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It turned out that after a few drinks, Lexa was a natural dancer, swaying along with the music and twirling Clarke round in circles as they laughed. More and more of the adult members of Skaikru were joining in until only a few were still hanging back, still slightly wary of the grounders among them.
Kane, Abby and Indra were sat at a small table not to far away from where Clarke and Lexa were leaning against each other, lost in their own moment.
"It's nice to see them acting their age." Kane smiled, noticing where Abby's eyes were fixed on her daughter.
She turned to smile at him, "Yes it is, being down here causes them all to grow up too fast."
Kane nodded, holding his hand out to her, "Dance with me Doctor Griffin?" He shot her a charming grin as Abby laughed and took his hand, smiling at Indra who waved them off in amusement, content to stay sat on the sidelines.
Pulling her onto the makeshift dance floor, he spun and dipped her without warning, causing her to gasp when he pulled her upright again, "Very funny Marcus." Abby laughed, as she put her hands around his neck and they started gently swaying.
As they danced, Abby watched her daughter with Lexa, still unsure of how she felt about their relationship. On one hand, Clarke was happy and she was old enough to make her own choices. But at the same time, Abby found it impossible to ignore the fact that Lexa had left Clarke without a second thought, left them all, to die so her own people would live. All she wanted was for Clarke to be happy, but at what cost was she willing to accept that, because if Lexa ever repeated the betrayal Clarke would be broken and she couldn't lose her again like she had after the Mountain when Clarke had pulled her disappearing act.
After a while they decided that the dancing was best left to the younger ones and they retook their seats, as Indra and Kane engaged in a conversation, Abby once again found that her eyes were drawn back to Clarke and Lexa. However, this time she looked further, to a spot behind them were one of the men who had just come off guard rotation was staring at them in a way that felt off to Abby.
Keeping her concerns to herself she kept a close eye on the man, and her suspicion only grew. As he stared at the two clan leaders, Abby could see various emotions playing across his face, and each of them were hateful and ugly to witness. His snarl especially grew when a young girl joined in with the dance Clarke was teaching Lexa, taking their hands to spin round as they moved their feet in time with the music.
Throughout the remainder of the night, Abby kept her gaze fixed firmly on him, unwilling to let her focus drift even for a second if there was even a chance of him putting her daughter in danger. She knew that really she should just alert Clarke herself, but for the first time in months Clarke was happy and carefree, and she wasn't willing to interrupt that for the possibility of someone causing trouble when she could just watch him herself in case something happened.
Eventually, Clarke waved her arms to get Raven to turn off the music, and a collective sigh came up from everyone present.
"Ok everyone, we would love to continue this all night, but there are children present and it's very late so I think it's time we wrapped this up so they can all go to bed and get a good nights sleep." Clarke smiled happily, waving goodbye to the kids as they ran back to their parents.
Before he left, Cal wrapped his arms around Ontari tightly, who returned the hug happily, before running back to the woman who looked after all the children who had been orphaned since they came down to Earth.
The rest of Skaikru dispersed quickly until it was just Raven, Ontari, Lincoln, Octavia, Clarke and Lexa who were stood at the speaker Raven had set up to play the music through.
"Just leave it till the morning Raven." Octavia was grumbling, as Raven insisted that they should move the equipment in in case it rained. With a tired groan Octavia turned to the three grounders for help who grinned at her and then looked at the sky.
"It's a perfectly clear night Raven." Ontari smiled.
Lincoln nodded, "It is highly unlikely that it will rain tonight."
Lexa agreed right along with the two of them, "Yes, and rain is very unusual at this time of year for this territory anyway, you're equipment will be fine." She spoke softly, but she was using her Commander voice that very clearly was ordering Raven just to leave it until the morning.
Octavia grinned at the three of them and pulled at Raven's arm, "You heard them, you're stuff will be fine. I'm tired, let's just go to bed and then we'll help you with it all in the morning to put everything away!"
Reluctantly Raven allowed Octavia to pull her away from the sound equipment as she went with her, Lincoln and Ontari back towards the main building, waving goodbye to Clarke and Lexa who had decided to sleep on their rooftop again. Although this time, Lexa had insisted on blankets so Clarke didn't freeze to death, despite the insistences that she had been fine the night before. Although she had to admit that Clarke found it quite adorable when Lexa was being so protective of her.
Clarke linked her arm through Lexa's arm as they walked, resting the side of her head against the taller girls shoulder, "Is what you said to Raven true?"
"Is what true?" Lexa asked innocently, too innocently which caused Clarke to grin and shake her head at the smirking Commander.
"That it doesn't rain here this time of year, and that her things would be fine." Clarke said suspiciously.
Lexa grinned at her, "Ontari and Lincoln were correct in their assessment that it was a clear night and that rain was unlikely. But rain is actually rather common round this time so who knows if her speaker will survive until dawn?"
"So you lied to her so Octavia could get some sleep." Clarke laughed.
Lexa rolled her eyes, "I doubt very much that sleep is what Octavia had in mind Clarke. She was rather eager to get Lincoln back to the privacy of their room."
They shared a laugh as they reached the bottom of the building that they had slept on and where planning to again, same as last night Clarke disappeared to go find a ladder, leaving Lexa leaning against the wall patiently waiting for her girlfriend to come back.
The sound of footsteps behind her caused the corners of her mouth to twist upwards in to a fond smile and she turned around slowly, "How many times will it take for you to realize that you can't sneak up on-" Standing opposite her was an incredibly angry looking man, holding a gun that was pointed directly at her chest. "Me." She finished quietly, kicking herself for not being more on guard on the way back, he must have followed them back from the party.
