A/N - Honestly with this fic I'm writing it for me and inviting people along on the journey haha. I get that it's a bit strange that they know immediately, but at the same time there's lots of brilliant much alower paced fics, whereas with this I wanted to see what the effect would be of dropping Heda and Wanheda into the zombie apocalypse and letting them run :) but yeah, let me know what you think, I'd love to hear any ideas you have as well!

Lexa guided Clarke to the safe house where the rest of her family was waiting and then got her to pull over a little ways round the block behind some trees.

Quickly she jumped out and popped the trunk of the car, calling for Madison to come and join them at the back to help her drag a sheet over the top of the car to hide it as best as possible.

Giving it a quick look over she decided that would do and motioned for them to follow her.

Clarke followed without question but Madison almost argued before realizing there was really no point until they were all inside and safe.

Leading them round the back, Lexa leapt up slightly using her good leg to propel her, and grabbed for the windowsill they used to get in and out. She swung herself through more gracefully than Madison had seen her daughter do anything.

From the distance they heard the moans of approaching walkers so Clarke just linked her fingers and motioned for Madison to let her provide a boost, which she did, allowing Alicia's mother to clamber in through the open gap.

And then she immediately closed the window to trap Clarke outside.

"Get out of the way now." Lexa said calmly, not letting how much her heart had leapt into her throat show across her face.

"No." Alicia's mother hissed, "I don't know what that girl has done to you but I don't like it, so she can stay out there and you can stay in here with your family."

Everyone else had gathered by this point and Nick shot Alicia a sympathetic look, she could never stand up to mom once she used that voice.

"I said, Get. Out. Of. My. Way." Lexa advanced dangerously and the others stiffened, especially Nick who realized something very weird was going on with his sister. Travis moved forward to take the sword Lexa was still clutching, fearing that Alicia was having some sort of breakdown which would be understandable given the circumstances, but she reacted instinctively and caught him in the face with the pommel.

"Listen to me all of you!" She growled, "From now on you listen to me, and when I say move? You do!"

They all stared at her, not recognizing the woman stood in front of them at all, her eyes had shifted to become colder and she moved like a predator rather than a teenage girl. Lexa jerked her head at Madison who finally moved, tilting Travis' face to check the nasty bruise that had already started spreading across the side of his face as she knelt down next to him.

Swinging the window open, Lexa leaned out to see Clarke flattening herself against the wall and standing as still as possible to avoid attracting the walkers, if they weren't there she could have just taken a run up and jumped for the window herself but as it was they had her cornered.

"Clarke." She whispered, just loud enough for the other girl to catch, then she leaned down and offered her arm to Clarke who looked at her dubiously.

"Lexa you haven't been training since you were two in this lifetime. Can you really lift me?"

For a moment it was as though she was Alicia again and she rolled her eyes impatiently, "We don't have a choice, do you want to get eaten?"

Clarke chuckled slightly and grabbed her hand, "Ok, on three?"

Lexa's eyes flicked to the walkers who had noticed them and were headed over. "Three." She yanked hard on Clarke's arm who scrambled quickly to pull herself up, toppling through the window to land on Lexa who grunted at the sudden weight across her stomach.

"Bit more warning next time Lex." Clarke laughed, pushing herself up so she was hovering just over Lexa's face who's eyes widened a fraction.

"Well it was either that or get killed so..." She trailed off, sounding unsure of herself again now Clarke was so close and there was no immediate threat to take care of.

Clarke leaned down and kissed her gently, "Thank you for not letting me get eaten, now is it ok if I check that leg of yours Heda?"

"Sha." Lexa breathed out, mourning the loss of contact as Clarke pulled away and sat up, waving quickly at Alicia's family who were stood round staring. Everyone but Travis, Madison and Nick had slipped away as soon as Lexa had turned her back to avoid having her focus her anger on them.

"Heda?" Nick asked curiously, more intrigued than scared by her, he had never had any reason to fear his sister before and he didn't intend to start now when they needed to stick together as much as possible.

Madison and Travis stayed a safe distance away, still completely confused as to what was going on.

"It means Commander." Lexa explained absently as Clarke pulled her leg in front of her and carefully pulled off her shoes, feeling glad that in this life she wore converse which were much easier to remove than her long boots would have been.

"Commander of what?" He pressed.

"My heart." Clarke winked, before blushing, "I'm sorry, our personalities in this life don't go away, they kind of merge with our old ones." She said in explanation.

Lexa looked amused, "And who were you? If you had another personality I assume you lived a life before becoming Clarke of the Sky People again."

Clarke huffed slightly as she carefully started bandaging Lexa's ankle with strips of cloth Nick had brought for her when he noticed what she was doing, although she suspected it was mostly an excuse to stay close to listen in on what was going on. "Now that you've lived a whole other life I'd have thought you'd get the concept of second names."

Lexa grinned, "I do, mine's Clark."

Clarke's eyes widened, "Mine's Lex. Elyza Lex. There's no way that's a coincidence."

"Oso keryon ste teina Clarke." Came the awed reply which Clarke nodded at, wholeheartedly agreeing.

"You're bilingual?" Nick cut in suddenly.

Lexa nodded at him as Clarke finished wrapping up her foot, "I have lived a whole other life away from this one Nick, but yes, let's make my second language the talking point."

Clarke grinned to herself, "Alicia's sarcastic, good to know."