As soon as the doors swung shut behind them Roan immediately led the way down the corridor and around several corners, Mina doing her best to keep up with him.

Considering she was 19, Mina had always been small for her age, her shorter legs struggling to keep up with the much longer stride of Roan.

After a moment she realised that there were footsteps behind her. Turning her head she saw the man she recognised as Lincoln following stoically behind them. She had never actually spoken to the man but had seen him around Arkadia and everyone knew of his loyalty to Octavia and at that moment she was glad to have any familiar face near her. Lincoln realised she was watching him as they walked and gave her a small half smile and a reassuring nod.

Finally Roan pushed open a door, next to which stood a masked guard, clearly ice nation given that he bowed his head to Roan. Holding the door open, Roan gestured for her to enter and after the slightest moment of hesitation she did so. She looked back to see that Lincoln had stopped on the opposite side of the door to the ice nation guard. He gave her another nod, partly in reassurance and partly in sympathy.

"You have to go in" his eyes seemed to say.

Mina took a few more steps into the room and looked around.

The room itself was sparsely furnished.

A stained and cracked mirror leant against the wall in one corner.

The floor was covered with a huge rug of mismatched furs from many different animals.

There were doors that seemed to lead out to some kind of balcony.

A large chest made of old wood and cracked leather lay at the foot of the bed.

The bed.

She hadn't even thought about it.

So concerned with the ceremony and possibility of having her face cut.

.

.

This was their wedding night.

Mina was still staring at the bed transfixed when Roan closed the door with a snap that made her flinch, though she didn't take her eyes away from the bed which, like the floor was covered in furs.

She closed her eyes when she felt Roan walk up behind her. He stood close, a little too close, close enough that she could feel the heat coming from his body.

But he didn't speak.

Finally Mina could take the silence no longer and said in a voice barely above a whisper

"What did Lex- the commander say to you?"

"Do you really want to know?" came his low voice, his breath glancing off the back of her neck.

Taking a breath, she opened her eyes and slowly turned on the spot so she was face to face with Roan.

Well.

Face to torso.

"Yes" she said looking up at him.

"She said" he paused looking down at her to gauge her reaction "that she expects this union and the peace it brings to last. And the best way to ensure that-" another pause "Is with a child."

And Mina felt her heart drop to the floor.

"Is with a child."

Roan watched as the young woman's gaze dropped, and she looked away from him off to the side. He watched her with vague interest for a moment, as she seemed to be battling with herself before seemingly coming to a decision.

She turned away from him once again, and slowly, with slightly trembling hands removed the white sleeved cloak, folded it carefully and set it on top of the chest at the foot of the bed.

The girl, Mina straightened and froze again for a moment, again like she was trying to make a decision, her back still turned to him.

She had just straightened up from resting the cloak down, when she felt Roan's presence behind her again.

Every fibre of her being told her to move, to run, to do something but all that happened was a slight jolt went through her body when she felt his hands go to the back of the shirt that Clarke had given her to wear.

The shirt that laced up at the back.

Even as she remembered this, Mina felt Roan begin to undo the ties at her back. She was so tense that she was sure there was no way that he would not be able to feel her body trembling, but for some reason she still could not move away.

As the garment slid away from her body a cold flash of history went through her mind.

"Don't think about it" she thought quickly. Once the shirt lay in front of her on the fur rug, leaving Mina in her pants and bra Roan walked round to stand before her.

The expression on his face as he looked down at Mina was unreadable.

She was so focused on his face she didn't notice that he was moving forwards and therefore moving her backwards. Or she didn't notice until her knees hit the bed and buckled. Before she knew it she was flat on her back atop the furs. Roan loomed over her and firmly but with a touch far gentler than she thought the man capable of, he parted her legs and settled between them.

Mina lay deathly still.

Eyes staring up at the ceiling, hands clutching the furs she was lying on.

So, so still.

Until Roan's hand ghosted down the side of her body.

Then she flinched.

Not just a twitch either.

But a full on, violent jerk of her body away from his hand.

In complete contrast to the flinch, the second after it happened, her entire body froze, every muscle still, head turned away and eyes closed.

Roan sat back up and frowned, before he leant back over her again and gripped her chin turning her face to look at him as she slowly opened her eyes. Roan stared down at her with such intensity that Mina found herself stammering out

"I-I I'm sorry. I didn't-didn't m-mean - I mean I don't- I've never-" she paused and swallowed before whispering "I'm sorry."

Roan continued to look at her, eyes narrowed until abruptly he let go of her face and stood upright, coming off her body. A soon as the weight of him left her, Mina sat straight up, bringing her knees to her chest and hugging her arms around them to cover her chest.

Roan finally seemed to come to a decision and turned away from her as he said

"Sleep"

"What?" she said quietly, not sure she had heard him right.

"Sleep." he said more firmly, as he removed his jacket and pulled his shirt off over his head, revealing a torso that looked like it had been sculpted to perfection out of solid muscle. When he looked up and caught her staring at him he tossed the shirt aside and said slightly sarcastically

"Unless of course you want to have sex with me."

Mina blanched and turned away from him, lying on her side so her back was to the king.

When she felt the bed dip slightly as Roan lay beside her she tensed again and she heard the man half sigh half chuckle.

"Relax. Raping girls isn't really my thing."

Hearing him say the word that had been dancing around the atmosphere since they had entered the room, for some reason made her relax. Just as she had made the decision to trust in what he was saying and try to sleep she heard him say in a much deeper, gravelly, make you weak at the knees (at any other time and for any other girl) voice

"Besides, when it does happen - and it will - I guarantee you, you wont be begging me to stop. And you'll be feeling anything but afraid."

Ok so let me just get ahead of the critique that I'm pretty sure will be coming my way.

I know that that some of this and especially the last line sounds very OOC for Roan. I know it does. But let me justify it. In his time on the show we never really got to see a side of Roan that wasn't his warrior persona (in my opinion). However there were moments when he interacted with Clarke and Bellamy (particularly Clarke) that made me feel like it was a line that he could pull off. Think about it, he was never afraid to invade Clarke's space, and he had some very sarcastic lines. When I write I literally hear the characters saying the lines in my head and if I can imagine it then I put it in.

So yeah, I just felt like I needed to explain it just because I'm a anxious squirrel about shit like this.

Lemme know what ya think.

More soon.

Geronimo xx