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**Clarkes POV**

She woke up the next day with bruising in the shape of a hand on her wrist, she was still in shock and kind of scared of ever seeing Finn again. She had turned her phone off right after he left in case he tried to contact her.

Clarke rolled over to see Octavia watching her from her bed.

“How you feeling princess?”

“Don’t ever call me that O, please.”

Octavias eyes widened, “Crap, sorry didn’t think before I spoke. You missed your classes.”  Clarke just nodded in response.

“I’m fine just want to be alone for a while.” With that Clarke got up and began looking for clothes. Then she felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned to see Octavia looking at her with a sad smile.

“You stay here, I’m going over to Lincolns, might just spend the night there so you can have your time. Okay?” Clarke sighed in relief. She stood up and hugged her roommate.

“Thanks O.”

Octavia pressed a kiss to the top of Clarkes head, and then moved to grab the stuff she would need.

“Text me if you need anything at all.” Clarke nodded in response getting comfortable back in bed turning her computer on so she could get lost in the world of Netflix.

Octavia left soon after leaving Clarke alone. She couldn’t concentrate on anything.

She spent the rest of the day in bed like that. She looked up at the window feeling surprised that the sun had gone down. She got up to make herself a snack when there was a banging on the door that made her jump out of her skin.

**Lexas POV**

She was done with practice early, and already tired but she still had to meet with Clarke for their paper. She had texted her last night but didn’t receive a response. She looked at her watch seeing it was three. She took her phone out to text the blonde again.

Lexa: Hey, what time you free today?

Lexa went to go take a shower, waiting on Clarke to respond, wondering what was taking so long, Clarke was usually a really fast texter. She took her time, she loved showers, they were her time of day to not think and just relax. She got out and went straight to her phone.

She frowned it was four now and still no text.

Lexa: Clarke?

 She began getting dressed and then sat back on her bed turning on her television to waste some time, still waiting for a response.

She must have drifted off for a bit because next thing she knew is it was six and the sun was going down. She looked at her phone and still nothing. She was getting pissed. They needed to go over each other’s papers before the morning.

Lexa: What the fuck Griffin!?

Lexa was done waiting it was seven thirty! She picked up her phone and called Lincoln. It rang twice before he picked up.

“Hey Lex, what’s up?”

“Are you with Octavia and Clarke?” She tried to keep her anger in check.

She heard some shuffling, “I’m with Octavia, why what’s going on?”

“Where is Clarke?”

“I think back in her room, O said she needed some alone time. What’s going on?”

“What’s her room? Ark tower right?” Lexa grabbed a pen ready to write down whatever Lincoln told her.

“Yeah, why do you need her room number?” Lexa was getting seriously frustrated but she knew Lincoln wouldn’t tell her if she showed how upset she was.

“I need to drop off her edited paper for class tomorrow but she’s taking long to respond to my texts.” At least she told part of the truth she thought, she just left out the part where she was going to kill her too.

“Oh, um 319.”

“Thanks talk to you later.” She hung up before Lincoln could ask any other question. Lexa grabbed her bag making sure she had her paper. She slammed her room door closed making Anya jump in the kitchen.

“Wheres the fire Lexa?” Lexa just glared at her and walked towards the door slamming that one on her way out too. She heard Anya yelling at her from the hallway.

“Nice talking to you too, Jerk!” She rolled her eyes and kept walking. She took out her phone and called Clarkes phone, if she picked up she would warn her of her imminent death, but it went straight to voice mail.

Lexa made the fifteen minute walk in ten. She didn’t even wait for the elevator and just walked to the third floor straight to room 319 where she banged the door hard enough she thought it was going to crack.

She heard shuffling around in the room before she knocked again this time a little softer. She heard a quiet voice, sounding kind of scared.

“Who is it?”

“Fricking Santa Clause, sorry I’m three months late. Open the damn door Griffin.”

The door opened slowly, Lexa pushed pass Clarke and turned to face her, “Give me a reason I shouldn’t kill you right…” Lexa froze, Clarke looked like shit. Her eyes were red and swollen. She didn’t look like she had left her room all day. Lexa looked around the room realizing the only light was coming from the hallway. Clarke was still in pajamas and she was visibly shaking. Lexa took a step closer “Clarke what’s wrong?” She took Clarkes hand but let go as soon as she saw Clarke wince in pain, she looked and saw a bruise on the other girl’s wrist. She felt the fire return to her stomach immediately.

** Clarkes POV**

Clarkes heart was beating so fast, what if it was Finn again? How could she get him to go away? She was shaking.

