She couldn't peel her eyes away from the ring. "This fell out of the coat, where should I put it?" She heard her intern ask her the question, once, twice, three times before Monroe rushed in.
"Clarke! Clarke it's okay, we'll figure it out. I'm taking over for doctor Griffin." Still Clarke hadn't said a word. She was always good in a crisis, always had been. "We don't know that this is her Clarke." Monroe tried to get a look at the woman's face but it was lacerated beyond recognition.
"It's her jacket, it's the ring I bought her." Monroe took a quick look back to see the ring that Clarke was holding. It hit her like a truck and she wasn't sure why she hadn't checked before. "Her right arm! Check her right arm!" She yelled into the chaos of the room.
The other doctors got the jacket off and check her arm. What happened next had Clarke running around of the room faster than she ever had.
XOXO"Clarke are you okay?" Came the husky voice as the door Clarke had been incessantly banging on finally opened. Without thinking about the fact that she was covered in blood she wrapped her arms around the woman standing in front of her. She felt strong arms wrap around her and she had never felt so much relief in all her life. "Come on, let's get you inside." Clarke didn't let go of her grip around Lexa's neck as she was carried inside. She heard the door close behind her as Lexa flipped on a small light. "You're covered in blood, are you okay?" Still Clarke couldn't answer. It was then that Lexa noticed what Clarke was carrying. "Where'd you find that? Someone stole it last night from the coffee shop."
"What?" Clarke finally spoke, shaking her head, trying to get herself to come back to reality.
"My jacket, someone took it off the back of my chair last night when I was having coffee with Octavia before she went to work."
"A woman, came into the E.R. A motorcyle accident she was wearing it, I thought it was you."
"So the blood's not yours?" Lexa's hands were gently cupping Clarke's cheeks.
Clarke shook her head, finally looking down at herself. She was still in her scrubs and in fact covered in blood. "It's not mine, once I figured out it wasn't you I ran here."
"Okay, come on, lets get you cleaned up. I'm safe and I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere." Lexa kissed her forhead and held her close for a minute.
"No, please don't let go."
With a nod, Lexa took her cut up jacket from Clarke's hand and threw it onto a nearby chair before picking the blonde up and carrying her into the washroom. She set her down and turned on the shower. In all the years they had known each other Lexa had never seen Clarke like this.
"Arms up my love." Clarke followed Lexa's instructions and raised her arms as the brunette pushed her scrub top up over her head. Dropping it on the floor she helped Clarke get out of her pants before helping her with her out of her underwear. Lexa reached her hand into the shower, checking to make sure the water temperature was okay before getting Clarke in. It didn't take long for any remained blood to wash off the blonde.
A second later Lexa stepped into the shower behind the other woman and wrapped her arms around her waist. "I'm right here baby, it's okay."
Turning around in her arms Clarke looked into bluey-green eyes. "I love you too."
XOXO
New York – A couple of weeks ago"Thank you for coming with me. It meant the world to me and I know how hard it is for you to take time off work." Lexa rambled slightly as her and Clarke stood on Clarke's doorstep.
"You're welcome, I had an amazing time. It was as enchanting as I always dreamt it would be so thank you."
"I can't thank you enough. Not only for agreeing to spend time with me but for making my the company's charities a lot of money. People love you."
Clarke smiled, she knew she had a way with people and it was something she was proud of, especially when it was for a good cause. "You make them think you're truly invested in what they're saying and you'll have them eating out of the palm of your hand. You know that though, you do it all time."
Lexa couldn't help but laugh. "Every now and again I turn on the charm."
Clarke thought about being a smart ass but for some reason she decided not to. Instead she leaned forward and kissed Lexa. It was soft, slow and full of emotion. "I guess sometimes you do. Do you want to stay the night?"
"I'd like that."
Xoxo
An hour later they were curled up in bed. Ever since they had gotten closer they had made a pack to tell each other things that they had missed in each others lives whenever they remembered something. It usually happened late night when they were both closer to sleep than they were awake.
"Monroe hit on Fox because she thought she was flirting with her. Turns out Fox is just the nicest girl in the world and was being polite. They've been best friends ever since."
Lexa laughed as she pushed a stray strand of hair out of Clarke's face. "That's awesome I wish I could have seen that."
"What is it? You've had something on your mind all trip, is everything okay?" Clarke asked, moving a little closer to the other woman in her bed.
"How is it you always know?" Lexa smiled shyly, she had really been trying to act like nothing had been on her mind.
Clarke shook her head. "I've known you my whole life and I happen to know both your parents quite well. You all have the exact same way about you when you want to say something. Your mom had that look every time she wanted to tell me something about you, it was hard acting like I didn't know what she wanted to say."
"I think I always knew that when they came to New York, it was less to do with business and more to do with you. I don't think they ever got over our breakup and I refused to see why. Have I told you how incredibly stupid and sorry I am?"
Clarke nodded with a smile. "A few times. Now shut up and kiss me."
"Here I thought I was the commander?" Before Clarke could answer, Lexa's lips were on hers.
Xoxo
"I hate real life." Clarke groaned as she felt Lexa get out of the bed early the next morning. She was still wrapped in the blankets as she watched Lexa get ready for work.
"You won't be saying that tonight when you're hands are in someone's intestines." Lexa watched the lazy smile cross Clarke's face.
