As always thank you for your reviews, follows and for favourites! So were back to lexa! I have added two new characters of my own in the story just to mix it up a little and get through to our lovely lexa's soft side. ( nightingale116 - yes I should put it on my CV ,id love to see the reaction in an interview room. Which should be soon as my job sucks!) Also To the questions asked about Nyx , don't worry she's not dead so i thought id clear that up lol.
Hope you like it!
Chapter Inspiration - say my name- Odesza
Ai Hod Yu In Strisis
~Lexa~
It had been days since lexa had left polis to find Clarke and still there was no sign of her. She was glad she decided to agree to take guards, it made keeping watch far more easier and she couldn't complain about having company. Before she left Anya demanded she had to take guards with her and kicked up a storm about her safety.
In the end Anya won, as she normally did.
Not many people knew of the close relationship between them all, if they did notice most assumed there closeness was because lexa was Anya's second. Only Titus, Indra and Thesda knew the real reason,That Anya had taken Lexa in as her own before making Lexa her second. Blood or no blood she was her nomon.
She named her Alexandria and raised her as she would her own child. It was only a few year later when Thesda was born and lexa had a baby sister who she adored.
"Hyatt , Thesda. We will make camp here." Lexa motioned towards a small clearing not to far ahead. It would do for the night.
"yes Heda" they said in union
Hyatt who stood tall at 6"5 and looked the definition of intimidating. He was extremely muscular to the point where he looked less human and more like a pauna. His face was almost identical to his brother gustus yet he had a more youthful appearance and a more calm and open minded temperament. He made a promise to his brother that he would protect lexa after his death. He was one of her best guards but his sense of humour was terrible.
Thesda didn't boast of her skills, she didn't have to. Ever since escaping from the Azgeda she had become more ruthless. If she was a night blood and in lexa's conclave she might have won, even against Luna. She stood at 5"6, shorter then lexa but not too far off. She had more curves and had the same eyes as Anya She also had high cheek bones like her mother and the same smile. Her face was soft looking much like lexa even though they didn't share only blemish she had on her face was a thick scar that started from above her eyebrow and ended below her jaw. Even so she was still stunning.
"I have a joke for you Thesda" Hyatt said with a smug look. Lexa sighed and Thesda rested her hand on her forehead.
"Go on , enlighten us with your humour" she grumbled as she picked up a stick and stoked the fire. His face lit up and he cleared his voice.
"A mushroom walks into a tavern and orders a mead. The barkeeper tells him to get out. The mushroom says, Why? I'm a fun-guy.." he shuffled his eyebrows.
"Yo vout in blaik ste leyos?" groaned Thesda who turned to lexa for back up.
"Ai beda eno em gonplei.." stated lexa in a cool manner as she spun her knife. Hyatt's face paled as he shuffled where he sat.
"Ai'm moba heda. beja wingod op ai" He pleaded looking towards Thesda for found the exchange hilarious and just laughed at him.
Lexa simply nodded her head and proceeded to sharpen her blade. The corner of her mouth tugged into a small smile.
"Your such a branwada, go get us some more fire wood. Unless you want heda to be cold" she said as she poured herself and lexa a cider. He jumped up and left there camp asking no more questions, women intimidated him and he would never get on the bad side of those two.
"He is annoying yet you cant not like him" Lexa stated as she passed the sharpening stone to Thesda trading it for the mug. She lifted it to her lips and drank deeply the sweet flavour of the apples made a huge difference to water.
"I agree. he is as they say a gentle giant" She pulled her blades off her back and began to sharpen them. Lexa sat and watched the rhythm of the stone against the blade. The scraping noise filling the camp.
"We will find Clarke, I feel your worry lexa" Thesda rested her sword on her knees to grab the mug of cider taking small sips savouring the flavour.
"I hope we do. I wouldn't know what I would do if anything has happened to her. It would be my fault." she looked at the floor closing her eyes.
"You had no choice lexa, if you didn't take the deal and the others in the coalition would go against you and the coalition would break. Then Clarke and her people would be dead"
"I do not like this bounty on her head, it has complicated matters further." lexa replied as she watched the sun start to set.
"I agree Heda"
After a few moments lexa broke the silence again. "I wish you would have stayed at polis strisis , Im not sure why nomon let you go with the Azgeda sneaking around trikru territory." lexa said leaning over, tucking a strand of hair out of thesda's face. She turned to look at lexa.
" I'm fine lexa I have never fought an Azgeda and im the best warrior you have so Why shouldn't i be here to protect my heda?" she said looking lexa in the eye.
"I do not understand why nomon let you leave, I think it is to soon." she said frowning still nursing the mug of cider.
"Its been two years lexa. I escaped the ice nation, I'm here and im ok. Your thinking like a sister not like heda"
" I agree that you are one of the best warriors in polis but how did you get nomon to let you leave? " said lexa deep in thought. "Im surprised she let you come with me"Thesda shuffled uncomfortably avoiding all eye contact causing lexa to glare at her sister.
"Thesda.." lexa said sternly watching her sisters didn't take long for her to cave under pressure.
"Fine! nomon.. sortofdoesntknowimhere..."
"WHAT!?" lexa snarled. jumping up to stand in front of her sister towering over her.
Thesda gulped "Relax Lex she will be fine. She never told me i couldn't, she just assumed" she said avoiding eye contact.
"Nomon does not know that you are here?"
"No, She was busy in a meeting with Titus so i left her a note and .." she squeaked as lexa dragged her up off the floor by her jacket.
