A/N: Hey guys, sorry this is a bit later than usual but it's also about twice the length of a normal chapter so hopefully that makes up for it haha. A lot of people have been asking me for some more Raven and Ontari (whats the ship name for that by the way?), so especially for you guys, heres an entire chapter with just the two of them. Although fair warning, theres some heavier themes towards the end as they talk about bad things that have gone down in their life. Don't want to spoil anything but just giving you the heads up. I really love these two, and I really surprised myself with how easy it was to just keep writing, I very nearly forgot to stop. Hope you guys enjoy, and please let me know what you think! xxx

"This is a cause for celebration." Raven laughed, ignoring the curious looks they were getting as they walked through Polis' streets, an Azgeda and Skaikru couple being perceived as slightly strange even by the very opened minded people of the capitol.

"Oh?" Ontari asked.

Raven smiled and bumped her shoulder against Ontari's, "This is the first time we've actually had alone since we got together."

"And every night doesn't count?" Ontari grinned.

Shaking her head, Raven paused to purchase each of them some meat from a vendor as a light snack, "We put Cal to bed, go straight to our room, have sex and then sleep. Where's the talking?"

"You want to forgo the sex and talk more at night then?" Ontari smirked, as Raven hit her shoulder lightly.

"Smartass, you know what I meant, there's no need to be mean." Raven laughed, taking Ontari's arm again, "I just meant that it's nice to have time to just wander, although I do feel sorry for Aden, being left to babysit Cal."

Ontari smiled, "He loves him, and it's Aden's fault that Cal has become so mischievous the least he can do is deal with it for a while so we can have some alone time."

"Really? You're really going to go with it being Aden's fault? Not yours for showing him the old crawlspace in the walls over Octavia and Lincoln's room? Their not going to be forgiving you any time soon for that one." Raven chuckled, remembering how she had been woken up to Octavia's outraged screaming, Cal and Ontari stood against the door keeping it closed with tears of laughter streaming down their cheeks.

"The snake was harmless." Ontari shrugged, "Besides, it's not as though Octavia hasn't been coaching him in equally nasty tricks to play."

Raven rolled her eyes, "Yes and I wish that she would stop, Lexa will come after us if he ever actually pulls any of them off."

Pulling Raven close, Ontari silenced her with a sweet kiss, leaning their heads together when they pulled back from the kiss, "This is our day Raven, let's not talk about our sons antics."

Raven smiled, "I wondered when you were going to bring that up."

Ontari tugged Raven down to sit next to her on a low wall, "You nearly claimed him in front of our friends, and it made me realize that that is how I have been referring to him in my head as well."

"We've only been together for just over two weeks," Raven said quietly, "But this just feels right. I am the most happy I have ever been with you and Cal."

Ontari nodded understandingly, "My people are different to yours Raven, we are raised to live life fully and without hesitation in our decisions, especially those concerning who we love. The only guarantee we have is what is happening right here and now. Each day is a gift and no tomorrow is assured. I love you, and I would love to call Cal our son in front of the entire city."

"Then do." Raven breathed, staring into Ontari's soft brown eyes, "But for now...you owe me a date."

"A date?" Ontari asked with an amused smile, "Another Skaikru word you have neglected to explain to me?"

"Of course grounders don't have dating." Raven smirked, "Why am I even surprised? A date is when you spend time with someone you are romantically involved with. Time you have especially put aside for that person."

Ontari grinned as Raven pulled her up and tugged on her arm to get them moving through the streets and towards the city limits.

"You know, many would take offense to being called grounders ai hodnes. The other twelve clans still retain enough lingering distaste for one another to resent being referred to by one generalized word." She said gently, "Especially in the way and tone that most of your people use when calling us that."

Raven tilted her head to the side as she listened to what Ontari was saying, "I didn't even think of it like that. I'm sorry Ontari, it just became a habit after the hundreds first few days on the ground when I eventually came down to join them."

Ontari waved off her concerns, "You misunderstand me Raven. It doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I worry for your safety should the wrong person hear you call the people of the coalition grounders rather than by the name of their individual clans."

