Lexa watched Octavia calmly as she paced nervously along the treeline, the walls of Arcadia less that a hundred meters from them.
"Octavia." Lexa called to her softly, "Relax ok, we're going to take this one step at a time, but first things first. If you don't want everyone to talk about why we're there then you have to mount up now and we have to ride to the gates and act as though this is a routine visit."
Octavia stilled for a moment before nodding and taking the reins of her horse from Lexa, swinging herself up onto the animals back.
Lexa waited until she was settled in the saddle before doing the same and then urging her horse forward, heading straight for the main gate.
As they reached it she was pleased to hear the shout of the Commander approaching, followed by the gates swinging open without delay or question, they had come along way with the Skaikru since they first landed on the ground.
Once they were through, she slipped down from her horse, handing the reins over to one of the guards on the gate, who took them from her quickly.
"Abby." She greeted warmly, embracing Clarke's mother as she ran over, leaning in close to whisper in her ear. "Act as though you invited me here, I need to speak with you in private."
"Commander." Abby responded in kind, to her credit not missing a beat and falling in line with Lexa's command. "I'm so glad you received my message, shall we go inside to speak?"
"Of course." Lexa smiled, gesturing for Abby to walk towards the med bay, "Why don't we speak in your office, I wouldn't want to keep you from your work for too long."
Abby nodded back and led them through the camp, shooing away the assistants she had working with her so they had the whole building to themselves.
"What's wrong?" She asked as soon as they were alone, "Is Clarke ok?"
Lexa was quick to reassure her, "Clarke's fine, and so is everyone else." She gestured to Octavia who had taken a seat on the edge of the nearest bed, "It's actually Octavia who is here to speak with you."
Abby looked over at Octavia who was being uncharacteristically quiet, "What is it Octavia? Are you feeling unwell?"
Octavia grinned slightly, "Well yeah, but that's not why we're here." She looked over at Lexa, who nodded reassuringly, "I need you to tell me if I'm pregnant."
Looking stunned for a moment, Abby recovered quickly, slipping into doctor mode and collecting a syringe from the cabinet across the room, "Of course, hold out your arm for me?" When she did she carefully drew a small amount of blood. "Wait here for a minute please and I'll be back with the result."
As soon as Abby went into the back room, Lexa sat on the bed next to Octavia, "Feeling ok?" She asked softly, as Octavia pressed on the cotton ball that Abby had given to her.
"I don't know, what if I was wrong?" She asked nervously, "Then I dragged us all the way here for nothing."
"It wasn't for nothing no matter what she says." Lexa assured her quietly, "You need to know. What are you going to do if you are pregnant, will you tell Lincoln?"
Octavia nodded slowly, "Yeah, I just don't know how to feel yet, but Lincoln needs to know even if I'm not. I want to talk to him about where we stand with all this."
Lexa put her arm round her shoulder, "That's a good idea."
They waited quietly for what seemed like forever until Abby finally came back with a small strip of paper, standing in front of Octavia.
"Well?" Lexa asked her, when it became clear Octavia wasn't going to say anything, at that point Lexa wasn't even sure if she remembered how to breath.
"It's positive." Abby said gently, "Octavia you're going to be a mother."
Octavia's shoulder's started shaking as she buried her face in her hands. Exchanging worried looks across her head with Abby, Lexa slipped from the bed to kneel down in front of her, "Octavia are you ok?"
When the younger girl looked up she was definitely crying but there was smiled stretched across her face that caused Lexa to let out a relieved laugh in response. "I take it you are happy rather than displeased about the result then?" She asked with a chuckle.
Octavia bounced up to wrap both of them in a warm hug, "I am so happy, I didn't even realised how much I wanted this until it was true."
"Well now you need to go and tell Lincoln the good news." Abby laughed.
Suddenly pulling back, Octavia gave Lexa a panicked look, "What's Lincoln going to say though. Will he-?" She started, before Lexa caught her flailing wrist.
"Lincoln will be overjoyed Octavia. He has always wanted a son or daughter of his own. I can promise you that he will be so, so happy to hear that he's going to be a father."
The panic left her face, replaced by the smile from earlier. "Then what are we waiting for, let's go!" She laughed, pulling free from Lexa's grip, heading out the door to go and ready their horses.
"Thank you Abby." Lexa said, as she started to follow her.
Abby chuckled softly, handing her the paper that had the test result on it, "It was my pleasure, give her this, she might want to keep it."
Lexa nodded her head in agreement before slipping out the door to catch up to Octavia.