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He had been walking since before dawn, just when the guards at the gate wouldn't notice someone slipping outside and leaving Arkadia. Pike had called a meeting last night, but with the so called 'peace keeping' force just outside of their camp, Bellamy waiting until early morning to leave. He felt that what Pike was doing was the right course of action.
Although if he was honest with himself, he didn't know how things had gone from bad to worse this fast. He did what he thought was right for his people, except really only those remaining from the 100 were his people. His sister was his responsibility, from the moment she was born it had been his job to protect her. That's all he had ever thought about since he watched Jaha float his mother. And now, here they were again with a force amassed against them, at least in his eyes, and only Pike had the ambition to deal with it before they became a problem.
Even Bellamy was prepared to admit that most of him was still angry, angry by the loss of Gina and all the death of Mount Weather. What he found in Gina was something new and he wanted to know where it had been going. She had been real, and she deserved better than what she had received. Much had been left unsaid, because some grounders didn't want the Arkadians alive.
That had been the snapping point for Bellamy, now every grounder was a danger to them, none had proven loyal but one in his eyes. Even their beloved Commander had broken her word and turned tail when they needed them the most. No more, every grounder outside their gates was an enemy, and every enemy had to be dealt with before they turned on Arkadia. Soft voices caused him to look up and look around with his rifle.
He found a small tent that Pike had said would be waiting for them, hidden in a spot between two rises, so neither Arkadia or the grounders would be able to find it unless they knew exactly where to look. Opening the flap and walking inside, he was greeted with a gun in his face from Pike before he smiled and motioned over at the table where several others stood around, apparently he was the last to arrive. Standing round the table was Pike, Bellamy and a group of their men. Huddled over several maps that had been drawn up in the best possible representation. They were several hundred feet outside of Arkadia to make sure nobody would interfere. Pike wanted them to hit the grounders where it would hit them the hardest. Their weaponry would give them the edge in any engagement, ambush or frontal assault.
A cough outside the tent had the men turning in surprise. Bellamy went and pulled the flap open a few inches to see who it could be. Nobody else should know that they were meeting here. It was an insane surprise, when he saw Jasper on the other side looking up at him.
"Uh, Jasper? What are you doing here?" Bellamy asked him, not opening the flap any farther than necessary. Jasper hadn't been himself since Mount Weather. He knew Maya only a little, she had helped hide him and keep the 48 moving. Bellamy had made his peace with what had taken place, and as far as Bellamy was aware, Jasper was no where near that.
"I heard Pike was planning on taking the fight to the Grounders." He was still quiet, but it seemed he was a lot more focused than before. Bellamy hadn't seen that type of look in Jasper in a long time. He was sure that Jasper would eventually go after Clarke for the death of the girl he loved, but with Clarke missing for a few months, then becoming the Ambassador in Polis, he would have to get in line along with everyone else who was looking for her.
Bellamy turned back to Pike, the older man seemed to think on it a moment before he nodded his head and Bellamy opened the tent flap to let him in. Bellamy looked outside to make sure nobody else was around as Jasper made his way closer to the table. Leaning down to see the map he got a good look at the positions of everything.
He turned his head and looked up at Pike with a raised eyebrow. "This is everything you have?"
"So far," Pike confirmed "we need to gather every bit of intel we can so that when things start rolling, there will be nothing the grounders can do. Once they are gone, there will be nothing that can even be tempted to come back here." Jasper nodded as he seemed to stare off into space.
"It's time Jasper, these people will never accept the City of Light as their own. It is up to you to show them the error of their ways. Jasper," A.L.I.E. said gently, looking at him with a gentle smile "we await you there."
Jaha had approached Jasper first when he returned to Arkadia, like a lion that went for the weakest of the herd. Explained everything in a way that Jasper couldn't refuse because the pain and the memories were eating him up at his core. He promised that there was no pain after the chip, no sorrow, no despair. The City of Light would take all his pain away and give him hope.
Jasper stood up straight, sticking a hand into his pockets as he unzipped his jacket, several pounds of explosive taped to his chest. Everyone stood wide eyed as he pulled a detonator from his pocket and whispered just before he pressed the button "Let's go everyone, the City awaits us."
Time seemed to slow down as Bellamy watched Jasper's thumb slowly come down onto the button. He could see the ball of fire that Jasper became and it headed straight for him. It was a miracle that he was able to get his arms up in time to cover his face. The last thing he saw was the open sky as he was thrown from the remains of the tent and into the world of unconsciousness.
A/N: Writers for this chapter - Kyosuke
