Discussions and Demands
It was a terrible idea and why that was? Because Lexa was wearing was black pants and boots, she seemed to have a belt around her hips that was full of tools and she was only wearing her bra. No shirt, whatsoever. With her hair pulled back in a messy ponytail. She was looking too sexy, all sweaty and dirty and Clarke's mind went straight to the gutter and how could it not when Lexa was looking like a sexy goddess? Clarke's heart and pulse were working faster than she even though it to be healthy or even possible but there was nothing she could do. Not to mention the pool that seemed to be forming in between her legs at that heavenly sight.
"Heda," Octavia called out and when the brunette turned towards the sound of the voice calling for her, her eyes immediately got locked to Clarke's. To say that Lexa was surprised to see Clarke there was an understatement, but the girl was looking so beautiful. Even more beautiful than she remembered, and Lexa's own heart started beating faster in reaction to the girl. They were many feet away from each other, but Lexa could feel herself getting lost in a pair of beautiful blue eyes and she had to remind herself that she had a duty to overlook.
"What are they doing here?" Jasper asked lowly as he came closer to her without her even noticing it, thanks to the blonde's presence.
"I don't know. But I think I am about to find out," She said as she saw the group coming towards where the two of them was and Clarke and Lexa finally came to be face to face. They were both trying so hard not to check the other one out but neither could help letting their eyes roam the other's bodies before they settled on each other again.
"Welcome. This is most certainly a surprise to receive your visit," She said politely.
"This visit has been full of surprises for us too," Clarke greeted her back just as politely and looked at Jasper who was still by Lexa's side. The brunette noticed it as well as his discomfort, so she decided to help him out.
"Jasper, can you do me a favor and get me my shirt? I believe I left it inside there somewhere," She asked him a seemingly innocent request, but he looked at her gratefully and nodded before he disappeared inside the building before Lexa turned to the group.
"So, to what do I owe the honor of your presence here?" Lexa asked them as she crossed her arms and Clarke could not help but notice two things about the brunette girl.
One was the tattoo she had on her right arm that Clarke had never seen it before, it was beautiful, just like everything else about Lexa was. And the other thing she noticed and for the sake of her sanity she wished she hadn't was Lexa's abs. She knew the girl had an amazing body, but this was too much for her. She wanted so badly to run her hands on it and just to feel the other girl's hands and lips all over her and so the same to her to a point where Clarke would consider locking them in a room, forever, away from everyone else and their demands.
"We came here to discuss an important matter for our people," Bellamy said abruptly and Clarke focused away from those thoughts before she didn't something she should regret.
"What is it?" Lexa asked interest to know what they could possibly want to discuss with her, and this time, Clarke was the one to answer.
"We would like to start mapping the areas surrounding our camp and also search for the other stations containing our people that were thrown in different territories, see if we can find survivors and for that we need your permission so there won't be a problem between our people, " Clarke explained the situation and Lexa nodded.
"Well, as long as your people abide by the terms of the cease fire Kane and I came up with, then there is no problem. You have my permission," Lexa said to her and Clarke nodded.
"Thank you," The blonde said.
"You are most welcome," Lexa gave her a small nod in return.
She was trying very hard to control her urges. Seeing Clarke like this after so many weeks wishing for nothing else was almost like torture for her, so close yet so far apart. However, she knew that the blonde wanted nothing to do with her and was only here to discuss business arrangements for her people so Lexa knew she needed to keep this conversation professional so she used all her self-restraint she could muster to do just that and luckily it seemed to be working. At that moment, Jasper came out of the building and handed her shirt back as she had asked of him and she thanked him before putting it on.
And in that moment, Clarke noticed something else she hadn't paid attention until now. There was a wide gash in the brunette's lower stomach, as well as another wound near her hip that was forming a scar and Clarke could see that it was a recent wound. Did Lexa get hurt during the battle against Mountain Men or did this happen afterwards? Was she okay? Clarke wanted to ask her more than anything, but she thought better than to do that. She couldn't show that she cared about the older girl's well-being. She needed to appear like she didn't care at all.
"So, you have been sneaking around and coming here, you little shit?" Raven broke the silence as she talked jokingly to Jasper who nodded.
"The Commander invited me to help so yeah," He said shrugging and the girl nodded.
"Why did you invite him?" Bellamy asked Lexa who looked at him seriously.
"I thought it would be a good outlet for his anger and that it would help him get better. I believe I have been right so far, right Jasper?" Lexa said to the boy who nodded and smiled at her before turning back to his friends.
