Chapter 10
Clarke woke up to the throbbing headache tangled with someone between the sheets. Of course she wasn't expecting that, so she jumped, gasped and almost rolled off the bed. But luckily, she quickly recovered and noticed that it was Ontari in her bed and last night came back to her rather quickly.
Clarke was finishing up her job at the gallery when Ontari came by to say sorry for what happened with Niylah at the party. Clarke told her it wasn't her fault so she shouldn't feel guilty and invited her for a drink. Eventually one drink transformed into the 'evening full of drinks' and Ontari admitted she liked Clarke but was mildly intimidated by succesful artist with her own art gallery and never build up enough courage to ask her out. Of course on that stage they were very drunk so it was a great idea, at least for both Clarke and Ontari, to go to Clarke's apartment and have drunken sex. They didn't expect to see there Lexa amd Raven with a cake, but the blonde and her lover didn't mind. Clarke kicked her friends out of the apartment, not even noticing Lexa's mood and got back to Ontari and then they... Well, had sex.
Clarke quietly slipped out of bed, got dressed into sweatpants and t-shirt and went to the kitchen to make coffee and wait for Ontari to wake up. After thirty minutes she got bored and started wondering about playing games on her phone, when disheveled Ontari emerged from her room and sat next to Clarke on the couch. The blonde gave her a mug with the coffee without a word, understanding she'd have a moderate hangover.
"Thank you. I needed that." Ontari finally said after drinking half of her coffee and setting it on the table. "About last night..." She trailed of, unsure what to say, but Clarke had beaten her to it.
"Well, about it. It was nice. Really nice, even if I don't remember half of it." She lamely joked, but little smile found place on her lips when the girl quietly chuckled.
"I think there is a 'but' in this, Clarke."
"But to me it's not something more than one night stand, I'm sorry." The blonde winced at how harsh these words sounded. She thought it sounded a lot better in her head.
"No, no. Don't be. I understand. I actually was worried you'd like to continue this, but I'm relieved now. I think we're good as we are, without sex, you know?"
"Yeah, we can be friends. Without that awkward tension and shit." Clarke chuckled and in that same moment Raven barged into the apartment and almost immediately started yelling.
"What the fuck, Clarke! Where is she?!"
"Who? And please, don't yell."
"Oh, you're here." Raven warily eyed Ontari and looked back at Clarke. "Where the fuck is Lexa, Clarke?!"
"What? I thought she went with you."
"She said she can manage on her own for one night and then she disappeared into the night leaving me in front of the building. I thought she'd come back, but she didn't."
"Have you tried calling her?"
"Of course I did! Her phone must've died. I'm worried!"
"Okay, Clarke, I'll better go. Thanks for all." Ontari said and after gathering all her things she left.
"Finally. What the fuck Clarke, what was that? Are you insane?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about her, why did you do this? You didn't know?"
"Know about what?"
"About Lexa's feelings."
"She doesn't have feelings, you said to me three weeks ago!"
"You oblivious dumbass! She has feelings. They appeared magically from the air and now she FEELS!" Raven yelled and Clarke winced. If Raven was right, the blonde would have many problem with Lexa from that moment. Talking about feelings and stuff with a robot was okay, she didn't judge, she asked questions. But android with feelings? It was a whole new level.
"We've got to find her! You installed her a GPS, didn't you?"
"Yeah, but it's not working. I don't know what's going on. She'd be home by now!"
"We've got to call the police." Clarke said and started dialing the number, when Raven reached and pulled the phone from her hands.
"You can't call the cops!"
"Why not?"
"Because they won't even start looking. I mean, she literally doesn't exist for the police and rest of the world. There's no birth certificate, no school awards and no degree. They'd think it's a joke."
"So what do we do?"
"I don't know. For now, we wait."
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She woke up in the dark room, binded to a chair with poorly tied rope. If she wanted, she could rip the rope to tiny pieces and exit that room.
But she waited.
And waited.
And waited.
And after long time which felt like a year, someone entered the room and stopped right in front of her. That person, her captor, pulled the hood off of her head and she noticed it wasn't a dark room. She did noticed she had an issue with her left eye and quickly made a self check up. Of course, that heavy, metal thing broke somrthing in her head and she couldn't see with her let eye and couldn't use her GPS. She closed her eyes and sighed. When she saw who was in the room with her, she scowled.
