WARNINGS AND DISCLAMERS

They ate mostly in silence. When they were finished Xena got the medical supplies and returned, sitting them down and pouring herself some more wine. "Would you like some more wine while I see to your injuries?"

"Sure, I think I could drink another mug. It has already helped the slight headache and has even helped the pain in my shoulder some." The green-eyed bard smiled at her.

Xena poured the honey-blonde another mug of wine and sat down next to her and started to work on the bard's injuries to her knees and hands while the warrior sipped her wine. "There how's that feeling?" The warrior asked.

"That feels much better, thank you." The bard said and took another sip of her own wine.

"Would you like me to rub some oil on your shoulder and try to work out some of the soreness?" Xena asked.

"I'd like that if you really don't mind." Gabrielle answered the warrior.

Xena went back to the saddlebags and got out the oil. She turned around to start back and stopped dead in her tracks. Gabrielle had started to remove her shift and the bard's soft breasts came into view as the fire light played on the honey-blondes milk white skin. A shiver went through the warrior. Oh Gods... how beautiful. I think I made a trip to see Melena for nothing... one look at her and it was all for nothing. An instant fire was ignited in the raven-haired beauty's loins. Xena slowly walked back toward the bard letting her eyes drink in the sight of the beautiful bard in front of her. She sat down and pulled Gabrielle toward her some, so that she was sitting with her legs spread and the bard between them.

The warrior poured some oil in the palm of her hand and gently started to rub the bard's neck and shoulders. The bard started to relax under the warrior's gentle ministration. It wasn't long and the bard's breathing had become ragged and Xena could smell the musky arousal of the bard, as the small women whimpered softly and leaned gently back into the warrior's delicious touch. Gabrielle's reactions was only sending the warrior's own passions soaring that much higher. The fire continued to build in her groin as she rubbed the small woman in front of her until she felt an overflow of her own arousal soaking her undergarment.

The warrior loved the sweet torture of having the bard so close and reacting to her touch, but it was about to carry the warrior from a world of fantasy into reality. Xena stopped resting her hands on the bard's shoulders and relishing in the contact before letting go.

The small honey-blonde leaned back into the warrior's shoulder and turned her face up to look into those beautiful blue eyes she loved so much. The stoic warrior was gone and in her place was a raven-haired goddess with the look of love, desire and need showing in her face.

As the small woman in her arms looked up at her, Xena was a little surprised by the needful passion evident on the smaller woman's face. Gabrielle reached up behind the warrior's neck with her right hand and tangled her fingers in the long raven tresses and tried to pull the warrior's lips down to her own lustful waiting lips.

The warrior resisted. "Gabrielle please. I know now that the passion and need that I'd blamed on battlelust… wasn't... you're causing the fire that's burning..."

Gabrielle had continued to pull the warrior to her only more insistently. Finally the warrior quit resisting losing to her own desire for the bard. Gabrielle lips touched Xena's and she started to kiss the warrior very tentatively.

The warrior returned the bard's kiss displaying her own raging passion with her lips, as she wrapped her arms lovingly around the small woman. Then it was like a dam of burning, searing flames erupted and the warrior's kiss deepened and her tongue demanded entry into the bard's mouth. Gabrielle willing opened to the warrior's demand as her own heart beat wildly. Gabrielle moaned softly and melted into the warrior's loving arms and started to slowly move against the warrior's body... she'd never felt anything so wonderful and wanted it to last forever; if it was a dream, she never wanted to wake up.

As Xena deepened her kiss she let her hands roam freely over the bard's milky-white skin trying to remember every single inch by touch. She payed special attention to the areolas of the bard's firm full breasts, which were responding and hardening to her touch. Finally the warrior eased the bard down onto the blanket, lying partially to the side of the bard. Xena reached down to remove the rest of the bard's clothing only to be joined by the bard's own hand trying to help her until the beautiful honey-blonde bard's glistening triangle was exposed to the warrior. Xena smiled as she reached down and let her fingers rub through the soft golden curls making the bard moan and arch slightly into the warrior's loving and gentle touch.

The warrior again leaned into the smaller woman kissing her deeply, as the smaller woman's body continued to move and arch into the warrior. When she finally freed the bard's lips she started to plant feather light kisses on the woman's neck, leaving behind a trial of hot burning flesh wanting more attention from the warrior's lips and tongue.

Gabrielle whispered into the warrior's ear, "Gods I've loved you for so long." The bard pulled the warrior tightly against her stopping the raven-haired beauty's progress.

