"Why would they do something like that?" Clarke was surprised, this doesn't sound like the people she knew. "I thought they didn't want to have anything to do with the Grounders after the mountain." Lexa gulped at the mentioning of the mountain. She knew how lucky she was that Clarke forgave her.

"It doesn't matter. Until they do something stupid, we will let them have their alliance." Lexa knew it could be risky and sooner or later, the Queen would attack, but for now, she will wait.

"But if the Ice Queen get her hands on Skaikru weapons, she could kill us all." Indra was really worried. If they attack, her village would be the first target.

"I know that, Indra. I will send someone to watch them. We won't interfere, for now." She looked at every one of them. "Now I have to go to a meeting before the celebration starts." With that, she was outside the doors. Anya and Indra were right behind her.

"So, you and Heda, huh? How'd that happened?" Octavia got inside the room and sat on bed.

"Well, I don't even know. It just happened. You know. You fell for Lincoln after a day or two. Talking about Lincoln, where is he?" Octavia looked at ground.

"That bitch killed him. When I get to her, I will kill her with my bare hands." She clenched her fist and started crying.

"Hey, hey." Clarke sat next to Octavia and hugged her. "I'm sorry, O."

"No one believed me, not even Bell." Octavia slowly stopped crying.

"Ok. O, you will have to start from beginning."

"Few day after you left Camp Jaha, Echo joined us. Bell said he knew her from the mountain, so no one asked anything. Few days later, Lincoln started to become suspicious of her. She never showed her tribal tattoo and when he asked her about it, she would dodge the question. And you know how Grounders are proud of their tattoos. One day, Lincoln and I were going to hunt and she joined us because Bell wanted us to get along." Octavia gulped.

"When we got away from camp, we were ambushed by Azgeda warriors. Lincoln was surprised and while he was fighting two of them, she attacked him from behind and killed him. I managed to defeat the others attackers and it was only me and her, but I was weaker than her and she stabbed me few times. Luckily for me, she is crazy and she didn't finish her job. Next thing, I remember is that I am in TonDC and Nyko is healing me." She sighed.

"I knew I couldn't go back so I stayed in TonDC. One day, I met Bell in the woods and told him everything. He said that I'm a liar and the Grounders did something to me and that I should stay in TonDC until I'm back to normal again. With that, he left me standing in middle of the forest." Octavia shook her head.

"Bell said that?" Clarke can't believe it. That doesn't sound like him.

"Yeah. Apparently, she helped them during winter and everyone loves her now."

"Raven was saying that she gave them furs so just a few people died."

"You talked with Raven?" Octavia was surprised by this. Raven spent all of her time in camp. She never went anywhere.

"She gave me a radio when I left Camp Jaha." That explains why Clarke knew so many things.

"So now it's probably time for my story." Clarke told Octavia everything that happened after her departure from camp until today.

"Wow, so you're a general. Just so you know I'm warrior now and Indra pick me to represent TonDC at this year celebrations. Which means I should probably go if I want to win it." She grinned and get up from bed.

Clarke smiled and get up as well. "I'm going with you."

"Can't stay away from Heda for a moment, huh?" With that Octavia ran out the doors. "Octavia!" Clarke ran after her.

When Clarke found Lexa, she was talking with two women.

"Clarke, let me introduce you." Lexa turned to the black haired woman. She was probably in her late twenties and little older than the other one. "This is Luna. She is the leader of Boat people. And this." She turned to the other woman. She looked lot like Lexa except her eyes. Her eyes were brown. And she was older than Lexa. "This is her houmon and my sister, Alice."

"It's nice to finally meet you, Clarke. My sister didn't stop talking about you from the time we arrived." Lexa glared at her sister for that comment and Alice just smiled at Clarke.

They shook hands. "I hope it was all nice things."

"Of course. She talked about you very fondly." This time Luna was the one to talk. Clarke shook hand with her as well.

Lexa put her hand on Clarke's lower back. "I believe we should find our seats for the feast."

"I need to find O, she is supposed to fight and I need to see that." Clarke was looking around to see if she could see Octavia or Indra.

"If she is supposed to fight today, she will be at the feast. On the first day, all fights at the feast." They all sat at their table with the other clan leaders. Lexa in middle, Clarke on her left, Luna and Alice on her right.

When everyone else sat around all the other tables, Lexa stood up. "Today, we celebrate the end of another winter. Last year was kind to us. We defeated our long-life enemy." Crowd cheered. Lexa looked at Clarke and smiled and Clarke smiled back. Then Lexa raised her hand to silence the crowd. "In front of us is a year full of prosperity and peace. Let's celebrate the next seven days and look forward to our future." Crowd cheered once again and the feast started.

"You still love your speeches, huh." Lexa glared at her sister.

"Not more than blondie over here" Anya gesticulated to Clarke who was sitting next to her.

Lexa turned her head to Anya and glared at her. Clarke chuckled, took Lexa's hand and intertwined their finger.

"What? It's true, isn't it?" Anya took sip of her wine and with a raised eyebrow, looked at Lexa.

Lexa looked at her plate in front of her and murmured "Of course."

Clarke kissed the back of Lexa's hand and smiled at her.

