SOOOOO it's my first fanfiction, please be kind and patient with me ! English isn't my first language, so I'm sorry for the typos I will probably make, but feel free to let me know what's wrong written ! Also, I love listening to music while writing, so I'll put a song which fits the chapter at the beginning of every chapter ! Enjooy, and feel free to review !

Chapter 1 : Strangers on a Bench

Sorrow - Sleeping at Last

It was in the middle of winter, and damn, it was freezing out there on this Saturday afternoon. Snow was starting to fall, and the streets were already turning white. Lexa got out of her building, late, because some business people disagreed with her for far too long during the weekly meeting. She was a very busy and important woman, Lexa, because she was the CEO of Coalition corp.

Coalition Corp. was a big group of twelve very different companies, leading together in first position on the global market as one, having an impact in every country. In those companies, they were three different banks, a newspaper, "Grounder of Polis", the biggest law firm in the country and Polis' police station, which was training police officers from the entire world.
Last month, they had finally incarcerated the most famous criminal from those past twenty years; Carl Emerson, the ripper and kidnapper of forty-four women and children. He was also guilty of murdering them, but no one had been able to prove it, until Lexa inherited twelve companies five years ago, all at once. Then, she became the richest woman alive, and the most known business woman on the planet.
In her first month in charge, she had the brilliant idea of creating a big Corporation, the biggest one the world ever had, to make the twelve companies she owned work with each other, to do things faster and better. And to everyone' surprise, it worked. By working together, the police station and the law firm were able to put Emerson behind bars. Now, he was rotting in jail for the rest of his life.

Lexa shivered at the souvenir of Emerson. She held her hand in the air for a cab. She didn't have to wait too long, because soon a black car stopped beside her.

"Where do you wanna go miss?"

Lexa gave the driver her address, sat on the back seat, and turned her head toward the window. It was going to be Christmas soon, and gosh, the streets of Polis were full of Christmas decorations, with white light strings in every tree. Lexa sighed, and took her eyes off the window. She couldn't think about it now.

Her phone rang, and she looked in her bag full of crap for almost a minute before finding it. Lexa sighed again when she saw who was calling her.

"Titus" she said, annoyed.

"Forgive me for disturbing you, Heda, but Gustus said you were not in your building anymore. He thought he was going to drive you back at your place" the voice in the phone said.

"Thank you, Titus, but I already told you I didn't need a private driver. I've got... Hold on" Lexa put her hand over the phone.

"Hey, what's your name?" She asked the taxi driver.

"Lincoln, Miss."

She thanked him, and put back the phone close to her ear.

"I've got Lincoln to bring me back home. I don't need a private driver."

"Heda, it would be safer if..."

"Titus" she cut him off, "I am the one in charge. I'm making my own decisions. I'll see you on Monday."

She could almost hear Titus sighing in the phone.

"Goodnight, Heda."

"Bye, Titus."

She hung up and threw her phone back in her bag, sighing once again.

"You're okay, Miss?"

"Yeah yeah" she waved the driver off. She wasn't a talkative person, Lexa.

Lincoln didn't ask more questions, and they kept driving for a while. Lexa was lost in her thoughts, when a shout escaped from Lincoln's mouth.

"Shit!" Lincoln exclaimed.

Lexa just had time to take a look at the street to see another cab driving right in their direction. Both cars bumped into each other, sending Lexa in the seat's back in front of her, causing her nose to hit the seat hard.

Then, her cab stopped moving. Lexa winced in pain, and took a tissue from her bag to keep her nose from bleeding on the seats.

"Are you ok, Miss? That dumbass, doesn't know how to drive, I'm gonna..." started Lincoln, before Lexa cut him off.

"I'm ok. I don't want to be murdered today thank you very much." Lexa spat back.

Lincoln opened his mouth to speak, but decided not to do so as he saw the anger in Lexa's eyes and the tissue she was holding on her nose. His eyes widened a little more when he saw the logo on Lexa's suitcase; Coalition Corp. He knew her face was familiar, but now he was sure he just had gotten the biggest CEO ever in a car crash. I'm never going be accepted there as a private driver now, he thought. What an idiot I am.

Lexa get outside the car, and shivered when the cold wind hit her. She could see the snow beginning to get thinker, and she didn't want to be out for too long. Unfortunately, she was still far from her loft, and she had too much pride to ask Gustus to come pick her up.

She tightened her scarf around her neck, and quickened her pace. Along the way, she could see some people looking at her curiously. She had to fight the urge to roll her eyes and shout at them not to stare at her like that. She hated celebrity, she hated it so much. Her face was on every paper, every magazines. Everyone knew who she was. It should have made her happy, but she was not. To Lexa, being Coalition corp.'s CEO was a burden. She didn't want all this fame, all the gossip around her. Yeah, she loved her job, but she didn't plan to be CEO and sometimes, it was too many responsibilities for only a woman to carry. Sometimes, she wished that she was still with her, by her side.

She shook her head, not wanting to think about her again. She sighed when she saw the little park in front of her. Her loft was on the other side of it; she would be home soon. But Lexa wasn't even sure it was actually her home. She wasn't sure of anything, these days.

