Chapter 12
"Hey there's a guy sitting alone over there, let's say hi!" Raven suggested pulling Clarke's arm towards the corner where the man laid down in a ball quietly in the corner. He was clearly in pain as he played with the chains that lined his wrist , tying him up just like Clarke's.
"Hi." Clarke waved.
"Hey, I'm Raven , and this is Clarke!" Raven extended a hand to the omega resting quietly in the corner.
"Hi, I'm Ilian i'm the omega of the Trishanku clan leader." The omega answered shaking Raven's hand.
"Good to meet you Ilian!" Raven nodded before sitting down with a friendly smile.
"Hi, I'm Clarke." Clarke added shuffling the mat she carried under one arm to shake Illidan's hand too.
"Hehe couldn't bare to be away from your alpha's scent?" Ilian teased pointing to the mat under Clarke's arm.
"yeah ,I'm kinda new to being an omega." Clarke blushed embarrassed that she was the only one who couldn't go without her alpha's scent. Clarke then busied herself with laying out the mat and getting comfortable laying down on it in order to distract herself from her embarrassment and to garner comfort from the scent it was coated in.
"No, no need to feel embarrassed, I always carry around something that smells like my alpha too, Normally just a swatch of his old shirt or something. But really it's normal for omegas." Ilian reassured.
"Thanks." Clarke thanked , feeling relieved.
"Normally my collar and chains are enough , but sometimes I need something that smells like him." Ilian added.
"Yeah , the chains do help alot." Clarke smiled fiddling with the chains on her wrists that gave her more comfort than she could explain.
"So how recently did you present?" Ilian asked.
"Present?" Clarke asked.
"It's her first heat still." Raven answered.
"Jesus you are new!" Leon's eyes widened in shock. "I get why you crave your alpha so much!"
"Yeah she is pretty new." Octavia giggled as she scooched over to Clarke and began scratching behind Clarke's ear.
"Mhmm thank you!" Clarke moaned in relief of the pain.
"Your next heat shouldn't be so bad. The first is normally the worst." Ilian comforted.
"So I've been told." Clarke smiled into Raven's scratches.
"That Always helps me when I'm in heat too." Ilian smiled kindly.
"Yeah it really helps!" Clarke agreed.
"Try at the small of her back, about two thirds of the way down, right in between the vertebrae." ilian suggested.
"Hmm never heard that one." Raven shrugged placing her knuckle in between the vertebrae that Ilian specified and massaging the spot.
"Holy shit, that's better than some suppressants!" Clarke cried happily as a sizeable amount of the pain disappeared.
"It will do nothing for you when you are around an alpha in their rut, their pheromones lock up that spot and it causes a lot of the pain and cramping of heat." Ilian explained.
"Ah gotcha cool trick!" Raven noted massaging the same spot on herself. "It really is pretty good."
"Mhmm, told ya!" Ilian nodded. "So what clan are you two, and who are your alpha's?"
"Oh my alpha is the commander, but I'm from skai kru." Clarke explained.
"Oh , I knew I shouldn't sleep though the ceremony, I was just so tired, and my alpha has been so stressed out lately, uugh I hate it!" Ilian groaned as he stretched slightly and curled up into a ball of insecurity.
"Ohh poor guy!" Raven cooed sympathetically.
"Yeah, I've only been bonded about half a day, but even I know how bad it is when your alpha is upset!" Clarke agreed.
"I just hope that he is going to be ok, he won't tell me what he did that has him so stressed out, but I know he is in danger, he has been for days." Illidan curled up even more.
"Aww, poor kid." Raven scooched over to Milian's side and began scratching behind his ear calmingly. "It's gonna be ok." Raven comforted.
"Thanks." Ilian hummed softly in relief.
"It's gonna be ok." Clarke comforted as a familiar face caught her eye. "Bel! Is that you!" Clarke called to the man standing guard with a rifle pointed out of the window he leaned against.
"Hey Clarke." Bellamy replied with a distant wave.
"Bel!" Clarke pressed. Bellamy just waved again in response. "Bellamy!" Clarke yelled in a hushed tone as she got up and ran over to hug her friend.
