A/N - Hey! So this may be a little rough and if there's any small mistakes it's cause I decided to type it on the bus and make myself feel ill because I get really travel sick haha so that was hilarious. Anyway, there was a much better response than I expected to this fic so I decided to give you another chapter tonight :) And if you follow my Season 3 rewrite, A New Plan, don't worry! This is not replacing your daily update, that will be along in just a few short hours! See you in the next chapter guys, or...on my reviews? :)

As soon as she had slipped her shoe back on, Lexa climbed to her feet, walking over to Alicia's mother and Travis. The two adults also stood up to avoid having her tower over them from where they were still kneeling on the floor.

"I didn't mean to hit you Travis, but you cannot sneak up behind me because I will react instinctively." She said evenly, it was almost an apology but at the same time it was almost a threat.

Madison bristled angrily, "What the hell is going on Alicia? Is this some sort of joke?!"

There was an amused sparkle in Lexa's eye as her gaze rested on Clarke, "A cosmic one apparently." Then she shook her head and looked back to her mother, "I am not playing games with you, if you will listen calmly then I am more than willing to tell the truth, but no one shouts at me."

Travis caught his wife around the shoulder to prevent her jumping forwards and smacking Alicia, which was seeming more and more likely by the second. "We would love it if you would shed some light on all this." He agreed quickly.

Lexa nodded and motioned with her arm for them to all take a seat around the table that had been pushed to the side of the room they were kneeling in, they had kept it in case they ever had to block the window, so they all dragged in chairs from the next room. Clarke sat at the right of the head of the table and Nick took the left. Travis placed himself at the other end with Madison to his side, and he had called in Chris to listen to what his step daughter had to say.

Once they were all still, Lexa stood at the head of the table with her hands clasped behind her back staring at each appraisingly as though she was really seeing them for the first time. Then she sat down in her own chair, but from the way she occupied it, suddenly it was as though she was sat in a throne. Clarke's mind flashed through dozens of memories, her fingers itching to draw the scene but with Lexa's antler throne showing at her back.

"My name is Lexa." She started, pausing to let that stand for a moment. "In my previous life I united twelve warring clans after I was called to lead my people, the Trikru or Tree People. I had been training since two to become Heda and I was heralded as one of the greatest warriors my clan had seen, but our lands were plagued by the Mountain Men, who captured my people and turned them into monsters that crept into our villagers and slaughtered my people by the dozen. Then they came, the Sky People, or Skaikru as we called them. They were led by a single woman who was whispered about long into the night throughout my lands for her bravery and power."

Lexa paused and checked each of their faces to find they were still listening intently.

"I made an alliance with their leader, to help bring an end to the Mountain Men, and it was almost perfect, but in the heat of battle things changed. I was offered a deal by the Mountain. Abandon Skaikru and my people would be released, or refuse and they would all die immediately."

Clarke's head shot up, she hadn't been aware that the grounders inside the Mountain had been threatened, although she supposed that maybe it should have been obvious, it was by far the most logical way of forcing Lexa's hand.

"I walked away, expecting to receive reports of Skaikru being wiped out, but instead a new legend rose. Wanheda, the Commander of Death who had wiped out the Mountain and our greatest threat in the time it took me to return to my camp, and I knew there was only one person it could be. I sent someone to retrieve Wanheda for me because I knew my enemies would seek to kill her to gain her power, it took three months, but when she arrived she looked at me with hate. I respected her right to that and was ready to release her when we came up with an arrangement. I accepted Skaikru into my coalition to protect them and Wanheda stayed in my city, Polis, as their ambassador."

Clarke swallowed a lump in her throat, knowing where the story was going now.

"The Skaikru were attacked by the Ice Nation and lost faith in the coalition, I killed their leader but it was too late and they had wiped out a force of three hundred warriors I had sent to protect them. On Wanheda's request and very well reasoned argument, I ordered my people not to attack. But the Sky People kept pushing and my own started to lose faith in me until finally my closest advisor sought to eliminate Wanheda before my feelings for her led to my demise."

She looked at Clarke sadly, "And I suppose in a way they did. I went to see her and as I walked through her bedroom door the bullet hit me." Her hand traced her stomach idly. "I died without telling you that I loved you Clarke, and that is the biggest tragedy of them all." Lexa whispered mournfully, "I don't know how we are here, I don't know how long we will be able to survive with all this going on, but I intend to tell you every single day how much you mean to be."

