Chapter 5
When it looked like the fog was going to consume them, the girl pushed Clarke into a cave and followed her in.
Clarke was breathing heavily however when she glanced at the other girl it looked like she just took a stroll into the cave instead of running for her life.
"Can you tell me now what that was?" Clarke was talking between deep breaths while leaning against the cave wall for support.
"If the fog touches you it will eat at your skin and you will die a horrible death." Clarke's eyes nearly bulged out of its sockets when she heard this and couldn't believe that such a fog could exist especially when this green eyed beauty spoke like they were talking about their lunch. How could she be so bloody calm?
"In that case…thank you, I guess." She paused for a moment. "By the way, I'm Clarke." She extended her hand to the other girl and smiled.
The Other girl just looked at her hand and then back at her with an impassive look.
Clarke rolled her eyes and slowly put her hand down. "Now you're supposed to tell me your name."
"Lexa." Clarke nodded. There wasn't much to say. Lexa probably didn't want to talk with her. They sat in an uncomfortable silence for a few minutes.
"How can you be an alpha of your pack without knowing how to shift?" Lexa wasn't judging her, she was just curious.
"Because I'm not an alpha. I don't know why you and Lincoln keep bringing it up or even know, when I myself don't know and I just realized that my friends are werewolves and that I've been lied to my entire life! Werewolves were just storybooks that I used to read about but now, I'm a werewolf and not just any werewolf but an alpha." Clarke was slowly getting mad when it dawned on her that her mother had been lying to her entire life and to top it off Lexa was just standing there staring at her with her non existing emotions.
"You are an alpha. You smelled me, didn't you?" Lexa titled her head at her. Clarke was surprised by the question she quickly blushed and averted her gaze "I…I don't know what you are talking about."
"Only my pack or my ma…" Lexa cleared her throat quickly and corrected herself "… or another alpha can smell me from afar. And you're definitely not in my pack." Clarke glanced back and locked eyes with Lexa.
Clarke couldn't take her eyes off Lexa, before her brain got to fussy she whispered "That's how you know I'm an alpha because you can smell me as well." Lexa never took her eyes off Clarke before answering "I do."
Clarke looked away and whispered. "I cannot smell you, now."
"In your human form you have weaker senses. If both alphas are in human form then we cannot smell one another, however when one of us shifts into wolf form our human senses become stronger." Lexa still didn't understand how these sky werewolves didn't know anything about themselves and found it extremely weird explaining basic knowledge to Clarke.
Clarke glanced at Lexa at the same time when Lexa raised her head and locked eyes with her. They went into some trance not being able to take their eyes off one another. Clarke flickers her eyes down to Lexa's lip and back up, she feels a pull towards Lexa before she makes a move she snaps out of the gaze and quickly clears her throat. Lexa quickly recovered and averts her eyes to the cave entrance.
"The fog can last for hours, we will have to stay here for the night as it's not wise to travel at night." Clarke followed her eyes and nodded.
Lexa stood up and looked around the cave, Clarke watched her picking up sticks and starting a fire. After watching Lexa light the fire Clarke broke the silence "If I'm really an alpha what do I do, I don't even know what an alpha's supposed to do?"
Lexa looked up from her work and saw the worry in Clarke's eyes. She averted her eyes back to the fire. "You're supposed to lead your pack, protect them from harm and in return they have to listen to your orders and protect their alpha."
"Sounds like being an alpha has it perks yet has it challenges especially if they are relying on us to make certain decisions. Is there any other problems an alpha has to face?
"Sometimes there is some fool who wants to challenge your position." Lexa raised her head and looked Clarke in the eyes. "But you're alpha for a reason. The two young ones who were with you, they listened to you." She paused for a moment. "Even when they didn't know why." With that she added some more sticks to the fire.
By now the fog had disappeared but outside was already dark. There was silence once again.
"Is there any chance you will let my pack live in your territory?" Clarke had to at least try something to change Lexa's mind.
Lexa really didn't want to answer this question. "Two packs cannot live in one territory." Before Clarke could argue her case and persuade Lexa to change her mind, Lexa quickly diverted the situation "You should sleep, I'll take first watch." And with that she was in her wolf form.
Clarke was rather impressed how quickly Lexa transformed into her wolf form. Lexa's scent slowly wrapped itself around her and soothed Clarke enough to make her sleepy, she yawned and curled up in a ball, she cracked one eye open and looked at Lexa and hummed "you were right, I can smell you again" Lexa watched Clarke fall into a deep sleep, she slowly laid on the ground without taken her eyes of the girl, unaware of herself, she started wagging her tail.
The fire next to Clarke wasn't warm enough to keep her from shaking and hugging herself for warmth. Lexa watched and debated with herself if she should aid Clarke in her struggle to keep warm. She quickly stood up and padded over to Clarke and laid next to her to keep her warm through the cold night. She got a shock when she felt Clarke wrap her arms and legs around her wolf body and snuggled closer into Lexa burying her head into Lexa's neck.