"Hey Clarke" Bellamy repeated.
"Bellamy , what's wrong?" Clarke asked worriedly.
"Nothing I am just doing my duty as the thirteenth clan's champion." Bellamy answered with a cold shoulder that went beyond frigid.
"Bellamy, really what's wrong?" Clarke questioned frustrated. "Why the cold shoulder?"
"You were the one with the cold shoulder, you waited till now to say hi, I just figured you didn't want to talk whether it be because you have an alpha now , or because the last time I saw you … we had just left mount weather." Bellamy recalled the painful memory of flipping the switch that killed hundreds.
"I said hi the second I saw you!" Clarke tilted her head confused.
"I was in the lineup while your alpha lectured us on protecting you and Raven, while you were holding tight to Lexa?" Bellamy reminded.
"Your implant hasn't worn off yet has it?" Clarke giggeled.
"What does that have to do with it? And For you information , I'm a beta, no implant." Bellamy explained.
"Oh…" Clarke trailed off surprised. "Thought yude be an alpha. Anyways , i was too absorbed in Lexa's scent to pay attention to any of you in the line up. Hehe, especially because she was being all dominant … and sexy." Clarke hummed losing herself in thoughts of her alpha.
"I will never understand you alphas and omegas." Bellamy laughed, taking Clarke out of her thoughts.
"Well, it's great being an omega when you have an alpha!" Clarke defended.
"Haha, im sure it is Clarke. How does she treat you? Is she good to you?" Bellamy checked in.
"Oh she is perfect." Clarke glowed at just the mention of her alpha.
"Good I am happy for you Clarke." Bellamy smiled and gave Clarke a friendly hug.
"What about you, how are you?" Clarke asked.
"I have some trouble with what happened at the mountain, but I am working through it." Bellamy nodded trying to brush off his memories of the mountain.
"It's gonna be ok Bel." Clarke hugged her friend again.
"Thanks Clarke." Bellamy smiled softly. "How was the ceremony?"
"It was scary at first, but I trust Lexa, and i know she cares about me. So it wasn't a big deal that I was scared. Also Lexa is always there to comfort me. The only bad part was the assassination attempt that happened while we were on our way here from the feast." Clarke answered.
"You feeling ok? I know you are strong but someone trying to kill you can rattle even the best of us." Bellamy checked.
"I'm ok because I have my alpha." Clarke replied playing with her chains.
"You like those?" Bellamy pointed at the chains.
"I love them." Clarke nodded.
"Good."
"So you are our champion?" Clarke questioned.
"Well with Octavia the tri kru second and you gone to the wilderness… yeah I got the job." Bellamy answered.
"Well congrats?" Clarke replied.
"Hehe thanks Clarke."
"Don't be a stranger ok?" Clarke reminded.
"I won't Clarke." Bellamy nodded and gave Clarke another hug before she headed back to her mat , Ilian , and Raven.
"How is bel?" Raven asked as Clarke curled up on her mat.
"He's ok, a little worse for wear since the mountain, but I think he is ok." Clarke answered.
"Aww poor guy." Raven sympathized.
"Yeah , speaking of poor guy , Ilian , are you ok?" Clarke asked noticing that Ilian had curled up into a tight ball and that he was shaking softly.
"My alpha… something is wrong he is in danger , but he doesn't care!" tears welled up in Killian's eyes.
"Aww it's gonna be ok." Raven comforted scooching closer to Ilian and brushing his hair out of his face.
"I have an idea, Ilian can you walk?" Clarke checked.
"I I don't think so." Illian replied crying.
"It's gonna be ok hun." Clarke assured as she got up and walked over to Bellamy. "Wanna help me with what is assuredly a bad idea?"
End of chapter 12
LauratheChef chapter 11 . 17m ago
agenda queen, hmm that has to be Nia of azgeda... and titus is a dick that needs to be killed...i enjoyed it.
From Jessica: Glad you liked it! And I honestly chose azgeda as the people that helped him because it is the most accurate to the canon verse, and i'm trying to keep it as close as an omegaverse can be. Haha , Titus will probably suffer a death of a thousand cuts, although I might try to make up something worse haha.
