i don't wanna be your friend (i wanna kiss your lips)

She can’t exactly pinpoint the exact moment it all started. It began with her attraction to Lexa, of course, what else could it have began with, but when did it become more than tentative – at times, awkward – friendship? 

Please, she tells herself, and her inner voice sounds just like Raven’s – because what else best friends are for if not for embodying one’s conscience. As if it ever was just friendship. 

But that’s all it ever could be. Even if she ignored the fact that they are neighbors – and you don’t start anything with your neighbors for the same reason you don’t start anything with your coworkers, or roommates, or friends’ brothers and sisters – even if she ignored that, their age difference would still remain. Clarke can’t fuck someone who’s still in college. She just can’t. 

Except that’s exactly what she’s about to do, and if the heat of Lexa’s gaze is any indication, she certainly doesn’t mind. 

Clarke takes a hurried sip of her wine and gulps it down, just to have something to do; and, as it usually happens with her and alcohol, her mind takes her down memory lane, in a futile attempt to figure out where it was that she went wrong. 

The Pursuit

~7k words, rated M.

Renowned across the frontier as one of the fastest, deadliest guns in the West, there’s been no lack of adventure in the life of bounty hunter Lexa Woods. But she gets far more than she bargained for when she stops by the local saloon before taking on her next job.

Because that’s when Lexa sees her.

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Won Sonraun Au

The festival has begun in the streets below. The lights below dot and decorate the structures, flickering up in the darkness. Pieces and ripples of music and laughter will float their way up to the tower window, not enough to be understood beyond their greater meaning: joy.

Spring has shown its face after a long and dark winter where storms and snow were more plentiful than they had been in years. Her people are happy now, though. On the other side of hardship. With the ground that has softened and the trees that have bloomed and the life that renews. This summer they will have to work hard to replenish their stores and repair their houses, but now, right now, they can relax and be happy.

Lexa should make an appearance. Should walk the streets and join in the revelry even if only for a few moments. There will be food and mead and treats that are only made for this festival celebrating spring.

And yet, she cannot bring herself to move.

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in love and war and politics | ch. 22 | the final chapter

in love and war and politics | ch. 22

rating: m words: 12.3k chapter: 22/22

It’s the most watched Senate race around the country, and Clarke Griffin is running one hell of an underdog campaign against the favored Cage Wallace. But she has a secret weapon that might save the campaign–and a secret that might ruin it. And both are named Lexa Ward.

Complete.

in love and war and politics | ch. 21

in love and war and politics | ch. 21

rating: m words: 14.6k chapter: 21/22

fear no fate; want no world | part iii

words: 13.2k

rating: m

summary: Wanheda has bowed before the Commander, but it has not quelled the disquiet among the thirteen clans. The specter of civil war looms over them all; enemies circle ever closer. Clarke and Lexa find themselves caught in a growing web of conspiracy, lies, and betrayal that threatens to destroy the fragile peace they’ve carved out of the post-apocalyptic world—and the old feelings that are starting to resurface.

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here we go:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/firetestsgold/pseuds/firetestsgold

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3655797

I’m gonna check these

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in love and war and politics; chapter 11 [here]

rating: m pairing: Clarke/Lexa word count: 11.2k

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My thoughts on "In Love and War and Politics"

Let me preface this by saying that I don’t speak about fanfiction the way that I do because I believe my opinions are somehow superior to anyone else’s. It’s just that I was introduced to fanfiction by way of incredible writing that did not read like that of an amateur. And that’s what most fic writers are, amateurs who write for the fun of it, and I’m grateful. I love fanfiction, however when it comes to Clexa, my standards are far higher that just “good.” You see, I turned to fanfiction because I wasn’t getting enough on screen and it was a way to explore the characters in a way the show wasn’t. With Clexa, their on screen dynamic – and the great portrayals by the actors – didn’t leave me with much to be desired, I was more than satisfied with their storyline (up until a certain point but let’s not get into that). What a unique love story, one that was 97 years in the making. Clarke literally fell from the sky and fell in love with the ruler of the ground. You can’t beat that with a bat. So when it comes to reading other’s interpretations of them, I’m quite picky. But what’s normally lacking for me in other’s fics, is executed flawlessly by the author of In Love and War and Politics.

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