"yu laik ste a goufa en yu beda nou disobey yu nomon!" Lexa growled as she gripped her jacket tighter. Shoving her in a nearby tree.
"so yu gafin ai kom balaik yu honon nau?!" she yelled at lexa who had her confined to the tree.
"You don't know what it was like lexa!" She screamed trying to escape the commander, but lexa stood her ground keeping her pinned to the tree. "You didn't see you wasn't there!" Green eyes locked with amber that watered with mixed emotions. "You wasn't there..."lexa's eyes widened and let Thesda go who slumped down at the base of the tree.
She was right. In those two years lexa wasn't there. Nia had Costa's head delivered to her bed side along with the head that was suppose to have been Thesda. The face was beaten badly beyond recognition yet the tattoo as the base of the skull was the same. She had no reason to doubt after all costia was identifiable.
"You d..don't know what it w..was like ..." she sobbed hugging her she struggled to breath. Lexa dropped down beside her, prising her arms from her knees and pulled her onto her lap.
"Shhh its ok .. its ok strisis. You are not nor will you ever be my prisoner." lexa whispered into her hair.
"It was so bad lexy it w..as so so bad.." she cried into lexa's jacket.
"I know Thes I know." she said gently. Swaying her in her arms as much as she could. "Rest now, I will watch over you" she said as she rested her head on thesda's. Knowing her sister waited for her all that time made her stomach churn.
"Ai hod yu in strisis" she said quietly so only they could hear. Lexa continued to rub circles on her back regulating her breathing like her and her nomon used to when she was small. Her sobs died down and she fell asleep in the safety of lexa's arms clutching the commanders jacket.
She was right, lexa had no idea what it was like. It was just over a year later after the deaths of her loved ones lexa recieved information on the queens new who was still loyal to heda informed her that her cousin Brooke had healed a girl who looked like Anya. She told her she wore the helmet and collar of the queen. Lexa wanted to charge in there and get the queens pet and find out for herself but she couldn't. She was powerless as the coalition was already in motion and as heda she couldn't bring it down for a maybe.
It had taken months to get Azgeda who where still loyal to her to get close enough to get the queens pet. And it took even longer to get her out but they did it. The hard part was getting her out of the palace but after her locks where removed they could walk out the city easily as no one would recognise her as her face was always hidden. Thesda only survived because the queen took a shine to her in her sick way. If she got hold of Clarke she would kill her, take the power of Wanheda and start war.
Lexa was pulled out of her thought by the sound of Hyatt returning with fire wood and a pheasant slung over his shoulder, he said nothing as he prepared the animal pulling out the feathers, keeping them for arrows. He had known Thesda for years and he could tell when old wounds where open and when to give her night air came and so did the cold. Hyatt went to one of the horses and unrolled a bear skin , he moved silently to lexa and handed it to her.
" Rest heda, i will take fist watch." Lexa nodded in agreement as she retrieved the pelt.
"Speak of this and your fight will be over" she gave him a warning look. No one could know of her attachment to Thesda.
"Sha heda. I understand" he replied as he went back to his bedroll
She pulled Thesda as close as she could then wrapped the fur around them both. Continuing fine reassuring touches over the dark waves of her sisters hair.
Lexa couldn't sleep, her talk with her sister had her more thought of the ice nation capturing Clarke made her heart sink. She didn't want to go through that again. Not after costia and Thesda.
"She still has the dreams?" Hyatt questioned as he looked at the young girl with solemn eyes.
"yes" replied heda. His jaw clenched as he studied his knife Lexa knew he wanted to speak more but did not want to disrespect his heda is doing so.
"You may Speak freely Hyatt" Hyatt looked at lexa who gave him a reassuring look and a nod to proceed.
"She has seen things no child should have to see. She survived what few would." He sighed glancing at the girl then back to lexa "People still talk ofazkwin strik pichu, bak daunr gon wamplei. Even after these years." Lexa's jaw tensed. She was glad she never saw her sister in the chains and collar. The thought of some one collaring her sister like a dog made her heart burn.
"Even after this, she still has not broken , she is not weak heda, she is the strongest woman I know." Lexa raised an ignored the implication.
"She is Thesda trikova swison" he said smiling. "A more fitting name don't you think heda"
"I agree, thank you for supporting her when I cannot"
"You are welcome heda."
"I wish you where here Clarke" lexa whispered to the air. "I miss you"
TRIGEDASLENG
o vout in blaik ste leyos?-You think that is funny
Ai'm moba heda. beja wingod op ai- Im sorry commander please forgive me
Yu laik ste a goufa en yu beda nou disobey yu nomon - You are still a child and you should not disobey yu mother
So yu gafin ai kom balaik yu honon nau - So you want me to be your prisoner now
Strisis- Little sister
Ai hod yu in strisis- I love you little sister
Azraunon - Icearena
Azkwin striku pichu - Ice queen's little pet
Trikova swison- Shadow blade
Bak daunr gon wamplei- Defier of death/death cannot touch
So just to clear a few things up- (I swapped a few ages to fit the story, if I calculated wrong i apologise, math is not my strongest of subjects lol)
-Anya found an abandoned lexa when she was 16 and lexa was 2
-Anya is 36
-Lexa is 22
-Thesda is 17 (taken by Azgeda at 13)
- Thesda was born when Anya was 19 and lexa was 6
Thesda is names after Bethesda, Maryland and Hyatt Hyattsville ,Maryland just outside Washington dc ( see what i did there ;) i know im impressed too )
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