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Lexa has just left her Maths class, it's the only one of her classes that she doesn't share with any of her new friends or Lincoln. She's heading towards Clarke's locker which is where she knows she's most likely to find the stunning blond, the rest of her friends, and her siblings. She smiles to herself as makes her way down the hall and she sees everyone exactly where she expected.

However she's intercepted before she can reach her friends. Costia, she remembers the girl from Friday night on the beach, as she seemingly steps in front of her from nowhere. The pretty brunette has a wide smile on her face, she doesn't appear to see the frown on Lexa's, caused by the fact this woman is currently delaying her from being where she needs to be.

"Hey." Costia's greeting is a little preppy for Lexa's liking.

However, Lexa decides to be civil, if she remembers correctly, this girl is on the same soccer team. "Hey; Costia right?"

The girls smile doubles at the realisation that Lexa remembers her name. "Yeah that's right." She continues before Lexa has a chance to walk away.

"Did you have a good night on Friday?"

The truth is she didn't really. "It was okay."

"Guess it was pretty tough, with what happened between Clarke and Finn." Lexa doesn't speak she just gives the girl a strained smile.

Costia doesn't appear to have been put off. "So, I was wondering if you wanted to grab a coffee with me?"

Lexa's eyes widen, as she realises that Costia is asking her out. She glances over the brunette's shoulder, and to make matters worse, Clarke and the rest of guys appear to have taken a huge interest in her current conversation. Great.

"I don't think that would be a great idea." She tries to let her down gently, but can't help be feel a little bad about the frown that appears on Costia's face.

"No big deal." Lexa can tell a brave face when she sees one. Costia continues. "I guess I'm just not your type." She shrugs.

"No it's not that." Lexa cringes slightly at the look at hope that crosses her face. "I'm kind of seeing Clarke." Lexa isn't really sure what is actually going on with her and Clarke, but she knows that she feels like it's important, too important to be getting involved with anything else, with anyone else.

Costia expression now turns to one of confusion. "Even after what happened on Friday."

Lexa can feel the anger rising; she can't believe that Costia is still bringing up Friday night. "Nothing that happened on Friday was Clarke's fault."

Costia decides to try and attack it from another angle. "Well you've only been at this school for five minutes, so Friday must have been your first date right?" Lexa just nods as confirmation. "So there's no way you're exclusive yet. So why not see what else this school has to offer."

Lexa can't help but smirk as the pretty brunette wiggles her eyebrows. "Sorry Costia. I'm a one woman at a time type of girl."

Costia smiles warmly. "Well if things with Clarke don't work out, you know where to find me."

Before Lexa has a chance to excuse herself, a small group of girls have joined them, Costia quickly falls into place behind who is clearly the leader. A brunette with hair slicked back into a pony tail, with the palest blue eyes Lexa has ever seen; Lexa can't help but notice the scars on either side of this girl's face. She swallows and quickly averts her gaze from the scars, before she's caught staring. She surprised to be greeted by what she can only describe as an evil smirk.

"You must be Lexa Woods." Wow even in normal conversation this woman comes across as really confrontational. Again like earlier with Costia she just nods as confirmation.

The stranger smirks again, perhaps thinking that Lexa's lack of vocals means she intimidated. She isn't. She continues to speak. "I'm Nia Queen." She studies Lexa, as if Lexa should have a hint of recognition, and have any idea who she is. Nia doesn't let Lexa's lack of appreciation hurt her pride.

"I hear you were keeping my spot warm for me at training last Monday."

Lexa smirks, that explains the hostility. Nia continues. "I play centre midfield Woods, always have, always will."

"We'll see." Lexa asserts confidently, and moves to leave and finally join her group of friends, but is stopped by Nia's hand on her shoulder; Anya springs up from her watching position at Clarke's locker, ready to pounce if her baby sister needs her.

Nia's evil smirk returns. "We will see at training later."

Lexa glares at the girl, to let her know that she isn't remotely rattled, and shrugs her shoulder so that the brunettes hand falls away, before striding over to her friends. Anya can tell her little sister is mightily pissed off. It's Clarke that speaks.

"What did Nia Queen want with you?"

Lexa softens when she looks at Clarke, wow she has turned into such a sap. She exhales loudly. "Apparently she wanted to let me know that she is the school teams star midfielder."

The group turns to Octavia when she sighs. What a dilemma. "This could be a nightmare."

"What could be a nightmare babe?" Octavia can't help but smile at Lincolns term of endearment. But it's Lexa that she concentrates on.

"The thing is, Nia was our star midfielder before you came along Lex. But I'm telling you now, you are ten times the player she is; coach will definitely pick you in the starting 11."

