Kudos as always to my beta mini .moogle5 =)
Next morning, Lexa woke up before Clarke. She successfully untangled herself from the blonde girl and got up. Clarke whimpered at the loss of contact and turned onto her other side but didn't wake up. Lexa looked at her and smiled at that sight.
She got dressed and took her sword. It was still really early so most people were still asleep. Lexa always enjoyed the silence of the village in the morning.
She stopped at training ground. "I can't believe you're awake so early in the morning. Especially, when you could be with blondie." Lexa didn't need to turn around to know who was standing behind her. Only her old mentor would dare to talk to her like that.
She decided to not the answer question that Anya wanted to ask by that. "Indra did a great job with rebuilding TonDC." Anya moved to stand next to her.
They were standing in silence for a moment before Anya talked again. "What about a little training?" She looked at Lexa and smirked.
Lexa shook her head. "I need to talk with Indra."
"And it can't wait because…?" Lexa looked at her impassively. "Don't you have something better to do?"
Anya grinned. "There is nothing better than teasing you."
Lexa sighed. "You're not teasing me…you are just annoying."
"At least you know how I felt when you were my second." Anya grinned and patted her on the back. The younger girl just rolled her eyes.
Lexa turned around and saw Indra coming their way. Anya saw her as well and yelled at the general. "That was the best dagger I had. There is nothing more you can take from me!"
Indra smirked. "You want to bet?" Instead of answer, Anya just glared at her.
Lexa rolled her eyes and spoke. "We need to talk." That got the attention of both of her generals.
Anya was first to talk. "Let me guess. You want to bet with us." Anya smirked and winked at Lexa. "We will not tell blondie anything. Don't worry."
Lexa glared at her and slightly raised her voice to stop Anya from making more comments. "No." She looked at booth of them. "About Skaikru." When no one moved or said anything she added. "Somewhere else." Both generals nodded and all three of them made their way into Indra's tent.
When they were inside, Lexa started talking. "I want Skaikru constantly watched. But no one will attack them." She paused and looked at her generals for affirmation of their understanding. When they nodded, she continued. "We fought with them once and lost. I don't want to repeat that."
"They don't have blondie this time. She is on our side." Anya was there and she know that without Clarke, the battle at the dropship could have end differently. They could have even wipe out all of the Skaikru before the ring of fire, which costed the Trikru 300 of their best warriors.
Lexa glared at Anya for her comment. "We will not dragging Clarke into this." Lexa knew that Clarke could tell them plenty of things about the Skaikru and possibly help them to win against them. On the other hand, Clarke already felt bad for choosing the grounders instead of the Skaikru and Lexa didn't want to make her feel worse if she didn't need to.
"Even without her, they still have mountain men weapons. We should not underestimate them." Indra still remembered the massacre in her village and how one boy killed 18 of her people with only one weapon and without moving from his spot.
"We will not." Lexa assured them. When no one raised any objections, she continued. "I don't believe they will be foolish enough to attack us."
After few moments of silence, Indra asked. "What if Azgeda ask them to attack?"
Lexa was quick to answer. "In that case, Octavia will tell them the truth about Lincoln's death." She thought about this possibility many times. Only problem could be that the Skaikru won't trust a former, fellow delinquent. They already thought that Lexa did something to Clarke. Why should they not think the same about Octavia?
Anya hesitate a moment before she asked. "And if that doesn't stop them?"
Lexa clenched her jaw and straightened herself. "Then we wipe them out. All of them." She really didn't want it to end this way. Killing the mother of her houmon is not the best way to impress her beloved. She already left them to their destiny once and Clarke hated her for it. She doesn't want to know what the outcome could be from actually ordering their dead.
Indra and Anya nodded. "Do what I said. Watch them and don't attack them first." Both generals nodded again.
Lexa nodded as well and made few steps toward the exit of tent. Then she remembered another thing she wanted to talk with them and turned around to face her most trusted generals again. "One more thing. Tomorrow we are going back to Polis. I wish you two to come as well." Lexa saw that Indra looks like she wanted to argue but in the end nodded. Lexa raised her hand. "It's not an order." Now Indra looked at Anya if she understood but she just shrugged her shoulders.