Clarke's eyes were shining with tears as she reached for Lexa's hand, and Nick had also taken her other, still seeing her as his sister whether she was also another person or not. The passion and earnestness she had just demonstrated was Alicia through and through and his mind clicked it together quickly, Alicia and Lexa were the same person, just separated by the way they had been raised.

Chris started laughing at the other end of the table, clapping mockingly, "Are you serious? Nice try Alicia but I'm not falling for it, although your little co-star there was a great touch."

Lexa growled at him, a true animalistic noise that resonated in her chest, he looked slightly taken aback but recovered quickly, "Your a brilliant actress Alicia, but this is ridiculous, how did you really expect us to fall for any of that?"

Nick and Clarke both stared at him as though he was an idiot, "The dead are walking, and reincarnation that has roots in god knows how many cultures, is far fetched?" Nick asked incredulously.

Madison and Travis were silent, watching Ali-Lexa's face carefully. Chris scoffed again and they saw how her brow furrowed slightly but then her face relaxed, laying the sword down in the center of the table.

"If I am a liar, as you say, then fight me so I can prove to you my skills."

Chris jumped up, "Deal!"

Travis immediately started arguing, his face still throbbing, as Clarke smacked her forehead against the table and groaned.

"Lexa there's no way that you're going near that kid with a sword!" She said quickly, snatching it away.

Lexa stared at her as though she had lost her mind, "Of course I'm not. He may be annoying but I don't want him dead."

"Yeah because you can beat me!" Chris yelled sarcastically, ducking past Travis to throw himself at Lexa, who ducked under the attack easily.

"I hadn't meant right now." She muttered darkly but squared up to him anyway, dancing past as he lashed out, again and again.

Clarke and Nick both got in Travis' way when he tried to get close enough to split up the fight.

"Let them just get on with it." Clarke advised, "Lexa's smart, she won't let him get hurt but she'll put him on his ass for sure."

And that proved to be true, Lexa put on a great show of technical moves to back up her claim, but she never once hit hard enough to cause more than a few bruises before catching him round the back of the leg and sending Chris toppling to the floor.

"Ai laik Heda. I am the Commander of the Thirteen clans and I am done being doubted." She glared at Alicia's, no her mother until Madison relented and nodded quickly, willing to at least accept the possibility of what Lexa was claiming.

Lifting her foot from Chris' back she stalked out of the room, Clarke racing after her back to the room Alicia had been sleeping in.

Once the door was closed she finally let herself relax and looked at Clarke, "Reincarnation is harder than I thought it would be."

Clarke chuckled, "At least yours came back all at once, I had snippets of memories for weeks and each one was a new headache to deal with, turn around and sit down for me."

Lexa was slightly confused but did as she asked anyway, taking a seat at the small vanity table that was in the corner of the room. She understood when Clarke's fingers started combing through her hair and twisting sections together.

"Clarke how do you-?"

"Know the design for your braids?" She laughed, "You think I don't have everything about you memorized down to the tiniest detail Lexa?"

Lexa smiled at Clarke in the mirror, "Do you think we are the only ones that have been reborn?"

Clarke hummed slightly as she thought through the possibility, "Maybe, but I haven't seen anyone else from our old life, it would be nice though. I died not long after you."

Lexa's body jerked slightly in shock, and she would have jumped up if Clarke hadn't have pushed down on her shoulder gently, "Relax, you can't kill them now. With you gone the other clan leaders didn't trust me or any of my people. Octavia managed to get accepted by the Trikru again so she made it, but the others? Ontari tried to help, carry out your final wishes as it were, but Skaikru pushed too much again. I was killed trying to get Pike to see reason and stand down from his ridiculous quest for vengeance but the fact that the Commander was now Azgeda didn't exactly help."

"Ontari became Heda?" Lexa's voice questioned, full of pain, "Then Aden..."

Clarke grasped her shoulders strongly, "Ontari didn't kill him Lexa, she beat him to within an inch of his life because he wouldn't give up, but she refused to strike the final blow. And with Titus still wracked with guilt over you he wasn't up to arguing that it was against traditional. All the night bloods survived!"

She stepped back, finished with Lexa's hair, just in time for the brunette to spin around and deliver a crushing embrace, "None of them died?" She repeated into Clarke's shoulder, unable to believe it.

Clarke wrapped her arms around her firmly, "None of them died." She pulled back slightly, "Your legacy was peace, and even though Skaikru had to be eliminated, the new Commander took Aden as her second in command and strove to be a leader you would be proud of. Azgeda are actually quite likable when their leaders sane."

Lexa stared into Clarke's eyes lovingly, "I love you, you know that right?"

Clarke just grinned and kissed her.