Chapter 1
A/N: I do not own "The 100". This is an introductory chapter to my first ever Clexa fic. All mistakes are mine, Happy reading... :)
It was a start of another school year. Clarke had just gotten back to her room. After putting her stuff down, she looked around and groaned a little at the state of her room. She shared her room with Raven, a mechanical engineering student and a year senior to her. She called for the said room mate and only got a muffled grunt in response. Clarke laughed a little as she spotted Raven's leg dangling from side of her bed. Rest of the Raven was hidden under a pile of books, clothes and a pizza box. Clarke began cleaning up.
"God, Raven... The term hasn't even started yet and our room already looks like a dumpster. How can you even sleep in this pile of garbage?" Clarke scrunched her nose, waiting for some sort of response. After a minute or so, Raven finally moved.
"Oh come on Clarke... I got in late last night.. I was with..." Raven scratched her head to see if that helped her recollecting who she was with last night.
"I dunno... some chick.. Can you just leave me the hell alone for a bit?"
Clarke sat down on her own bed. She smiled to herself as she remembered something.
"Oh by the way I was talking to Octavia earlier, and she was asking if we can help her new room mate get settled in?"
Hearing Octavia's name, Raven sat up straight the next moment. Got out of her bed and quickly pulled on her favorite sweatpants. "Okay when do we have to go? What else does Octavia need? And why didn't you tell me about this earlier?" Raven huffed, "Why aren't you moving Clarke?"
Clarke chuckled seeing Raven's flushed cheeks and decided to irritate her room mate further.
"Oh when I ask you to just cleanup a little or fold your clothes, I am the descendant of Hitler and when it's Octavia's damn scooter getting broken down or her clutch falling from her hand or just a little ankle strain and you are ready to move mountains and carry her in your big strong arms.." Clarke rambled on waving her arms and mimicking Octavia's voice along the way.
Raven made a face, "Oh shut up Clarke! You know I help around here" Raven moved her hands to gesture around herself. Finally she let her shoulders drop a little and sighed.
"Fine. It's just maybe she will..."
"Notice you more rather than her perfect specimen of male anatomy boyfriend?" Clarke air quoted.
"Maybe.." Raven replied sounding a little defeated.
"Maybe you should tell her how you feel Rave.."
"Yeah right, so I can loose whatever we have between us. No thanks.."
"Or she might feel the same.."
Raven ran a hand through her hair and tied them back in a ponytail. "When is her room mate coming?"
Clarke checked her mobile, "She just texted me saying they should be here in an hour."
"Do you have classes today? Mine don't start till day after tomorrow."
Clarke pulled out her schedule from her bag. "Yep same here. I need to run some errands in the afternoon. Do you have any plans?"
Raven shrugged, "I was just gonna go to the Mech department and look around."
Clarke rolled her eyes at her roommate and her love for everything associated with mechanical department. She waved her hands towards the bathroom.
"Fine. Now go and get ready. I need to clean-up this mess."
About 45 minutes later, Clarke was almost done tidying up the room as she heard her mobile's notification. She picked it up and read Octavia's text.
"We are here. Help me with the bags, they weigh a ton! HURRY Clarke.."
Clarke rolled her eyes and looked at Raven, who was deciding on what she could wear that says casual but hot.
"While you decide on your today's attire your majesty, I will go and say Hi." Clarke finished with a bow. Raven glared at her and threw a pillow at Clark's head. Dodging it and chuckling, Clarke opened the door to their dorm room and walked out.
