Clexa prompt. Clarke is the weather girl at the local tv station, when a new young sports reporter, (Lexa Woods, an all-star soccer player with a career-ending injury) starts her first day an has trouble speaking in her presence.
Clarke had heard talk around the network offices that they would begetting a new Sports reporter, normally that wouldn’t even piqueher interest as every other sports reporter that they’d had hadbeen at least marginally sexist. She had heard a few of the guys inthe office scoffing at the rumours that the new sports reporter was awoman, she’d even heard a couple of them saying things like ‘whatdo women know about sports’, which had caused her to roll her eyesso hard that they nearly fell out of her head.
Granted, Clarke didn’t pay that much attention to sports herself,but she’d always had an interest in women’s soccer ever since oneof her best friends in High School, Octavia, took up the sport.Octavia and Raven even dragged her out to games occasionally and shedidn’t hate it.
Clarke was just finishing her coffee when she glanced across the newsoffice to see Raven showing the new sports reporter around. Shealmost choked on her drink when she realised who it was, theremaining coffee definitely went down the wrong way when the woman inquestion met her eyes.
Lexa Woods, rising star of the USNWT, or at least she had been beforea nasty injury brought her career to a premature end. A tackle duringa game, that Clarke may or may not have been watching from thecomfort of her sofa while shouting at the ref, caused an acl blowout.
Clarke had finally got her mild coughing fit, due to the coffee andnot at all due to the beautiful woman that her best friend wasleading in her direction, under control just in time.
“Clarke,” Raven said, that regular mischievous glint in her eyes,“I’m just giving Lexa here the full tour before she startsworking here. Lexa, this is our prime time weather presentor ClarkeGriffin.”
“Hey.” Lexa said, a small smile on her lips as she looked atClarke, “I think we’re going to be working the same time slots.”
“Hi.” Clarke responded, unable to get her brain to actually forma complete sentence, “and… I… er… yeah.”
Clarke had obviously watched Lexa play, she’d also seen all of themagazine covers and interviews, but her brain decided that actuallytalking to her was the moment that it was going to short circuit. Sheknew Lexa was more than slightly attractive, but she hadn’trealised just how attractive.
“Right…” Raven said, drawing out the word as pure amusementlaced her voice, “we’ll just move on to the next part of thetour, and maybe next time you two meet Clarkely here will rememberhow to use words.”
“It was nice to meet you, Clarke.” Lexa said, that same smilestill firmly in place, though she was certainly a little moreentertained than she expected to be on her first day at her new job.
Clarke could feel her face burning as she nodded her head. Mutteringto herself about how Raven was an asshole and how a heads up would’vebeen nice. Only realising that Lexa had heard her when their eyes metagain as Lexa glanced back at her, the smile on her lips nowresembling more of a smirk.
Clarke couldn’t help but hope that when it came time to do theweather report, right after Lexa had done the sports update, that shecould string her words together and didn’t become a stutteringmess.
I asked you awhile back if you were still salty about Lexa (Clexa) and your reply was of course yes. Now, Jason Rot has done a 3-hour interview (Podcast) I believe with Autostraddle and is at it again. One rough quote, "Seeing ppl outrage by certain stories (s3) is also fascinating, it tells me more about the ppl than me." Just reading this makes my blood boil. There's more but I don't have the stomach for it.
I think it’s this podcast perhaps? https://m.soundcloud.com/meta-station/jason-rothenberg-returns-to-meta-station
I haven’t listened to it because my stress levels are high enough already but we should just ignore whatever that fud has to say.
Thanks! Tender and hushed are pretty close equivalents, as is ‘quiet’, I remembered later.
@thedoctor-smith
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“Okay, where are we on inventing more synonyms for ‘softly’?? ...”
As Lexa sings in a choir, she'd be familiar with terms like 'dolce' (sweetly) or pianissimo (very gently), con amore (with love).
OKAY I LOVE THAT. One day, if I write a mwtw!Lexa POV, I would def include those as a mini-theme. Trying to figure out how I can get them in from a non-musical POV, but where there’s a will, there’s a way.
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“Okay, where are we on inventing more synonyms for ‘softly’?? ...”
Yeyyy more Mwtw !!!! Gently, lightly, tenderly, tenderly, delicately... Or use the french equivalent: 'en douceur' or 'doucement'
‘Delicately’ is one I hadn’t thought of —it might work well for some of the stickier situations! And the French is so wonderful, and I’m glad you shared because I would have just translated that to ‘sweetly’ and it sounds like that’s not quite the contextual meaning. Thank you!!
Here you go: Not All Warriors Can Cry (My Young Alpha) archiveofourown(.)org/works/11559162/chapters/25962693 I have a photoset on my dashboard I made if you would like to check it out. My next chapter will post this coming Friday. Thanks, Mares
I just wished fear people didn't dumb Alicia down just so Morgan of all people could be her mentor.
I still don’t know why they brought Morgan into the show in the first place tbh, he bores me. Alicia could be a very complex character if the writers got their heads out of their asses.
This whole non-killing thing that she’s doing could be some deeper darker psychological issue, her mind not being able to take it anymore, but I’m not going to give the writers the credit of thinking that’s what they’re doing here.
