Clarke and Lexa were lost in a zoo, running from a gigantic gorilla for quite sometime now. While they were running away from the animal, they had to jump from a wall. The sky princess hurt her right leg and as to the grounder commander, she banged her right shoulder against the wall. The blonde ran back to help the brunette. All they could hear was the gorilla screaming, beating its arms to its chest, ready to jump over the wall to chase its possible diner. Clarke helped Lexa to stand up and they started running towards the exit when the giant animal took the commander's leg pulling her back to his fortress. But the sky girl shot the animal twice and then pulled the brunette towards her. Clarke shut the little entrance and started running away with the commander. Lexa could barely walk. The blonde carried her to an empty cage. She dropped the commander on the ground, took her sword and closed the doors.
''Lexa, look at me,'' Clarke looked with attention at the commander's shoulder and then looked at her leg, there was a lot of blood coming out from her wound. "I need to look at your leg, can you relax for a bit?"
"I do not need to relax, you can look at it Clarke of the sky people." Lexa answered quickly, she let a grimace appearing on her face.
"You don't need to suffer more than you already are, that's all, if you relax I'll be able to have a better look at your wound," Clarke knelt and gently took Lexa's leg, laying it on her knee.
"You should have left me," Lexa said as the sky girl was examining her leg. " This is weakness Clarke."
"Excuse me? If you don't mind I am making you a bandage, after that, if you want we can discuss the fact that I just saved your life." Clarke ripped a piece of her shirt and then wrapped it around the wound. " It's done. May I see your shoulder now?"
" That will probably be hard." The commander answered quickly and coldly.
" Why?"
"Because I have my armor on," Lexa said, "There are many zippers to unzip, and buttons to unbutton, it would take some time."
"I'll do it." The blonde came closer to the grounder, she looked at her armor wondering where to start when Lexa said:
" First, you need to take off my sheath," while Lexa was telling Clarke how to take off her outfit, the sky princess was executing herself. " Now you have to unzip this zipper," Lexa pointed to her chest, where the zipper was. She looked up to Clarke, who blushed but brought her hand to the zipper when she was stopped by Lexa's hand. " I can see you are not used to this. Let me go on from here." The commander unzipped it, she had only a bra under it, now she regretted not putting that stupid shirt this morning just because she was feeling hot. She turned herself, the only thing Clarke could see was her back. The blonde was focused on the three scars that were on the grounder's back. "I am cold Clarke." The brunette said, coldly.
"Sorry, I lost my attention," The sky girl hesitated for a second before allowing herself to touch the skin of the commander. Her skin was cold, Clarke touched different places around the bruise. "Does it hurts?" Lexa nodded as a "yes" and Clarke continued. "Well, this is not as bad as your other wound, but it will hurt for some days. It should hill on its own. Do you need help to put your armor back on?" Clarke asked, softly.
"No."
Lexa dressed herself. The blonde was amazed of how many pockets and hidden pockets this suit had.
"Clarke, you should not have come back," Lexa broke the silence, looking right into Clarke's eyes. "Now we both are going to die instead of one."
"Why is that? Because love is weakness? If I didn't felt what I do you wouldn't be alive." The sky princess just realized of what she just said and blushed. The brunette tried to hide how surprised she was and said:
"What do you mean?"
Clarke, realizing it was too late to take it back, took her courage into her hands and replied. "You know what I mean Lexa."
"I do not Clarke." She said briefly.
"Lexa, you and I know you're smarter than that." When Clarke replied, a disappointed look settled on the commander's face.
The blonde's blue eyes were deeply into the grounder's. Lexa approached her face towards Clarke's and rested her forehead on Clarke's. She closed her eyes and whispered. "I just want to hear you say it." Clarke placed her left hand on Lexa's jaw and closed her eyes.
"Lexa I li-" Suddenly the two commanders stood up when they heard the gigantic gorilla screaming and coming where they were hiding.
"Can you walk? We need to be ready to fight!" Clarke yelled, frightened those might be their last minutes.
"Do not worry Clarke, this is not the end. Our souls will live again soon." The brunette said, calmly.
"We won't die here Lexa, not today." As they were talking, the animal was hitting the metallic doors.
"I have an idea, come here, quickly!" The sky girl was now standing behind the door waiting for Lexa to place herself by her side. "Listen, as soon as I take your sword off and this psycho comes in, run as fast as you can. Understood?" Lexa nodded. Clarke took the sword back, the giant animal entered and fell. The two young girls went out, Lexa was taking some advance while the blonde locked up the doors. She ran and stopped in front of Lexa, she knelt and said. "Get on my back."
"No, I will hurt you." Lexa answered.
"Come on, we don't have time to argue." Clarke insisted.
Lexa got on Clarke's back and they exited from the zoo. The grounder commander was exhausted and fell asleep, her arms were around Clarke's neck. The sky princess tried to stay focused ignoring the warm feeling of the grounder girl's body. It was already dark. The blonde was exhausted too but didn't want to stop. Not yet, they were still too close from the zoo, she couldn't take the risk so she continued. She wasn't able to calculate the time, not anymore, it was cold, she was cold, and afraid Lexa was too, she wanted to stop but she knew she was close to Ton DC. And then, a ray of hope, lights, more exactly fire. The sky princess' eyes were blurred of how much she was tired. She shouted for help and the group of persons that were in the forest came running to her. Lincoln, Octavia, Indra and some others were there. Clarke fainted in Octavia's arms, Lincoln caught Lexa who still was on the sky girl's back. Indra yelled something in Trigedasleng, Clarke wasn't able to focus but she suddenly found herself on a warrior's back.
"Wait," Shouted Clarke. "Lexa, she is hurt."
Indra walked near the young girl and said. "You did well today, thanks to you she is still alive, we will take it from here. Go rest, sky commander."