Clarke has been in Polis now for nearly three months and is fully healed from her self-induced illness. She knew that going into the woods could cost her her life, but she just needed to be away from everyone and everything to try and help her escape the tidal wave of guilt that she was feeling. The ironic thing about it, is that she has only started to heal both mentally and physically since she arrived in Polis. A big part of this is due to the scent of her least favourite alpha that permeates all around Polis. All she needs is to catch Lexa’s scent in the breeze or around her room when the alpha has been to check on her when she is asleep and it’s like a calm washes over her mind. It’s aggravating to say the least, all she wants is to put what happened at Mount Weather to the back of her mind and she can’t do that when the alpha that betrayed her is around her.
For the past few weeks Clarke has been going to the markets and just generally walking around Polis trying to regain some of the strength that she lost due to her being malnourished and dehydrated. The past few days though there has been a nervousness in the air around the whole city. At first Clarke didn’t know what was going on, but she quickly learned that the Kwin of Azgeda was in the city and that she wasn’t happy with Heda Leksa. For the first time since the mountain, Clarke actually felt something other than anger towards Lexa. It was something akin to pity because she didn’t know how Lexa would be dealing with being face to face with the woman that killed her first love.
Today the market seems even quieter than it had been since Kwin Nia had arrived. It doesn’t take Clarke long to find out that Nia has challenged Lexa to a fight to the death for control of the coalition. Hearing the news makes the omegas heart drop in her chest. Over the past few months she has vowed to hate Lexa with everything that she is, but deep down she knows that she is only holding onto the anger of the mountain so that she can feel something else other than the guilt that she has permanently lodged in her chest.
She needs to speak to Lexa and she needs to speak to her now. The fight is set to take place at noon the following day, but there must be a way that she can stop it. Even though she doesn’t trust Lexa, she knows that the alpha is much better leaded than the ice queen is. She has heard stories of Nia’s cruelty since she has been in Polis and she can see how much the Kwin’s own people despise her. Clarke knows that even though Lexa betrayed her, the people of Polis adore Lexa and would be devastated if anything were to happen to her. The thought of anything happening to the alpha also makes Clarke’s own wolf whine in distress. Pushing her wolf’s desires down, Clarke makes her way to the tower so that she can speak to Lexa about a more peaceful resolution.
Clarke is surprised that all of the guards just nod their heads at her as she walks past and don’t try and stop her from going to their Heda’s room. She has to ask a few of them if she is heading in the right direction, but she doesn’t need to ask anyone else once she arrives on Lexa’s floor as she can smell the heady scent of the alpha as soon as she arrives. She takes a deep breath to try and settle herself before knocking on the door which is answered immediately. “Clarke?” Lexa gasps as she opens the door “What can I do for you?” The last thing that Lexa had expected was for Clarke to be knocking on her door though she is immensely glad about it.
“Can I come in? We need to talk” Clarke asks. She knows what she wants to say to Lexa, but now that she is here face to face with her with Lexa’s scent all around her like a warm blanket the thoughts fly from her mind. Telling Lexa to leave her alone when she was still ill was one thing, sitting down and having this conversation with Lexa is completely different. When Lexa would come to her room Clarke only had to smell the alpha’s fresh scent for mere seconds. Now she feels like she is about to bathe in Lexa’s strong scent and she doesn’t know how to feel about that, but her omega is revelling in the idea.
