A/N: Hey guys! So with this chapter we are finally over 200,000 words which is something I have been very excited for a long time now. Theatre is my passion but I didn't realize until I started writing this just how close writing came to that. I would have thought that after so long writing this and after so many chapters that I would be bored or ready to wrap this up now. But in reality, I am still loving it just as much as I enjoyed writing the very early chapters, which I frequently reread.
And a large part of that is because of all of you guys who read this and support me. And another thing I do a lot is I go back and I reread your reviews and what you have said to me about the story, the things you like and the things you want to see. Some of you have become some of my closest friends, which is something I never expected, just last night I was in a seven hour skype call with amazing people that I would have never met without this fic.
Sorry guys I'm getting emotional haha, but it's true, when I say I love you I'm not lying because it's true, you are all amazing and I live for waking up in the morning to see all the things you have said about the nights chapter, because posting is the last thing I do before going to bed and reading your reviews is the first thing I do in the mornings.
As an extension of that, I would just like to ask again for any ideas that you guys want to see in following chapters, I want to keep this quiet lighthearted for a while seeing as how we have had a few good threats since the wedding, but also feel free to send me any bad things or challenges that you want them to face because what you guys want is incredibly important to me and shapes this fic as it is going along.
Anyway, that was a very long authors note so erm...oops haha. But yeah, please review, it means so, so much to me, and I will see you in the next chapter! xxx
Not even bothering to knock on the door, Lexa barged into Octavia's room and looked at the Trikru warrior expectantly as she hurriedly pulled on her shirt.
"Come on Lexa, really!" Octavia yelped, surprised at the sudden entrance of her friend, "What if Lincoln was in here with me? And we were, you know, busy?"
Lexa just gestured vaguely out of the door, "I just saw him heading to the training ground with Ontari, Marcus was following them looking a little bit lost." She said distractedly as she claimed the couch for her own, stretching herself out to take up the entire thing.
"Have you got mud on your boots?" Octavia asked suspiciously.
When Lexa just shrugged Octavia rolled her eyes and walked over, grabbing each of Lexa's boots to check the soles before sighing. "You are so annoying." She grumbled, unlacing Lexa's boots and then dropping them to the floor.
Then she held up Lexa's feet so she could sit down before draping her best friends legs back across her lap.
"So why are you here?" She asked curiously, "And in such a bad mood."
Sighing dramatically, Lexa waved her hand above her head before laying it over her eyes, "Clarke's mother is the problem."
"What's she done?" Octavia asked, making a sympathetic face.
"She's just...there." Lexa said sulkily. "And she's actually been nothing but respectful to me so I can't just order her to go away."
Octavia snorted, rubbing at Lexa's legs lightly in sympathy, "You were the one who said she and Kane could stay."
Lexa nodded, "I know, and I meant it. At the time."
Laughing Octavia shook her head, "Let me guess, she's taking up all of Clarke's time and you haven't had a moment to yourselves since she arrived."
The look on her face told Octavia everything she needed to know as Lexa let out a long exasperated breath before looking up at Octavia seriously, "Do you believe I am being selfish?"
Octavia grinned, knowing fully well that Lexa had come to her because she was the only one who would be completely, one hundred percent honest about what she thought, "Honestly yes. Abby lives miles away from her daughter now and you two spend every day practically joined at the hip. It may not be very fun for you giving up Clarke for a week or so, but Abby deserves this time with her and probably misses her every day. You remember how miserable you were when we were with Matthew's army? When you threw yourself into what we were doing to distract yourself. That's probably what Abby feels most of the time."
Reluctantly, Lexa dipped her chin and gave Octavia a small smiled, "Mochof Octavia." She breathed, digging into Octavia's ribs with her toe teasingly, "I knew I could count on you to make me feel guilty."
"That's not what I was doing and you know it. Like I said, annoying." Octavia laughed, slapping Lexa's foot away from her side. "Now, do you want to go and laugh at how awkward Kane looks third wheeling Ontari and Lincoln's training session." At Lexa's blank expression she just rolled her eyes, "Come on, I told you that one last week, no way have you forgotten it."
Narrowing her eyes in thought, Lexa's face just twisted slightly as she became more confused, "But you said it meant someone who spent time with a couple, making it awkward because they didn't fit in and were unnecessary."
