"'You care for her'. Costia's tone is clipped, matter-of-fact. Cold. And Costia is never cold, not with her, not in the privacy of her – their - bedroom. But there she is, standing stock still with her back to Lexa, stating, not asking." Costia lives and things grow quite a bit more complicated. Post Season 2 fic that you can also find on Archive of Our Own.