Absolute Soldier

Getting to the mountain was easy but infiltrating it would be a slight problem now because the once deserted mountain was now filled with a dozen of armed soldiers standing guard near the entrance elevator to the base. Without another thought, she accelerated and drove right out of the tree line; running over two soldiers who were in her way.

She then drove around the open space trying to run over as many as she could get but only manages to hit another three before she skids her car to a stop. She grabs her assault rifle and launches her grenade launcher at them before returning fire with the rifle. For a bunch of military trained soldiers, their aims were all over the place and not even one got to her. Lexa who was using her Jeep as a shield, decided to lie flat on her stomach before taking aim from under the car. She went for their legs and once they fell, she shot them in their heads. And by the time she had got all of them, she knew that everyone in the base is expecting her.

While she was waiting for the elevator with her duffle bag, Raven’s voice came through. “Lexa, do you copy?” 

“I copy.” Lexa replied.

“It looks like they are ready for you once the elevator door open; just a heads up.”

“Alright. Could you disable the elevator camera?”

“If I disable it, I won’t be able to see you in there.”

“Don’t worry. I have a plan and I need you to trust me.”

“Okay. Hold on for a sec.” Lexa was able to hear typing through the ear bud before Raven’s voice appears again. “Done. It’s off.”

A second later the elevator door opens and once she’s in, she slings her rifle over her shoulder and climbs up through the hatch with her duffle bag. While waiting for the elevator to stop at the designated floor, she rummages through her bag for two hand grenades. As soon as the elevator stopped and the doors dinging open, she threw the grenades through the threshold. It exploded by two of the soldiers’ feet killing them and injuring a few behind while knocking the rest of them on their asses. Once the explosion and dust particles had settled, she jumped down from the hatch and landed on her feet in a crouching position. Through the smokes she could see some of the soldiers rolling on the floor sluggishly trying to get up from where they had landed from the impact of the blast. She could hear several coughs and someone calling out to the rest to see if they’re okay.

Lexa slings her rifle forward and started shooting at the remaining soldiers. When she was sure that all of them were dead, Raven’s frantic voice came through again giving her another heads up that there are more coming her way. But that didn’t deter her because once she had set her mind to destroying everything; she will make sure to see through it all.

And she did just that. She fired her rifle and made sure to kill any soldiers that came after her. She even fired her grenade launcher again when there were too much for her to get a clear shot. Several people working there who aren’t soldiers were hysterically running around; trying to find cover or trying to get away from the chaos. Some were shot dead by accident and some just got a graze from stray bullets. Even though they are working for these people, Lexa tried not to shoot them unless she was provoked to. Like now for instance, Doctor Tsing is standing amongst the soldiers and was shooting at her with the hand gun she had.

But Lexa’s attention was to kill the rest of the soldiers first before having to face the doctor. Because putting a bullet through her is way too easy than what she had in mind for the ‘good ol’ doctor. Lexa dodges the doctor’s shots until the woman ran out before running after her and grabbing the doctor by her throat.

“Let me go, Lieutenant!” The doctor screams and tried hitting Lexa’s arm to get her to let go. But Lexa held on.

“It’s time for your examination, doctor.” Lexa said lowly to the doctor’s face. The doctor’s eyes widen in fear before she began to struggle in the brunette’s hold on her. Lexa brought her to the examination room and straps the doctor down to the chair. As Lexa prepares the daily dose of the neural serum, the doctor started to trash in her seat.

“What are you doing?!” The doctor asked with a shaky voice. Lexa didn’t say a word but instead giving the doctor a knowing look. “No... You can’t!! You don’t know what you’re doing!! No please!!”

“Don’t worry doctor. It’s just protocol.” Lexa answers nonchalantly. It was the same words the doctor always uses on her during her weekly checkups. She ignores the doctor’s pleas and moved the syringe to the back of the doctor’s neck before injected the serum into the base of her skull. The woman begins to trash and cry in her restrain as the serum worked it’s magic. And just like always, after 20 seconds, the woman stilled and closes her eyes. Lexa presses her fingers to the doctor’s pulse point and found no pulse.

“Hmm. I guess some are weaker than others.” Lexa mumbled to herself before making her way out of the room; leaving the doctor the way she is.

She ran into some of Doctor Tsing’s protégé’s and shoots them dead before they could even plead for mercy. She then made her way through every hallways and every room; killing every soldiers she sees and then did the same down to the next level and the next until she made it to the very bottom.

At the very bottom of the place held no hallways like the rest of the place. It only has a double door at the end as soon as you step out from the elevator or the staircase. Lexa is familiar with this place because this is where she frequented during her stay the first year here.

The gym/rehabilitation area.

Lexa was about to reach for the double doors when Raven’s voice cackled through. “Lexa, do you copy?!”

