Forbidden

by EdenAshley

Lexa is in High School, Clarke is a newly qualified art teacher. When teacher and student worlds collide on a night out, they are taken on an unsavory journey. Teacher / Student AU.

4. Chapter 4

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Once again Clarke had an amazing night's sleep with Lexa wrapped in her arms, and she was sure not to run to the bathroom again this morning. She's currently sitting at the island in her kitchen having just made herself and Lexa a cup of coffee, she's waiting for the beautiful brunette to join her in the kitchen.

She's surprised when she hears her front door swing open, and it's only a few seconds after that a smiling Raven saunters through into her kitchen. She greets Clarke with a brilliant smile, before spying the steaming hot coffee.

"Clarke you shouldn't have."

Clarke rolls her eyes as Raven grabs the mug and takes a large swig.

"I didn't." She smirks.

Before she has a chance to explain that actually she made that coffee for her teenage lover, Lexa walks into the kitchen, she smiles at Clarke, but feels a little self-conscious that Miss Reyes is in attendance. Clarke cringes slightly at the fact that Lexa is in full school uniform, and she doesn't miss the smirk on Raven's face at the sight before her.

"Well good morning Lexa." Clarke decides to ignore the amused look on Raven's face.

"Hi Miss Reyes." Lexa grins sheepishly.

Clarke tuts at Raven, before turning her attention to Lexa. "I don't think Principle Jaha is expecting you in school today."

"I know, but I'm meeting up with the guys, we just need some time to talk, I figured we could use an empty classroom." She shrugs.

"My classroom will be free first period, use that if you like." Clarke smiles as she offers.

"Great thanks." She still feels extremely awkward in Raven's presence. "I better get going."

She pulls her coat on as she speaks. "I can give you a lift to school?"

Lexa's eyes widen slightly. "I'm not sure that would be a good idea."

Clarke has a confession to make. "Jaha knows that you've been staying here."

"How?"

Raven has apparently been forgotten by both of the other women in the room, she just watches silently as they continue to converse.

"I told him." Lexa's look of pure confusion spurs her on. She sighs. "Rae and I got called into his office yesterday to talk about what happened on Friday; I guess I wanted to tell him part of the truth about us, so everything isn't based on a complete lie."

Raven pipes in. "Plus it's much easier to have secret trysts with your student, when you have express permission from the head honcho to have sleep overs."

Clarke throws a tea towel at her friend. Lexa shakes her head, still confused. "I'm sorry, how did you get Jaha to be okay with me staying here, and apparently give you permission to let me keep staying here?"

Clarke rubs her temple, she can feel a headache brewing. "I told him about your family circumstances. I'm so sorry." Clarke knows that it really was not her place to be revealing Lexa's private life to Jaha; she really hopes she understands why she did it.

Not for the first time this morning, Lexa feels incredibly uncomfortable in Raven's company, she eyes the other teacher, Clarke's best friend, but she can't bring herself to be mad at the blonde.

"I guess that's one less lie to worry about getting caught in." She smiles at Clarke, and the older woman knows that Lexa isn't mad. This young woman really is the most amazing person she has ever met.

"Thanks for the offer." Lexa continues, Clarke has clearly forgotten what prompted this topic of conversation. "The lift." The penny drops. "I'm meeting Anya at her place. I better go."

"Okay, I'll see you later?"

"If you want to?"

"Of course."

Had Miss Reyes not been loitering and smirking she might add, Lexa would have given Clarke a goodbye kiss; she really wants to give Clarke a goodbye kiss. But instead she turns and heads out of the kitchen, throwing over her shoulder. "Later Miss Reyes."

"Later Woods." Raven throws back. Then the front door clicks closed behind the student, and Raven turns straight back to Clarke.

"You know Griff, I distinctly remember telling you to be extremely careful with that one for the next ten weeks. I don't think having her stay over for lots of dirty sex, really qualifies as careful."

Clarke frowns. "Raven that's not what happened. We didn't have sex last night."

Raven is not convinced. "Do you really expect me to believe that?" She quirks an eyebrow, apparently Clarke does expect her to believe that. "Come on, she spent the night, and what you just cuddled?"

Clarke melts a little at the memory, and chuckles at Raven's exasperation. "It was really nice. Just what we both needed."

"Oh wow, you have got it so bad Clarke."