Cici on Clarke's first heatAlright, I know the story is dug in on archaic Neanderthal type alpha's, but I have to ask...is lexa going to try and work on changing people's views on the slave thing, or at least treating omegas better in public? Theoretically omegas are revered but realistically they're only revered in public when they are in complete compliance with what alphas want/think of them. Reading lexa punish Clarke for calling her lexa actually made me cringe. I know you've written her into the box of responsibility trumps all but I was hoping that eventually she would turn a corner like the real lexa did. She completely changed her people's way of punishment (which was everything to them) knowing it could cost her her life. I know she felt guilty for basically beating her "mate" (slave) on the ass but it's hard to believe the strongest alpha walking the earth who can literally bend people's will would stoop this low. Clarke has literally forfeited her entire being for a woman who treats her well in the darkness of their room then puts her on her leash and bruises her ass when she cracks from being her part-time partner to her slave. Keeping up with the changes between when it's appropriate for Clarke to be her mate and when Clarke can be beaten for showing love or any kind of personal acknowledgement towards lexa would give me whiplash if I were Clarke. This isn't criticism or me being mean...you're great at replying and trying to give readers an idea of if the story is going to evolve that way. I'm just wondering if we'll ever see her change any of their ways. Tenuous relations can be solved by lexa enforcing her dominance on one of those idiots. Not on beating a "helpless" enslaved omega.
From Jessica: Ok! So I've thought about everything you suggested/mentioned, I promise!
And there are a couple things that I'm not sure went into enough detail about describing abt this verse , or at least the verse in my head. (And you have given me an idea for the next chapter to highlight these things that I haven't elaborated on enough so far)
In this verse (and again , whenever I say this , I mean like in my head.) , no omegas enter a slave, ownership , bond unwillingly. I have alluded to it , but I may not have gone into enough detail, and if so that's my fault. But for the grounder people in this verse the worst thing an alpha can do is force themselves on an omega , or coerce them into a bond/ slave /owner relationship (and in grounders eyes omegas can't consent when in heat, the consent must be given prior) . I attempted to show this in the beginning when Lexa is so disgusted at abby suggesting that she would have taken advantage of Clarke when she had just gone into heat in the first chapter.
Next , Lexa feels terrible for letting Clarke know that she is in danger because the coalition thought Clarke was her omega. The last thing Lexa wanted was to push Clarke to make a decision like becoming her slave without consent.
Have I done a sufficient job of explaining those in the story? Do I need to revisit those to make them more clear?
Ok , next ! in this story not all omegas are slaves , or owned. Omegas only enter into those relationships with through consent and understanding , Clarke and Lexa were an exception because of the threat of the coalition falling apart. And All omega/alpha pairs
And all mates will have a ceremony (like clarke and Lexa's), in front of others where the omega can reject the alpha, with complete safety.
Also , there was a very specific reason why I ,made the bonds so strong in this fic, the bonds are so strong so that an alpha knows how much their omega can take , and hurting their omega , very literally hurts the alpha too.
Finally, And I will be getting to this in the next chapter , which is about half way done now , Omegas can leave their alpha. I'm still honestly working it out in my head, but i have always wanted to address it eventually in this story. Omegas are free to leave their alphas whenever they like.
I hope that this long winded response helped you see at least a little why I am not having Lexa echo her character from the show as much. I do intend to make another version of this story, kinda, I am gonna revisit the basis of the story , people in arc have implants , don't know a/b/o and all. And that one will have Lexa do something like what you are suggestion (i think)
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Well Clarke was saying lexa in front of O raven and the assassin she only had her hide tanned last chapter for the same thing
totally awesome brilliant thank you
From Jessica: She is fine to say it when in front of the assassin , for a series of reasons, not in front o f the coalition , in the tower , and because he is dead now lol. Remember she is allowed to do whatever she wants in the tower if she isn't in front of the coalition.
little_baby_racoon on Clarke's first heatI really love this fic. Clarke is so cute with her mat lol and I loved the flashback of Raven and Octavia, Id like to see more of those.
From Jessica: Yay Im glad you like it! Haha yeah she is. And I try to do flashbacks as frequently as possible.