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
Fatherhood & Love
By Alicia
What is a father, really? When I think about it, could I be her father, after all? 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 in 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, or 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 get herself 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