It wasn't anger really, nor wrath or rage....it was something much worse. Silence.
MM: Goddess I...I told you...about Xena when you came to get me...
Tears.
MM: ...I...It...it was an accident, I didn't mean to...
GC [Sings]:
My heart is hurting beyond words.
The pain is tearing up my soul.
Please tell me how I can retrieve
The life that all this sadness stole?
MM: (attempts to reach out to her Goddess)
GC: (smacks the bard's hand away) Because of you this happened!
MM: Now wait just a second. (standing up) It happened in the original time line as well. And I wouldn't have even been there if you didn't send me!
GC: Don't try to pawn this off on me bard.
Because of you my family is dead--
Their blood is on your hands!
MM: (shouting) If only you had never brought me there!
GC: (singing) If only you had done what you were told.
MM: What are you talking about? You never *told* me to do anything! You just Zapped me to Ancient Greece and then apparently - you lost me!
GC: It's you who's to be blamed.
MM: And you should be ashamed!
GC: It's your fault!
MM: No, it's yours!
GC: How could you?!
MM: How could you?!
GC: It's your fault!
MM: It's your fault!
[Dahok theme song]
GC: What the?!
MM: Dahok.
GC: I know who it is Melissa. But what does he have to do with the price of tea in Chin?
MM: Well they have been a little exorbitant lately.
GC: (blank stare)
Gabrielle: (materializing) oops sorry about that folks wrong music.
[Evil Xena theme song...lyrics sold separately]
Gabrielle: ok as you were....(vanishes)
MM: (color drains from her face) It's Xena!
GC: what are you worried about bard, it's obvious that this is going to be *my* torment.
MM: I...uh...I don't know...its just that...(whispering)...It was her, wasn't it?
GC: What are you talking about? Sometimes you make no sense at all. (but in fact, she did make sense. Callisto knew exactly what Melissa meant. She had always suspected that one day the bard would remember.)
Vortex Opens, rope lassos Melissa jerking her feet out from under her. And before she knew it she was being drug behind a mad woman on a galloping horse.
MM: GODDESS! Help me!
GC: What the - Hang on bard, I'm coming!
MM: (hang on?)
Gabrielle: (materializing yet again) oops sorry wrong torment. Where is my head today?
Horse stops.
MM: (oh you're going to have to pay for that.) (attempts to get up...but it's rather difficult what with her body being so battered and all) (later...you will pay later...)
Gabrielle vanishes.
Callisto again finds herself kneeling down before her bard. "You ok?"
MM: (mumbling) Just ducky.
Matt: (materializes) Give me back my ducky.
More twins being to materialize and the bard realizes where she is....or more accurately when she is.
MM: This is where it happened. Goddess, I can't. No, not again.
GC: It'll be ok bard. I won't leave you. I promise.
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