Life Is About More Than Just Surviving • | Clexa AU | (in editing)

Chapter 22

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Clarke's POV

        "Are you sure you're okay? Someone else can carry me," I tell Lexa.

        We've been walking for hours without any breaks and Lexa's been carrying me the whole time. I feel so useless, I'm just everyone else's problem right now.

        "I'm fine," she says as she looks down at me.

        I know she's lying, I can tell by the look on her face. Even if I say anything she'll deny it and keep carrying me.

        "Guys, can we stop for a minute?" I ask.

        The group comes to a stop and Lexa still hasn't put me down.

        "Lexa, put me down." I tell her firmly.

        "Cl-"

        "Lexa." I say again.

        She sighs and sets me down on the ground, looking down at me with sad eyes. As my leg makes contact with the ground I wince in pain as a sharp pain runs up my whole leg. She pulls water out from her bag and takes a sip but as I try to tell her to drink more, Finn comes over.

        "Clarke, before you say anything-"

        "We're done, don't even try Finn. You were pretty much an asshole to me the whole time we were together. Please, just go away," 

        Finn just gives me a cold stare as he glares at me from above. Before I can even react he kicks me in the side of the stomach, sending a shooting pain throughout my stomach and my leg as moved at the sudden pain. In the short time I closed my eyes Lexa was on his ass. I opened my eyes to see Lexa tackle him to the ground and turn them over so she was on top. She threw punch after punch to his face, and no one knew what to do. She finally stood up to reveal Finn's bloody and bruised face as she only stopped for a second to kick him in the stomach and spit on him.

        "If you ever touch her like that again I won't just kick your ass," she glares at him.

        After that she runs over to me to see if I'm okay.

        "Clarke, are yo-" she says in a worried tone but I cut her off.

        "Lexa, stop. I get it that you don't like Finn and you hate what he did to me, but you could've just killed him. I don't like him either but doing that could've just changed your reputation with the group for better or worse. Please, just leave me alone for now." 

        I don't know why her actions made me feel this way, but there was no reason to punch him as many times as she did, or even spit on him.

        "Clarke I was just trying to protect you," she begs.

        I can't think of anything to say, so I just look away from her.

        My mom comes over to check on me while Lexa walks away to sit by a tree.

        "How are you doing sweetie?" She asks me.

        "I'm fine, I just need to be alone for a little while." I tell her.

        She gets up and walks away and I'm left alone with my thoughts. I can only imagine how frustrated Lexa is with Lauren's death because of the way she acted towards her. I cared for her, but not as much as Lexa. Bryce must also be heartbroken. I kind of miss her presence, she was sort of calming to have around.

        "We should get going," I hear Bellamy say.

        I'm suddenly picked up by strong arms and look up to find Bellamy looking down at me.

        "Don't worry princess, I won't leave you behind." He says.

        That name made me cringe, I hate being called princess. Bellamy carries me for the next couple of hours as we walk, coming to a small town up ahead.

        "We should split into groups, don't know what we'll find in there." Raven suggests.

        "I'll take Raven and Lexa, everyone else can decide for themselves." Octavia calls out.

        After all the decision making that I have no part in, I'm stuck with Bellamy, Lincoln, and Murphy.

        "Let's go then, everyone choose a separate way to go and yell if you run into something bad." Raven says.

Lexa's POV

        I walk over to Raven and Octavia who are already starting to walk up the road. I jog a little bit to reach them faster, and walk next to Octavia.

        "Are you okay?" Octavia asks.

        "Yes." I say firmly.

        "You don't sound like it and you sure as hell don't look like it," Raven interjects.

        "Okay, maybe I'm not fine. But I really don't want to talk about it." I tell them.

        "Come on, Lexie-poo, you can tell us anything." Raven says causing Octavia to laugh.

        I stop in my tracks and glare at them.

        "Okay, okay, i'm sorry, we won't talk about it." Raven says.

        "You know I think we're getting a little too lucky with all the places we find," Octavia says pointing to a hotel up ahead.

        "I think you're right," Raven says.

        "Let's go, and be quiet." Octavia says and starts to run up to the building.

        I place my hands on the cool glass windows and put my face towards it. I can see a few walkers in the lobby, but other than that there's nothing else I can see.

        "There's a few walkers in the lobby, we should get supplies before we try to clear it out." I tell them.

       "No need," Raven says as she picks up a metal baseball bat. "You guys have your knives and I have this." She says holding up the bat. "And I may or may not have played softball for 8 years of my life." She tells us.

        I'm kind of impressed, I didn't expect her to be the kind of person who likes sports. I walk up to the door and open it as slowly as possible making as little noise as I can. We enter the lobby, and Raven starts to count down.

        "Three, two, one," she says and starts slamming the bat into a walkers head.

        I kick two walkers in the back of the knees and slam knives into the back of their heads, pulling them out quickly to look for another one. I spot another one across the room, and I quickly stab it in the head. I turn around to find bodies all over the floor, Octavia and Raven breathing heavily as they looked up at me.

        "Let's get the oth-" I try to say but stop when I see a teenage girl walk into the room.