"The Commander and her people have been helping me a lot. I like working here with them." He said and Lexa squeezed his shoulder before looking at the group.
"I am sure you have many questions, but I believe you can ask them in a later time." Lexa said before she continued, "For your request, my permission simply will not be much since the rest of my people doesn't know of our agreement so I am afraid we will have to go back to camp to get you a written agreement so that you may search for your people without fear of misunderstanding," Lexa called for a warrior. She warned him that she would have to leave and would probably only be back the next day, but that the construction should continue on the same pace and he nodded before he left.
"Jasper, will you be coming with us? Or will you stay here and go directly to Arkadia?" Lexa asked him and he seemed to look at her for direction, but she simply smiled at him letting him know either way worked for her.
"I think I will come with you," He answered and she nodded before she turned to the others.
"You can follow us to camp," She said and walked forward passing through them, in particular Clarke. When Lexa was passing her, it was like time seemed to slow down as the brunette looked at her before she continued moving forward as Jasper followed her and Clarke was left with her heart beating fast. She wondered if Lexa was feeling the same way and she most certainly was. She didn't do it on purpose, she simply moved to walk past them but when she realized Clarke was the one she would need to pass by, she didn't back down.
Jasper came to her side, "How are things going to be now for me? Do you think they will let me come here?" he asked her, and she looked at him and smiled encouragingly.
"If they don't, you come anyway. People here they like you, Jasper. Sky Crab," She said and they both chuckled at the nicknamed that seemed to be stuck with him now.
"Yeah you're right. They can't stop me," He said but she warned him.
"Yes. But be careful and don't do anything that could hurt you or others. Fight with your mind, not with your fists. Be smarter," She said to him and he nodded as he looked behind them and could see the group of Sky People following and talking among themselves.
"You helped him again, Wick? For real?" Raven was saying and the guy nodded.
"He told me that he found a way to heal that didn't hurt him or anyone else and he asked my help to escape camp and when he came back, he was actually smiling and seemed to be happy so I thought why not keep on helping him? I didn't know he was coming here but if he is feeling better, why should I stop him?" He said defending his ass and Raven shook her head.
"Because it's dangerous to be around these people. They could hurt him and make it look like an accident or something," Bellamy said.
"Look at him," Wick said pointing at the guy in front laughing along with the Commander and greeting some of the warriors, "He is friends with the Commander and your sister seems to be here too. I think it's more dangerous to keep him in camp than to let him come here." Wick said and Monty agreed.
"He is right. Jasper is happier, we should just let him be. I don't want to lose my best friend to his pain and if help the grounders helps him deal with it in a healthy way, who are we to try and stop him?" Monty said and high fived with Wick.
"We will talk about Jasper later, for now we focus on what we came here for," Clarke said ending the conversation as they came out of the village and saw Lexa get up on her horse and Jasper do the same on another before they both took off and once her friends and herself were in the Rover, they just followed them much like they had done with Octavia. And soon enough, they were back in camp.
Lexa and Jasper got off of their horses and they got out of the rover and entered the camp going towards her tent, getting inside. Clarke looked around and it looked the same as when they were sharing it together, memories started flooding into her mind, but she pushed them back, she needed to focus. Lexa sat down on the table and pulled out a piece of paper and started writing on it. "I didn't know your people knew how to write," Bellamy said quite sarcastically, and Raven elbowed him as did Clarke.
Lexa didn't even raise her head before she replied, "I didn't think you believed my people were better than savages and animals so that doesn't surprise me." She said to him and Jasper chuckled as he moved forward to grab a cup of water for himself.
"But answering your questions, yes, we do know how to write both in your language and on our own but in times of war, we don't use it much." Lexa said as she continued to write.
"So, you have books and stuff like that?" Monty asked her curiously and Jasper answered him.
"Of course, they do Monty. The Commander has a full ass library in the capitol, right?" He asked Lexa who nodded her head at him.
"Over the years, many scouts scavenged old buildings, houses, any place and brought to Polis, our capital, whatever they could find. Including old maps, books of all kinds and similar things," She answered still writing.
"I though your people would have found another use for it. I don't know like burning them to make fire or something like that since I didn't think they could understand what was written anyway," Bellamy said ironically again as Clarke looked at him and whispered to him.
"Bellamy, what the hell are you doing? Stop it right now," She said to him and he was about to reply to her when Lexa spoke out loud and they turned to her.
