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Raven is invited to Blake Game Night about a month after meeting Octavia. A night where the Blake siblings invite their friends over for games, food, and drinks. Raven is hesitant at first but Bellamy is insistent. Unsure on what to bring, Raven decides on a case of beer and takes a minute to compose herself before she rings the door bell.
“Hey Raven. I’m glad you could make it,” Bellamy greets with his boyish grin. “Let me introduce you to the gang.”
The apartment is lively with music and laughs. Raven feels a bit out of place and at the same time very much welcomed. Bellamy introduces Clarke, a childhood friend, and her girlfriend, Lexa, first. The two are extremely attractive. Clarke with her bright smile and Lexa with her small smile but kind eyes. Raven is then dragged toward the television where she meets Jasper and Monty, who are in the middle of a video game. Monty has the respect to look away from the screen but it takes Jasper a double take before he is stumbling to shake her hand and greets her with a pick up line. Before she could even respond, Bellamy knocks Jasper on the back of his head and steers Raven toward the kitchen. John who Bellamy tells her prefers to be called Murphy offers her a beer, which she takes simply to have something to hold. “Rae!” a voice excitedly greets earning the attention of almost everyone.
Raven is slightly embarrassed by all the eyes that look at her, but all is forgotten as a almost three year old is rushing towards her from the hallway.
“Hey Ace,” Raven greets with a smile as he wraps his arms around her legs. She fixes her stance and makes sure not to spill her drink.
“Play?” Lucas questions and is tugging her hand toward the living room but away from the television. Raven lets out a laugh as she follows his lead. “You want to play?”
“Okay!” Lucas responds and Raven laughs at the the tone that makes it sound like it was her idea. He tugs her to the ground where he begins to show her his collection of cars.
“Hey Raven,” a familiar voice greets.
The mechanic looks up to see the younger Blake. She offers a small smile, relieved to see another familiar face. “Hi Octavia.”
Octavia smiles and leans over to talk to Lucas. “Son, why don’t you let Raven eat first?” Lucas instantly pouts. “Hey,” Octavia quietly scolds.
“Its okay. I don’t mind,” Raven insists with a small smile. Small green eyes look at her hopefully.
Octavia tilts her head, “You sure?” Raven simply nods. While the mechanic is sociable, making friends never came easy for her. It rarely does when you’re school hopping more than once a year. Octavia hums before ruffling her son’s hair. “Okay, son. You can play with Raven for ten minutes but let her eat after that, alright?”
“Okay,” Lucas smiles as he hands Raven a car and then another.
Lucas makes for nice ice breaker and buffer. Clarke is drawing with the toddler while Raven snacks and has a beer while talking with Bellamy. Lucas gives her about twenty minutes before he drags her to the floor to color.
“Hey,” Clarke greets with a smile. “Lucas is quite taken by you.”
Raven lets out a quiet laugh as the toddler shoves a red crayon in her hand. “Only because I let him roll around my roller board all over the garage.” She begins to doodle a car for Lucas on empty space on the paper.
“Sounds fun,” Clarke smiles.
Raven simply nods and decides to keep up their conversation. “So, Bellamy said you two are childhood friends? How long have you two known each other?”
“Octavia is actually my best friend. Has been since we were six,” Clarke answers with a fond smile. “So, almost twenty years now.”
The brunette holds back on letting out a low whistle and instead asks, “So, you all grew up here in Arkadia?”
“Actually in Tondc. Bellamy and I attended Arkadia University and stuck around after graduating,” Clarke says as she continued a sketch of mountains and trees. Raven smiles at the thought of the years of friendship. “What about you?”
“I moved from Polis,” Raven simply answers. The longest city she ever lived in.
“Lexa is from Polis,” Clarke mentions with a fond smile.
Polis is huge so the fact that Raven has never met the brunette is no surprise to her. “How did the two of you meet?” Raven decides to inquire.
“We had a class together in college. It was love at first sight,” Clarke admits as she gazes across the room at her girlfriend. As if the brunette heard her, Lexa looks up and smiles.
“Cute,” Raven comments with a fond smile. Raven appreciates a good love story whether it be romantic, familia, or friendship based, even if the life she lives is far from a fairy tale.
“Thanks,” Clarke smiles.
“You’re quite the artist,” Raven acknowledges as she nods toward the drawing. There are far more details than an average person would draw.
Clarke laughs, “Thanks.” The blonde seems to brush off. “Nice car.”
Raven laughs at the two dimensional car. “You’re too kind.” She thinks back for a second of the design class she once took back in college and the degree she once thought about pursuing.
