Chapter 11
"Titus , what is the meaning of this?" Lexa questioned somehow growing as she stood firm in the doorway to his private quarters where he sat at his desk reading the grounder holy scriptures for guidance.
"My heda!" Titus whipped around in his chair to see his commander , something hidden in behind his eyes. "Please sit my Heda! We have much to speak about!" Titus sauntered to the far corner of the room pulling out a chair for Lexa.
"What is the meaning of this Titus! Why didn't you tell me there was to be a wartime assembly?" Lexa yelled refusing to take a seat.
"I had my reasons my Heda, I swear." Titus defended.
"Explain!" Lexa ordered placing a hand on her sword.
"Because this was the only way to save you !" Titus screamed. "It is my job to keep you safe my Heda, and this was the only way! It worked last time and it will work again!" Titus continued frantic to make Lexa understand why he did what he had.
"What have you done!" Lexa ordered drawing her sword and placing it against Titus's neck.
"I only did what I had to." Titus attempted to excuse his actions.
"What did you do and when was the last time you did it?" Lexa pushed her sword harder against Titus's throat.
"Your conclave." Titus answered attempting to keep Lexa with him in the room until it was done.
"What are you talking about, there was no wartime assembly after the conclave, it was a perfectly peaceful transition." Lexa questioned.
"Why do you think you won the conclave Lexa, you were the only candidate that wouldn't drive the coalition into madness, I had to make sure you won!" Titus explained.
"You, you, you?" Lexa stammered realized what Titus had done.
"I saved your life!" Titus screamed.
"You killed my omega!" Lexa dropped her sword and tackled Titus into the wall.
"I hired someone to kill her and it saved your life and the coalition! And I would do it again!" Titus defended.
"Y-you did, you did do it again?" Lexa backed off of Titus as she realized that Clarke was in trouble.
"I did what I had to to save you Lexa!" Titus answered.
"I will deal with you later!" Lexa sprinted off to find her omega.
"It's too late, she will be dead any moment now , and it will give you the rage you need to combat your dissidents." Titus yelled at Lexa as she ran.
"Clarke we have to go!" Raven pulled at Clarke's arm.
"No , something is wrong, I need to wait here for my alpha!" Clarke plopped back down on her mat burying her face in the mat and sniffing at it , craving her alpha, but knowing that the scented mat would have to.
"Clarke I know , something is wrong but my alpha ordered me to take you with the rest of the omegas!" Raven argued.
"No." Clarke buried her face in the mat again.
"I'm sorry about this Clarke." Raven apologized as she began pulling at Clarke by her collar.
"Grrr!" Clarke growled at her friend angry. "Only my alpha gets to do that!" Clarke snapped.
"Clarke either I can drag you there or you can come willingly!" Raven offered exhausted with dealing with Clarke's stubbornness.
"Grr! Fine!" Clarke deflated as she picked up her mat and began walking off to the omega room with her friend.
"Thank you!" Raven groaned in relief.
"I'm taking my mat tho!" Clarke argued picking up the mat , folding it in half in her arms and smoothing it against her nose as she shuffled along in the direction Raven was already pulling her.
"Clarke do you know what is going on with Lexa, if something is wrong it might be worth knowing what!" Raven asked attempting to piece together what was going on.
"I-i don't know, my alpha is scared!" Clarke stammered feeling Lexa's fear poison her mind. "She isn't just scared , she is terrified and frantic!"
"It's going to be ok, our alphas will be fine." Raven comforted as she began moving quicker and pulling Clarke to speed up with her.
"She isn't in danger, that's not what this feels like!" Clarke realized as she spoke.
Raven put together the puzzle at almost the exact moment that Clarke did. "It's not her that's in danger!" Raven yelled as she broke out into a run.
"Raven if we are the ones in danger where are we running? Where will we be safe!?" Clarke pressed processing how much danger they must be in.
"The omega room is guarded by the champions of each clan, it's the only reason that all of the clan leaders and their seconds are willing to let their omegas gather in one room , because it's the safest place for us." Raven informed.
"Good , how far away is it!?" Clarke asked running faster.
"On the other side of the building and down four floors." Raven admitted.
"Fuck." Clarke cursed turning a corner with Raven.
"Oh that's right little omega." A man with white face paint bearing two gleaming daggers smiled wickedly as he stood in front of Clarke and Raven blocking them from moving forward.
"What do you want!" Raven asked pushing Clarke back behind her.
"The commanders omega, she is the only one who needs to die! If you get out of my way I will let you live." The assassin offered.
