Yep those two are inspiring me today...
The meeting.
Octavia loved the situation. She didn't understand what possessed Lincoln to be so nervous about it but she just laid back on the couch and looked at him as he paced in their living room.
He had met, Bellamy and it was not that fun for her but he was less nervous. He brought her to see his family after only a week. Sure Clarke wasn't really the kind of people who would make a good first impression on other people. But seriously though it was just a meeting. And it was only Clarke, he could cancel if he wanted.
Plus she really didn't understand why on earth Clarke needed to meet his family. As she wasn't mad enough after Octavia told her how mean they were to her.
Bellamy was already there too. It took him some time to get used to his little sister dating a man older than him, after all Lincoln was nice and protective of her while letting her do whatever the hell she wanted only staying a few feet behind to catch her if she felt. And Clarke didn't really gave him a choice anyway telling him to get with the plan or he would lose his sister.
But he had to admit he was having fun too today. Clarke had to force him to come saying that maybe someday O and Lincoln would get married and from what they heard about his family it would seemed like a better idea to meet them before that day in order to not end the wedding ceremony on a brawl. She made him promise to stay nice and polite, and she had convincing arguments.
He had been there early with coffee, he was supposed to come with Clarke but she had called saying that she got to stop at Miller's first and O had called asking her brother to come immediately if he wanted to enjoy the show. He understood what she meant as soon as he got there.
"How long has this been going on?" He asked looking at Lincoln.
"Since he woke up." O giggled taking her coffee from her brother's hand.
"Aren't you going to do something?" He was really concerned.
"I tried, but be my guest," she gestured toward Lincoln. After all that could be interesting too.
Bellamy put down the coffee and put his hands on his friend shoulders stopping his pacing for the time being.
"Man, what's wrong?"
"Where is Clarke?" He asked as if Bellamy didn't even exist.
"At Miller's but she'll be here soon." Bellamy said trying to get Lincoln to sit down while his sister was silently cheering for him.
He rolled his eyes at her but kept his mind on Lincoln.
"Look, do you want to tell me why you are so nervous?" Lincoln sat down and Bellamy looked pretty pleased with himself but O just mouthed 'wait'.
"What if she doesn't like them? What if they say something? Of course they are going to say something they don't like the fact that I am dating O and she is going to speak her mind about that because it's Clarke and it's just what she does. She is going to be mad at me for exposing O to them I just know it." Lincoln mumble a few other stuff before abruptly standing up and resumed his pacing.
Bellamy just took his place in the couch.
"Hey, at least you tried." O reasoned with him. "It could have worked."
"He knows that's stupid, right? She won't put anything those people do on him." He said loudly trying to get it on Lincoln's head but apparently still failing.
"Normally I would say yes, he was okay with everything yesterday, sure it would be a good idea that it would help us, but this morning he went full on crazy and I can't get a plausible explanation from him."
"So you're just making fun of him instead?" Bellamy crocked an eye brow at her.
"It's entertaining and I can't do anything about it until Clarke gets here I am not going to get all nervous too, it wouldn't help anyone." She was offended by her brother's remark.
"I was just making sure."
They settled on the couch waiting for Clarke looking at Lincoln go back and forth between the window and the door. It was like looking at one of those goldfish going round and round in its fish bowl. It was fun and soothing. Bellamy was starting to fall asleep at the sight when Clarke passed the front door, which he wouldn't have noticed if it hadn't stopped Lincoln in his trance.
"Nop, I can't do that." Lincoln blurred out before going to his room.
"Good morning to you to sunshine." Clarke yelled toward his door. "Anyone wants to tell me what's going on?" She asks the siblings.
Bellamy put his hand in the air in surrender, while Octavia sighed.
"I think he just decide we are not going to see his parents." O stated.
"And why is that? I put a nice dress on, some make up and I'll let you do something with my hair on the way there, I am even wearing high heels, I didn't do all that to sit on this couch all day." She said looking at the Blakes siblings and sending death glare toward a smirking Bellamy who was only looking at her heels.
"Snap out of it Blake!" She told him and O nudged him on the side with her elbow.
"Lincoln get in here!" She yelled again. And Lincoln reappeared quickly.
"Now everybody in the car. Chop chop!" 5 min later everyone was settle in the car, the girls on the back seat so Octavia could braid Clarke's hair. Bellamy drove, Lincoln was still out of it, he had agreed to go because no one would ever say 'no' to Clarke, even Bellamy only got to say 'no' a few times and they often became 'yes' only a few minute later.
