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femininenachos · 1 year

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I’ve Got News For You

(Or the 80s rival TV newscasters AU no one asked for…)

It’s 1987, and Lexa Woods is a serious, austere news anchor, always delivering the news with smooth, measured gravitas. Nicknamed “the perfumed menace” she’s renowned for being a tough and exacting interviewer, a household name with the plaudits to back it up. Meanwhile, Clarke Griffin is a plucky reporter on the ground with a megawatt smile and disarming manner, who’s carved a niche for herself with frivolous, crowd-pleasing fluff pieces and lighthearted human-interest/animal segments. Lexa doesn’t hide her disdain for the rival outlet’s content and tone, yet it consistently beats her own channel in the ratings, to her supreme annoyance.

So she’s furious and indignant when station manager Indra tells her they’re poaching Clarke from their competitor.

“I won a Peabody for my coverage of the opioid crisis in Mount Weather!”

Lexa’s rant gathers steam.

“We’re a respected news source. This,” she gestures at the freeze frame of Clarke reporting from a feline beauty pageant, “is not news.”

Lexa stabs a finger in the air, oblivious to Indra’s subtle eye roll.

“I won’t stand here and watch my reputation for high-minded broadcast journalism be washed down the drain. I’ll walk.”

She also learns they plan to bring in a male anchorman, some eye candy for the housewives. The focus groups find Lexa too severe and haughty.

“I’m the anchor. No one reads the news but me.”

“Well,” Indra tells her firmly. “Things have to change or there won’t be a show to anchor. Would you prefer they take us off the air entirely and replace us with compilations of idiotic home video mishaps? They’re cheap and everybody loves them.” (The “unlike you” goes unsaid). “I’ve heard grumblings from the board.”

Lexa stares, aghast at the notion.

It takes a lot of placating to calm her down, vague promises of a primetime special on a hard-hitting topic of her choosing.

When she’s introduced to Clarke the following week, Lexa is frosty, aloof, giving the cold shoulder. Later that day, they butt heads during a pitch meeting. Lexa dismisses Clarke’s ideas, leaving her fuming, and everyone else stepping on eggshells.

Record scratch cut to Lexa’s dressing room...

Clarke kisses her hard, nipping sharply at Lexa’s bottom lip, an undercurrent of rebuke in her voice when she tells Lexa, “You could dial it down a notch, you know? For someone who wants to get under my skirt, you could stand to be a lot nicer.”

Lexa soothes Clarke by trailing kisses along her jaw to that spot behind her ear that makes her knees buckle slightly. “I promise I’ll make it up to you.”

She sucks a kiss at the top of Clarke’s neck. The pressure light, not enough to leave a mark, conscious of how that might reflect poorly on Clarke, professionally speaking. Half the station already thinks she’s a ditzy airhead (a false impression that Lexa did nothing to discourage, she acknowledges to herself with a tiny stab of guilt), and a visible hickey would only provide more fodder for snide gossip.

“Anya was in the room and I overcompensated. She’s too savvy not to be suspicious of me suddenly singing your praises.”

“Oh, yeah?” Clarke hoists an eyebrow as she leans back, out of range of Lexa’s roving mouth. “Been trash talking me to your producer?”

Lexa‘s throat bobs. “I… might have expressed some strong reservations about the new editorial direction.” For some reason her mouth keeps moving and words, the wrong ones, keep spilling forth, as though she isn’t actually someone who’s built a storied career on being an excellent communicator. “I’m just not convinced by the pivot from hard news to a magazine format, or that our two styles will successfully mesh.”

Her heart plummets as Clarke pulls away and starts to tuck in her blouse. “Well, you definitely won’t be meshing with me now.”

“Clarke, wait. Come on, can’t we talk—”

“No. You’re such an ass, Lexa. Beautiful, sexy beyond belief, but an ass all the same.” Clarke strides across the room, ignoring Lexa’s pleas, and lays her hand on the doorknob. Pauses to look over her shoulder, not fully able to mask the hurt and betrayal in her expression. “Let’s just do one another a favour and stay out of each other’s way, alright? And a word of warning: don’t try to get me fired. I will lawyer up and sue this station into oblivion.”

“I—”

Lexa stares at the empty doorway, bewildered at how a sizzling secret makeout session went so far off the rails so quickly, and left wondering how she can possibly repair the damage.

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aphrodites-law · 1 year

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THE LOST QUEEN UPDATE ➼ Queen Clarke is forced to flee into the woods after a coup dethrones her. When she comes out on the other side, four hundred years have passed without her aging a day. For two years she adapts as best as she can to the modern world, but everything changes when she wanders into a museum exhibition on herself and meets the tour guide infatuated with the Lost Queen.

#clexaweek23 #clexaweek23 day 6 #clexa #f: the lost queen #it's gonna be a workplace romance in the forest okay leave me be 🫡

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talktomeinclexa · 1 year

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Code Blue at the Zoo

By: TalktomeinClexa

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: None

Status: One-shot

Summary: “Code Blue. I repeat, we have a Code Blue at the Snow Leopard enclosure. All personnel, insure the safety of our guests. Officer Woods, please locate Doctor Griffin and find the animal before it harms a visitor.”

