When Aden brought Cal in, he eyed Raven worriedly who was wearing a tight lipped smile.
"What is it?" He asked softly as she knelt down in front of him, taking hold of his hands.
"Hey," She smiled as she rubbed the back of his hands, "Don't panic, she's going to be fine, but Ontari got hurt this morning and so we have to be careful for a few days and you can't jump on her like usual."
Cal glanced towards the door to Lexa and Clarke's room where the two of them were standing watching Cal and Raven. "Can I see her?" He asked Lexa who was directly in front of the door.
Exchanging a look over the top of Raven's head, she nodded and stepped aside, holding the door open for him as she did. "We need to find out what happened?" Lexa said as soon as the door swung shut behind them, "Why would she be attacked in the city?"
"Because she's Azgeda?" Lincoln offered helplessly.
Octavia shook her head quickly, "I doubt it, the ties between Trikru and Azgeda have never been stronger. It would be inviting retaliation from the Commander herself, which includes the might of all Thirteen Clans. It makes no sense."
Clarke nodded slowly as she thought, before her eyes suddenly snapped up to look at Aden who looked vaguely green as he stared at the door to her room. "Unless they weren't after her at all." Lexa looked at her intrigued as she stepped sideways, directly into Aden's line of sight who looked at up to meet her gaze. "Aden, what happened? In the moment before she got hit."
"She hugged me." He said slowly, "You're saying whoever did this meant to hurt me?"
"No." Clarke answered, looking up at the others, "I'm saying they were trying to take you. What the arrow was dipped in was only enough to knock her out for an hour or so."
Raven shook her head, "It still doesn't make any sense though, why?"
Clearing her throat, Lexa called a guard over and pushed Aden towards him, sending him to take Aden back to his room, "It does now, a young natblida. They wanted to turn him."
"But even if they had hit him? Ontari was still there, what was their plan?" Octavia asked, "They were going to take on her to get to him?"
Lexa nodded, "She would have had two choices, leave him to get help, or carry him back here. Either way he would have either been alone or she would have been at a great disadvantage. Failing to take him down with the first shot put him on alert for danger. It would have been too risky to stay much longer then."
"So then-?" Raven started.
"Hugging Aden when she did probably saved Aden's life. Aden is loyal to a fault, there's no way he would have done what they asked and they would have killed him eventually once they realized that." Lincoln finished gravely, glancing in the direction the boy had walked away.
Lexa sighed before looking at Raven, "Go sit with Ontari, we'll tell you if anything comes up."
"Mochof Lexa," Raven whispered gratefully before following Cal through the door.
"What now then?" Octavia asked when it was just the four of them left standing outside.
"Now we investigate who was responsible for this attack on one of our own." Lexa replied before beckoning them all to follow her as she stalked off down the corridor towards the throne room, "Summon the ambassadors of the clans." She barked at a guard as she walked past.
Two hours after she had called the meeting, Lexa finally dismissed the ambassadors, leaving her alone with Clarke, Lincoln and Octavia.
"Do you believe them?" She asked Lincoln, who other that her, had had the most contact with the other clans in his lifetime.
Hesitantly he dipped his chin, "I think I do, if their clans had anything to do with this then they weren't made aware of it."
"People looked suspiciously at Roan's ambassador more than once." Clarke sighed, "This is too similar to what Nia tried with Ontari in the first place."
Octavia glared at the chair of the Delphi Clan's ambassador, who had been the most judgemental, "They're being completely unfair, Azgeda is one of the greatest supporters of you."
"I know." Lexa said disarmingly, causing Octavia to realize how angry she had gotten and calm herself, "But the point remains, someone is trying to recreate it with one of my own students."
"We have to protect them." Clarke jumped in quickly, "If they were willing to strike at Aden in Polis once, then they will undoubtedly try again eventually."
"Then we will protect them." A soft voice came from the doorway.
Clarke growled angrily when she saw who was standing there, "What the hell are you doing out of bed?!"
Laughing, Ontari walked further into the room and took a seat in the Azgeda chair, "Relax Clarke, I'm fine. Raven and Cal fell asleep an hour ago and I was curious as to how your investigation was going."
Lexa frowned at her, "You really shouldn't be out of bed."
"Is Aden ok?" Ontari asked her, ignoring the question and the glares from Clarke completely, "I don't remember much apart from walking through the market and then blacking out until I woke up in your room."
Nodding, Lexa smiled at her, "Yes he is. I know Raven will have filled you in so by now you know. You probably saved Aden's life this morning."
"By accident." Ontari reminded her.
"That doesn't matter to me." Lexa said firmly, "What does is that he is here and safe and that's because of you. Now we work on you keeping yourself safe."
Octavia let out a laugh from the other side of the room where she had stolen the Trikru chair for herself, "That will never happen, she doesn't know how to not be an idiot."
"A trait you all share." Clarke grumbled, sharing a grin with Lincoln as the other three protested all at once.
"Regardless," Lexa held up her hand, cutting it off before the protestations could turn into a full argument, "I want round the clock guards on all of the night bloods. And I suggest that we all get some rest, tomorrow we'll start branching out our search for the person responsible for this."
Agreeing easily they all headed back to their rooms, Octavia and Lincoln quickly agreed to help Ontari get Raven and Cal back to their room. Lincoln picked up Raven and headed down the corridor with her immediately but Clarke had to give a stern reminder that she shouldn't be carrying anything to Ontari before she stood back and let Octavia carry Cal for her.
Once they were all out, Lexa shut the door behind them quickly, as though they would all try and rush back in if she left it open for a second longer than necessary.
"Are you ok?" Clarke asked softly, as Lexa slipped her shoes off before sitting on the end of the couch rather than heading straight to bed.
"I'm not sure." She replied honestly, "But I will be, I just need some time to take my mind off everything and relax." Lexa smiled at Clarke reassuringly, reaching for her book on the table.
"Do you want me to keep you company?" Clarke offered, starting to climb out of bed.
Lexa held her hand up to stop her quickly, "No Clarke, it's late so you should get some rest. I won't read for long, I promise."
"Ok then." Clarke nodded, pulling the covers up around her, "I love you."
"I love you too Clarke." Lexa murmured softly as she opened the book and started reading. Which is what Clarke fell asleep to, the soft sound of Lexa breathing and the occasional turn of a page as her wife sat meters away from her with her legs drawn up onto the couch beside her.