Lexa isn't sure why O looks so upset. "Well that's great then, I guess I don't have a problem at all."

The 3 Woods siblings know there must be more to it, when Clarke, Octavia and Raven all drop their heads. It's Octavia that attempts to explain. "Nia Queen will not take losing her place very well Lex."

Raven continues. "She has a pretty awful reputation Woods, I wouldn't want to be in your shoes when she realises you're the reason she'll be warming the bench all season."

"Great."

Just to top off Lexa's quickly plummeting mood, the bell goes to signal that they all have to get to their next class. She didn't even get a chance to say hi to Clarke. Before everyone dissipates and goes their separate ways, another stranger joins the group, well at least he's a stranger to Lexa, everyone else seems to know him.

"Hey Bell what's up?" Octavia addresses the newcomer.

"Just here to pick up Anya for our Bio class."

Lexa's eyes widen a bit, even Anya knows this guy. Octavia explains. "Lex this douche is my big brother Bellamy."

Bellamy extends his hand, and Lexa shakes it enthusiastically. "So, you are the wondrous Lexa that my sister and a particular best friend of hers can't stop talking about." He smirks at Clarke as he speaks. Lexa is delighted, and Clarke can feel her cheeks flush a little.

Bellamy decides to tease a little longer. "I swear all I've heard out of them the past few days is 'oh Bell, Lexa's such a good soccer player; oh Bell, Lexa is such a good kisser.'" This earns him a smack from both his sister and Clarke. He laughs.

Anya pulls on his sleeve. "Come on pretty boy, we've got to get to class."

They watch as Anya pulling Bellamy towards their classroom, turns into Bellamy placing his arm around her shoulder, as they both share a joke about something, and disappear into the distance chuckling. Everyone shrugs and decides that they better get to their classes too. Everyone except Raven, she watches the two of them, interested in their dynamic until they disappear out of view. She wasn't really aware that Bellamy and Anya even knew each other, let alone got on as well as they clearly do.

She's pulled from her thoughts by Octavia. "Rae, are you coming or what?"

She turns to see, O, Clarke, Lexa and Lincoln all waiting for her. She quickly runs down the hall after them.

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All of the 11th graders, Clarke, Lexa, Octavia, Lincoln and Bellamy had headed to their English class. Their teacher had set the work for the lesson, and was basically letting the kids get on with it. Clarke who is sitting with Lexa, and not actually doing any work, unless you count staring at Lexa and getting giddy about just how beautiful she is, as work. But she can't deny that something has been bothering her since the incident in the hall.

Clarke nervously bites the end of her pencil, but she knows she has to ask, so no time like the present. "Hey Lex." It's a little above a whisper.

Lexa turns to face the blonde, and Clarke wonders if the forest green of her eyes will always cause her to lose her breath. She hopes so. Knowing she has her attention she gets a little nervous again. She tries, and fails to act casual.

"What did Costia want before in the hall?" Clarke knows that Costia is gay, and she has eyes, so she knows that she's beautiful too.

Lexa can't help the smirk that forms on her lips. Is Clarke jealous? She answers nonchalantly. "She asked me out." Lexa returns her gaze down to her paper.

"What?" Before she can help it, the question is out of Clarke's mouth, and it was probably a little too angry for someone that has only been on one date, to be honest it was more of a hiss than a word; of course Lexa is free to get asked out and even go out on dates with whoever she wants. Suddenly the thought of Lexa and Costia on a date is making Clarke feel sick to her stomach.

Lexa watches the range of emotions cross the stunning face before her. She decides to put her out of her misery. "I turned her down of course."

"You did? Why?" Lexa almost laughs.

"I've got my eye on someone else." She winks.

Clarke calms down, and falls into this little flirtatious banter with Lexa. "Oh really, anyone I know?"

"Hmm I'm not sure. Stunning girl, bright blonde hair, the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen."

Clarke is delighted. "Wow, sounds like someone I'd remember if I had seen her."

"Most definitely, she's the kind of girl that you see once, and can't help but think about, probably for the rest of your life."

Before they have a chance to continue down this road, the attention of the class is taken by the classroom door swinging open. It's their teacher that breaks the silence.

"Mr Collins. So nice of you to join us. Please take a seat."

Lexa recognises him as the boy from the fair, immediately, she freezes. Clarke feels Lexa tense as soon as she sees her ex-boyfriend, and given his antics on Friday night she can certainly understand it. Finn smiles over at her, please god don't make this situation any worse by coming over here, is Clarke's current thought. No such luck. Finn strides over a and sits at the table with Clarke and Lexa. Octavia and Raven are watching the table like a hawk, ready to step in if their friends need them.

