Sum: Clexa (finally) and Lexa will explain few things


When Clarke reentered the tent, she was surprised to find Lexa sitting on the bed. "Take your shirt off."

The commander raised an eyebrow at her. "You're not wasting time huh?"

Clarke chuckled and shook her head. "I want to look at your wound."

Lexa waved her away. "No need for it. My healers have already checked and.…"

She was interrupted by one pointed look from Clarke. "Lexa..."

The brunette sighed and took her shirt off.

Clarke knelt in front of other girl to have a good look at the wound. "Well...the good thing is that I remember it being much worse." She gave Lexa a weak smile.

"Clarke..."

The blonde interrupted her by shake of her head. She leaned in closer and kissed the now healing skin. "I'm so sorry." Tears started falling from her eyes again. "I was trained to be a medic. I should have been able to save you, but I...I..."

Lexa interrupted her. "It's OK." She kissed top of the blonde's head and wrapped her arms around her to keep her close.

Clarke gently squeezed the brunette as well, and whispered, "I froze. I couldn't..."

"Shhhh."

They stayed like that for a little longer, until Clarke raised her head and looked at Lexa. "How did you even get out?"

"Well..." She patted spot next to her. "It's a long story. You might as well get comfortable."

Clarke sat on the bed with crossed legs, so she could face Lexa and dried her eyes.

Once the commander saw Clarke sitting next to her she started at the beginning, "So first of all, there is one thing you need to know about my conclave." She took a deep breath. "One of the nightbloods ran away. Her name is Luna, and she was the most promising from all of us." She looked on ground. "She killed her brother, but she was supposed to go against me next and she just...she couldn't."

"I heard about her from Titus, but he never said why."

"Her sister begged her not to kill me."

Clarke was looking at Lexa quizzically when realization hit her and she whispered, "Costia."

Lexa nodded. "Yes... it's easy to kill someone who was raised to die, but to break the heart of someone you care about - that's a completely different story. She was not capable of hurting Costia. To avoid it all she fled, and I won the conclave." Lexa shook her head at the memory. "Anyway back to the shooting. Before the commander's body is ready for the funeral, it's kept in fleimkepa's chambers. Some people actually sewed my wound and stopped the bleeding by doing so." Lexa sighed and rolled her eyes. "Not caring if I'm breathing or not." She paused for a moment, "The chambers are unguarded most of the time. The Floukru ambassador sent a message to Luna as fast as he could. She decided to come and say a proper goodbye before the actual conclave. Luckily she was close to Polis. She found me in the chamber and realized that my heart was still beating. Since I didn't had the flame anymore, and the conclave was about to start in few days, she took me away. After some time we met Indra...or at least that's what Luna said to me - as I wasn't in the best condition to care about what was happening around me."


FLASHBACK


Indra was on her way to Polis when she saw some cart leaving the city. The girl who was riding it looked suspicious to her, so she decided to look in the cart as she was passing it. Whatever was inside was hidden under the cloth except for a little part that looked like a human hand. Indra's eyes went wide and she quickly took the cloth away. "Ripa!"

Luna jumped in her spot and turned around to see woman looking in her cart, at Lexa.

When Indra recognized the commander she quickly unsheathed her sword and pointed it at Luna. "I saw the flame on the top of the tower. You killed the commander and now you're taking your prize out of the city!"

Luna shook her head and raised her hands, showing that she meant no harm. "But she is not dead." She jumped off the cart and motioned for Indra to check Lexa's pulse.

Indra laid her sword on the cart and put her fingers on Lexa's neck, while keeping her eyes on the woman in front of her. When she felt the weak beating she nodded and took her sword to sheath it.

Luna continued in her explanation, "I'm not letting her die here, just because that bald branwada eagerly took the flame out without checking if she is really dead."

Indra nodded again and with look at pale Lexa she asked. "So what we are going to do?"

Luna looked at the other woman suspiciously. "We?"

The dark skinned woman nodded. "I don't know what this flame is that you talk about, but she won her conclave and that means the commander's spirit chose her. As long as she breathes she is my Heda!"

