A/N: [June 2007] I'm in the process of completely rewriting this. When it's done, it will only bear a passing resemblance to the story as originally posted. However, until I have the rewrite done, the old version will be posted here.

Back in '03 and '04, I did a fair amount of work on this story in its original form. Not just nitpicking for grammar or doing little touch-ups, I wrote six more chapters. I've posted them here, although only part eleven has been betaed. The rest have only been looked through a few dozen times by me and my grammar knowledge is far from perfect, so you've been warned. However, I rather like the new parts. They're a stark contrast to the earlier parts which were written some three to six years previous, depending on the part. I like the writing better, the greater attention to detail and characterization, and the refusal to throw things in simply for shock value; I'd matured a fair deal in my writing by the time I did these last parts. Maybe that's not modest to say, but when I compare the earlier writing to the latter, that's what I see.

The rewrite I'm doing for this is even better, in the way that when I started rewriting it, back in mid-2005, I'd made further advances in my writing. No, my grammar still isn't what it should be, but I think I have a much greater understanding of narration and characterization. It helps that being older, now, I'm far less obsessed with writing sex scene after sex scene, even when they're pointless and at times, bad for the story; it's something that seems to be the hallmark of a very young writer, teens to early twenties. I've seen some far older authors who do that, but they generally haven't been writing for very long, either.

Thank you to Candace for betaing part 11 for me.

[December 2003] I've gone back over this entire story and edited the hell out of it. I've removed the annoying dialect and corrected typos, grammar, and other technical aspects so it should be relatively mistake free now. Feel free to email me if you spot a problem though. I've also added a large section to Part 5 as well as a few lines to other chapters, so enjoy the new bits.

[1998] This is an alt. world story so things are just a little different here. I guess this answers the "Joxer on Joxer" challenge posted on Joxerotica although it's entirely an accident -- or maybe it's fate? *g* As far as this story is concerned, the 5th season of Hercules never happened and neither did the 4th season of Xena.

Many thanks to Tham for looking over the Prologue and parts 4, 6 and 7 for me -- I'd sound like a complete idiot without you, Tham -- thanks to Jheran and TeeRoo for looking over part 5 for me and thanks to Jess for the beta on parts 8, 9 and 10. Mistakes in parts 1 - 3 are my bad.

Pairing(s): Joxer/various

Reality Squared
by Erin
December 1998 - ?