**6 Months after chapter three**
Over the past six months, Clarke and Lexa have become closer and closer much to Titus’s dismay. It’s a regular occurrence for the omega to be found in Lexa’s room, just drawing Polis from the balcony or reading one of the alpha’s many books whilst lounging on the sofa. Even when Lexa isn’t in her room, it’s still one of Clarke’s favourite places to be in Polis because it’s saturated in the alphas scent which the blonde finds comforting. When the omega’s head gets loud and thoughts of the mountain come back to haunt her during her waking hours, Lexa’s scent is now the only thing that can calm her to the point that she doesn’t need to go looking for the alpha straight away.
Clarke has also spent many nights in the alphas room since Lexa’s fight with Nia six months ago. Nothing more than the occasional hug and cuddling in bed when one of them has had a particularly stressful day has happened, but Lexa is just happy that the blonde is now back in her presence and they seem to be moving forward with their relationship. It does matter how slowly they are progressing, just the fact that they are moving forward to a potential future mating together is something that Lexa never thought would happen after Mount Weather. She will take things as slowly as Clarke wants, just as long as they get there in the end.
The fact that Lexa is willing to take things slowly though, doesn’t mean that she likes the fact that other unmated alphas in Polis or visiting from the 12 clans show their interest in Clarke so openly. There has been more than one occasion when she has had to bite her tongue and clench her hands together behind her back to stop her from beating another alpha, that has dared to show interest in the blonde, to death. The only reason that she has stopped herself is because she knows that she and Clarke are not yet together in a romantic sense. The omega is free to do whatever or whoever she chooses and Lexa will respect that.
Being respectful of the omega doesn’t mean that Lexa won’t step in when an alpha is being too pushy and pursuing for her liking. This is what brings Clarke stomping into Lexa’s room at a time when Clarke would normally be helping in the healer’s hut. The new delegation from Azgeda arrive four months ago and the omega has become somewhat friends with the female alpha ambassador, Ontari. After Nia was killed when she fought Lexa and Roan was made King, it was decided that all of the delegates from the Ice nation needed changing and Ontari was chosen by Roan for that post. Clarke struck up a tentative friendship with the Azgeda alpha and even trained with her sometimes in the pits, but today Ontari told Clarke that Heda has warned her to stay away from her. Understandably, Clarke is furious about this as she thought that she had got away from controlling alpha bullshit when she left Camp Jaha behind.
Clarke burst into Lexa’s room without knocking, surprising the alpha as she has not seen the omega this annoyed at her since before she killed Nia. The omegas pheromones are saturating the room with a mixture of anger and also a small amount of hurt in them. Clarke really thought that Lexa would never be one of the alphas that would try to control what she did and who she could see, but this is making her think twice about that.
“Who the hell do you think you are telling people that they have to stay away from me?” Clarke practically shouts. Lexa has no idea what the omega is talking about and is completely stunned by what seems to be happening. Less than half a minute ago, the alpha was preparing to head to another boring meeting about trade routes with the ambassadors, now she is facing Clarke’s wrath and she has no idea why.
“What are you talking about Clarke?” Lexa says as calmly as possible. They have had several disagreements over the past six months, but nothing like this and the alpha is genuinely worried about undoing all of the progress that they have made so far.
