When Lexa opened her eyes, she expected to see the cave with its pool. She expected to feel the warm feeling of the water on her skin. Instead what she saw was the ceiling of the house and what she felt was a cold wet cloth on her forehead. She was back in her bed. She turned her head and noticed Octavia in the rocking chair, her sleeping daughter in her arms. The shifting in the bed alerted the girl and she raised her head. Her eyes were red but no longer angered. Just tired.

"You blacked out" Octavia explained, her voice low. "It happens when you're not used to hot water. If you stay too long in it, you can lose consciousness" the mother's gaze fell back on Selina. Lexa thought their interaction was over when she added "Clarke will be back in a minute"

The message was clear 'I tolerate you but I won't take care of you'. Lexa could see why Indra had liked the girl. Some aspects of their personalities were alike. She smirked slightly and decided to take a better look at her surroundings. The room was rectangular and kinda small. Lexa's bed was leaned on the longer wall, the one with the door, opposite to the fireplace. On each side of the fireplace, a small window (it was dark outside). In the middle of the room, a small table with three chairs. In front of Lexa, on the smaller wall, there was a cupboard and right next to it a huge chest. Meat was hanged up on one of the beam supporting the wooden ceiling. It was simple but comfy.

Then she focused on her body. It felt lighter. The pain was still there but it was bearable, ribs and arms put aside. And her back. Her back was the worst. Why ? It hadn't hurt before ?

"Damn this winter will be harsh" said Clarke entering the house, followed by Lincoln. She immediately threw a look at the bed "Oh, you're awake ! Good." She took off her coat and went to the fire, hanging the pan above it again. Lincoln approached the bed and bowed. Lexa nodded in response and he said *Can you sit ?* She nodded again and he uncovered her. That's when she noticed she was wearing large, comfortable clothes and that her bandages were back. Lincoln lifted her in his arms and sat her on the edge of the bed. She mouthed a 'mochof'. He bowed slightly and smiled. Octavia appeared from behind the man and rested a possessive hand on his chest.

*I'm tired. Let's go to sleep* The big man nodded and followed his wife. Just before exiting the house though he stopped and looked at Lexa, his eyes silently asking the brunette to forgive his wife's behaviour. Then he disappeared in the night and Clarke was sitting next to Lexa.

"She's been through a lot. Don't mind her. Here, some boiled potatoes and dry meat" Lexa smiled slightly at the plate. The meat was already cut in tiny pieces. Like the day before, she helped her eat. The silence was not uncomfortable but Clarke broke it "Your arms will need at least two weeks of total inactivity so I don't want you to try to move them before ok ?" Lexa nodded before the other girl could put another meat piece in her mouth "Good. We'll try to take off your bandages and brace after a month but it might not be enough. Ribs don't need so much attention usually. But I think your chest has been crushed really hard. All of them might be broken. It could take from a month to six weeks or maybe even more, I don't know. I don't want you to move too much until you're totally healed. It's not because it doesn't hurt that it is healed !" Lexa rolled her eyes she had had broken ribs before and it never stopped her from going to war "Lexa…" the blonde said in a menacing voice. The brunette sighed and finally nodded. "I want you to sleep as much as you can and call for me when the pain is too strong. Lincoln made some ointment for your bones and bruises and some pain-killer but we don't have a lot of them so…" Lexa nodded again. But she wouldn't need them anyway. She'd been through worse.

Lexa approached her lips from the blonde's ear and whispered "My back. Did not hurt before. Why now ?"

"Before, you didn't know you were hurt. Sometimes, when you're hurt everywhere, the brain is too occupied by the wounds you can see. So it forgot what you can't see. That's why, when you didn't know about the wound in your back, it didn't hurt, because your brain didn't know it was there"

Lexa nodded impressed. Clarke had so many things to teach her.

The plate empty, the blonde stood and put it on the table. She went to the cupboard and retrieved a small ceramic pot. She sat next to Lexa again "Say ah" The brunette did as said. She hadn't tasted honey in years. Where did Clarke even got it ? "Don't swallow it yet. Let it melt on your tongue. She went to tidy up the pot and came back "Bed time now" Clarke helped Lexa lie down, she covered her and then went to retrieve some clothes, some thread and a needle. She sat in the rocking chair "Sleep. I just have some more work to do".

Lexa closed her eyes and faked sleep for a while. She opened them again after a few minutes to look at the blonde. She was working fast. In record time she was finished with what looked like one of Lincoln's pants. She released a tired sigh then. She put the pants on one of the chair and her tools on the table. She took out a large bear fur from the chest and wrapped it around herself. Then she sat back in the rocking chair and closed her eyes. And it hit Lexa.

The whole house had been made for three persons. She was in Clarke's bed.