Chapter 14
Clarke woke up and felt that someone was carrying her in their arms. The last thing she remembered was jumping from the cliff. She panicked and before she even opened her eyes or realized what she was doing she punched the person carring her right in the face.
The person didn't even flinch, just carefully laid her on ground. Clarke opened her eyes and saw it was Lexa. "I should have known you would do this." Lexa responded as she was soothing her cheek where Clarke had hit her. Luckily she didn't break anything.
Clarke's eyes were wide open. She immediately started apologizing to the other girl. "I'm so sorry. I didn't know it was you. Did I hurt you? Of course I hurt you. Are you in pain?" Lexa found Clarke's babbling adorable and giggled. Clarke looked at her and when she saw that Lexa was giggling and without any visible injury she smiled. "You don't need to worry, Clarke. I've had worse." Lexa saw that Clarke slightly relaxed after her remark. "But I must admit that if your aim was better you could have broken my nose." The other alpha looked terrified for a moment before Lexa smiled at her.
Clarke playfully punched Lexa's arm. "You're terrible." That only made Lexa's smile grow wider.
After a few moments of silence Clarke looked around them. They were in some kind of cave, and that it was slowly darkening outside. After taking in her surroundings she looked back at Lexa. "You carried me all the way here?" The other girl simply nodded and started making a fire.
Clarke looked at her fingers and started to play with them. She was embarrassed that Lexa had carried her all the way here, and then on top of that, she punched her in the face. The brunette could see out of the corner of her eye what the blonde girl was doing and decided to ease her worry. "It wasn't that far."
Clarke looked at her and after a moment sat next to her to warm up by the crackling fire. "Will you explain to me now who the mountain men are and what reapers are?"
Lexa sighed and looked at Clarke. "Mountain men are an enemy of my people. They are killing my people and at times turning them into reapers, which is worse." She averted her gaze to ground. "So essentially, those monsters who were chasing us were my people."
Clarke could see how hard it was for Lexa to think about her people like that, and how they are now her enemies. She put her hand on Lexa's shoulder. The brunette looked at her again and nodded her thanks for the silent gesture of support.
Clarke remembered the vials with Lexa's bone marrow. She retreated her hand from Lexa and started searching in her pockets. There was nothing. She just hopped that the vials ended up in the river and with luck destroyed.
After a moment of silence Clarke looked at Lexa again and spoke. "You can go sleep. This time I will take the watch."
Lexa shook her head and without taking her eyes from the fire in front of her spoke, "I wouldn't be sleeping anyway." When she saw that Clarke wanted to protest she added. "It would be stupid if both of us were awake when you can sleep."
"Why are you so stubborn?" When Clarke saw that Lexa wouldn't back down she sighed. "Ok, but this time wake me up!" Lexa just smiled into the fire but didn't affirm or refuse Clarke's comment.
In the middle of the night Lexa saw Clarke tossing and turning on the floor. For a moment she debated if she should help the other alpha and risk taking another hit to her face, but when Clarke started whimpering Lexa threw all caution to the wind and moved towards the blonde to wake her up from her nightmare.
"Clarke, Clarke." Lexa shook her shoulder.
It didn't take long for Lexa to wake Clarke up. The blonde quickly sat up and started crying into her hands. She didn't acknowledge Lexa's presence at all.
Clarke's crying caught Lexa by surprise. She put her hand on the other girl's back in an attempt to calm her.
Clarke finally acknowledged that someone was with her. She turned to Lexa. When she saw who it was she wrapped her arms around the other girl and cried into the crook of her neck.
Lexa was once again surprised by Clarke's actions. When she recovered from her shock she wrapped her arms around the blonde as well. Unaware of herself she started trying to sooth Clarke by rubbing circles on her back.
Lexa's scent and her close proximity slowly calmed Clarke. She moved her nose closer to the brunette's pulse point. Her scent was really strong there and Clarke inhaled deeply. She forgot the reason why she was in other girl's arms, all what mattered to her now was Lexa.
For some reason, unknown to Clarke, all she wanted right in that moment was to bite into Lexa's pulse point. She couldn't think when she was so close to the brunette and slowly ghosted her teeth over the spot where she wanted to bury them most.
Lexa felt everything that Clarke did. She didn't mind at all but her last action caused the brunette to shiver. She slowly moved her head to give Clarke better access. She really wanted to be marked by the other girl but she knew that the alpha in front of her probably didn't know what that would mean. So before Clarke could bite Lexa withdraw from the embrace and stood up.
