Fatherhood & Love
Rating: PG
Timeline: Season Two
Summary: Ares contemplates his actions...
Spoilers: The Furies
Disclaimer: I think that it's safe to say that I don't own
them...
Notes: Ares POV
What is a father, really? When I think about it, could I
be her father, afterall? I taught her everything, I taught her how
to fight, how to survive. I taught her every skill she
knows.
I know for a fact that it wasn't my seed that created her, but in
every other way, I really am her father.
I love her. But it's more than that of a
father. I chose her, years go, to be my warrior. She fought for
me. She battled on the name of Ares, my name.
But as any good father would, I fought to get her back when she cut
herself loose. So many times, so many rejections. All I wanted was
for her to come back to me.
This thing with the Furies was my latest attempt. You see, if
she had indeed killed her mother, the Furies would have let her go crazy for
doing so, but I would have stepped in, given her the choice of returning to
me.
I didn't care whether she returned to me as a warrior, or even
anything else. I just wanted her back. I just wanted her to come
home. Home. It wasn't home, anymore. She wasn't there to talk
with, to see everyday, even spar with!
She was my little girl. Okay, she was my lover, but I created
her, I trained her, I molded her into my image.
When I told her that had I been her father, I would have been very
proud of her, I meant it. She had beaten me at my own game. I never
would have guessed that she would her off by saying that she couldn't avenge her
father's death, because I was her father!
She had grown so much since she left me. But one day, when
the world has nothing left to offer her, she will return. She will return
to me...
She will accept my love for her, not as a father, for I am not her
father, but as a lover, someone that loves her above all else...
She will be my Goddess...
Xena...
The End