When Blue Met Green (Clexa)

Hunting

I followed Lexa quietly through the thick forest. It amazed me of how she could walk so quietly. I tried to walk quietly too but I didn't really understand how.

"Clarke, try not to put all your weight down when you walk." Lexa whispered to me.

"So I have to tiptoe without actually being on my tiptoes?" I asked her. She stopped and looked back at me quizzically.

"What is a tiptoe?" Lexa asked. I giggled, putting my hand over my mouth. She was just so cute when she was confused.

"It's where you are walking on the tips of your toes lex." I informed her. She smirked at me.

"Lex?" She asked, her smirk growing more. I blushed a little, not really thinking when I said the nickname.

"I'm sorry Lexa, I didn't mean to call you that." I say. She just continues to smile at me.

"It's okay Clarke, I like it." She blushed a little too before returning back to her hunt. She slowed down some and got behind a bush. I followed her and we both crouched down to hide ourselves from the prey. We were really close to one another, and I could hear her breathing. It made me a little nervous truthfully. After this mornings events, I started rethinking almost everything about myself. I saw Lexa notch and arrow and quickly focused on her.

"You have to be very quiet when hunting deer Clarke. They have excellent hearing and you have to have as much patience as possible. Slow your breathing and try not to move. You have to aim for the heart, or lungs. I will take this deer and the next one while be yours." Lexa whispered. Her mouth was close to my ear, again, making me tingle. She aimed the arrow slowly at the deer and it perked up, looking around wildly. We stayed as still as possible but my legs were killing me in this position. The deer then resumed its eating and Lexa fired. The arrow hit the deer quickly and it fell over instantly. We ran over to the deer and I watched the blood flow from its wound. It wasn't a pretty sight.

"We can drag this deer back to camp and come back out, if that is okay with you Clarke? Lexa asked.

"Yeah that's fine." I told her. She placed the bow on her back and grabbed the deer by its antlers while I grabbed its legs. We both pulled the deer and slowly managed to get it back to camp. A few grounders came over and took the deer to where food was prepared. Dinner was going to be good tonight, I thought.

"Are you ready to go back out there Clarke? I know that you might not be used to this and if your tired we can always go another day." Lexa said.

"No I'm fine Lexa. I'm quite excited to learn how to hunt." I said. I flashed her a quick grin to reassure her and she smiled back. We turned back around and walked back out the camp. Lexa and I walked quietly next to each other, and I was glad that it didn't feel awkward being around her. I felt safe mostly, whenever was she near.

"I'll teach you how to hunt with the bow first, and maybe in the future I can teach you how to throw a dagger." Lexa said. She spoke quietly and I almost didn't hear her over the soft clinking of her armor.

"Is the great Heda asking to spend more time with me?" I teased.

"I think that Clarke might be the one who wants to spend her time with the great Heda." Lexa teased back.

"No, I think it is the commander who wants to spend time with me more. You couldn't get rid of me if you tried." I joked.

"You are wise, Clarke. It's always a pleasure to have you by my side." She said as we stopped near a clearing. I looked at her and couldn't figure out if she was still joking or not. Either way, the butterflies in my stomach grew. If she had winked when she said that, I might have just died right then and there.

"Likewise." I muttered quickly, my mouth going dry. Her eyebrows furrowed and she looked confused. I turned away from her, hoping to stop my racing heart.

"So, what are we hunting?" I changed the topic quickly as I turned back to face her. She wasn't smiling anymore I noticed. Lexa quickly removed the bow from her back and handed it to me with an arrow.

"Rabbit today. It's better to start small." Lexa said as she bent down. From her bag she pulled out some green vegetables and carrots. I watched silently as she started making a trap for the rabbit.

"Once the rabbit appears I will then teach you how to shoot the bow. It's not difficult but it may be hard to aim, but that I will assist with. When I am done here, we will hide in those bushes behind you and wait for the rabbit. It may take some time so I hope you are patient." Lexa explained. She was speaking to me as if I was just someone she was training, not like she was when she was teasing me. She wasn't even looking at me, just focused intently on her trap.

"I'll go ahead and wait in the bushes." I said quietly. This space with Lexa was getting suffocating. I hated when she was cold like this to me. Sometimes it felt like two steps forward and one step back. I ran my hair through my hair roughly even though it hurt, which may be the obvious reason of me not being able to bathe. I hoped I didn't stink to bad. I'll have to shower once we get back to Tondc, I thought to myself. My thinking was interrupted by Lexa crouching beside me in the bushes. She glanced at me quickly, a sad look on her face even though she tried hard to hide it.

"Are you ready?" Lexa whispered as she quietly sat down, her legs crossed. It amazed me with how silently she moved.

"As ready as I will ever be." I shrugged my shoulders as I got into the same sitting position as Lexa. Might as well get comfortable I assumed.

"Don't be nervous Clarke, you will do fine. It is a lot harder to learn this when you are six winters." Lexa said.

"You were six when you learned how to hunt?!" I whispered yelled.

"You have to be quiet Clarke or we will walk away empty handed." She moved closer to me so that she could be heard better. I nodded my head, as I was too afraid to speak with her being this close.

"Every child learns how to hunt by either six or seven winters. Then, we are trained to fight by 9 or 10 winters." She said

"That sounds horrible for children." I whispered. I thought about young Lexa wielding a sword and learning how to kill at such a young age. I almost shuddered.

"It is the way of life down here Clarke. We have to do what we must to survive." Lexa said solemnly. I thought back to the day when I told her that life was about more than just surviving. The one day where one girl made me question everything in my life.

"What did you do up in space when you were young? Did you not have animals to hunt or anything?" Lexa asked.

"There was nothing in space. It was just an empty void with a big box of metal floating in it. No trees, no sky, no animals. There wasn't even oxygen to breath. It was boring everyday." I said. Lexa looked at me with a sadness in her eyes. We stared at each other for a minute before Lexa looked up at the sky.

"I don't think I could imagine a world without the trees. They are a part of my home." She whispered. I didn't say anything and stared out into the clearing. It was like that for a long time it seemed like. It was just Lexa and I, sitting in the forest. I listened to her breath and sometimes it took everything in me to not stare at her. So I sat there looking at the ground, twirling a leaf in my fingers. Lexa was focused on the trap and she watched it intently. But every now and then, I saw her glance at me.

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Whew, i got carried away with my writing there I didn't even get to the hunting part. I am still working towards longer chapters and I'm glad to be finally updating this book. Thanks for the support tho, this book almost has 100 reads, which is a mega milestone for me. Thank you guys again