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Lexa is the frontwoman of The Grounders, a pop-rock band whose last album fell a little flat. Clarke Griffin is a falsey branded nice girl next door making pop folk music. They're on the same label and both not doing so hot, and they have a long history of hating each other.
The executives of the label think there’s a perfect way to revive both struggling artists as they watch a cheeky internet feud unfold in real time and the corresponding amount of comments on how hot and flirty it is from fans.
Monday morning, Clarke and Lexa find themselves in the head of marketing’s office with the c-suite team with a new proposal:
They need to pretend to be a couple as a publicity stunt, or they’re losing their contracts. And the catch? They have to write and record a sexy song together and perform it live on a few big stages to sell the relationship to the public….or they’re off the label for good.
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01 Feb 2025
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Clarke starts her senior year at a new school in California. She might be developing a crush on the girl next door who is the overachieving field hockey team captain and her ride to school. Now if only she can get into college and repair the tenuous relationship she has with her mother. A High School AU.
(Re-posted. Originally Posted in 2015)
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28 Oct 2022
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She isn’t even sure why she’s considering this. She’s met Lexa once, at the hospital - Lexa invited her out for a drink. Maybe Lexa just wants to hook up.
That thought stirs something in the pit of her stomach that reverberates through her body. Lexa was…stunning and intense and now Clarke remembers those leather pants.
Who says they have to date or be anything serious? Why can’t Clarke just have a little fun? God knows she’s earned it.
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Clarke has no time to date and Lexa doesn't want a relationship. So why not give into temptation a little? No romance, no attachment, just fun. How hard can it be?
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28 May 2022
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Sometimes, Lexa feels like she was born into this world already fighting. Her hands balled into fists, her jawline clenched, her body tense and on guard, ready. Sometimes, she felt like the bubbling well of fury that simmered underneath her skin was the only thing that sustained her, kept her alive, and that if she paused – took stock, took a breath and let it seep out of her, she would crumple.
Sometimes, fighting isn't enough.
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Lexa is an outsider, all dark leather and sharp cheekbones, smoking cigarettes behind the gym...
and Clarke Griffin can't keep her eyes off her.
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05 Nov 2021
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“I like a lot of people Lexa.” Clarke said, lifting her eyes. She felt exhausted, her limbs felt lifeless, heavy. “I really like you.” She curled her fingers into Lexa’s, meeting her gaze which was unfathomable. “But I don’t want to forget who I am.”
Lexa’s eyes darkened. She felt her grip slacken and pull away. For a split second, Clarke saw her resolve melt away, which was quickly replaced by a neutral expression, her jawline hardened.
“I understand, Clarke. We want different things. We’re different people.”
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Love is not a jigsaw puzzle to be solved.
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04 Nov 2021
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Low grumbles of settling metal and crumbled stone echoed through the caverns, like catacombs homing lost souls, with a select few still fighting. Broken and battered, Lexa lays her head on a concrete slab, trying not to think of how much rubble exists above or below her, or whether or not anyone else survived the fall.
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Clarke and Lexa are buried alive after an earthquake brings down the building they were both working in, and it is up to time, luck, and human will to determine if the pair will make it out alive. That, and could anything good possibly come from such a horrifying tragedy.
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06 Jul 2021
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A horrible accident changes the trajectory of Clarke and Lexa's lives forever. Once best friends, can they navigate their new lives and futures together? Will tragedy bring them closer or force them apart?
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05 Jul 2021
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The last thing Raven expected when she answered a room for rent ad was to find love. Especially when that love is with her married housemates.
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26 Apr 2021
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After being plucked right from the academy for an eight month long undercover assignment, Clarke is finally ready to start her career as a beat cop in her father's old precinct. Lexa's trajectory on the other hand seems on a downward turn, as she turns back to uniform duty after a few years as a detective. Then a girl dies and everything gets garbled.
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25 Apr 2021
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Clexa Vikings AU. They invade England. Together.
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18 Apr 2021
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“I can’t get any power to the engines.”
Lexa thinks she can’t possibly have heard that right.
“What?” She says sharply.
