Stay With Me
“It’s finally nice to meet you face to face, Lexa Woods. Too bad it has to be on these terms.”
The ear splitting sound of gunfire bounced off the metal containers around them.
Lexa’s eyes screwed shut as she waited for the inevitable darkness of death to grip her. A few short seconds passed before she allowed her eyes to slowly open to see Caleb standing before her with a smug smirk.
“You really think I would do all this just to get your hear and kill you in two seconds? Oh no, I’m not going to let your death be that easy.”
“If you’re going to kill me then why don’t you go ahead and tell me who you really are,” Lexa seethed.
A chuckle escaped from ‘Daniel’s’ throat as he kept the gun pointed towards her,“Why the hell not. It’s not like you’ll be here much longer to tell anyone. My real name is Fin Collins. I’m one of the largest drug lords in the country, and that warehouse you took down was one of my major distribution centers that was paving my way to distributing to cross country. My employees worked hard to find ways around LAX’s security measures and they were so close until a certain little bitch just had to screw everything up.”
Lexa raised her head high and dropped all expression from her face as Fin stalked up to her and roughly shoved the gun against her temple.
“And how surprised I was to find out that little bitch was you. Lexa Woods, an undercover detective working for LAPD. I was so pleased when you showed up at Grounders the next night and had that pretty little blonde dancing along with you. The way Clarke moved, damn. Tell me, Lexa, how good is she in bed?”
Unable to control her anger Lexa shoved both of her hands against Fin’s chest,“Don’t you dare talk about her!”
Fin quickly regained his posture and placed the gun in the center of Lexa’s forehead. A raspy laugh rose deeply from Fin’s chest as he looked over a raging Lexa.
“Did I hit a nerve, Detective? Well, you won’t have to worry about telling me how she is in bed. I’ll find out for myself pretty soon once you’re out of the picture. Now, how about we get our pretty little doctor out here and get started with the fun, shall we? Caleb! Bring her out,” Fin yelled towards the little shack.
Lexa turned towards the small building near the ports edge as she anxiously awaited the sight of Clarke walking out the door.
Shift in POV (Clarke)
Clarke groaned loudly as she fought off the black haze that rambled around in her head. A deafening bang quickly struck the haze away and caused her to sit up straight with a shuddering breath. Clarke glanced down at her hands that were currently tied down to the arms of the wooden chair she sat in. As she struggled to free herself Clarke shifted her gaze around the dimly lit room only to stop at the sight of Niylah and Caleb leaning against the wall to her right.
“Well, it’s about damn time you woke up. You were about to miss the show,” Niylah said as she pushed away from the wall and walked towards Clarke.
Clarke tried to pull her head back as far away from Niylah as possible as the woman leaned down to get eye level with her. Niylah’s dark eyes searched hers before giving her a reluctant smirk and moving to place her mouth next to Clarke’s ear.
“It really is too bad that you’re Fin’s. Just say the word and I can make you mine, Clarke.”
A shudder of disgust ran up Clarke’s spin as Niylah placed a kiss right below her ear before backing away one again. Clarke looked up at her through dark lashes and and sneered.
“I’ll never be your’s or whoever the hell Fin is. When Lexa gets here you’re all going to be wishing you were in hell.”
“Your little girlfriend already arrived. Didn’t you hear the gunshot when you woke up? Maybe Fin already did away with her,” Niylah laughed.
Clarke’s heart dropped to her stomach, eyes glazed over with unshed tears, and shook her head negatively at the woman before her,“No. You’re wrong. Lexa wouldn’t come here unarmed.”
“Oh, but she did. If she wouldn’t have then Fin would have killed you right on the spot.”
A tear slid down Clarke’s cheek as the image of Lexa laying dead on the ground outside filled her head. Clarke allowed her head to drop as her body racked with sobs. As more tears slid down her tan cheeks Clarke heard a male voice shouting from outside.
“Caleb! Bring her out!”
Daniel…well Fin now.
Clarke was sure that was his voice.
“So he is the one who’s behind this.”