"She is my friend!" Raven snarled.
"I am an alpha , and I only have to take one omega away from a fellow alpha today, don't force me to take another just because you are stubborn!" he threatened puffing out his chest.
"I won't let you hurt her!" Raven yelled bending down and taking out a small knife from her boot that Octavia had given. Raven held tight to the knife holding it out in front of her weakly, hesitant, unsure how to actually use it to defend herself and her friend but knowing it was her only choice. Raven thought back to the day Octavia gave it to her , trying her best to remember what Octavia taught her.
"Raven , you are an omega!" Octavia informed brushing the hair from the pained girl's face.
"Octavia! It hurts! Please you smell so good!" Raven pleaded clawing at Octavia's pants , from which the scent was the most alluring.
"Here , Raven drink this, it's what Nyko gave me for my ruts." Octavia placed a shot glass of suppressants by Raven's mouth.
"Mhmm thanks." Raven sipped at the liquid.
"It will help with the pain." Octavia informed as she put the shot glass away.
"Please Octavia, you smell so good , and even tho that helped it still hurts!" Raven pleaded clawing at Octavia's pants.
"You are in heat, you will be ok, but I won't knot you, you aren't in your right mind." Octavia denied.
"Mhmm please!" Raven begged despite the fact that she felt the pain becoming more and more bearable.
"No, and get up." Octavia ordered.
"Oh!" Raven moaned appreciating the dominant tone. "yes Octavia!" Raven replied submitting as she stood up.
"Good girl, now take this!" Octavia commanded placing her hand in Raven's.
"I-it's a dagger?" Raven stammered trying to give it back.
"No , you need it , you are an Omega!" Raven reasoned closing Raven's hand around the hilt.
"So what if I'm an omega , whatever that is! I'm an engineer not a fighter !" Raven countered.
"You are an omega. That means every alpha will want to take advantage of you , force you to do things whether or not you want to. I-it's disgusting, but it is the reality that many of the arc's alpha's aren't trained to control themselves around omegas, especially ones in heat, you need to know how to protect yourself now." Octavia lectured.
"Why do I need this?" Raven pushed it back into Octavia's hand.
"You want to know why you need this?" Octavia held it up showingly.
"Yes , show me why I need it!" Raven argued frustrated.
"Fine!" Octavia slammed the knife down on a table next to her in the engineering bay. "You need it because-" Octavia charged Raven pinning her against the wall behind her, her arms above her head. "Alphas are strong , stronger than Omegas!" Octavia sniffed along Raven's collar bone. "And you will never overpower an alpha who is sent into a rage or a rut by your scent!"
"Octavia Stop your scaring me!" Raven pleaded turning her head away from Octavia's piercing gaze.
"Good, because other alphas might not be ready to let you go." Octavia immediately released Raven. "Are you ok girl?" Octavia checked in.
"Yes, I'm fine thanks. I'm sorry, i-i didn't understand." Raven curled up against the wall in fear.
"Oh girl, I'm sorry, I just needed you to understand how dangerous alpha's can be. I'm sorry!" Octavia let out the most calming pheromones she could.
"Mhmm, c-can I hug you?" Raven asked loving the smell, needing to be closer to its origin.
"Of course girl." Octavia cooed , adoring how cute the omega was.
"Thanks." Raven latched on to the alpha and rubbed her face against the alpha.
"Aww everything will be ok my girl." Octavia ran a comforting hand over Raven's back.
"Mhmm call me that again." Raven hummed happily.
"Of course my girl." Octavia comforted.
"Thanks." Raven repeated.
"Can I show you how to hold the knife at least?" Octavia requested.
"O-ok, thank you for , for wanting to protect me." Raven thanked backing away slowly.
"Oh, I will protect you as long as you want." Octavia promised.
"Mhmm alpha!" Raven tackled Octavia in another hug.
"That's a good girl." Octavia laughed.
"Alpha." Raven cooed again.
"I will hold you as long as you want , but I wanna teach you how to at least hold the knife first." Octavia offered.
"O-ok." Raven nodded releasing Octavia again.
"Good." Octavia smiled as she picked up the knife and placed it in Raven's hand. "Here, hold it like this." Octavia instructed, her hands wrapping her fingers around Raven's supportively as she corrected the position of the dagger in Raven's fingers.
"Like this?" Raven extended her hand.
"Yes, that's good , now your legs. My I touch your legs?" Octavia asked not wanting to startle the omega with unexpected wandering hands.
