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Chapter One
Lexa rolls over to face Clarke and with a soft almost sad tone "can we talk about something else?"
Clarke has a smirk on her face "we don't have to talk at all."
Lexa's face produces the most beautiful smile Clarke has ever seen and she falls just that much harder for the commander. Lexa leans on top of Clarke and kisses her passionately and slowly. Clarke grabs Lexa's top lip with her own and reaches her hand behind Lexa's head to grab a handful of those beautiful dark brown curls. Clarke Gasps "Lexa," in a low moan as she begins trailing soft kisses down Clark's neck.
As the passion builds and Lexa begins to make her way down to her newly found favorite place, between Clarke's thighs. She lets a soft moan escape between kisses going up Clarke's thighs towards her wet core. She hums mmm "Klarke.. you're so wet." then puts her mouth against Clark's core. Clarke's head falls back and she lets out a soft whimper and her body shutters as her hand moves behind Lexa's head to encourage more. Lexa smirks for a moment before returning to her work.
After their third or fourth round of lovemaking, Clarke finally pulls herself out of bed and begins to find her clothes that were scattered around the Commander's chambers. Lexa sits up in bed and faces Clark's direction admiring her beautiful body. Despite the fact that part of her heart is aching at the thought of not knowing when she will see Clarke again, her eyes are full of absolute adoration.
Clarke looks up with a smirk "You're staring Lex." while she puts on her underwear and bra
The older girl lays there with a small smile forming in the corner of her mouth at hearing the new nickname. "Is it okay if I come down and see you and Octavia off?" she asks softly and looks away from Clarke's eyes, nervous for the answer she might give.
Clarke's face produces a soft smile seeing her commander so nervous "I'd love that." she says as she proceeds to walk over to the bed and with one hand softly cups Lexa's face while she leans in to place a light passionate kiss against her soft lips. As Clarke reluctantly separates from the kiss with a small sigh, she places a kiss on Lexa's forehead and stares into those forest green eyes one more time before returning to dressing herself. Lexa exits the bed and begins searching for her clothes.
Clarke slowly helps Lexa dress placing soft kisses on her body along the way. Clarke grabs the small gear that goes on Lexa's forehead and places it gently in its place. Her hand drops from her forehead and runs through Lexa's soft curls and slightly tucks a piece behind her ear. Lexa had never felt more at peace and in love than in this moment. She wanted nothing more than to stay locked away with Clarke for the rest of the day. But she as commander, she knew that Clarke must get back to her people.
Clarkes finally brings herself to leave Lexa's quarters and there's a slight smile on her face taking in all that just happened. She takes one more look towards Lexa, who is sitting on the bed now fully clothed and putting her boots on. She leaves the door slightly open and proceeds down the hallway to her quarters. When she opens the door, she sees Murphy with a gag on slumped in a chair. Clarke stands frozen for a minute taking in the view with a puzzling look.
Clarke brows furrow and with slight panic in her voice, "Murphy?" she rushes over to him and frantically begins to try and free him. a familiar voice emerges "He's alive." Titus says.
Clarke freezes and looks up to see Titus taking a few steps slowly towards her. "what did you do to my friend?" she asks in a soft but angered tone. "Your friend was caught stealing from people on their way to the Polis market," he says.
Clarke grabs Murphy's face as he begins to stir while still bound "Hey, you're okay." She says in a reassuring voice as she reaches for the ties behind his head but Titus in a louder tone "Please don't do that." he proceeds to show Clarke the gun he is holding. She puts her hands up and slowly rises up from the floor. In a concerned tone "Titus, what is this about?"
He takes a few paces forward "I'm sorry it had to come to this Clarke. Truly I am."
Clarke with her hands still raises and now with a panic in her voice while shaking her head in disbelief. "Look. I'm leaving right now. Octavia is waiting for me. Just let me take Murphy and we'll go. Her heart begins to thump loud as the panic begins to sit in. She swallows the lump in her throat and feels her eyes glazing.
"I wish I could." He says while he raises the gun slowly and now has an angered and disgusted tone "Lexa will never execute her duty while you live." his hand slightly shaking with the rage growing inside of him.
Clark's stomach drops at the thought of Lexa finding her dead. After she had just truly felt like Lexa was beginning to let herself feel anything. She didn't want her to have to go through another heartbreak of having her love torn from her too soon. Clarke knew Lexa still carried a lot of pain and guilt for what happened to Costia.
"Hey! Titus think... She's going to know it was you." She says in as calm of a voice as she can muster.
He turns the gun from Clarke to Murphy as he says "She'll think it was him." He then slightly turns the gun up. "Skaikru weapon in the hands of a Skaikru thief." Clark's eyes widen in disbelief. Titus's voice raising and ending into an angered roar "She might even be angry enough to declare warrrr!" He pulls the trigger.
Clarke ducks as the first shot fires and it misses. She begins to jump out of the way as the second gunshot is fired.
Lexa hears the first gunshot and with panic in her voice says to herself "No, Klarke..." She immediately starts to run towards Clark's room. Her heart dropping at the thought of Clarke being hurt. Her mind going back to finding Costias head. She wasn't going to go through this again. A second gunshot sound breaks Lexa from her thoughts as she is approaching the door.
The second gunshot broke a vase behind Clarke. Clarke using all her anger throws a stool at Titus. She cannot believe he is doing this. Her heart is pounding in her chest and Clarke now running towards the front of her room near the door. Titus hits the ground and aims the gun again at Clarke after recovering from the stool that just hit him.