Clarke began struggling more in her seat when Caleb stepped towards her with a small knife in hand. Caleb began to cut away at the ropes, careful not to cut her, and grabbed ahold of her arm once she were free. The grip around her arm tighten before Caleb hauled Clarke to her feet and lead her towards the door with Niylah in tow.
Clarke braced her heart for the worst as Caleb pulled the door open and shoved her outside. Stumbling out Clarke barely had time to compose herself before she heard a familiar voice calling her name.
“Clarke!”
Clarke looked up to see Lexa rushing towards her, not caring about the gun that Fin kept pointed at her back. Closing her eyes and tilting her head up towards the sky Clarke silently thanked every god imaginable that Lexa was alive. As Lexa neared closer Clarke suddenly threw herself at the brunette with a sob and tightly held onto her as Lexa pulled them together.
Mere seconds passed before Lexa pulled back and began searching over Clarke for any wounds,“You’re not hurt, are you?”
“No. I’m okay. What about you? I heard the gunshot when I woke up.”
Before Lexa could respond Caleb snatched Clarke away from Lexa and began walking her over to Fin. Clarke struggled against him and Lexa moved to stop Caleb only for Fin to fire another warning shot at her feet. Lexa instantly stopped moving and helplessly watched as Caleb handed Clarke over to Fin.
“You’ve had your little reunion. Now, it’s time to get down to business.”
Fin pulled Clarke in front of him and wrapped an arm around her waist before pulling her flush against his chest and placing the gun to her head. Clarke’s breath shuddered out as she felt the cold metal press harshly against her and watched as Lexa’s eyes widened in horror.
Lexa cautiously raised her hands up in front of her,“Fin, you want me not her. Clarke has nothing to do with what happened to your warehouse. She didn’t even know me when that happened.”
“Oh, but she does. She has everything to do with this. You care for her. Love her. I’m going to get my revenge by not only killing you, but by taking the thing you love most in this world,” Fin said as he ran his nose along the side of Clarke’s neck, eyes still locked with Lexa’s.
Clarke felt Fin’s hand grip her chin and forced her to face him, though her eyes stayed locked on Lexa. Fin tapped the barrel of the gun against her cheek to get her attention and Clarke finally looked away from her girlfriend and into the evil brown eyes of the man in front of her.
“Once our little Lexa over there is gone you’ll be coming with me. Trust me when I say I can pleasure you so much more than she can.”
The amount of disgust Clarke felt only rose with every word that came out of Fin’s mouth and she couldn’t stop herself from reeling her head back and surging it forward as a wad of spit flew past her lips and into Fin’s face. Fin’s face contorted into one filled with rage as he wiped the spit off his face before pulling back his hand that held the gun and slapping Clarke in the face.
A pained filled cry escaped Clarke’s throat as she fell to the ground holding her stinging cheek. Pulling her hand away Clarke saw the dark red blood that stained her fingers and quickly put pressure to her cheek to stem the bleeding. Clarke grunted as Fin leaned down and grabbed a handful of her blonde hair and forced her head to face in the direction of where Lexa currently stood.
“I was going to spare you the sight of us killing her but because of that little stunt I’m going to make sure you see every second of it.”
Clarke watched helplessly as Caleb advanced towards Lexa. Backing up, Lexa stopped and looked behind her as she came to the edge of the port. Fin lifted Clarke by her hair only to roughly shove her to her knees on the hard concrete. Both hands gripped the sides of her head, making sure her eyes stayed locked on Caleb’s every move.
“Do it. Let her hear Clarke’s sorrowful cries for her as she falls into the water,” Fin demanded.
Caleb grabbed ahold of Lexa and spun her around before stabbing a large knife into the left side of her gut. Caleb pulled the knife out and spun her around causing Lexa to look at Clarke with pain filled eyes before falling back and splashing into the salty depths below. Clarke let out a heart wrenching cry as she watched and listened to Lexa’s body disappear into the ocean’s waves.
