Unconditionally (Spartacus FANFIC -- Gannicus/Caesar/OC)

Chapter XXXVI

Sorry this chapter has taken so long, I wanted it to be perfect as we have all waited for this moment. After rewriting the entire thing about what feels like every day I opened the file, and being awake enough most days with work. We finally get to see their reunion! I really hope you all enjoy this chapter! Cannot wait for you guys to see what else I have in store! I apologize in advance if it is not the reuniting we were hoping for but... I liked it. :P  

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In reading over earlier chapters I have noticed an error on my part with Jana's current age. She was 18 in chapter 1, it's been 6 years since her journey started making her not 28/29 as I have said but; 24.

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My whole body felt like it was on fire, and yet I felt so cold. So numb to what was happening in front of me. My robes were soaking wet and my hair matted against my face and yet there he was. It had been nearly five years. Five years since I had heard his voice, felt his warmth, tasted his lips. Yet no words would spill from my lips as I stood there staring at him with such a mixture of emotions.

I was both sad and angry that he had never once tried to get word to me of where he was or what he had been doing. Happy that he was still alive and standing before me, terrified that he would not accept the woman I had become. Lastly, heartbroken that I still felt as if he was so farm from reach even being but steps from me.

His eyes were on me, looking me over with the same disbelief that I must have shown on my own face. His eyes traveling all over my body, almost to see what I had become over the years he had not seen me. Though I had always felt that I was the same, that nothing had changed. Though from the look in his eyes, much had changed,

There was so much that I wanted to say, to tell him. His eyes soon made it to my own, his lips slowly parted leaving my entire body almost instantly craving him as I moved a small bit closer to him. I raised my hand to reach out to him only for Agron to call me from a short distance away.

"Get over here now." He told him his eyes boring into me with fury as I looked back towards Gannicus who stood there his mouth slightly parted as he stared at me his eyes slowly filling with sadness and longing. I opened my lips to speak to him but no words came out, quickly I turned from him and ran over to Agron.

"You don't speak to that Celtic fuck, do you hear me?" He told me as I felt my heart break.

"You cannot forbid me from speaking to him." I told him.

"That shit, accepted coin to kill your friends." I couldn't help but look back at Gannicus, he would never do such a thing. Not after everything he had been forced to endure within that house. He would have been right there with us that day had he not been given the rudis.

"You're lying." I snapped at him.

"Jana, get dressed in warmer clothes. We have to get Oenomaus and Crixus back to the temple, they both need the medicus." He told me as he walked away from me leaving me alone, my heart beating heavily against my chest. I was scared to move, or even think.