“I copy.”

“Clarke’s in there! She’s tied up to a chair! Shit!” Raven said in a panic before she breathes out a breath. “Okay uh... There’s a woman in there wearing what looks like an Officer’s uniform, a soldier guy with red hair and a man in a suit who looks awfully pale.”

“Nia, Emerson, Cage.” Lexa snarls out those names.

“And uh... There’s also another woman on an exam table. She looks to be... unconscious. That’s all I can see.” Raven added.

“Alright, I got this. I’m going in. Thanks Raven.”

“Please be careful.” Raven reminded. And with that, she took a moment to make sure her handgun is fully loaded and holstered. And without anymore further thoughts, she pushes the doors open.

Quiet chattering inside halted the moment Lexa pushes the double doors open. Her eyes first landed on Clarke who is in fact tied up to a chair; unconscious. Then her sights set on the other three before it landed on the sleeping form on the table behind them.

“Ah, Alexandria. Nice of you to finally make it down here.” Nia greeted her but Lexa didn’t say a word, only kept her teeth gritted and a scowl on her face. “You’re not going to say anything? To tell us to let her go perhaps?” Nia added with a smug smile as she moves to stand behind Clarke and laid her hands on the blonde’s slumped shoulders. She then proceeded to slap the blonde’s cheek to wake her up. It took her a few tries but eventually Clarke blinks her eyes open and she sluggishly raises her head to look around her. 

When the blonde’s sights landed on her wife, sky blue eyes widens in relief and fear. “Lexa...” The blonde gasps. Clarke had a busted lip, bleeding nose that was almost dried up and a cut on her right temple. But other than that, she seems fine. She tried to move her arms to get up but it was tied down and so were her legs. She started trashing in her seat but received a slap from Emerson instead.

Lexa snarls and took a step forward but when she saw Emerson moving his right hand to his gun strapped to his holster, she stopped in her tracks. The red hair man smirks knowingly before moving back to his previous position.

“Lexa huh? Hmm. So that’s what you were called...” Nia said and nodded at the knowledge. “Interesting. I get it. I mean, Alexandria is a mouthful. But! It is a very beautiful name indeed.”

“Quit stalling Nia. What do you want?” Lexa practically growled at the woman. Her patience wearing thin as the time passes.

“Ah, she finally speaks.” The evil woman shares a smile to the two men who snickers in return. “Alright, let’s get to the point shall we.” Nia begins and started pacing slowly around the blonde as she speaks. “Do you know that you were our first successful test subject? We tried the same procedure we did on you to others but somehow, they always ended up failing. Since you are the only one that survived the procedures, Mr Cage and I made sure you were perfect. We gave you a goal and we gave you a place to belong. You worked for us and we paid you handsomely might I add.” She pauses to gain her thoughts.

“But somehow, someway, you still manage to disobey direct orders. How did you do it?” Nia decided to ask and she waited for Lexa to answer her.

“I don’t know what you want me to say. I guess I woke up realizing the bullshit of it all and that is The White Mountain Corp.” Lexa answers truthfully that garners a growl from Emerson.

“If it weren’t for us, you’d be dead by now!” Emerson said angrily.

“I’d rather be dead than turned into this! You stole everything from me! I had a wife; a family! Now those years I can never gain back because of you!!” Lexa retorts angrily.

“Why you ungrateful bitch!” Emerson raises his voice and he was about to give a piece of his mind when Cage held him back while Nia raises her voice. “Enough!”

But it only made Lexa laugh, “Funny how now you wanted to show how tough you are but who was it again that ran away when I shot down your men at Clarke’s home?” Emerson was seething but Lexa only smiles smugly in return.

“Careful Lieutenant.” Cage said as he pointed a gun to Clarke’s head. The blonde was gasping in fear and she look into her wife’s eyes pleadingly.

“Fine.” Lexa backs down with a shrug and decided to ask instead. “What now?”

“A test, if you will.” Nia answered simply. But by the look on Lexa’s confused face had the woman chuckling before she decided to explain, “The woman,” She pointed to the sleeping form behind them, “She is like you; our first successful subject after you. Only difference is, I know, that she won’t go rogue on me. All you have to do is fight her. If you win, we’ll let you go and you will never hear from us again. If you lose, then well... you die of course and Clarke will join you. Simple?”

Lexa took a moment to gather her thoughts. The brunette knew that she has no other choice but to accept the challenge. She just knows that she cannot lose this fight. She won’t. And with that in mind and one last look at Clarke’s teary blue eyes, she nods her agreement almost hesitantly to Nia. The officer smiles and walks over to the computer by the bed where the woman, lies. Nia types a few things on the keyboard before pressing the ‘enter’ key.

