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Gravity \| Book I: Amidst the Chaos	By : Prophecy Category: 1 through F > The 100 Views: 2331 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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You'll say did they love you or what
I'll say they love what I do
The only one who really loves me is you
And you'll say girl did you kick some butt
And I'll say I don't really remember
But my fingers are sore, and my voice is too
- Ani DiFranco, 'You Had Time'

Lexa slammed the door to her bedchamber open with enough force to crack one of the decorative panels and stormed in, her coat flapping furiously in her wake. Behind her, Octavia, Clarke, Indra, Lincoln, and Gaia followed, all of them forming a loose cluster in the doorway. Lexa was blind with rage as she rested her hands on a table, taking a few breaths in an attempt to steady herself.

"Azgeda will say it was Skaikru," Clarke murmured unnecessarily.

"We all know it was Audaskai," Octavia snapped. "Azgeda can say whatever the fuck they want, they're not in charge."

"Why Tondc?" Lexa had turned to face them once more, leaning back slightly on the table. "Audaskai has almost exclusively targeted the armies of the coalition, not the villagers. Why destroy Tondc?"

Nobody had an answer for her, which just frustrated her further, her eyes dark with rage.

"Heda?" Ryder approached outside the still-open doors.

"Enter."

He stepped in, lowering his head. "Heda, I apologize, but Prince Roan of Azgeda has requested an audience with you immediately."

Lexa raised her eyebrows. "Send him in."

Roan stepped into the room without his attendants, bowing his head to her and glancing at the others. "What do you wish to speak about, Prince Roan of Azgeda?"

"Heda, I believe that Azgeda may be involved in the attack on Tondc." Every eyebrow in the room rose then, but he continued speaking, his gaze on Lexa. "My mother has been meeting with the Audaskai leaders in secret. Audaskai has been providing guns and weapons training to Azgeda gonakrus."

Lexa's jaw was tightening. "Why would you tell me this? Your queen would have your head."

"I'm trying to do what's right for my people. Most of them support the Coalition and still more do not support Audaskai. My mother's way will be the end of Azgeda when the other armies find out they're responsible." Roan straightened up a little, tilting his chin up. "I would request asylum in Polis until it is safe for me to return home. In exchange for the location and time of the next meeting with Audaskai."

Lexa searched his face intently for a moment, but his eyes did not flicker away even once, though he was clearly nervous. "I believe you, Roan kom Azgeda. I will have quarters arranged for you and your attendants here in Polis Tower until further notice. In the meantime, you will sit with Indra and tell her what you know."

Roan inclined his head briefly. "If I may, Heda, my attendants are not to be trusted."

"Then perhaps we can learn something from them as well. Ryder will arrange your rooms."

"Mochof, Heda."

Lexa nodded to Roan as Ryder led him from the room, waiting until they were out of earshot and Lincoln had shut the doors again to speak. "That girl was no plangona." Off Clarke's furrowed brows, she sighed. "Azgeda favors scarification. She had none, and no marks."

Clarke nodded slowly. "She's a spy?"

"Yes."

Octavia frowned, leaning back against the wall with her arms crossed. "Why are we keeping her here, then? So she can spy on us?"

The corners of Lexa's lips lifted in a small, but smug, smile. "That's exactly why we're keeping her here."

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It only took one day for the right situation to present itself.

With an increased awareness that a well-trained spy was also seeking an opportunity, Lexa had taken to quickly scanning over even the most mundane changes in the environment. So when she stepped into her bedchamber and saw that the very corner of the rug was rolled over. Likely the spy, Echo, was in the rafters, and Lexa was very careful not to look up as she crossed the chamber.

She turned her back to the room and began undressing, calling out to her sentries. "I need to speak with Octavia and Indra."

Within a few minutes, she'd finished changing into more comfortable clothes for the evening, and there was a knock at the door. "Enter!"

Octavia and Indra entered and stood at attention, Indra saying, "You wanted to see us, Heda?"