XXXXXXXXXX

The five teenage friends are currently holed up in Miss Griffins Art Classroom. Octavia, Anya and Lincoln are a little unsure as to what they're doing here. Octavia and Anya in particular aren't overly happy about having the drag their asses into school this morning.

The three who are still in the dark are seated at one of the tables, Bellamy and Lexa are on their feet, getting ready to explain their plan to the rest. Bellamy knows he has to let Lexa take the lead, or he has no chance of the others being on board with anything.

Lexa looks at Bellamy who gives her a reassuring nod, before she turns to face their three other friends. "So, you're probably wondering what we're doing here?"

None of them speak, they just pin her with a look that screams that they expect an explanation, rapid.

"Bellamy and I were speaking yesterday." They all glance over at Bell, but again no one says anything, they just wait for Lexa to continue.

"If Finn was killed by the Azgeda."

"He was." Lexa is not impressed by Bellamy's interruption, he looks at the floor when she fixes him with a glare. He decides to sit on the edge of one of the other tables. Lexa turns her attention back to her three friends.

"Then they wouldn't have been stupid enough to do that for no reason." She takes a deep breath. "Bellamy and I want to know what that reason is."

Anya is the first to voice her confusion. "Lex I thought you said the Azgeda are off limits?"

Lexa's response is swift. "They are, this isn't a suicide mission An."

"So, what then?" Lincoln asks.

"Finn must have been involved in something he shouldn't, if that's the case, there must be evidence of his communication with them."

Octavia instantly knows where this is going. "So, you want us to go through all of Finn's technology?"

"Exactly. Once the police have done with all his stuff, we can get access to his laptop, mobile phone, iPad, whatever." Lexa confirms.

Anya can feel her excitement building. "I should be able to track any online correspondence old chat room conversations etc."

"And knowing the half assed job the police usually do in this town, you should be able to recover any information they delete from the hard drives." Lincoln adds.

"Exactly." Lexa confirms happy that everyone appears to be on board. "We can attempt to get to the bottom of why this happened without setting foot into the Azgeda territory."

Octavia knows there is an inevitable downside, especially where her brother is involved. "Lex what if we discover that the Azgeda were involved, and it wasn't Finn being a dumbass. Are you going to be able to let that go?" Her question is firmly aimed at her twin.

"He will have to." Lexa is firm. Bellamy doesn't offer anything further, Octavia knows that this is going to be an issue in the future. But like the rest of her friends she needs some sort of closure at least.

Anya ignores the tension in the room. "Right well I will call the Collins' and see if Finns belongings have been returned yet."

She jumps up from the table and out of the room. Lexa smirks. "I take it this means the three of you are on board?"

Lincoln answers in Anya's absence and given that his girlfriend is still busy glaring at her brother. "Count us in Lex. We all want to know why this happened at the very least."

When the door to the classroom reopens the four remaining teenagers are expecting Anya to renter, so they're surprised when Miss Griffin waltzes in, given that this is her classroom perhaps they shouldn't have been so surprised.

Lexa tries her best to keep her emotions in check at the sight of Clarke, her feelings for this woman are so strong already. She can feel Octavia's stare on her, she doesn't want to give anything away so she attempts to keep her expression as neutral as possible.

"Hi guys, really sorry to interrupt." Clarke, it seems is about to offer an explanation for her presence. "There's about to be a special assembly about Finn. I wasn't sure if you wanted to attend or not."

Lexa looks past Clarke to Anya who as just slipped back into the classroom, she jerks her head to the right to symbol that they need to leave. Lexa refocuses on Clarke.

"I'm not sure We can handle that today Miss Griffin." Clarke watches as Lincoln, Octavia and Bellamy all nod in agreement with Lexa. "In fact, I'm not sure we can cope with being here at all today. We're going to head back to the Collins' to spend time with Finns Mum and Dad."

Lincoln, Octavia and Bellamy take this as their cue to leave, and they follow Anya back out of the classroom, leaving Clarke and Lexa alone.

"Is everything okay?" Clarke can tell that there is clearly something going down here. She hopes Lexa and her friends are getting involved in anything idiotic.

"Everything is fine. I'll see you later right?"

Clarke smiles and nods. "Come by my place whenever you're free. If you have the time."