Clarke took some time before she snapped from her gaze and realized what she almost did. She stood up as well and when she saw Lexa looking at her she started apologizing for the second time that day. "I'm so sorry. It was… I wanted…"
Lexa interrupted her, finishing her sentence. "To bite." Clarke's cheeks reddened. The blonde knew that it was a statement and not a question, and she nodded in response. She averted her gaze to the ground embarrassed by her previous actions.
Lexa moved closer to her again. She put her fingers under Clarke's chin and raised her head so they were looking into each other's eyes. "Do you know what it would mean if you were to bite me?"
Clarke's eyes widened. "It has a meaning?"
Lexa smiled at Clarke's surprise and slowly nodded. She retreated her hand from Clarke's chin and moved it to her neck. "Here…" She ghosted her fingertips over Clarke's pulse point. The other alpha shivered at the action. "…your smell is the strongest."
Lexa saw how Clarke shivered and she decided to try how far she could go with the other alpha. She moved even closer and started whispering into her ear. "If I were to bite you here." Clarke's breath hitched. "It would mean that you're mine and if anyone simply laid their eyes on you…" Lexa growled. Just the image of this made her blood boil. "…I would tear their head off." Clarke moved her head to show more of her neck in complete submission to the other alpha and to indicate that she wished to be bitten by her.
It takes all of Lexa's willpower to withdraw from the blonde girl once again. She waited until Clarke looked at her and then continued. "That would mean we are mated and our scent would become mixed."
All Clarke was capable of doing in that moment was a brief nod and breath out a simple 'oh'.
Clarke saw how Lexa looked at her lips for a brief moment. At that action Clarke wetted her lips with her tongue and moved closer to the brunette.
Lexa noticed Clarke's movements and looked into her eyes.
Clarke stopped only when she was in Lexa's personal space. They were looking at each other's eyes for few moments until Clarke slowly leaned closer. She was giving Lexa the chance to pull away or run if she wanted. The brunette didn't do any of these things. When Clarke saw that Lexa wasn't running away she put her hand on the nape of Lexa's neck and put her lips on her's. The brunette started kissing her back almost immediately.
Clarke felt how Lexa placed her hands on her hips and pulled her body even closer to her's. The blonde smiled into the kiss at that gesture. Lexa smiled as well and sucked onClarke's bottom lip, causing the other alpha to moan into their kiss, causing Lexa's smile grew wider.
MEANWHILE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE DROPSHIP AND TONDC"
What is taking them so long? Like it isn't enough that we lost both our alphas." Anya was nervous. Her alpha has been missing for a whole day and instead of looking for her she was sent here to talk with the other pack.
Raven grinned at her. "So, you are finally admitting that Clarke is an alpha?"
That got her a growl from the other girl. "She is, to all of you, the closest thing you all have to being an alpha." Raven's grin grew wider. She knew that the comment was actually the biggest compliment anyone from the dropship could earn from Anya. She moved closer and kissed the grounder on cheek to stop her complaining.
Anya folded her arms in front of her body and continued her murmuring. Raven moved closer and started kissing her jaw. After a moment Anya unfolded her arms and wrapped them around other girl's body. Raven happily hummed at the grounder's action and snuggled her head into the other girl's neck.
They stayed like that for a moment before they heard someone clearing their throat. They separated and looked at the intruders.
Octavia grinned at the two girls in front of her. "I knew there was something between you two!"
On the other hand Bellamy was unfazed by the girl's affection for each other. He glared at Anya. "What do you want?" The girl simply raised an eyebrow at him but did nothing else in response.
Raven glared back at him and moved to protect her girlfriend. "Bellamy calm yourself. If anything you're the one who always does something stupid." She growled at him.
Octavia moved between Raven and Bellamy before they could decide to kill each other. "So, where is Clarke?"
Raven forgot about Bellamy for a moment and answered Octavia's question. "Clarke…well…we kind of don't know where she is."
Bellamy's eyes widened with this revelation. "What?! We need to send someone to look for her."
Anya was calm as always and tried to stop Bellamy from panicking. "No need for it. Heda was with her and she is alive. As long as she is with her they both are fine."
"How you can be sure that she is alive?!" He snarled at her.
"Because…Do your people know nothing about who they are?" Anya snapped. She didn't want to explain everything to these people anymore. They should know it.
Before Bellamy could answer all four of them heard rustling behind them. They turned towards the sound and they saw Finn with a maniacal grin on his face. He aimed his gun at them and fired. After that they quickly turned back and saw Anya start bleeding.