At what point, if ever, do you think Xena realized she was in love with Ares? (If you think she was, that is.)
I see several possible points:
Do you think that maybe she was in love with him when she was his "right-hand girl" as a warlord, and never stopped being in love with him when she turned "good"?
Do you think that maybe she never consciously realized it? Or never admitted it to herself?
"I'm not sure she ever really loved him" is also a valid answer, but shippers only please.
I see several possible points:
- In Ten Little Warlords, when she first meets the "human" Ares and when he says "You never know the kind of change you could inspire in a man -- or a god"
- In Eternal Bonds after the dream
- In Amphipolis Under Siege ("I felt something")
- In Motherhood after his sacrifice
- In Coming Home when she kisses him and tells him he "always got to her"
- In You Are There when she realizes she has lost the mortal Ares and watches him leave with Aphrodite
- At the end of Path of Vengeance, when he congratulates her on thwarting his plan, she replies "It's what I do" and he says "And I wouldn't have it any other way"
Do you think that maybe she was in love with him when she was his "right-hand girl" as a warlord, and never stopped being in love with him when she turned "good"?
Do you think that maybe she never consciously realized it? Or never admitted it to herself?
"I'm not sure she ever really loved him" is also a valid answer, but shippers only please.
Though leaning toward Coming Home. But I want to see what others say.
). Before that we had
of course the "I felt something" and the "you always got to me" lines but that could have meant that she was just drawn to him,
physically/sexually. Had she started to realise that it was more than that before YAT? Yes, I believe she did. She looks so sad at the end of CH that it makes
me think she does know that but still, I'm not sure if she already admits it to herself. In YAT...well, the looks say it all IMO 
She's never as open about her feelings for him as she is there IMO. And I think the fiasco with
the Furies made her realize how much he really meant to her. Her expression when he's yelling at her in his insanity gets me every time.