"I will make the time." Lexa grins, before starting to move past Clarke and follow her friends. Clarke grabs her arm stopping her momentarily.

"Promise me you're not getting yourself involved in anything dangerous." Clarke knows Finns death was in trying circumstances; clearly someone is responsible for his murder, she hates the thought that the youngsters might be getting themselves involved in some sort of revenge nonsense.

Lexa gives Clarke a reassuring smile. "I promise that, that isn't my intention."

"That doesn't fill me with confidence Lexa."

"It will have to do for now Clarke. I will fill you I later, I promise."

Clarke guesses that it will have to do, she nods at Lexa, who takes that as her permission to leave. She heads out of the classroom and catches up with her friends who have been patiently waiting for her in the school yard. Lexa focuses on Anya. "Well?"

Anya knows she wants to be filled in on the outcome of her phone call. "Finn's things were dropped off this morning. I told Mrs Collins we're on our way round now."

"Well let's get going then."

Lexa strides out in front, joined by Octavia. The rest make conversation amongst themselves as they start the 20-minute walk to the Collins residence.

"What were you and Miss Griffin talking about?"

The question takes Lexa by surprise, she looks over at Octavia and she can tell her best friend is suspicious. "She just wanted to make sure that we're all okay."

Octavia doesn't believe a word of it, but she knows how much Lexa likes Miss Griffin, so she hopes that what she thinks is happening actually is; it's about time her best friend caught a break.

XXXXXXXXXX

Anya had been working away for hours, the four other teenagers have tried their best to give her space and leave her to it, lounging around, talking amongst themselves, trying to keep Mr and Mrs Collins spirits up, the police investigation is still ongoing and as a result Finns body still hasn't been released, meaning they can't plan his funeral. It's a massive cause of stress and heartache for his parents, and another weight that feels like it's been added to Lexa's shoulders, which she can't do anything about.

Anya curses at the laptop that she's currently working on; she had been able to get some information, but none of it made much sense. Finn had definitely been in contact with the Azgeda in the weeks leading up to his death that much she is sure of, but other than confirming just that, she hasn't really made any progress; she can't decipher the content of the communication. It appears the police department haven't been as half-assed as they were all hoping.

Lexa places a hand on her friend's shoulder. "You're doing a great job Anya."

Anya is mightily frustrated. "I can't get past this part, it's really pissing me off."

"Talk me through it." It's Lexa that speaks but the other three people in the room draw closer ready to listen to whatever Anya has to say. She gives Lexa a confused look, she doesn't know anything about computer science. Lexa shrugs. "Might help you straighten it in your mind if you say it out loud."

Worth a try. "Okay, so I can see that he was chatting in some hella weird chat rooms." She turns the laptop to show her friends, as if any of them will understand what's on screen. "I managed to track the IP's and they all link to the same place, meaning that whenever he was chatting on this particular room, he was always chatting with the same computer at least."

Anya looks up and sees that everyone is hanging on her every word. "I managed to track the real-world location of the computer."

She taps the keyboard a few times, and the turns the laptop back to her friends. Lexa sighs at the sight. "So, Finn was chatting with someone slap bang in the middle of the Azgeda territory."

Bellamy shakes his head. "No way Lex, look at that, that isn't just the middle of Azgeda territory, that's Niagara."

Niagara is a club in the Azgeda territory which is basically a front for the gang business, rumour is they rinse all the dirty money through the club coffers, in addition, all of the teenagers know that this is where the main Azgeda family run their main operations from. Meaning not only were the Azgeda apparently talking to Finn just before he died, someone from the notorious Queen family had been talking to him. Lexa feels like her blood is turning to ice in her veins. If the Queens are involved, this is a million times worse than she first feared.

Everyone is thinking the same as Lexa, but no one dare say it out loud, so Anya continues. "Anyway, I can see the location of where the person he was talking to is, but I can't get the content of the conversations; it's all encrypted."

"Do you think you could get it in time?" Lexa asks.

Anya shakes her head, upset with herself. "No way Lex, this is way above my capabilities. We need some rain man style genius to decode this..."

Anya's voice trails off as she gets lost in her thoughts. They all notice and are intrigued, but it's Bellamy that speaks.

"What's up An?"

She's reluctant to confirm, she has a feeling Lexa won't be too happy. Bellamy isn't going to drop this. "Do you know someone that might be able to fix this?"

