#clexa Christmas AU

[clexmas24]

Hey everyone! Clexmas is right around the corner and will begin on the 16th of December this year, hope you’re ready! 

Clexmas is all about having all things Clexa that jingle with the holiday spirit. Reblog or send this post out to anyone you think will enjoy it! As a reminder here is how you can participate below. And our theme list for this year. 

How To Participate: Fanart, fanvids, fanfics, moodboards, photo manipulations, fic recs, anything that jingles Clexa with a Christmas/Holiday theme - let’s see it!

7 Days of Clexa: This will be 7 days of Holiday/Christmas themed posts. Reblog Share Repeat!

Send out ideas/prompts to your favorite writers and artists! Don’t forget to tag! 

#Clexmas24  #7DaysofClexa

Dec. 16 - Day 1: Home for the Holidays

Dec. 17 - Day 2: Naughty or Nice List

Dec. 18 - Day 3: Under the Mistletoe

Dec. 19 - Day 4: Snowed In

Dec. 20 - Day 5: Holiday Traditions

Dec. 21 - Day 6: Secret Santa

Dec. 22 - Day 7:  Free Day

[dontcha-wanheda]

Merry Clexmas Everyone! And Happy Holidays!

[unchartedcloud]

New Rules - Chapter 18

Chapter 18 - Nonsense

Sometimes, when a relationship is new, something soft and sweet turns into something...unabashedly smutty.

(Heads up: this one's got sexually explicit material.)

Clarke’s question interrupts Lexa’s thoughts, though not quite fast enough for her to hear its entirety. Not that she could hear much of anything if Clarke weren’t shouting—the woman has been blasting whatever eclectic mix of songs she’s chosen through most of Lexa’s speaker system all morning. “There’s every condiment in existence in this fridge, how can there be no butter?” Lexa’s eyes don’t leave her laptop screen. She rubs her chin; narrows her eyes; tucks the tip of her pen atop her middle finger and clicks through another set of prompts. “Did you want butter for your coffee?” she calls back.  “Very funny,” comes the response. “I know where the coffee is, thank you, but that does little to assist in the creation of toast.” Now why on earth would they put that button there? She starts another line of notes and answers: “It’s on the top shelf, my darling. Behind the creamer.” Silence follows; or rather, not silence, since the music is still blaring through the apartment, but still a conspicuous lack of fridge door-closing sounds or the toaster announcing the aforementioned creation of toast. Feet shuffle down the hall and Lexa doesn’t have to look up to know Clarke has abandoned the search for butter and instead has appeared at the open door to her office. “I’m sorry, what did you say?” Lexa glances up only briefly, taking in the bright purple t-shirt emblazoned with Jazz and Heritage Festival, familiar heather gray sweatpants, and half-acetate, half-wire cat-eye frame reading glasses that characterize Clarke’s Sunday morning wardrobe in half a second before returning to her notes. “The butter is behind the creamer.” “Not that.” Lexa sees Clarke cross her arms and lean against the doorframe out of the corner of her eye. “What did you just call me?” She stops writing. Her brows knit together; she’d paid so little attention to what she was saying that she now has to actively try to recall what it was. “Clarke?” she guesses. “Nope.” Now Lexa does, for the first time, turn her attention fully to Clarke—and is met with raised eyebrows and the beginnings of a smirk. “Try again.” Puzzlement sets in. Had she said something strange? It’s on the top shelf…

Read on Ao3.

[asleepingtiger]

New chapter for Love Hurts - Oh to be Jolly at Christmas

Little snippet

“I need to start thinking about decorating for Christmas, I don’t know where to start if I’m honest.”

Costia scowled at the statement and sat right up. Without realising the bed covers fell from her and revealed her bare chest, she was too shocked at what Lexa said to care.

Lexa’s gaze went from her face straight to her exposed body, once she noticed what she had done her cheeks grew pink.

“Miss Woods, don’t tell me you’ve never decorated for Christmas!” Costia just stared at her waiting for an answer.

Lexa cleared her throat, “yeah when I was a kid.”

Costia blinked at her a few times before she said anything.

“I don’t believe you, not as an adult?”

Lexa shrugged, “I just let Anya do it most of the time.”

“I get the feeling that you worked all through Christmas to even care.”