"'It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand'" She said, and Clarke swallowed down because she knew that quote and from what book was from. Lexa looked up from the paper and straight at her as if daring her to deny the connection the brunette was making with the gift she had given her.
"That's a quote from Arthur C. Clarke, isn't it?" Raven asked the Commander and broke the spell that Lexa seemed to have cast on her.
"It is indeed," Lexa said still looking at the blonde who refused to look at her again before she went back to writing and soon enough, she finished it. She used as sigil and closed the document before she stood up and extended the document to Clarke who took it.
"If you have any problems with my people, just given them this, it should help you dissolve any misunderstanding," Lexa told them and Clarke nodded pulling it back. And this time, she was the one who dared Lexa to beak their eye contact.
"We should be going back now. Thank you, Commander," Raven said receiving a nod from the woman and the others nodded and moved to walk out but Clarke stayed rooted in place.
"Clarke, let's go," Bellamy said but she shook her head.
"I will be with you in a minute. Go on," She said frowning her eyebrows and Lexa titled her head as he looked at her before nodding and walking out of the tent leaving them alone.
"Are you going to tell me what do you wish to speak with me about?" Lexa asked as she fully turned to Clarke who got a better look at those muscles before she remembered why she was there.
"I want to help rebuild TonDC." She said surely and caught Lexa by surprise.
"You want to help rebuild TonDC. Why?" Lexa asked and Clarke nodded.
"Well, we both know we are responsible for what happened so I would like to give it back what we took from them. Why? Is it so hard to believe that I feel bad for what happened?" Clarke said as she crossed her arms and Lexa managed a small smile.
"No, it is not hard at all to believe that, Clarke. I just didn't think that you would want anything to do with me and my people after what happened," Lexa said to her as Clarke shook her head.
"I don't want anything to do with you, Lexa. As for your people, I have nothing against them," Clarke said sarcastically.
"Very well, you must want something in return for the help. What would it be?" Lexa asked her and Clarke shook her head in denial.
"I don't want anything except the chance to right a wrong." Clarke said and Lexa sighed.
"Clarke, you know we did the right thing. If the Mountain Men had known about the spy…" Lexa was saying but Clarke interrupted her.
"You are the lasts person I want to talk about Mount Weather with. And frankly, I don't want to talk to you about nothing except what I said. So the only thing I want to know is if you will allow me to help rebuild TonDC? Yes or no?" Clarke said and lexa sighed she knew that Clarke was too hurt to even be ready to listen to her and she would have to respect that. But maybe this could be their opportunity. With Clarke coming to help her people, they could get closer again and Clarke could forgive her or at least not hate her as much and with time they could even mend what could have been.
So with that in mind, Lexa nodded her head, "Yes, you can help my people," She said and Clarke nodded, relieved she would be able to atone to some of her sins.
"Well, good then. When can I start coming?" Clarke asked as she had noticed that people were still weak o it was likely that nothing had been sorted out in regards of that.
"Well, nothing will start being rebuilt at least until another week has passed though I can't guarantee it. So, when we do start building things, I will send a message for you and you can come the next day. Does that work for you?" Lexa asked and Clarke nodded.
"It works fine for me, so I guess my friends and I should get going. I don't want to take any more of your time," Clarke turned around but once again Lexa reached out and grabbed her arm and turned her back towards her and looked her in the eyes.
"You don't have to go yet," She said as she stepped closer, "Stay, please." Lexa said and even without knowing, Clarke found herself leaning in without breaking the eye contact.
It was like every time she looked into those green eyes, she forgot everything else and all she could focus on was those eyes and those lips and things she shouldn't be thinking about, but she couldn't help it. The pull she felt towards Lexa was stronger than anything she has ever felt before towards anyone and she couldn't resist it. But unfortunately, the moment was interrupted by Kio warning that a sky person was asking for Clarke which completely broke the spell. Clarke regained her senses and pulled away from Lexa before turning around and quickly exiting the tent without looking where she was going causing her to bump against a chest that belonged to Bellamy.
"Princess, you okay? She did something to you?" He asked but she shook her head.
"No, I just need to get out of here." She said breathless. What was about to happen in there?
"Well, that's exactly why I came to get you so we could leave. Kane should be worried about us by now," He said to her and she nodded.
"Yeah, let's go," She said as she let him lead her to where Jasper and Monty were waiting. But as much as she tried to she couldn't help herself and turned her head to look once again at the tent at the exact moment Lexa came out of it and she quickly turned around and shook her head as the 4 of them exited the grounder village and started on their path back to Camp Jaha.