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“Honestly, I think you’re being a little overdramatic.”
Lexa swung around in her bed, her eyes boring into Raven’s. “A little over dramatic?!”
Raven shrugged noncommittally and took a sip out of her juice box. She grimaced, it was apple, she had asked for orange. Honestly, this country was in shambles. Her hard earned taxpayer dollars went into her getting saddled with apple juice when she had so clearly requested orange juice.
“We could have died! I could have died.” Lexa emphasised flopping backwards in her pillows.
Raven snorted, “yeah dying a virgin would have been really embarrassing.”
“I'm not a virgin!” Lexa snapped looking ready to jump out of her bed and hit Raven. If not for the mountain of blankets she was currently stuck under keeping her in place. “I’ll have you know that I have had plenty of sex, with multiple women. And they have all been very satisfied.”
“Oh sure you have.” Raven said as condescendingly as she could. Lexa was hot but Raven had seen her try to talk to attractive women, it was embarrassing. The last time it had happened Lexa had choked on her pasta and Raven had to do the heimlich. “May I remind you of the-”
“Do not bring up the pasta incident!” Lexa snarled “I was sleep deprived and it was a fluke. That’s never happened before.”
“I’m sure you tell all the ladies that.”
“Were I not covered in second degree burns and stuck in this bed I would-”
“What? You would what, Lexa? Try and choke me? I’m sure you have some experience in that department. Although it has historically been on the receiving end of food.” Raven smirked at the other girl who ground her teeth in frustration “Besides the nurse said they’re all first degree burns and you’re not even gonna get a scar so long as you put on that ointment they prescribed you.”
“It is the principal of the situation.” Lexa grumbled, sitting back in her bed and gingerly crossing her arms.
“The explosion wasn't even that bad.” Raven muttered, rolling her eyes.
“It was an explosion! This is why no one will be your lab partner.” Lexa said looking beyond exasperated.
“Oh please, we're gonna come out of that class with at least an A minus, probably an A. I think some first degree burns are a small price to pay for excellence.”
“No, nothing is worth this. I’m talking to our professor on Monday and I’m switching partners. Or I’ll bribe Monty into being my partner. You can have Jasper.”
Raven laughed at that “Do you really think Sinclair is gonna let me and Jasper be lab partners again?”
“What do you mean ‘again.’” Lexa asked suspiciously.
“You know how the Ark building has been under construction due to an on campus fire?” Raven asked.
“What the fuck did you two do?”
“Nothing you can prove.” Raven snorted, taking another loud sip of her juice. It was almost empty so she was mostly just sucking in juice flavored air at this point.
“Raven, seriously… did you two burn down a building?” Lexa was staring at her with wide almost fearful eyes, or as fearful as someone like Lexa could look. Raven had known the girl for almost a year and her visible emotional range was annoyed (at Raven or most men), absolutely no emotion, or complete buffoonery in the presence of beautiful women.
Raven sighed dramatically. “First of all, it was officially categorized as a Class 1 Explosion, and second, no one was hurt and the structural integrity of the building is fine.”
“How in god's name were you not expelled?”
“I mean we kinda discovered a new element when it happened. So they let it slide. The funding grant alone more than covered the cost to fix the building.” The building was ugly anyway so Raven considered all of this a plus.
“I’m emailing Dr. Sinlcair tonight to ask for a new lab partner.” Lexa grumbled.
Raven snorted and rolled her eyes. Lexa was all talk, there was no way she would leave Raven, not when being her lab partner was a guaranteed A. At this point they had been partners for the better part of the year. It was part of this interdisciplinary thing that their respective universities were offering. Due to some weird credit problem, Lexa had somehow not taken her required science courses. If she wanted to graduate from Harvard top of her class she needed to take her science courses and get an A. Unfortunately, by the time Lexa had found out about the mistake, Harvard’s science courses had been filled up. But she had been able to get special dispensation to take her required classes down the street at M.I.T. Of course most students at M.I.T. knew better than to partner with Raven Reyes willingly. So when the fresh faced and semi desperate law student had stumbled into their chemistry class the first day of the fall semester they had immediately pawned her off on Raven.
