Pumpkin Muffins

It had been two weeks since they talked about everything and things were finally falling into somewhat of a routine.

Lexa was really trying and Clarke noticed it, since she had been getting ready for her art show which was a little over a week away; Lexa would pick up the kids from the studio once a week at four so she could paint. She had been home for dinner at least one other night a week on top of that. It was Friday and Clarke was at her studio painting, she only had two more pieces to put finishing touches on then she was done. She was really proud of these pieces but was a little hesitant for Lexa to see them.

"Hey" Octavia said coming into the room, "I'm here."

"Hey, thanks for coming" Clarke said.

"Yeah of course, what's up? Your text's sounded a little cryptic, not Lexa stuff again right?"

"No" The blonde shook her head. "Well we're not fighting… not yet at least that's why I need your opinion."

"Okay…" Octavia said "again with the cryptic."

"Sorry, so I lined up my paintings some not finished completely mind you but still, tell me honestly."

"Tell you honestly what?" Octavia said looking at them.

"Look at them, really look, and tell me…" Clarke said.

"I love when you get all weird about your paintings and I mean that in the best way, honest." Octavia said stepping forward to get a better look at each one.

Clarke stood back and watched her look, after a few minutes she broke the silence "So?"

"There amazing" Octavia said, "some of your best work to date…"

"But do you think… Lexa will…"

Octavia turned and looked at Clarke, "I think that they're honest, and raw, and real. And I don't think that she will fault you for that."

"Will they hurt her?" Clarke asked.

"Maybe only because they're truthful. But she is going to think that they're beautiful as well. And only five of the twenty, I think stand out to me… as you guys."

"Okay, good" Clarke nodded. "Thank you."

"You're welcome…" Octavia sat down, "How have things been?""

"Good still I mean not perfect yet by any means, but she really is putting in an effort. She picked the kids up at four today and is making dinner and putting them to bed. I will get home late since it's my night to paint, I just needed to finish up things here because I don't want to have to paint this weekend at all with getting Jake ready for school Monday."

"I know, first grade!" Octavia said excited.

Clarke winced.

"You still haven't come to terms with that one yet huh?" Octavia asked.

"That my baby is going to be a first grader? No, no I haven't" Clarke shook her head.

"Have you told Lincoln yet?"

"About what?" Octavia asked.

"That Jacob is going to be a first grader! What do you think, O? That there is a tiny human in your belly maybe…" Clarke laughed.

"Oh yeah, no not yet I am going to this weekend though."

"What have you been waiting for?" Clarke asked.

"I just wanted to give it a few weeks and be sure my body didn't start and trick me or something, I don't know" Octavia shook her head.

"But you're good?"

"I have peed on three pregnancy tests, been throwing up and my boobs hurt. Yeah I think I'm in the clear, there is totally a tiny human in there I believe."

"Did you make an appointment yet?" Clarke asked.

"No I need to" Octavia said.

"Okay well if you have a hard time getting an appointment anywhere let me know. I will give you my doctors number."

"Thanks" Octavia said, "I should probably get home Linc will be there in an hour or so."

"Yeah, I need to finish a couple of things then get home If I would actually like to see my wife tonight" Clarke nodded.

"I think she will love your paintings, I do at least and I love you too."

"Thanks O that means a lot… thanks for coming by I love you too. Girls night soon, please" Clarke said.

"Sounds good to me if we can pull Rae away from Anya long enough" Octavia rolled her eyes.

"I know totally" Clarke said waving goodbye to her friend and returning to her work.

/

"Hey" Clarke said walking in the door, it was nearing nine o'clock and she figured the kids would be asleep.

"Hi babe" Lexa said sitting on the couch with a glass of wine in front of her.

"How were the kids tonight?" Clarke asked.

"Great, both went down a little earlier than I expected. I was going to try and keep them awake for you but they were both exhausted" Lexa explained.

"I understand" Clarke sat next to Lex and snuggled into her. "I knew I would be late tonight, I'm just finishing up some last minute things."

"No problem at all" Lexa kissed her head, "Hungry?"

"Yes, starved" Clarke said.

"I sort of figured you would be, I know you don't normally stop and eat when you're on a roll, let me heat you up some dinner."

"Do you mind if I take a quick shower while you do that?" Clarke asked.

"Of course not" Lexa said standing up, "I will meet you right back here with a plate of hot food."

/

About twenty minutes later Clarke walked down the stairs Lexa was sitting on the couch her feet crossed underneath her, her phone in her hand.

"Work?" Clarke asked sitting down.

"No Raven" Lexa said, "I will put it down now though."

"You're okay, speaking of Rae though… I've been meaning to talk to you about something" Clarke said.

"Okay…" Lexa put down her phone.

Clarke picked up the plate of food off the coffee table and sat down next to Lexa, "this looks great thank you."

"Of course" Lexa said.

Clarke took a sip of her water, "So a couple of weeks ago when I slept over at Octavia's with Rae, she and I talked that morning and her leg had been bothering her. I asked her to let me rub it because I know she more than likely wasn't letting Anya…"

"She isn't or at least wasn't then, I don't know about now" Lexa shrugged.