"Yeah you are fine." Raven consented.
"Ok, this one here , and this one here." Octavia instructed, her strong hands placing the omega's feet in the best position to defend against assaulting alphas. "Just having something to defend yourself with is normally going to be enough to scare off a stray alpha, but occasionally you will actually have use it to defend yourself, especially if you go unbonded for long." Octavia instructed.
"So, what do I do now?" Raven asked.
"Do you mind if I stand behind you and direct your arms?" Octavia inquired still worried about starting the omega.
"You may do whatever you like." Raven smiled with a kiss.
"You are too cute." Octavia kissed back. "But I won't take advantage of you when you are in heat without prior permission." Octavia reminded as she swiftly moved behind the omega pressing herself softly against Raven.
"Mhmm please, it hurts especially when you push up against me like that!" Raven whined.
"Poor, needy, omega." Octavia teased running her hands down Raven's shoulders , caressing the omega's arms gently until her hands rested against Raven's calmingly.
"Mhmm Octavia! You feel so good, strong, comforting!" Raven tilted her head back and kissed Octavia's cheek.
"I'm glad , but focus, this could save you someday." Octavia smiled glowing in the delight of the kiss.
"Ok, so if I'm holding it right and I'm standing correctly, what next." Raven forced herself to focus despite the pounding in-between her legs and the warm feeling having Octavia so close to her gave her whole body.
"You need to know how to swing the blade." Octavia informed as she began moving Raven's arm. "Like this , as you step backwards" Octavia pulled Raven backwards. "This will keep just about every alpha who just wants to knot you at bey, just swing back and forth like this." Octavia instructed showing Raven the correct pattern.
"Ok , I got it." Raven nodded.
"And you can store it in your boot, just like this.' Octavia advised bending Raven over and stuffing the knife safely in Raven's boot.
"Ok!" Raven spun around to hug Octavia. "Now I learned how to hold it, how to stand , how to swing it , and how to hide it. And I remember you promised you would hold me as long as I wanted if I just let you teach me how to hold it. " Raven reminded.
"I remember, and I will hold you as long as you would like." Octavia kissed at the crook of Raven's neck.
"Mhmm thanks Octavia." Raven held onto her tighter.
Raven adjusted her grip on the hilt as she moved her feet to be just as Octavia taught her. "Stay back, my alpha taught me how to use this!" Raven bared her teeth attempting to look as big as she could.
"Oh so fucking cute, your alpha taught you how to use it? That might work on your run of the mill stray but I'm an agenda assassin!" The man snarled.
"B-back off! I will use this!" Raven threatened.
"It was cute the first time , now it's just sad!" He taunted knocking the blade from Raven's hand with his own dagger. "Oh fuck!"
"Yeah it was sad, but I love her anyway." Octavia teased running her blade through the assassin's lower right side before the hall filled with a scent , familiar only to Clarke.
"Octavia! Stop it, don't kill him! He could still be useful!" Lexa ordered.
"Lexa, what the hell are you doing! The kill is mine!" Octavia attempted to finish him but her body defied her. "Lexa what is the meaning of this!" Octavia yelled.
"Dumb bitch should have stopped me while she could!" He mumbled as he launched at Clarke ignoring the blade stuck in his side.
"Drop your weapons both of you! And don't move!" Lexa ordered.
"What the fuck ? Why can't I move!" He screamed from the ground where he fell incapable of moving.
"Octavia, I will gladly give you the kill , but I want to know if he was sent by more than one person." Lexa allowed.
"Good , now whatever you have done , release me!" Octavia yelled.
"Octavia, Clarke , Raven you may move freely!" Lexa allowed.
"Octavia!" , "Lexa!" Raven and Clarke yelled respectively as they ran to their alphas.
"Hey girl, are you ok? He didn't hurt you did he?" Octavia asked embracing her Omega.
"I'm fine O , all he did was knock my blade out of my hand." Raven answered.
"Clarke!" Lexa picked Clarke up and spun her around in her arms cheerfully. "I was so worried!" Lexa breathed a sigh of relief.
"I know , I could feel it, it was terrible!" Clarke cried into Lexa's chest finally able to feel her pain instead of ignore it as she and Raven attempted to rush to safety.
"aww baby I'm sorry, I didn't mean to worry you." Lexa held Clarke tight and gave off calming pheromones.
"Mhmm Lexa! I love it when you do that!" Clarke cooed rubbing her face against the comforting alpha.
"Squeeze you or give off this scent?" Lexa questioned.
