the wall.

"Well I wasn't either..." He shrugged.

End