Clarke woke up to the sound of Lexa's alarm. It was 8pm. They hadn't slept much. The brunette, half lying on her, wasn't awakening. Clarke smiled, surrounding Lexa's waist with her arms. She watched at the sleeping beauty not bothered by the alarm. Clarke turned it off and brushed Lexa's hair out of the brunette's face to wake her up with kisses on her forehead.
At first, Lexa frowned, but then she seemed to be remembering where she was and what was happening because she smiled widely and buried herself into Clarke's body, their naked skins shivering at the contact.
Even though Lexa was incredibly cute, Clarke thought of getting her revenge. ''Lexa, you're gonna be late at work.'' But it didn't work. Not even the slightest bit. Lexa had her face buried into her neck and Clarke started getting the sweet feeling of lips against her skin. So she is waking up. She bit her lip when the brunette's lips tightened on her skin. From this point, she knew she'd spend the day with a new mark on her neck. Raven could mock her again. ''Lexa !''
The other woman didn't listen to her, so Clarke abruptly reversed their positions, discovering Lexa's smirk and dark but tired eyes.
''Not tired enough I suppose ?'' Clarke murmured, unable to talk louder. She didn't want to break the calm of this moment.
''You did exhaust me.'' Lexa answered jokingly.
Clarke shut her up with a kiss, feeling Lexa's smirk against her lips. She aimed for her girlfriend's neck, trying to get her revenge, but she didn't have enough time to leave a mark because Lexa reversed their positions with more energy than Clarke had done a few seconds ago. She brought their lips together again, deepening their kiss. Clarke inhaled deeply when she felt Lexa's hand sliding up the inside of her thigh. Even though her lower belly was screaming for this, she had to stop Lexa.
''I gotta take care of Aden and you need to go to work.'' she said, getting a disappointed sigh from Lexa. The brunette didn't give up, though, and Clarke complained, unable to physically stop her.
''Lexa...'' she murmured, filled with pleasure. Lexa's lips smiled against her jaw.
''I'm pretty sure the boss won't say anything about us being late.'' she answered, her soft voice arousing Clarke more than she already was.
Clarke's body was tembling under Lexa's control. How many times had they done it last night ? Yet it still wasn't enough. Yet it was different every time.
Lying next to her, Lexa was contemplating the woman she shared so many feelings with. She wanted to take care of her in all ways possible, but Clarke wouldn't let her. Clarke was a strong-minded independent woman, something Lexa loved, but sometimes hated. Clarke could be more stubborn than her, and it had almost broken them in the past. But love had decided otherwise.
''I'm going for a bath, are you coming ?'' Lexa softly asked, caressing her lover's belly with one gentle hand.
Clarke was still going down from her high, and she would've said yes if the word 'bath' hadn't painted her mind red. She stiffened, taking a second to steady her breath before anger would kick in, and stood up to put a long shirt on.
''Clarke ?'' Lexa called. How could taking a bath together be wrong or dangerous ?
''No. Bath.'' Clarke answered before getting out of the room to join her son in Lexa's room. She couldn't think of the water, of drowning, after what had taken place in the guest room last night, all night. It had been amazing, perfect, and nothing negative should come to her mind right now. That's why Clarke had gotten out of the room so quickly. Lexa knew Clarke couldn't lay a foot in the water. She had had to expect this reaction.
Clarke took some time alone with her son. She heard Lexa leave the place. She would talk to her this afternoon at work. She was aware of her uneasiness and didn't want Lexa to think last night was only a one-time thing, that Clarke wasn't serious with her. There were just some points Lexa had to step on carefully, because Clarke couldn't control them herself.
Clarke had to wait for Lexa to come back from a meeting. She was anxious. First she had worried about her son all morning after taking him to the doctor for a vaccine, and now she was worried about Lexa being mad at her. Clarke had reacted a bit harshly this morning, she wasn't easy to live with, but she wanted to make things good with Lexa. Living with the brunette, sleeping beside her, was more than what she had ever wished for.
''Lexa !'' she let out a relieved sigh when she saw the CEO entering the office.
She stood up and walked to her so fast she would've been running if the distance separating them had been bigger. She threw herself in Lexa's arms, surprising the latter who closed her arms around her girlfriend's waist.
