Clexa fake dating AU

So I haven't written anything in a really long time, but I'm really loving The 100. So here goes. Hope you enjoy it.

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Chapter 1 - Bail Me Out

Lexa had no idea how she had ended up here. Okay well that's not true, she had been brought along by her best friends Anya and Lincoln. They were here because Lincoln had wanted them to meet his girlfriend, Octavia, and it just so happened to be her birthday so they had gotten an invite. Anya and Lexa had gotten there a little early – mostly because Lincoln lied to them about when it started, to make sure they wouldn't be late. She had seemed pretty cool though, good for Lincoln, and she made him happy. Or that's the impression Lexa got from them. Now she was sitting at the bar with a drink in front of her. Anya had found a group of people to have fun with for the night, and Lincoln was busy helping his girlfriend Octavia with hostess duty.

"So, do you come here often?" she heard from the seat next to her. She wanted to roll her eyes but held herself back.

"No. Just here for the free booze." She said, sounding disinterested, taking another sip of her drink, finishing it off.

"Are you here by yourself tonight?" he asked, not noticing her lack of interest in any conversation.

"One of my best friends is dating the birthday girl – So he's off doing the boyfriend thing." She said shrugging as she signalled the bartender to mix her another and before she knew what was happening there was a girl sitting next to her

"Hey, Babe." before Lexa realised what was happening this girl was leaning over to kiss her on the cheek. Lexa tried really hard to keep her face neutral. Who was this girl and what was she doing?

"Hey." she said lamely.

"You know Clarke?" the guy next to Lexa said looking about as confused as Lexa felt right now.

"Uh- " Lexa began before Clarke spoke up again, placing her arm over Lexa's shoulder.

"Sorry, let me introduce my girlfriend-" at this point Lexa was glad her mind had caught on to what was happening because this girl had no idea what her name was.

"Lexa. I'm her girlfriend, Lexa." she said taking another sip of her drink.

"Oh. Wow. Sorry, Clarke." Jasper said looking embarrassed "I didn't know. I'm really sorry. I tried using my lame lines-" he was babbling by this point.

"Did he try the 'do you come here often?' one?" she said lightly and Jasper looked sheepish. She actually felt a little bad for the guy now. But it was obvious the two of them were at least friendly with each other. It mostly looked like friendly banter from an outsiders view.

"No worries. No harm, no foul." Lexa said and shrugged again, which she realised Clarke must've taken as a subtle hint to get her arm away from her as she had quickly removed her arm from resting on her shoulder.

"Right. Well I think I'm going to-" he began to get out of the chair before an older woman came over towards them.

"Hey, Mrs Griffin!" Jasper called out, looking nervous as he noticed her. "Have you met Clarke's girlfriend– totally awesome chick! I was not hitting on her at all!" he said standing up and shuffling away muttering to himself.

"Girlfriend, huh? I didn't know you were seeing anyone, Clarke." The woman said with questioning eyes, as if scrutinising the two of them. Clarke looked like a deer caught in headlights.

"Lexa." She said offering her name as she stood up, extending her hand out to the woman.

"Mum, meet Lexa." Clarke finally spoke up, looking over towards Lexa apologetically as the woman shook her hand. "Lexa, meet my mum."

"It's nice to finally meet you." Lexa said looking at Clarke imagining she looked a little like a deer caught in headlights now – what had she gotten herself in to?

"I'd say the same, but Clarke hasn't told me anything about you."

"We've been taking it slow, you know." Clarke offered, trying to seem casual "This is really the first time she's met anyone besides Octavia."

"You know, you should bring Lexa with you to the holiday house next weekend, with your friends." Seriously what has this girl gotten her into? A weekend away with a group of people she had never met with her apparent 'girlfriend'? That's exactly what this girl had gotten her into.

"Uh-" Lexa sounded hesitant not sure on what the appropriate response for a fake girlfriend in this situation was.

"Mum, I don't know-" Clarke said, looking towards Lexa. She was trying to give her a way out.

"I'd love to get to know her more. If Lexa is free, of course." she had made it sound like a challenge – like she didn't believe she was Clarke's girlfriend, which okay that was true, but that was besides the point.

"Sure. Sounds like it could be fun, Clarke." Clarke's mouth opened in surprise before she quickly shut it.

"Wonderful. I look forward to seeing you again, Lexa." Clarke's mum said smiling before heading off towards a man over at the other side of the room.

"I am so sorry!" Clarke apologised sitting down at the seat jasper had previously been sitting. Lexa sat down next to her. "I was just trying to help you and try to stop Jasper embarrassing himself so much." Clarke sighed and put her head down into her hands.

"What do you drink?"

"What?" Clarke said looking up at Lexa with confusion.

"Your mum is still watching – and I'm your girlfriend. I figured I should order you a drink."