“Towards the end of my relationship with Clarke, I buried myself in work, it was easier, she always decorated.”

Costia relaxed her posture upon hearing this new information.

“I see,” The redhead softly said.

Lexa looked back to Costia’s chest, “I think you’re a bit cold, Cos.”

Costia looked down and laughed, “Yup, I, better get ready and go to work.”

“Yeah, I need to go for a run.” Lexa put her phone away and got out of bed, “when are you next free?”

Costia watched Lexa make her way to the chest of draws pulling out her running gear. She didn’t mean for the conversation to end so abruptly but she did need to get going. She wanted to post the job ad as soon as possible.

“Tonight.”

[butmakeitgayblog]

Guten tag! I was just wondering, in your clexa au’s minus the canon one, what are each of Clarke and Lexas lockscreen?

Ooo German that's so fun 😀 I always think it's so mind blowing finding out where people are from all over the world. It's surreal, in a wonderful way 💕

Ok so, I thought a lot about this

MBFW: depends on when you were to look at it. If we're talking Lexa in the friendship era, generally it's a picture of whatever was the last time they were together, so generally a holiday photo or a pic of them on some beach: heads pressed together and sunglasses perfectly dipped to "make it fashion💅". Maybe the occasional stolen pic of Clarke napping on her chest. Ya know. Totally normal friend things... If we're talking marriage era, then it's always a family picture. A selfie style shot with Clarke and the kids flaked out on the couch for movie night in the background. A Griffin-Woods gang lineup of them hanging out by the pool on a summer day. Everybody in matching reindeer pajamas, standing in front of their Christmas tree loaded with presents. A very bizarre tablue of characters depicting everyone dressed up for trick-or-treating. That kind of thing. Lexa loves keeping stuff like that as her lockscreen cuz not only can she look at them any time she has to travel, but it's an excellent excuse to show off her little family so easily 😌

For Clarke, it is always Lexa. Always. Friendship era, family era, whatever. It's Lexa in some shape or form. Their kids always have a place on her homescreen, but Lexa has her lockscreen all to her own. That's her wife and her best friend in the entire world, always has been. That's her other half, and she had to spend an obnoxiously long time waiting for her, so she's damn well gonna look at that face any time she feels like it 😤

AWTR: Lexa had a flip phone because she was an 85 year old woman stuck in a 23 year old's body 🥴

Clarke keeps one of their wedding reception photos as it for a long while. A candid moment Monty had snapped when Clarke was laughing at something just out of frame, but all Lexa had eyes for was her. She looked happy. And very much in love with Clarke, for some inexplicable reason. They have classier ones from that day, but Clarke liked that one in particular a lot. For awhile after that it was the picture Raven took of them together that night when they'd hung out with the delinquents, when Lexa had held her and kissed her neck as a tipsy Clarke just relished in the closeness. Breathing in the way Lexa's hair smelled like shampoo and autumn bonfire smoke. Clarke liked that one too, enough that it gets framed and hung up in her house wherever she goes. But as time goes on she does evenly decide it's ok to choose other things. Pictures of art pieces that move her mostly, sometimes snapshots from her travels.

Demon au: Canot stress enough how little neither of them would care lol. If anything, Lexa would put something entirely inappropriate and private enough to have a once-human Clarke turning 10 shades of red. But as it is, Clarke would just find her ridiculous girlfriend funny and just so fucking Lexa, and thus try to give her something sinfully new to change it too next 😏

Cruel Intentions: they're disgusting. It's all very sappy. Always pictures of them kissing, if them wrapped up in each other's arms, of them draped over each other in bed. They have no filter and no fucks to give. But that's also how Clarke always knows if Lexa is annoyed with her about something and just not talking about it. Because if she sees her wife has replaced her with that godless chicken she pretends is a cat, she knows she's fucked up somewhere.

CoA: Clarke is functionally allergic to caring about her phone. She's busy, she works on computers a decent amount and spends her days with tiny patients, so when she's home she just wants to be home. Her phone is like... a tool in her mind. It's just the square in her pocket that she googles actors names on and that Raven uses to harrass her through text messages and that she can use to track down her wife around the hospital to see of she's free to go to lunch. So it's pretty much the same picture of them together on her couch (and the one of Lexa stretched out naked and asleep in their bed as the wallpaper) for several years until the women in her life start giving her shit for never changing it, and then it gets replaced by a new one of Lexa or both of them. Rinse and repeat every few years when she gets bored of hearing about it.