Fin laughed sinisterly behind her and momentarily loosened his hold on Clarke’s head giving her just enough time to make a move. Clarke quickly reeled her elbow forward before throwing it back into Fin’s groin with enough force to cause him to double over and fall to the ground. The gun previously in Fin’s hand slide across the concrete in front of Clarke and she quickly grabbed it before sprinting towards the edge of the port.
Clarke held the gun up, still sprinting, as Caleb began running towards her and hesitated slightly before pulling the trigger and releasing a round right into Caleb’s chest. Caleb gripped at the wound as he fell to the ground and laid there unmoving. Clarke bypassed his body and ran the rest of the way towards the edge of the port only to skid to a stop. Staring into the blue waters Clarke couldn’t catch any sight of Lexa anywhere. Clarke’s head whipped around as she heard someone running in her directions and saw Niylah quickly approaching her.
Clarke looked into the water once more before dropping the gun and diving head first into the cool water. Opening her eyes and blinking through the salty liquid Clarke could see the hazy shape of Lexa’s body struggling to get to the surface a few feet ahead of her. Clarke hastily swam towards Lexa and grabbed ahold of her before making her way up to the surface. Lexa and Clarke took in deep gasping breaths as they finally broke through surface. Clarke pushed the brunette locks out a Lexa’s face and quickly looked down through the water at the blood flowing through the stab wound.
“Lexa, look at me. You’re going to be okay. You hear me? You’re going to be just fine.”
Clarke put as much pressure as she could onto the injury as Lexa reached up and lovingly caressed her cheek,“I thought I was going to loose you. I’m so happy you’re okay.”
Lexa continued to stroke Clarke’s cheek as she tried her best to examine the wound near Lexa’s stomach through the water. Clarke silently thanked Caleb’s lack of aim as she realized that the stab wound wasn’t near any vital organs but it that quickly ceased as she noticed the persistent amount of blood that flowed out.
“I don’t think Caleb hit any organs but he may have caught a few minor blood vessels. We need to get you to a hospital or otherwise you could possibly bleed out. How do you feel?”
“It’s painful, but nothing I can’t handle.”
Clarke let out a relieved laugh and wrapped her free arm around Lexa’s neck and pulled her close. Lexa held on to her tightly and nuzzled the side of her neck. Both women basked in the feeling of each other before the sound of a gunshot rung through the air and a bullet whizzed into the water near them. Clarke looked up to see Fin standing at the port edge, gun in hand, aiming right at Lexa’s back. Right before Fin pulled the trigger once again, Clarke quickly spun herself and Lexa in the water and felt the bullet enter her shoulder.
“Clarke?! No, no, no. Clarke! Stay with with me!” Lexa pleaded as she tried to stop the blood from flowing out the wound.
Clarke’s head fell forward to rest against Lexa’s chest as she felt her body grow weak from blood loss. Black spots began to cover her vision as she tried to take in shallow breaths.
“It didn’t have to be this way, Lexa. If she would have just been a good little girl then maybe I wouldn’t have had to shoot her,” Fin yelled out from where he stood,“Oh well, you’ll be joining her soon anyway.”
Clarke weakly lifted her head and looked back towards Fin with heavy eyes and watched as he lifted the gun towards them once more. Right before he could pull the trigger the sound of multiple gunfire rang through the air and both women watched as dozens of bullets shot through Fin’s body before he fell lifelessly from the ports edge.
Clarke was able to see Anya and Bellamy stop at the edge of the concrete slab, pointing and yelling in their direction, before her head fell back against Lexa’s chest. As Clarke’s eyes fluttered closed and darkness began to consume her the last thing she heard was Lexa’s quivering voice in her ear.
“Stay with me, Clarke. Please, I need you.”
Shift in POV (Lexa)
Lexa pleaded with Clarke to stay awake but she had lost too much blood. For the first time in a while Lexa allowed tears to escape her eyes as she watched the blood flow from Clarke’s shoulder, making her turn a ghostly pale.
“I’m not letting you die, Clarke. You’re going to live, I promise.”
