Our People (the Third Book of the Her Weakness series)

Chapter 23

Clarke's POV

Lexa and I get out of bed long enough to actually leave the room (there were a few occasions where one of us was dragged back into bed or just pressed up against the door. Have I mentioned that Lexa's dominance turns me on? And she doesn't seem to mind when I turn the tables on her).

The guards patrolling the compound give us knowing smirks and I honestly can't tell if Raven and Octavia told them or if we were just loud. After our late night activities and our morning activities and our afternoon activities, we're both starving. It's the main reason we left our room. Hearing your girlfriend's and your stomach harmonizing their growls isn't exactly sexy.

We sit at the table we were at last night. It's late enough that there aren't many others still eating, and the ones that are are too busy being hungover and internally dying to talk. We sit as close together as we were last night and revel in the comfortable silence.

"Hey, I told you I couldn't hear them anymore!" Raven says. "They came up for air."

She and Octavia sit across from us.

"I think their moans are still ringing in my ears. That's why I didn't notice them stopping. Or maybe it's Kane and-"

"Okay, no." I lift my fork and point it threateningly at Octavia. "Never talk about my mother's sex life. Ever. Or I will throw my food at you. And I'm starving, so then I'd be even more irritable. So no."

"You wouldn't waste the food." Raven points out.

"True." I admit. "But I do have a girlfriend that's really good with her hands." Lexa almost chokes on her rabbit meat and coughs as Octavia and Raven burst out laughing. "I meant with knives, but that's true too."

"I know." Octavia waggles her eyebrows. "We could hear you last night, begging for her to-"

"Octavia." I groan and notice that Lexa's hiding a smug smile. Oh, I will get her back for that later.

"It was pretty hot." Raven says and Octavia nods. These two, I swear. "But don't think we've forgotten about the little spoon." Raven points at Lexa, grinning. "We heard you being shoved up on that door and damn Griffin, I didn't think you had it in you. I mean, I know you had it in you because we could hear everything, but..."

"Raven." I give her what's been dubbed my Griffin Glare and she backs down immediately.

Lexa looks slightly uncomfortable like she always does when my friends decide to discuss our sex life, but she also does seem almost proud.

"I was not aware you were that strong, Clarke." Lexa murmurs, but it's loud enough that Tweedle dee and Tweedle dum hear.

"While you were gone, I lead our army." I remind her, not even bothering to wipe the smirk from my face. "And Indra wouldn't let their replacement Heda be a 'weak Skai Girl'. Her words, not mine."

"She made Clarke do push ups and fight. Sometimes it was raining and her clothes clung to her..." Raven trails off, an almost dreamy expression on her face. Is she fantasizing about my body? In front of me and my girlfriend? Seriously? Only Raven...

Octavia bats her arm, snapping her out of her daze. "Perv."

"You love it." Raven grins.

Octavia just shakes her head, smiling, and hits her arm again. That quickly escalates into an all out hitting fight between my best friends. But I can't help but notice that O didn't deny it... That's new.

Does anyone have a good rationale as to why Lincoln and Octavia are breaking up? I'm not killing him off (cough cough Jason Rottenegg) because he's a sweet character and one of the only males on the show that I don't want to smack some sense into. Otherwise it's going to be the totally lame "fell out of love and just noticed and we're better off as friends" type thing... Thank you for reading and stay awesome!