Rebuilding Ruin

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Spoilers: All episodes of Season 1 and 2

Clark ignored the attendant that moved around her at the small table that sat beside a large window looking out onto one of the busy streets of Polis. Finally strong enough to walk into the kitchen, despite with the help of her permanent attendant Lexa had assigned to her, she allowed herself to survey the street while taking slow bites from a bowl of soft puffed oats topped with honey.

"Is your meal cold? I can heated it over the fire." The girl stood by the table with her hands clasped in front of her.

Looking up at the young teenager, an orphan whose parents were both warriors and were lost to reapers, Clarke shook her head. "No I'm fine, thanks anyways Nia."

"I shall start preparing the next meal, only call if you require something." She smiled and moved to the large table that had some type of bird laying on it, a roasting stick stuck through it.

"I see you are able to venture beyond the bed." Lexa moved into the kitchen and immediately sat across from Clarke at the table. Nia was over immediately with a bowl and placed it before her. "That is all Nia, you may leave."

"Sha Heda." She bowed her head before leaving the kitchen.

Clarke looked back out at the street, "I felt like I was in a prison and all I needed was some help from Nia to get here."

"If my room feels like a prison then perhaps you would prefer another. The one beside it has not been used and would be yours to design how you wish. It also allows for more light to enter." Lexa took a bite of her meal and found Clarke starring at her. "If that is what you wish…"

"I was sleeping in your bed? Where were you sleeping?"

"On the ground, the bear fur makes for a comfortable pallet." Lexa gave a soft smile, "as I promised I will answer any of your questions."

The sky girl nodded and looked down at her bowl. "Why am I here and not in Tondc or Camp Jaha?"

"Tondc is nothing more than broken stone, the process of rebuilding has been cut for the winter. As for your camp, considering you were injured my men did not feel it wise to venture there. They journeyed to Polis as it has our most advanced healers. Isla's mother saw to your care and though my men's crude attempts at healing you during the journey lead to a fever and weakness, you are recovering. Once you have recovered fully and can walk the streets without aid, I will give you a horse so you may return to your camp."

"So I'm not a prisoner here?" It was said playfully but Lexa's soft smile gave way to her stoic exterior once again.

"No and you should know Clarke that you have been given the title of Skai Prisa, you are my equal as well as that of every Heda and the Azkru Kwin. This makes you untouchable unless a direct attempt is made on your life. To harm you is to gain death and this is something the ice warriors in my prison are aware of."

Clarke looked down as she pushed her bowl away. "I won't kill them."

"If not by your hand then by another, they must pay for their crimes. It is law and has existed for generations."

"No it's your law not mine." Clarke shook her head as she turned to the window. "I've killed too many, not all were innocents but the hundreds I killed are too many." Messing with the long black sleeveless dress that draped over the leggings she wore, Clarke sighed. "What does Skai Prisa mean? I know Skai is reference to where we came from…"

Lexa's smile emerged as Clarke looked up at her to meet her eyes. "Octavia stated I shouldn't translate the meaning to you and I should order all to not reveal it's meaning but I do not believe you would kill me as she said you would." Her tone was playful and it was the first time Clarke had heard it as such. "Prisa means princess, you are called Sky Princess by my people."

"Of course someone called me that and your people started to use it." She leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms. "I was given the title as a form of mockery, because my parents were high up in the chain of command on the Ark. I hated it then and I hate it now." Clarke placed her hands on the table and tapped them gently. "Can I order them not to call me it?"

Lexa reached her hand out and let her fingers brush against the back of Clarke's hand. "You can but know this Clarke, they call you it out of respect not mockery. My people would not dare to mock you, your people perhaps but not you."

Clarke turned her hand till it was facing up, threading her fingers through Lexa's and held it. "I still don't forgive you for taking that deal but I understand why you did. I still trust you Lexa, at least I trust you beyond the matters of war. I'll talk to my people about re-establishing an alliance with you. It will take time but I believe I can convince them it's in their best interest."

"Heda?" Both turned to see Nia standing at the doorway to the kitchen with Indra and Octavia beside her. "An audience with you is requested."

Lexa pulled away from the blond in front of her and stood. "Octavia, perhaps you would like to visit with Clarke while I see to matters?"