"Yes. Gaia is in the southern yard with the natblidas.You will go there and stand post."

They exchanged a look, and Octavia spoke, "You're worried about an attack from Audaskai, aren't you?"

Lexa nodded. "Their goal is to destroy the coalition and bring the time of the Commanders to an end."

"And the most efficient way to do that is to kill you and make sure there are no natblidas to take your place," Octavia said slowly. Lexa nodded once more. "We're on it."

When they had left, Lexa headed to the back of her chamber and carefully removed the medallion from her forehead, setting it in a small case, and began washing her face, splashing the water in the basin loudly. When the tell-tale creak of the beam near the balcony reached her ears, she couldn't help but smile to herself.

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Octavia watched from the tree canopy, laying flat on a branch above eye level after feigning the need to use the bathroom. Indra stood post at the front gate while the natblidas sparred with each other, Gaia and Titus circling them to correct their form or grip.

Just as Lexa had predicted, a shadow moved along the edge of the eastern copse. It took only a moment for the shadow to leap through the brush, swinging a sword at Titus, who blocked it expertly. Octavia's eyes quickly swept the edges of the yard until she saw the first arrow fly towards Indra and miss by less than an inch. Octavia swung down from the tree and, using the underbrush and hedges, made her way swiftly and silently to the tree the arrow came from.

Gaia and Titus struggled with Ontari, who kept them at a distance as Octavia quickly scaled the tree. She had reached the branch before Echo realized she was there, and when Echo whirled on her, holding her arrow like a dagger, Octavia was ready. She ducked quickly and plunged her fist into Echo's back, right where her kidney would be. Echo gasped, the wind knocked out of her, as she toppled off the branch to the ground. Octavia dropped down next to her, kicking her weapon away.

She quickly bound the spy and held onto her by her hair as she headed into the yard, where Titus and Gaia were standing over a collapsed Ontari, looks of shock on their faces. Octavia marched Echo up to them, glancing over to make sure neither Indra or the natblidas she'd gathered in a cluster away from the fighting had been hurt.

Octavia looked down at Ontari's still form and then looked closer when she realized she was covered in a sticky-looking black substance.

They all exchanged a serious look and Octavia gave Echo's hair a hard yank, not loosening her grip on it. "This was your queen's plan? Kill a bunch of little kids and the Commander, make Ontari Commander?"

Echo just sneered at her. "I will tell you nothing, Skygirl."

Octavia gave her a sinister smile. "You've already told me everything I needed to know anyway, spy."

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Lexa lay with her head resting on Clarke's chest, one arm and leg draped over her body. Clarke's arm was wrapped around her, her nails lightly scratching random patterns over the bare expanse of Lexa's back.

"How did you know about Ontari?" Clarke's asked softly.

Lexa's eyes stayed closed as she basked in Clarke's presence, her voice a mumbled sigh. "I didn't know."

"You suspected, though."

"Mm."

Clarke smiled lightly. She loved Lexa like this; warm and affectionate, satisfied and sleepy. As if she could read her thoughts, Lexa's weight against her chest increased just a bit as she relaxed further.

"What will happen now?" Clarke traced her spine lazily up to the back of her neck. "To the leadership, the people?"

Lexa sighed, mumbling tiredly against Clarke's chest. "Nia, Jaha, and Pike will be apprehended at their upcoming meeting and brought to Polis to stand trial. Their people will have a choice to rejoin Skaikru and Azgeda under Roan's rule, or be banished from my lands."

Clarke lightly twirled a stray braid between her fingertips, using the end of it to gently tickle the back of Lexa's neck. "It really makes me hot when you talk about banishing people."

Lexa turned her head so her chin was on Clarke's chest, smiling up at her. "Yeah?"

Clarke smirked, tracing her thumb lightly over her eyebrow, her tone playful. "So fierce.. Commander Badass."

