Much Like Wrestling With an Octopus (Gabrielle proposes (as verbatim as I was able))

Chat 139
Notes Gabrielle proposes (as verbatim as I was able)

Xena:	I’ll never forget the moment I saw you. There was this fire racing up and down my spine. I knew that my life would be changed for ever.
Gabrielle:	You walked into my village and you let me trail after you, Xena, and you taught me that everything happens for a reason. When you get the chance you take it. It changes your life. You taught me to embrace my darkness and my light. You taught me to take risks, to make mistakes.
Xena:	Oh no, you knew how to do that …
Gabrielle:	Most of all, Xena, you taught me to be who I am and to tell the truth about myself, no matter what the cost.
Xena:	You know that is why I know that we are more than just characters on a show. We are two women who represent hope to the millions, billions, tens of billions of people who watch our show and love like we do.
Gabrielle:	Our final battle is not against warlords in Japan, our final battle is for love. Love in this world and every warlord in it.
Xena:	You’re my soulmate. Sometimes I think a soulmate is someone who makes you the best you you can possibly be. Not to put a too finer point on it.
Gabrielle:	I love you Xena, I’m in looove with you Xenaaaaaa!
Xena:	Shhhh. They can hear you. No PDA’s, no PDA’s!
Gabrielle:	After all these years, every time I see you, I still stop for a second.
Xena:	That ain’t healthy Gabrielle…
Gabrielle:	I want to spend the rest of my life with you Xena, until we are very old and very grey. Xena, will you marry me?
Xena:	Yes (dips Gabrielle and plants her one)
Xena:	I’ve been waiting years to do that!