Pictures
Emerald eyes blinked through the early morning sun shining in through the window. Lexa sighed deeply as she stretched her arms above her head before rolling over and coming face to face with a halo of golden hair. A bright smile spread over Lexa’s face as she took in the peacefully sleeping Clarke.
After the scare with Clarke’s nightmare Lexa had made love to her through the night, successfully distracting the woman from her fears. Clarke had finally fallen into a dreamless slumber around three in the morning with Lexa gently stroking her fingers through her blonde mane.
Lexa raised her hand and removed a lock of hair that had fallen in Clarke’s face and ran the tips of her fingers down the smooth skin of cheek. Clarke’s eyebrows scrunched together before her hand reached up to grab ahold of Lexa’s hand. Sky blue eyes opened and stared up into Lexa’s with a soft smile.
“Good morning,” Clarke rasped.
“Morning. Did you sleep okay?”
“Well, after a very passionate night I can’t just say no, now can I?”
Lexa chuckled lightly and moved forward to place a chaste kiss to Clarke’s lips before throwing the comforter off her naked body and standing from the bed. Walking across the room to her closet Lexa opened the door and pulled out a pair of black slacks, a light blue button down, and a black blazer. Setting the outfit at the foot of the bed, Lexa walked over to her dresser to grab a bra and a pair of panties out of the top drawer and put them on. Turning around, Lexa raised an eyebrow when she saw that Clarke had thrown the comforter off her body and was now wrapped in her blazer and was giving her a sultry look.
“Clarke, what are you doing?” Lexa questioned as she placed her hands on her hips.
“Trying to persuade you to stay home from work for at least one more day,” Clarke gripped the opening of the blazer and carefully inched it open to reveal the tanned skin that laid beneath,“What do you say, Lexa? Stay in bed with me today?”
Lexa bit her lip as Clarke slowly peeled the blazer from her shoulders and let it rest in the crooks of her elbows. The cotton material barley covered her perky breasts, only showing the smooth valley between them, causing Lexa’s throat to constrict at the goddess before her.
Lexa stepped forward only to catch herself and glance away from Clarke,“As much as I would love to stay in bed with you I really have to get back to work today. Indra wants to go over the details of the other night and see what possible motives Aaron could have had for breaking into your apartment.”
It wasn’t necessarily a lie. Indra did want to discuss Aaron Gabriel with her and Bellamy, but it was more about who he was connected to than why he broke in, they basically already knew the reason behind that.
“Are you saying that it wasn’t a random break in?” Clarke’s eyes widened in slight fear.
Lexa rushed over to Clarke and grasped her shoulders and gave her a little shake to pull her out of her fearful mind,“Listen to me, Clarke. This is just standard procedure. We go over any break in case and see if there was motive or not. Bellamy found his last known address last night and we’re going to be doing a search of it today. That’ll give us a little bit more knowledge on whether he randomly chose you or not, but more than half the time it’s just some random break in.”
“Okay, that makes me feel a little better, I guess. I mean, it just seems a little weird to me. Aaron escapes jail and just suddenly break in to my apartment which just so happens to be a floor above yours, and not to mention the fact that I’m dating you. Do you think he wanted some kind of revenge?”
Lexa searched Clarke’s eyes before a sigh escaped her throat,“I’m not sure. I understand how you think it’s weird but for right now were just assuming he just randomly choose somewhere to break in. Like I said, after we search his place we’ll hopefully have a better understanding on why or if he chose your place.”
Clarke nodded her head solemnly and leaned in to place a kiss to Lexa’s cheek before pulling away from her. Lexa watched with a small smirk as Clarke fully removed her blazer and handed it over to her while looking up at her through a curtain of black lashes.
“I still wish you would stay in bed with me though.”
“Me too, but unfortunately I’m not the one who is injured. Therefore, I have to get my ass to work,” Lexa said.