"I like the sound of that," Lexa said, ducking her head to kiss her chest softly.

Clarke sighed lightly, winding her fingers through Lexa's curls as she did. "Does that make me Mrs. Badass?"

"You're Mrs. fanas-ass."

Clarke pouted as Lexa kissed her way slowly across the tops of her breasts, scratching her nails lightly against her scalp. "That's all I am to you, huh? Just this wildly sexy chick you wanna keep in bed all day?"

Lexa's tongue traced the underside of her breast as she mumbled. "Uh-huh."

Clarke moaned, chuckling lightly at the same time and playfully swatting Lexa's ass as she climbed more fully on top of her. "I feel so used.." Her back arched a little as Lexa's tongue found her nipple and circled it slowly, drawing another soft moan from Clarke.

Lexa slid her hips down a little, lining them up with Clarke's and running her hands lightly over her sides. "I've barely even begun using you." She punctuated the statement with a strong roll of her hips against hers, generating pressure on her own clit while denying Clarke the same. Clarke moaned deeper, shifting beneath her, although it wasn't quite clear if it was protest at being denied or arousal at Lexa's words.

Clarke's hands went to Lexa's hips, pulling her down and raising her own hips at the same time, enjoying the long moan Lexa let out when her clit rubbed over her mound once more. Clarke let out a disapproving grunt when Lexa slid down her legs, putting her hips out of reach. "Come back.."

Lexa shifted between her legs, pushing her thighs apart as she slid down further, kissing her way south from her navel. "I'm busy, Klark."

Clarke opened her mouth to whine a response, but all that came out was a long, deep moan when Lexa's tongue quickly found her entrance, pressing inside. "Jok, Leksa.."

Lexa teased her tongue over every inch of her fluttering center and Clarke drew her knees up, spreading her legs wider for her. Clarke was already soaked from the few rounds they'd gone just a short time ago, and Lexa wasted no time sliding two fingers deep inside her already primed sex, tracing around them with her tongue as Clarke's fingers tightened in her hair, her hips already twitching with need.

"Mou, beja.." She moaned, and Lexa was only too happy to oblige her, carefully sliding a third digit into her grasping heat, curling her long, skilled fingers deeper inside her. Clarke arched hard against the bed, her hips moving in time with Lexa's fingers as she rapidly headed for the edge.

Lexa closed her lips over Clarke's swollen clit, sucking mercilessly at it as Clarke bucked her hips and cried her name loudly as she came quickly. Lexa backed off from the twitching bud, her tongue running over her repeatedly as she tried to catch every drop Clarke had to offer her.

Clarke sank against the bed, letting out a soft moan when Lexa withdrew her fingers and laid her cheek on her thigh, slowly licking her fingers clean. Clarke watched her with an exhausted smile, her fingers still tangled in Lexa's wild curls.

When she was finally able to catch her breath, she tugged her hair gently. "Now will you come back?"

Lexa lifted her head from her thigh and smiled, her lips still shining with Clarke's arousal, and slid back up, rolling onto her side so her back was to her. Clarke rolled over as well, pressing the length of her body along hers. Lexa pressed her ass back into the cradle of her hips as Clarke's arm encircled her, rubbing her stomach lazily.

Lexa let a long breath out in a sigh as she relaxed and let Clarke surround her, her eyes closing. After a minute, she quietly babbled something incoherent. Clarke smiled and kissed her shoulder. "What was that?"

Lexa tilted her face away from the pillow enough to mumble, "Never feel safer than I do right here."

Clarke smiled again, her hand sliding over hers and linking their fingers together against Lexa's chest. "I changed my mind. You're not Commander Badass."

Lexa smiled, her eyes still closed. "What am I, then?"

"Mm.. I'm thinking something like Commander Snugglebutt," Clarke kissed behind her ear softly.

Lexa laughed , holding Clarke's hand over her heart. "I don't think so."

"Too late. That one's sticking for sure." Clarke nipped her earlobe playfully.