Lexa changes hers too often to narrow it down. Anything that feels fun in the moment. A pretty landscape. Clarke's face. A waterfall they saw on vacation. Clarke's face. A piece of architecture or art that makes her feel something. Clarke's face and a tasteful hint of her breasts. Her interests vary, you understand. She contains multitudes.

[acre-of-wheat]

Tagged by @spybrarian! Thaaaank you!

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 

I have 26

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 

338,736

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I used to write Clexa, but now I just write Tanthamore

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Network Connectivity Issues (ahead by a lot)

A story I'm deeply in love with writing, due to its closeness to my heart and because of the novel way it's written-- which is live on a discord server whenever the mood strikes. Fanfic is typically serialized work, but this feels like...even closer to that immediacy, and it can be quite electric.

The Pieces

A collaborative collection of one shots in the Kinkverse universe (talked about below)

The Bite

Canon compliant fic about longing and how it can come out in your teeth.

The Stones

Essentially a sick fic with some fun world building

The Test

Long distance edging and denial. The fantasies were some of my favorite things to write.

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to! Sometimes it takes me awhile!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? 

Out of finished fics I suppose it would be The Beloved Prey, though I do have a handful of things I've written to continue that.

Unfinished it would be the unpublished sequel to My Own Echo.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? 

I think maybe The Stones. Magic holding and accepting Jade because of Kit's love for her feels pretty happy.

Oh! And Network Connection Secure. The Cam girls having a proposal moment that's distinctly them? Very sweet and I wrote it for Christmas.

8. Do you get hate on fics? 

Not on these ones!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? 

Yes, yes I do. The majority of my work contains it. I think the weirdest I've written (so far) is probably Spare the Rod.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I'm not really big on crossovers, so this isn't something I've done. I'll go hard on an AU though.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nah.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? 

Nope! Translation is an art in itself-- I think I'd find the idea of someone doing that a little daunting?

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? 

Kinda! @swashbucklery, @spybrarian, @commanderbuffy and I have all written pieces in what we call the Kinkverse. It was a brain child of mine that started with The Lesson, but has since become a collaborative writing world. It's been one of the most lovely experiences of my creative life. J has also written some supplemental material for NCI that I adore. @barmaid-anon and I brainstorm deranged plot ideas constantly, and she is my best/worst little gay graphic critic.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

I'm going to need to say Tanthamore.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? 

I'm not going to speak this into existence. I'll say that there are a few fics that I have agonized over for a very, very, very, very, very long time.

16. What are your writing strengths? 

I think I get to the point pretty well. I keep action and development moving. I think I do some good figurative language. I trust my instincts on where a story needs to go next.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

The Agonies. The connective tissue between important scenes. Not knowing what to have characters do when they're on their own. Run on sentences. Too many WIPs and not enough commitment.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? 

I haven't ever found it necessary? I guess I feel about it the way I feel about captions for another language. You know when captions will say "speaks in a foreign language?" Bane of my existence. Either translate it or get out of here.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Pretty Little Liars. I was a big Paily fan for awhile there. Those live back on fanfiction.net

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? 

The Past feels really good to write because it pulls together all these threads in my brain for the Kinkverse girls, and it feels very unifying for that vision. It's satisfying connecting the dots.

As for who to tag on this: @barmaid-anon, @commanderbuffy, @swashbucklery, @multiplefandommess, @vetiverriver, @onlyshestandsthere, @claymoressword, @kittanthaloselorashield

[lexa-griffins]

Are you excited for clexmas? Could we maybe get a little mundane au one-shot? Or maybe the wilf au

Oh i hadn't even seen it was happening! Yay!

Unfortunately I don't think I'll have the time and if I do I will be trying to write my christmas clexa fic 😮‍💨

Unfortunately i just got a bunch of things dropped into my lap to do so I am not to hopeful, I'm sorry!