Lexa felt her heart flutter as Clarke’s angelic laughter filled the room. In Lexa’s eyes, Clarke absolutely glowed. The way the sun made her hair look like a golden halo around her face and how when she laughed her lips would open to reveal a set a pearly white teeth. Everything about her just screamed out to Lexa.
“I don’t think I’ll ever be able to tell you just how much I love you, Clarke,” Lexa whispered.
Clarke’s laughter came to a stop as she processed the words that had just left Lexa’s lips,“Don’t ever stop telling me then. I won’t ever get tired of hearing you say it and I’ll always be here to tell you how much I love you, too.”
Clarke wrapped her arms around Lexa and dragged her down to the bed in a passionate kiss. It was safe to say that Lexa was going to be a little late for work, but she wasn’t one to complain.
Lexa walked into the precinct twenty minutes late for work with a goofy smile on her face. She wouldn’t admit it to anyone but she was too weak to ignore the spell that Clarke had placed over her and ended up staying in bed longer than she should have.
Walking back to her desk Lexa saw Indra talking quietly with Bellamy before both turned to look at her with questioning gazes.
“And just where the hell have you been?” Bellamy asked as he leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms over his chest.
“Clarke had a nightmare about Aaron last night and I couldn’t comfort her to go back to sleep until about three this morning. I overslept,” Lexa shrugged her shoulders.
“More like you were doing less comforting and having more s—,” Bellamy started only to be cut off by Indra.
“That’s enough, Bellamy. Since you were finally able to pull yourself from bed, Lexa, we have a place to search. Let’s go,” Indra stated as she walked towards the front doors.
Lexa looked at Bellamy with a little confusion before they both hurried after Indra.
“Captain, aren’t we going to take the crime scene unit with us?” Lexa questioned.
Indra continued to walk silently out the doors with Lexa and Bellamy in tow before coming to a stop in the empty parking lot beside the precinct and spinning around to face them,“For the time being I don’t want anyone but a select few people to know about what’s really going on. Whoever’s behind this clearly knows how to keep themselves from being connected to anything and everything that’s happened.”
Lexa glanced over to Bellamy who stared at Indra with curiosity,“What aren’t you telling us, Indra?”
Confused, Lexa turned back to see Indra close her eyes and dip her head down slightly. Indra opened her eyes and threw a quick glance over her shoulder and around the parking lot in search of any prying ears before looking back at them with a serious expression.
“When Bellamy called me last night with Aaron’s last known address I went over there to search it,” Lexa gave Indra a look of disbelief,“What I found wasn’t something I was very pleased with. Aaron had some of our police records from the undercover operation, not ones from our computer systems, but copies of hand written records.”
“Do you think someone from the precinct gave him those records?” Lexa whispered.
“There’s no other explanation on how he got them. The undercover operation records are supposed to be sealed away and only certain people, including myself, have access to them.”
Bellamy snorted loudly,“So now this just means we have another problem on our hands.”
“Exactly. That’s why I don’t want anyone besides the people I know we can trust to know about this. If the entire precinct knows that we’re investigating the warehouse bust further then whoever was giving Aaron files may decide to tell whoever was in charge of Aaron that we’re trying to track them down, and that’s the last thing I want,” Indra explained.
“And just exactly who else do you trust besides me and Bellamy?” Lexa asked.
“Besides both of you only Anya, Lincoln, and Raven make that list. There’s no one else I trust more than the five of you.”
Lexa and Bellamy looked at each other with smug smiles at the mention of their friends. They both knew without a doubt Indra was speaking about them when she said ‘select few people’. Indra noticed their smiles and waved them both off before continuing to walk towards her car.
“Okay, enough smiling. We’ve got a place to search.”
Chuckling softly, Bellamy and Lexa caught up with Indra and entered her car before driving off in the direction of Aaron’s address.