First Officer Bellamy Blake’s voice is tight, tense. “I can’t get any—”
He doesn’t finish the sentence but that’s okay. Lexa can already see and feel the problem. The throttles are all the way forward, but the plane isn’t responding. They’re coming in for a landing, just a few hundred feet above the ground, and looming in their path are several power lines, a road, a gas station and some twenty-foot antennae right at the threshold of the runway.
And the plane is too low.
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10 Apr 2021
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To quell the violence between the Frankish Empire and the invading Norsemen from Scandinavia, the King of Francia sends his daughter, Princess Clarke of Francia, to the Norse Commander as a gift. With their union, their people’s will become one, and the fighting will end. But Clarke has no intention of being anyone’s gift. Certainly not the murderous Norse Commander.
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Lexa's plane is shot down in enemy territory when she wakes up in the care of Dr. Clarke Griffin.
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14 Mar 2021
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Clarke hitches her purse into the crook of her elbow and rests a hand on the doorknob, fingers aching to turn it. She would rather go home than be talked into attending some ghastly book club hosted by Lexa. “I’m afraid I would feel very awkward. Everybody already knows everybody, and I’ll only stick out like a sore thumb."
“Well, the point is for you to bridge that gap”, Henry insists, and she doesn’t need to look at Mark to see her husband smiling encouragingly. He would want her to leave the house. “Come on, Clarke.”
“Yes, Clarke,” Lexa speaks up for the first time, gaze trained on her and the ghost of a smirk on her lips. It feels like a challenge; like Lexa is daring her to say no. “Say you’ll come.”
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06 Mar 2021
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Marcus Kane has sex for a living.
Love, however, is another story.
Over a span of twenty-two years, he rises from the lowly role of concierge at the Paradise Hotel - the legal brothel owned by his parents - to its owner and manager, a pillar of the community with a staff of his own. But when the two most powerful forces of nature in a dusty one-horse Nevada town are a queer feminist sex mecca on one side, and a sinister fundamentalist cult on the other, nothing and no one is safe from the impact of their collision.
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13 Dec 2020
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Clarke bites the inside of her cheek at the way her name rolls of the woman’s tongue, but she doesn’t let herself dwell on it before reaching out to shake her hand. And, god- everything about this woman, from her appearance to her demeanour to her fucking handshake screams confidence. And, yeah, Clarke finds confidence attractive, but there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and this woman walks it too damn well.
or the AU where Clarke is a musician in Hollywood with a lot of bad habits, and Lexa is the new member of her management team who is notorious for fucking her way to the top (spoiler: that’s not the full truth)
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14 Nov 2020
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865, Wessex.
While Viking's invasions rage in the English territory, Clarke Griffin, a young woman of noble origins decides to renounce to her titles to become a nun, to learn the healing arts. She thought she was ready to start a new life, but nothing could have prepared her to be kidnapped by the Vikings, ready to do anything to save their seriously injured Jarl. Catapulted into a culture completely different from hers, torn between curiosity and fear, Clarke will soon be fascinated by these mysterious people and their equally mysterious Jarl. -
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At fourteen, Clarke, the Princess of Skaikru, discovers she is to marry Aden, the Prince of Trikru. Their marriage will aid their kingdoms, once part of a great and powerful country torn apart by a civil war, fractured into thirteen clans. When the princess is older and later arrives in Polaris to prepare for her marriage, she finds herself falling into the fairy tale love she’s always dreamed of but never dared to hope of having - only this love is not with her fiance, but with his sister, Princess Lexa, the soon to be Commander of the Imperial Trikru Army.
Or: a forbidden lovers royalty AU.
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26 Jan 2020
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Hearts of Silver and Goldby sapphicstardust
royalty au, Clarke /aden engaged -
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Lexa is a beloved gladiator of the Colosseum, Alexandria, the one they call the Commander. She has earned the respect of the people a hundred times over. But will her love for the Emperor's daughter get in the way of the freedom that is rightfully hers? Or can it defy an Empire?
Or the Gladiator AU
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This is a sequel to my one shot, "Why Do You Think It Feels This Way?" - it's set three months following the Lake House weekend where Clarke and Lexa met for the first time.
Story will be in four parts - one for each day of the long weekend festivities for the Linctavia wedding.
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- Part 2 of You've Got Me Almost Melting Away