Sorry for the wait but a tree literally fell over and took out a power line on the opposite side of the street whilst I was almost half way through this chapter. It was unsaved so I wasn't able to find it and just post it. Anyway I've finished it now so hopefully it was worth it.

I had planned on dragging it out a little further but at over two thousand words, I figured it was good to go.

Trigedasleng is not my first language, so pardon the mistakes.

-X-X-X-X-

"This isn't King Kong."

"Quiet." Lexa hushed the girl beside her with more force.

"He's not even Mighty Joe Young."

"I have no idea what you are referring to but unless you wish to become pauna next meal, I would suggest you be quiet Octavia."

Octavia snapped her mouth shut at the cracking and crunching of sticks and logs coming from behind their rock cover. She could smell the beasts putrid scent. "I am fine. I am a warrior."

Lexa unsheathed her sword and grasped the girls leather shoulder with her free hand, "Now is not the time to panic."

Octavia gripped her sword a little tighter. Panicked or not, she was ready for this.

The beasts roar was enough to let them know that they had been discovered.

"Panic time now?"

Lexa never answered and instead tackled the black haired Sky Grounder to the ground as the beasts heavy arm came down almost on top of them. "Run!"

Octavia didn't need to be told twice, scrambling to her feet she ran. Lexa hot on her heels...or she hoped so. If not Abby was going to kill her and Clarke was going to raise her from the dead just to kill her again.

-X-X-X-X-

Earlier

"Wait!"

"Octavia?"

"You weren't planning on leaving without me, were you?"

Lexa tilted her head to the side and answered honestly. "Yes."

"No we weren't," Lincoln replied.

"Yes, we were."

Octavia strolled down the small hill and over to the group consisting of Lexa, Lincoln, Indra and Nyko. "I'm coming."

"You could get yourself killed, Octavia."

"So could you." Octavia turned to Lexa, "Clarke's going to kill you if pauna doesn't, you know?"

Nobody questioned that, not even Lexa.

"How did you find out?" Lexa asked.

"Abby."

"Abigail of the Sky People sent you?"

"Just to make sure you get back safe." Octavia shrugged a little, "It was either send me or Monroe and I don't think she wanted to face the wrath of Clarke."

"Abigail or Monroe?"

"Both."

Lexa sighed, "Very well, Octavia. You may join us. Mauv aut!"

Octavia smirked at Lincoln and quickly took up her place beside Indra, fixing the quiver to her back.

Lincoln stepped up beside his Commander. "Hed-"

"You must get used to it Lincoln." Lexa told him interrupting what he was planning to say. "She is a warrior, a very capable warrior. She is independent..." Lexa paused to let him think about what she had said before adding, "...and she is a woman. You can never tell them what to do."

Lincoln watched Lexa break away to the front of the group, leading them from the forefront.

"Taim yu drag raun, taim yu ge ban au." Octavia mocked from her place beside Indra.

Lincoln jogged to catch up and out of the corner of his eye he noted the small smile ticking the corner's of Indra's lips upwards. A small smile tipped his, he was happy that Octavia had come to be respected as one of them. He wouldn't - couldn't deny her this, even if he wanted to.

The walk dragged on for a few hours, the Commander not once breaking for water or rest, her pace was the same determined one just like when she had started and Octavia couldn't help but find this Commander just a little less intimidating.

"Heda?" Nyko spoke first, he wasn't used to so much walking.

Lexa held her hand up in the air, her head snapping round to the denser part of the forest. "Do you hear that?"

The groups ears perked up in search of the noise their Commander could hear. The small sounds of a growl echoed through the forest. The birds split in all directions and the trees separated, carving a path through the woods and directly towards them.

"Heda, trapio?"

Lexa shook her head. "Not enough time for the traps, breik we."

The group split just as the beast rolled into Lexa's path. Lexa dodged, dropping to the ground in a roll before clambering to her feet as an arrow whizzed past her head, impaling the beast in the shoulder.

"Ai ste os."