“This might be the worst thing that’s ever happened to me…” Lexa muttered.
“Even worse then the-”
“I swear to god if you bring up the pasta incident one more time I will kill you Reyes.”
“I was actually gonna bring up the aquarium episode.”
Lexa stared at her for a moment and then lunged forward, she immediately toppled over on her bed when her gown caught on the metal bed frame. Raven laughed loudly.
The door to their hospital room suddenly slammed open and Clarke breezed into the room, running up to Raven’s bed.
“Oh my god, Raven are you ok? I came as soon as I got the call!” Clarke said, looking her over frantically.
“I’m fine, it’s just a minor concussion. Lexa was way closer to the explosion and she barely got any burns and only some minor tinnitus.” Raven said easily, trying her best to deflect the attention off of her. Ever since her leg injury a few years ago Clarke tended to overreact to stuff involving Raven and the hospital.
“What? Lexa, who-” Clarke’s question was cut off as she looked up and saw Raven’s unfortunate lab partner. Lexa gave an awkward wave and her signature beautiful woman smile that looked more like a grimace than an actual smile. “Oh my god… Raven, did you try to kill your lab partner again?”
“Again?” Lexa asked her voice going up an octave.
“It’s not as bad as it sounds.” Raven quickly explained.
“In what way does attempted murder sound good?”
Raven just shrugged, “it’s a long story. Also this time it wasn’t actually my fault. Lexa here is the culprit for our little field trip to the hospital.”
Lexa blushed bright red, it had been her fault. Mostly, Raven was only 20% at fault here. Maybe 30%. Definitely no more than 40% though.
“I find that very hard to believe.” Clarke scoffed.
“No…” Lexa muttered looking beyond embarrassed. “She’s right, it was my fault.”
Raven grinned victoriously, while Clarke just rolled her eyes and walked over to properly introduce herself to Lexa “I’m Raven’s roommate, Clarke. I go to RISD, and I am guessing you are the infamous Lexa.”
“Raven told you about me?” Lexa squeaked, visibly paling. Raven snickered, but tried her best to mask it behind her juice box when Lexa shot her a withering glare.
“Oh yes, you’re very popular in our household,” Clarke said trying her best to suppress a grin “I think my favorite story so far is the rake incident.”
Lexa groaned and flopped backwards in her bed, “I hate you.” She muttered to Raven. Raven just flipped her off and pulled out her phone. Clarke had that look in her eye. And Raven was going to try her best to not pay attention to the pair as Clarke tried to work her magic and get Lexa to ask her out.
“When can we leave?” Raven asked, she wanted to get back to the lab, or the library.
“Not for a few more hours, apparently you both have concussions and need to be under observation for a while longer.”
“Ugh, fine. Did you bring my book?” Raven asked, holding out her hand. Clarke rolled her eyes and dug into her bag and pulled out what she called Raven’s ER book. It was just a general physics textbook from the 70’s, but Raven liked to read it and make corrections when she was stuck in the hospital. It was a great way to pass the time. Raven took the massive book from Clarke and immediately got to work revising the textbook, doing her best to drown out Clarke’s admittedly fantastic flirting and Lexa’s cringeworthy attempts to be somewhat suave.
It was maybe an hour and a half later that the door to their hospital room opened. Raven glanced up, hoping it was the nurse who had come to discharge them a little early. Instead in walked in a ridiculously attractive woman. She wore the most unimpressed, impassive face Raven had ever seen. A face that was framed with blonde hair and killer cheekbones. Basically Raven was in love.
“Lexa, I got your call.” She said to Lexa looking both unconcerned, but slightly curious about the situation her peer was in. This woman displayed so little emotion that she was making Lexa seem like the Joker in comparison.
Seriously, how did Lexa know this girl? Was she one of the girls Lexa had claimed to have had 'plenty of sex with' in the past? Raven doubted it, but if that turned out to be the case she was going to eat her shoe.
“I called you over two hours ago, how are you just now here?” Lexa asked incredulously.