"Mhmm, that's true but for right now I hate it because my bed is cold and you're all the way over there when you should be over here. You're the boss, can't you call in dead? I'll write you a doctors note?"
"As amazing as that sounds, I have a meeting that I'm needed at and then I agreed to help a friend with a case. Although none of those even compare to how happy I would be to stay in bed with you. Which is exactly why I'm over here because if I get to close you'll draw me in and hold me hostage."
Clarke didn't say another word, instead she smiled that sleepy smile that Lexa thought she'd never get to see again.
Twenty minutes later Lexa walked over to the bed and leaned down to gently kiss Clarke's head as the woman slept. A lot of time may have passed and a lot of things might have changed but the some things always stayed the same. How adorable Lexa thought sleepy Clarke was however not one of them.
"I love you pretty girl." She whispered into the quiet room because she couldn't hold it in anymore. She was completely and utterly in love with Clarke Griffin.
XOXO
Lexa stood stunned, she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "I love you Lexa, truthfully I don't think I ever really stopped. I think I only buried it in a little tiny box that only you could open. Seeing that woman lying there, thinking it was," the water started to well up in her eyes as her voice shook, the hot water pouring over them both, "thinking it was you and that I never told you how I felt, how I feel. You were right, we've wasted to much time being apart, I want you Lexa, I want you in my life forever. I don't want to lose you again, I don't want to live in a world that you aren't in ever again. It broke me the first time, and I don't think I could survive that again."
Lexa reached up and brushed the tears that were falling down Clarke's cheek away with her thumbs. "I will never leave you again."
Xoxo
An hour later they were lying in their robes on the couch, a blanket pulled over them as they watch the fireplace crackle. "So you heard me the other morning?" Lexa held Clarke closer to her.
"Mhmm, of course I did. You should know I can never fall back asleep until after you leave."
"Always so sneaky." Lexa smiled as she felt Clarke relax a little.
"I'm sneaky? You're the one that's been carrying around a ring I threw at your head!"
"At first I forgot I had put it in there, then when I found it I decided that it was a good reminder of how not to be ever again."
"Good, then you should continue wearing it so the stupid, stubborn side of you stays at bay. I'm glad your home by the way, I don't know how we ever lasted in a long distance relationship."
"Me either but I guess we're both a bit stubborn."
"That we are." Clarke agreed as she laid her head against Lexa's chest and watch the rain fall outside. "You are never riding in the rain again or I might have a heart attack."
"Good thing your mom is an heart surgeon." Clarke slapped Lexa's leg.
"Why do I love you?"
Lexa shrugged. "I don't know but I do know that I am the luckiest girl in the world because you do and just for the record I love you."
XOXO
The next morning Clarke woke up to the smell of coffee and breakfast of some sort, yep that was definitely the smell of bacon. Before she could get out of bed Lexa opened the door to her room and placed a try down next to Clarke before climbing into bed next to her. "I figured you had to go back to the hospital but I wanted to make sure you were well fed before you left."
"Aren't you just the sweetest?" Clarke couldn't help the cheesy grin that was on her face as she watched Lexa's cheeks get a little pinker than normal.
"Actually I believe that's you. Showing up in the middle of the night in a panic." Clarke looked down at her breakfast, more than slightly embarrassed. "Hey, no need for that look, it was incredibly sweet and adorable and a million other things. Seeing you that upset made me realize just how stupid I was. Not that I didn't already know. I never want to be the reason you feel pain. I've caused you enough pain for a life time and I just hope I can spend a lifetime making it up to you." Lexa kissed the tip of Clarke's nose as the woman looked back up at her.
"I'm just sorry it took that happening to make me realize how I felt."
"Don't apologize to me, you have nothing to apologize for and even if you did, I wouldn't deserve it but now can we talk about my ex staying with you?" Lexa questioned as Clarke took a bite of bacon. "You don't even like her."
"I mean she's alright plus she's been saying I'm hot now and not you so that makes me like her a little more." Lexa shook her head as she too picked up a piece of bacon from the plate. "She was staying at a hotel, I felt bad and I kept running into her. She's not in town for too long but no sense in wasting money."
"You and Octavia are far to much alike."
"I know, but don't tell her." Clarke laughed. Realization finally struck Clarke as she turned and looked at Lexa worriedly. "If you're jacket was stolen does that mean Orchid is gone too?"
"Orchid is perfectly fine, she's sleeping like a baby downstairs in the garage where no one can harm her." Lexa grinned as she wrapped her arms around Clarke before stealing another piece of bacon off the plate.
"Thief!" Clarke joked. A second later Lexa's phone staring ringing bringing the two women out of their near wrestling match.
"Lexa Callaway." Lexa tried not to laugh as Clarke made a face at her. "Unfortunately I can not make it in at the moment please call Mr. Pierce and he'll be sure to take care of the issue promptly." With that she hung up the phone and threw it onto the chair that sat in the corner of her room.
"Lexie if you have to go don't feel like you can't."
Lexa shook her head and sank back into the bed. "No, I don't need to be the one to handle it, I need to get better at delegating and I want to spend the morning with you. Especially since we have a busy week and Octavia's birthday this weekend that's she been planning for weeks."
"I definitely won't complain to more cuddle time, because even though I'm relieved in the light of day I still don't want to let you out of my sights."
"Then in your sights I shall stay."