"That is kind of what I thought, so when she took off Prostie her leg was starting to get all blistered" Clarke explained taking a bite of her dinner.

"Not good" Lexa shook her head.

"No so I asked her why it was like that and she said she needed a new one, but she can't afford it right now."

"Well then we will help her" Lexa said without any pause.

"I tried to bring that up, but she shot me down before I could even get the words out of my mouth" Clarke said.

"Well she can't just not get a new prosthetic" Lexa said.

"I agree… it's not an option." Clarke sighed.

"Well, who do we know that we can contact to figure out how to get the ball rolling on getting her a new one?" Lexa asked.

"I kinda think Mom, she did something with Raven while she was here… alone and I think it was regarding her leg."

"Okay yeah good idea" Lexa said.

"So we are going to buy her a new Prostie right?" Clarke asked.

"Yes, of course" Lexa nodded.

"Okay good" Clarke said. "Thank you, I figured you would say that but I just wanted to be sure before I pressed forward with the subject."

"Of course… she's family. So how'd today go?" Lexa asked.

"Good, I got a lot done and I think I really only have one piece left to complete besides naming everything and last looks" Clarke explained.

"Well I am glad that things are going well, when do I get to see or do I have to wait for the show like everyone else?"

"I've been thinking about that myself…"

"And what have you come up with?"

"That I want you to see them before… I think. Give me a few days to finish everything?" Clarke asked.

Lexa leaned over and kissed Clarke, "Of course love."

"Thanks, how was work for you?" Clarke asked her.

"UGH!" Lexa rolled her eyes.

"That good, huh?" Clarke laughed.

"Ontari is up my ass ever since DC she is just all over me. Indra said today that she wanted to have a video conference call with me tomorrow."

"On a Saturday?"

"Yeah, which isn't happening by the way don't worry. So I emailed her and told her I could do it Monday late morning, to which she came back with why not first thing Monday morning? So I sent her another email and explained that I wouldn't be in the office until nine-forty five Monday and she asked me why?!" Lexa scoffed.

"She didn't!" Clarke said taking a bite and hanging on every word of the story, feeling like she was more into it then she should have been.

"She did, I was so heated… She isn't my boss I don't work for her I'm my own fucking boss!"

"Yeah you are!" Clarke interjected, "Did you tell her that?"

"More or less yes, I sent her an email back and pretty much just said, in the most passive aggressive way possible, that it was a family matter and that I would be available at ten-thirty for a meeting and if she wanted to do it then to let me know" Lexa told Clarke.

"Did she say anything back?"

"No, well yes but just that ten thirty would have to be okay then and she hoped I had a pleasant weekend" Lexa rolled her eyes.

Clarke busted up laughing at the tone in Lexa's voice when she said pleasant weekend and immediately Lexa's face got soft and Clarke could see the smile forming on her wife's face as well.

"THEN" Lexa continued, "Indra pretty much bitched me out for telling Ontari that… even though she KNOWS Jacob starts school on Monday and I'm not going to miss it. And she was pissy already because I had planned to leave at three thirty today."

"Sounds like the Commander may have been out some today, huh?" Clarke asked with a smirk.

"She gets shit done" Lexa nodded with a small smile.

Clarke smiled and bit her lower lip back "I like her… she's hot!"

"Do you now?" Lexa asked.

Clarke nodded "Can we go upstairs now?"

"When you are done eating, sure" Lexa said.

"I am done" Clarke said putting her plate on the coffee table.

Lexa stood up and grabbed Clarke's hand "Then come with me."

"Oh I would love to" Clarke smirked following her wife.

/

"Mommmmmma" Clarke heard Kate scream over the intercom.

"Kate" Lexa jumped up out of a dead sleep to pull on clothes.

Clarke wanted to follow but decided to let her wife handle this one.

"Let me know if you need me" Clarke told her.

"Will do," Lexa said heading out the door to her daughter's room.

Clarke leaned over and turned off the intercom in Kate's room and closed her eyes for what felt like seconds when she heard the beep of the intercom, "Clarke, baby?"

"Yes?" Clarke spoke after pushing the button on the wall by her side of the bed again.

"Can you put clothes on please? I am going to bring K to our bed" Lexa said.

"Yes" Clarke said not wanting to get up.

She got up and found the shirt Lexa had been wearing that day and pulled on a pair of boy-short underwear and crawled back into bed, Lexa walked in carrying Kate.

"Mommy" Kate smiled sleepily.

"Kate my love" Clarke said in nearly the same raspy voice.

"I'm going to go strip her bed and get the sheets into the washer I will be right back" Lexa told Clarke.

"It can wait until morning Babe" Clarke said.

"No it will only take me a few minutes" Lexa said "Close your eyes, both of you." Lexa handed Kate to Clarke after she kissed her head and headed out the door again.

"I sorry" Kate said.

"Hey it's okay love, come snuggle with Mommy."

"I pee-pee in my bed" Kate said in a sad voice snuggling into Clarke.