Lexa couldn't get away from Clarke's scent, it smelled like home to her. Which was stupid as they weren't even from the same planet, yet this was her mate to be and Lexa knew she had to protect her alpha. She knew ever since that moment, when she saved her alpha from swinging into mountain men's territory. Clarkes scent started to consume her and before she knew it she was fast asleep cuddling into her mate.
Clarke woke up the next morning and found human Lexa sitting at the fire. Roasting, what she thought was a squirrel.
Clarke was slowly getting up. "Do all of your people sleep for so long?" Lexa asked without taking her eyes off the food.
"Are you this rude to everyone or am I special?" Instead of answering Lexa just grinned into the fire.
Clarke sat next to her. "You should have woken me."
"It wasn't necessary." Lexa remembered falling asleep instead of waking Clarke up to do her shift. Luckily she never got caught falling asleep on the job and awoke early enough to hunt for breakfast, when she returned Clarke was still fast asleep.
Lexa smirked and shook her head, this alpha could really sleep.
Lexa handed her half of the roasted squirrel, they ate in silence.
"I should probably go before Bellamy starts running around thinking that Lincoln kidnapped all three of us." Clarke suddenly remembered about Raven and Octavia and felt bad, for not asking Lexa if they were safe and where they were. "Where did the others go, anyway?"
"You don't need to worry, Lincoln and Anya took them to safety. They are probably back in your camp." Clarke nodded.
They both left the cave and Clarke started looking around. "Um, can you tell me which way my camp is?" Clarke looked at Lexa and flashed her a smile.
Lexa couldn't help the smirk showing on her face. "I can walk you back."
Clarke was surprised that Lexa didn't run off straight away leaving her in the middle of nowhere. She noticed that little smile on Lexa's face, which only contributed to her own smile growing wider.
"This way." Lexa led her to the dropship in a comfortable silence. Before they could get too close Lexa stopped. "I believe you remember your way from here."
"Yeah, thanks." Lexa nodded and cleared her throat. "In a few days we should meet in TonDC and discuss our problem with territory."
Clarke raised one eyebrow at Lexa. "TonDC?"
"I'll send someone to get you. Just try not to get them killed." Clarke rolled her eyes.
"Don't worry." Clarke wasn't so sure about anyone getting hurt, but she didn't voice her concerns. "Thank you, for saving my life and for your time." Lexa nodded, turned around and was gone. Clarke sighed and made her way to camp.
When she arrived back to the dropship the first thing she saw were the guards holding assault rifles. 'Where did you get those guns?"
"Bellamy found them this morning." Clarke sighed. This will be a very long day for her.
When she turned around Octavia wrapped her hands around her. "You're alive!" Next to her stood a grinning Raven. "You will not believe what happened to us. O here and that guy we saved…" Octavia unwrapped herself from Clarke and smacked Raven. "Shut up or I'll start talking as well."
"I did nothing. We were just talking without our tongues in each other mouths." Octavia blushed slightly but continued with their verbal fight.
Clarke sighed once again and cleared her throat. Both girls stopped their babbling and turned to Clarke. "How did Bell react to Lincoln's disappearance?"
Raven grinned. "Oh, don't worry, he still doesn't know. We left that job for our alpha to handle." Octavia nodded and grinned as well.
Clarke shook her head. "Great, just great." She looked over Octavia's shoulder and saw Bellamy going into the dropship, she went after him.
"Bellamy we need to talk." Raven and Octavia joined them in the dropship right after Clarke.
Bellamy looked at all three of them. "If all of you are here, who is watching that savage?"
"That's exactly what I want to talk about." Bellamy looked at her and Clarke took that as sign to continue. "I released him."
"You did what!?" Bellamy was furious.
Clarke remembered what Lexa told her about being an alpha and slightly raised her voice. "I let him go!"
Bellamy was surprised, he never heard Clarke raise her voice. He wanted to argue but thought better of it when he saw the dangerous looks from his sister and Raven. He slowly nodded to make sure he didn't anger the three ladies standing before him.
Clarke give him a curt nod. She was surprised it actually worked. "Is that palisade done?"
Bellamy recovered from his surprise and spoke. "Yeah, I was hunting with Miller this morning and we found some guns. So if some Grounders dare to go near us we can shoot them."
"No. There will be no shooting the Grounders." Bellamy looked like he wanted to say something but Clarke stopped him with a move of her hand. "I want to have peace with them, so no killing, ok?"
Before Bellamy could argue about how stupid that idea was, Jasper ran in and interrupted. "Clarke, Clarke, you have to go and look outside and see something." And with that he was outside once again. Everyone in the dropship looked at each other and went after Jasper.
What they saw next took their breath away. They saw Monroe slowly changing. Out of panic many of the guards aimed their guns at her. When Monroe shift completed, some of the guards panicked and started firing at her.