Sorry everyone for delay. You know...sometimes real life happen. :D
Anyway I hope you'll enjoy this fluffy chapter with...interesting ending. :D
Kudos as always to my beta mini .moogle5 =)
Little Monkey Fanfic you remember when I said I want to dedicate you one chapter. Well, this is it! I believe you'll find why...please, don't hate me for this. :D
Clarke was happy to see Polis again after all those days on their journey. She was especially happy being back in the privacy of their palace.
Aleena was the first who meet them back at their palace. "Welcome back Heda." She bowed to Lexa and then turned to Clarke and bowed as well. "Kwin."
Clarke was surprised. She turned to Lexa for explanation. "Kwin?"
Lexa looked at her and nodded. "It will be your title when we unite."
"Oh." That was all Clarke managed to say.
Lexa frowned. "I'm sorry if you don't like it…" Clarke interrupted her "No. It's just…I wasn't expecting to actually have a title."
Aleena smiled at blonde girl. "You'll be Heda's houmon. You can't be without a title." After little pause, she turned back to Lexa and continued. "I did a few preparations for your ceremony as you wished Heda."
Lexa nodded. "Something else I should know?"
Aleena shook her head. "Nothing Heda."
"Great. In that case, leave us." Aleena bowed to both of them and left their room.
"You never told me what it means to be…" Clarke paused a little. "…the Kwin."
Lexa moved to bed and sit on it. "Well, you will have a title." Clarke smiled and sat next to her. "Well, I somehow figured that already." She laid her head on Lexa's shoulders and wrapped her arms around the brunette girl. "What else?"
"Nothing interesting. You will rule by my side and you'll get tattoo before the ceremony." When Lexa saw the confused expression on Clarke's face, she continued. "It will look like a blue-red fire and it will be above your heart."
Clarke smiled. "Nothing interesting, huh? Next time before I'll say yes to someone proposition, I'll ask them if I'll have to get some tattoo."
Lexa glared at her. "If anyone will want to unite with you, I'll kill them so you don't need to worry about tattoos."
Clarke chuckled and kissed Lexa's cheek. "No killing." With that she snuggled closer to the brunette girl.
Lexa wrapped her hands around the other girl. "We'll see about that." She kissed the top of Clarke's head and continued. "Anyways, I need to go on meeting with the clan leaders. I'll take Anya with me so you can train with Octavia." She kissed Clarke again and got up. "See you later, Clarke."
The blonde girl smiled at her. "More like kick her ass again. See you."
Clarke woke up in the middle of the night. She got up carefully as not to wake up Lexa.
The blonde girl dressed and moved to the balcony to look at the garden and city below her.
Today is her wedding day and she can't sleep. Out of all the days it could have happened, it had to be today. She wasn't imagining her wedding day like this at all. Without her mother and her friends from the Ark. All of them probably hate her now and most of them wouldn't even want to be here after everything that she has done anyway.
She sighed and looked at the sleeping form of Lexa. She couldn't stop smile from spreading on her face when she saw the brunette so relaxed. It is so worth it. She turned back to the city and thought about everything she need to do today before she could go sleep in her wife's arms again. She smiled once again when she realized that she just called Lexa her wife.
She felt arms wrapping from behind around her middle. "You should be sleeping, Clarke."
The blonde girl smiled and leaned into the other girl's body. "You're awake too, aren't you?"
"Just because you weren't in bed with me." She kissed the blonde's temple. "Another nightmare?"
Clarke shook her head. "No. I just can't sleep. That's all."
They were standing like that and looking at Polis for some time. Then Clarke started to play with Lexa's fingers and spoke. "Do you believe in soulmates?"
"I believe that my spirit knew yours from before, I believe that you were always meant to be my houmon and I believe that loving you isn't weakness, as I thought before, but the biggest strength." Lexa paused and kissed Clarke's shoulder. "Did that answer your question?"
Clarke turned in the other girl's arms, snuggled her head into crook of Lexa's neck and whispered. "Yes, it did."
After a moment, Clarke slightly withdraws from their embrace and looked at the brunette girl. "You know, when you wake up and your hair are all messy you look like a little lion." All that Lexa could do was questioningly raise her eyebrow.
Clarke tried to explain it to her. "You know your hairs are everywhere and it looks like lion's mane."
Lexa shook her head. "You should really sleep at night instead of talk."
"Hey!" Clarke playfully punched Lexa's arm. "You're terrible…little lion." She started laughing at her own joke.
Lexa shook her head again but smile anyway. "We should go to sleep again. You're definitely tired." Clarke rolled her eyes but moved to bed with Lexa.
Next morning, Clarke woke up in empty bed. She dressed and moved to the dining room.
"One would say you'll try to do everything much faster to become the second most powerful person on this planet, blondie." Anya was casually sipping her drink without even looking at blonde girl.
"Good morning to you too, Anya." Clarke looked at the other person in the room. "Alice, it's good to see you as well." Lexa's sister moved to Clarke and hugged her. "You as well, Clarke."