"Right." she paused, "I'll just have a bourbon and coke." Lexa got the attention of the bartender, ordered the drink and slid it towards Clarke.

"So you're at Octavia's birthday" Clarke began "and I'm her best friend but" Clarke emphasised the but "I have never seen you before. So how do you know her? Distant cousin or something?" Clarke asked and Lexa turned her attention towards Octavia and Lincoln. Clarke's eyes followed as she took a sip out of her drink.

"Or something." Lexa stopped and took a sip of her drink but continued after Clarke raised an eyebrow, prompting Lexa for a bit more information. "Lincoln is my best friend. I've known him since I was like 5 – I don't think this-" Lexa explained while looking between the two of them "was how he expected I would meet Octavia's friends."

"You know you can totally not come to this thing on the weekend. I can deal with my mum trying to set me up with 20 something year old guys on holidays there. I mean that was the plan originally." Clarke said sighing.

"It's fine. You saved me from getting hit on by your friend for the rest of the night. The least I can do is spend a few days helping you avoid awkward set ups by your mum."

"My knight in shining armour." Clarke sighed dramatically with a teasing smile on her face.

"Let's not go that far, Clarke." Lexa looked back over towards Lincoln and Octavia "We should probably go talk to them though – since Octavia is supposed to know about us and your mum didn't seem entirely convinced by your deer in headlights look. She might go looking for more information soon."

"Right, good idea." Clarke agreed and stood up grabbing Lexa's hand dragging her over towards the couple.

"Octavia!" Clarke called out getting her attention.

"I see you have met Clarke." Lincoln said looking down at her hand, which Clarke was still looked away from him avoiding eye contact.

"That's actually what I need to talk to you about." Clarke said looking a little sheepish "My mum may be under the impression that Lexa and I are girlfriends-" she paused as the other two looked at them with a puzzled expression. "and... she may have invited Lexa to come to our annual weekend up at the holiday house." Clarke exhaled the last half of the sentence out

"Well, this should be an entertaining weekend." Octavia was trying to keep a straight face and not laugh at her best friends ability to get into awkward situations. "At least the back story of how you two met is easy enough to make up, since she's best friends with Lincoln."

"How did your mum even get that idea, Clarke?" Lincoln asked furrowing his brow in confusion.

"I may have been trying to save Lexa from Jaspers awkward pick up lines… and he might have gotten nervous and told my mum when she came over. She doesn't seem fully convinced though."

"Your mum is going to be all over you trying to catch you out if she thinks it's bullshit- you know she wants to set you up with one of those guys that are there every year. So you had better work on a story if you don't want to be dragged to an awkward dinner date with one of them and your mum and Kane." Octavia said with a smirk, enjoying this way too much for Clarke's liking, judging by the scowl on her face.

"Do you think we should tell Raven?" and Octavia laughed in response.

"Clarke, your mum has some weird pull over Raven." Octavia said with a wink and Clarke made some vomiting noises before Octavia continued, "If you tell her the truth your mum is going to find out. And that will be awkward as fuck since Lexa will then be stuck with us all weekend. So thats a no to telling Raven the truth, but you are going to tell her about Lexa." Octavia said and nodded her head for them to look behind them.

"Hey O!" Raven called out "Griffin, where have you been?" she said before she noticed Lexa next to her and turned towards Octavia. "Who is the badass in the leather jacket?"

"I'll let Clarke explain that one." Raven raised an eyebrow.

"This is my girlfriend, Lexa, who also happens to be good friends with Lincoln. That's how we met. Like a month ago. We all went out to get coffee." Clarke was beginning to ramble to Lexa elbowed her lightly to get her to stop talking.

"Nice work, Griffin!" she exclaimed and thumped her friend on the shoulder in an appreciative manner "And you-" She turned her attention to Lexa "hurt her and I will punch you in the face no matter how badass you look."

"Noted." And she felt Clarke's lips on her cheek again, she assumed this was part of her girlfriend act. Lexa cursed herself inwardly as she felt her ears getting hot. She hoped that Lincoln hadn't seen, but the smirk on his face suggested otherwise.

"Cute." Raven said smiling.

"Don't mind her. She likes to try and scare everyone I'm dating." Clarke said rolling her eyes at Raven.

"Well you don't have a big brother or sister to do it for you so I have taken that responsibility on for myself. Seriously though. Congrats Clarke." she said offering a genuine smile

"Clarke's invited her to come with us next weekend. " Octavia said with a smile.

"Awesome – a new person to beat at Mario Cart!" Raven said smugly and Clarke hit her arm with her free hand. "Seriously though. It's been nice meeting you but Jasper looks like he wants me over there so I will see you on the weekend." she said looking pointedly at Lexa "Bring your A-Game!" Raven called over her shoulder as she headed towards Jasper and a group of other people one of which was Anya.

Lexa groaned. Anya was going to die of laughter once she heard about this.

End of Chapter 1