Okay so loads of people want sexytimes heres the thing: I'm shit at writing it so unless there's someone out there willing to write a sex scene for this fic I really don't want to bring the level of my fic down by attempting it. I just don't feel comfortable that it would be any good so I'm not going to do it because I can't; not because I don't want to. But like I said if you want to write one then feel free to message me.
Just had to expalin that :)
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How did they get to this point?
Clarke watches Lexa sympathetically who is struggling to calm her breathing as her hands shake slightly and Clarke wonders if she's going to be sick. The brunette is breathing erratically as she leans back against the table, her hands white at the knuckles as then clench against the edge looking for some form of stability and Lexa's face is growing paler by the minute. She's gazing off distantly at something Clarke can't see and with the flickering from the flames illuminating her face Clarke can't help the fear she feels at the sight.
She slowly kneels down in front of her trying to gain her attention but her eyes are so unfocussed and distant…
Clarke raises a hand to place them softly over Lexa's hands. The brunette doesn't react so Clarke leans forward and places her hands either side of Lexa's face forcing the girl to look at her.
"Lex… Look at me. Please"
Her eyes flickered slightly as she attempted to calm her breathing and Clarke ran her fingers soothingly over her features.
"Breathe Lex"
She shook her head desperately and gasped, "I can't believe I just did that… Clarke I can't-"
Clarke shakes her head pushing back her own tears as desperation flooded over her and her breathing grew more erratic. She gave her a defiant look.
"Don't. Don't do that. You said yourself, pick yourself up and you can do this"
Lexa swallowed and nodded vigorously as she took a deep breath. Clarke ran a finger back down the side of her face before dropping her hands completely and stepping back so Lexa could stand up properly on shaky legs. She looked down at her hands and Clarke took them in her own causing Lexa look up at her with watery eyes.
"Thank you" She breathed.
Clarke nodded reassuringly and kissed the top of her head gently, "You did it for me. We're going to struggle down here but I'm here for you"
Lexa sighed as she took another deep breath and Clarke looked round as the tent flap moved aside as Anya stepped inside. She glanced at the two of them and nodded to Lexa.
"Are you ready?"
The brunette stepped around Clarke, "I'm ready"
10 hours earlier…
Clarke stepped inside the tent and let out the breath she had been holding. Lexa was standing ahead of her staring down at the black coat lying on her bed and seemed to be staring at it in thought as Clarke approached.
"What's this?"
Lexa looked up at her, "Something warmer to wear, it's in-lined with fur, and I think that might be a good idea"
"It is getting colder" Clarke ran her fingers over to the leather collar down to the corset laying open around it and looked back to Lexa, "Need help?"
"Please"
Clarke lifted the coat up as Lexa slipped her arms through the sleeves and shrugged it onto her shoulders. She walked around to help the brunette do up the front. Clarke kissed Lexa lightly on the nose when she was done and brunette couldn't help the laugh that left her.
"There" She slipped a lose strand of curls back behind her ear, "Need anything else?"
Lexa shook her head, "I have to go meet Anya before this starts. Gustus will come get you when we're ready"
"Okay, well, good luck. I love you"
"I love you too" She kissed her lightly on the lips before turning away and leading Clarke out of the tent.
XoXoXoX
"This is a bad idea"
Clarke turned to see Raven eyeing Gustus nervously. The man had brought them to the entrance of the room where they would soon be eating but for the moment their group were waiting outside until Lexa and the others were ready for them. He was standing silently beside the door but every so often a glare would be shot their way.
She had forced Abby to release Bellamy for this trip and he joined her along with Raven, Abby, Kane and Finn. Octavia was already inside with Indra as her second and Clarke suspected there was a part of Gustus that felt put out of place by being the one showing them around.
