A thousand thoughts run through Lexa's mind at the moment. What was Clarke doing here? How was she going to explain what she was doing here if Clarke asked? Had Abbey figured out her disguise and had called up her daughter and the media? If so this whole operation was compromised, and then all of this would have been for waste.

"Lexa!" Clarke called Lexa out of her thoughts.

"Clarke," Lexa started, as professionally as she could, her stoic façade coming into play, hiding any feelings she felt might jeopardise her "It's good to see you again."

Clarke's jaw dropped and Lexa's heart stopped oh no Lexa thought, this wasn't going to end well.

"Good to see me?! Lexa are you fucking kidding me?! You left me without a moment's notice! Like who in real life does that?! No normal human being drops off the map like that! Do you know how fucked your company is right now?! Gustus is –" Clarke shouted, drawing unwanted attention to herself and Lexa.

"Clarke I don't care about the company –" Lexa cut Clarke off trying to get her defence into this argument at some point.

"Oh clearly! You don't care about anything or anyone!" Clarke retaliated "You couldn't stand the fact that you were finally getting close to someone, that you weren't this cold calculated CEO that everyone believes that you are. No, infamous Lexa Woods can't possibly be seen as human." Clarke snarled.

"Clarke you don't understand, I had to leave. I had to come here and protect my people!" Lexa defended.

"What people?" Clarke questioned suddenly not understanding the situation, her anger for Lexa slowly subsiding as there may be a better reason for Lexa leaving her so suddenly than Clarke originally thought.

"Clarke, this is not something I can easily explain…" Lexa let out a little chuckle as she raised her head to look Clarke in the eye, "in fact I don't think you'd believe it if I told you."

Clarke raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms defensively, "oh yeah? Test me." Lexa looked round her surroundings and realised they weren't exactly in the safest place.

"Come with me, and I'll explain everything. I promise." Lexa held Clarke's hands looking into the ocean eyes she thought she'd never see again. This was Clarke's turn to laugh,

"Lexa I can't just up and leave, I'm staying with my Mom over there…" Clare turned round to point to the EU HQ only to face the barriers being raised "… which is now on lockdown and I have no chance of getting back in." Clarke looked back at Lexa questioningly "was all this you?" Lexa gave a nod and Clarke could have sworn she saw a slight twitch of upwards lip movement from Lexa. Clarke huffed unimpressed with Lexa, "Lexa!"

"Clarke it will make sense I swear!" Lexa defended herself, now slightly annoyed that Clarke was doubting there was a good reason.

"Sure, now where are we going?" Clarke asked.

"I can't tell you, give me your phone." Lexa demanded holding her hand out.

"What? Why?" Clarke asked annoyed of having to sacrifice her only entertainment since she got here (well at least before she realised that Lexa was here.)

"Just give me the damn phone." Lexa demanded sternly, getting irritated by the time wasting in arguing with the blonde.

Pouting Clarke took out her phone from her pocket and planted it in Lexa's hand. Without hesitation Lexa threw it into the water fountain nearby.

"Hey!" Clarke cried as she ran to the fountain only for Lexa to grip onto the back of her clothes and pull her back.

"Come on!"

"Fuck you I just beat Raven's level at Candy Crush!" Clarke fumed.

"I'll buy you a new one." Lexa huffed as she dragged Clarke to her range rover across the street. Clarke got into the passenger seat that Lexa held the door open for, but unlike her usual gentlemanly self, slammed the door shut and she stomped towards the driver seat. Igniting the engine, Lexa lent down the side of the seat and reached for a thick black bag, holding it towards Clarke.

"Are you kidding me?" Clarke asked. Looking at the concealing bag.

"Don't make me force you," Lexa said in a tone that could almost be described as seductive. Clarke let out a heavy sigh and put the bag over her head, then turned her body to face Lexa. She couldn't see out of it, but she hoped Lexa knew she was glaring at her.

"Stop glaring at me Clarke," good "if you peak I'll make sure you're transferred to Gustus's work permanently." Lexa teased.

Clarke felt the car begin to move.

What am I getting myself into? Clarke wondered.

Lexa's HQ

Lexa told Clarke to wait in the car until she fetched her. Lexa walked into the air hanger where Indra was.

"Where is Anya?" Heda asked the older woman, approaching the table to see that Indra was compiling various notes.

"She is training the soldiers Heda. How was your mission?" Indra asked as she stopped shuffling the notes around to turn her full attention to Heda.

"Successful," Lexa held up a white silk pillow "I also got you this, I know how fond of them you were." Indra raised an eyebrow at the pillow, taking it cautiously.

"Many thanks Heda."

"Innnndraaaa…." Lexa lengthened out her second's name. Oh no. This is it. Indra realised in her mind.

"Yes Heda?"

"Do you remember a certain blonde from my penthouse? Clarke Griffin."

"I recall. Quite good with a frying pan." Lexa let out a little chuckle at the memory.

"Yes her. She's here." Indra's eyes widened.

"What do you mean here?"

"In the car. Right now."

"Heda!" Indra began to explain, but noticed how Heda acted defensively towards the girl, obviously Heda had stronger feelings than just co-worker for this girl.

