Monopoly (or the second time they all got their asses killed

Raven narrows her eyes at Octavia who just beams back at her, and both Clarke and Bellamy sigh, defeated. "Are you sure you didn't cheat, O?"Raven insists for the millionth time, but Clarke cuts her short. "How do you even cheat at Monopoly, Raven?"

Unable to respond to the blonde's question, the mechanic looks up to the sound of someone knocking on the door and Octavia hurries to open it, hoping that Raven will be distracted enough not to notice the amount of money she managed to steal from Clarke under the table. After opening the door to reveal Wells and Lexa, the Blake girl prances back to the living room and lets herself crash on the couch again as Raven starts to return the pieces of the game to the box.

"Hey guys, you won't believe what ju-" Wells said as they walked into the living room, but he was soon interrupted by the woman beside him. "I love Monopoly! Can we play?" Lexa chirps as she sits next to Raven on the carpet, and Wells, Wells just sits on the couch by Octavia's legs, pouting about his story on bird sighting going untold.

"Oh no, you don't want to play Monopoly with Lexa, you guys. Trust me, back in the dorms she used to wipe everyone off in less than an hour." Octavia says, straightening herself on the couch as the other girl opens her mouth to protest, but she is interrupted by Bellamy who rolls his eyes and fixates his gaze on Lexa.

"I'll tell you what, we can play, if you tell me what fandom this Monopoly is from." He challenges, hiding the box behind his back.

After a short pause that makes Bellamy bring his hand to his nose bridge as he readies himself for another serious talk with his friend, she starts talking. "It's Staaaaaar..." Lexa looks around confused, reaching for a small R2D2 piece in the board and eying Clarke with a hidden plea in her eyes, the artists silently mouths to her the answer. "Wars! Star Wars!" Lexa exclaims excitedly afterwards.

"Clarke!" Bellamy protests, ready to give his girlfriend a rant about the importance of Lexa learning the difference between the two fandoms if she wants to remain friends with him, but when the blonde turns her back to look at him with one challenging eyebrow raised, the boy is thrown back to the long week after Risk in which she refused to talk to him and told him (through Octavia) to go discuss magnificent war tactics with Lexa each time he tried to apologize, so he shuts up and sulks in silence as Raven starts setting up the game again. During the debacle Octavia has managed to place the stolen money back on the box. No one notices (but Raven swears there was much less money when she last looked).


"Place the gameboard on a table, and put the Jedi and Sith cards face down on their allotted spaces on the board. Each player chooses one sid-" Wells sits with his legs crossed, reading the instructions out loud as both Raven and Octavia discuss in whispers if they could get away with ripping the instructions sheet in half without Bellamy killing them (they think they could easily handle Wells between the both of them.)

"Honestly, Wells... is it really necessary to always read the whole manual out loud?" Bellamy asked, annoyed.

"How do you expect us to play if we don't know the rules, huh?"

"It's Monopoly! Everybody knows how to play Monopoly! You buy shit, you lose shit, you try to buy shit from the same color of the shit you already have! You pay shit when you land in someone else's shit!" Octavia's comment makes Lexa chuckle, but Wells doesn't budge, if anything now he seems insulted. "You were obviously not paying attention, there are differences between this and classic Monopoly."

"Wells, why don't you just read the differences instead of the whole manual?" Clarke suggests, her face leaning on her palm as she boredly draws on a napkin, knowing Wells for as long as she does she knows he is going to read the instructions whether they like it or not.

"Fine." The boy sighs in defeat and flips the pages until he finds what he was looking for. "If you want to add some galactic excitement..."


"Can we order Chinese? I'm famished." Raven ask as Wells gives Lexa the money the Sith card told him to, clenching his jaw as he tries his best to be a "good loser" as Clarke says. Bellamy looks around to see the reaction of the group and when everyone nods he stands up to get the menu of the Chinese restaurant Jasper used to work at (not like he ever gave them any free noodles, the only thing he ever gifted to them were fortune cookies, which he failed to mention were already free, that bastard).

Sitting back on the carpet with the menu and his yellow legal pad (earning some scoffs from Octavia, of course), Bellamy readies himself to be bombarded with orders. After repeating the final order three times and changing details from Raven's order a thousand times (the girl just loves rice and noodles and has a hard time choosing okay?) he stands up to grab the phone as Octavia counts the money she managed to steal from Bellamy's stack of Monopoly Republic Credits while he was distracted writing down the list of vegetables that couldn't be in Wells' chow mein because of his allergies.

"I changed my mind Bell! Make it noodles!" Raven calls out some minutes later and a groan from Bellamy is heard from the other room as he dials again the number of the restaurant to change the order.


"I don't like to say 'I told you so', but I definitely told you so." Octavia says, causing Bellamy to glare at her as she pulls out some of the stolen money from her jacket and adds it to her stack, she is definitely going to need it if Lexa continues playing like that.

Bellamy groans and looks at his depleted money stacks, between Lexa's amazing Monopoly skills and Octavia's stealing the boy is about to go bankrupt, and in a matter of three turns he does.

"I don't like to say 'I told you so' b-"

"Shut up O."


Without Bellamy's stack of money to help her (Raven distrusts her too much to let her money anywhere near her and she wouldn't ever risk trying to reach for Clarke's, the girl is touchy when it comes to board games, she has experienced it first hand when the last week she was forced to act messenger between her and her brother ) Octavia sees herself in difficulties, and barely survives because of a lucky double roll.

Clarke grits her teeth as she lays her last bill in Lexa's hand, not happy to see herself being beat by the girl again, but she tries to mask it chasing a small carrot in the Chinese takeout box . No one complains when four turns later Octavia sees herself land in one of Lexa's properties, and after a quick mental operation she realizes she'll go bankrupt if she pays, so she pretends to reach for Bellamy's spring rolls and flips the board with all its pieces.

"Oh oh." She says, pretending to be sorry while everyone pretends to be angry at her, saving their bankrupt asses from being kicked by Lexa.

"Now we all know how to cheat at Monopoly, though."


"But it's still early, though. How about we play again?" Lexa suggests innocently, causing all her friends to shoot panicked looks at each other until Clarke makes a suggestion with the sweetest voice she can muster.

"How about you play bank this time?"


(Later when Raven stuffs her hands in the pockets of the jacket Octavia lent to her she finds a handful of Monopoly Republic Credits and she curses under her breath, laughing.)