Lexa reached Octavia who held the bow and arrow in her hands, grabbed the girls wrist and pulled. "You can be awesome elsewhere Octavia."

"Right."

Octavia ran with Lexa, who was surprisingly fast and agile, she had a hard time keeping up and on more than one occasion, Lexa had taken to dragging the girl along with her as the beasts thumps against the dense forest floor could be heard closing in on them.

Lexa pulled to a stop, sniffed and took a left, still dragging Octavia along with her. A few meters passed before Lexa once again came to a stop next to a mound of what Octavia prayed wasn't what she thought it was.

"Cover yourself," Lexa ordered.

"That stinks."

Lexa reached into the mound and quickly began pasting in onto herself. "Which makes us less desirable to pauna."

"Less desirable to anything." Octavia muttered but obeyed.

"Over here."

Octavia finished up with a grimace before taking to the cover Lexa was currently hidden behind. "Is he still following?"

"Quiet and it's a she."

"Well is she still following?"

"Quiet."

"This isn't King Kong."

"Quiet." Lexa hushed the girl beside her with more force.

"He's not even Mighty Joe Young."

"I have no idea what you are referring to but unless you wish to become pauna next meal, I would suggest you be quiet Octavia."

Octavia snapped her mouth shut at the cracking and crunching of sticks and logs coming from behind their rock cover. She could smell the beasts putrid scent. "I am fine. I am a warrior."

Lexa unsheathed her sword and grasped the girls leather shoulder in her free hand, "Now is not the time to panic."

Octavia gripped her sword a little tighter. Panicked or not, she was ready for this.

The beasts roar was enough to let them know that they had been discovered.

"Panic time now?"

Lexa never answered and instead tackled the black haired Sky Grounder to the ground as the beasts heavy arm came down almost on top of them. "Run!"

Octavia didn't need to be told twice, scrambling to her feet she ran. Lexa hot on her heels...or she hoped so. If not Abby was going to kill her and Clarke was going to raise her from the dead just to kill her again.

Octavia's feet carried her over and under the forest's very own obstacle course but she skidded to a stop when the end came near literally and figuratively in the form of a cliff, an angry river and hungry gorilla. She could hear Lexa's very own self skidding to a dead stop beside her.

"What do we do now?"

Lexa spun from the cliff towards the gorilla charging towards them, sheathed her sword in her baldric and pulled the pistol from it's tucked away place. Aimed it an fired.

It clicked once.

Twice.

Three times.

Four times.

Five times.

"For god's sake take the safety off!"

"Safety?"

Octavia reached for the gun, snatched it up, flicked the safety off and emptied the clip into the beast, then tossed the gun to the ground as she watched it double over, falling over it's own feet into a roll. Slowly it clambered back to it's feet a started charging at them again, albeit slower. Only slightly slower but still...slower.

"Do you happen to have a rocket launcher or grenade hidden anywhere?"

"What is a rocket launcher and grenade?"

"They go boom which is something we need right about now." Octavia answer in a hurry. "That or a tank."

"What is a tank?"

"Really heda? Right now?"

Lexa turned back to pauna charging at them and nodded her agreement. Now was not the best time for a life lesson on skaikru customs and culture. "Jump," she ordered and pushed herself from the cliff and into the river below.

"I still don't know how to sw-" Octavia started but quickly noted her Commander was no longer beside her. "For fu-" she pushed herself off the cliff and plunged into the river below, the sounds of pauna's growl and beatings upon it's chest echoed the whole way down and was the last thing she heard before her world went black.

-X-X-X-X-

Lexa swam, back to the water, using whatever leverage she could get to keep both herself and Octavia's head above the water. The moment she felt solid ground, she stood and tugged at Octavia, pulling the girl to shore.

"Ouch!" Octavia called, being jerked awake by her head hitting a shore rock.

Lexa winced. "Sorry."

"Ow!" She cried out again mere moments later at another rock connecting with her head.

