A/N - Chapter 2! I'm enjoying writing this quite a bit more than I actually expected too, thank you to everyone who had read or followed this. Please don't forget to leave a review, ideas, questions, comments. They're all welcome and will affect how I write further chapters.

"You're a cat." Abby said blankly, staring at the dark haired girl who was watching their little party with great amusement.

"Ten out of ten for observation." She drawled sarcastically, crouching in front of Lexa and pulling up the remains of her shirt to get a closer look at her wound, "That hasn't stopped bleeding, you need to cauterize it most likely, sorry Lex." She shrugged sympathetically and motioned to Abby to do what she had said.

"I will not take medical advice from someone who turned from a cat into a girl and then just glanced at the bandages covering a wound before saying that I have done my job incorrectly." Abby blazed, her eyes sparking angrily. "I especially won't take orders from a child."

Carmilla snorted in amusement and placed her hands on her hips, tossing her hair over her shoulder, "Do you want to tell her or should I?"

Lexa shook her head, "You can have this one." She smiled slightly as Carmilla smirked at Abby.

"Ok then, firstly yes I can turn into a cat, get over it. Secondly, I can smell that it's still bleeding, so stop sulking because I have superior senses and just treat your patient. And finally, I'm a vampire, I'm over five hundred years old which makes you the child so you will take orders or you might find your head in a different part of the forest to your body." All the way through her speech, the gleeful little smirk didn't drop once, which added an incredibly creepy undertone to what she was saying.

Abby gaped at her, opening and shutting her mouth, unable to find words to reply to Carmilla who was just stood in front of her with hands on hips.

"Clearly I have overestimated this bunch of toddler's grasp on english." She commented slyly to Lexa who chuckled as Clarke snapped out of the daze she was in and glared at Carmilla.

With a pointed look towards Lexa though, she rolled her eyes and knelt down next to the commander. As she pulled back the bandages she confirmed that everything the apparent panther was saying had been absolutely true and Lexa's wound was still oozing blood steadily.

Sighing she quickly ordered Lincoln to make a fire, waiting for it to be hot enough before she did what Carmilla had said and cauterized it with the blade of Lexa's knife.

Once it was done, Lexa allowed Clarke to help her up and then embraced Carmilla warmly, "It's been a long time."

"Maybe to you, but then I suppose the perspectives are different." Carmilla grinned back.

"Three years." Lexa stated simply.

Finally Raven just held up her hands, "Ok what the hell!" She yelled, "Is this seriously happening right now?" She asked incredulously.

Bellamy nodded in agreement as everyone stared at the commander and her... friend? It was so strange to see Lexa acting so relaxed with anyone that they had all done a double take at the hug and then at every moment after.

Octavia looked round at Lincoln who just shrugged casually, "Everyone's heard of the panther that guards the forests outside of Polis'. Sightings date back to the first commander and the founding of the city itself."

Carmilla grinned and gave a mocking half bow, "Why thank you! It's no fun surviving an apocalypse if there's no one around afterwards. I protected my chosen few and ensured that there would always be humans nearby when I needed them." The chilling smile and sharp pointed fangs left no illusion about what she needed the humans around for.

Kane stepped forward curiously, keeping one eye on Abby at all times who didn't seem to be dealing with the situation very well, "So you've just been living in the forest doing what? Protecting the city?"

His tone was curious rather than confrontational, and he eyed her with wariness but not outright fear which had Carmilla respecting him slightly whether she would admit it or not.

"Not quite, I've been protecting the commander line as best I can, and then they protect the city. Only Lexa here decided to expand her empire across the entire continent which makes keeping an eye on her practically impossible unless she's within the city limits." She gave a long suffering sigh and rolled her eyes at the commander, who only stared back patiently, leading Kane to realize that this must be an ongoing annoyance to the vampire.

"Are you done?" Lexa asked, raising an eyebrow at the vampire who crossed her arms.

"Yes, for now." Carmilla looked at the people with Lexa again, seeing them properly this time, "Skaikru? I thought you were going to wipe them out."

Lexa actually straight up rolled her eyes, which would have been hilarious to Clarke under other circumstances, but with everything hanging over them and now a supernatural being with an unspecified personal connection to Lexa, she wasn't ready to start being amused by how relaxed she was with the incredibly attractive girl that she had never mentioned before now.

"I offered you a place on my council the day of my conclave, it isn't my fault if you denied that request and then make no effort to keep up to date with the latest movements of my armies."

Carmilla shrugged, "Whatever sweetheart, I don't actually care. But if they aren't the reason for you coming here, who is?"

"Nia."

The one word growl was enough, through Lexa's reign as Heda she had only called on Carmilla for a favor once before. When Costia had been taken she had ran to the vampire, desperate for help, but it had been too late and Costia's head was delivered to her the next day. It had been the only time Carmilla had stuck around for more than was truly necessary, helping Lexa through her grief by holding her close, whispering long into the night about the love she had lost as well, the girl she hadn't been able to cling to hard enough to keep from death's grasp. On the night she finally left, confident that Lexa was ready to lead again, she swore that all if would take would be one word and the Ice Queen would die.

Carmilla snarled, seeming more animal than anything else, even in her human form, "She will die for this Lexa, you cannot forgive her again."

"I know," Lexa's eyes blazed furiously, "That's why we came here, Carmilla I need you to help me kill the Queen of Azgeda!"