Now Clarke is really stuck. Stuck between trying to get her friendship with Finn back on track, which basically means she can't tell him to get lost; and trying not to piss Lexa off anymore than she already has when it comes to Finn, meaning that she really should tell him to get lost.

It appears that the floppy haired boy hasn't picked up on the tension at the table, in fairness it doesn't appear that's he's even registered Lexa's presence.

"Hey Clarke, I just wanted to apologise for Friday night." Clarke lets out the breath she didn't even know she was holding. Maybe this is going to be okay after all.

"I was thinking I could buy you dinner and take you to see that new movie this Friday night. You know to apologise and get things back on track between us." Maybe not. Finn is smiling, as if her turning him down isn't really an option. It's this smug look that has Lexa giving her pen the death grip, she can't actually believe the piece of stationary is still in one piece.

Clarke can tell from Lexa's set jaw that she really is not loving this one bit. Before Clarke has a chance to address anything Lexa starts to move, and Clarke panics immediately. "I'll leave you guys to talk."

Before Lexa can get away Clare has grabbed the sleeve of her t-shirt. "Sit down." Lexa does as she's told, the look currently nestled in those blue orbs tells her that she would have instantly regretted doing anything else.

Clarke then turns her attention back to Finn, who in fairness looks a little less smug and a little more perplexed than he did a few moments ago. "Finn, thank you for apologising. You acted like a real dick on Friday night."

Finn starts to protest, but he can tell she hasn't finished, so he lets her speak. "And I would love nothing more for us to get our friendship back on track. But I'm not interested in anything more than that."

He looks from Clarke to Lexa and back again. "Who's this?" He gestures with his head towards Lexa.

"This is Lexa. We're dating I guess." She looks to Lexa unsure if they can call one failed attempt at a date as dating, but is met by the most brilliant proud smile, all the confirmation she needs. She says it a lot more confidently this time. "We're dating."

Finn looks over the both of them again. "That's so hot."

Clarke rolls her eyes. "Nice to meet you Lexa." And then he's gone, he goes and joins the other jocks at the other side of the classroom. Well that could have gone a lot worse.

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Lexa and Octavia had been a little weary about this evenings training session given the altercation with Nia Queen earlier. However as soon as they set foot on the training pitch it was all forgotten, in fact it had been a pretty good fairly uneventful session. Octavia has a feeling however that the tension is about to be hitched up a notch.

The coach is setting up a training game of 11 v 11. Octavia knows that with the team's first friendly match being on Friday night, the coach will play what he sees as his starting 11 against the second 11. She knows that Nia knows this too. So when Lexa is in the first 11 and Nia isn't, she knows it's going to be an issue.

Nia shakes her head as she's instructed by the coach to join the second 11. She appreciates that Lexa is good, but she's been on this team for years, she can't believe that coach would drop her instantly like this. It simply won't do.

Octavia runs up to Lexa quickly before the match kicks off. "Hey, be careful okay."

"What do you mean?"

"Look our team is clearly the coaches preferred 11 for Friday night, which means Nia is going to be pissed." Lexa smirks.

Octavia rolls her eyes and pulls on her jersey to get her attention. "Hey I mean it Lex. Nia is playing centre mid for the other team, meaning that she is in direct opposition to you. Just be careful okay."

Lexa can't believe what Octavia is suggesting. She doesn't really think Nia would actually try something does she?

The game is about 15 minutes in when Nia makes her move, it's been competitive to say this least this far, but Lexa has constantly gotten the better of her midfield counterpart; and it is really pissing Nia off now. Lexa has the ball, head up looking for a killer pass, her first thought is to look for Octavia, they are creating quite the partnership. O makes a great run, and Lexa releases the ball, a millisecond later she sees the tackle coming in from Nia, it's knee high. Thanks to Octavia words, Lexa had kind of been expecting something like this, so she's on her toes. She jumps, knowing that there's no way she's going to avoid the contact, Nia is about to plough into her leg; however she knows she can't have her leg planted on impact, or it will get snapped in two.

So, she jumps, and Nia's studs connect harshly with her shin, the pain is instant and excruciating. She really wishes she wore her shin pads in training. She can't do anything she can't offer any sort of reaction, as much as she'd like to jump up and smash Nia's face in, she just grabs her shin as soon as she crumples into a pile on the floor, and closes her eyes, hoping the pain will subside.

Octavia has no such issues holding her back, she immediately jumps into Nia Queen, forgetting her reputation completely. There's no way she's letting her get away with that tackle. The coach splits them up before anything really gets started, and he pushes Nia away. "You. get to principle Gustus' office, I will meet you there."

Nia scowls at Lexa's stricken form on the ground. Octavia watches as Clarke; who had watched the whole scene unfold from the bleachers, and run to pitch as fast as she could muster, drops to her knees and takes Lexa's face in her hands.

