Chapter 5

"Hey, where are you off to so late dressed like that?" Costia asked as she walked into the kitchen of Lexa's condo and noticing that Lexa was wearing baggy USC sweat pants and a matching sweater, her hair was up in a bun. She had one headphone dangling down so Costia picked it up and held it up to her ear. "What is with your obsession with RnB and old stuff."

Lexa rolled her eyes with a laugh as she took her headphone back. "I'm going to the gym, for starters because I can't sleep and it's Motown, not old stuff. I love the classics, you know a little groove." She bounced her shoulders with the beat in her ear but instead of joining her Costia grabbed a yogurt from the fridge, kissed her cheek.

"It's old stuff, have fun at the gym even though I've barely seen you all week."

"I'm sorry, I know I've been busy but I promise to make it up to you this weekend."

Costia nodded as went to sit on the counter. "Off my counter woman!" Lexa shook her head as Costia rolled her eyes before getting down.

"Yes Commander."

"You know the rules only Anya can call me that, and sometimes Raven."

Costia opened her yogurt and looked down at it before looking back up at Lexa. "Speaking of Anya I really don't think she likes me. I mean it's been years and she still barely looks at me."

"That's just Anya, I told you that."

"Maybe so but she has coffee with Clarke." Lexa looked up from her gym bag with a questioning look. "I ran into her and she was having coffee with Clarke."

Lexa stood up and kissed her girlfriends forehead. "Don't read into it, they've been friends since we were young. You have to remember that we all grew up together in a really small community where everyone pretty much knows everyone. Anya likes you, like I said it just takes her awhile."

Costia reached out to pull Lexa closer by her sweater but instead it caused Lexa to pull back. "No pulling on old faithful, if this thing rips, I'll probably cry."

"I'll never understand why you love that old thing so much, it's so faded. I can buy you a new one you know."

Lexa nodded. "I know but we've been through too much together. Long nights studying, running across campus to get to the library before it closes. Lots of adventures. I'll be back eventually, but don't wait up. Love you."

"I love you too." Costia said as she heard the front door close.

XOXO

Clarke was certain she was one of the only people on the planet who went to the gym after a 6 hour surgery. Surgeries just made her feel so alive, the adrenaline it caused her needed to be worked off somehow so even though it was an ungodly hour of night she decided a good run would do her some good.

When she walked into the 24 hour gym she was disappointed so see that it was still busy. She wasn't exactly the most athletic person in the world. She used to try and surf but she was never any good at, hence her near death surfing experience. It was Octavia that got her into power walking and running because she 'needed a partner in crime fighting'. After changing she put her headphones in and wrapped her ipod around her bicep in it's holder.

She stretched briefly before going over to the treadmills and putting on her favourite work out playlist. She found that the only way she could really work out for any length of time was if she could mentally sing a long to every song on the list. So she compiled some of her favourites and now it was a main stay on her ipod.

She had been lightly jogging on the treadmill for about a half an hour, just long enough to build up a little sweat when she saw someone get on the treadmill next to her out of the corner of her eye. She didn't bother looking over, she just liked to be aware of her surroundings, for a surgeon she was a bit of a klutz so she liked to be extra careful.

Her head moved slightly with the beat of the music as she tried to fight the urge to start singing out loud. It wasn't that she was embarrassed or ashamed but she found that people tended to not want to hear it at the gym. Sure enough as she was lost in her thoughts she knocked her water bottle out of its holder without really noticing, too caught up in the song that was playing.

"Excuse me miss, I think you dropped this." Clarke kept running, not hearing that she was being spoken too. It wasn't until she felt a gentle tap on her arm that she was brought out of her focus. Taking a single ear bud out she turned her head as she kept running.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you." The other person looked up and Clarke tried extra hard to stay on her treadmill.

"I said I think you dropped this."

"You have got to be kidding me." Clarke rolled her eyes. "I swear this city is not big enough! Thank you." She finally said as she shook her head at herself and took the water bottle.

"Your welcome Clarke." Lexa looked away as she got back onto her treadmill, the only free one left in the entire gym. It crossed her mind that she should just leave, Clarke had been there first and it was clear they didn't want to be around each other.

Clarke put her water bottle back in the holder before she finally took notice of what the Lexa had been wearing. Without spending any more time thinking about she turned her attention back to her workout. Turning off the machine she wiped it down before moving to another part of the gym. Only in this state would she run into Lexa more than she liked. It was as though she just couldn't shake the woman, life clearly hated her.

A half hour later Clarke was in the change room packing her bag back up and changing back into her scrubs. She turned around to leave and smacked right into a body. "I'm sorry." They both said in unison as Clarke took a step back.

"Working late?" Lexa asked as she moved aside so Clarke could pass her.

"Yes, you shouldn't be working out on your leg yet." It was barely cordial but at least it was something.

"Clarke wait, are you walking back to the hospital at this hour?" Lexa asked as she noticed the direction that Clarke was leaving the building from. The blonde nodded. "You shouldn't be walking alone in this city at night, the crime rate keeps rising."

"Noted but I'll be fine, I'm from a bigger city than this one. Have a nice night." With that Clarke started to walk down the street after putting her headphones back in. The street was empty even though the gym had been busy so even though the hospital was in the opposite direction of her apartment she walked quietly behind Clarke. She could faintly hear her hum whatever song it was that she was listening to and it wasn't until they got three blocks from the hospital that she finally turned around. Anger on her face. "Seriously, do you not have anything better to do than follow me? You have doctors orders to stay off your leg, walking ten blocks on it, isn't staying off it, especially after working out. I mean it's bad enough you're wearing my sweater, you don't need to escort me around too. If I wanted to be around you, I would have called." She wasn't trying to be rude, it was just too hard for her to be near the other woman and seeing her in her sweater made a lot of memories flood her mind.