Laughing, Raven wrapped her arm around Ontari's waist as they walked. "You're so sweet when you're being concerned. I have a better understanding now so you don't have to worry, I promise."

"Good." Ontari smiled happily, "Now come on, we're almost there."

Ontari led her to the stables beside the gate where two horses were already waiting for them.

Ontari helped Raven up into the saddle of her horse, her strong arms easily lifting the other girl high enough for her to swing her good leg over the horses back. Once she was settled in the saddle, Ontari leapt up on to the back of her own horse.

"Where are we going?" Raven asked curiously, as her horse obediently followed after Ontari's.

"Nowhere in particular." The warrior smiled at her, as they passed through the gates and moved into the tree line, "I just thought you might appreciate some of the peace and quiet that the forest affords. I love the capitol, and our friends, but there is never any quiet."

Raven laughed as she caught up to have her horse walk shoulder to shoulder with Ontari's along the wide path, "You mean, you'd had enough of the noise so dragged me along on a horse ride to get away from it?"

"That depends if your going to be mad, because if you are then I chose for us to do this because I believed that it was your hearts deepest desire to go riding with me today." Ontari grinned, as Raven reached across and grabbed her hand.

"I'm not mad, in fact I just find it quite funny." Raven grinned, "So what do we do now?"

Ontari smirked and rolled her eyes teasingly, "Well you said you wanted to talk, here is your opportunity."

Childishly, Raven stuck her tongue out, "Fine, tell me about your clans lands?"

"Sure," Ontari smiled, "You'd love it there, our southern most border runs parallel to Skaikru and Trikru land but our land is long and thin and at the northern point there are the ice flats that spread as far as the eye can see."

Raven nodded along with interest, "Is it safe to walk on them?"

Nodding, Ontari gestured with her hands as she explained, "In summer the ice is thin and we can't walk across, but in winter it hardens and the children play, taking turns to run and see how far they can get before they slip and fall. Each of the clans have their strengths. Azgeda can't hope to match the Trikru for their agility in the trees, but likewise, they cannot hope to contend with us once our feet hit the ice."

"I'd love to see it." Raven smiled.

"Once winters comes round I will take you to Azgeda's main city, which lies on the very edge of the flats, and you can see the children playing their games." Ontari smiled proudly, "I hold the record for the furthest ran in one go."

Raven laughed, "You still compete with the kids? That's hardly fair if you have the advantage of years of practice."

Ontari shrugged, "It doesn't matter how much practice you have if you're just not skilled, the record is mine and will stay mine for the foreseeable future, although I believe Lexa may attempt to test herself next time she visits Azgeda."

Chuckling Raven nodded, "Octavia will try it as well no doubt, who do you think will get further?"

Smirking Ontari shook her head as she laughed, "Is there really any question that Lexa will win between those two? Octavia is hardly light on her feet in the way Lexa is. To run on the ice flats you have to be very careful how you place your footing." She paused for a moment before looking across at Raven's face curiously, "What was it like, growing up in the sky?"

"Being waiting a while to ask that one?" Raven asked with a grin, as Ontari just shrugged lightly and nodded.

"I don't think there is any one who doesn't want to hear of Skaikru's lives before they came down to cause trouble for us all."

Raven smiled as she nodded, "You make a good point. It wasn't nearly as exciting as you might think. We lived in a metal box and everything was rationed, in the end, we came down to earth because we were about to run out of air and suffocate to death."

Ontari frowned, "Is there no part of it that you miss?"

Pausing to think about it, Raven eventually dipped her chin in a slow nod, "Yes actually. I was a mechanic and I used to go outside of the Ark to do repairs on the exterior of the stations. It was the freest feeling in the world, floating through space with just one rope holding me to the Ark. Not that we got to take the time to enjoy it, it was a case of going out, getting the job done and then coming back inside."

"Did you have a family in the sky?"

Ontari could see as soon as the words left her mouth that it had been a loaded question and she scrambled to take back what she had said, but Raven held up a hand to stop her, "If we're going to be together then you should know about my life." Raven said softly, before taking a deep breath before she started talking.

