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Clarke has just pulled into her own driveway, having just driven Lexa home from the hospital. Lexa was adamant that she didn't want to go straight home, despite Clarke's protestations; Lexa politely reminded the stunning blonde that she's only taken a kick to the shin, her life isn't in danger.
Clarke does however note Lexa's limp as she makes her way to Clarke's front door, Lexa grimaces as Clarke shoots her a knowing look.
"Clarke I promise you, I'm fine. It's just still a little sore." Lexa assures her.
Clarke shakes her head, Lexa is clearly stubborn, Clarke can't really berate her for that, knowing that her own stubborn streak is famous amongst her friends and family. She unlocks her front door and holds it open for Lexa to enter. She does so slightly more gracefully than before, and Clarke smirks as she knows the brunette is trying her best not to limp. Lexa drops onto Clarke's couch at the first opportunity.
Clarke hovers. "Do you need me to get you anything? A drink, some ice for your leg?"
Lexa smiles, loving just how concerned Clarke is for her wellbeing. It's hard to believe that they've only known each other for a week. "Now you mention it, I think a kiss would probably help with the pain."
Clarke purses her lips together trying to hide her growing smile, Lexa's eyes sparkle with mischief, before Clarke slowly sits on the couch next to her new friend. She wastes no time in giving in to Lexa's requests, as she tentatively seeks out Lexa's lips with her own.
It's starts gently at first, but quickly turns into a full blown make out session, they're both completely lost in it, trying to taste more of the other, Clarke is leaning into Lexa so much that the brunette is actually horizontal on the couch, with the stunning blonde basically lying on top of her now. They both feel it; the need they have for each other. Neither has experienced this wanting before, the fact that this is only their second kiss, makes it even more exhilarating.
Clarke feels like it's getting into the territory where things could go further, and she's not sure she could stop herself, if Lexa was game of course. But they've only been on one date, so as much as she wants this right now, she doesn't want to do anything with Lexa that they might regret, so she pulls back. Given the shift in their positions during the kiss she's now straddling her.
Lexa is annoyed by the loss of contact, but ultimately she knows it's probably for the best, she's not sure sleeping with Clarke would be the best idea this soon. Clarke takes in Lexa's appearance, swollen lips, blown pupils, adorable confused look on her face; she assumes her appearance pretty much mirrors that of the gorgeous woman's below her.
Clarke offers an explanation to appease some of Lexa's confusion. "That was getting pretty heated; I would've have wanted more."
"And we're not ready for that yet." Lexa nods in agreement as she speaks.
Clarke climbs off of Lexa and the brunette sits up to allow her to sit back onto the couch. Clarke tries to relieve some of the tension in the room. "Beside I don't want you thinking that I give it up after one date. I'm not that easy."
Lexa chuckles. "I think my reputation might take more of a battering if I gave it up after 'that' first date."
It was meant to be light-hearted; instead it's opened up Lexa's insecurities about Finn, and Clarke's embarrassment about what happened at the fair, and earlier today at school, when Finn asked her out in front of Lexa.
"I'm really sorry about Finn." Clarke says honestly.
Lexa sighs, she isn't happy about the situation with Finn, she'd be lying if she said she was. "It's just difficult having him around in the background, always ready to swoop in."
"I'm not interested in Finn." Clarke goes on the defensive.
"But you are Clarke, by your own admission, you would like to be his friend again." This is getting a little deeper that it should, but Lexa needs to get it off her chest. "And it's not that I don't trust you; it's not like I even need to trust you, we've been on one date, I know we're not exclusive or anything; I just." She struggles to find the words. "I just don't like that he's around I guess."
Clarke frowns, she knows she would feel exactly the same if she was Lexa. "Look you're right, I do want to be his friend again, but if that makes you too uncomfortable, I don't have to. I can deal with not having him back in my life."