Lexa groaned and just buried her face in the pillow, but the truth was, she didn't mind it at all.

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It was several weeks later when the guards brought Nia into the throne room, hands bound, and forced her to her knees before Lexa.

Lexa's jaw was clenched tighter than ever as she looked down upon the woman who had given such a cruel and distressing end to sweet, gentle Costia; the woman who had arranged for the murder of the natblidas; who had, they now knew, been responsible for the massacre in Tondc and the preceding beheading of several members of Skaikru.

Having already sentenced Jaha and Pike to either banishment or the return to Arkadia as prisoners of Skaikru, Lexa had only Nia left to deal with, and she had been looking forward to doing so for a very long time.

Indra and Octavia stood to one side of her throne, Clarke and Gaia to the other. The ambassadors were seated around the room, including Roan, who was being attended to by the spy. Lexa did not trust Echo by any means yet, but Roan did, and she trusted Roan.

She said nothing at first, just basking in the moment now that Nia was finally knelt before her to face punishment that was long overdue.

"Queen Nia kom Azgeda. You stand accused of the following crimes: Violating the terms of the coalition by allying with the Audaskai rebellion; the massacre of 250 residents of Tondc in an unprovoked attack; the murder and beheading of four members of Skaikru—Gina Martin, Zoe Monroe, John Mbege, and Kyle Wick; ordering espionage against the Coalition and the Commander; the attempted murder of Titus kom Sangedakru, Indra kom Trikru, Octavia kom Trikru, and Fleimkepa Gaia kom Trikru; the attempted murder of the entire natblida novitiate class; the planned murder of the Commander; the planned murder of your own son, King Roan kom Azgeda; and the torture, murder, and beheading of Costia kom Floukru. How do you answer these charges? Ron ai ridiyo op."

Nia scowled up at her in disgust, leaving no doubt how she truly felt about the situation. Her voice was cold and composed, however, when she responded. "Ai laik hedsweda, Heda. Ai ron yu ain sonraun."

Lexa stood slowly and stepped down from the throne level until she was only an inch or two from the Ice Queen, putting her hand out to her. "Do you truly offer your life to me as payment for your crimes, Nia?"

Nia continued glaring at her, but raised her bound wrists over Lexa's outstretched hand and allowed her to help her stand. "Yes, Heda. I offer you my life."

"And I will happily take it," Lexa said flatly, drawing her knife quickly across Nia's throat to a chorus of gasps. As Nia fell forward into her, she grabbed her shoulders and hissed into her ear, "For Costia."

Nia let out a single choke as she crumpled to the ground, her blood pooling around her lifeless body.

Lexa looked at her for a moment before clearing her throat and addressing the room. "I have accepted Nia's offer of her life in exchange for the particularly heinous crimes she has committed against so many. The ambassadors will review the situation as always, but I am confident there will be no objections."

With that, Lexa tilted her chin up and walked out of the throne room, smoothly stepping over Nia's crumpled remains. When she closed the doors to her bedchamber behind her, she quickly slid to the ground, shaking a little. As expected, Clarke was hot on her heels and when she came in, joined her on the floor quickly.

Clarke said nothing; just slid her arm around the back of Lexa's shoulders, pulling her close. Lexa gratefully curled into her embrace, tucking her face against her chest as Clarke stroked her hair and back gently. The tears came quickly, running down her cheeks and soaking into Clarke's top, but for the first time Lexa could remember, they were tears of relief.

It was almost as though she could feel Costia's essence settling into a safe spot within her—no longer a ghost to haunt her, but a memory of love that would comfort her forever; a love that had, she now realized, prepared her to love Clarke. Costia had softened every edge Lexa was made to sharpen; kept her heart from closing completely all this time. Costia had left the cracks in Lexa's armor that Clarke had seeped through.

She couldn't be sure, of course; but Lexa had a strong suspicion that if she were present right now, Costia would probably be proud of her.
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