With only a few seconds passing, the woman’s eyelids finally snapped open. She sat up on the examination table and swings her legs to the side. Her dark brown eyes locked on to Lexa’s green eyes as Nia whispered something to the woman’s right ear. Lexa could see the determination and hatred brewing through those brown eyes when suddenly, Nia’s voice boomed through the wide room.

“First Lieutenant Alexandria Woods, meet my daughter, Master Sergeant Ontari Queen.” Nia said with a proud smile. Lexa’s eyes widen at that knowledge but soon narrow her sights on the brunette who has jumped down from the exam table and began walking towards her with sure steps. Lexa frowns and raises her fists by her chest before moving her feet to a fighting stance.

Here we go.

~

Back at the warehouse, everybody was sitting in the living room, worried out of their minds while Raven is still in the computer room keeping an eye on the security camera showing Lexa just stepping through the double doors. Suddenly a beeping sound appeared from one of the screen indicating that the download is completed. So Raven disconnected the hard drive and kept it in the space under the table Lexa pointed out earlier. She made sure that it’s secure before she went back to observing the screens.

Just a few minutes later, the security camera pointing to the fence outside of the warehouse, showed two black military humvees, the same one like from earlier slamming into the gates and entering the premises forcefully. The sensor beeps annoyingly loud through the computer room from the intrusion and Raven got up to her feet and ran out to give the rest a heads up.

“Guys! They’ve found us. I don’t know how but they’re here.” Raven said in a panic. Octavia on instinct stood up and patted her side waist for her gun but realizes that she had left her gun in her car that was left at the diner. She groans before going to the book case and pulling on the lever she saw Lexa pulled earlier. She took one of the handguns in there and then took up position behind the kitchen counter, pointing the gun to the door. The rest of them hid behind the couch since there’s not much hiding space in there.

Not a moment later, the door was sliding open and Octavia fires a shot at the one entering first to the shoulder. The soldier that came after started firing carelessly around forcing all the women to the ground to get away from the flying bullets. Then the other three men came in and took charge but Octavia didn’t go down easy. She fought one as hard as she could before Finn’s voice broke her out of the adrenaline.

“Enough!” The man shouted. He had his gun pointed to the little girl’s head who he had ripped away from her grandmother’s arms while the other man pointed his gun to Abby and Raven’s head. The girl was crying while Aria begged the man to let the child go. “Shut up you little shit!” He screamed and shakes the poor girl in his arm as he pressed the gun harder into the girl’s head. But it only made the girl scream louder for her grandmother.

“Hey dipshit! She’s a five year old child who doesn’t know any better. The more you screamed at her the more she’s going to cry!” Octavia counters with her hands up in the air in a surrender position. Finn tsk at the girl before dropping her roughly to the floor and pointed his gun to Aria’s head instead.

“Shut her up. Right now. Or I’m going to blow her head off.” Abby crawls in front of Aria and her granddaughter, blocking the gun from them as she tries to help the other women comfort the girl and shushes her until her sobs turns to soft whimpers.

“Children are such trouble.” Finn said disgustingly.

“What do you want Mr. Collins?” Abby turns her head and asked the man with fire in her eyes.

“Awh, what happened to first name basis, Abby.” He chuckles before getting serious again. “Anyway. It’s simple really. If you co-operate, we won’t kill you.” He said with a shrug. “Now. Our source told us that someone here in this very location, has downloaded every file from our system. We want it back. So... Where is it?”

“We don’t know what you’re talking about.” Raven answered. Finn tsk one more time before pushing the gun barrel to the back of the little girl’s head who begins to cry again.

“We swear we don’t know! It must’ve been Lexa’s doing. We’re just here for refuge. After all, you people created her to be the best. Remember?” Octavia retorts.

“Sir! There’s a computer room in here.” One of the soldier shout out from upstairs.

“Now, you wouldn’t be lying now would you?” Finn said as he cocked his gun that was still pushing to the girl’s head.

“Why would we be lying?! You have a gun pointed to the innocent child’s head dipshit!” Octavia replied angrily. The man took a moment to ponder the words before sighing and lowering his gun with a sigh.

“I guess you’re right.” He said before suddenly smacking Octavia in her jaw with the butt of the gun. “And don’t ever call me dipshit again because next time, it’s a bullet to the head. You hear me?” He growled into the detectives face while pointing his gun to the woman’s temple. Octavia nodded her head to him but with a hint of defiance in her eyes.

“Good.” He smiles. “Now, ya’ll are going to follows us back to the mountain. Any funny business, the girl gets it. Understood?” When the women didn’t answer him he shouted, “Understood?!” That got all of them to begrudgingly nod their heads.

“Sam. Destroy the computers before you leave.” Finn ordered his man; the one who got shot in his shoulder earlier.

“On it sir.” And with that note, the other two men tied the women’s hands behind their back with zip ties apart from Aria who was carrying the whimpering child in her arms and brought them to the humvees outside.