Lexa's head snaps up, the thought of Clarke actually doing that, makes her feel worse than the two of them becoming friends again. "Clarke I don't want you to have to cut people out of your life for me. Especially given that we've only known each other a week." She laughs at the ridiculousness of it. Before looking into those stunning blue eyes. "This is my issue, I'll deal with it."
Clarke nods, she can see that Lexa means it's, and more than that she can tell that she feels a little better about the Finn situation than she did a few moments ago. "How about this." Clarke decides to voice her thoughts on a compromise. "I won't cut Finn out of my life, but I will never put him before you. That way we'll never have a repeat of what happened at the fair on Friday night."
Lexa smiles. "Deal."
Clarke feels like she needs to add a little more to the moment. "I know this thing between us is really new Lex, but it already feels different, special. Like it's really important you know."
Lexa nods, to show that she wholeheartedly agrees. Clarke hasn't finished yet. "I'm not interested in Finn, or anyone else. You can trust that Lexa. I'm only interested in you."
The blonde suddenly remembers Costia asking Lexa out, and her stomach flips, especially given Lexa's statement that they aren't exclusive; Lexa could easily go on a date with Costia. The thought makes her sick to her stomach.
Lexa watches as a myriad of emotions play on Clarke's face. What the hell is she thinking about. It appears she's about to get an explanation, Clarke's worried expression, is replaced by a more coy one which intrigues Lexa.
"Besides shouldn't I be worried about you and Costia."
Lexa has to stifle a laugh at Clarke's attempt to play it cool, she can't believe she's actually genuinely worried about Costia.
"No you shouldn't." Clarke isn't sure she's happy about the amused smirk playing on her lips. "I'm not interested in anyone else either, and I made that perfectly clear to Costia."
Clarke's face explodes into a smile. "Well I guess that does make us pretty exclusive then."
"I guess so." Lexa agrees, she decides that they also need to get past this first date issue. " are you free Saturday?"
Clarke nods which spurs her on. "How about you let me take you out?"
"I would love that."
"Great. Means I'll get to see what Clarke Griffin gives up after a second date." Lexa wiggles her eyebrows to show she's teasing, which results in a couch cushion being flung at her head.
It's a struggle for Lexa to stand through all of her laughter, but she manages it. "Right I better go. Thanks for looking after me tonight."
"Anytime." Clarke rises and plants a short sweet kiss onto Lexa's lips, which the brunette is more than happy to accept.
Lexa reluctantly leaves Clarke and makes the short journey home. She heads into the kitchen, which is, and has always been the main hub of her family home. She's not disappointed when she finds her Mom, Dad, Anya and Lincoln all seated at the dining table. However she notes the five worried expressions glaring back at her and she knows that they all know what happened at school. Not a surprise she guesses, she assumes that Octavia probably told Lincoln, or that she told Raven, who then passed it onto Anya.
Her mom breaks the silence. "How's your leg?"
Lexa shrugs as she drops her bag to the floor and joins her family at the table. "It's fine, just badly bruised."
"So definitely no fracture?" Her mom continues.
"Nope." Lexa shakes her head as she speak. "Clarke made me get an X-ray, he Mom works at Polis General."
Anya and Lincoln exchange smirks. But it doesn't last. Anya speaks up. "Nia Queen is a real piece of work."
Lexa raises her eyebrows. Anya answers her unspoken question. "Raven told me." Now it's Lexa's turn to smirk.
Lincoln adds. "Octavia did too, she's really worried about what she might try to do to you Lex."
"Other than try and break my leg you mean?"
Lexa is taken aback when it's her father that speaks next. That fact that he starts with an almighty sigh doesn't fill her with confidence either. "Principle Titus, mentioned that she's from a notorious family."
His choice of words is interesting, and he can tell by her expression that his youngest daughter is going to need more. Anya is the one that provides the clarity. "He means her family is basically like the Polis mafia."
Gustus takes over again. "Unfortunately Anya is correct, it seems they have quite some sway in this city."