Then came another knock this one a little softer. Clarke walked closer to the door. “Who is it?” She didn’t mean to whisper but it came out that way.

“Fricking Santa Clause, sorry I’m three months late. Open the damn door Griffin.”

Clarkes eyes widened. Lexa? Why would Lexa be at her room? She opens the door, and then gets pushed to the side while Lexa just invites heself in. So damn rude.

“Give me a reason I shouldn’t kill you right…” Clarke watches as Lexa takes in her appearance making her feel very self-conscious. Clarke takes her good hand and trys to pat her hair down, knowing she probably looks like a lion. She freezes when Lexa takes a step closer to her.

“Clarke what’s wrong?” Lexa grabs her bad hand making Clarke wince in pain, Lexa must notice because she immediately lets go and is looking at her wrist. Clarke moves her arm behind her back, trying to make Lexa stop looking.

Clarke looks up into Lexas face and takes a step back seeing all the anger in the other girls face. Clarke thought she saw Lexa look mad before but that is nothing compared to what she sees in front of her. She sees Lexa close her eyes for a couple of seconds and notes that Lexa is mouthing numbers.

“Lexa?” Clarke puts a hand on Lexas shoulder feeling the tension. But Lexa just puts her finger up signaling that she needs a moment. Clarke nods even though Lexas eyes are still closed and walks back to sit on her bed, stopping to close the door and turning on a light.

Clarke is waiting for Lexa who has finally opened her eyes and seems calmer. She walks over to Clarke and takes Clarkes wrist in her hand gently running her fingers along the bruise, it tingles where she touches and Clarke feels goosebumps forming. Lexa looks at her face, Clarke blinks a couple of times trying to push away the feeling of Lexa touching her had on her head.

“Who did this to you?” Clarke looks down then and then quickly back to Lexa and then back to the ground. She pulls her legs onto her bed and sits indian style, motioning for Lexa to sit next to her.

She can’t look at her and talk, she doesn’t know why, so she keeps her eyes on the floor, she begins talking before she decides what to say.

“The phone call I got when we were together yesterday was from my boyfriend. I had decided to break up with him, so I left to go meet up with him and end things. He met me here when I started talking to him trying to end things….” She shrugged. “He didn’t take it very well, he said he loved me, but I don’t love him, He said he wouldn’t let me go. I asked him to leave, he grabbed me and wouldn’t let go even when I said he was hurting me. He grabbed by face with his other hand, and went to force me into a kiss. But then Octavia was here and he rushed out saying he wouldn’t give up on me.”

Clarke looked to see Lexa nodding. “Where is he now? Has he tried talking to you again?”

Clarke shrugged in response, I turned my phone off as soon as he left and haven’t turned it back on since in case he was going try and contact me.” Lexa nodded again.

“That explains me not hearing back from you.”

Clarke was confused, “why were you trying to get in touch with me so bad that you showed up here? Apparently ready to kill me?” She smiled at Lexa who looked down in embarrassment.

“I thought you were ignoring me, and we said we would meet up to go over our papers before they were due tomorrow. Now that I think about it…. I may have overreacted.”

Clarke slapped her own head, crap she was an idiot. “I’m so sorry! I totally forgot, that was so selfish of me.” She jumped up looking around for her book bag, when she felt Lexa pull her to turn around and then all of a sudden Lexas arms were around her. Clarke froze for a second, Lexa was hugging her! Clarke quickly placed her arms around the other girl. She placed her head on Lexas shoulder and breathed in, she smelled amazing. Clarke felt safe, but all too soon Lexa was pulling away.

“I’m glad you are okay, if I ever see this guy I will kick his ass for you, a man should never put his hands on a woman.” Clarke tried to respond but she couldn’t she just wanted to pull Lexa back into her. She nodded at what Lexa said and turned back around to grab her bag when her stomach grumbled. Lexa gave a light laugh at the noise.

“Have you eaten today Clarke?” Clarke looked down blushing, and just shrugged her shoulders.

“I snacked here and there but not an actual meal.” Lexa nodded and looked around the room.

“Well the dining halls are probably closing and you don’t have kitchen to cook anything, plus I’m hungry too. Come back to my place and I will cook us something, and we can go over our papers.”

“You don’t have to that Lexa! Seriously, we can just go over the papers now and you can be done with me until tomorrow.”

Lexas phone decided to start ringing at that moment, Lexa looked at the screen eyes widening in surprise, she gave Clarke a finger again, making Clarke roll her eyes in response, but kept watching Lexa talk.

