"Are you serious? I have to do what with that?"

"Do I look like I'm joking?"

"But that sounds so, so -- gross!"

Jett snickered at his brother's increasing discomfort while he watched Joxer squirming in the seat across from him with increasing amusement. "Somebody's gotta tell you about this stuff, and Pop picked me to do it."

Joxer grumbled something under his breath and Jett reached out and grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt with one hand while the index finger of his other hand was poised towards his lips. "What was that again, Jox?" he asked in a threatening growl.

"N-n-never m-m-mind!" Joxer stammered, his eyes wide with fright as they focused on Jett's finger, which was slowly headed towards his open lips. "You called it a...?"

Jett slowly loosened his grip on Joxer's shirt and sighed in exasperation, closing his eyes briefly before returning his brother's frightened gaze with a derisive expression on his face. "It's called a condom, you moron, and you've gotta use one of those so you don't get a girl pregnant when you do IT!"

Joxer's face twisted into a pout as he nervously looked at the objects on the table. "There's gotta be an easier way... AUGH!" he screeched when a very wet finger was inserted into his ear and he found himself getting mercilessly noogied by his laughing brother.

Gabrielle stared up at Joxer in disbelief. "Jett was the one who gave you the sex talk?"

Joxer nodded, his lips twisting up in unhappiness. "Yeah." Absently, he threw a stick into the fire and watched as the flames flared up into the nighttime sky.

Gabrielle leaned her head against his side as she embraced him. "I don't know if I should send you a sympathy scroll or what for having to put up with that."

Joxer smiled lopsidedly as he leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. "Thanks, but..." he murmured.

A discreet cough interrupted Joxer from continuing any further. The two looked up to see Xena gazing at them with a decidedly mischievous grin on her lips. "Just one more person to tell about how they learned about the birds and the bees," she said, her eyes beginning to twinkle as Gabrielle's cheeks turned scarlet. "And since you're the resident bard, this ought to be quite the tale..."

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