Chapter 15
Lexa and Clarke were still kissing when Clarke felt a sudden pain in her back and everything went black for a moment. Luckily Lexa still had her hands on her hips and managed to catch her. "Clarke, Clarke!"
The blonde girl recovered a little and looked back at Lexa. "I'm sorry. I…" She trailed off because she didn't even know what she wanted to say.
Lexa wasn't waiting for Clarke to end her sentence. "Are you hurt?"
Clarke smiled at the other girl's worried voice. "I'm fine. It was...well I don't know what it was but I'm fine now."
Lexa checked Clarke over but she didn't see any visible injury, so she just had to trust her. She looked into blue eyes and nodded.
Clarke remembered what was happening before she fainted and blushed at her timing. Before she could be embarrassed too much Lexa kissed her cheek.
Clarke snuggled into the brunette and happily hummed.
They stayed like that for a moment before Lexa talked. "You should go back to sleep."
Clarke shook her head. "It's my turn to take the watch." She moved away from Lexa and sat next to the still glowing fire.
Lexa shook her head as well and sit next to the blonde. "Then no one will sleep."
The blonde looked at her. "You're terrible." She laid her head on Lexa's shoulder and after a moment she was asleep again.
Clarke woke up some time later. She could feel Lexa's hands in her hair. Her head was laying in the brunette's lap. She was afraid that if she opened her eyes, everything would have been a dream and she would see the ceiling of her tent back at the dropship instead of the other alpha.
"You're pretty bad at pretending you're asleep." Clarke opened her eyes and saw a big smile on the other girl's face. At the sight before her, the corners of the blonde's mouth moved up as well.
"You let me sleep again." Clarke questioningly raised her right eyebrow at the other alpha.
"You seemed to need it." Lexa grinned at the other girl.
The blonde faked being scandalized. "Are you making fun of me? Who would have thought that you knew what jokes are?"
Lexa grin grew wider. "I'm full of mysteries." Clarke playfully punched her arm and then laughed.
When the blonde stopped laughing, Lexa spoke. "We should go. The mountain men could be close." Clarke nodded and raised her head from the other girl's lap.
They extinguished the fire and moved from the cave in the direction of TonDC.
After few hours on their way they heard the sounds of gun fire. They looked at each other and moved in the direction it came from.
They could see four people standing not to far away. Clarke immediately recognized them and moved closer. Without any greetings she asked. "Who fired it?"
All of them turned to the two new arrivals and Clarke could see that Anya was bleeding. The healer in her decided that she should help her first and ask questions later. Before she could do anything, Anya rolled her eyes and talked. "I'm fine. I took the bullet out already."
"You're a healer?" When Anya shook her head no, Clarke continued. "So let me decide that."
Lexa moved closer to the blonde. "It was a normal bullet. She will survive without your help. Otherwise she would already be on the ground." Clarke looked at her and sighed. She wanted to argue but then she saw that Anya's bullet wound was starting to slowly heal so she nodded and accepted Lexa's comment without argument.
Clarke turned back to the others. "So who can tell me what happened?"
Raven was the first to talk. "That idiot, Finn, shot her without any reason." She looked like she was about to rip someone's head off, and soon. "Next time I see him, I'll kill him."
Anya laid her hand on Raven's back to calm her. "Just how I told blondie over here before, I'm fine." Raven whimpered and snuggled into Anya, who wrapped her arms around her.
"No one will be killing anyone." When Clarke saw that Raven wasn't protesting she nodded her agreement in silence. She turned to all of them. "Anyway what are you all doing here?"
"They came here to tell us that you were missing." Bellamy glared at Anya again. But she didn't pay him any attention and kissed the top of Raven's head.
He turned back to Clarke and the Commander. "Where were you anyway?"
"You know, kidnapped and tortured. Just the usual things on the ground." That got the attention of all three Skaikru and Anya.
Despite that Clarke said it in a sarcastic tone Bellamy understood it differently. "What? I knew we couldn't trust them." He moved between Clarke and Lexa and turned into his wolf. Clarke was so surprised by his change that she forgot what was actually happening in front of her.
Before Bellamy could get too close to the grounder's alpha, Anya changed as well, jumping at him and dragged him away from her alpha. She growled at him but otherwise did nothing more. Bellamy on the other hand wasn't so peaceful and jumped at her.