She looks at Lexa, apologetically. "There's one person who I know would be able to beat the encryption."

"We'll spit it out Anya who is it?" Bellamy doesn't know why she's being so coy about this.

Deep breath. "Miss Reyes." She waits for Lexa's inevitable explosion, she isn't disappointed.

"Uh oh. No way. We are not getting Reyes involved in this."

"Why not Lexa, you said it yourself, this is the safest way of finding out what's going on, it's not like we're asking her to go and knock on the door at Niagara." Bellamy argues.

Lexa knows he's right, and she's sure that Raven wouldn't have a problem helping them, but the last thing she wants is to get Clarke's best friend involved in anything dangerous, god forbid Clarke might get involved too.

"How can we be sure that the Azgeda can't tell we're snooping around in their shit. It didn't exactly take Anya long to link back to their computer. What if they link back to ours, or Ravens? What then huh?"

Octavia didn't miss Lexa referring to Miss Reyes as Raven, neither did Bellamy. But he has a more pressing question on his mind. "Can they do that Anya, I mean you tracked the chat back to the Azgeda computer, but it's not like we'll be chatting to them, can they track whatever it is you're doing back to this specific computer or location?"

"Not as far as I know."

Bellamy looks at Lexa arms open, as if to say, what the hell is stopping us. Anya decides to help Bellamy, because really, she needs to know what the hell Finn was doing that ended up getting him killed. "Lex, we can always discuss it with Miss Reyes before we do anything, she'll know for sure if it can be traced back to us. If it can then we won't do it."

Bellamy's head snaps up. Octavia places a hand on his arm. "We find another Bell, nobody else needs to be put in danger as a result of all this."

Lexa looks at the hopeful expressions on Anya and Bellamy's faces, and the slightly more cautious looks on the faces of Octavia and Lincoln. They need to do this. "Okay, but we speak to Reyes first, and she doesn't want to do this, we do not pressure her."

Bellamy smiles. "Great, so how do we contact Miss Reyes?" He checks his watch as he speaks, noting that school is out for the day.

Octavia smirks. "Hey Anya, didn't you get her number that night at the club."

Lexa swears she sees a sheen of crimson attack Anya's cheeks. "No O I didn't." The four other teenagers stifle giggles as she slams the lid of the laptop closed.

Lexa sighs realising that it's going to fall on her. "Give me a second." She pulls her phone out of her pocket and leaves the room.

She hits Clarke's number in her phone. It rings a couple of times before her teacher answers.

"Hey" Clarke is a little surprised to be hearing from Lexa so early in the day.

"Hi." Lexa decides to get straight to the point. "Are you with Raven?"

"Erm yeah, why?"

"We need her help."

"With what?"

Lexa sighs. "It's something to do with computers, Anya can explain it a lot better than I can. Look she might not even want to help when she finds out what it's for."

"Lexa you're scaring me a little, what are you getting yourselves involved in?"

"Look if Raven is willing, let us try and explain it, and if she doesn't want to help, then she doesn't have to. No pressure, I promise."

"Hold on a second."

Clarke covers the mouthpiece on her phone and looks over to Raven who's lounging on her couch. "Lexa says that Anya needs your help with some kind of computer stuff."

Raven looks confused. "What kind of stuff."

"I have no idea. But I'm not sure I like the sound of it, I'm almost certain it's to do with Finns death. Lexa says that if you're not down then there's no pressure for you to help them."

"Well now I'm intrigued. Tell them to head over and pitch to me." Raven lets her head drop back to the couch. Clarke sighs, she was worried that would be Rae's response.

She puts the phone back to her ear. "Raven says she's willing to hear you out. Why don't you head over to my place?"

"Clarke, I'm with Bell, O, Anya and Lincoln, are you sure you want us all at your place? We can meet Raven somewhere else."

"No I want you all here, so I can keep my eye on you all, and make sure you're not doing anything stupid."

"Alright, we'll be there in 10 minutes."

Lexa hangs up. She knows Bellamy and Octavia at least are suspicious of her relationship with Clarke as it is, announcing that they are about to head to the teacher's house is going to send their imagination into overdrive. She heads back into the room, and is met by four expectant pairs of eyes.