~

Back at the mountain’s gym/rehabilitation area.

Ontari was coming closer by the second, but as soon as Lexa was about ready to block the first blow, Nia suddenly halted the fight. “Wait! Wait, wait, wait. I think we need an audience, don’t you guys think so?” The two men smiles knowingly and nodded their heads in agreement.

Just as soon as Nia finishes her sentence, the double doors to the place were pushed open and in came Finn with his smug smile with a bandaged right hand from the knife Lexa imbedded in him earlier and three of the White Mountain’s soldiers dragging along a bound and gagged Raven, Octavia and Abby. Aria wasn’t tied up because she was carrying a whimpering Madi in her arms. But they do have a gun pointed at them for good measures.

“No...” Clarke’s eyes widen and tried to pull on her binds but to no avail. Even though the blonde isn’t going anywhere, Finn came to stand in front of the blonde and took the opportunity to backhand the woman anyway. He smiles and then grabs the blonde’s face before forcing a kiss to her lips. He then had the audacity to turn to Lexa and winked at her. The brunette had fire in her eyes but stayed put.

“Lieutenant, I guess you’re not as good in hiding them as you thought you were. Thanks to Ontari, you are now second best.” Nia and Ontari smirked. Just then Finn whispered to the woman’s ear. “Before we start, where are my files, Lieutenant?”

“I guess, you’ll never find out.” Lexa answered. But Nia doesn’t like the answer so she shot Raven to her lower stomach. Muffled screams could be heard from Abby and Octavia. But Clarke’s scream was the loudest since she wasn’t gagged.

“No! You bitch! Raven?! Raven! Argh!” She screamed and struggles in her restrain. Raven was already on the floor on her side in a foetal position with a wince on her face as she tries to breathe through the pain. Emerson have had enough of the blonde screaming; punched her on the mouth to silence her.

But before Lexa could fully process what was happening, a sucker punch to the face was given to her by Ontari who uses Lexa’s distractions to get a cheap shot in to begin the fight. “Don’t worry mother. I’ll beat an answer out of her.” Ontari told her mother as she then rains punches and kicks to the stunned Lieutenant’s body. Nia seemed to like where this is going, decided to let it happened while she enjoyed the show.

Next, she grabs Lexa’s left arm and twisted it to get the Lieutenant to double over before laying kick after kick on the expose abdomen. The Sergeant seems to be enjoying this because she was smirking and laughing at the whole process. She then bends Lexa’s wrist back and held it there as the green eyed brunette groans in pain. “Where are the files, Lieutenant?!” But Lexa’s groans turns to a growl before she pulls back her right hand to a fist and delivered a powerful punch to the dark haired woman’s nose; breaking it.

Ontari doubled over and held her bleeding nose as she screams in pain while Lexa shook her wrist off to alleviate the pain. The brunette then knees Ontari’s face again. That manages to topple the woman over onto her back before Lexa straddles her and rained punches on the woman’s face. Ontari manages to block her last punch before she punches Lexa right at her jaw.

They both got up at the same time and narrowed their eyes on each other. Ontari wipes her bloody nose using the back of her hand before spitting her mouth full of blood on Clarke’s lap. All of the White Mountain men laugh at the move while Nia had a proud smirk plastered on her face. The Sergeant grins and winks at Lexa who had her teeth gritted and fists turning knuckle white.

The dark haired woman then ran towards Lexa and pushes her on the chest; sending her flying backwards across the place a few feet before landing on a table nearby. While Lexa was rolling over trying to get up, Ontari reaches into her cargo side pocket and pulls out a small medical box that contains two syringes filled with dark liquid. She took out one of them and held it for Lexa to see. “You know, if you had stayed, mother would have gifted you with this beauty. It’s a muscle enhancer. One of mother’s own bright ideas really.” She smiles at her mother and then smirks at Lexa before injecting herself on the side of her neck.

The feeling seemed to be euphoric by the look on the Sergeant’s face. So Lexa wasted no time and made her way to the woman while she’s distracted. Somehow the serum made Ontari impervious to pain because every punch and kick Lexa delivered, earns her a laugh by the woman. And when she has had her laugh, Ontari grabs Lexa by her fist and twisted it outwards before landing a back handed punch to the Lieutenant’s face. The dark haired woman than grabs Lexa by her throat and slams her to the ground.

“You have grown weak Lieutenant.” She then jabs with her feet to the brunette’s ribs. “You’re a disappointment to us.” Then a kick to it when Lexa rolled to her side. “You’ve got all this potential in you.” And then another. “You really shouldn’t have left. And now, we have no choice but to waste you.” Ontari was about to kick again when Lexa blocks it and tried to shoulder the woman on her stomach.

