A/N: This part is pretty much just a continuation of the previous part, I knew it would end up being over 4K words in total and in my opinion that's a little long for a single part, so it's split. Thank you all for the reviews and support, you're awesome. Okay, let's do this. Read, review and enjoy!

Chapter Eight.

Lexa spotted the Ice Nation's temporary camp, she raised her hand a little, stopping everyone else behind her. While she was counting the warriors she could see, Bellamy walked up next to her.

"So how is this going to go?" he asked quietly.

"You'll take care of the warriors, and find Clarke," Lexa replied, not looking at him as she continued to look around the camp, "I will go and find their queen."

Turning back to the others she crouched down and started to draw a diagram on the forest floor.

"I want two units of 10, 5 Sky people in each unit. Indra, your unit will travel around the back of the camp," Lexa said, drawing an arrow on the floor showing Indra where her unit would enter, "Bellamy, your unit will enter through the right…"

"What about you?" Raven asked.

"I'm going through the front." Lexa replied, "I counted 30 warriors, they will probably separate into two groups when you enter the camp, which will leave me with a path to the queen's tent."

"They'll be distracted." Raven said with a nod.

"That's what I'm hoping." Lexa said, "These are going to be the queen's most trusted warriors, possibly her strongest, be aware of your surroundings."

"Try not to get dead." Raven said, causing a few of the Sky people to laugh, and it made Lexa smile a little.

x-x-x

When Clarke woke up her head was throbbing, she was now alone. She started pulling at her wrists, testing how tightly they were tied. It didn't take her long to realise that in order to free her arms she would have to break at least one of them. She would do that as a last resort, she wouldn't be able to defend herself properly with the use of only one arm, though she was sure she probably wouldn't have the chance to defend herself before the Queen either killed her or ordered someone else to do it. Clarke figured the Queen was the kind of person who would get too much enjoyment from killing Clarke and then telling Lexa exactly what she had done.

Clarke thought if anyone was going to try and rescue her it would be her own people, not Lexa and the Grounders. The Queen of the Ice Nation had killed Costia and Lexa hadn't tried to rescue her, she had done what was best for her people rather than herself, so there was no way that Lexa would risk her people to rescue a girl she had known a matter of weeks.

The people holding her captive had yet to do her too much damage, sure she'd received a bit of a beating when she spat at the Queen, but she was still mostly in one piece. She knew it could be a lot worse.

Clarke heard yelling outside, followed by gunshots. The guns let her know that she was right, it was her people who had come to find her, not Lexa. She sat there in complete silence, knowing that any sound she made to attract people to her location wouldn't end well for her. She heard the clashing of swords amongst the gunfire.

x-x-x

Lexa waited until the warriors saw her two units, then she made her way into the camp, ducking behind tents to avoid being seen. As she made it to the Queen's tent, the woman in question came rushing out sword drawn, to be met by Lexa and her sword.

"Your warriors will be dead in about 30 seconds," Lexa said to the shocked looking queen of the Ice Nation, "it would be in your best interests not to fight."

"Are you going to kill me Commander?" The Queen asked.

"Eventually." Lexa replied coldly.

"The truce will be destroyed if you kill me." She said.

"Isn't it already destroyed," Lexa said, raising her sword and pointing it at the Queen, "your people come into my camp, kill my warriors, and kidnap Clarke."

"Your army was on neutral ground," the queen replied, backing into her tent slowly, "it wasn't Grounder territory, and Clarke isn't one of your people. I broke nothing in the truce."

"You poisoned and killed 50 of my warriors," Lexa said, her sword at the throat of the queen, "in an unprovoked attack. Neutral ground or not, that isn't right. The truce was to stop us being hostile with each other. Yet for some reason you break the truce. What is it that you want?"

"Your end." The queen answered honestly.

"Then we'll settle this as warriors," Lexa said, picking up the queen's sword, "if you can defeat me in a sword fight, then victory is yours. You can kill me."

"A sword fight to the death?" The queen asked.

"To the death." Lexa replied.

"Conditions?" The queen asked.

"Just one," Lexa said, "if you win, you leave Clarke and her people alone."

"I have an amendment to make," The queen said with a smile, taking her sword from Lexa, "I win, I will leave the Sky people alone… but before I kill you, I will force you to watch Clarke's execution."

"Done." Lexa replied, backing up slightly, they couldn't fight in the tent, it was too small.

The Queen followed Lexa from the tent, both had their swords pointing at the other. Those that were still alive stopped fighting and watched. Raven looked at Lincoln, a questioning look in her eyes.

"Warrior battle," Lincoln said, "to the death."

At that moment Indra and Bellamy exited a tent with Clarke, they were holding her up with her arms across their shoulder.

"Hedda, no." Indra said.

"An agreement has been reached," the queen said, "once this fight is over, the agreement will be carried out immediately."