"Hey."

Lexa opens her eyes as she hears Clarke's voice. "I'm going to pull your sock down okay."

Lexa just nods, she too busy trying desperately to keep the tears at bay to do anything else. She removes her hand from where it's clutching her shin, to allow Clarke access.

Clarke is so gentle when she pulls the sock down Lexa's shin. She sucks in a laboured breath as she sees a nasty bruise starting to form already. It doesn't look great, Clarke's main concern is that the shin bone might be fractured.

"I need to get you to the hospital."

Lexa shakes her head frantically. "No Clarke, it's just a bruise."

"That may be the case, but there's a chance of a fracture, and I don't want to be the reason your amazing soccer career is over before it starts." She gives Lexa the most brilliant smile, which Lexa can't help but reciprocate.

Octavia decides to help. "Yeah come on Lex, we don't want to miss a fracture and you get even more injured. That will blow our championship chances before we've started."

Lexa concedes and sits up, Clarke can tell that she's won. "Come on O, help me get her to my car."

They manoeuvre so that Lexa has an arm around each of them, and she basically hops to Clarke's car with the aid of her friends.

The ride to the hospital is in a comfortable silence. Clarke again helps Lexa into the ER, the pain has subsided a little, but it's still throbbing, and the bruise on her shin seems to be expanding to take over the whole lower portion of her left leg.

"Hey mini Griff."

Clarke looks up to see one of her Moms nicer colleagues, Marcus Kane. "Hey Marcus, is my Mom around?" She knows this will be over a lot faster with her mom's help.

"Sure kiddo, I'll page her, you need some help?" Without waiting for an answer, he throws Lexa's free arm around his shoulder, and he a Clarke easily get the stricken teenager to the waiting chairs.

"I'll be right back with your mother."

Lexa smiles at Clarke as who she presumes is 'Dr' Marcus, although Clarke didn't actually introduce them, so he might not be a doctor, disappears. Clarke just shrugs. "I guess the one perk of my Mom basically living at the hospital, is VIP treatment for me and my friends when needed."

Lexa feels a pang of sadness at Clarke's words, but she doesn't get a chance to dwell on it, as a woman greets Clarke.

"Hello darling." Abby glances over at Lexa. "What brings you here?"

"Mom, this is Lexa, Lexa this is my Mom Doctor Abby Griffin." Abby ears immediately prick up at the mention of Lexa's name; in the few moments, she has shared with her daughter recently, this girls name has been mentioned more than once. Abby lets her daughter explain further.

"She took a bad tackle in soccer training and I'm a little worried about a potential fracture on her tibia."

Abby smirks at Clarke's use of the medical term for the shin bone, she really hopes her daughter follows in her footsteps. She glances down at Lexa's leg, and frowns when she sees the size of the welt that has formed there.

"Well very nice to meet you Lexa. Let's get you into X-ray and make sure nothing's broken."

"Thank you Doctor Griffin." Lexa smiles through her pain.

"Please call me Abby." See smiles down at her daughter. "You want to hang out while Lexa is in X-ray?"

Clarke is delighted which in turn means Lexa is delighted too. She smiles at the interaction between mother and daughter. "I would love that."

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Lexa has just gone in for her X-ray and Clarke and her Mom are sitting out in the hall.

"So that's Lexa."

Clarke's eyes her mom suspiciously, she hasn't been talking about her that much has she. "She's really beautiful."

Clarke smirks. "Yeah she is." She sinks down contently into her seat, causing her mom to giggle.

"I take it this means you're over that idiot Finn." Abby asks seriously.

Clarke frowns. "Mom I'm so over that douchebag. I don't even know what I was thinking getting involved with him. We should have just stayed friends, then things wouldn't be as difficult as they are right now."

"Hey, that's nobody's fault apart from Finn's."

Clarke just nods her head. Abby sighs as her beeper sounds and glances down to be met by '911'. "I better go." She kisses Clarke on the head. "I've missed this, just us talking."

Clarke has too, she watches her mom leave, and for the first time in a long time has some genuine hope that they can potentially get their relationship back on track.

Lexa steps out of the X-ray room smiling brightly. Clarke laughs. "I assume it's good news?"

Her grin widens if that's even possible. "No fracture, no break, and the pain killers your mom gave me have kicked in."

This causes Clarke to really laugh out loud. Lexa thinks it's the most delightful sound she's ever heard. "Where is your mom?"

"She had to go. Emergency."

Lexa nods. Clarke continues. "You ready to go?"

"I think so. Do I need to fill out any forms?"

Clarke just shakes her head. "Let's get you home then. Your chariot awaits."

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