"Reyes is willing to hear us out. She's at Miss Griffins place now, we can head over."

Bellamy smirks but doesn't dwell on. "Let's get going then."

Octavia and Anya share a knowing look, the fact that Lexa was so fidgety as she was delivering that last piece of information all but confirms their suspicions. Lincoln just shakes his head at his girlfriend and her best friend, he wishes they wouldn't be so nosey, and would just let Lexa be.

"Do we have an address?" Lincoln asks as he passes Lexa closely followed by Bellamy.

"Yeah it's a ten-minute walk."

Bell smiles. "Sounds like a journey you've made before Lexa."

Anya and Octavia both smack him. Lexa doesn't let it get to her, she just shakes her head. "Nope, I just know the area."

She strides out of Finns house, and is followed by Lincoln, Anya, who is clutching the laptop, and Octavia who is glaring at Bellamy leaving him in no uncertain terms that he should drop this obsession he has with Clarke and Lexa.

XXXXXXXXXX

Having just explained the situation to their two teachers, the five teenagers; Lexa, Bellamy, Anya, Octavia and Lincoln, are all seated squashed onto the couch in Clarke's front room, looking up expectantly, awaiting a reaction. Lexa is particularly on edge awaiting Clarke's verdict. It is however Raven that speaks first.

"So, let me get this straight." She has her hands on her hips, which is their first clue she's not 100% happy. "You think the Azgeda were involved in Finns death, you've discovered that Finn was talking to the someone in the Azgeda, possibly even a member of the Queen family; and you want me to hack into their historic server so you can see what the hell they were chatting about?"

"Pretty much." Bellamy's aloof response earns him a smack from Lexa.

Anya wants to clarify a little. "If there's any chance of the Azgeda tracing this back to you, then obviously, we wouldn't expect you to do it."

"That won't be a problem, I can hack their system without getting caught." Anya is impressed by her confidence. "I just don't know why you want me to do this?"

"Closure." Lexa states honestly. "We need to know why what happened to Finn, happened."

Raven isn't convinced. "That's it, that's all there is to it?"

The five teenagers nod. Raven continues. "So, I hack this system, and find that Finn was having harmless banter with the Azgeda, and they just decided to kill him for shits and giggles, and the five of you are going to be okay with that, get back to school tomorrow morning and get your head down ready for your finals?"

Bellamy clenches his teeth. None of the others move to speak. Clarke can see that of the five of them, Bellamy is the one that will have the most trouble dropping this.

"Bellamy, are you going to be able to leave once you have your why? Whatever that why may be."

He looks up and is being pinned by blue orbs, and all of a sudden, he is angry, who does she think she is questioning him. "Look either you guys want to help us or you don't." He tries his best to keep a lid on it for Lexa's sake. "If you don't, then we'll find some other geek to help us, who maybe won't be as careful as Miss Reyes would have been. We'll take our chances."

Clarke is not remotely impressed by his attitude, and neither is anyone else in the room to be fair. But Raven can't risk them going to some cowboy, and getting caught out by the Azgeda.

"Settle down champ. I'll help you." The relief pours from Bellamy. "Make yourselves at home guys, this may take some time." She smiles at Anya. "Want to learn something Terra?" She wiggles her eyebrows as she speaks.

Anya is delighted. "Always."

Raven gestures her over to Clarke's dining table and they make themselves comfortable.

XXXXXXXXXX

An hour later, and Raven and Anya are still busy working away on Finns laptop, Octavia, Lincoln and Bellamy are watching a movie and Clarke has just moved into the kitchen, to throw the kettle on and brew up some coffee. Lexa couldn't help herself but to follow the stunning blonde into the kitchen and away from the prying eyes of her friends.

"Hey."

Clarke is startled at first, she was so concentrated on what she was doing, she hadn't noticed the brunette enter the room. She can't help the smile that forms on her lips; it's the same smile that forms every time she lays eyes on her gorgeous form.

"Hi. How you holding up?" Clarke is genuinely concerned.

"I should be asking you that." Lexa sighs. "I'm sorry for laying all of this on you and Raven."

"I can't say I'm happy about you doing anything that may bring you to the attention of the Azgeda. But I am glad that you came to me and Raven."

This takes Lexa by surprise. Clarke explains. "I'd rather we help you out than someone who really doesn't know what they're doing."

