#the other one is a musical crossover fic where the characters are counselors at summer camp

[upside-down-theater-kid]

help i'm having multi-chapter fanfic ideas that i'll never finish writing even though i adore the concepts

[commanderlexas]

Clexa Fic Recs ❀

This is for the anon that asked if I could recommend some clexa fics. The fics are in no particular order and I haven’t included the most popular ones because I know that most of you have read them already. I really hope you find some that you haven’t read yet. I’ve marked with a ♥ the fics I love a little more than the rest, but all of them are really good and that’s why their on the list! 

Like an Open Wound by Tanagariel (work in progress) Summary: Famous musician Clarke Griffin, known in the industry as Wanheda, is in the process of relaunching her career with a new image, to leave behind the negativity and bad press surrounding her. She’s going on tour very soon, so her manager decided to hire a team, to Clarke’s dismay, with the sole intent to keep Clarke safe from her extremely ravenous fanbase. Enter Lexa Woods, who has been tasked to watch over the very wild rock star. Finding a stubborn woman who was free-spirited had been nothing but a challenge for the disciplined security expert. Suffice to say that they were going to clash.Clarke and Lexa will spend the whole tour together and in the process learning that they aren’t so different after all. That maybe, they can find a common ground between being in the spotlight and the shadows, leaving both their hearts exposed, like an open wound.

when love becomes the reason by clarkesquad (work in progress) Summary: Clexa Fake Dating AU. The one where it’s not a love story, it’s a story of a girl who needs a plus one for her brother’s wedding (and a girl who needs to be at that wedding).Spoilers: It’s a love story. It’s always a love story.

♥ Something Suspiciously Close to Hope by hedaswolf (thebaddestwolf) (work in progress) Summary: Eleven doesn’t think she knew what love was until she met Clarke and Lexa. After years in foster care Eleven has learned not to get her hopes up, but her new foster parents Clarke and Lexa are making that a difficult task. A Clexa/Stranger Things crossover AU. (Now, a ficlet series!)

The Queen Consort by MadeInSpace (work in progress) Summary:  As the music swelled around them to announce the festivities ahead, Clarke only noticed how quickly the Queen dropped her hand.

Alexandria, Queen of the Amazons by Almaviva47 (work in progress) Summary: Queen Alexandria of Themyscira and Head Healer Clarke Griffin have been in love for over two thousand years. Duty and residual guilt have prevented Lexa from fully committing herself to Clarke, but a fateful day arrives, and Lexa throws all caution to the wind. Their love for each other is eternal, and eternal it shall remain. Amazon!Clexa with the sappiest ending I could ever imagine. Inspired by the lore of Wonder Woman.

♥ Suffragette by Willam89 (complete) Summary: Historical AU – London, 1913. After bombing the Prime Minister’s house, suffragette Lexa is being chased by the police. Lady Abby Griffin offers her a way out: she needs a maid to accompany her sick daughter Clarke to their estate in Lancashire, where she is supposed to live for a year. Even though she hates everything about the aristocratic life, Lexa has no choice but to pretend she’s Lady Clarke Griffin’s new maid, which proves to be a hard task when she finally meets the temperamental girl.

♥ we all have baggage (but let's rewrite our futures) by rochke11 (complete) Summary: A year after the death of her wife, Lexa and her daughter plan to spend the summer at her in-laws' lake house. They've barely been there twelve hours before their neighbor shows up with blonde, greasy hair and stained clothes with her two kids in tow. The story of a widow and a divorcee and the complicated relationships they have with their kids, and before long, each other.

♥ Splinter Hold by rochke11 (complete) Summary: Lexa has been street racing for six years. It's how she met her girlfriend - now fiance, Clarke. But the day Lexa proposes is the day she promises to give up racing for Clarke's sake. She has one last race and then she's done. But that last race ends badly, and suddenly Clarke is left dealing with something she never expected to happen, a Lexa who has no memory of who Clarke is.

String Bracelets by rochke11 (complete) Summary: Growing up, Clarke, Lexa and Costia spent their summers as best friends at Camp Rothenberg, from when they were seven until they were fifteen. Now 19, Clarke and Lexa have returned to Camp Rothenberg as camp counselors, but it's been three years since they last saw or spoke to each other. Both girls are haunted by the last summer they spent at camp together four years earlier and by the death of the girl who brought their trio together. Forced to spend the summer as counselors of rival cabins: The Grounders and Arkers, will Clarke and Lexa finally be able to reconcile, and will they finally forgive themselves and each other for what happened that summer four years earlier?