Clarke was mocking Raven a bit more as she took a turn and ran directly into someone. She stumbled backwards and fell on her ass while seeing the other person dropping a small plant and a bag in the process. Clarke watched the small plant pot shatter into pieces. With a horrified face, she got up and started picking up the pieces of the shattered plant while muttering apology after apology. Whatever she was able to salvage, she gathered up and stood back up facing the apparent stranger. The first thing she noticed were a pair of eyes. The green orbs surrounded with a black eyeliner, which stared back at her with such intensity that she couldn't see anything else. After what seemed like hours, she slowly moved her gaze down to the cute but strong.. very strong and prominent nose.. then a strong jawline and cheekbones for which she would've killed for.. slowly her gaze moved down to plump limps which looked very soft and a light shade of red, which were apparently moving giving her a view of perfectly aligned and shining white teeth. Few more moments passed and the reality hit her hard and fast. She shook her head, falling out of the trance and replied, "umm what?"
"Are you ok?" The stranger was asking her and from the looks of it, Clarke guessed, not for the first time.
Clarke laughed sheepishly, "Oh umm yeah. I am.. umm.. fine?"
The stranger raised an eyebrow. "Do you always answer a question with a question?" There was absolutely no expression on this stranger's face giving away any emotions whatsoever.
"yes? I mean.. no.. sorry I was just.. wasn't looking and I ran into.. your plant sorry about your plant. I will get you a new one. I promise" Clarke rambled on. In her mind, scolding herself. "Get a grip griffin. What the hell is happening?"
The stranger sighed. "It's ok. Don't worry about it. I am Lexa by the way. Octavia's.. "
"New room mate.. yes she told me. I was actually coming to help you move your stuff." Clarke smiled hoping she wasn't showing the nerves she was feeling.
Lexa waited for a moment as she carefully looked at the blonde haired girl before replying, "that's very nice of you..."
"Clarke... Hi.."
"Hi.. " Lexa shook Clarke's hand briefly and nudged her head towards the direction Octavia was coming holding on to two boxes, which looked quite heavy. Clarke nodded and went quickly to help Octavia. As soon as Clarke was close enough, Octavia dumped both boxes in Clarke's hands and bent forward taking deep breaths. Clarke almost let go of the boxes too but to her relief, she managed just in time. With one hard glare at Octavia she asked, " What the hell is in these boxes?"
Still trying to catch her breath, Octavia waved her arms... "Who knows? please carry them to the room ok? Please?"
Clarke rolled her eyes and followed Octavia back to their room. Once they had brought back all boxes, Clarke excused herself.
"I will go and check on Raven. Be back in a minute." Clarke smiled a little, gazing at Lexa as she closed the door. She had a feeling that she was missing something. A wayward thought nagging at back of her head. She just couldn't place it. What was with this Lexa, that rattled her this badly. She reached the door to her room which was two rooms away from Octavia's. Just as she opened the door, it all came rushing back to her.
Few years ago, younger version of Clarke had just came out of a cake shop with a birthday cake for Raven. She was wearing her favorite jeans, a red tank top and a new pair of shoes. It had just started pouring heavily. Clarke cursed her luck as she reached the end of the pavement. The road was pretty much empty. Her hair were soaked already and limited her visibility. Just as she took a few steps crossing the road, she heard the raving of an engine far too close. The next thing she knew was her arm being gripped by a strong hand and being pulled back. She screamed as she felt the car miss her body by a few centimeters. As she was pulled she fumbled and fell directly on the person responsible for saving her. The world stopped as she stared directly into these green pair of eyes that held her body and soul in that moment. The toned body of a pretty stranger had acted as a landing cushion for her. Everything else was a blur.
Raven was just a few feet away from Clarke as she saw Clarke enter the room and close the door behind her. Raven was about to ask Clarke about the new room mate but her question didn't come out as she saw the look on Clarke's face. Clarke's eyes were almost bulging out of her head and she was hardly breathing.
"Clarke? What happened? You look like you saw a ghost." Raven chuckled but was getting worried by each moment that passed and Clarke remained silent.
After taking a deep breath, Clarke whispered at first and them almost yelled.. "It's her Raven.. It's her..."
"It's who?"
Clarke gulped down the bile of emotions that rose in her throat. "my green eyed Angel.."
Raven was left with her mouth hanging open.