[bottom-lexa]

Tarnished but so grand

Clexa || modern au

Chapter 34

Things have been relatively calm between Clarke and Lexa since the last chapter. They have been going with the flow of things and actively avoiding discussing their...situation. Michael is out of town for a few days on a work conference, so Lexa is spending the time staying over at Clarke's. And as great as it is to spend some alone time together without needing to put a timer on, they know they have been avoiding something very important. Waking up in the same bed for the first time, however, it's clear to Clarke what she truly wants, and the two of them finally have the conversation they have been putting off since before Christmas.

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[shortkingvi]

📖✨Shortkingvi's Fic Hall of Fame✨📖

Since I’ve been a regular fic reader since ~2011, I figure a list like this is long overdue. This is a (semi) comprehensive list of every fic that has irrevocably changed who I am as a person forever. Some of these may not be the most world-altering fic's you've ever read, but for some reason they have wormed their way into my heart and stuck with me since the first time I read them. So, in no particular order and across many fandoms, here are my all time top-10:

1. tin soldiers - idrilka (Marvel Cinematic Universe, rated T, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes)

Do you need to know the source material? Yes.

this fic... what do i truly say about this one. i am a stucky bitch first and foremost and this is the absolute best of them. a direct companion to captain america: the winter soldier, this fic covers what the public opinion of cap, the plot of the movie, and his relationship with bucky was/is/might be. written as a collection of academic papers, social media posts, and book excerpts, this fic takes unique and unforgettable to a new level. 10/10 would recommend!

2. maybe it's just me - bleedtoloveher (The Hunger Games, rated M, Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mellark)

Do you need to know the source material? Yes, although you could get by knowing the general premise.

this is the first fic i ever remember reading (at like 13 or 14) and boy oh boy did it stick with me. i regularly go back to read this one because it's just... so pure and sweet. an AU where katniss and peeta have been best friends for years and peeta is the only one reaped. upon returning after winning the games, he and katniss must pretend to be in a relationship so that he can protect her from president snow, who is unhappy with peeta. i adore this fic, it's just so lovely.

3. meet me halfway to your heart - ariadnerue (Carmilla, rated T, Carmilla Karnstein/ Laura Hollis)

Do you need to know the source material? No.

i may or may not have a thing for the fake/pretend relationship trope. this one is a fic where carmilla and laura are best friends and the children of two A-list actors. after a pushy dude in a bar won't leave laura alone, she and carm pretend to be in a relationship. of course, the media catches wind of their supposed love and has a field day with it, forcing them to have to pretend they're in love to avoid ruining the release of their parents' new film. this one is so CUTE and a one-shot (albeit 22k words), so it's an easy, sweet read!

4. human interest - mad_lori (Brokeback Mountain, rated E, Ennis Del Mar/Jack Twist)

Do you need to know the source material? Yes, but techincally only the first hour or so, though i think you'd miss out on the catharsis of this by doing so.

no movie truly sticks with me and breaks my heart quite like brokeback, and after a particularly depressing rewatch last year, i stumbled upon this. originally written in 2006, this fic is an AU that imagines what might've happened if ennis had said yes to jack's proposition after ennis' divorce. they open up a cattle operation up in vermont and get their happily ever after. it's slice of life, it's real, it's sweet and cathartic. if you too have been personally victimized by this film, i recommend this more than anything else on this list. it's wonderful. there's a sequel fic that is technically unfinished, but it's 40 chapters and ends on a decent stopping point, so i think that's more than fine.

5. been lovin' you for quite some time - onemilliongoldstars (The 100, rated E, Clarke Griffin/Lexa)

Do you need to know the source material? No.

for some reason i am physically unable to read in canon clexa shit because it hurts too much, so this is an AU. FWB clarke and lexa find themselves spending christmas together and have to pretend they're strangers. it goes about as well as you'd think. read this as a wee baby gay and it means so much to me because of that. clexa truly is my greatest ship of all time, so you can imagine how much this one has stuck with me. an easy, quick, fun read with almost no angst.

6. United States v. Barnes, 617 F. Supp. 2d 143 (D.D.C. 2015) - fallingvoices, radialarch (Marvel Cinematic Universe, rated T, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes)

Do you need to know the source material? Yes.

i didn't want to double dip on this list, but when they're this good, you have no choice. this fic is SO creative. similar to tin soldiers, this fic is formatted in an incredibly creative way! telling the story of bucky's hypothetical trial post winter soldier, this fic is a compilation of court transcripts, news articles, and social media posts. it's stucky at its core, but can also just be enjoyed as a bucky fic. it does an incredible job of holding your attention and truly making you feel like you're a part of this trial. this is the character work we should've gotten for bucky post winter soldier/civil war/endgame/ANYTHING.