"Yes." Clarke answered happily.
"Good girl, now I will be back in a moment, he must be dealt with!" Lexa growled.
"No Lexa! I need you!" Clarke pleaded.
"I'm sorry Clarke, I will make it quick." Lexa reassured as she marched over to the man lying on the floor. "Who sent you!" Lexa ordered still emitting her night blood pheromone.
"Titus!" He answered.
"Anyone else? Tell me everything!" Lexa jabbed her hand into the open wound from Octavia's sword running him through.
"Ahhh! The agenda queen! She and Titus are working together! Titus wanted her dead so that you could fight challengers and my queen planned to have you killed once your rage subsided and you were weak!"
"You monster! An alpha willing to kill another alpha's omega! I should kill you where you stand!" Lexa twisted the hand already ripping apart the hole in his torso.
"The kill is mine Lexa!" Octavia growled.
"Watch your tongue tri kru second!" Lexa barked. "I let you get away with a lot because you are the second of my former clan , and because you are friends with my omega, but I won't let you growl at me like that!" Lexa ordered.
"The kill is still mine!" Octavia argued.
"Fine, the kill is yours!" Lexa allowed wiping her hand off on his clothing before punching him as hard as she could in the face , breaking his nose then walking back to Clarke.
"Finish him off quickly, we must get them to the omega rom." Lexa ordered.
"What if there is another assassin, what if they are one of the guards of the omegas?" Octavia pressed.
"Then I order them all to protect Clarke and Raven under all circumstances." Lexa countered.
"Thats a nice thought, but if they are willing to kill our omegas I don't think they will care about what you order them to do." Octavia argued slitting the assassin's throat.
Lexa cracked a small smile. "Octavia, hop on one leg and say you don't know what you are talking about." Lexa ordered with another wave of her special pheromone.
"Wha- I don't know what I'm talking about?" Octavia repeated as she hopped on a single leg. "Still don't think it will work." Lexa giggeled.
"Lexa, don't be mean!" Clarke swatted at Lexa's arm.
"Sorry , you can stop." Lexa offered.
"Thank you, and sure I get it, how the hell does that work?" Octavia questioned.
"Hehe perfectly." Clarke giggled thinking back to multiple mind numbing orgasms caused only by her alpha's words.
"I can imagine." Octavia groaned.
"Let's get going, I don't wanna wait like sitting ducks for more assassin's." Raven urged.
"Good idea, I want you two out of danger as soon as possible." Lexa agreed as they all made their way down to the tower and to the omega room.
"Attention all clan champions , make your way here and line up In Front of me!" Lexa ordered them all with her scent preventing any defiance.
"Do any or you have the intent to hurt either my omega or Octavia's ?" Lexa questioned to a uninterrupted symphony of denials. "Good , you thirteen will protect Clarke kom Skai kru and Raven kom skai kru with your lives , if anyone comes here seeking to do any harm to either of our omegas you will end them!" Lexa ordered to receive a series of nods in understanding.
"Clarke , Raven you two should be safe here but Octavia , I would feel better if you stayed, I will explain to Indra your absence at the wartime assembly." Lexa requested.
"Of course, I will keep guard at the entrance to the room." Octavia agreed as Lexa marched off to the coalition to see what was next.
End of Chapter 11
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needy Clarke is adorable...I wonder what is going on with the extra war meeting?
From Jessica: I totally agree! And now you know lol. What did you think? I thought it was kinda totally in character for Titus , especially in this au. Cause we know he would kill for Lexa , and that he has like kinda picked favorites for a nightblood in a conclave before , and this was just a fun way to make the alpha rages relevant. Idk I liked this chapter.
wolfy's mauzy chapter 10 . 14h ago
awesome thanks
From Jessica: Glad you liked it!
Hedalexafeva on Clarke's first heatSo is Indra plotting with the rest of the coalition against Lexa? :( I hope not I like Indra. & Clarke called Lexa 'Lexa' whilst they were in the dining hall "Lexa, why haven't they eaten , and why are they staring?" I don't know if you noticed that lol I don't know if even Lexa noticed tbh.
From Jessica: So like it's totally not Indra, I fucking love her , one of my favorite characters , and like I could never make her evil. but Lexa has been betrayed , and if you go back and look , I foreshadowed it more than enough (i think)
Oh fuck! I need to fix that later , thanks! haha yup that was just an accident on my behalf
Mb168 on Clarke's first heatI like this idea
Unexpected dynamic
From Jessica: Im glad you like it!