"I know" She whispered as Gustus narrowed his eyes at them, "But Lexa's gone to enough effort to put this in place, I'm not going to throw this back in her face and I'm certainly not going to let the council ruin this"
"We need it" Raven agreed, "But that doesn't make me any less wary"
Clarke shook her head as the door opened and a grounder she didn't recognise spoke to Gustus briefly, "Don't worry, Lexa told me to have my guard up, and she warned there might still be some grounders that are angered by the whole thing"
"What the alliance? Or Lexa being their new commander?"
Clarke shrugged, "Both I think"
Gustus coughed and turned back to them, "They're ready for you now"
They were led through the door and down a day set of stairs until they reached a darkened room where a long table sat. Clarke watched as Gustus went to stand beside Anya who was at Lexa's left. Indra and Octavia were on her right whilst there were four other grounders (Two on each side) that Clarke didn't recognise. The blonde stood behind the chair opposite Lexa and the brunette shot her the hint of a smile before her face morphed back into the stoic expression Clarke had come to expect of the last few days. Octavia shot her a smirk and she could see Bellamy shooting her a look out of the corner of her eye.
Anya waited until they were all in place and standing. She turned to Gustus who handed her two glasses from the table and then turned back to the two girls handing one to Clarke and one to Lexa with a pointed look.
"Today we begin a new era of this world. With our new Commander ready to take her place it solidifies the alliance between the sky people and the Trikru"
She nodded to Lexa and Clarke who glanced at one another. Lexa raised her cup and Clarke did the same as the brunette raised it to her lips just as the blonde did.
The two went to take a sip at the same time and Clarke saw Gustus shift slightly out of the corner of her eye. He was watching her carefully and something registered in the back of her mind. She wasn't the only one. Bellamy seemed to notice as well because, before she could take a bigger sip, he had knocked the glass from her hands. Lexa immediately widened her eyes and lowered her own glass down as Anya shot him an affronted look just as the guards to either side drew their swords.
Bellamy raised his hands, "Wait. There's something wrong with that drink"
"How dare you" Snarled Indra, "We would do nothing to harm them"
"I don't believe you would but there are some people that don't want this alliance"
Indra looked as though she would shout again but Lexa cut her off, "Shof op"
Anya turned to Lexa then and took the glass from her hand taking a sniff of the substance. Clarke eyed her warily as she seemed to concentrate on something and suddenly her brow furrowed for a moment before she lowered the glass back down.
"Poison" She whispered.
Indra's eyes widened as she spluttered out, "Our people wouldn't do this"
"It couldn't have been us" Clarke pointed out, "We didn't have access to the drink"
"He did"
Clarke looked to see Bellamy watching Gustus, "He poured them"
Anya and Indra turned to him in shock but it was Lexa that raised her chin and took control of the situation as Gustus looked offended by the accusation.
"Yu don ge finga au, Gostos. Ron ai ridiyo op" (You have been accused, Gustus. Speak true)
He glared at her and growled, "I don't have to listen to a sky girl"
Lexa didn't react but it was Anya that stepped forward this time as she growled at him, "Traitor. She is Heda no matter what you think"
The guards looked to Lexa and she raised her chin again, "Sis em op" (Take him)
Two of the guards moved forward instantly and grasped Gustus by his arms dragging him from the room whilst the other two stood either side of Lexa their hands on their swords ready at a moment's notice. Anya turned to Lexa and they spoke in hush whispers before the woman turned to Clarke and the others.
"You will stay here and until we say otherwise"
Clarke didn't have time to respond before Anya led Lexa and the guards from the room followed closely by Indra. Octavia stayed with them and they remained silent until they heard the door close and Clarke turned instantly to the younger Blake.
"What just happened?"
They were all watching her, "Gustus just tried to kill you and Lexa. I only understood part of what Anya said to Lexa, her Trigedasleng is still better than mine, but from what I heard there's something she now has to do that Anya wants to explain to her. We have to wait here until they're ready"
"There's still going to be an alliance though right?" Abby asked.