Lexa sighs, Clarke can tell she's not happy, and she has a good idea why. "You're worried about Bellamy?"

"When did you get the ability to read minds." Lexa tries to make light of the situation. "I just don't think this is going to be enough for him, no matter what we find out."

Clarke places a hand on Lexa's shoulder as a show of comfort, she can tell the younger woman is really worried about this. Lexa leans into the touch. "I already have to bury one of my best friends, Bellamy seems hell bent on making that two."

"I'm sure it won't come to that babe." The term of endearment just falls from her lips. Lexa snaps her head up and smirks at her teacher. Clarke doesn't appreciate the raised eyebrows, but she refuses to be embarrassed.

"Not a fan of babe huh?"

Lexa's grin widens. "No I definitely like it. Guess I just wasn't expecting it."

Clarke grins and leans further into Lexa.

It's at this precise moment that Bellamy decides to barge into the kitchen, the two women snap apart and instantly busy themselves with coffee making paraphernalia, both extremely happy that they hadn't fully leaned in for a kiss.

Bellamy obviously notices the speed at which the two of them moved as he entered the room. Could this actually be happening, Lexa having an affair with her teacher? He wasn't quite sure he believed it before, but things keep happening that make him think that maybe this is actually a thing.

"I'm here to carry. Raven is demanding her coffee fix."

Lexa smiles at her friend, and passes him the cafetière that Clarke has just filled. "How are they getting on?"

Bellamy just nods. "Shouldn't be too much longer."

"Cool, I'll follow you in with the mugs." Bellamy takes that as his cue to leave, and Lexa follows him, after a glance back at Clarke. That was close.

XXXXXXXXXXX

Raven and Anya had called everyone round to explain their findings, so Clarke, Lexa, Bellamy, Octavia and Lincoln are all huddled around looking over the shoulders of Reyes as she gets ready to fill them in.

"Okay so I managed to decipher the conversations Finn was having with the Azgeda."

"So, he definitely was chatting to the Azgeda?" Bellamy needs to know.

Raven nods. "Yeah, it looks like he was talking to Roan Queen."

"Why do I know that name?" Octavia questions.

"He's Nia Queen's only son." Lincoln states. No further explanation needed, they all know who Nia Queen is, the most notorious member of the Azgeda, and head of the famous Queen family.

Raven knows the seriousness of this but she needs to finish telling them what she's found out. "Anyway, what I have discovered doesn't make much sense. It's almost as if the first part of the conversation is missing."

"What do you mean?" Clarke verbalises what everyone is thinking.

"Well it's almost like they had their first meeting in person, or over some other format, and then all of the chat in these rooms, just refers back to that first conversation; but without ever revealing what it was about."

Bellamy lowers his head defeated, he walks away. Lexa watches him, this could be trouble. Raven sensing the tension in the room speaks again. "Sorry I couldn't be more help guys."

Lexa swallows the lump she feels in her throat. "You've been more than helpful. Thank you Raven."

She looks over her best friends, and gestures towards the door with her head. They all instantly start to get ready to leave. Clarke is impressed by the authority Lexa holds with them. "We've taken up enough of your time. Thank for hosting us Miss Griffin."

Clarke smiles. "No problem. Call me Clarke."

Lexa smirks, and nods. "See you both at school tomorrow."

The five teenagers head out into the street, Clarke and Raven share yet another worried looks as they watch them leave.

Bellamy speaks as soon as they are outside. "What now Lex?"

"We go to Anya's and you can get whatever it is off your chest." She remains stoic and straight faced as she speaks.

Anya nods knowing both of her parents will be out. They silently start to make their way.

XXXXXXXXXX

Things have been tense since they arrived Anya's a few minutes ago. Octavia, Lincoln and Anya all know for a fact that Bellamy wants to go after Roan, to find out what he wanted with Finn, and they are all equally certain that Lexa will not allow it. All in all, it's going to make for fireworks.

"So, we obviously have to find out what they were talking about." Bellamy gets straight to the point.

"How do you propose we do that?" Lexa questions, giving him the chance to not be a complete moron.

"We have to go after Roan." Bellamy pleads.

Lexa's head drops exasperated. It doesn't stay lowered for long. "Not happening."

"Lex it's the only way."