"No, not you again. How many times I have to hit you in the face so you could finally understand Clarke doesn't want to know you?"
"It's not about Clarke." Finn deadpanned. "Oh, well, it is, but it's rather about revenge. I don't want her back. Actually, we're having so much fun with Niylah." He grinned like a crazy man and Niylah emerged from the corridor and obnoxiously kissed him for show. "Did you know she knows how to break every bone in your body? And don't think it's easy, I tried to do it six times, I never succeeded." He ended with a sad frown and shrugged. "Well, I guess it's not for me. Have fun with Niylah."
Lexa internally rolled her eyes. Who the fuck they thought they were? Of course she didn't even flinch when she heard Finn's threat. She had metal in her body, at last. And Raven put many fighting skills in her head, so she wasn't worried. She didn't even wince when long metal bar connected with her thigh and just looked at Niylah, at her leg and back at the girl.
"That's it? I thought it would hurt much more, but it... tickles." Lexa said calmly and Niylah almost fainted in place where she was standing.
"What the fuck! Anyone else would be screaming and begging me to stop, what's wrong with you!" She hit Lexa once again, this time in the ribs and black liqiud started seeping through the robot's clothes. When Niylah saw that, her jaw fell to the floor and she looked startled at the brunette. "Who are you? You should be bleeding! And blood is red, not black! You freak!"
Niylah wanted to exit the room, but Lexa was faster. She ripped the rope on her hands and legs to shreds and caught the girl, putting her hand on her mouth so she couldn't scream for help.
"I guess you caught me. But hopefully you won't remember this." And she hit the girl in the head with that metal bar.
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Clarke was nervously pacing in her living room while Raven was trying to connect her phone with Lexa's GPS, but with no avail. The blonde stopped dead in her track when the front door to her apartment quietly opened and disheveled Lexa entered the room. For Clarke, everything stopped for a few seconds and then she threw herself at the brunette and hugged her tightly.
"Oh my god we were so worried, Lexa! Where have you been?"
"Well, I... uh... I got lost?"
"What happened to your GPS?" Raven asked when she entered the room and immediately started checking on Lexa. "What the hell is this?" She asked with wide eyes when she saw motor oil seeping slowly from Lexa's ribcage.
"Oh, this. It's nothing. Don't worry." Lexa tried to shrug Clarke and Raven off, but with her broken leg and lack of oil, she quickly lost the fight and they put her on the couch.
"Tell me the truth, who did this?"
So she told them everything. How she woke up in a room amd noticed her eye and GPS aren't working, how Niylah tried to break her leg and ripped the cables in her leg and how she managed to break the tube with motor oil inside. When she finished her story, Raven was carefully fixing her eye and GPS, while Clarke was growling in anger and pacing in front of the couch.
"Could you stop? You're distracting me, and I'm not even close to fixing this." Raven finally exclaimed but Clarke didn't noticed her and kept pacing. She only stopped when Lexa stood up and caught her hands into hers and hugged her.
"Clarke, calm down, I'm okay. Everything is okay."
"No, it's not! They could destroy you! I could lose you! We've got to fuck him up, he has to pay for this!" She yelled and after yanking out of Lexa's hands she went to her room and slammed the door.
After that the mechanic and the robot were silently staring at each other, until Raven gestured to the couch.
"Okay, let's fix you up, so you can be your beautiful gay self once again." She grinned to Lexa who chuckled quietly but kept glancing at Clarke's door. "Don't worry, she'll calm down and everything will be alright. This morning I heard Ontari was only one night stand, so you've got the chances."
"I thought we would stop after what happened yesterday."
"What? Hell no! Operation 'Wooing Clarke' is still going on!"
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And little did Lexa know that cameras were carefully watching her every step as she ran towards the exit of the building she was kept in. Finn saw her limping, because Niylah managed to break something in Lexa's leg, but fortunately he didn't see her black blood, which was nothing more but motor oil. He seethed with anger.
"BRING ME BACK THIS GIRL! I WANT HER HEAD ON A SILVER PLATE!" He kept screaming, but quickly he settled down and sat on his chair. Soon a devilish smirk appeared on his face as he sat there and suddenly Lexa lost all her value for him. "Well, Clarke. It's time we played together." He said to himself and started thinking about his evil plan.