Wow! I am absolutely blown away. I have just spend the majority of the day reading the Joining Trilogy and I can't believe I never found this before. It was amazing. I love the characterizations and I am thrilled by the way you weaved a completely believable romance between Ares and Xena. (Okay, the teddy bear was a bit of a stretch, but my inner fangirl just ate it up! lol) I love how you encorporated the last half season of Xena and managed to give us a more fullfilling (and happier) ending than the show. Alright, I'm gushing, but that was truly fantastic! Great work!

Wonderful series, really had me sighing. I love well-written futuristic Xena and Ares, and I love the fact that the whole series pick off after all those episodes of Xena never really giving Ares a chance.. I never saw the 6th season in protest of how they handled their relationship and poor Ares. Thank you so much for making me believe again.

Gosh, I finally got enough time to finish reading :o)
Great ending and great series!!
One of the best :o)

OMG OMG OMG I love it! Its the best of the three...I have finally found a future-istic fic that is an Ares/Xena and written well! LOVE IT!

This fic, to me, encompasses everything it means to be a shipper.

Too, too lovely.

An amazing ending to an amazing story! Excellent work! I really enjoyed this part of the triology! Fantastic job!

Hi there, I first read your wonderful stories a while back on and have been in love with your writing ever since. I was so glad to find this story, part 3 of the joining and I haven't been disapointed! it is just a brilliant as the first two my eyes have been locked to the screen since I found it! I love how you've taken the whole story to the present time, and built up the reincarnations of xena and gabrielle with their own lives, and how they are both so like them in the way they think and act, and then how they've discovered who they really are. And let me guess...artie is joxer right?? XD well I hope you post more soon, I'm dieing to find out what happens, surely xena and ares have got to get back together now she knows who she is! please update soon!
x.x EnchantedDream x.x

A slow, snowy day at work thankfully gave me the time to get around to reading this. And I'm glad that it did, really, because there is a certain ease to your writing reads that I envy.

One thing did stand out to me though, especially in part one, that I have never noticed in your writing before: there are tons of dashes. It brought Emily Dickinson to mind, and I think that you use them the same way that she does. But for grammatical variety, there are plenty of places where you could use an ellipsis or parentheses. It's very readable either way, it just seemed to me like an odd style shift as compared to what I've read from you before.

I'll keep an eye peeled for part three.

I love it so far!! I've been waiting awhile for it!

Whee!
It's even better than I remembered!

When Lynn was thinking that she was losing her mind, my head was spinning in response.

And the little vivid details! Verdi, the impossibly long death sequences, the painfully abrupt real death, the inhumanly efficient TA...

You know, when this is all done, I'm going to print all of 1 to 3, bind it, and someday, get you to autograph it. And then I'll bloody laminate it.

...he is going to get the girl in the end, I mean i know Xena played hard to get for quite some time, but...he does get her?

Amazing chapter! I loved the bit about Ares having coffee. Excellent work! Update soon!

I love it! :)
Thank you for posting. I've read some of your other stories and I think you're amazing. I can't wait to read the next part of this one! :)

I will second aserene's comment that it was worth the wait! I tend to prefer the ancient setting but it's sometimes fun to see them in modern day, how they echo their old selves and see them reconnect again. I'm glad to see you continue this story and am amazed that you have the time at all since I know you're also busy over at The Shipper Seasons (which I also enjoy immensely)! Great job and I'm willing to wait for the continuation... hopefully sooner rather than later but I know I have The Shipper Seasons to tide me over as well. :)

Oh my god. That was amazing, that was beyond amazing. I...so worth the wait. I'm really liking this modern day thing. I can't wait to see more of it! I love how you tied in all of the episodes and the tomb and everything,

i can't wait for more!