Toxic Empress

Xena's Worries

Xena was wracked by a tremendous panic, Xander collapsed unconscious in her arms. Xena repeatedly tries to resuscitate Xander, but there is no answer from Xander. In the end, Xena had no other choice but to bring Xander back to the mansion. Xena painstakingly made Xander walk to the mansion, fortunately the distance of the mansion from the forest was not too far away. However, the heavy rain that suddenly flushed down even made Xena's steps slightly disturbed, but she could handle it well.

When Xena arrived in front of the mansion, the guards of the mansion immediately rushed over to help Xena bring Xander inside.

“Jeez, what happened to you two?” ask Garvin worried.

“Please treat Xander first, call the best doctor in the capital. No matter what happens, Xander must recover as usual!” insist Xena.

Garvin had no idea what was really going on with the two of them, so Garvin told Xena to go in first and dry her soaked body. Xander was brought into the room with a private doctor of Duke Geraldo's family. Xena has no intention to go back to the palace, she wants to make sure Xander's condition, her heart is not calm if Xander is still unconscious.

“Wouldn't you go back to the palace?” ask Garvin.

Currently Xena was in the guest room, she did not stop pacing back and forth thinking about Xander's fate.

“No, I'll be here until Xander realizes,” staunch Xena.

Then a servant came to Garvin's call that the doctor needed to see Garvin. As soon as she heard it, Xena rushed out of the room to approach the doctor.

“How is it?” ask Xena.

“It looks like Duke Geraldo is just exhausted after using a lot of his strength, I will prescribe a number of drugs. So, please tell Duke to take this medicine until it runs out and don't let him out of the mansion for a few days.”

Xena let out a sigh of relief, as soon as she approached Xander who was still lying weakly on the bed. Hurriedly Xena sat on the right side of the bed, she grabbed Xander's hand and grasped it tightly.

“Thank God... Thank goodness you're okay. I thought you were going to leave me, please don't force yourself again to protect me. I don't know why you've been doing so far for me, since the beginning we met you've been acting like someone who's known me for so long. Actually why? What's your reason for behaving like that? The more you try to protect me, somehow it feels like my heart is getting scared of losing you. What's wrong with me? What's wrong with my feelings? It makes me very claustrophobic..”.

Unknowingly Xena's tears rolled from her eyes, her feelings filled with Xander. Her heart ached, injured, and shattered, this was the first time she felt this way, this was the first time she had kept such a great feeling to the man she had just met lately.

“Xander... I'm sorry, please forgive me.. I'm sorry I made you go this far.”.

Xena said an apology without knowing the reason why she apologized, that was the only word she wanted to say to Xander. In the endless sobbing, there was a sense that Xander's suffering was his fault. On the other hand, Garvin watched Xena who was crying alone, his heart was saddened to see the sight.

The rain fell more and more accompanied by a flash of lightning that boomed in the sky. Xena who had been crying for Xander, finally fell asleep in a sitting position on the bedside chair. The thunder in the sky apparently made Xander wake up from his stupor, he stared at the puzzled ceiling of his room as he recalled being last in the forest with Xena.

“What Xena brought me to the mansion?”

Xander turned to the side, surprised to find Xena asleep as she waited for her consciousness. Xander tried to feel Xena's hand, how shocked he felt when the cold pierced Xena's skin. Finally, Xander got up from the bed and moved Xena to sleep beside him. Xander enveloped Xena while clutching the woman he loved.

“That time-reversing magic required a great sacrifice and now I have lost a lot of my age. I only managed to survive until I was 30, now I am 25, so I only have 5 years with Xena. I hope it's the last time, I don't have a chance to save Xena. So, I beg of you goddess of love, please give happy time to both of us. I beg...”.

Xander shed his tears, his chest as if he had been crushed by a boulder, it hurt as if his heart had been stoned by thousands of sharp needles. The fear of loss is increasingly haunting himself, somehow he will reject the feeling that continues to urge the heart.

“If Xena can't save me again, then I beg you. At least I can continue with Xena, at least I can accompany her to the realm of death, and at least I won't suffer being left behind by Xena.”

Xander continued to hope in the dark of the night accompanied by memories of life and then continued to pass into his memory. The man too often saw his wife die in front of him, so he could not bear the wound alone. At least, tonight he can reduce the sense of tightness that he has long been alone.

It did not feel like time was rolling so fast, as Xena opened her eyes, so dazzling sunlight entered through the window slit. Xena is confused as to who moved her on the mattress, but what makes her even more surprised is that Xander is not in the bed. As panic tricked Xena's morning, she quickly got out of bed and planned to go outside to find Xander.

“Xander!”

When Xena opened the exit, there was Xander there who wanted to go and see Xena.

“Yeah, I thought you disappeared to where,” Xena said grumbling in annoyance.

“Are you looking for me out of worry? I brought you breakfast. Since yesterday you haven't eaten anything, ‘kan? Better now you fill your stomach first,” said Xander, in his hand there is a tray on which there is a glass of milk, a sandwich and a piece of chocolate cake.

“Hmph! I'm not worried about you,” said Xena lying.

“Oh really? Then why are your eyes so big? You've been crying all night, haven't you?”