Lexa sighed. "Clarke and I decided that we want our unity ceremony before the war." Lexa paused for a moment unsure of how to formulate her next sentence. She felt extremely vulnerable in that moment and she didn't like it at all. "I want you two to be there. You're like family to me. "
Two generals looked at each other and then smiled back at their Heda.
Anya talked as first. "You thought I would not be at your unity ceremony. I would be there even if you didn't invite me." When Lexa looked at her like she said something stupid again, she added. "I know how you act when you drink. Someone has to be there to watch over you." After little pause, she added with a quieter voice. "And later tell that story to others."
Lexa glared at her. "You'll be drunk before me."
The gambler part of Indra caught that immediately. "You want to bet?" Lexa and Anya grinned.
Lexa was first to talk this time. "Leave me out of that. And try not to take every weapon from Anya. I can't send her to war without weapons." She thought about it for a moment. "Well, maybe she could start talking and the Azgeda would run away."
"Hey" It was Anya's time to glare.
Lexa cleared her throat and got back into her Commander persona. "So finish your errands today." Generals understood and nodded.
Lexa nodded as well and went outside. It was still early in morning so she decided to go back to her and Clarke's tent.
She wanted to catch some more sleep before their journey back to Polis.
She didn't even take off her coat before she saw Clarke turning toward her.
"Come back. The furs are cold without you." Lexa smirked at her beloved whining. She quickly undressed and get under the furs with Clarke.
Lexa wrapped her arms around Clarke and flushed their bodies together.
Clarke happily hummed in response. "Where have you been?"
Lexa kissed the top of the blonde's head. "I needed to talk with Anya and Indra."
Clarke cuddled some more into the other girl. "About what?"
Lexa sighed. She hoped that Clarke will not ask. "I want them to go with us to Polis." She don't want to tell Clarke the other reason. She didn't want to see her beloved in pain ever again. What Clarke didn't know won't hurt her.
"And it couldn't wait?" Clarke was surprised that Lexa would wake up so early because of something so trivial.
"I wanted them to have enough time to do everything they need to do before our departure." Lexa hoped that Clarke would stop asking more questions. She didn't think that she could keep the rest of it from her if the blonde keep asking questions.
Clarke just nodded and closed her eyes. Lexa smiled and slowly fall asleep as well.
They woke up a little later. Lexa felt Clarke moving next to her and trying to get from bed. Without opening her eyes, the brunette grunted and moved Clarke closer to her. "No."
Clarke chuckled at Lexa's complains and kissed the top of her nose. "I need to go and talk with Octavia. I was rude to her yesterday."
"Fine." Lexa grunted but unwrapped her arms from Clarke anyway. They both got up and started dressing.
Clarke slowly made her way to the training ground where she found Octavia.
"O, can I talk with you?" Octavia stopped her sparing with another Grounder and turned to Clarke. "It depends. Is that an order?"
Clarke sighed. She knew how much stubborn the other girl could be. "No, it's not."
Octavia sheathed her sword and moved to Clarke. "What do you want to talk about?"
"I want to apologize for yesterday. I know you just wanted to help. It's just…" Clarke trailed off unsure how to continue. She hoped that Octavia will understand.
Octavia looked at her and after moment she smiled and hugged her friend. "I know. It sucks being in war with them." She moved away a little from Clarke and grabbed her by the shoulders. "But I mean what I said yesterday. I would have made the same choice." Clarke weakly smiled at her.
"There is one more thing that I want to tell you." Octavia raised questioningly one eyebrow at the other girl. "Lexa and I decided that our unity ceremony will be sooner. To be exact, right after we get back to Polis. So I hope you'll be going with us."
Octavia grinned. "Sure, I'm going with you Griffin. I have to. I'm still Heda's personal guard. Remember?"
"And I almost thought you would be doing it for me." They both laughed at that.
Filler...but next time it will be much better - trust me :D
I feel like Indra has some secret personality and gambler just sounds right to me. :D