"I didn't know my dad, but I grew up with my mom. She drank, a lot, and she would trade the food that was meant for me for more drink. There was a boy, Finn, he gave me some of his food whenever I had none and he was the only one who ever remembered my birthday."

"What happened to him?" Ontari asked gently, sensing that Raven had loved him as more than a friend.

Raven sighed, "We were together, and basically he got put in prison because of me, it's a long story but the short version is that we did something and I would have been killed for it so he took the blame and just got imprisoned because he was under eighteen. When the hundred got sent down to earth he was sent down whilst I was still up in the sky. When I eventually made it down, I found out that he had fallen for Clarke so I ended things. Have you heard of what happened just before Lexa made the alliance with our people to fight the mountain?"

"One of your people attacked a village unprovoked and Lexa demanded their death before she would enter into the alliance. But then Clarke ended their life before they could suffer the pain of the eighteen deaths." Ontari answered, curious as to it's relevance on Raven's story.

Raven nodded, "That was Finn. He didn't deal very well after a group of our people were taken by the mountain, Clarke among them. He attacked the village but in the end he handed himself over. It's funny, for the longest time I hated both Clarke and Lexa for what had happened. When Clarke went to speak with Lexa I gave her the knife she used to kill him, but it was meant for Lexa."

"You tried to get Clarke to kill her?" Ontari asked disbelievingly, "That would have gone very badly for your people."

"I know." Raven said, blinking away the tears that had built in her eyes, "And ultimately I am glad that Clarke made the choice that she did, the only choice that she could take."

There was a long stretch of silence as they road, both wrapped up in their own thoughts.

Finally, Ontari cleared her throat to speak, "I loved Nia once." She said quietly, as Raven turned her head to look at her with interest.

"When I was four my parents were murdered, they never found the killer, but once I grew up I realized that it was very convenient for Nia that their deaths delivered me to her days after my night blood was discovered."

Her voice was soft, and Raven had to lean in and strain her ears not to miss what she was saying.

"For three years she manipulated every last detail of my life, twisting every cruelty so it appeared as kindness, and I loved her because I believed that she loved me in return. And then when I passed seven years old my training began properly and I was pitted against warriors three times my age and five times my size. My love for her faded very quickly after the day I was hit so hard in the chest that for two weeks I couldn't move from my bed and it hurt even to breathe."

"I'm sorry." Raven said softly, not sure what else to say. To her surprise, Ontari turned to her and smiled gently.

"My life has led me to Polis, to you, I wouldn't change it so there is nothing to be sorry about Raven. I was fearful of her, and she used that to her advantage to control me as I became her personal bodyguard and puppet. The day that Lexa put a spear through her chest was the happiest of my life up to that point and it is the reason that my loyalties will never err from her."

"Do you hate her?" Raven asked, after another extended pause in their conversation, "Because try as I might, I've never quite managed to hate my mom, no matter how shit she was at being a mother."

"I thought I did. But now I am free of her? Nia isn't worth my hate, she is dead and I am alive, I have won against her by being happy despite her best attempts."

Raven laughed, "I bet you didn't expect for the conversation to become this heavy when you planned your jailbreak from all the noise at home."

Ontari grinned at her, "You just called Polis home. I mean, I agree, but it's nice to hear it spoken aloud. And I am glad we have had this conversation, I don't want to keep any secrets from you Raven, not ever. I trust you with everything I have so there is no need for me to hold anything back."

"I agree with you completely, and I am an open book for anything and everything you want to know." Raven smiled as they turned round to head back towards the city.

"Ok, that's good because I have a very serious question that I want to ask you." Ontari said seriously, leaning in to speak in a hushed whisper.

"What?" Raven asked curiously, intrigued what she was going to ask that warranted such a serious expression.

Ontari's face split into a grin, "Am I a good kisser Raven?"

Raven laughed, "Of course, and you're so hilarious too." She said sarcastically, pushing at her shoulder so Ontari was sat up properly on her own horse, before nudging her horses sides to start the journey home.