They arrived at Lincoln's childhood house a few minutes before the agreed upon time of lunch. Bellamy got out of the car and opened Clarke's door, Lincoln doing the same for O once they were all on the house paved path Lincoln stopped walking.
"That's a bad idea. A really bad idea. We should just leave now."
"Linc' it was your idea. I thought you wanted them to like O. They are going to hate me and then O will be welcome with open arms." Everybody looked at Clarke surprised. "What? You really thought I was coming to make a good impression? Those people hurt my friends, tried to get them to break up and made O feel like she didn't belong either with them or with Lincoln. I am not here to make new friends." Clarke exposed.
They went in. Bellamy keeping his hand on Clarke low back to try to calm her down. No need to launch on them if they were being nice for once.
She was making him nervous. Clarke could be reckless when it came to protecting the people she cared about and Lincoln was one of those people, he was even very high on her list and Bellamy was kind of hoping she would change her mind and let them leave.
They got introduced to a bunch of people. Indra, Lincoln's aunt, was cold and looked at them like Abby did sometimes which made him get his hand off Clarke's back but she brushed herself his arm to tell him to put it back on. Nyko, was really nice with them, he asked a lot of question about Bellamy and Clarke, and was interested in what ever had been going on in O's life since her last visit. But then came Lexa, Lincoln's cousin, from what Lincoln had told them she was the one taking all the important decisions in that family life, controlling the money and there jobs. She was arguing with Lincoln when Clarke approach them.
"Hi! I am Clarke nice to meet you." She said very nicely, ignoring the looks Lincoln was sending her.
"You're interrupting us." Lexa replied coldly.
"And you're being impolite with your guest, so I guess we're even." Lincoln was looking nervous again.
"I didn't invite you to come here, in fact, I would really appreciate it if you could just go." Lexa was not easy but Clarke wasn't going to give up.
"And I'll appreciate if you would apologize for being, apparently, on your best behavior, last time my friends came here." Clarke was not going to back down she came here with a purpose and she will see it through.
"You can't talk to me like that in my house." Lexa got offensive.
"Find! let's go outside so I can continue talking to you." At this point Lincoln just tried to pry Clarke away from his cousin.
"Yeah there Tiger, want to keep some for later?" He told her.
"No, I have no intention on still being here later." She nodded and got back in front of Lexa.
"So you told my friend she wasn't good enough for Lincoln and that he needed to make better choices in his life. Would I make a better choice? My mom is a renowned MD and my dad is the head engineer on NASA. So would I make a better choice?" She stopped for a few second but didn't give Lexa anytime to formulate an answer.
"You didn't even try to know her, O is a great gym trainer, she is beautiful, she thought about being a model for a while but she found it to be too shallow, she was at the top of her class in every course she took in college. She helps people with health issues and through charity for troubled teenagers. And her brother is a caring, overprotective, smart cop who would do anything for the people he cares about."
Lexa was not accustom to people talking to her like that and Clarke was gathering quite an audience around them.
"And do you even know Lincoln, I mean really know him? He is the nicest person I know, he wants to be an artist, he doesn't like working for your weapon manufacture but he does it out of respect and loyalty for his family, because that's the kind of man he is always protecting everyone and trying his best so people could achieve their goals even if it means getting hurt in the process. And I won't let you or anyone treat him like that. If you can do better by him he can be a member of my family he will always be welcome and cared for."
She turned around to look at O, Bellamy and Lincoln, all gasping at her outburst.
"I am really to leave now if you still want to get back home and watch TV all day." She walked a little toward them and laughed. "Plus my feet hurt in those shoes" and just like that she took them off keeping them in her hand.
"So what is it going to be?" she questioned.
"We're leaving." Lincoln said more to the crowd than to her.
Once they got to the car they all laughed loudly and for a long time. Back home, O landed some clothes for Clarke to change into and they all ordered pizzas and settled on the couch. O and Clarke snuggled on each side of a much more relaxed and happy Lincoln. Bellamy massaging Clarke's tiny cute feet they were all happy. In the middle of the movie they decided to call their all family to come see movies, because there was no better way to spend a Sunday afternoon. And Clarke sat back snuggling against Bellamy this time, which got the both men in her life to smile at each other in content.