XOXO

5 Years Ago

Lexa yawned as she unlocked her front door but stopped as soon as it was open. She could faintly hear the sounds of the Temptations playing. She quietly took her shoes off and moved further into the house. The only explanation she had was that she had left the radio on while she was studying but she thought she had turned it off when she went to get herself a coffee. Her parents were away on a vacation so she had the big house all too herself. It was going to be a long night of studying and she hadn't been able to get a hold of Clarke was hours so she was pretty certain that the other woman was at the hospital so she had turned the radio on to help her focus.

She stopped dead in her tracks as she finally made her way into her kitchen and saw a petite blonde sitting on the counter eating right from the tub of ice cream. She was frozen in shock, scared that if she moved she'd wake up from the dream she thought she was in.

Clarke grinned as she continued to eat her ice cream. She knew Lexa was stunned behind her and she was incredibly proud of herself for pulling off this surprise. "No love love, don't come easy, but I keep waiting, anticipating for that soft voice to talk to me at night. For some tender arms to hold me tight, I keep waiting, I keep on waiting but it ain't easy, it easy but momma said you can't hurry love." She sang through a mouthful of ice cream as she swayed back and forth from where she remained seated on the counter.

Lexa couldn't help the smile that took over her features as she moved towards the woman sitting on her counter. "Do I need to call the police?"

"And tell them what?" Clarke asked, her mouth still full of ice cream.

Lexa stood in front of her girlfriend. "And tell them that someone is stealing my ice cream!"

"That's fine I'll just tell them someone stole my sweater so this made us even."

"You broke into my house."

Clarke shook her head with a grin. "It's not breaking and entering if I used a key, a key your parents gave me since this is technically their house. Besides if I really wanted to do you harm I know exactly how to kill you and make it look like an accident." She stuck her legs out and wrapped them around Lexa's waist bringing her as close as she could before giving her a spoonful of ice cream. They got lost in the others eyes as Clarke finally put the ice cream down and wrapped her arms around Lexa's neck before kissing her softly. God she had missed what that felt like. "Mmm, much better than ice cream."

"You didn't tell me you were coming."

"Believe me, when I'm coming you'll know it." Clarke wiggled her eyebrows as she moved her hands down Lexa's back and tapped her on the butt causing Lexa to shake her head.

"I've heard people say that too much of anything is not good for you baby. But I don't know about that, cause there's many times that we've loved and we've shared love and made love. It doesn't seem to me like it's enough. It's just not enough." Lexa mouthed the words into the spoon she took out of the ice cream as the song changed. She backed out of Clarke's grip and started dancing around the kitchen, using the spoon as a microphone. Instead of getting up Clarke leaned her hands back on the counter and watched her girlfriend dance around like a fool. This was exactly why she came home and exactly what she had needed.

After another minute Lexa waved her over and the blonde knew that when her girlfriend was in this kind of a mood it was best if she just went along with it. So she finally hopped off the counter and started dancing around with the other woman. Both of them in sweat pants and hoodies, reminiscent of what their nights in university had been like. Lexa wrapped one arm around Clarke's waist as she held the spoon in her other hand.

"You smell like me." Clarke whispered once the song finally changed.

"Just the way I like it."

Clarke shook her head. "But I like when you smell like you, even though my sweater does look pretty damn good on you."

"It always has. How long to I have you for?"

"One whole week." Lexa's eye lit up.

"Really?" Clarke nodded as she felt herself being lifted and spun around. "Good thing my parents are on vacation, I don't even care about the case I have to work on now."

"One, you still need to do your work and two, I know, we sort of set it up that way."

"They were in on this?"

Clarke smiled. "They may have been tired of you moping around like a sad puppy."

"I don't mope."

"You mope." Lexa pouted before they were brought of their playful argument by the sound of Lexa's phone ringing. "Answer it."

Lexa rolled her eyes. "Yes ma'am, so bossy." She moved over to the counter where she had set her coffee and phone down. "Hello." She put her phone on speaker and set it back down on the counter.

"Lexa, where have you been? I've been trying to get a hold of you, you were supposed to call me when you figured out your part of the case."

"Sorry Costia but I came home to a bit of a surprise." Her and Clarke continued to dance around the kitchen, trying to hold their laughter in.

"A surprise? Is everything okay?"

"Everything is perfect, I'll definitely send you those notes by the morning right now, there is a beautiful woman standing in my kitchen that flew 3000 miles to see me." Before the other woman could get another word in, Lexa reached over and hit the end call button. She knew that she definitely wasn't going to be getting any more work done any time soon.

"Somebody has a crush on you." Clarke teased. From the moment she had met Costia in Lexa's first year of law school she knew the other woman had developed a crush on her girlfriend. She couldn't blame her, she knew Lexa was as close to perfect as anyone could get, at least to her so if someone else saw that she couldn't get jealous, she could only smile because Lexa was hers.

"She doesn't, she knows how in love I am with this blonde med student."

"Even though she lives on the other side of the country." Clarke asked jokingly.

"Mhmm, she could live on mars and I would still love her, her only downfall is that she eats my ice cream."

Clarke's eyes darkened. "I could eat something else too."

Lexa raised one of her eyebrows, "perv."

They both broke out into a fit of laughter. "You love it."

"I do."

"As much as I love you in my sweater, I think it's time for me to get you out of it."

Lexa didn't hesitate before picking her girlfriend up. "No objections here."

TBC…

A/N: Only a small filler chapter while I set some bigger things up. Hopefully I'll have more soon, until then, lots of love and take care.