A Journey Through Time and Space

Alternate Chapter 1 - Warnings

Clarke's POV

I wanted to warn her, to change something in this damn world. I wasn't really thinking anything through, I just did it. I went to where we had fought the pauna all those years ago and ran with myself and her. I couldn't stop the fight and I couldn't save them so I warned Lexa not to leave her room after we had slept together. Both of the girls in front of me flushed a cherry shade of red, although Lexa looked a little too pleased with herself. I didn't have time to discuss anything with them after that, I had to leave and put the trust on my own shoulders. I was planning to warn them both but there was no chance I would stay behind.

Narrator's POV

Neither girl could completely believe what had just happened but they didn't have time to question it as they ran from the pauna. Nothing really changed, except an awkward conversation, until the day Clarke was set to leave Polis with Octavia. She said her goodbye and was faced with a bald, corrupted, misguided, disgusting male. She ran as the original had all those years ago but this time the shooting didn't stop until the bullet had hit its target. Clarke has been trying to disarm the foul man when a searing pain had ripped through her. She knew what was happening and she called out for the Heda.

Lexa had been waiting on the other side of the door. She'd heard the gunshots but had listened to older Clarke's advice. She was trying so hard not to run out when a pained grunt was mumbled before her name was screamed. The scream itself sounded as if it caused a great deal of pain while it's effect definitely did. She couldn't wait any longer and burst out of the room.
"Clarke?" There were no walls separating Lexa and the commander at this point in time. Her voice caught in her throat as she looked at the girl she loved in a pile on the floor. There was an ever growing puddle of blood surrounding her.
"Lexa-I," Clarke had tried to speak but it pained her to do so.
"Titus what happened?"
"It was my duty commander."
"Go get a healer."
"But Hed-,"
"Now!" He didn't hesitate to take his leave while Lexa desperately tried to help Wanheda. "What do I do Clarke?" It was only then that she finally lifted her head to meet the dying girl's eye.
"There's nothing you can do." Wanheda knew she was dying. She would finally get to see her dad and Finn and so many others again but she didn't want to go. She couldn't stop it though.
"There must be something I can do." The initial shock had turned to tears or desperation by this point. Lexa was showing emotions Clarke had helped dig up. "I'm not losing you."
"I'll always be with you Lexa." They were both in tears, somehow Clarke kept her composure to some extent though. Both knowing the girl's fate. "My gonplei ste odon."
"Clarke, no." Her attitude towards the situation suddenly changed. She went from begging for the girl to stay to accepting that she was going to die in a matter of moments. She didn't want to make Clarke feel guilty at all.

Clarke was struggling to breathe, her last breath fast approaching. "In peace may you leave the shore, in love may you find the next. Safe passage on your travels until our final journey on the ground, may we meet again." It was a phrase they had as tradition. It was meant to calm. The dying girl was getting more desperate. Her sobbing ringing out through the room for Skaikru didn't believe in reincarnation. She wouldn't get to see her friends or her mother again but was that so bad? They all expected something from her, expected her to be someone she wasn't or couldn't be all the time. That wouldn't be her life anymore. She wouldn't have any life at all, being dead and all. So she smiled, she had no responsibility anymore. She was free.

She watched the light fade from her view. She didn't need to close her eyes. she felt a single, final tear roll down her cheek, at least Lexa hadn't been hurt. The light of her life was leaving her in a literal sense. This was her end.

Lexa's POV

"The morning after a relationship ends, you wake up twice: once when you open your eyes, and once when you remember that everything is different now."
- Unknown