Clarke still running while looking at Titus as she approaches the door area and Titus aiming once again for Clarke. The door swings open as Lexa was simultaneously trying to surge forward when the final gunshot is fired. Lexa stumbles slightly in place. "Lexa!" Clarke yells in a heartbreaking voice. Eyes wide with panic looking down to Lexa's abdomen. Black blood frantically seeping through the older girls' top. Lexa's hand touches where the fiery pain is coming from on her abdomen and sees her thick black blood on her hand. her breathing becoming harder.
Titus looks up devastated at Lexa. "Heda...." and drops the gun on the floor.
Lexa looks down at her abdomen and then looks up at Clarke and her legs give out. Clarke catches her before she hits the ground. Clarke with panic and heartbreak in her voice "No, No!" Titus begins to scramble towards Lexa. Clarke with Lexa bleeding out in her arms yells
"help me get her to the bed." As she carries Lexa bridal style to the bed. Titus shaking in fear as he approaches Heda who is now on the bed of furs. He grabs her face with both trembling hands
"what have I done," he says in a frightened tone.
Lexa is shaking in pain and shock as the thick black blood is flowing out of her body and throws her head slightly back into the fur. Clarke places both hands on top of each other on her gunshot wound and begins to apply pressure.
"I need something to stop the bleeding." She yells towards Titus and Clarke turns back to Lexa, who has now placed her own hand on top of Clarkes and is applying light pressure as well.
Struggling to breathe with the pain she looks at Clarke who looks terrified and tries to comfort her "Don't be afraid." She manages to get out in her trembling voice. Blue eyes meet piercing green eyes that are deep like the Trikru forest. Lexa struggling to swallow while still shaking in pain.
"You're going to be fine. Just stay still." Clarke says trying to reassure herself as much as she is the older girl. Titus runs back with a bowl of water with clean cloths in it and places it on the bed adjacent to the two of them. Clarke rips open the bottom half of the commander's shirt exposing her abdomen which is covered in her black blood. Lexa trembling and struggling to breathe with her head thrown back into the furs as black blood starts to trickle out of the corner of her mouth.
Titus swallows the lump in his throat looking at the girl he watched grow up riddled with pain and struggling to breathe as she is bleeding out in front of them. He knows that she isn't going to make it. He's been a flame keeper for four commanders and knows when a fight is over. He pulls out a large red cloth-like material from his robe and beings to undo a tie on it.
Clarke is frantically trying to soak up the blood coming from the bullet hole. Panic has fully set in and her entire heart is in her throat. as she shakes her head looking to Titus "She is losing too much blood." Clarke wishing nothing more than her mother to be here right now. What would Abby do? she thinks to herself.
"Stay with me," she says with her jaw starting to clench. She continues this useless effort of trying to soak up the blood with the rag and simultaneously looks over to Titus.
Titus beings to open the red cloth and reveals a small red tin with a skull on it. he separates the tin open and places it gently down
Clarke can also see surgical tools being pulled out and delicately placed back on the fabric. "What the hell is that? Titus, what are you doing?"
Murphy cocking his head back peering into the room while still tied to the damn chair feeling useless.
Painful struggling moans escape Lexa's mouth as she cannot control her erratic breathing as more black blood falls out of the corner of her mouth. Clarke placing both hands against the wound applying pressure while looking deep into those green eyes and pleading to her dying love, "I will fix you. Just stay with me Baja (please)."
Lexa's brows begin to furrow as Titus approaches her. Clarke tries to tell him to get away from her but Titus holds his hand up to silence her. Lexa's looking at Titus as he approaches and cups her face in both hands. Eyes filled with tears that are threatening to drop "forgive me, Heda." His voice is shaky.
The older girl's eyes searching back and forth into his, "Yu na nou na again attempt gon bash op Klark" (you will never again attempt to harm Clarke).
Taking a deep breath to finish addressing Titus "swear em" (swear it) She says with pleading eyes that begin to form tears as she is still trembling from the pain.
Titus's eyes now full of emotion looks into the young girl's eyes "Ai swear em." (i swear it) he says while his thumb is gently rubbing her cheek. Lexa nods her head in acceptance and closes her eyes as tears begin to fall down her face. she opens her eyes and looks once more at her teacher and says "den dula yu du na shil ai op." (then do your job) and she sucks in a deep breath still struggling to breathe.
Clakes head jerks over with eyes wide at what Lexa just said.
"badan op nes, as Yu Yu don served Ai flamekeeper" (serve the next as you have served me Flamekeeper). She struggled to get the words out with her shakey breathing. Titus nods in acceptance and walks away from Lexa.
Clarke moves in closer to her beautiful sun-kissed face. "Hey Heda, don't you dare give up."
"I'm not." she struggles to say as she slowly shakes her head back and forth. "My spirit will live on."
Clarke's head immediately jerks towards Lexa and in a stern commanding voice with clenched teeth, "No. I'm not letting you die." her brows furrow together
Lexa looking into her beautiful blue eyes "There's nothing you can do now." Her voice is full of defeat and acceptance. She can feel herself being pulled away. Struggling more and more to stay grounded as breathing gets harder and harder. The pain aching through her whole body. She's been injured so many times and has suffered many life-threatening wounds but the pain from this Skaikru weapon is beyond anything she had experienced. "The next commander will protect you." She vows in a soft reassuring voice. Her eyes completely glossed over watching Clarke's heartbreak before her.