“Voicemail wasn’t set up.” she said with a shrug.
Lexa sighed and rolled her eyes, “You could have called me.”
“You could have texted that it was an emergency.” The woman retorted, “Although you seem to be fine, or did you choke on your yogurt again?” She asked her eyes flicking to Clarke who was sitting in a chair very close to Lexa.
Lexa turned bright red and Raven did her best to contain her laughter as even Clarke had to hide a smile. “I- what- no- Anya. I am very clearly covered in bandages. And if you did get my voicemail then you would know I was in an explosion.”
“Minor explosion.” Raven corrected.
“Ah, you must be the lab partner.” Anya said, her eyes trailing appreciatively over Raven’s form. Raven couldn't tell for sure if she liked what she saw, the hospital gown wasn't exactly doing her any favours.
“The one and only.” Raven said with a grin. Yeah there was no way Lexa had slept with this woman.
“Raven, Clarke, this is Anya, my roommate, we go to school together. Anya, that’s Raven and this is Clarke.” Lexa said trying to move the conversation along quickly lest it circle around and embarrass her again. Raven blinked in surprise, how had she never met Anya? She’d been to Lexa’s apartment a few times to study and had never seen her before. That was the true tragedy in this whole situation, Lexa’s burns and concussion be damned.
“You in law too?” Raven asked as Anya grabbed a chair and pulled it up beside Raven’s bed. She made herself at home and propped her feet up on the edge of Raven's bed. The room was rather small, so seating options were limited.
Anya just nodded, “I talked to the nurse, they’re not letting you out for another hour.” she said to Lexa.
“Lucky us.” Clarke said with a smile “we can get to know each other a bit better.” Lexa audibly gulped and nodded, staring at Clarke with wide eager eyes.
Raven just rolled her eyes and went back to editing her textbook. Beside her Anya pulled out a law book out of her backpack and started to page through it. They had been sitting there for maybe an hour in easy silence before Raven couldn't take it anymore and decided to talk to Anya. She had after all just survived a minor brush with death. YOLO and all that shit.
“You wanna have sex later?”
“Sure.” Anya said flatly not even looking up from the page she was reading.
“My place at 6?”
“No, my place at 7:30. Lexa’s told me how you live, I don't wanna see that.” Anya said, referring to the state of Raven’s perpetually messy apartment.
“That’s mostly Clarke’s fault, but fine, your place it is. But you gotta bring the whipped cream.”
That made Anya frown, she stopped reading and looked at Raven with a confused expression. “Whipped cream?”
“Yeah, I like waffles for breakfast and it’s my favorite thing to eat it with.” Raven let her eyes trail over Anya “Although, if you shell out for the good stuff I could be persuaded to eat it off of other things.”
At Raven’s very obvious innuendo she saw the first actual flicker of emotion on her face and Anya flushed slightly pink at the implication. She cleared her throat and turned the page in her book and went back to reading. Raven grinned, pleased to have caused such a reaction in the other girl.
“5.”
“What?” Raven asked confused.
“Be at my place at 5pm.” Anya elaborated, still not looking up from her book.
The door opened again and the nurse came in to discharge Raven and Lexa. It would seem that Lexa, by some miracle, had somehow managed to ask Clarke for coffee, which they were immediately going to go get once Lexa signed her release papers.
“You know… I don't have a ride, we could just carpool together, cut out the whole waiting till later bit.” Raven said, smirking at Anya.
Anya eyed her for a long minute and then glanced at her watch. “Fine. We’ll stop at the store on the way and pick up your fucking whipped cream.”
Raven snickered, “Sounds like me and the whipped cream are getting lucky tonight.”
Anya rolled her eyes and put her book away, “shut up, don't make me regret this.”
Raven just grinned and took the release forms from the nurse and started to fill them out. “Regret is the last thing you’ll be feeling, I can promise you that.”
It turned out Anya did end up regretting things, but it had more to do with Raven trying to fix her already perfectly working toaster. Apparently it hadn't been toasting fast enough. Still, Raven’s whipped cream skills more than made up for that blunder.