“Cos, is everything okay? Oh I’m with my friend right now, so I can’t talk. Yeah well, now you know how it feels. Yes, I see you are trying but I still have to go. Mhm me too, call you later. Bye.”

Clarke looked away as soon as Lexa finished talking.

Lexa picked up her bag, and turned to Clarke, putting it back down, “you might want to put clothing on, its still pretty cold outside.”

Clarke looked at Lexa confused until she remembered she was only wearing short shorts and a tank top. Her eyes widened and her face reddened in embarrassment. How could she not notice earlier that she was half naked? She ran to her closet and grabbed some clothes and then to the bathroom where she could hear Lexa chuckling. Clarke quickly changed, and then looked at her face in the mirror, she looked like crap! She quickly washed her face and put her hair up into a messy bun. Ok just a little less crappy now.

She walked out of the bathroom and did a little twirl for Lexa, and laughed at herself.

Lexas eyes widened, “Clarke you’re…… Human! I swore you were part lion when I first got here!” Clarke full out laughed grabbing the closest thing to her and threw it at Lexa which happened to be the teddy bear she stole from her. Lexa apparently had amazing reflexes and caught it.

“Hey don’t throw my bear.” Lexa got up and placed it back on the bed and patted its head, she turned towards the door and motioned for Clarke to follow.

 Clarke followed her and looked back at her room thinking about how down she had been all day and how Lexa was able to make her feel better almost instantly. She had only seen this side of her with Raven before. Lexa was letting her in and Clarke didn’t want anything else.

**Lexas POV**

Clarke walked slow, annoyingly slow, it took them twenty minutes to get back to her room, she didn’t yell at her though so in her mind she deserved a pat on the back.

Lexa unlocked the door motioning for Clarke to walk in. The place was quiet, Lexa wondered where Anya had made off to. Lexa went to her room and unlocked that door too. Clarke was following quietly behind her.

“Last time I was here you were yelling at me to get out.” Clarke stepped into the room putting her bag on the floor.

“Well your drunk ass fell on me, what did you expect?”

“Lexa I told you I didn’t drink anything that night.” Lexa looked over to see the blonde pouting, she was adorable. Lexa eyes furrowed in confusion what the hell was that thought?

“Come on Clarke you can go over my notes while I cook and ask questions if you have any, and retype your paper.” Clarke nodded heading out to the kitchen.

Lexa had been cooking for about twenty minutes and Clarke working on her paper when there was a giant sigh. Lexa turned to Clarke who began banging her head on the table. Lexa walked over and placed her hand between the table and Clarkes head but the Blonde kept on banging.

“Clarke. Stop it. Clarke! The food is going to burn and then I’m going to kill you and cook you.” Clarke stopped and looked up with fear in her eyes, Lexa kept her face very serious making Clarke straighten up right away.

She turned away from the blonde returning to the food. Another twenty minutes later and the food was done, Lexa served both of them and sat down across from Clarke who was typing away furiously.

“Your food is going to get cold.”

“Almost done, I wanna finish first.” Lexa nodded understanding because she wanted to finish her paper as soon as possible too.

By the time Clarke finished Lexa was done eating, so Clarke passed the computer to her so Lexa could her started on her paper now. Lexa focused in completely trying to get this done as soon as possible. Once completed she read over her own and Clarkes essay surprised at how well their essays complimented each other’s. They would definitely get A’s.

Lexa looked up realizing Clarke hadn’t said anything in a long time. She was sleeping on the kitchen table. Lexa Sighed and rubbed her head, what was she supposed to do with her? She looked at the time seeing that it was eleven already. Lexa stood up to clean the kitchen when she realized it was already spotless, Clarke must have cleaned it while she worked.

Lexa just stood there looking down at Clarke trying to figure out what to do. She looked at Clarkes wrist, she could see where he ex boyfriends fingers had squeezed. She hated that someone had her that way. Lexa didn’t realize until she saw that Clarke was hurt that she cared about her at all. But she did, Clarke was now her friend, her annoying friend true but still her friend.

She sighed and poked Clarkes arm, the girl didn’t stir so she poked her again. There was a little mumble but not enough. Lexa shook Clarkes shoulder, “Clarke.”

“Five minutes mom.” Lexa smiled, this girl was so annoying.

“Clarke Griffin get up or I swear I will leave you at this table all night.”

Clarke looked up, rubbing her eyes “Lexa?” She looked around realizing where she was. “Crap its late I better get going.”