7. i-80 west - socallmedaisy (Glee, rated M, Santana Lopez/Brittany S. Pierce)

Do you need to know the source material? Yes.

read this one right around the time i was graduating high school and boy oh boy was that the perfect time to read it. brittana roadtrip fic/ last summer in lima fic where they just... go through everything that people go through at that time. i know this one is special to me because of when i read it and what it meant to me, but GOD this one burrowed into the depths of my baby gay trauma brain and has lived there ever since. if you have time, this is a great one. just... yeah.

8. strawberry ice cream (revamped!!!) - banneancroft69 (Ocean's 8, rated E, Lou Miller/Debbie Ocean)

Do you need to know the source material? Yes.

we do ocean's 8 here sir. this one is just truly lovely. unfinished, so be warned, but it doesn't really matter, because it's mostly a timeline of Lou and Debbie's relationship, starting way back at their first meeting. i'm one of the many who believes that lou and debbie canonically had a on again, off again love affair but are ultimately each other's soulmates, and i think this fic does well to kind of tie all that complexity together in a very fresh way. i think about this one a LOT.

9. roll with the punches - greatestchange (Avatar: Legend of Korra, rated M, Korra/Asami Sato)

Do you need to know the source material? No.

godddddd this fic. this SERIES. korra and asami are estranged high school best friends. when asami learns korra's back in town and fighting in an underground fight club, she goes to seek her out and figure out why she left and what she's been up to since. this series is HEAVY, let me preface, and deals with drug abuse, self-destructive tendencies, and overall complicated humans. it will likely be the most difficult read on this list because of this, but it also is one of the most important for me. i related BIG TIME to this version of korra, and it just really is a masterfully crafted series that i cannot say enough about. please give this a read if it sounds like your thing.

10. see your world in traces - spibsy (Professional Wrestling, rated E, Seth Rollins/Dean Ambrose)

Do you need to know the source material? Yes, but a general understanding of wrestling would probably suffice.

burrowing this down at number 10 so no one notices it. seriously though, i find it hard to ever read anything wrestling related because it often veers way too far into RPF territory for me and those lines are muddy enough as is. this one though... this one is fully within kayfabe and just like.. has stuck with me since i was 16 for some reason. it's FCW era ambrollins aka PEAK twunk rollins era, and it's just such a perfect kayfabe explanation for the funky little feud they had at the time. it's genuine and messy and heartfelt and weird and i HAD to include it here if i truly wanted this list to be as honest and correct as i want it to be. if you're at all into wrestling, this is a lovely one that i should probably read again soon.

[ambii15]

Unexpected Christmas - Chapter 5: Single?

“You good there, Clarke?”

“Y-yeah,” Clarke blushed,“Fine. Just went down the wrong pipe I guess.”

Raven’s gaze clung to her, eyes squinting as a devilish smirk played over her face once again.

“Tell me, Clarke, do you have a boyfriend? Or maybe a girlfriend perhaps?”

Now it was Lexa’s turn to almost lose her drink all over the table.

“Raven!”

“What? I’m curious! She’s too pretty to be single! But given her social life I wouldn’t be surprised if she was,” Raven turned back to a red eared Clarke,“Well, are you?”

Clarke stuttered nervously,“Am I what now?”

“Single, girl! As in not dating anyone, not letting someone fu-.”

“Stop right there, Raven,”Lexa cut her off as she looked to the side of their table.

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[lexaxsaturnx]

Marshmallow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16926576/chapters/39769326

A short tale of the beginning of a sweet romance.

Clexa Modern AU

[clexmas24]

Day 1: Basically a Hallmark Movie

Hallmark movie vibes. Holiday feel-good movie feel. Romance, Christmas, fake dating, old flings, new flings, enemies to lovers.