"What do you want?" Lexa asked softly, cautiously shifting forward to get close enough to jump forward and twist the gun out of his hand.
"Stay back!" He snarled angrily, gesturing with his gun to indicate that he would fire if she took a single step closer. "I've seen you with Clarke, I watched you all night. You're using her to get to all of us, so you can wipe us all out."
Lexa shook her head slowly, "I promise you I'm not. I lo-"
"Lies!" He hissed, stepping forward and tightening his grip on the trigger dangerously.
Lexa took a step back instinctively as she raised her hands, her back hitting the wall behind her, leaving her nowhere to go and no actual options besides attempting to talk him down. "So what's your plan here? You will be punished if you kill me, Clarke won't let this go." She reasoned, keeping her voice as calm and level as possible.
"Without everyone being so afraid of you, Clarke won't be in charge anymore, and I think the new leader might just be grateful that I got rid of the grounder bitch that doesn't actually care about any of us and is just planning to have us all killed anyway."
Lexa could count on one hand the amount of times in her life that she had been truly frightened, and this moment was one of them. She wasn't frightened for herself, if it was her time to die then so be it, but she was frightened for Clarke, and how she would come back to find her dead with no explanation just when they had been at their happiest. How was this fair?
It was as all this was running through her mind that a single silenced gun shot went off.
Her legs gave way underneath her as she realized that the shot hadn't come from the gun that the man was holding, instead he was now laying dead on the floor and Abby Griffin was stood behind him holding up her own gun with a determined look on her face.
Without hesitation she walked straight over to the girl and pulled her to her feet, yanking her forwards into a fierce hug as Lexa's body trembled in an uncharacteristic gap in her perfect usually untouchable Commander facade.
"Why did you save me?" Lexa asked quietly against Abby's shoulder, still struggling to get her heartbeat under control now that the threat was gone and her life was no longer in danger.
"Because Clarke loves you, and I have never seen her so happy, you've given her the world and I just can't hate you anymore, not for the Mountain or anything else. Not after you've saved my daughter from herself. After what she has had to do down here Clarke became her own worst enemy I think, and you brought her back from that. Saving your life was the least I could do for giving me back my daughter." Abby whispered, still holding Lexa tightly.
And that was how Clarke found them moments ladder, dropping the ladder to the ground when she saw the body on the floor and rushing to Lexa to check every inch of her body.
"What the hell happened? I was gone for two minutes. Oh my god, Lex? Are you ok? Talk to me! I don't know what I'd do it- Are you sure you're ok? Mom move your arm so I can check if she's alright!" Clarke was frantic as she desperately tried to put together what had happened in the few minutes she had been gone and it was clear that she was getting close to a full blown panic attack.
So Abby pulled away from Lexa and took hold of Clarke's shoulders, "She's fine Clarke, stop rambling, everything is ok."
After she said that Clarke sucked in a deep breath to calm herself down before moving back to Lexa and taking hold of her hand gently, "What happened?" She asked quietly.
Lexa wrapped her arms round her and smiled at Abby over her shoulder, "Your mother just saved my life."
Clarke twisted to look at Abby gratefully, "Thank you mom." She murmured quietly, tears filling her eyes as her gaze moved past her to see the body on the floor, her stomach knotting painfully when she thought of how close she had came to losing Lexa again. "We have got to stop doing this, I just want to take you somewhere very far away where people can't point guns at you anymore." She said weakly, clinging to Lexa as though she was making sure she was still there.
Abby nodded towards him, "I think that, with any luck, he may have been the last of the troublemakers in the camp. I caught sight of him earlier at the party which is why I followed him when it looked like he was following the two of you. Other than him though, everyone else looked happy and relaxed as they headed back to their beds."
"Let's hope so." Lexa said seriously, keeping an arm wrapped tightly around Clarke who wasn't relaxing her own grip on Lexa anytime soon. "What are we going to do about him now?"
Abby smiled, "Don't worry about it, I'll go get Kane and we'll deal with this, you two just go get some sleep ok?"
Lexa nodded and pulled Clarke back towards the main building, deciding that for tonight the security of four walls and a locked door would benefit them both more than a defenseless rooftop.
When they got inside she gently sat Clarke down on the bed and pulled off Clarke's boots carefully, as the blonde just stared at her, as though she was still waiting for Lexa to suddenly collapse from an unseen wound that none of them had noticed yet.
"Clarke will you please stop that," Lexa pulled off her shirt so Clarke could see her smooth unblemished skin and patiently she span around slowly on the spot so that Clarke could see her back as well, "See? I promise you I am fine."
Clarke groaned when she realized that there really was nothing and lay back on the bed, "I'm so sorry, here you are looking after me when it was you who nearly got shot. Again! And it was because of me, again!" She sounded frustrated and so tired, so Lexa didn't waste time with getting changed for bed.
Kicking off her own boots, Lexa crawled into the bed beside Clarke and pulled her towards her, "As I said I am fine. Death does not scare me Clarke, the only thing I feared was leaving you behind."
Staring at Lexa with awe, Clarke leaned in and kissed her, "You are perfect."
"I have been told." Lexa chuckled, which Clarke let out a bark of laughter at and hit her lightly on the shoulder.
"You're so modest as well." She smiled and then examined Lexa's face critically, "Seriously though, are you sure you are ok?"
Lexa smiled tenderly, leaning over to turn off the light before holding Clarke close, "We are both alive and together, as long as we have that then I am always ok Clarke."