Lexa’s eyes bounced off the scenery of the run down neighborhood Indra had driven them into. Every house they passed seemed to be falling apart and the streets were littered with holes from years of damage. As Lexa watched a small group of children run down the cracked sidewalk she felt the stubble vibration of her phone in her back pocket.
Pulling it out Lexa smiled softly as the screen lit up to reveal a text from Clarke.
“Guess who isn’t staying in bed all day after all. I thought I’d just let you know I’ll be spending the day with Octavia. Don’t have too much fun at work. ;)”
Lexa quickly unlocked her phone so she could reply to Clarke.
“Good. It’ll do you some good to stop being so lazy. Have fun with Octavia. And I promise I won’t have any fun because you aren’t here with me.”
As Lexa hit the send button she heard Indra announce their arrival at Aaron’s as she slowed to a stop. Lexa stuffed her phone back in her pocket before opening the car door and hopping out along with Bellamy and Indra. Looking around Lexa took in the sight of the run down house. Yellow paint chipped away at the exterior, shingles were starting to fall from the roof, and a couple of windows were covered with dirty ply wood.
“Well, this sure isn’t the kind of place I’d want to live,” Bellamy said as he looked around.
Lexa turned and gave Bellamy a ‘are you kidding me look’ before walking away towards the front door of the house with Indra.
“What? I was joking,” Bellamy shouted as he jogged after them.
As they came up to the door Lexa allowed Indra to be the one to open the door and walk in first. As Indra disappeared through the threshold Lexa looked behind her to see Bellamy gesturing for her to go ahead. Lexa turned back around and walked in the dim living room followed closely by Bellamy. Upon entering the only furniture that Lexa could see was a beat up couch, a scratched up coffee table, and a small television set.
The room was musty and by the look of the yellow tinged walls Lexa could tell that Aaron had been smoking inside. From her position in the living room Lexa could see past the doorway across the room and into the kitchen. Dirty dishes piled high in the sink and a few beer bottles lined the counter next to it. The clean freak in Lexa was beginning to twitched madly at the mess around her.
“As you can see Aaron wasn’t necessarily the cleanest human alive,” Indra said.
“What gave it away? The dirty dishes in the sink or the fact that it doesn’t looked like he’s vacuumed since he moved in?” Lexa asked as she kicked away a cigarette butt that rested by her feet.
“Anyway, follow me. There’s something you need to see that I haven’t told you about,” Indra said as she began to walk down a narrow hallway off the to left.
Lexa looked over to Bellamy who shrugged before walking after Indra. Curiosity getting the better of her Lexa hesitantly followed them both until Indra came to a stop at a beat up door. Indra glanced back at her before turning the knob and entering the room that laid behind the door. Lexa’s curiosity only grew when Bellamy stopped in the doorway and let out a deep cuss. Lexa gave Bellamy a slight push signaling for him to move so she could enter along with them.
Lexa’s heart pounded loudly in her ears as she took in the sight of the room around her. Pictures. There were pictures everywhere. Pictures of her and Clarke. Some of just her. Some of just Clarke. There were few of the rest of her friends including Indra, but most of them were of Lexa and Clarke. Lexa walked in further as she looked at each photo that was pinned to the walls.
Some were of her leaving work, Clarke leaving work late at night, her and Clarke at Grounders, the list went on. As Lexa walked around the room one picture in particular caught Lexa’s eye. Gripping the glossy paper, Lexa unpinned it before holding it up for a closer look. There was Lexa, still fully clothed, pinning a shirtless Clarke up against the shower wall at the beach house.
Anger began to bubble in Lexa’s chest at the thought of someone, not only spying, but taking a picture of a very private moment that was meant for only her and Clarke. Lexa folded the picture and placed it in her back pocket before turning around to look at Indra.
“Someone has definitely been helping Aaron. He was still in jail during some of these damn pictures, We need to find whoever it is because when I get ahold of them they’re going to be wishing they were in hell,” Lexa angrily huffed as she stormed out the room.