Even though it didn’t deter the woman much, who seemed to enjoy Lexa’s effort, it did the job by distracting the woman long enough for Lexa to make a quick grab at the remaining syringe from her side pocket before the Sergeant elbowed the Lieutenant on her back and then pushing her to the floor face first.

Ontari saw Lexa’s gun and grabs it from the holster and tuck it in to the back of her waist line. She then moves to grab onto the back of Lexa’s shirt and the back of her waistline before lifting her up and shoving her a few feet to the nearest medical cabinets. When Lexa landed in a heap of the broken woods and glass, the rest of the men share their amusements amongst each other. Suddenly a shot rang out that had Lexa snapping her eyes open to find the cause of the shot. Her eyes landed on Ontari’s smug smile who had her gun in hand pointed to someone. When she followed the dark haired woman’s line of sight, right there tied to a chair had Clarke bleeding out from her right shoulder.

Clarke’s eyes were wide open as though she couldn’t believe she had been shot and she had her mouth open and closing like she wants to say something but nothing comes out. Slowly she begins to slump in her seat and her head hangs forward; motionless

“NO!!” Lexa screams so loud that everyone stood frozen at their spot before the White Mountain men burst out in happy cheers along with Ontari who is laughing and whooping her accomplishment with the men. Octavia had anger in her eyes as she works faster on cutting herself loose from the Swiss knife she always kept in her boots while Abby and Aria had tears of shock in their eyes. Raven must have fallen unconscious somewhere during the fight because she wasn’t reacting to the loud noises.

As Lexa was in shock, all of Lexa’s memories finally came back to her in full force. She cries and groans as she shuts her eyes and let all of it flooded her mind.

Everything.

**

First day of moving in to college for Lexa. “Hi. I’m Clarke.” The blonde came in to the room just as Lexa was unpacking. “I guess we’re roommates.” They shook hands and the smiles they shared was like a promise of a wonderful future.

First emotional comfort. “You know you deserve better than him, right? He’s just a douche. No point wasting your tears on him when he just doesn’t care for you. If he does, you wouldn’t have caught him having his dick deep down on some bimbo’s cunt.” Lexa told Clarke one night when the blonde came back to their room with tears running down her face.

Lexa had drop everything and held on to the blonde as she cried her eyes out. Clarke’s boyfriend barged in a moment later unannounced to apologize. But before he could get close to Clarke who seemed to be shaking and hiding her face behind the brunette’s shoulder, Lexa was up and dragging the boy by his collar out of the room. Colourful words from the brunette were exchange outside and since then, the boy didn’t dare lay his eyes on Clarke ever again.

First kiss. Since Clarke broke up with her boyfriend, Clarke and Lexa had been spending all of their time with each other. Where one is, you’d be sure to find the other one by their side. One day, during their weekend break, they went on a road trip just the two of them. The first night after dinner at a diner, they decided to walk back to their motel they were staying at for the night. It was a beautiful night and Clarke was being particularly brave that moment. Lexa was talking about something which Clarke hardly paid attention to because she was distracted by her best friend’s beauty under the moonlight.

“I love you.” She suddenly blurted out. Lexa froze mid story and look to her side and caught the truth to those words in Clarke’s sky blue eyes. “I love you.”The blonde repeated.

But without answering the blonde, Lexa leans in and kisses Clarke. The kiss was everything they ever dreamed of. And before long, Lexa broke the kiss and returned the three words to Clarke before connecting their lips again.

Their first official date as a couple came a few days later after that night. Their first time together came right after their date.

And the rest just came in sequence. Her memories showed her everything from their first night together as one, their college graduation, their first fight because of her decision to join the Marines, their first make up after the fight, her first departure to join the military, her first coming home, their engagement, their wedding, the two miscarriages they had, the video call when Clarke broke the wonderful news of finally being pregnant and lastly it brought her to the day that she was supposed to return home for good.

“Hold on Lieutenant. Hold on.” Her medic told her as she applies the clotting agent on her gunshot wound to the neck.

“Everything’s going to be alright Lexa. You just need to hold on for a little bit longer, okay?” Her Cpl held her hand as he squeezes in reassurance.

“Help is on their way.” Her GySgt voiced out.

Just then one by one her comrades fell to the ground lifeless. She remembered seeing Nia standing before her with Emerson right behind her. The last thing she remembers was Nia pointing a dart gun to her before everything went black.

 **

As the men were busy ‘celebrating’ with Ontari, Lexa with shaky hands, took out the syringe and injected herself in the chest just as Ontari turns towards her. The woman’s smile slowly faded when she saw Lexa injecting herself with the dose. Her eyes widens before she started patting her side pocket frantically to only feel emptiness. Her shock turns to anger as she marches towards the Lieutenant and lifts her up to her feet and began hitting her.