"Accidents happen Kate Momma is fixing it and you can sleep with us for the rest of the night okay?" Clarke kissed her head.

"Okay" Kate shook her head, "I love you" the little girl yawned.

"I love you too, close your eyes baby."

"Okay" Kate said already drifting to sleep as Clarke ran her fingers through her blonde curls.

She was nearly asleep herself when she felt Lexa slide back into bed, "All done" She whispered, "did she fall back to sleep?"

"Yes, pretty quick too" Clarke said.

Lexa kissed Kates little head "I think we need to start sleeping her in a pullup again."

"Do you think that's a good idea?" Clarke asked "Don't you think that may just regress her more?"

"We can talk about it in the morning" Lexa kissed Clarke, "I love you."

"I love you too" Clarke said.

/

Lexa woke up first the next morning mainly because Kate woke up, also because it was nearing seven o'clock; they never slept this late. "Shhh" She said gesturing to Clarke, "Mommy is still sleeping let's go downstairs and let her get some more rest."

"Shhh" Kate said copying her Momma.

On their way down Lexa looked into Jacob's room surprised to see it was empty. When they got down the stairs she could smell food cooking as well, which made her nervous but Jake wouldn't try and cook he knew better than that, right?

"Hi Momma" He said from the couch as she came around the corner and came into view, she saw Anya sitting with him.

"Well….hi" She said shocked "Did you break into my house this morning?"

"No, I used to the key code… DUH" Anya said.

"Yaya!" Kate said happy to see her auntie. "What smell good?"

"That would be in here, Kate!" Raven said standing in the kitchen cooking "Rae-Rae is making your breakfast!"

"Rae-Rae!" Kate said excited.

"Family day?" Lexa asked.

"Impromptu, yes… Hope that's ok?" Anya said.

"Of course!" Lexa smiled.

"I would have texted but we wanted to surprise you. When we got here, Jake was on the couch watching cartoons and told us you three girls were sleeping" Anya said.

"Yeah Kate had us up at about three am, Clarke is actually still out."

"Oh can I go wake her up, please?" Raven asked.

"Sure" Lexa giggled, "You know how she can be in the morning though so go at your own risk!"

Raven ran out from the kitchen and kissed Lexa on her cheek, stealing a quick kiss from Kate before heading upstairs.

"She's wearing her leg" Lexa whispered to Anya.

"Yeah she started again this week, why?"

"Well, she shouldn't be" Lexa said.

"Why not?" Jacob asked.

"Yeah why no leg?" Kate asked.

"Crap, come help me check on breakfast in the kitchen" Lexa said putting Kate down next to Jacob kissing his head, "Good morning son"

"Morning Momma" he smiled.

/

Raven got into Clarke's room and climbed on top of her in bed, "Wakey wakey!" She said annoyingly to wake Clarke up.

"Wha—what?" Clarke said confused as she came to, "Rae?"

"Yep, it's me!" Raven said cheery.

"What are you doing here?" Clarke Yawned.

"Anya and I came over and I made you breakfast"

"You are amazing" Clarke said rolling over snuggling into her best friend.

"I know I am, it's not quite ready yet the muffins and French toast are in the oven still and then I have to cook the eggs but that's quick" Raven told her.

"Pumpkin muffins?" Clarke asked with a smile.

"Yes and blueberry because knowing you, you will monopolize the pumpkin ones." Raven laughed.

"Are Lincoln and O coming?" Clarke asked.

"We should call them I made more than enough food."

"Let's facetime her" Clarke said.

"She will hate us this early in the morning" Raven said "I love it!"

Clarke grabbed her phone and facetime called Octavia.

"Hello" Octavia said clearly naked just a sheet covering her.

"O did you and Lincoln… Bow chick-a-wow-wow" Raven sang.

Clarke cracked up.

"Did you and Raven?" Octavia asked with an arched brow, joking.

"Lexa doesn't like to share" Raven shook her head.

"Rae!" Octavia yelled.

"I was kiiddddding" Raven laughed, "Lighten up don't get all weird now that you know."

"Wanna come over?" Clarke said changing the subject, "Raven made muffins!"

"PUMPKIN?" Octavia asked just as excited as Clarke had.

"Yes and normally I wouldn't share but since you are m…" Clarke stopped talking since she didn't know if she had told Lincoln yet. "….. mmmy best friend, I'll share."

"It's okay, I told him!" Octavia said.

"Hence the sex" Lincoln said, sitting up waving at the girls.

"CONGRATS!" Raven said.

"On the sex or the baby?" Lincoln asked.

"Both!" Clarke laughed "Come over for breakfast so we can celebrate!"

"Sounds good we will be there soon" Lincoln said.

"Looks like we're coming save me a muffin" Octavia said.

"Love you!" Clarke said.

"Not as much as me!" Raven said.

"Lies!" Clarke hit raven.

"Ouch, Clarke!" Raven hit Clarke back.

"Okay, I am going to go… I will see you in a few" Octavia said. "I love you both, even though sometimes I question why."

"Bye!" both girls said before Octavia disconnected the call.

/