"I think…" she paused when she saw Indra's look, "that's a great idea." She moved over to the table and sat down where Lexa had been.

"Nia," Lexa looked at the girl. "Prepare the room beside mine, Clarke would like a room with more light. You are to consult with her and then purchase any materials necessary to prepare the room."

The teenager nodded her head, "sha Heda." She moved to the table as Indra and Lexa departed down the hallway. "What color is your favorite or perhaps there are two colors you prefer?"

"Do you even have a favorite color?" Octavia inquired and Clarke thought about whether she had a favorite color. She'd always seen colors as part of a life and even upon landing she wasn't taken with anything in particular but the green of Lexa's eyes had always intrigued her.

"Green, like a soft pine color."

The sound of something breaking made all turn towards the doorway, Clarke stood up and leaned against the table before attempting to walk towards the doorway. Nia was up and helping her immediately, "where do you wish to go?"

"To bed, I'm tired." Clarke caught Octavia raising her eyebrow, clearly aware of the falseness in the statement.

Heading down the hallway they walked past a closed door where Lexa's shouting could be heard. Clarke leaned against the wall and listened, Nia looked between her and Octavia as if to find out if she wasn't going to be harmed for listening in on the meeting her Heda was conducting.

"They go too far!" Lexa's voice was loud. "I have not touched their camp nor have I attempted to claim the land around it yet now they side with the Ice Nation's wish to war with us. They know not what they do."

Indra's calm but firm voice cut through her yells. "What of Clarke? Is it possible she is here to spy on us? A ploy by the Ice Nation and Skaikru?"

"You will watch your tongue Indra, Clarke may not forgive the actions of battle but she would not spy for the Ice Nation or her people. She is already planning an attempt to restore an alliance between us and Skaikru. I doubt she knows the Ice Nation has declared war and manipulated her people into agreeing."

"The boy is blinded by Eko kom Azkru, he does as she wishes and defends her not knowing what she is capable of."

"What is known about her besides the clan she comes from?"

Clarke shook her head and turned the handle on the door, pushing it open and leaned against the doorframe. "If you want to know about Echo, I can give you the information I have but you have to include me in this discussion since my people are involved."

Lexa turned to Clarke, "you should be resting, we can talk later on such matters."

"No, what I need is for you to stop coddling me like I'm some weak little child. I want answers Lexa and if you don't give them to me, I'll find them myself." She straightened herself in the doorway. "You want an alliance with my people, well that starts with an alliance between us…"

"We maintain an alliance, we are not enemies Clarke."

Clarke glared at her, "how quickly that can change if you don't stop keeping secrets from me. I understand how dangerous the Ice Nation is…"

"How do you know this?" Indra questioned the sky girl and immediately blue eyes bore into hers.

"It's not important how I know, the fact remains that I know. When they found me I was peaceful because I knew I couldn't survive a fight with them but I kept my mouth shut when they asked me questions to protect both our people. Besides, don't think I don't know that you were speaking my language in hoping I'd come by and hear. You could have spoken in yours and I wouldn't have understood a thing, probably wouldn't have even stopped."

Lexa moved to the door and gently placed Clarke's arm around her shoulder, nodding to Octavia as she did so. "You will sit as we talk, your leg still remains weak. It has only been a week since you arrived and today is the first you have ventured from the bed." She walked Clarke to a chair that sat beside the table and helped her sit.

"As long as you stop shouting and breaking things." Clarke gained green eyes boring into hers, "I heard the cup shatter and I can see the pieces in the corner. What was it you said to me, calm my anger. I think you should calm yours before you injure Indra, I'd hate to have her tied to a pole because she defends herself against your attack."

Indra huffed but Clarke only let a soft smile go as Lexa turned towards the table. "I shall calm my anger when your people stop acting like obedient wolves who follow their hunters through the forest at every command."

"I think the saying is 'following them around like a puppy' not an obedient wolf."

"What is a puppy?" Lexa looked at her in confusion.

Clarke sighed, "I'll explain later. What have my people done now?" As she asked, Octavia closed the door so the three could talk strategy in private.

A/N: Well that was entertaining...

Next...Bellamy arrives in Polis with Abby and tensions mount when Clarke attempts to persuade an alliance with Trikru instead of Azkru.

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