"Ai want kom go ona te biga won!"

"English Madi" Clarke said and the little girl with the dark hair at her side rolled her eyes.

"I want to go on the big one! And that one there spins and you have to come on it I want to see if makes you sick!" ten year old Madi giggled and Clarke rolled her eyes.

"Wow, glad to see you're in such a kind hearted mood Mads."

"hodnes yu" Madi grinned and Clarke smiled warmly, not even having the heart to tell the child to try and speak in English.

"I love you too, you little gremlin." She said.

"Clarke!"

The voice that shouted her name sounded familiar… who was it? More importantly where was it?

"Clarke I'm behind you, you idiot!"

"Oh my god, Raven?"

Raven Reyes was coming towards her, pushing through the fairground crowds like they weren't even there.

"Raven! Oh my Go - How long's it been?"

When they finally reached each other, the two young women embraced in a fierce hug, before relinquishing the hold, but still keeping in contact with each other's arms.

"Too long dumbass."

"What are you doing here?" Clarke asked and Raven shrugged.

"Still a mechanic. Fairground rides are mechanical, duh!"

Same old Raven Reyes.

Same beautiful dark eyes. Same dark chocolate hair in the same old ponytail.

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.

New leg brace.

Just as Clarke opened her mouth to ask what happened, Raven saw where her eyes had landed and said before Clarke could speak

"Oh that. It's nothin'. Accident at the garage."

"What happened?" Clarke said, pushing her short blonde hair out of her eyes, as she looked concernedly at her old friend.

"Lift malfunctioned. Dropped a pick up on me. Had to have surgery on my spine but it was my leg that was the real problem. Nerve damage, broken bones, tendon damage. But three metal plates and sixteen titanium pins later and I'm still standing. Can't ride my bike anymore but…" and Raven shrugged like it was no big deal, but Clarke could see the faintest tinge of sadness in her eyes.

"I'm so sorry"

"Don't Clarke" Raven said with a smile "don't pity me. Anyways that's the only thing of interest that's happened to me since the last time we saw each other. Besides"

And here Raven leaned to the left to stare pointedly behind Clarke

"I think you have some more explaining to do than me."

Clarke turned to see that Raven was staring at Madi, who was stood behind Clarke with a Blue balloon on a string in one hand and her half finished ice cream in the other. Madi was watching the exchange with a confused expression, wondering who this new person was.

"Oh right, Madi come here."

Madi skipped over to Clarke's side and then looked slightly nervously up at Raven.

"This is Madi. Madi this is Raven."

Madi's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Raven Reyes? Bilaik's os! (That's awesome!) Clarke told me stories about yu en the skai kru en drop floudon en – (you and the sky people and the drop ship and-)"

"Madi!" Clarke interrupted with a laugh "English please! Raven doesn't speak Trigedasleng like me."

"Oh. Sorry." Madi said blushing all the way to the roots of her braided dark hair but Raven, although looking a little non plussed, smiled at the child and held out her hand, which Madi shook a little awkwardly as she tried to keep her balloon under control.

"Nice to meet you Madi. Clarke's right I didn't understand any of that, but I'm gonna guess that Clarke's told you some war stories including me?"

Madi nodded, looking at her boots, still a little red in the face. Clarke held up a finger to Raven and mouthed

"One second"

Before turning to Madi and handing her a handful of fairground credit tokens.

"Go and get in line for that big ride and I'll meet you there okay? Go ona strik won. (Go on little one)."

"Sha! (Yes!)" Madi grinned before running off towards the ride. Clarke watched her go before turning back to Raven.

"Either you hid a baby from me for seven years before we said goodbye three years ago or she's a mutant kid who grew to the size of a nine year old in three years." Raven said with a raised eyebrow and Clarke laughed again

"Actually she's ten. And it's a long story best told not in a fairground."

"Okay then come for a drink" Raven said grabbing Clarke's hand "Me and the others are all going out tonight to the Dropship and you should come too!"

"Others? You mean like-"

"Yeah the old team! Me, Octavia, Lincoln, Monty and Harper, Murphy and his girlfriend-"

"Murphy has a girlfriend?"

"He's had two since the last time we met" grinned Raven and Clarke let out a shocked chuckle

"Cue the apocalypse!" she said wryly.

"Oh if you want to see the apocalypse just come out with us tonight because you didn't let me finish. Murphy and his girlfriend… and his ex!"

Clarke's eyes widened even more and her mouth fell open.

"Well… that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen." She managed to get out.

"Exactly! So come watch it with me! Come on, come out have a drink, you never know you might meet someone…"

"Dating is the last thing on my mind right now Raven!" Clarke sighed and Raven shrugged.

"Who said anything about dating?" she said with a wink and then added when Clarke rolled her eyes "C'mon Clarke! Tell me the truth when was the last time you went out and had fun since 'The douchebag who starts with F but shall go nameless' got us both all messed up?"

A brief expression of sadness crossed Clarke's face but she covered it quickly and said with a theatrical sigh and a half smile

"If and only if I can get my mom to take Madi for the night. Here give me your number – unless you haven't changed it in three years?"

The two of them exchanged numbers, another hug and then parted ways.

By the time Clarke had found her way to Madi, the little girl had already been on the ride and was waiting by the ticket hut. When she saw Clarke approaching she started jumping up and down, squealing as Clarke came up to her

"I just met Raven! I met Raven Reyes!"

Clarke smiled fondly down at Madi as the two of them walked towards another ride. Madi had grown up hearing stories about the Skai Kru gang and seeing her excitement at having met just one of the stars of those stories made Clarke miss her old friends even more.

"Do you want to meet more of my friends?"

"Yes, yes , yes, yes!"

"How do you feel about staying the night at Grandma Abby's house?"