Sadly for him he underestimated Anya who dodged his attack without issue. She used his confusion and attacked him with her claws. She buried them into his side and drag them along the length of his torso.
The three delinquents were watching their fight with wide eyes. All frozen to their spot by the sight in front of them.
Lexa was calm as always and spoke in an even tone. "Anya, that's enough." Clarke wondered how anyone could be so calm when right in front of them two big wolfs were trying to kill each other. But Lexa looked like this was a normal occurrence for her.
Anya stopped her attack and moved next to her alpha, but she still watched Bellamy and bared her teeth at him.
Bellamy on the other hand, despite his injury, looked more pissed than before and slowly started moving towards the Commander.
Lexa looked at Clarke and raised a questioning eyebrow at her. Thanks to that Clarke snapped from her gaze and yelled. "Bellamy stop. She was kidnapped with me." That stopped him. He looked at his alpha and whimpered.
Raven ran to Anya to check for any injuries. "Are you ok?" The wolf titled her head in answer to her question. "Luckily you're such a badass." Raven said as she hugged her. Anya happily howled at the gesture.
In same time Octavia ran to her brother and hugged him as well. "You're such an idiot. You changed once before and you decide to go against an alpha…again? What you were expecting? To actually win?" Bellamy whimpered again.
"Octavia go with Bellamy back to the dropship." When Clarke saw that the other girl wanted to argue she spoke in a commanding voice. "Now!" Octavia nodded and moved with the limping wolf in the direction of their camp.
Clarke sighed. "Will this ever stop?" She looked at Lexa for an answer.
The other alpha shook her head. "Two packs can't…" Clarke interrupted her. "…live in one territory. I know, you already told me this."
"Then why are you asking? " Lexa asked having a hard time understanding the other girl sometimes.
"Because there has to be some way we can get along that you're not telling me about." Lexa averted her gaze for a moment but Clarke spotted the action. "There really is something to stop it right? So tell me." She moved closer and thought about everything for a moment. Then it hit her. "Mating…" Her eyes were wide open. Lexa looked into her blue eyes and slowly nodded.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Clarke could feel the eyes of the two other two girls on her but she didn't pay them any mind in that moment. On the other hand, Lexa didn't want to have this conversation in front of Raven and Anya. "We can talk about it somewhere else." She turned around to walk somewhere else but before she could make the first step Clarke grabbed her wrist. "No! We will talk about it now."
Raven wanted to move to them to stop their arguing before something bad could happen, but Anya, now in her human form, stopped her with a hand to her shoulder and moved her away from their alphas. "You can't do that." Raven turned around and opened her mouth to ask why but Anya spoke first. "They're alphas. You can't go against yours and my alpha would tear your head off for just coming closer to her. On top of that, if you would went over there it would look like you don't trust your alpha's powers. It would be disrespectful." She looked at Raven and hoped that the other girl would stay away from the arguing alphas.
"Don't worry. I stopped wanting to go over there when you said 'she would tear your head off'." Anya nodded and kissed Raven's temple. "But tell me one thing, Anya. You don't feel like you should do something?" She turned to look at the two arguing alphas behind her.
"Of course I want to kill your alpha for how she talked to Heda." Raven turned back and glared at the other girl for that comment. "But I know that before I could do anything my own alpha would kill me." Raven frowned at that. "It looks like she has taken a liking to your alpha." The younger girl once again turned towards the arguing girls and was looking at them for a moment. "We should go. It's their thing so we are useless here anyways." Raven nodded and they both moved in direction of TonDC.
"What would you do if I told you the truth in that cave all those days ago?" Lexa was slowly getting fed up with this conversation.
"I would have thought about it…" Clarke trailed off unsure what she would have done back then. She released Lexa's hand.
"And what would be the outcome? Would you let me bite you?" The blonde girl didn't need to think about it for long.
"Of course. It would save my people!" Lexa clenched her jaw at the other alpha's answer.
"You will have to find another way then because this is not happening." At the end of sentence Lexa's voice held a little waver but then her commander mask was back. She raised her chin and turned around.
"Wait… What?" Clarke once again grabbed Lexa's hand but this time the brunette yanked out of the girl's hold.
Lexa didn't even turned around to look at the blonde and disappeared into the woods, leaving behind a really confused Clarke.