“Car!” Lucas giggles in excitement as he points to the red vehicle. It snaps Raven out of her thoughts and she smiles fondly at the toddler.
“Seems like my godson likes it,” smiles Clarke as she ruffles his hair.
Raven hums, “I’m beginning to think this kid loves just about anything.”
Lucas lets out a loud yawn in response.
“Tired, kiddo?” Clarke questions softly.
“More mik peaz,” Lucas asks as he rubs his eyes.
“Coming right up,” Clarke replies as she stands up. She takes a quick detour to let Octavia know that her son is tired before disappearing into the kitchen.
“Hey son,” Octavia greets as she bends down. “Sleepy?” Lucas simply nods as she scoops him into her arms. She places a soft kiss to the top of his head and turned her gaze to Raven. “Thanks for playing with him.”
“I should be thanking him. Best entertainment so far,” Raven answers with a smile.
“Well, the night is still young,” Clarke comments as she hands Lucas his bottle of milk and kisses him on the cheek.
“Don’t have too much fun without me,” Octavia teases with a smile.
Raven felt her eyebrow raise. “Are you going to bed too?”
“The owners before Bell made the rooms sound proof,” Clark begins to explain. “We think they were musicians.”
“Or just liked to have really loud sex,” Jasper adds in from across the room. “Ow!” Raven turn to see him rubbing the back of his head as Lexa simply rolled her eyes at him.
“Anyways, I use to live in a studio, so I never needed to buy a baby monitor,” Octavia explained as she adjusted Lucas who was slowly falling asleep.
“Do you have an iPhone?” Raven questions with a tilt of her head.
“Yeah, why?”
“You can use Face Time. Leave one phone with Lucas and mute the one with you. You can hear and see him but he won’t be able to hear us.”
Octavia smiled, “That’s brilliant! Bell, give me your phone?”
“What? No way, we’re in the middle of Trivia Murder Party,” Bellamy answers his eyes not leaving the screen.
“Seriously?” Octavia frowned.
“I’m winning O,” Bellamy attempted to justify. His sister simply rolled her eyes.
“You can use mine?” Raven offers as she takes out her phone from her back pocket.
“You don’t mind?” Octavia questions as she stares at the phone.
“Not at all. No one is gonna call me anyways,” Raven shrugs as she unlocks her phone and hands it to Octavia.
“Thanks. I’ll be right back,” Octavia replies with a smile and disappears in the hallway.
Raven grabs aa beer from the refrigerator before joining everyone in the living. She joins Lexa and Clarke on the couch to watch the boys finish a game of Trivia Murder Party. Octavia returns in time to see Monty win, earning groans from Bellamy, Jasper, and Murphy.
"We're playing teams next," Bellamy announces after taking a 'loser' shot.
“You can be my partner, Raven,” Lexa offers with a small smile before anyone else could offer. The mechanic finds herself glancing at Clarke just as she stands up to join Octavia on the floor. “Don’t worry. Clarke and Octavia are always partners.”
“Whose normally your partner?” Raven decides to ask as Lexa types into her cell phone. The player name 'L&R' appear in front of a sock monster looking doll.
“No one,” Lexa shrugs.
The game starts before Raven could question further and she quickly learns why Lexa plays solo.
Murphy lets out a groan, “How in the world did you know that answer?” Lexa shrugs with a slight smirk.
Three questions later. “Seriously?!” Jasper cries as he looks at Lexa.
Lexa lets out a laugh, “You can thank Raven for that, I really had no idea what the answer was.”
Needless to say Lexa and Raven win by a landslide even with all the side murder games and the lightening round at the end. The two grin and reward one another with a high five while everyone else take a shot.
“So, you’re not just a genius when it comes to car stuff,” Bellamy points out as Raven shrugged.
"I guess it really wouldn't be fair if we continued to be partners," Lexa admits as she glances at Raven.
"Or fun," Raven offers with a tilt of her head.
"It would be fun," Lexa corrects as Raven laughed in agreement.
“I call dibs on Raven for the next game,” Octavia immediately states.
“Wow, thanks O,” Clarke mockingly pouts.
“Oh please, as if you’re not happy to be partners with Lexa,” Octavia smiles as she takes a seat next to Raven.
“Touche,” Clarke smiles as she tosses her phone to Octavia. She plops onto Lexa’s lap and snatches her phone and enters ‘Clexa.’
“Want to be ‘Octaven’?” Octavia questions with a smile.
“Sure,” Raven answers with a small shrug.
Raven stays longer and later than she originally planned but enjoys every second of it. She thanks Bellamy at the end of the night for the invite and Octavia reminds her to come to the next one. Raven leaves considering that she might have just found a group of friends that she could belong with.