"Gabrielle are you wanting me to stop now?" the warrior said huskily with need in her voice.

"No princess, I want you to take your shift off so I can feel your bare skin against mine." The bard replied with a husky yearning evident in her own voice.

Xena arched her eyebrow at the small woman's request and rose up on her knees straddling the bard's hips. The warrior quickly shed the offending garment. The bard then touched the warrior's undergarment that was already thoroughly soaked and Xena started to remove it, again finding the bard's hand at the ready to help. Xena moaned as her fire burned hotter from the touch of the small woman on the warrior's own triangle of dark curly hair.

Gabrielle smiled at Xena's reaction to just her fingers playing through the hair and moved to reach further between the warrior's thighs and touch the warrior's hot core.

Xena groaned and shuddered as the small woman dipped her fingers into the hot liquid pooling between her thighs. Then the bard's touch was gone. The raven-haired goddess arched an eyebrow as she watched the honey-blonde woman bring her fingers up to her mouth and start to clean the warrior's arousal from them. When the bard was finished the warrior laid back down on top of the small woman and kissed her deeply tasting herself in the bard's mouth.

The warrior then moved trailing more kisses and nips down to start lavishing attention and affection on the bard's beautiful full breasts as Gabrielle moaned and moved beneath her. Xena played around one breast with her tongue feeling it harden under her ministrations, while rolling the other nipple between her thumb and forefinger. The warrior finally took the breast fully into her mouth suckling it and gently racking her teeth across the nipple causing the honey-blonde to moan as she clutched the warrior's head to her breast twisting her fingers in the warrior's long raven hair.

Xena slowly moved a hand back to the bard's triangle to touch and play with the soft folds just beyond. A slight look of shock crossed the warrior's face as she looked into the jade-green eyes, "Gabrielle you're so wet for me." The warrior moistened her fingers and then raised them to her lips for a taste of the small woman beneath her. Once she'd cleaned her fingers, she looked into the slightly amused face of the bard. "Want a taste?" the warrior, said smiling.

"Yeah." And the warrior bent her head kissing the small woman again deeply while the bard searched all of the warrior's mouth with her tongue, so that she could taste herself in the warrior's mouth.

The warrior finally relinquished the bard's mouth as both were trying to catch their breath. "I'll be back in a second." Xena stood and retrieved her personal bag that was still attached to the saddle and returned to the arms of the woman she loved. "I brought your toy." The warrior said as she again lay down on top of the bard and claimed her mouth passionately as her own.

Xena again started to kiss lightly down to Gabrielle's breast, but this time after a small amount of attention the warrior trailed more hot licks, nips and kisses down to the bard's navel. Gabrielle had started to moan louder as her body seemed to have a mind of its own moving and arching against the loving ministrations of the warrior.

Xena moved her thigh between the bard's legs urging them apart and proceeding to slide down between the bard's legs as she continued a burning trail of kisses down the bard's abdomen right down to the triangle of curls. Gabrielle was starting to make small whimpering sounds as she continued to arch into the warrior showing her willingness to have the warrior's attentions at her burning core. Xena then wrapped her arms around the bard's thighs holding her tightly as she dipped her tongue into the hot moist center. Gabrielle jerked and arched hard against the warrior's tongue. It had felt like a lightning bolt had struck at her center making her need and want for more to soar to new heights.

The warrior lavished attention on the bundle of nerves at her lover's hot core, nipping and sucking gently at the swollen nub. Gabrielle's arousal poured faster than the warrior could lap it up and it was running down between the cheeks of the bard's ass and pooling beneath her.

"Gods Xena... I need you, please... I..." the bard gasped for air not able to finish what she was trying to say.

It didn't matter… the warrior knew what the bard was wanting. Xena continued to lavish kisses upon the bard's body as she retrieved the phallus from the bag. Xena smiled at the small woman and pulled the phallus between her own legs wetting it so that it glistened in the firelight. Gabrielle pulled the warrior's hand toward her taking the phallus into her mouth and tasting of the warrior's own musky arousal on it. Xena kissed the bard passionately and then put the phallus to the bards willing and drenched opening.

Gabrielle caught the warrior's arm and stopped her. "No Xena... I want... it has to be you the first time," as she raised enough to take the warriors lips kissing her deeply and passionately.

Xena smiled at the small woman still arching gently against her and laid the phallus down beside them. The warrior then dipped the tip of one finger into the bard's opening wanting to go slowly and not hurt her. The warrior played at the opening, rubbing and pinching the swollen nub between her fingers until the bard was arching into her trying to impale herself on the warrior's hand. The honey-blonde was more than ready and desperate with need. Xena added a second finger to delve to the depths of the bard's opening. Xena had barely moved her fingers toward their goal when she suddenly stopped in mid-stroke and looked deeply into the lustful green eyes of the bard boring into her.