A new found sense of determination filled Lexa as she began wading through the water towards the iron ladder that was attached to the edge of the port. As Lexa got half way there she could hear the voice of her older sister calling for someone to get the ambulance down to them. Finally making it to the ladder Lexa looked up to see Anya and Bellamy towards her. Feeling her strength depleting by the second Lexa was relieved when Bellamy reached down to help her lift the unconscious Clarke out of the water before Anya grabbed ahold of her hand and pulled her up before laying her on the ground a little ways away from Clarke.
“Someone get those damn ambulances down here now,” Bellamy shouted before taking off his shirt and placing it against Clarke’s steadily bleeding shoulder.
Lexa tried with all her might to sit up and move over to Clarke, only to be pushed down by Anya,“Lexa, hey. Look at me. You need to lay still until the ambulance gets here. Clarke’s going to be just fine. She’s a stubborn little thing. She’s not going to go down so easily.”
“I need to see her, Anya. I can’t leave her. What happens if she—.” Lexa cut herself off and allowed her head to fall back onto the hard concrete beneath her.
Bellamy looked over to them as he heard Lexa’s words,“If there’s one thing that I know about Clarke it’s that she never gives up. She’s going to be fine. We just need to get her to the hospital as soon as possible.”
Lexa gazed at him and gave him a hopeful nod before she heard the sirens of the ambulances quickly approaching. Lexa lifted her head up as the two vans came to a stop a few feet away from them and watched as the occupants quickly rushed out of the vehicles. Harper and Miller ran over to Clarke while the two EMTs Lexa didn’t know came jogging over to her. Anya quickly moved out of the way as they began checking over Lexa’s vital signs and looking over her wound.
Lexa’s head turned at the sound of Harper’s words rang through her ears,“She stopped breathing! Starting CPR. Miller get that defibrillator ready!”
“Clarke!” Lexa struggled against the EMTs as they held her steady and tried to calm her down.
Lexa felt immense pain flow from her wound but she was too worried to care. Her eyes stayed locked on Clarke as Miller cut open Clarke’s shirt and began placing the pads from the defibrillator onto her chest. Harper and Miller moved back and watched as Clarke’s body lifted from the electric shock before dropping back onto the ground. Miller quickly put two fingers to Clarke’s neck before Lexa saw him give Harper a sharp nod.
“She’s got a pulse,” Lexa heard him say.
“Let’s get her to the hospital, now!”
Lexa watched helpless as they carefully slid a spine board under Clarke before lifting her up and rushing her towards the ambulance. Lexa watched for as long as she could until Miller shut the ambulance doors, effectively cutting off her view of Clarke. Lexa’s head fell back harshly against the ground as another bout of tears escaped the corners of her eyes.
A soft hand grasped at hers and Lexa turned her head to see Anya giving her a hopeful smile,“She’s going to be okay, Lexa. For now you need to focus on letting them get you to the hospital to treat you so you can be there when she wake up, okay?”
Lexa nodded her head and allowed the EMTs to finish their work before they got her settled into a stretcher and began rolling her towards the ambulance. Looking around, Lexa could see Indra and Lincoln standing over near the bodies of Fin and Caleb and could’t help but notice a missing person.
Lexa tightened her grip around Anya’s hand causing her older sister to look at her,“What’s wrong? Does something hurt?”
“No. It’s not that. Anya, did you guys see Niylah when you arrived?”
“Niylah? No, no one’s seen her. We checked the shack but she wasn’t there. We figured she made her escape right before we arrived. Indra’s got an APB out on her now so don’t worry. We’ll find her.”
Lexa nodded and allowed herself to relax as much as possible against the stark white sheet on the stretcher. After being lifted into the back of the ambulance one of the EMTs hooked her up to an IV along with some pain medications. As the pain meds began to course through her system Lexa’s vision began to swim. Right before Lexa was lulled into a medication induced sleep all she could picture was Clarke laying beside her in bed giving her a dazzling smile, the sunlight behind her creating a soft halo around her head.