Clarke started putting her stuff away and headed to Lexas room to get the rest of her stuff. Lexa followed and sat on her bed.

“Clarke its late we have class early and its too long of a walk to do alone. Do you drool?”

Clarke paused at the question. “What?”

“Do you drool?”

“Um, not that I know of why?”

Lexa got up and started going through her drawers looking for extra pajamas. She found some and went to offer them to Clarke.

“Trying to decide if I can trust you on my pillows or not.”

Clarke looked at what Lexa was holding in her arms.

“Wait what?”

“You are staying over you idiot, we have the same class anyway.” Lexa shrugged it just made sense.

“Are you sure? We haven’t known each other that long. Could be weird.”

Lexa just studied Clarke, she was right they hadn’t even known each other a full two weeks, she would never let anyone besides Raven sleep over.

“Are you going to try and sexually harass or murder me in my sleep?” She raised an eyebrow at the blonde who turned very red and began shaking her head. “Then you can stay, I trust you. But if you drool I may murder you just so you know.”

Clarke took the clothes Lexa had and went to change in the bathroom.

Lexa changed in her room, She got under the covers and turned the tv on very low, she scooted to the edge of the bed making sure there would be enough room for Clarke. She took out her phone to text Costia.

Lexa: Didn’t have time to call you back tonight. Call you 2mm. Sorry.

Lexa plugged her phone in to charge making sure her alarm was on when Clarke walked back into the room and stood awkwardly at the end of the bed.

“The bed wont bite Clarke just get in and go to sleep, you better not give me any trouble waking up for class in the morning.”

Clarke nodded and climbed onto the bed, Lexa lifted the covers so Clarke could get under too. The bed was big enough that they had space between them but small enough that they could feel each other’s body heat.

Lexa turned away from the Blonde watching the tv, “Thank you Lexa for all of this.” Lexa didn’t say anything, acting as if she didn’t hear her at all.

Lexa began falling asleep shortly after but every time she was almost completely sleeping Clarke would move around. She turned around making Clarke freeze mid movement.

“What’s wrong Clarke?!” Clarke closed her eyes and covered her face with the blanket feigning sleep. Lexa rolled her eyes and pulled the blanket away from her face, Clarke still pretended to sleep so Lexa stood waiting until she messed up. It took all of ten seconds for Clarke to peek one of her eyes open.

“Talk.” Clarke sighed and rolled onto her side to face Lexa.

“I can’t sleep.”

Lexa rolled her eyes, she was going to smother the girl to sleep in two minutes. “Why?”

“I don’t know. Wanna talk a little?”

“Clarke!” Lexa rolled onto her back, she was going to kill her.

“Please Lex! It will help me sleep.”

“What do you want to talk about.” Lexa felt Clarke shrug.

“I don’t know just keep talking until I fall asleep, your voice is soothing.” Lexas eyes widened at that, no one had ever told that before.

“Fine. Get comfortable first though.” Clarke began shifting around until her forehead was leaning on Lexas shoulder, causing her to tense up.

“Do you want me to move?”

“Will you shut up and fall asleep faster this way?” She felt Clarke move her head up and down. “Then fine stay this way.” Lexa made herself relax.

Lexa was trying to think of something to say  when she found herself already talking.

“ I was adopted by Lincolns parents when I was eight years old. But I knew them almost my entire life, they lived next door to me. Our mother used to watch me at night because my own mother worked night shifts at the hospital. She had separated from my father right after I was born so it was just us. It never bothered me because I had Lincoln and his parents, they were my second home. We used to spend ours just playing, mostly play fighting, that was back when Lincoln could actually beat me” Lexa felt Clarke burrow herself in more.

“My mom dropped me off earlier than usual one night at Lincolns house because she said she had to meet a friends before work. She worked so hard all the time just for me.” Lexa could feel that Clarkes breathing had evened out so she assumed that the girl had already fallen asleep but she felt the need to keep talking.

“Turns out she had gone to meet my father to ask for child support because she was struggling financially. Barely being able to keep our house. He didn’t like it apparently. I didn’t know until later that she left my father because he was physically abusive. He beat her that night, until she died. I don’t remember what the last thing I said to her was. I like to think that it was that I loved her but I was eight so it was probably something stupid. That’s why I got so mad when I saw your wrist, I can’t see anyone be hurt that way especially my friends. I will make sure that guy never hurts you again Clarke. With that she kissed the top of Clarkes head and tried to drift off to sleep.

Right on the edge of a deep sleep she was sure she felt a kiss being pressed into her shoulder but she was too far gone to check if it was real or not.