"That's probably why she only got a detention for nearly ending your soccer career." Lincoln practically spits out the words.
Lexa can't quite believe her ears; at minimum Nia deserved a suspension, given that her attack was so blatant. "I don't know what you guys are saying here? What you want me to do."
Indra places a hand on Lexa's across the table. "Just be careful sweetie. Don't do anything stupid, or let your temper get the better of you."
"So I just let her do whatever she wants?"
"Absolutely not." Her dads voice is booming. "You've got the added bonus that me, Anya and Lincoln, will all be at school with you. We just need to be clever about how we deal with her."
"O says she's really manipulative, and wouldn't be surprised if she tried to turn something around on you so you got into trouble, maybe even kicked out of school, and by default off the team." It appears Lincoln and Octavia have really been worrying about this.
Anya tries to lighten the mood slightly. "Don't forget that Polis High is the only high school in this godforsaken place. I do not want to be having to drive your ass out of town for school every morning."
Lexa although deep in thought, smiles at her sister. "Don't worry guys, Nia is nothing but a bully, sulking because she can't have her own way. I know exactly how to deal with bully's."
The other four members of the Woods family exchange worried glances at Lexa's latest statement.
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Lexa's leg feels a lot better this morning, she actually thinks she could probably play the friendly match on Friday night, which is not something she ever thought would be possible in the immediate aftermath of Nia's tackle at training last night.
She's currently walking into school, she has Anya and Lincoln on either side of her, acting like bodyguards; literally scanning the sea of faces around them for any sign of Nia or any of her minions. They manage to make it to Clarke's locker, and are greeted by, Clarke, Octavia and Raven.
"How's your leg today?" Of course, Clarke is first to enquirer as to Lexa's wellbeing.
"It feels a lot better today actually." Lexa moves to place an arm around Clarke, and places a chaste kiss on her cheek. "Hi."
Clarke melts. Once again reduced to blushing school girl by Lexa's actions.
Lincoln, not to be outdone by his sister, slides over to Octavia, and places a kiss on her lips, one which Octavia seems reluctant to end. Anya glances over at Raven, they exchange an awkward look before instantly looking away from each other. Raven clears her throat and hopes that the new couples take the hint. Thankfully they do, and part.
"So what's the plan for Nia Queen?" Octavia's question is firmly aimed at Lexa.
She just shrugs, her arm still around Clarke. "I'll deal with if I have to. I'm not going to actively seek her out for trouble."
"There's no way Nia Queen is going to let this drop until she gets her place back on the team. Just so you know." Well Octavia is clearly full of joy this morning.
"Maybe I should just drop soccer, seems like it's going to be more trouble than it's worth."
Octavia is appalled. "Absolutely not Lex, we need you."
Anya it seems is equally appalled. "You were raised better than to give into bully's kiddo."
"So I guess I'll go back to my original plan to lie low and see what happens." Lexa doesn't know what else she can do really.
"We better make a move to class." Clarke grabs Lexa's hand as she speaks, and they start to move towards home room; the rest followed, all worried.
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The group have decided that solidarity is the order of the day, so they had all arranged to meet and have lunch together. It's a nice day so they're eating on the bleachers. There's a few other kids that have had the same idea. So far it's just Anya and Raven who have arrived at the designated meet point.
Raven still has a number of questions for Anya swirling around her mind after yesterday. She guesses now is probably the time to get them out, given that they're alone.
"So you and Bellamy, that was a bit of a shock?"
Anya quirks her eyebrow, unsure what Raven is implying. Raven clearly sees the confusion. "I just mean I didn't know you knew each other, let alone get on as well as you clearly do."
Raven tries her best to act aloof, if she's honest she has no idea why this bothers her so much. Anya is still confused, obviously not about the question anymore, but as to why Raven cares.
"He's in a lot of my classes, he and Lincoln play football together, he's Octavia's brother." Anya shrugs her shoulders. "He's just around a lot I guess, and he seems harmless enough."