"You're confident," Lexa said, getting in her fighting stance, "for a dead woman."

"I can't watch this…" Clarke said, turning her head into Bellamy's shoulder.

"You have to," Indra said, pulling Clarke so she was standing up straight, "this is for you."

Lexa locked eyes with Clarke and smiled a little, hoping she looked more confident that she felt.

"It'll be okay…" she said, receiving a nod from Clarke she turned her full attention back to the queen.

x-x-x

The battle started slowly, both women testing the others reflexes, before Lexa quickly stepped forward and brought her sword upwards, cutting the queen's thigh. The queen immediately responded, swinging her sword round as she stepped forward on her good leg, cutting through Lexa's jacket, causing a deep wound on the Grounder Commanders arm. Lexa gritted her teeth and moved forward again, the queen quickly bringing down her sword and stabbing it into Lexa's abdomen.

Clarke looked at Indra, she didn't want to start to really freak out unless the Grounder general looked worried. Indra's face was passive, Clarke could read nothing. Her eyes were a completely different story though. Clarke saw fear there.

"Lexa…" she said quietly.

"It is not over yet." Indra said just as quietly in reply.

The queen kicked Lexa's knee, forcing the Grounder Commander to the floor, Clarke feared that Indra was wrong. Lexa's sword fell from her hand as she tried to steady herself. The queen pulled her up so she was standing, in one swift movement she had Lexa's arm twisted up her back, and her sword to the Commander's throat.

Lexa's was breathing deeply as she felt the sword at her throat, she knew that she'd have enough energy to try one last attack, if that failed she was as good as dead anyway.

"Look at their faces Commander," The queen said, "and know this was your fault."

Lexa's eyes stayed on Clarke, a small smile forming on her lips. With one last deep breath she threw her head back, hitting the Ice Nation queen squarely in the face, breaking her nose. She ducked under her sword and shifted to her right as she grabbed her own sword from the floor. Turning back to face the queen Lexa lifted her sword above her head as the queen brought her sword down towards the other girls head. Lexa pushed her back before swinging her sword at the queen's stomach, slashing through her clothes and cutting into her flesh. She laughed a little as she turned and brought her elbow up under the queen's chin, using her other hand to bring up her sword and stab in deep into the queen's stomach. The Queen of the Ice Nation fell to her knees. Lexa walked up behind her and grabbed hold of her hair as she put her sword to her throat and leant closer to whisper in her ear.

"You were never going to win," Lexa said, "I had a reason to fight. To survive… You will never hurt anyone that I care about again."

Lexa pulled her sword across the queen's throat with such force that she nearly cut all the way through her neck. As her corpse fell to the floor Lexa dropped her eyes as her sword fell from her hand.

The remaining surviving Ice Nation warriors surrendered immediately.

As Bellamy and a few others started searching around for things to help the injured, Clarke slowly walked over to Lexa.

"It's over Lexa…" Clarke said softly.

The Grounder Commander slowly looked up at her, stepping forward, she wrapped one arm around Clarke's waist and pulled her closer as she crashed their lips together. She could feel the blood soaking through her clothes as she kissed Clarke, before all her strength left her she backed away from the blonde.

"Thank you Clarke…" she said.

"For what?" Clarke asked in reply.

"Giving me something to fight for," Lexa replied with a little smile as she tried to hide the pain she was in, "and teaching me that emotions are not always a bad thing."

She started to back up a little, Clarke looked down and saw the blood seeping through Lexa's fingers.

"Lexa…" Clarke said as she Grounder Commander dropped down to her knees, "you're going to be okay… Bellamy!"

Bellamy rushed over, he took his t-shirt off and pushed it down onto Lexa's wound.

"We need to get her back to the camp," Clarke said, "my mother can help her."

"The cart." Indra said, as she and a few warriors rushed over to the cart and hooked up the horses.

Bellamy picked Lexa up and lay her in the cart, Clarke climbed in and sat on her opposite side to him.

"Go!" she said looking down at the wounded Commander.

x-x-x

Lexa opened her eyes slowly, taking in her surroundings she realised that she had no idea where she was. She sat up and pulled the needle out of her arm. Something started beeping and Abby rushed in.

"Easy there Commander…" she said walking over to Lexa and stopping her climbing from the bed, "if you start rushing around the sutures will split. I really don't want to have to operate on you again, the first time was stressful enough."

"Where's Clarke?" Lexa asked.

Abby motioned over to the chair at the side of the room, Clarke had her legs pulled up onto the chair and a blanket around her. She was fast asleep.

"She hasn't left the room." Abby said as she put the drip back into Lexa's arm.

"Is she okay?" Lexa asked.

"Why don't you concentrate on yourself first for once," Abby said with a smile, "she's fine."

Lexa lay back in the bed watching as Clarke slept, it didn't take long for her eyelids to feel heavy as slept soon claimed her.