This is exciting… Sudden inspiration had me writing this. I was suddenly thinking hmm what if Lexa and Clarke were both on the Ark? It's kind of like a modern day Clexa fic but at the same time it's not… Weird…
Anyway I hope you enjoy this and I can only hope that I do this idea justice :) If you read my fic 'But you're lost on the road to misery' then you were probably expecting this one. After the positive reviews for this idea I just had to go through with it so here it is my friends!
I will hopeful be updating my other ongoing fic 'This Is The End Of Me: Season 2' sometime this week. I finished my exams last week so I have about two or three weeks before I have a three week transition into next year so apart from the occasional paid job I've promised to do my focus will be catching up with my fics.
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Clarke's face was pressing into her pillow whilst letting out a light snore when the knocking against the door tore her away from sleep. Jake laughed at the sight of his daughter rolling back over with a groan and crossed the room to open the door. Clarke wouldn't be up anytime soon.
He pulled the door and smiled at the brunette waiting on the other side. Lexa's face split into a grin at the sight of him, "Hi Lexa"
"Hi Mr. Griffin"
Jake shook his head, "I've told you before to call me Jake. Actually I was just heading out, Clarke's still asleep if you want to come in?"
Lexa nodded and he stepped inside the compartment, "Is she still in bed?"
"Still asleep" He rolled his eyes and they both laughed.
She placed her bag by the desk and made for Clarke's room, "I've got this"
Jake smiled and picked up his own bag. He stepped outside the door and called over his shoulder, "Thank you Lexa!" Before closing the door behind him.
Lexa smiled and shook her head as she walked over to Clarke's room she pushed the door and looked down at the sleeping girl. She threw herself down on top of Clarke's curled up body so her head was next to the other girl's.
She heard Clarke mumble something and hummed in response, "Sorry, what was that?"
Clarke pushed up from the pillow but refused to open her eyes, "I said go away"
"Ohhh" Lexa tugged her arm around Clarke's waist and pushed against Clarke's neck, her nose resting on her collarbone, "So you don't want your birthday present?"
An eye cracked open as a mess on blonde hair entered Lexa's line of vision to reveal Clarke's tired face, "I never said that… You got me a present?"
"Of course… Not every day you turn 17"
"I thought we agreed 18 was the big one?"
She grinned and got of the bed so Clarke could get up and moved into the main part of the compartment to get her bag and the present. Lexa heard Clarke follow her and smiled lightly as arms wrapped around her neck and Clarke hung off the front of her body.
She feigned annoyance and rolled her eyes, "See, now I can't move"
"Do you really want to move though?" Clarke moaned and looked up into Lexa's eyes.
"I don't know, do you want your present?"
"I thought we already established that I did?"
Lexa laughed and placed one arm around Clarke but moved around the other girl to pull the gift from her bag. She kept it tightly in her hand and out from sight but coughed and put her 'serious face' on making Clarke laugh.
"Now, I'm sorry it couldn't be wrapped but, under degree 45 since our move to earth, wasted paper is punishable by death and I figured you rather I wasn't thrown into space on your birthday"
"Oh shut up"
Lexa raised an eyebrow, "Present?"
"Lexaaaa, stoooop"
"Not what you were saying last night"
Now Clarke really did hit Lexa, "It's my birthday and this counts as bullying, just hand over the gift and shut up"
"Okay, Okay" She conceded and sat back against the desk putting her hand out, "Close your eyes"
Clarke grinned and closed them. A second later she felt metal being fixed around her neck and Lexa's hands move away from her neck followed by a whispered, "Open"
She blinked and looked down gasping slightly at the sight. It was an intricately cut infinity sign wrapped around a star. Clarke smiled and looked back up at Lexa wrapping her arms around her girlfriend's neck, "It's beautiful, why the star?"
"Because you're my star" Clarke already knew this, Lexa called her it every day but she liked to hear it repeated just for the sake of it, "We're surrounded by them but you're the only one I see"
She laughed and shook her head, "Still incredibly cheesy"
"Yeah, but you love it" Lexa winked causing another laugh to escape the blood.
"True"
She leant down and took Lexa's lips in her own and sunk into the softness she found there. Her arms wrapped tighter and Clarke leant further into the embrace her lips moving against Lexa's as she deepened the kiss feeling Lexa smile into it. The brunette's arms pulled Clarke closer so they were both leaning heavily on the desk, Lexa moaned into Clarke's mouth and her tongue begged for entrance which Clarke granted eagerly.
They were jolted apart as the door opened to reveal Abby who stood there looking exhausted. She didn't seem surprised to see them and rolled her eyes at Clarke's flushed cheeks and Lexa's slightly guilty look.
"Hello Lexa"
She nodded and watched the elder Griffin move across the room to her own room, "Hey Mrs. Griffin"
Clarke turned in Lexa's arms so she was leaning back against the girl instead, "How was work?"
Abby disappeared inside her room but called out, "Hectic as ever, will you be there tomorrow?"
"Of course"
"Good. Jackson wants to run through a few things with you"
The blonde frowned, "Oh?"
"I don't know Clarke; ask him" She walked back out and looked to her daughter, "I'm tired. I've had a long night shift"
"Dad just left"
"Yes he came to see me before he went, said you were still asleep and to wish you a happy birthday"
Abby looked between the two girls and took notice of the necklace and smiled, "Plans for today?"
Clarke shrugged but felt Lexa chuckle behind her, "Do we?"