"Then I guess we'll never know." She will not be moved on this point, getting involved with the Azgeda would be suicide, she doesn't know how many times she has to say it.

Bellamy looks at his other three friends in the room. He knows instantly that they will side with Lexa. "You guys too huh, Finn isn't even in the ground and you guys already don't give a shit about him."

"Bell, don't be ridiculous." It's Octavia that tries to make him see reason. "The only thing approaching Roan Queen will achieve is more of us in the ground."

Bellamy shakes his head. He knows he can't do this alone. He storms out of Anya's front door slamming it loudly behind him, making the four remaining teenagers flinch.

Octavia is on the verge of tears. "He isn't going to let this go Lex, we need to do something to make him see how stupid he's being."

Lexa pulls her friend into a hug, as the tears that threatened seconds ago, spill over, she stokes her hair. "I know O. I'll think of something, I promise."

She sighs, what a mess this is all descending into.

XXXXXXXXXX

Lexa had stayed at Anya's and attempted to calm Octavia down, and provide some form of comfort, until she and Lincoln had left about five minutes ago. She's exhausted. She glances at her watch, 10.14pm. She knows Clarke will still be up, and hopefully expecting her, she needs to see her tonight. When they're together the weight that she feels is crushing her most of the time lifts a little.

Anya notices her checking her watch. "You can crash here if you like?"

"Nah I'm good. I'm going to head now though." Lexa smiles and gives her friend a hug, before heading out into the fresh night air. It's cooler than she remembers from earlier. Luckily Clarke's place isn't too far from here, and Lexa heads in the direction of her lover's house at pace.

So fast in fact that she doesn't notice Bellamy step out from behind a shrub, and follow her all the way. He isn't remotely surprised when they arrive back at Miss Griffins place. He holds back as his best friend knocks at the door and waits for her teacher to let her in.

He sees the look of happiness emerge on his teachers face, and the look is replicated on Lexa's face. His heart melts a little, to see his friend looking so happy. She definitely deserves it; but Finn deserves justice too, a justice that the police department are never going to get for him. He knows he needs to do something. As Lexa disappears into the house, he starts to make his way closer.

Clarke practically pulls Lexa into her living room. "I was worried you weren't going to make it."

"I told you I'd make time." They make themselves comfortable on the couch.

"How did it go with Bellamy?" Clarke frowns as she asks the question.

"Not great, he wants to go after Roan Queen, find out what he wanted with Finn."

Clarke is appalled. "Lexa that's crazy."

She shushes the older women. "Relax. I know it is, I told him it isn't happening."

"They all seem to really respect your opinion Lex." Clarke comments on her observations over the last few days.

"We all respect each other I guess." Lexa just shrugs, her statement is true, but she guesses she's always just stepped in when the hard decisions need to be made. She shakes her head. "Anyway, I don't want to talk about all that."

Clarke can see that it's all weighing on her heavily; so, she decides to try her best to take Lexa's mind off of it all. "So, what do you want to talk about Lex?" Clarke asks almost playfully.

Lexa instantly feels better. "I want to talk about why you're calling me Lex instead of babe." She wiggles her eyebrows.

"Oh, is that right." Clarke smiles and Lexa nods, and the both happily fall into a playful kiss.

It doesn't stay playful for very long, Lexa needs this, she needs Clarke. She deepens the kiss, and before they know it their tongues are duelling for control. Clarke pulls back, she knows they shouldn't be going any further, they promised that they would wait until Lexa was done with school. "Babe."

This does nothing to help the situation. It just spurs Lexa on, her lips are immediately back on Clarke's. The older women reciprocates for a few seconds but pulls back again. She's taken aback by the level of emotion in Lexa's eyes. "Please Clarke; I need this."

And Clarke knows that she can't deny her. This time it's her that reinitiates the kiss, and this time she won't pull back.

Bellamy watches on from the window. He glances at his phone to make sure he is still capturing the action. He hates that he is having to stoop this low to get Lexa on side, why couldn't she just back him up to start with.

He looks away as things start to get more and more heated, clothes being lost left right and centre. He keeps filming the two women until they disappear upstairs and out of view. He knows he has more than enough on his phone now to put his plan into action. He swallows the emotions he feels as he jumps down back into the street, ready to face Lexa again tomorrow.

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Bit of a long chapter… As always let me know what you think.

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