Not everyone, not you

Chapter 15 - Trip to Arkadia

Lexa's POV

Clarke and I wake up and immediately get dress and we get out of the tent to interact with everyone else who's awake at this time. Today we're travelling to Arkadia to see how they're doing ever since they joined the Coalition. The passsed week wasn't interesting, it was just catching up with people and helping around the village. Clarke has been helping Nyko in the healer's tent, she's an incredible healer. If it weren't for her, a lot of people would have probably died or not recover as quickly as they did.

Clarke goes to the healer's tent to make sure everyone is doing good before we leave while I wait at the fire at the center of the village. I notice Indra is walking towards me. I haven't had much time to talk to her this passed week.

"Heda, how are you?" she asks.

"I'm good. How about you?" I ask in return

"Same as always, good."

"How's Octavia? I heard that you've been training with her again."

"She's great. She's definitely one of our best warriors. I'm glad she loves what she's doing."

"That's wonderful, does she stay here in TonDC or in Arkadia?"

"She has a tent here, but her and Lincoln both travel between both places."

"I was thinking after we come back from Arkadia, Clarke and I could stay here for awhile until we're requested in Polis."

"That would be great, we miss you, Heda."

"I miss this place too, this is my real home."

After a few minutes of catching up, Clarke comes back and tells me she's ready to go. We get the guards gathered up and we say goodbye to the people of the village. We see Octavia and Lincoln walk up to us.

"Can we join you, it's about time we go back to visit Arkadia." Octavia asks us.

"Sure, O. We're leaving soon do you need to pack anything?" Clarke answers.

"No, we have things in our room there, we should be good with what we have." she answers.

Her and Lincoln go get their horses and meet us back at the gate.

"Ready to go?" I ask.

"Yes, Heda." both her and Lincoln answer.

We exit the gates of the village and make our way to Arkadia. We have two guards in the front, Clarke and I behind them, followed by Lincoln and Octavia and another set of guards behind them. It's only a few hours of traveling with a horse to get to Arkadia, so we didn't need to pack much. The guards brought tents so they could have a place to sleep, in case there weren't enough rooms available for them. I don't know if they expanded the amount of houses in Arkadia, but it wouldn't be a bad idea if they did so. I was thinking of sending builders from TonDC to help them build houses for anyone that visists.

Hours passed and we can see Arkadia in the distance. I look over to my left to look at Clarke. She looks back at me and gives me a small smile. I know it will be hard for her to go back to where she once called home.

"Are you okay, Clarke?" I ask quietly so the others don't hear us.

"No. I'm nervous about this. I know the council is fine with Skaikru becoming part of the Coalition, but what about everyone else? Like Raven, Jasper, Monty and the others? I hope they don't hate me." she responds in a whisper.

"It will be okay Clarke, they will have to accept the fact that you made a choice to better the life of your people."

"They aren't my people anymore, Lexa. They stopped being my people after I left them for months. You're my people." she says.

I give her a small smile.

"You're still the leader Clarke, you always will be. They listen to you. But I understand if you don't want that anymore."

"It's not that I don't want to be the leader. It's the fact that I don't know if I'm a good one."

"Believe me when I say this, you are one of the best leaders I've ever seen."

"Mochof (Thank you), Lexa." she gives me a small smile.

We arrive at the gates and we're greeted by the guards. We give our horses to them and we walk in further into the camp. I see someone that I recognize but I'm not certain. She sees me and walks up to me, she looks surprised to see me.

"Lexa?" she says.

Her voice is so familiar. She looks like...

"Anya?"