Raven calms slightly, but she needs to know if there's anything more; again she's not sure why. "Plus he's not bad to look at right."
Anya smirks. "I can't say I've noticed."
Raven is mightily confused at the pure relief she feels at Anya's statement. She doesn't have time to dwell on it as Clarke, Octavia and Lincoln join the group.
Clarke is first to notice and panics immediately. "Where the hell is Lexa?" She turns her annoyance to Raven. "I thought you guys had Spanish together?"
Raven shakes her head no. "No, we have Spanish after lunch, I thought she was in class with one of you guys."
"Shit." Clarke works it out in her head. "She must have Math, that's the only lesson she has without any of us."
Octavia places a hand on her best friends shoulder. "Relax Clarke, she only has to make it from the north building to here. I'm sure even Lexa can manage that without running into she that shall not be named."
It seems that Octavia's confidence was misplaced. Lexa can see Nia heading towards her, she curses her Math teacher for making small talk as she tried to leave the classroom, making her slightly late.
She braces herself, as she comes face to face with her nemesis.
"How's your leg?" Nia is cold and calculated, she wearing what appears to be her trademark smirk.
"It's fine actually. I should be fit to start on Friday night." Lexa can't help the little dig.
The smirk drops from Nia's face for a millisecond. Just long enough for Lexa to notice. The scarred girl decides to get straight to the point.
"Look Woods, either you leave the team; I make you leave the team; or I incapacitate you so you can't play. The choice is yours."
"Wow so many attractive options for me." Her sentence is dripping with sarcasm.
"I would say that the first option is your most attractive, and probably the easiest for everyone involved." Nia states almost matter of a factly.
"I won't quit the team." Lexa manages to get out through gritted teeth.
Nia seems also disappointed. "I guess I'll see you by the gate at 3.15pm then." With that she turns on her heels and leaves. Leaving a very confused Lexa in her wake.
Costia takes pity on her crush. "The gate at the end of the day, is where any fights go down." She whispers quickly before running to catch up to Nia and the rest of her crew.
Great, looks like I'm having a fight is Lexa's main thought as she trudges off to find her friends.
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She joins the rest of the group on the bleachers, and drops down next to Clarke with a sigh, still deep in thought about how she's actually going to play this out.
Everyone else can tell that something's happened, the fact that Lexa doesn't greet anyone is their first clue. Lexa hasn't noticed everyone looking at her waiting some sort of explanation, so Anya smacks her on the arm.
"What the hell's wrong with you?"
Lexa grimaces firstly at the smack and secondly at her sisters words. She decides to tell them the truth. "I bumped into Nia, and she wants to meet me at the gate at 3.15pm."
"Oh no." The reaction is simultaneous from Clarke, Octavia and Raven. Anya and Lincoln, like Lexa earlier, clearly need more information.
"You know what that means right Lex?" Raven needs to know if the brunette understands the seriousness of what's going to happen later.
"Yeah, Costia explained it to me." Clarke flinches at the name. Lexa doesn't notice, but she does know that her brother and sister still have no idea what's going on.
"It means she wants to kick my ass." Lexa clarifies. "Tonight by the school front gates."
Anya is instantly worried, she knows Lexa, and she knows she won't back down to a bully; she would love nothing more than to kick this Nia's ass on behalf of her sister, but she knows that Lexa has to do this herself.
"Lexa what are you going to do?" Clarke can't help but voice her concern.
Lexa shrugs. "I guess I'm going to have to fight her."
Clarke is exasperated. "Lexa, you don't stand a chance against Nia"
This pisses Lexa off. "You've never seen me fight, Clarke." The way clicks the 'K' at the end of her name leaves Clarke with no doubt that she's just annoyed Lexa. She attempts to get her girl back on side.
"No, but I've seen Nia several times, she's dangerous; I've seen her make guys weep, seniors even."
