"No children, no boyfriends?" Clarke said skeptically eyeing Octavia who was grinning at her from across the room. "You are aware that despite your attempts to have a girls night as you put it, you will still be the fifth wheel because the other four of us are in relationships with each other?"
Raven laughed, sitting down on the couch beside Clarke and passing her a cup, "She's got a point Octavia, I'm not sure you've really thought this through."
"Thought what through?" Ontari asked curiously as she slipped through the door into Clarke and Lexa's room, closely followed by Lexa herself, the two of them dropping their weapons on top of the chest by the door before taking seats next to their partners.
Clarke smirked after she broke away from Lexa who had immediately leaned in to kiss her as she sat down, "Octavia here wants us to have a girls night. Which means no relationships, just friends, and we were just explaining to her the errors in her thinking."
Her forehead crinkling slightly in confusion, Lexa just looked at Octavia, "Did I hit you in the head during our last training session?"
"Ha ha Lexa, very funny." Octavia grunted sarcastically, "And no, it just means that you four aren't allowed to act like couples. You need to sit apart, not kiss or whatever it is you do when you're alone. And you act like you're just friends."
"Why?" Ontari asked curiously, "That sounds ridiculous."
Shaking her head, Octavia leaned forwards in her seat, waving her hands around in front of her as she spoke, "It's not, we don't spend time all together, not properly, even when we are all in a big group we always end up splitting off into our couples and I just want one night where we're just friends."
"Ok." Lexa said after a moment, "Let's do it." Slipping her wedding ring from her finger, she quickly unclasped the locket she wore around her neck and dropped it onto the chain alongside her engagement ring. "Hello my friend." She grinned at Clarke.
Rolling her eyes, Clarke followed suit, handing her ring to Lexa as well because of her lack of somewhere safe to put it. As Lexa replaced the chain where it belonged around her neck. Raven and Ontari did the same with their engagement rings, the two bands ending up on a thin strip of leather around Raven's neck.
"So Octavia, now you've broken up a marriage and an engagement simultaneously, what's your big plan for tonight?" Clarke asked, switching places with Raven so neither was sitting next to their girlfriend.
Grinning, Octavia just handed over a bottle to her, "Drinking, lots of drinking."
"Clarke I love you!" Lexa cried out happily, before quickly clapping her hand over her mouth and looking at Octavia fearfully, "I'm not meant to say that." She mumbled before turning to Octavia, "I meant as a friend." She said defensively as Octavia just glared at her from where she was sitting on the table swaying backwards and forwards with a half empty bottle of Skaikru moonshine in her hand.
Walking away from Clarke so Octavia would stop glaring at her, Lexa tripped straight over Ontari who was sprawled across the floor with her arm flung over her face. Lexa fell heavily, her knee catching Ontari in the stomach who grunted as the breath was knocked out of her.
"You know what we should do?" Raven grinned, catching hold of Lexa's arm and pulling her up so Ontari could breath again, before helping the Azgeda up as well. "We should go out."
"Where?" Clarke asked, glancing around at the other three, "The whole city is asleep."
Raven shrugged, "Let's just go for a walk in the woods."
Octavia straightened slightly, knowing fully well that she was the most sober out of the five of them, even if the alcohol had put a pleasant haze over her mind as well. "Wait, maybe that's not the best idea. Lexa and Clarke, and Ontari to a point as well, are major targets, it might not be safe."
She was cut off from saying more by Lexa, who turned on her, stumbling as she picked up the sword she had dropped by the door earlier that night, brandishing it at Octavia dramatically, "I am the Commander, are you questioning my abilities to protect myself."
"Fight me." Octavia grinned, "Without the sword, and if you win then you've proven your point and we'll go out."
Lexa grinned back at her, and then tossed the blade aside before launching herself at Octavia, driving her knee into the other girls stomach before she could even raise her arms to defend her self. The moment she doubled over, Lexa drove her elbow into Octavia's back, dropping her to the floor when she quickly twisted round and held her hands up in surrender. "Ok, I get it, you can still fight drunk." And it was true, Octavia thought as she stood up again, Lexa was more drunk than Clarke and Raven put together but as soon as she had started the fight there was no way she could lose, although technique had given way to pure brute force.
Raven smiled at Lexa as they each grabbed one of Ontari's arms to pull her along, Clarke catching hold of Octavia's to bring her with them.
Getting to the woods was easy enough, the five of them just following a straight line from the doors of the tower to the treeline on the outskirts of the city, creeping along as quietly as they could to avoid waking the entire city up.
Once they hit the trees, they took off running, stumbling over roots and rocks as they chased each other deeper and deeper into the forest.
Eventually, Octavia dropped to the ground, Ontari slumped against her. It seemed that Ontari's ability to drink hadn't improved since their last party and she was by far the most drunk of them. Completely out of it as she just curled up on the floor, her eyes drooping shut tiredly as Octavia pushed her off of herself.
Lexa, Clarke and Raven soon joined them, Raven using Ontari's sleeping body as a pillow as she lay back, looking up at the sky through the trees.
Within moments they were all lying flat on their backs, looking up at the sky.
"It's so strange." Raven said quietly.
"What is?" Octavia asked.
Raven pointed with her arm to the night sky above them, "We used to live up there and now we're down here." She said softly, allowing her arm to drop back to her side, accidentally hitting Clarke in the jaw on the way down.
"Ow." Clarke moaned, rubbing at her jaw where Raven's hand had smacked into her.
"Don't hurt people Raven, it's not nice." Ontari said softly, rolling over so she could wrap her arms around Raven's waist and lay her head on her stomach.
Octavia sat up slightly to glare at them, "Hey, no couple stuff tonight."
Growling under her breath, Ontari opened one eye to glare at Octavia over the top of Raven's toned stomach, "Fuck off Octavia."
Clarke burst out laughing, forgetting her jaw as she reached across to hit Octavia in the shoulder to get her attention, "Bet you regret teaching our friends so may Skaikru words now."
"I don't want to be your friend." Lexa whispered from next to Clarke, her voice small as she reached across tentatively and slipped her hand into Clarke's. "I don't like this, I want to be married to you again."
A tender smile on her face, Clarke reached over to place her hand against Lexa's cheek, "We are married Lex, I promise, you will never be just my friend, you're my wife and I love you."
"You know, you're really not understanding the essence of this are you?" Octavia moaned sarcastically.
"Fine." Lexa said firmly, clambering over Clarke to lie between her and Octavia, pulling Octavia close and locking her arms around her.
"What's going on? Clarke, why is your wife cuddling me?" Octavia asked, slightly panicked as she tried to pull away.
Lexa was the one who answered, reaching over to pull Clarke closer and get her to wrap her arm around Lexa's waist. "Friends can cuddle up to each other, so that's what we're doing. And it's in our best interests any way because it's going to be cold sleeping out here tonight."
The others seemed to all sober up at once, all turning to look at Lexa aghast, "Fine then," She smiled, "Someone point in the direction of Polis and we will go straight back?"
Reluctantly, they all just quietly lay down and shuffled closer until they were lying in one complete, entwined group of people and limbs, knowing they were too lost to do anything but wait until morning.