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The Grade 2 kids giggle as they follow their teacher into the exhibit. The bravest among them run to the glass panel and press their noses against it, while a few remain at the back, hesitant. Unsure if they are allowed to go near the enclosure.

“Don’t hit the glass,” Clarke reminds them, knowing well how overexcited children tend to get in a zoo.

Two boys look sheepishly at her, their little fists up in the air, inches away from the inch-thick window. Behind it, the penguins resume their swim and strolls, the sudden ruckus already forgotten.

“Okay, come closer, kids. Who can tell me what these are?”

“Penguins.”

“Pinguins.”

“Penaguins.”

Clarke bites the inside of her cheek to stifle a chuckle at the endearing answers. She should start collecting them in a notebook. “These are penguins, well done. And where do they come from?”

“Far away.”

“From the North Pole.”

“From the cold.”

“From the South.”

Aside from taking care of the animals, this is her favorite part of the job as a veterinarian for the Arkadia Zoo. Adults often have a good time and ask pertinent questions. But nothing beats the excitement and genuine interest of children.

“They live in the Southern Hemisphere, including in Antarctica; that’s right. It’s the polar bears who live in the North.” With a conspiratorial smile, Clarke bends forward to come closer to the small ears hanging on her every word. “Did you know that, although they are birds, they can’t fly?”

“Why not? They have wings,” a young boy says, visibly disappointed.

“Because their bones are too heavy and much stronger than other birds. Penguins can’t fly, but they are skilled swimmers. In fact, we don’t call those wings but flippers. Like dolphins.”

Before Clarke can tell them more fun facts about the beautiful black-and-white oviparous animals, a shrill ring echoes around the exhibit. Panicked children bundle closer to Clarke and their teacher, Ms. Vie, their little heads turning left and right in wonder.

“What’s that?”

“What’s happening?”

“I’m scared.”

“Everything is fine, kids. Don’t worry, we’re safe here. I’m sure it’s only a drill.”

Despite her forced smile, Clarke’s brows furrow at the alarm. The schedule didn’t mention any drill as far as she’s aware. Which leaves only two possibilities. A fire and an escape. She’s not sure which she would prefer.

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lostwithoutclexa · 1 year

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Day 6 - Workplace romance

✨Lexa as a professional bike thief ✨ .... Getting caught by Clarke

Okay I feel like this needs some explanation lol

I was showing a friend pictures of clexa a few weeks ago and he thought her double swords were a fucking bolt cutter haha..... So props to Jürgen for the idea, it was absolutely hilarious and too good to not make something for clexaweek out of it :)

#a silly little sketch for clexaweek :)#clexaweek23 #clexaweek23 day 6 #day 6 workplace romance #clexa #clexa fanart #lostwithoutclexa

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commanderlexaofthegrounders · 1 year

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@clexaweekofficial 23 - Day 6: Workplace Romance

ᗷᑌIᒪᗪ ᗩ ᕼOᗰE ᗯITᕼ ᗰE.

Architect Clarke Griffin finally has an opportunity to shine in a joint construction project with her design. She has worked really hard to keep the company her father left her afloat and this construction is the result of her hard work paying off.

There is only one problem, though.

Civil engineer Lexa Woods is working on the same construction.

Clarke cannot deal with Lexa’s attitude and Lexa is already done with Clarke’s antics. They have been at odds since the first day they met and this is no exception. However, this project needs to be completed successfully and to make it happen both will have to reach a middle point.

Maybe in this journey, they will realize that together they could build not just a beautiful plaza, but a home.

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Chapter 1 beta by dreamsaremywords

#clexa #clexaweek23 #day 6 workplace romance #day 6 #modern au #clarke griffin #commander lexa

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thecrimsonknight · 1 year

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Clexaweek23: Day 6 - Workplace Romance

Plant shop AU. Or, an AU of an AU

Check out this collab with @kpforpresident . They are an amazing writer!

#clexa #clexaweek #clarke x lexa #clexaweek23 #clarke griffin #lexa woods #commander lexa #lexa kom trikru #lexa x clarke #clexa moodboard #day 6: workplace romance #clexaweek2023 #thecrimsonknight

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ao3feed-the100 · 1 year

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Build a home with me.

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/jvFcEZd

by Tanagariel

There is only one problem, though.

Civil engineer Lexa Woods is working on the same construction.

Maybe in this journey, they will realize that together they could build not just a beautiful plaza, but a home.

Words: 4483, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The 100 (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Clarke Griffin, Lexa (The 100), Raven Reyes (The 100), Anya (The 100), Finn Collins, Costia (The 100), Roan (The 100), Niylah (The 100), Nia | Ice Queen, Abby Griffin, Lincoln (The 100), Octavia Blake, Maya Vie, Zoe Monroe, Jasper Jordan

Relationships: Clarke Griffin/Lexa, Clarke Griffin & Lexa, Clarke Griffin & Raven Reyes, Anya & Lexa (The 100), Minor or Background Relationship(s)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Architects, Engineers, Eventual Romance, Clexaweek23, day 6 workplace romance, Explicit Sexual Content, Blood and Injury, Drama & Romance, do not repost or translate anywhere else

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/jvFcEZd

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #the 100 #the 100 fic

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