Soon after that the fights began. When Octavia came in front of tables with the clan leaders, she bowed and grinned at Clarke.

Her opponent was big man from Desert clan. Octavia hadn't any problems with him, thanks to her agility and easily won.

Next morning Clarke, Lexa, Indra, Anya, Octavia and Karliah were in the war room talking about the Skaikru and the Azgeda.

"The Ice Queen didn't come to the clan meeting, she didn't even sent someone instead. Something is wrong." Lexa was pacing around room. No one from the Azgeda was in the city. Normally, she would be happy but this time it just felt wrong.

"We have to watch over the Skaikru. They are unpredictable. And if they really allied with the Azgeda…" Indra trailed off. She still didn't trust the Skaikru. If she had her way, she would have killed them off long time ago.

"Karliah will be watching them." Karliah nodded. She was happy to finally go on some missions.

"Heda, let me go as well. I know them. I lived in their camp for long time." Octavia wasn't happy to leave everything to someone who she don't even know.

Lexa stopped pacing. "No, Echo think you're dead. She feels safe and we need it to stay that way." Lexa didn't trust Octavia with this. She knew if her brother was in danger, she would choose him instead of her orders and that was something she just didn't want to risk.

"Unless Bell tells her." Octavia was irritated by the Commander. She looked at Clarke for help but she just apologetically shrugged her shoulders.

"It was foolish to talk with him." Indra wanted to punch her former second for such stupidity.

"We can ask Raven." She knew Lexa would not be happy with what she would say next. "Or I can go into camp. I know it there as well and my mum is still the Chancellor." Clarke looked at Octavia to confirm that nothing in camp changed. Octavia nodded.

"No." Lexa shook her head.

"Just think about it. No one will expect me to be there for information. I can tell them that I was in some cave the whole time."

Lexa looked at Clarke's eyes and said firmly. "No."

Clarke sighed. "Can you give us a minute?"

Everyone except Lexa nodded and left the room.

Before the door closed Octavia murmured. "I'm so sorry for Heda." She knew Clarke and she knew how stubborn she could be.

When she said it, Indra gave her a smack upside her head to knock some sense into her. Not that she thought it would help. There is no help for that girl.

"It's our best plan and you know it!" Clarke raised her voice.

"You're not going to Camp Jaha for nothing. Let Karliah take care of this."

"I can talk with people. Karliah can't." She get closer to Lexa.

"I said no." They were both yelling now.

"Tell me what this is really about." Clarke tried to look at Lexa's eyes but she didn't want to look at her.

Clarke came closer and put her hand under Lexa's chin to make her look at her. "Lexa. Talk to me." She whispered.

"If she knows about us, and she knows it, It's dangerous for you to go anywhere near any Azgeda warrior." Lexa looked away again.

Clarke knew that was not everything. "Lexa, look at me." Lexa didn't moved. Clarke raised her voice. "Look at me."

Lexa clenched her jaw and looked at her. "What if you decide that you want to stay at Camp Jaha?"

Clarke took Lexa's head into her hands and slowly kissed her. "I could have stayed there all those months ago, but I didn't. I chose to stay in TonDC and later in Polis with you.People who live there? They're my people. This is my home now and nothing can change that." She let go of her head and put her hands around Lexa's neck and kissed her again.

When they separated, Clarke said. "You can go with me if it makes you feel any better."

Lexa smiled. "Ok, then. But first, we let Karliah to get some information." Lexa needed to talk to Octavia about something first.

Clarke sighed. "Fine. You are unbelievable, you know?"

Lexa's smile grew wider. "You've told me that few times already." She kissed Clarke on forehead. "Now, we should call others and sent Karliah on her mission."

It was the last day of the celebration. Everyone was ready for the final contest fight.

Both of the best fighters were from the Trikru. One was Octavia, who thanks to her agility, won most of the fights and the second was a big muscular man from a village from the north border of Trikru territory.

They both bowed to Heda and the fight started. The man was winning in the beginning, landing some of his punches on Octavia but he was getting tired quickly.

When he saw that he couldn't win, he slowly started backing toward Lexa's table. When he was close enough, he took his dagger, which was hidden under his clothes and turned on Heda. And before the guards even noticed something was off, he was on Lexa. She managed to kick him in the gut and sent him flying. He stood up and was preparing to toss the dagger at the Commander but before he could react, Octavia jumped on his back, took his dagger and with it, she sliced his throat.

Clarke was immediately in her healer mod and was looking over Lexa for any injuries. "I'm fine." Clarke looked at her suspiciously, she knew that Lexa would never admit to an injury even if it was something fatal. So she would look at her when they get home. Lexa stood up and dusted herself.

Anya inclined to Lexa and said. "Well, it looks like she is already in your personal guard. And much better than the rest of them."

Lexa straightened and cleared her throat to get attention of everyone. "Octavia kom Trikru is officially the winner of this fight and all contest. She deserves her title as best fighter and a place in my guard. Do you accept this, Octavia?"

"I do, Heda." Octavia was beaming.

Lexa nodded. "Now, take away his body and prepare the marking for my new guard."

Poor Lincoln - well he should mind his own business :D
Let me know what you think and have a nice day =)