[dontcha-wanheda]

Holigay Magic 😉

[unchartedcloud]

Chapter 1: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Lexa Woods - divorcée, parent, and owner and proprietor of the Polaris Inn - has her hands full trying to manage her small, ski-side inn as the winter holidays descend on her equally small town. Amidst the craziness, she certainly doesn't anticipate finding an unconscious blond out on the back trails, who later wakes with no memory of who she is. Unwilling to condemn her to a hospital bed for the holidays, Lexa offers the mystery woman a room at her inn until she recovers her memory - and recovers her sense of romance along the way. In other words: a Clexa AU loosely based on the Lindsay Lohan Netflix movie. Also known as the Hallmark AU.

Read on Ao3.

[thessclexa]

Merry Christmas! A gift to all my followers!

Fanfic: Neither Here Nor There

One shot sequel to First Class. 

Credit to @sangabrielle for pilot Lexa manip! 

I do not own original images. 

[kpforpresident]

I'll take NY au Clarke wearing that Florence Pugh dress and Lexa short circuiting over it in whatever context you want, please 😌

Lexa ran her fingers mindlessly around the rim of the rapidly emptying champagne glass, staring blankly ahead as she leaned on the nearby polished wooden banister, fresh pine from the beautiful live garland scenting the air around her. She tugged her fitted jacket sleeve back slightly to check the time once more on the beautiful timepiece that Clarke had insisted on giving her as an early present, eyebrows drawing together slightly when she realized it was only five minutes later than the last time that she had checked. Clarke had overrode Lexa's protests that she didn't have an early gift for Clarke, promising it would look perfect with her dark green suit and the silver cuff-links that Lexa had received as a present when she became partner at the law firm last year. Clarke, as usual, was right.

Lexa bit back one more long suffering sigh- the seasonal party was in full swing at this point, the beautiful countryside castle that Lexa’s firm had rented out for the weekend absolutely brimming with excited guests. Slightly harried, tuxedo-clad staff swiftly moved through the ballroom Lexa could just catch glimpses of through the semi-opened double doors, fluidly topping off drinks glasses as everyone wholeheartedly enjoyed the pre-dinner open bar and limitless champagne. The polished marble floors glinted in the muted light that the large glass chandeliers emitted, high heels from the chattering groups of well-dressed women clicking softly on the hard surface.

Christmas music drifted softly through the air through the nearby doors, cracked open slightly so that the chatter and gentle clamoring of the party goers floated over to Lexa. Lexa fidgeted slightly but kept her eyes glued on the top of the staircase, trying to muster some long-forgotten well of patience as she waited for Clarke. A large Christmas tree decorated the area to the left of the staircase that took up the majority of the main room, silver and gold baubles of all shapes and sizes decorating the fluffy emerald pine boughs. A cut-glass star sparkled at the top, glittering lights cascading down the tree to cast a dazzling glow on everyone in its immediate vicinity. 

When Clarke had ushered a surprised, already dressed Lexa out of their suite earlier with a teasing kiss and a promise to make her jaw drop, Lexa had no idea what awaited her. Clarke had kept whatever was in her garment bag a secret since she had picked it up two weeks ago, just softly smiling whenever Lexa mentioned it in a forced casual tone, a slightly evil glimmer shimmering in her eyes. 

When she had been banished from the room Clarke had already had a full face of makeup on, perfectly winged eyeliner complemented by a blood red lip. That had been nearly an hour ago, and while no stranger to high fashion and casually arranged couture looks, Lexa was struggling to imagine what on earth Clarke had possibly packed that would take an entire hour to put on. 

Lexa drained her champagne flute, passing it to a waiter with a quiet thanks as she laced her hands behind her, shifting her weight as she prepared to wait for her girlfriend for a now undetermined amount of time. She happened to glance up as she did- her jaw dropping immediately as she beheld the vision that had started a careful walk down the massive twisting staircase. 

Clarke looked like she had been bathed in starlight as she swept her way down the stairs, a delicate hand balanced on the railing as she grinned brighter than the sun, eyes fixed firmly on Lexa. Porcelain shoulders and delicate collar bones were exposed, the dress ruching right above Clarke’s breasts with large amounts of pleated fabric gathering carefully at her elbows, billowing around her lower arms to create the illusion of larger sleeves. The gauzy, black material revealed an intricate black corset bodysuit. The shape of her body through the see-through was cleverly hidden by the presence of what looked like thousands of stars that had been carefully embedded into the fabric, gathering in a blinding culmination at the very end of the fabric. A gauzy train of sorts swept behind her, parting right above her knees to reveal perfect legs that ended in bow-topped black stilettos. 