"GODS Gabrielle... you're STILL a VIRGIN?!?" The warrior said a little stunned, her own fire was raging out of control... now what am I going to do?

Gabrielle reached up and pulled the warrior, who'd eased back a little from her, back down tightly on top of her and looked deeply into the beautiful blue-eyes. "Xena you told me I should save it for whoever I truly love. Princess I love you more than I've ever loved anyone in my life." The bard said ragged and huskily with heartfelt sincerity.

"But Gabrielle..." the warrior started to say.

Gabrielle reached up placing her fingers across the warrior's lips. "Xena... like it or not, I LOVE YOU and if you don't take me, the only way anyone else will is by force, like Brantius started to do. I want... no I need you to be the one, you're the love of my life, please take me and make me yours." Gabrielle was looking lustfully into the warrior's eyes and placed another searing kiss on her lips.

Xena passions had never burned as hot as they were now from the words of her lover. The warrior lay in the bard's arms not really believing what she was hearing as tears started to form in her eyes at the realization of the depth of the bard's love for her. "I love you so much Gabrielle. Are you sure that's what you want?" The raven-haired goddess whispered raggedly, as she could hardly contain the wanton desire for the small woman beneath her.

"Xena, I love you, I'm sure..." the bard huskily whispered back, as her core burned hotter for the need of the woman she loved.

It only took on a few minutes to again bring the bard to the pinnacle of arousal and then Xena looked deeply in the bard's loving eyes. Xena had felt and tested the tissue blocking her way to the depths of her lover moaning and arching beneath her. "Love, the tissue is a little thick and it will hurt just a little, but will quickly pass." The warrior tried to warn of the slight pain and discomfort the bard might feel as her childhood virginity was torn away.

"Oh sweet Goddess! I love you... please take me." Gabrielle was barely able to gasp out hoarsely between the moans of ecstasy being torn from her.

With that Xena started to move her fingers in and out of the opening matching the bard's age-old rhythm of love. The warrior then plunged gently and lovingly to the hot wet core of her young lover beneath her, as a small cry left the bard's lips and was muffled as she buried her mouth into the warrior's shoulder. Very quickly it was replaced by the louder gasping groans of the bard as the warrior's continued to match her rhythm of love. Xena plunged deeply over and over again to the small woman's very core until she knew that she was touching the center of the bard's burning need.

Gabrielle arched, stiffened and clutched at the warrior as she screamed out her exploding release, "XEEEENNNAAAAA!!!!" Xena continued moving her finger against the deepest core until the honey-blonde slumped beneath her spent and panting pulling the warrior down on top of her as she collapsed. She could feel the powerful throbbing of the bard's climax contracting on her fingers still buried in the bard's hot wet core.

The bard had never dreamed that she could feel this way. Gabrielle dreamily opened her eyes and looked up at her lover and seen the blood trickling from teeth marks on the warrior's shoulder. Gabrielle reached for Xena's shoulder, "Xena did I... gods I'm so sorry."

"Don't worry about it my love this is one scar that I'll wear proudly for all that it reminds me of." The warrior said huskily as her own need for relief burned. "Love you're the only virgin that I've ever been with and you're the only love of my life." The warrior smiled at the small woman beneath her.

The bard's contractions slowed and finally gave up the warrior's loving fingers. Xena was still burning with need and looked into the jade green eyes of her love. Gabrielle bend your leg up to raise your thigh some.

As the bard complied with the warrior's request, Xena moved up higher so that she could straddle it and started her own rhythm against the bard's upper thigh.

Gabrielle watched as Xena's lovely breasts came within her reach. The bard gently started to knead and rub on them pinching and rolling the hardening nipples between her thumbs and forefingers as the warrior's eyes closed and her head went back as she started to moan from the bard's touch. Gabrielle could feel the burning moist center and the abundant arousal of the warrior running down her thigh, as Xena continued to rock against her.

Suddenly the warrior stiffened, arched and screamed out her lover's name as she exploded with her own release and collapsed on top of the bard. She rolled gently off to the side removing most of her weight from the bard's small frame, pulling the bard up tightly to her and then kissed the bard deeply once more as she reached over and pulled a blanket over the top of them.

They both slept the rest of the night and this time neither of them had any nightmares.

Ó Copyrighted December 1997 by DelShannon