Now it was Lexa’s turn to not feel pain. But unlike her, Lexa was quiet. She let the Sergeant get her dose of hits before she stopped a fist from connecting with her face and uses her free hand to deliver a set of punches to the woman’s stomach. The force of the punches knocked Ontari back a few steps as Lexa delivers a few kicks to her sides and punches to her face and chest. She then delivers a sidekick to Ontari’s sternum who was now staggering back on her feet with a drunken look on her face. “Is... that... all... you... got... soldier?” She slurred the question. Lexa snarls before screaming in anger as she delivers a final spinning heel kick to the woman’s head hard enough that it snapped to the side; killing her.

Just as she was about to direct her attention to Nia and her people, the woman was barking her orders to her soldiers to kill her friends and family. Several guns cocking could be heard but Lexa was faster. She grabs her hand gun Ontari drop earlier and shot each of the soldiers in their heads with direct accuracy. Emerson came barrelling into her as soon as the last men fell but Lexa quickly got the upper hand as she got the red haired man in a head lock and squeezes his throat. He was gasping for air and tried to claw at Lexa’s arm but it only made her lock in tighter.

She then quietly said through gritted teeth into his left ear, “I remembered everything. You killed my unit and with that you get to pay with your life. This is for them and for their family.” And as soon as she was done speaking, she twisted his neck in one swift move; killing him instantly.

As she pushes the lifeless corpse away from her, Nia, Cage and Finn decided to use this distraction to quickly make a run for it. But they didn’t get far because Lexa shot them in both their thighs and calves making them fall over and scream in pain. Lexa then got up and ran to Clarke and quickly unties her before bringing her down on her lap on the floor.

Octavia finally frees herself after cutting the zip ties off her wrists. She then freed Abby before going to Raven and cutting her free. Abby was quick to her side to check on Raven who finally came to and cracked a tired smile at them. “Just keep putting pressure on her wounds. I’ll be right back. I’m going to check on Clarke.”

“Go, I got this.” Octavia replied while putting pressure on Raven’s stomach. Abby then quickly went to where Lexa was holding Clarke on her lap.

Aria decided to put her granddaughter down to help Octavia. “Help me get her on the table.” The detective said as she points her face to the gurney that was occupied by Ontari a while ago. Aria help Octavia carry Raven and put her on the table gurney. The older woman then applied pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding while Octavia grabs a gun she found on the floor and pointed it to the three people groaning in pain near the double doors.

Madi was unsurely looking around when her eyes landed on her mommy on the floor with Lexa and her other grandmother. Abby was helping Lexa apply pressure on Clarke’s shoulder when Madi came behind her and tugs on her shirt. The doctor turned around and saw Madi with teary eyes as she saw her mommy with blood on her shoulder. Abby quickly hugged the girl so that she was facing away from her mother.  

“Baby. Stay with me. Please...” Lexa whispered brokenly to Clarke while rocking them back and forth comfortingly. Clarke, who is on her lap, opened her eyes for just a second before it closes again. “I remember everything. Baby... I remember you... Us... I just had my memories back... So please don’t leave me.”

At hearing those words, Clarke manages to open her eyes and lock into forest green. She then manages a shaky smile but kept her eyes on her wife. “That’s right baby. Look at me. Okay? Stay...” Abby was silently witnessing the exchange with her granddaughter in her arms. “Lexa... We need to get her to the hospital.” Abby broke the moment.

“We probably won’t make it in time. But there is an operation room upstairs.” Lexa answers Abby without looking away from the sky blue eyes she loves so much.

“It’ll do. I can do what I can before we could move her.” With a nod, Lexa stood up with Clarke in her arms and led Abby to the operation room upstairs. Lexa then told Octavia to secure Nia, Cage and Finn when she stood before them. Her friend didn’t question her, only nodded her head with a pleasure smile on her face.

Abby then went to Raven and Aria. She then took a blanket and covers Raven’s lower half so that Madi didn’t have to see anymore blood before putting the girl on top of it. “That way she’s applying pressure.” Abby whispered to Aria who finally realizes the motive of putting their granddaughter on Raven. “We need to bring her up too.” She told Aria as she helps push the gurney out of the place.

“H-ey... That’s a Madi on top of me.” Raven said when she opens her eyes to see big blue eyes looking down on her.

“Auntie Rae... Are you okay?” The girl whispered.

“I will be baby. I will be...” The brunette smiled tiredly at the girl.

As Abby was about to pass them, she stopped and told Aria to go ahead and wait for her by the elevator. She then looked down to Finn before looking back up to Octavia. “Please bring Mr. Collins upstairs to the operation room in about an hour’s time.” Octavia tilted her head to the side in confusion but Abby was already kneeling by Finn’s face, “I told you Mr. Collins, lay a hand on my daughter... Snip snip.” Abby did a scissors motion with her pointer and middle finger to the man’s crotch.