She pushed the green gate, and entered the park. Like she expected, no one was there. The snow was falling down hard now, and all the children were probably home with their parents. She quickened her pace a little more, when she saw something which intrigued her. Not sure to have seen it well, she came closer to the bench ; under the falling snow, there were a woman, hushing a little boy on her arms, who couldn't be more than five, wrapped in a patched up blanket. Damn this girl is beautiful. So young and blonde and beautiful, Lexa thought.

Not wanting to scare her, Lexa stayed a few meters away, trying to know what those two were doing here. It was snowing more and more, and Lexa couldn't almost see them with all the snowflakes falling down. But the woman wasn't moving to go somewhere else to protect the little boy, and something hit Lexa. There were homeless. Lexa took a look around the blonde lady. She could see some bags, scattered around the bench. The boy was crying more loudly now, and Lexa was ready to swear she could see tears in the eyes of the woman, who was probably her mother, too. She snickered closer to them, to be able to hear what she was saying. She hid behind a tree, felling a bit ashamed for what she was doing.

"Ayden, please baby, I know you're cold, but you know we can't go back there" the woman sounded desperate, "Please honey you know we can't, I'm trying the best I can..."

Lexa hold her breath when she heard the woman's voice. She seemed desperate, and in the verge of crying too. Ayden, the little boy, was crying a little less, and Lexa noticed he was shivering hard against her mother's sweater. Somewhat the woman noticed it too, because she let go of Ayden for a minute, to remove her sweater and make Ayden wear it. Lexa saw the interrogation in Ayden's eyes.

"Mommy, you're gonna be cold now" he said with a tiny sad voice.

"No, I'm gonna be okay, just stay close to me, okay?" The blonde answered with a smile.

Once Ayden had buried his nose on her mother's chest, the smile dropped instantly off her face. Lexa swore she saw a tear rolling down her cheek. Her lips were blue, and she was trying her best not to let her teeth chatter.

Lexa couldn't bear it anymore; she felt something for them, and she couldn't stay behind her tree much longer, watching them without doing anything. A couple of seconds later, she was standing in front of the woman, but she got up at the same time without seeing her, bumping into Lexa, spilling the water she had in a plastic bottle all over the floor. The woman looked up at her, surprise written on her face.

"Ahem... I'm sorry" started Lexa.

But the blonde didn't give her time to speak. "What the fuck?"

"I'm sorry, I saw you and..."

"So you told yourself you were going to do a good action and help me? No thanks, I don't want your pity. And now I have no water left. Great." The woman started to pack their things furiously, leaving a sleeping Ayden on the bench. Lexa was taken aback by what she said.

"What are you still doing here?" She asked quite angry, "Leave us alone!"

"Ahem, I'm sorry" Lexa began to ramble, "I don't know what came to my mind, you seemed to be cold, I couldn't bear it, I'm gonna go now, sorry."

Lexa was confused about her own attitude. Why was she acting like that? They were none of her business, what the hell crossed her mind? She started to walk again, but at the moment she turned around head back home, she thought of something, and came back in front of the woman.

"I'm Lexa" she awkwardly introduced herself. "I'm sorry for... Whatever. Just... If you need something, water or anything... Just..."

Lexa searched on her bag for some visit cards, but thought better of it. If the woman knew who she was, she would definitely think Lexa was giving her some pity. She ripped a blank page from her notebook, and wrote down her private number on it.

"Just give me a call. Yeah?"

The blonde took the paper, not without a death glare directed at Lexa, and put it in her pocket. Lexa was pretty sure she was going to throw it the first chance she got, anyways. Lexa started to walk away, but she hid herself behind the tree once more.

She saw the girl put her bag on her back, pick up Ayden in her arms, and put the other bag on her shoulder. Lexa's heart was hurting for the other girl, wishing she could do something to help them. She carefully watched them heading out the park, and her eyes never left them, until they were no longer there.

Lexa sighed for what seems like the umpteen times today. Right now, all she wanted to do was to bang her head against the tree for what she was feeling inside of her. Why did she care? She had nothing to do with those two, but she was already starting to feel empty inside, now alone standing in the snow.

She didn't know the weather was this cold, and when she finally came home, she thought her fingers were going to fall from her hands. Immediately, she thought about the blonde and Ayden, on their own under the snow, probably freezing too.

At home, she had to listen to Anya complaining about how late she was for dinner, and to Titus who absolutely wanted to persuade her to have a private driver. "You are Heda. You can't afford to get sick. Don't ever stay out in the cold again", Titus said.

This night, Lexa didn't sleep well, like every night since the accident in last January. But it wasn't for the usual reason, though. This time, she dreamed about a certain blonde and her brown haired child, being buried under tons of snow, calling desperately for help, with people passing near them without acknowledging them.

This night, she woke up at 3:00 am, panting and sweating, with the face of the blonde still clear in her mind. She switched on the light, knowing she wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. She took a look at the picture on her nightstand, feeling afraid of what she was starting to feel inside of her chest. Something new. Something she didn't feel for a long time. What is happening to me, she thought.

So, what did you guys think about that first chapter? Let me know ! Also I will try to update at least once a week, maybe two if you're lucky !