I finally got around making an epub of one of my old X-files, as I like to call them. I’ve been keeping these older Xena fics for more than 25 years. It’s worth it. This is such a good one, never gets old 🥰.

In A Third Death Mercurio and Ares conspire together against Xena. Mercurio hates her and Ares is always looking to get her back to the dark side. Xena won’t be easy to convince to go back to her old sins. She is in a loving relationship with Gabrielle and wants to leave her past behind. Gabrielle is helping her with that. She is not afraid of Xena’s dark side and always makes Xena see the good that is inside of her.

But when Mercurio and Ares capture Xena and Gabrielle, they force Xena to make a horrible choice. Either she goes back to being a ruthless warlord without any memory of her current life, including Gabrielle and the love they share. Or they kill Gabrielle. Of course she saves Gabrielle. But at what cost?

Gabrielle decides to go to the Amazones to claim her role as Queen of the Amazons. Together they oppose the warlord Xena. But Gabrielle never wavers in her love for Xena and the faith she has in her ability to come back from the dark. Not even when Xena captures Gabrielle and shows her the true warlord that she has become. Is the loving woman Gabrielle knew still somewhere inside?

Oooooh the drama! Only Xena fics know how to be so dramatic and still so very romantic. This fic by C.L. Bactad is one of the best in showing the good and bad Xena and the deep love between her and Gabrielle ❤️. Lots of Amazons in this one as well 😏.