AN

This story was inspired by one of the fan art, which make me wanna start a fluffy story between Clexa and raccoon. All mistakes are mine! And give all the credit to the show and fans who creat the fan art (a picture Clarke holding a raccoon). In addition,I am not really a writer,and English ins not my first language, so if the plot is jumpy or make no sense, and if my grammar is too unreadable, I apologize here in advance, and feel free to give advice to help me improve, thanks!

**It happened after Clarke was captured by Roan,but haven't meet Lexa yet.

In polis,

Lexa has been training the nightbloods since she was back from Mt. weather. Not only to prepare the next Heda, but also to distract herself from the guilt of betraying Clarke. As Lexa sitting in her throne while those nightbloods sitting in front of her on the ground facing her, "today's lesson is about Heda's war paint" said Lexa, "the ingredient of the war paint is a top secret, and today, we are heading out, then I will show you what it is and where to find it". As she look at those kids whose eyes are filling with uncontainable excitement, one of the kids ask, "Heda, what is the ingredient of war paint? Why is it so important to Heda?". Lexa stand up and reply, "it is one kind of plant which can give us extra strength, protection, power and wisdom. But in order to get it, you will need to 'shift'." "Ohh..." Some of the students groaned. It makes Lexa chuckled slightly. "Now get up and be ready, we are going out hunting the war paint ingredient". So the nightbloods stand up and leave the room, on the way out, one of them is complaining about the idea, "arghh...why do we have to 'shift' again? I hate it! I hate shifting into that stupid little beast" one of his friends, a girl protest, "it is a raccoon! Not beast! And it is cute!" "Argghhh..." The boy just walk out of the room with one of his palm on his forehead and shaking the head left and right.

Apparently, the nightbloods are named not only because they are having black color blood, which is the color of night, thus it is the sign of a potential Heda, when Heda die, the spirit will choose the next successor from the nightbloods, and also they have special ability to shift. A shapeshifter. Like pauna, which were preferred by the last Heda, for it is scary and stronger. On the other hand, Lexa choose raccoon which is small and an energy saver. And maybe in a part of the dark corner of her mind, just maybe, she think that it is cute too. And it match her war paint. The pauna that she encountered with Clarke previously, is one of the previous nightbloods, who were unstable and couldn't shift back to human form.

For a nightblood, to shift, you have to turn you human form into the desire form, but for the official Heda like Lexa, who have the spirit living in her, she just need to find a safe place for keeping her human body safe, because only her spirit is transforming, her physical body will stay human unconscious. "Indra! Watch the door for me, no one enter the room without my permission, understand?" "Sha, Heda" of course Indra understand what it means, she's only called to watch Heda's door when Lexa is shifting, she is the one that Lexa trusted the most after all.

In Commander's room

Lexa sigh and go to her bed, she lies on the bed, finding a lying position that looks like sleeping and then she close her eyes. Few seconds later, there it is. The raccoon. It is standing beside the bed frame, looking up to the unconscious body, making sure it looks natural as a sleeping form. Then it head out to meet its group after exchange a nod with Indra. Lexa don't always shift. She only shift when she is out of war paint or when she is injured and need quality rest to speed up the healing process. That's why she don't shift into pauna or whatever shape which is bigger and stronger, because the bigger the shifting is the more energy will be used, which make the spirit exhausted and slow down the healing process of the human body.

In the forest,

"Hey!...hey!...can we please rest for a while, I really don't think that I can lift my legs anymore" the blonde whose hands are tied already sitting on the ground, panting. Roan pulls the rope hard to show his frustration, then sigh and sit on a rock and lean against a trunk to rest as well. "We will leave again tomorrow, now you rest, don't ever try to do anything stupid!"

Clarke get to lean against a trunk as well, away from Roan, she is so tired and starving and thirsty. She really miss the shower on the ark. When she is about to close her eyes after settled into a comfortable position, her eyes are locked with another, a pair of green eyes that she hate and miss so much at the same time. But it is fine, because the green eyes belong to a little animal, a raccoon. The raccoon seem shocked when it saw there are people present. Before it can react, it see a man coming in its direction and it run away, following by a bunch of even smaller raccoons. "Let them go! They are just kitties, go find something your own size" Clarke shout out and only get a scoff from Roan then he turn away.

Later that night,

Clarke was waken by a poking at her feet, luckily the shadow move faster than she can start defense herself by initiating an attack. What she saw in front of her is probably the best moment of the day. There is the previous green eyes raccoon standing in front of her with its hands holding a folding large leaf that filled with water. It was its tail that was poking her seconds ago. At night the raccoon looks more familiar, it reminds Clarke of Lexa's war paint, causing her to smile internally. "Hey, it is you again, right? You come back to give me water?" She use her mouth to point at the leaf, she don't want to move her hands, worry that this will wake attract Roan attention.

The raccoon move slowly closer to Clarke, no other reason, simply because it is holding the water, which make it can only hardly walked by two feet. This scene is so hilarious, it gains a chuckle from the blonde. She carefully get the leaf from the raccoon, then bow her head down to the leaf on her hands and immediately start drinking, once she finished, she say "thanks..." But when she lift her head up, she is all alone again. She sigh with a laugh and lean back to the trunk, "if we ever meet again, I will name you shadow, Lexa's shadow..so similar and so cute.." She smile sweetly and then look up to the sky, thinking that how a peaceful life can be if there is no war on earth. The earth that her dad don't get a chance to see. TBC