They both enjoyed the other's embrace before Clarke decided to explain herself.
''I know I keep freaking out, but I don't want my past to come in our way.'' she whispered, immediately feeling Lexa's grip on her soften. A hand slipped in her hair, and Clarke laid her head on the brunette's shoulder.
''It's okay, Clarke.'' She comforted her with a kiss on the forehead, but was quickly brought into a confident kiss. Once they were separated, Lexa smiled wildly. ''I take that as a 'yes, I did enjoy last night', or am I wrong ?''
Clarke walked back to her desk, fighting the urge to kiss Lexa again. ''It was fine.'' she casually said, head turned toward her computer's screen. She felt Lexa's blank stare on her and couldn't keep her smirk back. ''Don't worry hot stuff, you keep up to your reputation.'' She winked, but Lexa's facial expression didn't change.
She called me 'hot stuff'. Lexa was dumbfounded. First she had thought she had done Clarke wrong, but it occurred otherwise and Clarke was really pretty today ! She likes me. Lexa blinked a couple times, feeling absolutely dumb, but Clarke's hand slipped in hers, bringing her back to reality, and pulled her to her desk. Clarke made her sit, laid a soft kiss on her cheek and gently said ''I'm gonna get you a coffee.''
Clarke disappeared in the corridor and Lexa felt like she was freely floating in the air. A sensation only Clarke could bring.
The latter's comeback was the only thing that could get Lexa out of her rêverie. Clarke took advantage of Lexa's current state of mind to sit on her lap after having laid the hot cup of coffee on the brunette's desk. She didn't fight the urge to kiss the tanned skin, slowly laying her lips against the brunette's cheek, going up her jaw to slide down underneath her ear, aiming for her neck.
''Hm,'' Lexa melted into the woman's kisses, letting the blonde take control, even though the situation wasn't exactly the right one for this kind of activity. ''you won't wait for tonight, won't you...'' she whispered, her whole body agreeing with whatever Clarke wanted to do to it.
''We can't tonight,'' she murmured between two warm kisses, ''I'll be staying with Aden, in case he doesn't react well to the vaccine.''
It took Lexa a dozen of seconds to be able to react to Clarke's sentence. She slipped a hand under her desk, pushing some button, and pulled Clarke closely against her, lifting her up to carry her up to the bedroom. ''I guess we can make it up now.'' She felt the blonde's lips nipping her neck, a welcomed approval.
Lexa liked having Clarke in her arms, but she had to admit that getting the key and opening the door while carrying a woman was far from being easy. She had used her core, though, and had managed to not drop Clarke. The latter had kept teasing her and, for this reason, Lexa took control as soon as Clarke was laid on the bed. She avenged her own neck by aiming for Clarke's from the start. She brought her hands into Clarke's, pulling them up Clarke's head, which made Clarke stiffen. Lexa thought it was the good kind of stiffening, but Clarke freed her head from Lexa's lips, trying to free her hands.
Lexa lifted her head, confused, seeking for clues on what she had done wrong in the charming blue eyes currently filled with discomfort, shaded with fear.
''Please don't do that.'' she begged in a whisper, and Lexa let go of Clarke's hands, figuring it was what had made Clarke react this way.
''Tell me what to do then.'' Lexa answered, only wanting to be good to Clarke. Freaking her out was out of her to-do list. Clarke brought a hand to her cheek, warmth invading Lexa's face and, soon enough, heart. From this moment she didn't see any fear in the blonde's blue eyes, but only awe and love. More love, actually.
''I don't want you to own me. I want you to love me.'' Clarke simply answered, fighting back the bad memories. Saying those words, she obviously thought of Finn. An unhealthy relationship she clearly wanted to forget.
And Lexa was definitely going to help her with that, because she was already kissing her neck up to her ear, in the softest way Clarke had ever felt. Brushing her lover's ear, Lexa stated ''It's not gonna be so hard loving you because...'' she laid a quick but gentle kiss behind the blonde's ear and whispered ''I do love you, so, so much, Clarke Griffin.''