Octavia shrugged, "I don't see why not. The attempt didn't work so after he's dealt with then I can only assume that the alliance will happen anyway"
Clarke nodded but bit her lip anxiously.
XoXoXoX
Lexa stood in front of Anya as she painted the war paint onto her face. The grounder hadn't said anything since the two of them entered the tent but Lexa could feel there was something she was missing here. She knew the general rule of what happened to traitors. Lexa would be expected to execute Gustus.
Anya stepped back and gave her a brief nod then turned to wash the charcoal from her hands, "Keep your voice void of emotion. Just step forward to do the first cut then wait until the last is placed before carrying it out cleanly with your sword"
"Sha" Lexa looked to the pauldron and red sash on the table. It would be the first time she wore it but she never imagined it being for an execution.
Anya stepped around to lift it up and help secure it to Lexa's shoulder. It was heavy and her shoulder ached at first but once it was securely in place she shifted her arm and found that actually she hardly noticed the weight.
"You know how to do this, I don't need to explain it, but remember what you told me the other day" Lexa raised an eyebrow and Anya gave her a reassuring nod, "Make them listen"
XoXoXoX
Clarke and the group of sky people were standing to one side of the clearing. In the middle stood a tall pole where Gustus was tied to with his head held high as grounders huddled in a circle around him sending him dirty looks. Octavia was standing to Clarke's side and by the grim expression on her face Clarke guessed that she knew what was coming next.
"I thought Gustus' view was common among the grounders?" She whispered, "I thought a lot of them hated that Lexa is the commander?"
Octavia shook her head, "She's new, yet to prove herself but her being skairkru doesn't bother most of them. They don't particularly like us but by the grounder law and standards she's one of theirs now… Not like me. Lexa's their commander, she did the trials, and any opposition to that is considered treason. Something about going against the spirit"
Just as she said that the crowd opposite them broke apart as Lexa came into view. Clarke felt her breath hitch at the sight of her. She was wearing war paint that stained down her cheeks alongside the red sash she had last seen on Tristan and there was something incredibly intimidating about the sight.
Octavia let out a light chuckle, "Badass Lexa"
Clarke nodded in agreement.
Lexa came to a stop in front of Gustus who merely stared defiantly back so she turned to the crowd and scanned the face for a moment before raising her voice and shouting to them.
"Ai laik heda Leksa kom Trigedakru en disha hukop souda win au! Jus drein jus daun" (I am commander Lexa of the Tree People and this alliance must win! Blood must have blood)
She turned back to Gustus and spoke in English, "You dishonour your people by trying to harm your commander and you dishonour the sky people by trying to harm theirs. The sky people march with us and anyone that tries to stop that will pay with their life"
Lexa pulled the dagger and drew it up and across Gustus' stomach. He didn't even flinch as it drew across and she stood back as another member of the Trikru stepped forward to cut him.
Clarke watched as grounder after grounder stepped forward for their turn. She watched as Anya came forth for her cut, then Indra with hers and even the grounder Ryder that Lexa had pointed out to her as one of her guards.
It carried on like this until Gustus was shaking from the blood loss, his face and body littered with bleeding cuts until finally all the grounders moved back as Lexa stepped forward. Clarke was hit with a jolt as she realised what Lexa was about to do.
She refused to look away.
Lexa unsheathed her sword and raised it up in level with his chest. She eyed him for a moment and said, "Yu gonplei ste odon" before pressing forward with the blade. Clarke winced internally at the sound of it sinking into his chest as he let out a low moan of pain before it was withdrawn and he slumped forward without another sound.
Clarke watched the brunette when she disappeared back through the crowd and guessed she was heading back to the tent as Anya and Indra dealt with the body. To her surprise it was Anya that caught her eye and indicated for Clarke to follow after her. She gave the grounder a brief nod in appreciation then went to find the brunette.