The brunette nodded, "Of course"
"What?"
"It's a surprise"
Clarke frowned and looked as though she would argue but Abby cut in again, "Well I won't keep you. You two go and enjoy yourselves "
She nodded and took Lexa's hand in her own leading the other girl away understanding her mum needed to rest, "Thanks mum!"
"Bye Abby!"
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Things changed a week later. At first Lexa didn't notice as they would collect their rations together the way Clarke would accidently bump into people and almost drop her tray; she was usually very co-ordinated. But soon things started to stand out to her. Like the way Clarke flinched when the guards entered a room or the way she looked around nervously at dinner and seemed to spend more time with her dad than was normal. It wasn't until Lexa sat watching Clarke lose her fifth match in a row to Wells that she decided to speak to her girlfriend. Something was clearly wrong.
Lexa left Clarke and Wells mid match to complete her guard training for the day and she was tired but when she returned to her cabin to find the blonde asleep on her bed that seemed to slip away.
She shrugged off her uniform and slipped in beside her pulling the girl closer. Clarke curled into Lexa's side and shook as tears started to spill. She grasped her tightened and gently ran a hand up and down her back waiting for Clarke to explain it to her.
"I think my dad's going to get himself killed Lex"
That wasn't what she was expecting and her hand stilled at Clarke's back. She looked down as Clarke looked up and gave her a questioning look, "What's happened Clarke?"
"He's found a flaw, in the oxygen system, and he wants to go public with it" She sucked a breath in, "Mum disagrees… but I think he's going to do it anyway"
"What kind of flaw?"
Clarke sat up and stared down at the brunette lying there, "There's only another two, maybe three, years left of oxygen left"
Lexa's eyes scanned Clarke's face and she swallowed slowly, "He's going to go public?"
"People deserve to know Lexa" She argued.
"I know, I know" Lexa paused and bit her lip, "Can't he fix it?"
"I…" Clarke sighed and laid back down on Lexa's chest, "I don't think so"
Lexa pulled her arms around Clarke and kissed the top of her head, "Okay"
Later that night, when Lexa had drifted off to sleep, and Clarke was lying there listening to her heartbeat she made a decision. Clarke would help her father go public and risk getting herself floated if it meant that the Ark would have a fighting chance.
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Two weeks later and Clarke was alone with Jake when the guard came. She stood there screaming as he was torn away from her and fought to get too him all the while be pulled back as the guards put her hands behind her back. They were arresting her too.
Clarke was placed in solitary for fear of telling the other prisoners or any visitors what she knew. The only person that was permitted to visit her was Abby and Lexa's presence weighed heavily on her during the first few days.
She didn't even get to speak to her father again before he was floated and all Clarke had to show for it was the watch he had handed her mother to give her. She went to sleep each night grasping it tightly along with the necklace from Lexa.
Every time Abby visited Clarke would beg for her to find a way to sneak Lexa a visit but each time she would deny her request. This just angered Clarke more and eventually she just ignored her mother during her visits.
Clarke hated solitary. She had only the same four walls for company and the guard that brought her food. The sky was a wonderful sight but 17 of the same thing does take away the beauty of seeing it. Clarke dreamed that they were all down on earth together, Lexa, her father, her mother and that made her smile.
On one particular occasion Abby told her how Lexa had broken a guy's nose in an attempt to see Clarke and it made her smile to think that Lexa was still fighting to try and see her.
"Prisoner 319 stand and face the wall"
Same drill. She sighed and stood up facing away from the door as she heard it open. Clarke rolled her eyes as the sound of footsteps alerted her to the approach of a guard, to her surprise the door closed a moment later, but the guard still stood there.
"Are you going to leave or not?"
"Do you want me too?"
Clarke whipped round and gasped at the sight of Lexa standing there with her rations in one hand and charcoal in the other, "Because I can leave if it bothers you that much"
She laughed and waited for Lexa to place the things on her bed before throwing herself into the girl's arms, "What the hell?"
"I was placed on guard for the prisoners sector… I like to think this was your mother's doing"
"Did you ask her?"
Lexa rolled her eyes, "I've been begging since they locked you away"
"Me too" She closed the gap and breathed in the familiar scent that was Lexa. Her lips brushed gently against the brunette's and she sighed into the feeling.
"God I've missed you"
She felt Lexa laugh and pulled away to lean their foreheads against one another, "I mean really miss you"
Lexa pushed gently against Clarke's head, "I've missed you too Griffin"
"I'm sorry for not telling you what we were planning"
"I kind of guessed"
Clarke paused and frowned leaning back away from her, "You knew?"
Lexa looked confused, "Of course"
She stepped away from her leaving Lexa feeling slightly offended, "Was it you?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Was. It. You" Clarke growled out, "Was it you that turned in my father?"
Lexa gaped at her, "What? Of course it wasn't me! I wouldn't do that to you Clarke"
"I told you that because I thought I could trust you!"
Lexa stepped forward but Clarke retreated further into the cell and she looked hurt, "You can trust me Clarke, I promise you I didn't tell anyone about that… who else knew?"
Clarke closed her eyes, "Wells" She breathed in realisation"
Strong arms wrapped around her and she collapsed into the embrace, "Wells knew… I told him, thought I could trust him, what if it was him?"
"I'll find out" Lexa promised, "I'll talk to him myself"
All Clarke could do was nod against her shoulder as tears started to spill.
Hmm something is always kicking off on the Ark? I'll leave it there for the first chappie
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