She was ready to lay a couple other soft kisses on the pale skin but Clarke pushed her back to face her and grab her neck to bring their lips together. Clarke needed their lips to connect, to mix up, to merge until they were breathless, until only death could separate them, and they would play with that fact, over and over, because nothing else in the entire world felt better than their lips touching with such passion.
She pulled Lexa's waist against her, seeking for more contact, and placed the brunette's hands on her chest so Lexa knew she was free to touch her. Lexa didn't need more clues to start unbuttoning Clarke's shirt, her hands slightly trembling. She had always been confident about this, knowing the effect she had on others, but it was different with Clarke.
Clarke was special.
Lexa wanted to make Clarke feel how important she was through her kisses. She laid her lips on Clarke's belly, kissing it with care, almost thanking it for having held Aden safe until he was ready to be delivered into this world.
Clarke was agitated, opening and closing her eyes, overwhelmed by the feelings Lexa brought her by touching and kissing her with as much passion as care. It didn't take so long for Clarke to inhale deeply at the contact of Lexa's lips on her thighs. Lexa wasn't rushing, but she wasn't taking her time either. Clarke had been ashamed of her own body for so long, yet it had taken Lexa one nearly-full day to change her mind. Clarke could feel every inch of her body under Lexa's control. But it didn't feel like Lexa was controlling her.
Far from it. It felt like Lexa was carrying her high above. The brunette's name escaped her lips. For once, she had said it out of love. When she was with Finn, her first and only boyfriend, she had said his name more times than she could count. But never out of love.
She stopped thinking, Lexa keeping her mind away in the best way possible. This feeling, she could never let go of. She felt safe and free, belonging into Lexa's arms.
She was coming back to reality when she felt Lexa lying beside her. She turned her head, opening her eyes, and noticed Lexa's bright eyes watching her with a glint of lust. She looked down at her own body, her shirt was open and her pants were off. She had barely noticed her clothes going off under Lexa's gentle yet confident control.
She tried to steady her breathing, feeling even warmer than last night, but still managed to turn toward Lexa who was smiling at her. Lexa looked proud of herself, but also amused, a look betrayed by the way she was looking at Clarke. Careful love.
Lexa really hoped Clarke was going to be okay without her for two weeks. Clarke could take care of herself, but she was also blaming herself for so many reasons Lexa was afraid Clarke would do something bad during her absence.
She grabbed Clarke's hand as carefully as possible, without ever stopping to look at the so-loved blue eyes.
''You're gonna take care of yourself while I'm gone, right ?'' she asked, letting Clarke discover a desperately vulnerable Lexa Woods.
Clarke melted into Lexa's behaviour. She had already fallen for Lexa, but apparently not enough, because she was still falling down, the ground still far, far away from her. Her fall felt more like flying. She was flying for Lexa.
''Of course. Aden and I will be fine.'' she truthfully answered.
Obviously, she had brought Aden to her answer. Lexa wasn't surprised. The little boy was more important to Clarke than herself. And that was what worried Lexa the most. Clarke didn't care about herself, only her son – and now Lexa, too – mattered. Lexa didn't want to leave Clarke for the two longest weeks of her life, but she couldn't cancel this tour. Her empire wasn't going to collapse with her still alive. She could manage both her job and her private life.
She nodded, hoping Clarke was right, and looked away to hide her sadness over her soon-to-come departure. It's only two weeks, Lexa, calm down. She lifted her body up into a sitting position. She had to go back to work.
''What are you doing ?'' Clarke asked. She didn't want this moment to end now.
''I've got work to do. I'll try not to come home late tonight, so we can spend some time together before going to sleep.''
But Clarke had decided otherwise. She pushed herself up to grab Lexa's wrist and pull the brunette down on the bed, taking advantage of Lexa's confused mind by sitting on her lap.
''If you think you're gonna go away that easily...'' she leaned to take Lexa's lips with her own while her hand started discovering Lexa's body once more, opening the shirt and pants to get access to the tanned skin that made her shiver so much.
''Hm,'' Lexa gasped, surely not against this plot twist, ''I'm the boss I have to go ba –''
Clarke shut her up with another kiss, something she knew how to do very well, before sleeping her hand between the brunette's legs.
''I don't see any boss here, I only see my girlfriend.''
All of this combined was enough to make Lexa accept her delightful fate.