Indra's words caused a smile to break across Luna's lips. "We need to hide her somewhere."

Indra nodded again. "I know one village. Follow me."


"Stop right there!" Roan yelled at the approaching people in front of him.

Indra jumped from the cart, unsheathed her sword with her good hand, and pointed it in the direction of the voice. She moved quickly to keep the intruder as far away from the cart as possible.

"Oh hello Indra. What a warm welcome."

She glared at him. "What are you doing here king Roan." She again sheathed her sword, but kept her hand on the hilt.

"The new..." He thought about the next word. "...Commander..." He spat the tittle out, "…sent me to find something."

Luna chimed in. "The new commander?"

He nodded, "Ontari kom Azgeda."

Both women exchanged surprised expressions. "You don't sound too happy about that."

"She is the same as my mother." He shook his head. "And that is no good." He looked over Indra's shoulder when he heard a groan come from the cart. "What, or I'm guessing who is that?" He frowned.

Indra unsheathed her sword again.

"Lexa?" He looked at the two women in front of him. "They told me that she is dead. I saw them burning her body."

Luna shrugged. "Well as you see, it probably wasn't her body."

"We need to get her out."

"Why do you care?" Indra snarled.

"Because now she is the only one who can stop Ontari. You may hate me and all of Azgeda in general, Indra kom Trikru, but I will take peaceful Heda kom Trikru over bloodthirsty Azgeda every day. The only thing that will be accomplished with Ontari in charge is all of us getting killed."

Both women looked at each other and after moment nodded. "We wanted to take her to a specific Trikru village, not too far away."

He shook his head. "No I have a better idea." Indra raised questioning eyebrow at him. "In my lands there is an underground bunker. It's safe and no one will be looking for a Trikru commander in the lands of Azgeda."

Indra looked at him like he had two heads. "No!"

Luna faced her. "But he sounds logical. Everyone will expect her to be hidden in Trikru lands."

"Maybe you didn't notice, but he is Azgeda. He can lie."

"Same as you or me, but he is giving us the best option. It may be risky, but it's a smart risk."

Indra sighed. "The things I do for Heda." She shook her head. "Fine. Lead..."

She was interrupted by a weak, "Clarke," from the cart.

All three looked at pale, almost motionless, Lexa.

"We will need Wanheda if we want to defeat Ontari." The two women nodded in agreement with Roan's words.

He sighed - eyes still focused on Lexa. "Did anyone look over her injuries? She doesn't look well." Roan asked and commented.

Luna nodded. "I did what I could. Everyone in my clan is trained as a healer in youth. She needs more time to fully recover."

Roan nodded. "OK then let's move."

Both of the women nodded and climbed on the front part of the cart, while Roan went to the back next to Lexa. "Continue on this road until you enter my lands, I will tell you which way after that."

Luna nodded and the cart slowly started to move.

"Clarke," Another silent whisper.

Roan looked at Lexa in front of him and whispered, "I was on my way to her." He patted her arm. "I found her once I can do it again."


END OF FLASHBACK


When Lexa finished her story she looked at Clarke in her arms. At some point they had both moved to lay on the bed. They were holding each other - Clarke was cuddled into Lexa's side, careful to not touch her wound.

After some time of silence, Clarke whispers, "You were breathing."

Lexa could feel Clarke's tears soaking her shirt. She just held her close and didn't say another word, and they both slowly fell asleep.


TRANSLATION

"Ripa!" - Murderer!


Let's make Luna something else than a walking blood bag :D

I like to think that Costia was Luna's sister because damn! not killing Lexa after she already killed her brother would be making much more sense (at least in my head)...and we all know that black blood is totally random thing so Costia could have red blood

Also I refuse to believe that every person in twelve clans knows about the flame..that is a bullshit! ..All grounders knowing that Commander has a piece of technology inside of them - they would rebel and think the commander belong to Mount Weather….so nope! The only ones who knows about what the flame is are flaimkepa, nightbloods and clan leaders

Also n2 don't ask me about Lexa's miraculous survival...it is how it is and Lexa is alive - that is all what matters :D

Next time: Clarke and her group will have some talk again