Clarke POV

I went straight for Lexa as soon as Nyx left the room and forced her to look at me.

"Lex," I asked worriedly, "are you alright?"

Her eyes focused on me and she took a deep shuddering breath, "Yeah. I just never knew."

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Scarlett and Dani collapse on the couch and take in huge gulps of air.

"Never knew what," I asked, concerned.

"Exactly, how powerful she is," Dani answered breathlessly.

Lexa nodded, "If she had really wanted to be de Pakstoka 8 years ago, she didn't need to kill all of those people, she just needed to do what she just did and everyone would have bowed down to her."

I heard pounding footsteps and I looked up to see Sephy, Octavia, and Nate rush in the door. They took one look around and Nate went straight to Scarlett and Dani, while Octavia and Sephy came over to us.

"What just happened," Sephy asked as she kneeled in front of us.

"Nyx just happened," I replied. "Did you feel something?"

"All the weres did," Octavia replied. "We all dropped to our knees and couldn't get up."

"What did Nyx do," Sephy asked.

"She just showed Lexa exactly how powerful she is. She showed us," I replied.

"Why did she do that?"

"Because she told me that she didn't need my permission to do what she wants to do in the morning and I took exception to that," Lexa said as she leaned up against me and I wrapped an arm around her to support her.

"What does she want to do in the morning?"

"She wants to take off the inhibitor disc and figure out if she really has limitless power like Mother Earth told her she had," Scarlett said.

"So, she didn't use any powers at all just now?"

"No," Dani replied, shaking her head. "That was pure dominance we all felt."

"And it all came from her," Nate asked, confused.

"That was all her. I couldn't even feel Lexa exerting hers and I know she was."

"Why did she feel the need to even do that," Octavia asked as she sat beside me.

Lexa sighed and replied, "Because I tried to exert my dominance over her and she didn't even flinch."

"She didn't even move when I shocked her as hard as I could or when Dani tried to use her wind on her. She shook everything off. Like it was nothing."

"How did you get her to stop," Sephy asked.

"I actually had to pull some of the electric current from her heart," I replied.

She looked at me surprised and said, "You can do that?"

I nodded, "Nyx showed me how I can pull electricity from anything that produces an electrical current, including people. So, that's what I did. I think I made her heart skip a few beats and she fell to one knee, but she was able to stand back up."

"So, where is she now?"

"Out back," Lexa replied. "I can feel her out there."

"Wait, I don't understand something," Octavia said. "If she has the inhibitor disc on that means that she can't use her powers, right? So, how did she not react when you used your powers on her without using a telekinetic shield?"

"Your guess is as good as mine," Lexa replied. "I could see Clarke using hers and feel the power coming from her, but it just what? Rolled off her? She absorbed it?"

"It was more like it dissipated as soon as it touched her," Scarlett said. "The only effect that Dani had was that she swayed underneath the gust of wind."

"And that was just under hurricane strength wind, too," Dani replied. "I've never seen someone able to withstand that level without being blown across the room."

"Should we be worried," Octavia asked.

Lexa shook her head and replied, "No. I don't believe so. She did it to remind me that even though I'm currently her Pakstoka, she doesn't have to necessarily follow my orders if she doesn't want to and I can't force her to."

"She made it quite clear that the reason why she's still here is because she wants to keep the territory safe from the Coalition and Ice Pack," Dani said. "She threatened to leave if Lexa tried to force her to do something she didn't want to."

Sephy shot Dani a look and said, "She threatened to leave?! Why?"

"Because I said that being in the pack and her taking up her duties as Second was only temporary. She used that against me," Lexa said, sadly.

"Why would you tell her it was temporary," Sephy asked incredulously.

Lexa sighed and looking Sephy straight in the eyes, replied, "At the time I didn't know if she wanted back in or that the Council would allow her to become Second permanently if she decided to rejoin the pack. We, I needed her to come back into the pack and become Second again. I was beginning to think she wanted to stay, but maybe I was wrong."

"If she wants to leave, there's nothing we can do or say to convince her to stay," Dani said glumly.

"Not even your bonds with her?"

"No," Lexa answered quietly.

"But she's willing to stay and help us," Sephy asked hopefully.

"I don't know."

"Fuck. We can't let her leave. Not now. Not ever," Sephy whispered and I saw the heartbreak in her face. "I'm not going to lose her again. Not this time."

With a look of determination, Sephy got up and strode out of the room quickly.

"Where's she going," Octavia asked.

"She's going to give Nyx a piece of her mind," Dani answered.