The blonde girl returned the hug and then turned back to Anya. "Anyways, didn't you see Lexa?"
Anya nodded. "She has some morning clan meeting."
That surprised Clarke. "On our wedding day?"
"Yes. Some of the clan leaders wanted to talk about something." Anya paused for a moment. "Or they finally realized how boring they are and want Lexa to make them more interesting."
"Not even my sister can do that….Anyway…" Alice turned her head to Clarke. "It's our duty to prepare you for your big day." She grinned at the blonde girl.
"You two? Now I'm worried…." Now it was Anya's time to grin. "Oh, you should."
Clarke looked at the doors and for a moment thought about running away and live in woods by herself for the rest of her life. But before she could act Alice talked. "Don't listen to her. She talked with Lexa all morning about her ceremonial outfit." She moved closer to Clarke and whispered. "Anya loves unity ceremonies."
Clarke saw how Anya's cheek slightly colored in red. After a moment, Anya cleared her throat. "Anyway, let's do something with your terrible outfit and hair!"
Clarke raised her eyebrow and theatrically said. "Anya, the fashion queen."
Alice started laughing with Clarke. Anya looked at both of them. "You're lucky that I don't want to be killed by Lexa. Otherwise you both would be dead. Let's go." She turned and moved away from the dining room.
Clarke looked terrified after Anya. "Wait! I didn't eat anything."
"Too late blondie!" Clarke sighed and walked with Alice behind Anya.
It was night and Bellamy was sitting around the bonfire with the other delinquents when Wick came to them. "Did you see Raven? She has unfinished work for at least three days."
Bellamy turned to him surprised. "She wasn't with you?!
"No and she has never left work unfinished before. I haven't seen her for many days! What if something happened to her? First Lincoln with Octavia and now her." Wick was clearly worried. On the other hand, many delinquents didn't look like they cared. Octavia was a traitor to them, Lincoln was some grounder who they didn't even talked to and Raven spent most of her time in the engineering room and she didn't even come down here with them so there was no need for them to care about any of these three, now probably dead, people.
Bellamy scoffed at this. He knew what happened to Octavia. "The Commander will pay for this! As well as for everything she done. When she dies, everything will be normal again." Wick and delinquents nodded. "We should send a few search parties to look for Raven. She could have just got stuck somewhere." Everyone nodded again.
Lexa and Clarke were both standing on stage especially prepared for this occasion. They were looking at each other. Behind Lexa was standing Anya and behind Clarke was Octavia. On their other side was standing Luna who, as leader of one of the clans and close friend of Lexa, was chosen to lead the ceremony. In front of them was a crowd of people. Most of them were citizens of Polis but Clarke could recognize many of clan leaders and few people from TonDC. She wasn't surprised by the number of people. It was Heda's wedding and everyone wanted to see her uniting with the 'destroyer of the mountain'.
Luna put a red cloth over Clarke's and Lexa's hands. "Your spirits will be one. They'll be one even when your bodies are nothing more than ash. From this moment you'll live, fight and die as one. You're spirits are now entwined." Luna took the red cloth from their hands.
Crowd cheered. Anya handed Lexa a sash similar to the Heda's with only two little differences. It was slightly smaller and it had two silver strips. Lexa took the sash and put it on Clarke's shoulder. When she was securing it, she whispered into Clarke's ear. "My Kwin." Clarke blushed and shyly smile at Lexa.
When Lexa moved away from Clarke, Luna continued. "Allow me to introduce our Heda Lexa kom Trikru…." Clarke and Lexa turned to the crowd while holding hands. "…and her houmon and our Kwin, Clarke kom Trikru."
The crowd erupted with cheers and chants of 'Heda' and 'Kwin'. Clarke was surprised that Luna called her 'kom Trikru' and even more for that no one was mad at her for it. Trikru are really her people now.
They were all leaving the stage and went to the place where the feast should occurred. In middle of their way there, everyone could hear the sound of a gun being fired.
Clarke turned to Lexa and saw her bleeding from her chest. The blonde girl's eyes widened and she shook her head. "No, no, no, no, no."
Lexa looked at her wound. She tried to stand but she felt weaker and weaker every second. After moments, she couldn't stand anymore and fall down on the ground.
Clarke was at her side in seconds. She put her hands over the wound and tried to stop the bleeding. "You can't do this to me. I can fix this. I can. Just stay with me." She saw how Lexa turned her head to her and weakly whispered. "May we meet again, Clarke." For Lexa it was harder and harder to keep her eyes open so with one last look at Clarke, she closed them.
Clarke started crying. "No, no, no! You promised you'll never leave me." She felt how someone grab her and dragged her away from Lexa's body. "No! Let me go! I can save her. I have to…"
houmon - wife
Where is Raven? Maybe she is on vacation somewhere sunny, drinking cuba libre and enjoying sunset….with perfectly fine Lexa...at least I hope so… :D
You know me…more fluff you get at beginning the worst is the ending – hard life of Clexa… :D
Anyway...I'm running away before you realize what I did and start hunting me down...