With what felt like herculean effort, Lexa snapped back to attention as Clarke reached her, Lexa’s favorite honeysuckle scent drifting in a pleasant cloud around her as Clarke reached for one of Lexa’s slackened hands. Clarke squeezed it questioningly as Lexa failed to properly greet her, electing to give Clarke one more thorough look over as she tried to drink in every detail at once, mind buzzing in what Lexa could only call sheer gay panic. 

“I- you- holy shit, Clarke,” Lexa managed to croak with a burst of concentrated effort, fighting to enunciate properly around her tongue, which suddenly felt absolutely useless in now-dry mouth. “Are you trying to kill me at my own work Christmas party? Because it’s working, I think I have heart palpitations.” Lexa pressed an adoring kiss to Clarke’s cheekbone, mindful not to smear her lipstick as a slight blush touched Clarke’s cheeks. 

“I found it with Rae when we were shopping a few weeks ago and I had to get it, if only to see your face when I put it on- you don’t think it’s too inappropriate for this party, do you?”

A clump of couples passed by, everyone in very standard black and white tie dress. One man stared open mouthed at Clarke as he passed, a tug from his fiercely glaring wife ripping his attention away as they disappeared into the ballroom. Lexa bit back a growing smile as Clarke’s eyes slowly widened in panic. 

She's mine, you soggy white man, Lexa thought smugly as the plain black tuxedo vanished from view into the throng of bodies.

“Oh my god, it is, it's too much, I’m going to give your boss a heart attack, what’s his name- Ryder-I brought another dress, I can go change-”

Clarke made to turn back up the stairs, presumably to put on her second, presumably more chaste option as Lexa grabbed her elbow, pulling her in for a scorching kiss, lipstick be damned. Clarke leaned back after a long moment, dark gaze slightly unfocused as she stared intently at Lexa’s lips. 

Lexa took advantage of her momentary distraction to grab two fresh flutes of champagne from a passing waiter as she pressed a slightly more chaste kiss to Clarke’s still-parted lips. She held a glass out to Clarke who took it wordlessly, wetting her thumb to swipe a smear of red off of the corner of Lexa’s lips. Lexa kissed her palm in thanks as she took one more adoring look at her girlfriend. 

“Clarke, I do not give a singular shit what anyone else thinks, you're the most stunning creature here. Secondly, Ryder is incredibly gay, he's been with his partner Gustus for pretty much longer than we've been alive. Thirdly, and most selfishly, I want to take you back upstairs and peel off that entire outfit with my teeth, beloved,” Lexa whispered into Clarke’s ear, mindful of the passerby that swept through the main hall- mingling in front of the large fireplace that was opposite the ballroom doors as they chattered merrily. 

Clarke’s mouth snapped shut as she stared intently at Lexa, cheeks flushing for an entirely different reason as she laced their fingers together. She tugged them towards the room full of holiday revelers as she took a sip of the fizzy alcohol, matching red nails curled delicately around the slender flute stem. Clarke stopped right outside the doors, using her free hand to run her hand over Lexa’s chest under the guise of straightening her suit jacket as she brushed the underside of Lexa's breast with a taunting touch. Satisfied that Lexa’s heart-rate was once again sky high, she brushed her lips softly against Lexa’s ear, smiling at the immediate goosebumps that formed on Lexa’s neck. 

“Just wait until you see what I have planned for you later, Lex. If you play your cards right, you’ll unwrap more than Christmas presents on this trip.” 

She winked saucily at Lexa’s suddenly glassy stare, pulling her into the crowded room as she tipped back her champagne glass, bright red lip mark stamped on the rim. She swapped it for a full one as she swayed to the music that filled the ornate room, beckoning a stunned Lexa closer as she moved farther towards the dance floor. 

“Keep up, darling- I plan on being a very demanding date tonight.” 

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this is the main inspo, but also this, and this. Part two most likely coming whenever inspo hits, hopefully within a week or two. feel free to bug me if I don't deliver within that timeframe x.