As predicted, when Clarke pulled back the tent opening, there she was. Lexa was pacing furiously rubbing her hands together as if that would somehow remove the blood there. Clarke could see the desperation there in her eyes that were scanning the tent quickly in a frenzied motion and Clarke knew that if Lexa didn't calm down soon she would soon be having a panic attack.
How did they get to this point?
Clarke watches Lexa sympathetically who is struggling to calm her breathing as her hands shake slightly and Clarke wonders if she's going to be sick. The brunette is breathing erratically as she leans back against the table, her hands white at the knuckles as then clench against the edge looking for some form of stability and Lexa's face is growing paler by the minute. She's gazing off distantly at something Clarke can't see and with the flickering from the flames illuminating her face Clarke can't help the fear she feels at the sight.
She slowly kneels down in front of her trying to gain her attention but her eyes are so unfocussed and distant…
Clarke raises a hand to place them softly over Lexa's hands. The brunette doesn't react so Clarke leans forward and places her hands either side of Lexa's face forcing the girl to look at her.
"Lex… Look at me. Please"
Her eyes flickered slightly as she attempted to calm her breathing and Clarke ran her fingers soothingly over her features.
"Breathe Lex"
She shook her head desperately and gasped, "I can't believe I just did that… Clarke I can't-"
Clarke shakes her head pushing back her own tears as desperation flooded over her and her breathing grew more erratic. She gave her a defiant look.
"Don't. Don't do that. You said yourself, pick yourself up and you can do this"
Lexa swallowed and nodded vigorously as she took a deep breath. Clarke ran a finger back down the side of her face before dropping her hands completely and stepping back so Lexa could stand up properly on shaky legs. She looked down at her hands and Clarke took them in her own causing Lexa look up at her with watery eyes.
"Thank you" She breathed.
Clarke nodded reassuringly and kissed the top of her head gently, "You did it for me. We're going to struggle down here but I'm here for you"
Lexa sighed as she took another deep breath and Clarke looked round as the tent flap moved aside as Anya stepped inside. She glanced at the two of them and nodded to Lexa.
"Are you ready?"
The brunette stepped around Clarke, "I'm ready"
Clarke eyed them both as Lexa shed her coat and pulled the shirt from her back. She watched as Anya pressed her blade into the fire and it was only then that she noticed the two marks etched into Lexa's back just below her shoulders. She hadn't noticed them during the nights they spent together and wondered if Lexa had made a point of making sure she avoided them.
Lexa sat down on the chair and leant forward so her back was accessible for Anya to reach. Clarke took a steadying breath as she realised what was happening and winced as the grounder pressed the blade next to the other marks earning a grunt of pain from the brunette. The moment it was removed Anya nodded to something next to Clarke and she looked to see a bowl of water already prepared.
The grounder left and they sat in silence as Clarke helped Lexa dressing the wound and then pulling her shirt back on. Lexa walked over to the table to pour herself a cup of water before turning to Clarke.
"I know you want to ask"
"Tradition?" Lexa nodded and Clarke shrugged, "I kind of guessed. Why?"
Lexa took another gulp of water, "Blood for blood. You take a life then you bleed for the life"
"You have three already" She noted.
"You know that. The guard, the commander and now Gustus"
Clarke nodded and walked over to kiss the brunette lightly, "I have to go back to the Ark. My mother needs to be put in her place along with the rest of the council before Bellamy gets locked back up again"
Lexa smiled at her, "Go. I have to stay here for the burning of the body but I'll come back tomorrow night after training with Anya. Can you watch Octavia for me? Since coming here I think she's getting anxious about Lincoln being missing and I'm worried that she's going to do something stupid. I'd watch her but I can't be everywhere at once"
"It's fine. I'll make sure she doesn't do anything when she's not training with Indra"
"Thank you"
They shared a lingering kiss before Clarke left the tent and Lexa was left with the prospect of warm furs shared alone for the first night in a while.
Anyone that saw that coming: GREAT. If you didn't: Sucks for you.
Just kidding but seriously though I hope you enjoyed the chapter :)