The day spent in the market and the city had been relaxing for all of them. When they had finally returned for dinner they had eaten a simple meal together before retreating back to their cabins for an early night, tired after the day of being constantly on their feet.

Octavia was asleep when a quiet tapping at the window woke her. Initially she dismissed it as something hitting the window, but then a definite rhythm in the taps began to emerge. She considered waking up Lincoln to go and check but quickly decided against that. The jokes would go on for weeks if she woke up her boyfriend to check on a weird noise in the middle of the night.

Reluctantly slipping out from under the covers, she drew her sword from the sheath propped up against the bedside table and padded over to the window, keeping low so no one could see in from outside.

As she got to it, she seized hold of the latch and shoved the window open wide, jumping up to hold out her sword threateningly.

"What are you doing?!" Lexa hissed, holding up her hands to ward off Octavia's sword as Luna cracked up beside her, clutching the edge of the window as she struggled to not fall off the tree branch the two of them were clinging to.

"What am I doing?!" Octavia hissed back, careful to keep her voice low so they didn't wake up Lincoln, "What are you doing?! Lexa it's the middle of the night."

Leaning back to look up at the night sky, Lexa giggled slightly, "I hadn't noticed Octavia."

Scowling at her, Octavia shook her head in annoyance, "I'm too tired for sarcasm right now Lex. Wait, are you drunk?" She asked, her eyes widening as Luna took a swig from a bottle she was carrying and passed it too Lexa who gulped down some of the liquid eagerly, "Does Clarke know that you're out?"

"Clarke's not my mother Octavia, but yes she knows I'm with Luna." Lexa said irritably as she offered the bottle to Octavia, who shrugged before taking it."

"And is she aware you're climbing trees to bother me?"

"Shhh," Lexa said quickly, before beckoning Octavia closer towards them, "You have to come with us, that's why we're here."

Octavia's eyes narrowed slightly as she looked between the two of them, "Why what's wrong?"

Luna smiled at her happily, "Nothing, but we're going to play a game and Lexa said-"

"I said that I thought we should come and get you because you would really enjoy the game." Lexa cut in, grinning at her.

Octavia looked torn for a moment before she eventually nodded, "Fine ok, but I just need to leave Lincoln a note, do I need anything?"

"Shoes." Lexa said, looking confused as she stared at Octavia's feet. "Do you have shoes?"

"Of course I have shoes Lexa."

Leaning in the window so half her body was on either side of the sill, Lexa started looking through Octavia' room, "Where?"

Groaning, Octavia pushed Lexa back out before closing the window, "Go around the front, I'll meet you in a minute."

"No!" Lexa half shouted before dropping back into a whisper. "You have to climb out of the window."

"Why do I need to climb out the window?" Octavia asked her as she finished her note to Lincoln and started pulling on her boots that had been tucked under the edge of the bed.

Lexa grinned at her, "Because doors are boring."

"Of course they are." Octavia sighed, before shooing her back as she hopped up onto the edge of the windowsill and lowered herself down to the branch Lexa was on. "Where did Luna go?"

"I think she's on the floor." Lexa said, straining her eyes to try and pick out the clan leader in the dark.

"On purpose?" Octavia asked as they both started climbing down the tree.

Lexa just shrugged, "Probably, I wasn't watching."

When they dropped down to the ground from the lower branches they found Luna sat at the base looking slightly dazed and still sipping from the bottle that she must have stolen back from Lexa before leaving the tree.

"You good?" Octavia asked her, offering her arm out to help her stand up.

Luna nodded quickly, taking the offered hand as she clambered to her feet. "Ok let's go."

"Yeah about that, where are we actually going?"

Lexa grabbed on her arm impatiently, tugging her along as she stumbled over things in the dark, unfamiliar with the feeling of the wooden decking under her feet that made up the foundations of Floukru.

The other two refused to say a word about where they were going but eventually they stopped in the centre of Floukru's market district.

"Ok, why are we here? Will you tell me now?" Octavia said, looking between the two of them.

"We're here because no one actually lives in this area so it's empty at night." Luna explained, sharing a grin with Lexa, who had reacquired the bottle from Luna during the walk.

"Oh my god we're going to rob the shops? This is what you do in your spare time?"

Luna and Lexa stared at her blankly for a moment before starting to laugh. "We don't need to rob our people, anything we want they'll just give us anyway. No, we need somewhere quiet so we won't wake up anyone." Luna explained once the chuckling had subsided.

"Then why-?"

Lexa pointed down at the walkways they were standing on, the ones that crisscrossed with drops into the water between them. "Remember when I chased that man across the rooftops in Polis?"

Octavia grinned as she finally understood what they were doing, but then she paused, tugging on Lexa's arm to stop her running for the edge. "Are you sure this is a good idea, you have been drinking after all."

Lexa smiled, tossing the bottle to the side, "Not enough to affect me beating Luna tonight. I bet you a panther pelt that you go in the water tonight Luna."

"And an extra's week worth of Floukru's required fish offering to the capitol says you go in first."

Lexa looked at her surprised, "That's a bold move Luna."

Smirking cockily, Luna waved her arm at the area they were going to be using, "Not really, considering I know for a fact that you're going to lose…..Heda."

Octavia watched as they both exchanged a look before dashing for the rails, kicking off from the edge and soaring across the gaps, going from walkway to walkway with increasingly larger distances between them.

With a smile, she ran after them, praying that she didn't fall in what was sure to be icy cold water this late at night.

"You cheated." Luna growled at Lexa as they trudged back towards where the cabins were situated, Lexa being the only one out of the three of them who was still dry.

"I didn't cheat." Lexa smiled sweetly, "I just used the available resources."

Octavia looked at her disbelievingly, "I am not an available resource."

"Nonsense." Lexa waved her off, "If I hadn't have used you I wouldn't have been able to clear that last jump."

"If you hadn't have used me I wouldn't be looking like a drowned rat right now." Octavia shot back, grinning despite herself at the downtrodden look on Luna's face. "How are you breaking this one to your advisers Luna, are you going to tell the truth about why they have to do double the work this week?"

Luna groaned as Lexa laughed, "Luna, I will release you from the bet if in turn you grant me one favour for the future, and when I ask you must do whatever I say. Deal?"

"Deal?" Luna shouted almost immediately, willing to agree to anything to avoid the headache from her small council as she tried to come up with an excuse that wouldn't give away why they actually had to do twice the fishing.

They paused at the bottom of the tree up to Octavia's window but she shook her head quickly, "You made me climb down the tree, you made me play your game, and then you made me fall into water so cold that I still can't feel half my body. So I am using the front door."

Lexa smiled at her, "Goodnight Octavia."

Octavia slipped in the front door, pressing her back against the wood and looking at the window where the sun was just starting to peak out above the horizon, "Good morning Lexa." She murmured to herself before she slipped upstairs, hoping to get at least a few hours' sleep so she wouldn't have to kill Lexa when she next saw her.