"Indra wait! She is the daughter of the chancellor of the UN!"

"And you brought her here?! Are you mad?" Indra fumed.

"But she recognized me! I had no choice but to take her! I swear Indra." Lexa defended, but knew she was defeated by Indra's raised eyebrow.

"No choice?" Indra asked in English "of course. Well…" Indra wondered the hanger.

"Well?" Lexa asked. Indra placed her fingers on her forehead. "We must bring her in and explain the situation then." Indra stated, Lexa nodded and went off to get the blonde.

Gods give me strength. Indra prayed silently.

"Come on Clarke." Lexa helped Clarke out of the car, keeping the bag on the blonde's head. Not wanting her to see the surrounding soldiers practicing stabbing techniques. Pushing the blonde towards the air hanger, Lexa nodded at the troops as they simply said "Heda" or "Commander" at her.

Once they were both in the air hanger, Lexa closed the door and removed the bag from Clarke's head.

"Jesus Lexa what the hell?" Clarke asked, looking round and taking in her new surroundings. Noticing Indra standing at the table. Looking as menacing as ever. "Oh hello again, such a small world huh?" Clarke weakly smiled at Indra who did not return it. Only looking at Heda then back at the girl, then back at Heda.

"I shall take it from here Indra" Lexa spoke to Indra, who nodded and left the room. Leaving Clarke and Lexa in silence.

"So… commander" Clarke began "Will you answer my questions?" Lexa nodded and pulled out a seat from the table and gestured for Clarke to sit down, which she did although slightly reluctantly. Lexa pulled out another seat and sat next to Clarke, her whole body facing the blonde.

"What would you like to ask?" Lexa asked.

Clarke suddenly felt like a kid on her birthday, where suddenly all those things you wanted you forgot existed, leaving her with nothing.

"From the beginning." Lexa gave a slight nod, it was quite a large area to cover. The beginning? Lexa presumed it was from since she was born.

"I was born here. In a poor family in a poorer country. My mother died shortly after I was born, my father raised me for a few years. But he was taken from me. By a group called the mountain men," Lexa began to explain, unaware that her emotionless façade had taken over and was now just looking at Clarke. "They forced him to blow up the old headquarters of the United Nations. His life for mine." Clarke let out a small gasp as she placed her hand on Lexa's as so many had done before. But this time Lexa didn't mind.

"This gang who took my father also took me. They believed I could serve a purpose for them." Clarke tensed and felt uneasy as she didn't know where this was going, "when they took me I was too young for their sex industry so they put me to work in other areas of their gang. One of the most unfortunate groups to be put on was the fighting ring.

Children my age, younger and older even, were put to fight to the death in a small ring. Whoever won at the end of it would be allowed to join their forces." Lexa swallowed any memories that tried to creep from her mind, "I won. Although God knows I wish I hadn't. It came at too deep a cost. For mere entertainment purposes." Lexa snarled slightly, Lexa suddenly realised the blue eyes staring at her were wanting to know more, composing herself she continued.

"They trained me. To kill, to be ruthless and merciless. A trained killer formed in a fifteen year old body. But once they realised I was becoming to reckless, letting people escape, they decided I had out served my purpose. So for my last mission, they planned for me to blow up a rival gang's drug house. But the night before Indra came up to me, and freed me from my cage."

Lexa let out a little chuckle as the memory came back to her of Indra's great planning, "she had washed the floors with petrol on the night the mountain men had gone out to get drunk. Once they had all returned to the complex, Indra lit a match and lit the whole place ablaze. Indra and I gathered all those worth saving and fled."

Clarke felt like this couldn't be real but hearing it come from Lexa's lips made it ever more so, "Lexa that's horrible… but so brave."

Lexa could only nod her head, "I thought I'd killed their leader that night. But he must have somehow survived the fire. That bastard." Lexa cursed, wishing she had gone back to make sure there were multiple bullets in his brain before she'd fled and set up a new life. "I'd watched him go round towns and villages taking new people on, forcing new people to join his cause. I should have stopped him."

"You were just a girl Lexa, you cannot take responsibility for his actions." Clarke tried to reason with Lexa, suddenly realising what the other was getting at.

"Yes I can. Because I'm the only one of his forces to survive. I helped him take over just as much as he did. Only I was too naïve to see what his true purpose was."

"Which was?" Clarke asked curiously.

"Power. As cliché as it sounds, he always wanted this land to be his own. Some God complex, but he'd stopped at nothing to get it. The ironic thing is he'd rather see this land destroyed than in the hands of some government," Lexa sighed "including its people."

"He sounds crazy." Clarke replied quietly as she sat closely next to Lexa, "but this isn't your responsibility to carry Lexa."

"It is… everyone around you. They're my people. And they need saving Clarke. Do you understand? I didn't leave you for whatever reason you may have thought, I left to save my people." Lexa looked pleadingly into Clarke's eyes as if looking for an answer.

Clarke placed her hand on Lexa's face and leaned in, kissing Lexa as passionately as she could. Not allowing her mind to even think of her actions.

Pulling back, Clarke looked into Lexa's green eyes.

"I understand." Clarke whispered.

Well damn! How's that? We all good? How's everyone?