Finn’s eyes were bulging with fear as he tried to get up but Octavia jabs him on the wound in his leg with her booted foot. He groans in pain as he grab onto his wounded leg. And with that, Abby left to follow behind Lexa. “Serves you right Collins. You shouldn’t have bury it in women forcefully where it isn’t wanted.” Abby heard Octavia said to Finn as she was walking away.

~

As Abby worked on Clarke, Lexa went back down stairs to get Finn to the other room upstairs. But Aria with fire in her eyes came to Lexa and told her what he did to Madi. Octavia backed the older woman up even though the soldier didn’t need any more convincing about the matter. She was going to have her ways with him anyway.

So Lexa with fury in her eyes leans down and hooks her arm under the tied up man’s right armpit; straining his injured shoulder on purpose. He was screaming in pain as Lexa drags him up to an examination room and places him on a chair before strapping him in. Before he could utter another word, Lexa begins breaking every single bone in both of his hands. He was screaming and crying but Lexa tuned him out.

When she was done and was satisfied when he finally peed himself, she leans closer to his face. “That’s for touching my girls and trying to get away with it. Now, the doctor will be right with you. Sit tight.” She told him and slaps on his injured leg a couple of times which earns a tired groan from him.

~

Time jump.

6 and a half months have passed since the mountain and Lexa is now playing with her little girl at the backyard of her house. She was running after Madi who is giggling with excitement as she tried to run as fast as her little legs could carry her away from her mama. When Lexa finally caught up to her, she carries her in the air and swings her around before she brought the girl to her chest and laid the both of them down on the ground.

When Madi’s laughter died down, the little girl climbs on top of Lexa’s torso and laid there with her head on her mother’s chest; above her heart. She has taken a particular liking to that position since the day Clarke was transferred to Polis General after Abby had stabilize her enough for her to be moved. Madi chose to stay with Lexa through the whole ordeal of waiting for her mommy to wake up.

Waiting was the worst part for Lexa, especially when she had regained her memories of her past with Clarke. The thought of possibly losing Clarke was unimaginable but having Madi on her through the waiting helped prevented her mind from spiralling down into the darkness though. So she’s thankful for that. And Madi being glued to her also helped when Clarke suddenly crashes one night but was brought back to stability by the doctor and nurses present.

Her musing was suddenly interrupted by a voice from the back door of the house. “Enjoying the sun?” Lexa tilted her head back while Madi looks up with her head still on her mama’s chest. Both grins at the direction of the voice and there leaning by the threshold of the back door is none other than Clarke herself; looking more radiant as ever.

Her shoulder had just healed nicely. Even though a scar is the only thing that was left to remind her of what had happened a few months ago, she is just grateful that she made it out alive so that she could finally be with her wife and daughter again. 

“Yes, come join us.” Lexa said with a smile on her face. At the same time, Madi grins along with her brunette mommy. Clarke couldn’t help but smile at the resemblance and snapped a quick picture of them that way before pocketing her phone. She then walked towards the two most important people in her life and kisses her wife and daughter before laying down with her head on Lexa’s right shoulder.

A few moments later, Clarke broke the moment and told them that it was lunch time. So the blonde had prepared the both of them ham and cheese sandwiches which she purposely added two cut up ring onions in each of their sandwiches.

Clarke knew that Lexa detests onions saying that it’s the devil’s food. An abhorrent their daughter shares with her. Like carbon copy of each other, they took a bite at the same time and then chewed a few times before both of them had a disgusted look on their faces. Clarke was just silently observing them with a grin she hid behind her tea mug.

“Babe, you know I hate onions.” Lexa whine as Clarke only nodded her head. “So why in the world would you add onions in this? And it’s not even right to add onions in ham and cheese sandwiches.” Lexa asked after spitting the half chewed food in her mouth to the napkin on the side of her plate. Clarke let out a chuckle before looking at their daughter who had already spit out her half chewed bite to the side of her plate and was quietly removing the onions from her sandwich.

“Proving my point of how alike the both of you are.” Clarke answers without taking her eyes away from their oblivious daughter. Lexa followed her wife’s line of sight and observes her daughter in amazement. For the past few months of getting to know her daughter, she’s only had experienced one similar thing her daughter shares with her and that is honey on pancakes rather than maple syrup. “You should really see her thinking hard and talking about the things that matters to her most because she’s an exact carbon copy of you.” Clarke added. The two wives shared a loving smile with each other before looking back at their little girl as she struggles with her sandwich.

~

Four and a half months ago.

Two months after giving up Nia and Cage to the military police, Major Titus Neil called her and told her that Nia had been sentence to life imprisonment with no chance of parole and with the same going for Cage Wallace as well. They also decided to strip Nia of her ranks and was dishonourably discharge from the Marines. They were put in different prisons and the authorities made sure to keep their prison details away from each other’s knowledge.

