"Anything yet?" Raven asked curiously, stepping into Lexa's room.
Octavia looked up from where she was nestled into the corner of the couch, Lincoln asleep with his head on her lap. "Not yet, Lexa left about three hours ago for a meeting with the clan's ambassadors." She replied softly, motioning for Raven to keep the noise down.
"Why?" Raven asked curiously, "If he knows it's safe, Lincoln can sleep through anything."
"Not for Lincoln." Octavia grinned, before nodding over to the bed, where Ontari was curled up sleeping. "You girlfriend showed up not long after Lexa left, sulking. I think Lexa told her she couldn't replace Roan's ambassador for this meeting. That coupled with her being out of any fighting for now is driving her crazy."
"She's always crazy." Raven chuckled softly.
Smiling brightly, Octavia nodded, "Very true, I don't know why you put up with her."
"I can hear you both." Came the grumble from across the room, as Ontari lazily opened one eye and glared at them.
Raven just grinned, whilst Octavia laughed, "Are you coming over here?" Octavia asked her curiously.
Tentatively easing herself into a sitting position, Ontari looked down at her side for a moment, where the others knew thick bandages were wrapped tightly around her waist, currently hidden by the loose-fitting shirt she was wearing. Eventually she nodded, "Yeah I will, Raven can you…" She trailed off, looking at Raven pleadingly.
Crossing to her side, Raven slipped her hand around Ontari's waist, careful not to touch her injury whilst allowing Ontari to rest most of her weight against her.
Slowly, they made their way back across the room to the second couch that had been dragged in when Lexa finally stopped fighting the fact that it was her room that would always be used by them all to hang out in.
Once Ontari was settled, she released her grip on Raven's arm, who carefully climbed onto the couch beside her, moving her arm so Ontari could curl into her side.
"Not so funny that I can't fight now is it?" Octavia asked teasingly.
Ontari growled at her in annoyance, "You know you're not funny."
"On the contrary." Lexa countered as she walked back into the room, taking up her usual place on the chair between the two couches.
Octavia grinned as Lexa came to her defence against Ontari, who was sending Lexa disbelieving looks.
"I think you'll find that Octavia truly has no idea that she has little to no comedic talent." Lexa remarked.
The gleeful look on Octavia's face dropped and she stared at Lexa with a look of betrayal. "That's the last time I defend you to Clarke when you do something to piss her off."
Lexa rolled her eyes, a small smile tugging at the corners of her lips, "When have you ever actually done that Octavia, usually you're the one trying to cause trouble between Clarke and I. I'm sure I'll do just fine without any more of your…help."
As Octavia grumbled to herself, Lincoln yawned and propped his head up on her leg, looking over to Lexa. "Did you find anything out in your council meeting Lexa?"
She shook her head tiredly, "They know nothing, which would have been annoying but not infuriating, except they insisted on trying to come up with every possible plausible situation for what could possibly have caused the attack. Rather than helping, they wasted time and achieved nothing."
"Throw any of them out of windows today?" Raven asked curiously, running her fingers through Ontari's hair, who had slid down to mirror Lincoln on the other side of the table, lying down on the couch with her head on Raven's lap.
Lexa laughed, "No I didn't, I was tempted, but Luna would get mad at me if I killed her representative, as would Roan and they were the two who were so keen to prove themselves helpful."
"You see, sometimes friends just hold you back." Ontari added seriously, "Knowing that you can just send Octavia away now, save yourself trouble and us a series of headaches."
Octavia groaned in response, "Why is everyone out to get me lately?"
"Because you take great pleasure in winding them up now they can't hit you." Lincoln answered for them, rubbing her leg soothingly as he hid his grin from her.
Lexa smiled at the two of them fondly, as Octavia didn't even bother to pretend to be offended, instead choosing to lean down and press her lips to Lincoln's.
"What now?" Ontari asked softly, as the two of them broke off their kiss.
Shrugging her shoulder's tiredly, Lexa reached up and started untangling her braids, "There's nothing more we can do tonight. I'm going to get some sleep and I suggest you all do the same."
"Can we just-"
"Yes Octavia." Lexa called, as she stood up and started walking towards the small dressing room beside her bed, "I wasn't expecting you to leave anyway. But no, you can't join me on the bed."
The four of them got comfortable, Lincoln getting up and fetching some blankets from a chest by the window, that were kept there for this exact purpose.
When Lexa came back in, dressed in her simple night gown, she looked over at Ontari with concern, before seeming to come to a decision.
"Raven, help me get Ontari to the bed, you and her can take that tonight and I'll stay on the couch." She told them.
"Lexa no-" Ontari tried to argue quickly.
"Now." Lexa barked at them in her Commander voice.
They exchanged a look before doing what she's said, knowing that arguing would get them nowhere anyway.
Once the two of them were settled, Lexa returned to the couch they had vacated, settling down before pulling a warm, thick blanket over herself.
"Goodnight everyone." She whispered softly, her voice slightly muffled by the blanket.
The answering chorus of goodnights barely registered as she was already drifting off to sleep, her mind on Clarke and whether she was missing Lexa as much as Lexa was missing her.
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