Melting Inside Loving Fires
or: the MILF Lexa AU no one asked for | clexaweek23 Day 7 - Free Day
At forty years old with two children and a divorce under her belt, elementary school teacher Lexa believes the romance chapter of her life is sealed shut. That is until Clarke, an impossibly too flirty art therapist, moves to the apartment next door. Oh, if only she wasn’t thirteen years younger.
Read on AO3 | A doodle of Lexa and her kids
She’s rummaging through her bag, hoping and praying she didn’t leave anything important inside when a disembodied yell is thrown in her direction.
Lexa snaps her head in its direction, face contorting in confusion as she tries to find the source of the voice. However, it doesn’t take long for the warning to make sense. One second she’s standing, walking, and the next she is on the floor, ass hitting the carpeted floor of the hallway with force.
From where she stands in her doorway, Clarke’s eyes widen as she watches her new neighbour tumble to the ground, the box of trinkets she holds forgotten on the floor as she scrambles to get to the woman on the floor, cursing herself.
“Oh fuck, I’m sorry! It’s totally my fault, I keep leaving them all over the damn place.”
From her spot on the floor, the woman groans slightly before she dismisses her apology with a quick wave of her hand, “It’s fine, I wasn’t paying attention.”
Nearly stumbling over the exact same box, Clarke rushes to the woman's side, mentally cursing herself. It is entirely her fault and she’s annoyed that this is how she’s officially meeting the neighbours, with a hazardous hallway filled with IKEA boxes she cannot bring inside by herself without risking never seeing her security deposit again.
When the woman doesn’t stand up right away, instead looking around her own legs, long brown hair covering her features, Clarke fears she might have caused a sprained ankle or a broken leg. Shit.
"You're not hurt are you?"
Seemingly happy with her assessment, the woman looks up at her and Clarke's heart skips a couple beats. She doesn’t think gorgeous begins to describe the woman looking up at her.
A big thank you to @anonymous-red-506 for beta reading this :D