Lexa dropped the girls wrists deciding it was best to leave her were she was rather then attempt to dodge any of the rocks on the rivers shore. She took a seat beside the Sky Grounder.

Groaning, Octavia moved to sit up and said, "That was quick encounter," she sniffed a little, "well least we smell better..." her face screwed up in disgust, "...well me at least." She looked over to her Commander, "What did you do? Bathe in it?"

Lexa opened her mouth to reprimand the girl for speaking to her like that when a voice sounded through the forest, silencing them.

"Lexa!"

"Octavia!"

"Right! Octavia too!"

Lexa and Octavia turned their attentions to one another.

"Is it too late to go back out there and drown?" Octavia asked.

"Is it too late to go back and find pauna?" Lexa asked.

"Over there," Indra's voice filtered over towards them as the clattering of feet to the river banks slowly filled their ears.

Lexa reached over and grasped the leather of the girls grounder armor. "I order you to kill me now."

Octavia scoffed, "And leave me to deal with angry Clarke alone? Nope, not even you're worth it heda."

Lexa felt a body careen into hers, arms falling around her shoulder and a head burying into her neck. She smiled perhaps her death would be pleasant.

"I am going to kill you slowly," Clarke whispered into Lexa's ear.

Perhaps not.

Lexa glanced over the blonde's shoulder and over too her people.

The sight of their Commander glaring at them had Indra and Lincoln pointing towards Nyko who just sighed at the sight.

Lexa raised her brows in question at her healer.

"We had no idea of how hurt you could have been heda. I thought best to get more help when you and Octavia disappeared."

"What the hell were you thinking?" Clarke asked, her wavering voice barely being held back.

Lexa turned away from Clarke, a flush of embarrassment creeping up and onto her face. She didn't want to appear weak in front of her people but it was so hard to not do so when the blonde was around and especially when she was looking at her with such worry and fear etched onto her face.

Lexa sighed, turned back to Clarke and the others and threw a glare towards her people. "This will never be spoken off again, gau gon?" She waited for the nods to come before she looked back to Clarke, picked up the nearest rock and fiddled with it, knowing she resembled a child right now and she hated it, but for Clarke...always for Clarke. "I wanted to prove myself to you." It was low but Lexa knew that everyone there had heard her.

"You don't have to do that Lexa." Clarke spoke, pushing herself to her feet and offering her hands to the girl. "You've done that more than enough."

Lexa smiled lightly before accepting the hand up, she stood brushed herself off and lent in a little to give the blonde a small kiss.

Clarke lent away and pressed her index finger to the girls lips stopping the movement. "Uh, uh, not until you have showered. I mean really what did you do, find the old sewers and shower in them?"

Lexa would have pouted had her people not been there to witness such an action. Instead she watched as Clarke turned her attention to a laughing Octavia.

"I'm not done with you either Octavia."

Octavia stopped laughing. In fact she was pretty sure everything stopped at the blonde's words. "Am I going to die?"

"Maybe, I'll consider letting you live."

Octavia hung her head with a nod.

Clarke took Lexa's hand and started back the way they had come from camp. "I mean if killing my mother doesn't fulfill me, then yeah I'll kill you."

"Speaking of your mother," Octavia said. "We have to have a conversation about what equates to help," she finished the word with hand quotations, "I mean she gave Lexa a pistol against a gorilla. I would have sent her with a rocket launcher, some hand grenades and a bloody tank."

Lexa's brow furrowed. "What's a tank?"

Clarke smiled lightly at the Commander, "I'll tell you later." With a happy sigh and a tighter grip on Lexa, Clarke told the group of one last fear she had. "I'm just glad that Mom didn't send Monroe to help instead of you, Octavia."

No one noticed the look shared between Octavia and Lexa but if they did, no one was going to mention it.

Hopefully you enjoyed and thank you for reading. There may be more in the future but for now this is it.

mauv aut - move out
Taim yu drag raun, taim yu ge ban au - If you fall behind, you get left behind
trapio - traps
breik we - break away
Ai ste os - I am awesome
gau gon - get it