Our Journey (the Fourth Book in the Her Weakness series)

Chapter 89

Clarke's POV (Warning: blood mention! And no worries, it's for a fluffy reason!)

"I love you too, Lexa." I take a deep breath. "A lot of things have happened in the past year or two that I never expected. Like getting locked up," I chuckle. "Or falling to the ground. Finding out there are people down here and almost starting a war with them." I tick my list on my fingers that aren't intwined with Lexa's. "But what I really didn't expect was you. I mean, if someone told me two years ago that this would happen, I would have laughed in their face. I didn't expect to fall for you when I met you, as gorgeous as you are. I mean, I've fallen in love with the woman who's essentially the lesbian warlord that rules the world." I grin when I hear Raven snort at my description.

"You should put that on your resume, Lexa." Raven jokes. She makes the zipping her lips motion when I give her an amused look.

"I wouldn't have it any other way, Lexa. I love you and I love being with you." I squeeze her hand. "One of my favorite things about us is how we save each other, whether that's physically or not. Neither of us are exactly damsels in distress, but we still manage to get into situations where we need to be saved." Lexa chuckles at that. "It's where I got my nickname, Wanheda, from us saving each other. Hopefully things will calm down enough so that we don't have to save each other anymore. But that may just be wishful thinking." I wink at Lexa, who smiles softly at me.

"Vows, love." She murmurs.

"Right, vows! Sorry, I got distracted by how much I love you." I can see Lexa's expression melt into a beaming smile. "Okay." I make my expression more serious, but it's my wedding so I can't stop smiling. "I swear fealty to you, Lexa kom Trikru. Heda kom Kongeda (Commander of the Coalition). I vow to treat your needs as my own and your people as my people." Lexa's lower lip wobbles and she brings up my hand so she can kiss it. "I vow to wake up next to you as often as I possibly can. I vow that I'm going to fall in love with you a little bit more every day. I vow to talk to you about everything, and that I'll listen to you talk about anything. I vow that I'll love every moment we spend together and that I'll miss you every second we're apart. But most of all, Lexa, I vow to love you with everything I am." Lexa purses her lips the way I've seen her do when she tries to stop herself from crying. "It's our wedding, we can cry if we want to," I murmur to her.

Lexa's face breaks out into a beaming smile as she chuckles, tears leaking from her eyes. "I love you."

"Ai hod yu in sentaim (I love you too)."

I'm reminded that there are other people here other than Lexa and I when the officiant speaks again.

"And now for the rings." They say. "Maidens of honor, if you would please."

I hear Raven and Octavia snort when the officiant calls them maidens instead of maids, but they dutifully pull our rings from their pockets and hand them to their respective bride.

Lexa slips the ring on me. "With this ring, I readily marry you and join my life with yours."

I grin at the sound of the words we had chosen to say. They sound even more amazing than they did when we were deciding on them. The metal is warm against my finger in the most perfect way and it feels and looks like it belongs there. I give Lexa a wide smile with wet eyes and slide her ring onto her finger.

"With this ring, I readily marry you and join my life with yours."

The officiant reaches into their ceremonial robe and pulls out Lexa's favorite dagger, which she had asked them to hold onto for this ceremony. It's the one Lexa was fiddling with when we first met to intimidate me. They hand it to Lexa.

"And now for the sacred blood ceremony." I can imagine my mom's grimace at this, knowing she doesn't approve of this part of the wedding. The officiant explains this part, which we requested so that the Skaikru in the crowd won't be completely lost. "With this favorite dagger of the Heda, these two are to cut their hands. They will then press their palms together and let their blood mix. This is a physical way of showing their souls and bodies intertwining, ensuring that they will meet again in every life they are reincarnated into."

With them finished explaining, Lexa and I begin. I use the dagger first, making a clean and careful cut diagonally down my hand. I hiss softly at the sting as blood begins to leak from the cut. Lexa does the same and hands the dagger to Octavia for safekeeping. She looks shocked to be trusted with something Lexa loves so much (but Lexa trusts her with me, so I'm not entirely sure why she's so surprised).

She puts it into a sheathe I didn't know she had sown into her dress.

Raven gives her a baffled and impressed look. "You had someone sow a sheathe into your dress?"

"You never know." Octavia shrugs. "And see? It came in handy!"

Raven's blown pupils make me clear my throat so she can stop lusting after her girlfriend.

"Need some water for that thirst?" I ask with a raised eyebrow.

"No, I'm good. Continue with your painful looking gay stuff." Raven waves her hand at us.

Lexa and I exchange an amused look and the seriousness of this hits us at the same time. With both of our hands bloody, we clasp them together. It's wet and a little gross, but it's weird... I actually do feel closer to her.

Next chapter, the end of the wedding and then the reception! Where they'll sing their song ;) You guys, I've had to research weddings so much for this and the other wedding I'm writing... Some of it makes me glad I'm not straight but then I'm writing stuff like this and it's so cute! I hope it's good :) But honestly, guys I don't know how much this book is going to continue after the wedding... I'm thinking of having them explore their house, have their wedding night... Spend time with friends as a married couple, and talk a bit. And then fade to black? With an epilogue like five years in the future, of course, and the prompts that I'll start writing after all that. This is just a tentative plan! Thank you all for reading and for your lovely comments! Stay awesome!