"And she won't hesitate to produce a weapon." Octavia is the one to drop this bombshell. "I know you have to do this Lexa, I get it. But please be careful."
Lexa nods. Lincoln and Anya share another worried look. Anya knows it goes against everything she stands for, but she can't help but feel that they need to let her Dad know what's going down later.
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Everyone made sure they ran out of last period to make sure that Lexa didn't have to head to the gate alone. So here she is, now nervously making her towards Nia and her crew, surrounded by Clarke, Octavia, Lincoln, Raven, Anya and even Bellamy. There's quite a crowd gathering, obviously, news of the impending fight has made it around school.
Lexa steps forward into the clearing that has been formed by a circle of bodies. Nia smirks at the confident move by her opponent, if Lexa is scared she isn't showing it; but she should be scared is Nia's main thought, she is going to humiliate the newbie here, show her who's boss at this school, and more importantly on the soccer team.
Lexa takes in Nia's stance, she's confident, overly so. Lexa knows she's skinny and probably doesn't look like much of a fighter, however Nia doesn't know about the MMA training that she Anya and Lincoln have been doing with their Dad since she was 10 years old. Lexa is sure she can handle herself in a fair fight against Nia, but she knows that this fight will probably be anything but fair, in particular she's concerned about Octavia's previous comments about a weapon being produced. Nia Queen is not worth dying over.
The crowd around them is almost holding its breath in expectation as the two girls continue to stare each other out, contemplating their first move. Nia inevitably throws herself forward first, Lexa anticipates the move and side steps before Nia can make contact, but the fight is officially underway and the crowd lets out an excited roar as if to signal the same. There's a cheer from everyone except Lexa's supporters, who are all too consumed with worry to do anything; they don't take their eyes from their girl.
It doesn't take Nia long to make another move, this time she catches Lexa in the stomach with a punch, Lincoln cringes from the side-lines he can see his sister felt that one; it causes a real fight to break out between the two, both women landing blows, Clarke is impressed by Lexa's ability to sidestep Nia's attacks, it means she's getting the better of this fight, unfortunately Nia knows this too.
Both women are panting sweaty, and there's more than a little blood being spilt, Lexa has a nick above her eye, whilst Nia is bleeding heavily from her nose. Nia steps back a little, and within seconds she's has pulled a blade, it's so fast Lexa doesn't even know where it's come from.
Anya and Lincoln both try to step into the circle to take Nia out from behind, but both are held back, they assume by Nia's foot soldiers. Nia lunges at Lexa with the knife, and Lexa manages to grab her arm before she makes contact, but Nia is still trying to steer the knife into the brunette's face, Lexa has no choice but to grab the blade with her other hand, and push Nia away. The pain is unreal, and she feels the blood start to run down her wrist, but it's had the desired effect and the knife is currently out of her personal space.
Nia takes advantage of Lexa worrying about her hand, and before she knows it, Lexa is on her back, with Nia standing over her grinning like a lunatic, pointing the knife at her again. Clarke's heart sinks, but she's frozen to the spot.
Lexa has had enough of this, she's really not happy that Nia has managed to put her on her ass. Before Nia has a chance to contemplate her next move, Lexa traps her legs with her own, and kicks with all her might, causing Nia to fall flat on her back, she does so with such a force that the knife falls from her hand, and at the feet of Raven, who quickly scoops it up.
Lexa who has fully seen red, dives on top of Nia, straddling her, and just starts to rain punches into her face, she can't seem to stop; even though her right hand is as injured as it is; even when Nia loses consciousness, Lexa doesn't stop. It takes four of Nia's crew to pull her off and throw her to one side, they quickly scoop Nia up, worried that a teacher will arrive and they disappear, leaving the crowd stunned and mightily impressed. This new girl has only been here for two minutes and has already taken down Nia Queen.