♥ Criminal by LittleAsianHellaGay (complete) Summary: She used to know her, a kind, quiet girl sitting a few rows behind her in Spanish class. Clarke never would have thought, the next time she saw Lexa, was under these dangerous and complicated circumstances. There is too much at stake, but how could she control her mind if she couldn't control her heart?This might as well be a desperately twisted romance between two people who were never supposed meet each other again.

♥ Steal the Bride by Tanagariel (complete) Summary: Clarke Griffin and Lexa Woods are one of the most talented actresses in Hollywood. Both have splendid careers and so far have done an incredible work in the film industry. However, they have never done a movie together, until now. What starts as a friendship as their characters develop becomes something else. The media can't help but notice the huge chemistry that they have and soon rumors of them being a couple begin. While both deny to the press their relationship status they will realize that they might be pretty wrong after all.

Give Your Heart a Break by Tanagariel (complete) Summary: Clarke Griffin, MD. Amazing human and pediatric surgeon extraordinaire suffers the loss of a very dear patient, which rattles her to the core. To seek solace she travels to the coastal town of Polis where she spent all her summers when she was a child and the place where she made incredible friendships and memories.Years later Clarke will find that the place has not changed at all, the same kind people will be there to receive her with open arms, well, not everyone. The girl who was her nemesis has become a gorgeous woman, a woman who is as haunted as her, who cannot deal with the loss of a dear one. It is in this moment when Clarke realizes that maybe coming back to Polis was not just to heal her own heart but to give that woman's heart a break.

♥ Are You A Kidnapper? (Because You Abducted My Heart) by 707 (almost complete) Summary: "If you don’t stop we’re never going to leave this room,“ Lexa pants, biting back a groan. "And I swear I will like you even less if Cage gets angry at us again.”

“Mmm…” Clarke agrees, licking down the smooth expanse of Lexa’s stomach. “Too bad you already hate me, right?"or the Abduction AU where Clarke and Lexa are wildly attracted to each other, but have too much pride to admit it.

Happy Endings by netafaye (work in progress) Summary: Clarke helps Lexa through a break up and they fall in love.

Bloodstream by daysofyou (work in progress) Summary: Clexa Zombie AU! Clarke and Lexa have been neighbors their whole lives and never really liked one another. Or, they liked each other too much and never understood each other. What happens when an infectious disease spreads rapidly around the world turning people into flesh eating dead, and Lexa and Clarke are forced to survive together. Love, fluff, survival and eventual smut.

♥ Two Weeks & Twelve Summers by KeepingSchtum (completed? - I think it’s missing an epilogue but it’s one of the cutest and fluffiest fics) Summary: Lexa lives in a small town resort, where the Griffins begin to vacation every summer when both Clarke and Lexa are 8 years old. The two girls grow up together, side by side, for two months out of the year before Clarke leaves at the end of each summer to head back home to Washington, D.C. As they get older, their relationship changes and matures and all it takes is two weeks to ultimately change their relationship, and their lives, forever.

Through the Looking Glass by RhinoMouse (work in progress) Summary: Clarke was born the youngest of her class of night bloods. No one expected her to win her conclave. Lexa is a guard cadet and the daughter of Marcus and Abby Kane. After taking the fall for a crime she didn’t commit she’s sent to the ground as part of a group of a hundred prisoners. Or our version of the role reversal fic.

loose me from hard care (and all my heart cares to accomplish) by gaydarwilliams (work in progress) Summary: The gladiator/ancient Rome "The 100" AU no one asked for.Clarke/Claudia is the Domina of the most prominent gladiator training school in Rome. Lexa/Livia is a captured Pictish warrior who finds herself thrust into the center of the city's most popular spectacle. Attraction, distrust, anger, betrayal, bloodshed, and lust all play out as the two find themselves entangled in the harsh political and social realities of Ancient Rome - and each other.

Dine and Dash by Thatoneloser_kid (It needs one more chapter to be complete but it hasn’t updated for almost 2 years, so I don’t know if the writer plans on finishing this fic) Summary: Clarke works at her fathers diner and a very pregnant Lexa comes in looking for a job

The Beau Monde by Thatoneloser_kid (work in progress - it hasn’t updated for a year though) Summary: When Lexa was dragged to another one of the overly extravagant parties held by one of her parents pretentious friends the last thing she expected was was to befriend a pretty blonde woman. She also didn’t expect said pretty woman to be married to the old man trying to go into business with her father