A/N: Shout out to Karter! Firstly, yes it's still a no on the marriage proposal unfortunately, but yes the last bit was because of the episode haha :) Also, to everyone else, thank you so much for everyone who reviews and follows, we are gathering more people every day and I am unbelievably grateful to you all! Also, to anyone who doesn't follow me, it might be worth doing so because I keep getting random inspiration and posting more stories haha, including another fix which is of the finale. Anyway, I love you all, and I can't wait to hear what you think of this :) xxx

The next morning, Clarke and Lexa were called down to the city limits to greet the group of Trikru volunteers that had arrived in record time. The relationships between Azgeda and Trikru stronger than ever now that Roan had taken control of his clan and Nia's tyranny was a thing of the past.

They were put to work straight away by Roan, who was pleased that the restoration was going faster than he ever hoped that it could.

From greeting the newcomers, Clarke and Lexa headed over to eat, joining Ontari and Raven who were in a remarkably better mood than the morning before when Lexa had forcibly dragged them from their bed.

"Good morning!" Clarke said happily, as she slid into a seat opposite them in the hall that Azgeda was using for everyone to eat during the food shortage.

"It is." Ontari smirked as Lexa sat down next to Clarke, pushing across the plates that they had already got for the two of them, "I woke up to full circulation in my feet this morning."

"You will miss me when I am gone." Lexa smiled at her sweetly, grunting heavily when Clarke smacked her with the back of her hand.

"Stop it, you agreed to stop making light of your death. Remember, we avoid dangerous weapons ok? And tall places and wild animals." Clarke said sternly, the ghost of an exasperated smile pulling at the corner of her lips.

Raven laughed when Lexa rolled her eyes before nodding, it was clear that this was a reoccurring chastisement from Clarke.

"I missed my footing one time Clarke, when are you going to let it go. We were being chased by the Pauna, it wasn't as though I had time to prepare for the jump first."

Clarke stared at her, "Are you forgetting that you were seriously contemplating climbing down the outside of the tower just to terrify Aden because he had overslept when you had a lesson with him?"

Lexa grinned as Ontari and Raven both stared at her as though she had lost her mind.

"Regardless," Lexa said, waving it off, "I promise I won't think about it again, ok?"

"For now." Clarke sighed, leaning her head against Lexa's shoulder, "I need your spirit to stay right where it is."

After they had had breakfast with the others, Raven had asked Ontari to show her around the city and show her the different places she used to frequent when she was growing up. Ontari had warned her that it probably wouldn't be a very fun tour but Raven insisted that she didn't mind, she wanted to know all about Ontari, even the bad parts.

So Ontari had agreed, leading Raven through the parts of the city that were clear and pointing out various places, such as the tree she had sat under to read on the rare occasions when she had had some time to herself. And the bakers house, who would always slip her a cake if she arrived early enough and promised not to tell anyone.

As they moved closer to the Ice Palace the stories became fewer and far between as Ontari struggled to think of anything good to say about her childhood home.

The guards stepped aside immediately as soon as they saw Ontari's face, even with Nia gone, she commanded their respect because of her unwavering loyalty to Roan and her clan.

Ontari was silent as she led Raven through the massive building and up a flight of stairs before stopping in front of a door and waving her arm in invitation, "My room." Was all she said in explanation.

The room Raven stepped into was smaller than the rooms had been on the ark, with barely enough room to cram in the single bed and a small chest that had obviously been used to store her clothes.

"Now that Roan is in charge of Azgeda I have the house in the outer city that we have been staying in. But up until Nia's death this is where I was sleeping."

"It's... umm..." Raven started helplessly.

Ontari laughed as she wrapped her arm around Raven's waist, "Don't worry, you don't have to find something nice to say, I know it's awful. But it was a bed and that's all I really needed because that's all I used the room for. My days were spent shadowing Nia or training."

"Come on then." Raven smiled, "You were right, this tour isn't very fun, why don't we go outside and do something else?"

Smiling gratefully, Ontari nodded, linking their arms as they walked back through the palace. As they walked through the main hall back towards the front doors, Ontari hesitated for a second, as an internal debate raged as she looked at a door set in the far wall.

Raven noticed her slow down and looked at her curiously as Ontari took a deep breath before gently pulling on Raven's arm to get them to change direction to head to the door.

As her hand rested on the handle, she looked at Raven seriously, "When you said you wanted to know everything about me, did you really mean it? Because I am going to show you something that I am truly ashamed of my part in, something that Nia was eager to have her best pupil participate in no matter what I wished."

Raven rubbed her arm supportively, "You can show me anything, I promise you that I'm not leaving."

Pulling open the door, Ontari just walked down the steps that had been revealed, when they reached the bottom of the stairwell they were in a spacious dark room, with tables against the walls and an iron chair with heavy leather straps on it. Along one of the walls was a set of bars to form a crude cage.

Eyes widening, Raven realized that Ontari was showing her some sort of torture room hidden beneath the castle.

Ontari didn't look up from the floor as she began speaking, "After Nia was killed by Lexa, Roan and I came here to burn everything we could in this room. Neither of us had any pleasant memories of it. Nia said it made us stronger to help her interrogators, and she made us both do it on separate occasions. When we came back from Polis, Roan had the three of them killed for everything they had done under Nia's rule. Not because they had to, but because they had enjoyed it."

"Hey," Raven said gently, tipping up Ontari's head to look into her eyes, "Nothing that Nia made you do was your fault, ok?"

Ontari tried to smile at her, but her expression was doubtful.

"I told you that nothing you showed or told me would make me think any different of you, and I meant it ok? I love you and that's not going to change because of something you had no choice in." Raven said seriously, holding Ontari's gaze as she quickly fished around in her back pocket.

"I was waiting for the perfect moment to give you this but nothing ever felt quite right, but I think now is the time." She said quietly as she held up a rough silver band. "I was going to buy you something in Polis, but Lexa gave me this idea, so I made the ring out of a small piece of metal off the ark. So this has been in space, just like me."

Ontari's eyes widened as she realized what Raven was giving her, having grown used to the sight of Lexa and Clarke running their fingers over each others rings when they were feeling particularly stressed or insecure.

"You're asking me to marry you?" She asked softly, as Raven nodded.

"Yes I am, your past is in the past, I want to have a future with you if that's what you want as well."

Holding out her hand, Ontari let Raven slip the metal band onto her finger, "I have never wanted anything as much as I want to spend my life with you, every day I have, all I want is you." Ontari smiled, a tear escaping her eye as Raven leaned in and captured her lips with her own.

"Then we will spend every day we have together, because all I want is for you to be happy and to know how much that I love you."