Chapter 11
Clarke's pov
Lexa got up pulling her and I out of the tent to meet the Queen. When I stepped out of the tent i saw a slim, but well built girl about the same age as me with light skin and freckles her blonde wavy hair flowing effortless in the wind.
"Hello I am Queen Blake the Fifth."
"I'm Commander Lexa and this is The Chancellor Clarke Griffin. We can discuss in the command tent." Lexa stated leading the girl into the tent.
"I'm just going to get straight to it and say that I will give back your people and join the alliance if Lexa and I are bonded tomorrow." The Queen stated.
"What? No. Not happening." I said stepping in between Lexa and the Queen.
"What Clarke means to say is that Clarke and I are to be bonded. The plans have been made." Lexa said grabbing my hand.
"Plans can be changed Commander. Plus I do believe that I have more to offer than this little girl." The Queen claimed.
"You just want to marry Lexa so you will have more power in the alliance." Clarke said.
"You know nothing about me." The Queen said standing in my face staring me down.
"Let's just calm down. Clarke how about you go wait outside for a little bit. I think i can handle this myself. I love you." Lexa said pushing us back and then moving me toward the flap.
"We aren't going to get our people back if you keep fighting with her. I will find something else she wants. I don't want to be married to anybody else than you Clarke." Lexa whispered in my ear then kissed me and pushed me outside.
After Lexa kicked me out I was surrounded by grounders and Skaikru wanting to know what was going on but like them I knew nothing and I couldn't tell them that the Queen wants to marry Lexa, everybody would those there shit if I told them. Twenty minutes later I started getting impatient so I stormed right back in there to find the Queen and Lexa kissing. At that point I lost it and pulled the Queen off of Lexa and throwing her on the ground. I turned to Lexa and slapped her hard.
Lexa's POV
"What the hell Lexa. What am I to you? If you don't want to be with me fine. Be with this ice two have a nice time." Clarke yelled pushing me back.
"Clarke wait please. I didn't want that to happen. I wasn't enjoying it." I claimed quickly moving closer to the Clarke.
"Tell that to your boner cause it saying something else." She yelled then turned to walk out. I quickly used my cape to cover myself and ran out and caught her arm just as she stepped out of the tent so I pulled her around to face me but before I could say anything her hand was being raised in the air to slap me again. I caught her hand an inch before she would have connected with my face.
"Let me go. I never want to talk to you again." She said shoving me back once again.
"Clarke please? Just let me explain." I begged. Seconds after her face hardened and became emotionless.
"I'm sorry Commander there's nothing you can say that will make this okay." She said and turned walking away.
"Clarke wait. Let me explain. Please." I said moving to go after the girl but Raven stopped me.
"If you go after her now it will make things worse. She needs time to be mad. She needs a friend right now not you. I'll go after her and you fix whatever mess you've made with the Ice Queen." Raven said pushing me back toward the tent and then running off to find Clarke. When I returned into the tent the Ice Queen was sitting at the table glaring at me.
"I'm sorry, but I will not marry you for this alliance." I said strongly moving to sit down across from her.
"You would marry Clarke for an alliance?" She inquired.
" I am not marrying Clarke for an alliance. I want to marry her because she is the reason I wake up in the morning. The person that I will do anything for. It's actually quite selfish but I want her all to myself forever. She is my soulmate."
"You are different from what I've heard." She said with questioning look.
"What is it that you heard?"
"You're a ruthless fighter that sticks strong to the traditions and values that were made before you. You know no mercy and have no weaknesses, but I've seen that is not entirely true. You have many weakness Clarke being the biggest. You do not hold to the traditions of your people if so you would have agreed to this marriage and maybe this is just for Clarke, but you show mercy to her in front of your people. If somebody no matter who they were tried to harm me in any way they would have been killed on the spot."
"The Skaikru, Clarke, and the Mountain Men have changed my views on everything. I was taught that your enemy is whoever you do not know. These people they aren't my enemy's not anymore. They have brought many great thing to us. Technology and medicine that will save our people one day, but for us to reach this peace we all have to change our ways and traditions." I stated proudly thinking how far we have come in the last year.
" I see that you are the dreamer the people say you to be. You are said to inspire the masses with your words can you really do such things? For this alliance to work my people will need inspiration for a better future."
" I speak what I believe with passion and that is what brings the people together."
"The Ice Nation's need this alliance more than anything. We are close to starving and dying of diseases. Can you help us?"
"The Skaikru have technology than can cure sickness and most of them are immune to our diseases. The other lands that I have allied with have supported us with the things we can produce and we support them. There is no shortage of food between the thirteen clans. Your people must be able to provide for us too. The only thing that your people could give us since you have such barren land covered in ice and snow is you skill with hunting the big animals with warm pelts. We don't have pelt with the same quality that yours do. This will be part of the agreement of trade." I said with a stern face.
" I think we can agree on peace. I would be a fool not to."
" Good i'm glad we were able to come to this conclusion. Even after what happened earlier."
"Yes me too, but before we make it official I would still like to say that I kissed you because I wanted to not for my people or this alliance. I also would like to explain to you the reason i have taken your people." She said with some regret.
" Go on but I say this if you tell me I will tell my people they have a right to know why their loved ones have been gone." The Queen only nodded.
"My people are trained to be undetected so we came onto your land many times to steal what we needed and the first time that I was allowed to join I got lost and I came upon a clearing with many children laughing at a small girl. They called her names and beat her up. Soon they got bored and left her beaten and crying.I was just about to see if she is okay when my father's hand grabbed me and pulled me back into hiding. Once we got back home I told my parents of this girl. And I asked them to do one thing for me and they agreed so my mother came to your father with one request. To free your people of what they all thought was a stain in the bloodline. He asked if we could have the girl that I saw that day. Your father said no. I being a spoiled child cried and yelled for days on end, so my mother went to your father once again asking for the girl. We soon found out by our spies that the girl was the Commander's daughter who was said to be dead. So since I couldn't have you,my parent took your parents and people that were important to you." At this point I was enraged that the Queen parents listen to a ten year old girl and took prisoners.
"What's done is done. I will not dwell on the past." I said extending my hand towards her.
" So it is agreed the Ice Nations are allied with the thirteen clans."
"So it is. I will tell my men to release the prisoners." She said walking out of the tent with me following behind her. When I step out is see that more of the Grounders have arrived to witness the alliance with the Ice Nations.
" My people! Today we have taken another step to a better and longer future. The alliance with the Ice Nations with give us more resource we need to survive. Winter is coming in three months time and Ice Nation have the thing we need to survive it. So put aside your qualms and embrace these people." I said to my people then walked toward Octavia.
"Any news of Clarke and Raven?" I asked.
" Raven radioed in saying that they made it back to Tondc safely. She said that Clarke had calmed down and is willing to hear you will be waiting for you in your tent." Octavia informed me.
" I must go. Tell the Queen she is welcome to come to Tondc but I must go." I said running up to my horse and riding away. It took half the time to get back to Tondc then it did to come. I jumped off my horse before it even stopped. I ran through the streets all the way to my tent where I knew Clarke was waiting.
"Clarke?" I croaked out. I saw her sitting on my bed eyes bloodshot and puffy from crying