"Ok but the basis of it is just a third person who doesn't belong. Do you really think Kane fits in in a training session between the two of them." Octavia asked her, watching as an amused grin overtook Lexa's confused expression.
"I don't suppose he does."
"Having fun?" Octavia asked, as she clapped Kane on the shoulder, causing him to jump out of his skin.
"Yes." He answered, although he looked slightly lost surrounded by warriors who were in various stages of warming up and fighting. "I never realized just how good of a fighter Lincoln was, and the Azgeda girl-"
Lexa stepped forward at that point, filling in for him, "Ontari, yes, you will find that watching two well matched warriors train is must more interesting than just watching them fight."
He looked at her with interest, "I would have thought it would be the other way round."
She shook her head, "No, a fight ends quickly, most are less than a minute long. But training you get to see the full range of a warriors skills."
"Will you be training today Commander, I meant Lexa." He corrected himself, when he saw her stern look shot in his direction.
Leaning forwards, she looked across him at Octavia, "What do you think Octavia, do you think you could deal with another trip to a healer?"
Between them, Kane suddenly looked alarmed, "Octavia are you injured?" He asked quickly, not wanting the girl to fight if she wasn't up to it.
Lexa laughed from beside him as Octavia glared at her, "No she's fine. But Octavia doesn't know how not to get injured in training. Surprisingly though she is just fine in a true fight, leading us to believe that she likes being injured."
"You think your so funny." Octavia grumbled as she shrugged off the jacket she was wearing and handed it off to Kane, "Do your worst Lexa, but you are not putting a scratch on me today."
"What happened this time?" Clarke rolled her eyes, as Lexa half carried Octavia into the room with Kane trailing after them.
Abby jumped up alarmed at seeing the blood dripping down from a wound on Octavia's leg, but Clarke just waved at her to sit down as Lexa dropped Octavia on the couch in the center of their room.
"Are you having a good day with your mother ai hodnes?" Lexa asked with a small but genuine smile as she leaned in for a quick kiss before Clarke returned to Octavia.
"I am." Clarke smiled back at her, "Thank you for being so understanding about this. It means a lot to have this time with my mom."
Octavia waved her hand in the air to get their attention, "I told her that Clarke, so as a thank you, wanna patch me up now?"
Watching speechlessly at the casual way they moved around as though this exact situation had played out a hundred times previously, Abby just stayed silent as Clarke quickly examined the wound before bandaging it up tightly.
"You used to have a much better bedside manner Clarke." Octavia complained as Clarke stepped away and grinned at her.
"Maybe if this wasn't the millionth time you've taken a wound in training I still would. I would think that Lexa had it in for you but I've seen the two of you in training for myself."
"So this happens a lot then?" Abby asked disbelievingly as Kane nodded from where he was still standing near the door, "Apparently so, and what Clarke says is right, it was as though Octavia stepped into the sword."
Holding her hands up defensively Octavia shook her head, "Ok come on guys, did anyone else on that training field have their incredibly gorgeous boyfriend fighting just a few meters away? I don't think so."
"Lincoln was there?" Abby asked curiously, "And he didn't come up here with her once he saw she was injured?"
To her great surprise, Lexa actually snorted with laughter, "Octavia injures herself getting out of bed, if all he did was follow her to Clarke whenever she took a wound, he would never get anything done."
Octavia grinned at Clarke slyly, "I've never done that, Clarke on the other hand..."
She trailed off as Clarke turned on Lexa, "You told her? Why would you tell her that?"
"Because it was funny." Octavia answered for her.
Kane stepped in the middle of them before the bickering could continue, "Wait, told Octavia what?"
Clarke's cheeks burned red as Lexa grinned, "Before we returned to Arkadia to kill Pike, Clarke woke up in a panic because she had forgotten to wake me for food, and managed to wrap herself up in the blankets and fall head first out of our bed."
"That's not a funny story." Clarke muttered flatly as even Abby chuckled, "Mom! Come on, don't laugh at them, they'll never stop."
Wrapping her arms around her wife, Lexa shook her head, still laughing, "Clarke have you not figured it out, we're never going to stop anyway."