The crowd starts to disperse at pace, clearly also worried about the impending arrival of a teacher, and Clarke falls to her knees next to Lexa's stricken form. Lexa tries to give her a reassuring smile, but the brunette currently has blood tricking from the nick above her eye, from both nostrils, and pouring from the wound on her hand. Clarke quickly grabs a bandana from her rucksack, and ties it tight around her hand.
Lincoln bends down and scoops up his sister, she grabs onto his shirt and buries her head into the material. Clarke rises and starts to follow Lincoln as he heads towards, Octavia, Raven and Anya follow in silence. Lexa won, they should be happy, but they hate that she had to get hurt in the process.
Anya pulls out her car keys, ready to take her little sister to the hospital for the second time in two days, at the hands of Nia Queen, it makes Anya's blood boil.
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Lexa needed a small butterfly stitch in the nick above her eye, and had to have fifteen stitches on her hand, which has now been bandaged up; luckily no permanent damage has been done to the muscles and tendons in her hand; she's been incredibly lucky. She's been cleaned up of all the blood, so she's looking a lot better than she did when she was laid out on the ground by the gate. Anya, Lincoln, Clarke, Raven and Octavia have all stuck around at the hospital, Lexa is currently sitting on a bed, with everyone sitting in various chairs around the bed, apart from Clarke who is seated next to her on the bed, Lexa is resting her head on her shoulder. Lexa has been told that she can't leave the hospital without an adult, so they're all waiting for either Gustus or Indra, or if they're really unlucky, both.
"That was so awesome Lex. You really kicked her ass." Octavia doesn't even try to hide her excitement.
Lexa just smirks, Lincoln actually addresses Octavia's words. "Yeah I guess 6 years of MMA training has its perks hey sis?"
Lexa smirks, particularly at the wide-eyed expressions currently being worn by her three new friends.
"You didn't tell me you were an MMA fighter?" Clarke seems almost offended.
Lexa lifts her head from the other girl's shoulder. "I'm not a fighter, I just train." She shrugs. "Plus, that didn't really give me an advantage when she pulled a knife."
"That was a low move, beneath low." Anya's words are forced out through gritted teeth, she is not happy at all.
Raven seems to suddenly remember something, and pulls the offending weapon out from underneath her coat. "What the hell do you think I should do with this?"
Lexa flinches at the sight of the knife Nia used to attack her with; Octavia stares from the knife back to her friend and then back between the two again. "What on earth are you doing with that?"
"Well Lexa knocked it out of her hand. I wasn't about to risk her picking it up again."
Anya grabs the blade from Raven, and quickly places it into her jacket. "I'll take care of this."
Anya dealt with that just in the nick of time. Gustus and Indra both stride into the hospital room, both eyes are immediately on their youngest daughter, assessing the damage.
"What happened Lexa?" Indra is cool but calculated, Lexa can tell her Mom is pissed.
"Mom she was gunning for me, if it wasn't today, it would have been some other time; meaning I would have spent the rest of the year looking over my shoulder."
Indra smiles. "Did you win?"
Lexa smirks at her Mom. Gustus isn't impressed. "Indra." He tuts. "Don't encourage them."
The smile drops from Indra's face, like a child who has just been told off, causing the smirk to transfer to Gustus' face. His attention is back on his daughter. "Was it an honourable fight at least?"
"It was on my part."
Gustus sighs, he knows there's clearly more to it; but given his status at the school, and the apparent 'code' amongst the pupils, he knows he won't find out what really happened, at least not from his kids, or their friends, they are far too noble for that.
Rather than push it, he decides to organise. Right Lex, you and Clarke can ride with me and your mother. Anya jumps in.
"Lincoln can ride with me and we'll drop Octavia and Raven at home."
Gustus nods, as his older two children leave the room followed by the two young women that have come to mean so much to them. He turns back towards his youngest daughter, and the girl that has her so smitten. "You two ready to go?"
Lexa jumps from the bed immediately and grabs Clarke's hand. "Yeah. Let's get out of here. I hate hospitals."
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