The Ones On The Ground (sequel to The One Who's Fallen)

Chapter 107

Shortly after the wedding itself finishes, the festivities begin. There are booths and market-type stalls spread all throughout Polis. It's all paid for either by donations from the people or from the Hedas (the taxes and stuff, I don't quite understand the monetary stuff that Lexa and I take care of. Mainly Lexa, evidently).

The people behind the stalls begin happily passing out drinks and food. The tables are quickly set up, having been out aside so people could watch the wedding, and they're quickly flooded with people. People are sitting down and eating or drinking or just spending time with people, and perhaps meeting new people. Music swells as the bands set up throughout Polis begin to play, and some people begin to dance in the streets.

In every face I see, there's a smile or just happiness on their faces and it warms my heart. There's one table that's a pretty good size that's been left alone, so I'm assuming that might be for us. With my hand linked with Lexa on one side and Madi on the other, we walk forward. Lexa's holding Des up, letting her rest against her hip on her other side. Destiny seems happy about it and has her head resting on Lexa's shoulder as she grins at people around us. We head for the empty table and sit down, only to be swiftly joined by my mom, Raven, Anya, Luna, Lucas, Artigas, and Ryan.

"Hey, Mrs and Mrs. Griffin." Raven says with a wink as she sits across from us with her girlfriends and their son.

To be honest, I'm surprised that Lucas is here. I thought he would head inside right after the wedding itself ended, but it seems either the headphones are working better than I expected, or he's more determined than I expected.

"I still can't believe that you guys decided separately to wear the same thing to your wedding," Raven says, leaning her head against Luna's shoulder.

"Me neither." I say, looking to my wife with a smile. "It was a surprise. I don't know what I was expecting you to wear, but this wasn't it. I'm certainly not complaining, though."

We continue talking, and learn a little bit more about Ryan and Artigas and how they're doing. At some point, one of the people manning the stalls brings us all food and drinks and we thank them profusely before they head back to their stall. We eat and make sure that the drinks the kids were given aren't alcoholic (they aren't, luckily). People here are more lax about if their kids have alcohol, just a little bit, on special occasions. Which is fine, I don't really care that much, but I don't want to deal with our children drinking too much on our wedding night.

Luna, Anya, and Raven are the first to break off from our group with Lucas, who seems to still be doing okay but I can see how he's playing with something in his pocket. It's probably something he and/or Raven made for him to fidget with to calm him.

"What do you say about dancing a little bit before you go to bed?" Raven asks him before they get up. "It's perfectly alright if you're too tired or don't want to."

"Just a little," he says quietly after thinking for a moment.

Raven's face lights up but she contains her excitement as the four of them head to where people are dancing. They stop a little ways away from people and Raven starts dancing first. And I know Raven can dance, but she's doing the dorkiest... What I can only describe as a white dad dance, doing the dorkiest dance moves she can think of. And if she's trying to make her girlfriends and son laugh, it's working. Lucas is smiling and letting out soft laughter as he attempts to copy some of the movements. I nudge Lexa, chuckling to myself when Luna and a semi-reluctant Anya join in on Raven and Lucas doing the sprinkler. It's terrible in the most wonderful of ways, and I crack up when I see some of the other people around them (some of which are already inebriated) begin trying to copy some of the dance moves.

"What on earth is that girl doing?" Mom says, amused.

We watch Raven attempt to moonwalk. Since the streets here are cobblestone and she has her leg brace, it's a lot harder than normal and she nearly trips over one of the stones that protrudes from the ground more than the rest of them. Luna catches her before she can fall and Raven says something with a smirk on her face to her. I'm too far away to hear what it is, but I would bet money that it's something along the lines of "I'm falling for you." But what makes me laugh again is Raven's shocked expression when Anya perfectly executes the moonwalk on the cobblestone streets.

I turn my attention away from them and look back to Lexa. "Would you care to dance?"

"With our girls?" Lexa asks. I nod. "Are you two up for it before bed?"

Madi and Destiny nod and Des squirms out of Lexa's arms from where she's been sitting in her lap and stands on the ground. I watch her while Lexa talks to my mom.

"Who will be watching them tonight?"

"If you are alright with it, I figured Ryan and I could take care of that. We can put them to bed and take care of them tomorrow as well so that you and Clarke can have a little honeymoon."

"Thank you, I appreciate that."

"No problem, anything for you guys." I can practically hear the warm smile in his voice.

While Lexa's talking, Destiny scrunches her eyebrows and then attempts what I assume is the moonwalk. It's honestly one of the cutest things I've ever seen. She lifts her heels off the ground and then puts them back down, and the shuffles her feet back a little. She repeats the movement, encouraged by my grin as she smiles back.

Guys??? This is so cute????? Can you tell I love them? And btw, once we get through this scene, if you would like, I could write out their wedding night! Smut and all haha. Thank you all for reading and for your lovely comments! Stay awesome!