As for Finn. Well... Abby kept her promise to do a penectomy on him. But alas, he didn’t get to see it through because he suffered a heart attack from seeing all the medical instruments laid out in front of him for the procedure. So Abby lied to the authorities claiming that she was about to operate on his wounded legs when his heart just gave out. When they asked her what had happened to his arms, Lexa answered them with a simple, “He should have kept his hands to himself.”

As for Lexa, she was brought back to the military base in Polis for some re-evaluation. But as she was there, any files or work on her during her 5 years of being missing have miraculously disappeared. Thanks to Raven for her quick thinking when she wiped out anything and everything related to Lexa before the White Mountain men came for them at the warehouse. But she did left all the catalogues of the stuff the WMC have stolen from the military and from a few unlucky doctors like Dr. Becca Franco’s mind drive project since it was all signed off by the MG Nia Queen herself and the leader of The White Mountain Corp, Cage Wallace.

There were also proof in those catalogues that Nia ordered Emerson and his men to kill Lexa’s unit members; GySgt Tristan Josephs, Medic Sgt Caris Campbell, Cpl Cal Stevens and the youngest Pvt Artigas Lucas.

The whole process of Lexa being re-evaluated only took about a week since everything about her cannot be found. So as soon as Lexa was cleared, she was offered to stay in the military but she politely declines. And like she was meant to 5 years ago, she was honorary discharged from the Marines. She came straight back to the hospital to be by her wife’s side after she was dismissed.

When she came back, Madi took the opportunity to climb off her grandmother’s lap and on to hers so that she could lay her head on the soldier’s chest to listen to the brunette’s soft heartbeat. They both stayed that way in the quiet room waiting for the blonde to finally wake up.

The next few days when Aria, Octavia and Abby came to visit, they were surprised to find the girl on Lexa’s lap every time. As for Raven... she made a full recovery because lucky for her, the bullet didn’t hit anything major. When she was well enough, she did came by with the rest to visit her blonde best friend. And like everybody else, she was surprised by Madi sticking to Lexa like glue every time they visited.

Lexa herself didn’t understand how or why Madi was suddenly so comfortable with her. She was pretty sure that nobody told the girl who she really was. So as she sat there by Clarke’s bed with her daughter on her chest sleeping peacefully one day, she couldn’t help but to comb her fingers gently through soft brown locks much like her own while observing every little detail of her daughter’s features.

She was so immersed in her daughter that she failed to notice that Clarke was awake and was quietly observing her and their daughter. “She’s perfect, isn’t she?” The blonde’s hoarse voice broke her out of her reverie. Green eyes turn and connected with blue and Lexa unknowingly let out a sigh of relief seeing Clarke finally awake.

“You’re awake...” Lexa said.

“I have been for a while.” Clarke replied softly. “Seeing you so immerse on our daughter, I thought I’ll enjoy the scene a little longer.” She added with a smile.

Lexa returns the smile before looking back down on her little girl’s sleeping face. “She is perfect. Thank you, Clarke for giving birth to her and raising her. I wish I was there with you but...”

“Hey, none of that. It wasn’t your fault that you weren’t there for us. I’m just glad that you’re here now with us.”

“I would kiss you but...” Lexa says as she looks down on their daughter again.

“It’s okay. We’ll have plenty of time for that later. But for now, I am content to just lay here and observe the both of you.” Clarke said with a dreamy smile. Lexa smiles in return before reaching for the blonde’s right hand with her left and slowly bringing it to her lips to kiss the back of it.

~

Present time.

Turns out, Clarke loves telling stories about her to Madi every chance she gets. She didn’t want Madi to not know who her mama is. Even though at the time she was sure that Lexa wouldn’t come back to her, at least the memory of her wife is what kept the familiarity of the missing person herself alive for young Madi.

And now since she’s finally home to her family, she will do everything and anything to keep them together. Who knows that maybe someday soon they could expand their little family of three since the possibilities of finally having a future with them is looking promising by the minute. And this time, she will not be missing any more moments with them. That is her promise to her family that she intends to keep until her dying breath.

As for the hard drive, Lexa took it from the warehouse and kept it in a safe place only she knows the location to. She still kept it just in case she might need it again someday. And as for the Flame, she will keep it hidden and safe within her. She will make sure that no one will ever know about it because at the wrong hands, this tiny thing can be made into a deadly weapon. She is the perfect example of it.

The sound of giggles broke her out of her thinking just in time to see Clarke giving their daughter raspberry kissing to her exposed little belly on the living room floor. This is the life that she has always wanted. A second chance at life she is lucky enough to have been given. And she could never ask for anything more than this very moment.