A/N: Hi! This idea has been playing in my head for a while (you can thank my grandfather because he started watching the 100 from the beginning to remember what happened before he goes to season 5) and then I just kept going and going in a document before I said "Yeah okay, it's time to publish.". So here it is. It starts around episode 6 of season 2. Anyways,
Without further adieu:
I only own my OCs and this storyline, the dialogue and events from the show belong to their respective owners.
Sentences like this in quotations are grounders, or anyone, speaking in Trigedasleng. Other sentences in the same form are thoughts.
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ONE: Captured
"Keep moving."
A hand pushes her forward, making her stumble slightly until she stands upright. The dark-haired girl tries to listen for any kind of detail that could tell her where she was. How far did they take her? Wasn't there a creek a mile back? Dammit...She thinks to herself, wishing she was as good at observation as Finn. The girl was more concerned about where her friends were. She wanted to know if they managed to win against Anya's army...or if they died. The grounder behind her grabs her shoulder before more hands attach to her body. They escort her through a building, she could tell that much.
"Throw her in there and tie her up."
A squeaky door opens and the bag is taken off her head as she's pushed inside. A tall and bulky grounder comes in, looking her up and down before ordering the one who captured her to take off the girl's jacket. He rips it off before the taller one comes over and chains her up to cuffs extending from the ceiling. The girl finally gets a look around the cell that had dry blood coated on the walls. She grips onto the chains when she notices the knives and other devices to her right in the corner. Were they planning on torturing her?
"Let the Commander know that we captured another one. Tell her that this one is from the ship that came before." The one who captured her says to three other warriors stationed outside the room.
She wished she understood what they were saying, but could only watch as the warriors leave her with the taller one and the one who ordered them. The smaller grounder starts to move towards the knives when the taller one stops him, saying something that made the grounder grow angry and shrug the taller one's hand off of his arm. He grabs the first knife and walks over to the girl he had captured before glancing back to the taller one. The grounder holds the knife against the girl's forearm and digs it in deep as he slices the blade across her skin.
The taller one glares at the grounder cutting her when he switches sides and does the same thing again. The girl withholds each cry of pain until tears start rolling down her cheeks as he continues to cut her on each side. She hangs her head low, wanting to lean away from the grounder which only makes him angrier. A hard fist collides with her jaw and then the rest of her face. Blood starts to run out of her nose as he does it again. She starts to taste copper in her mouth when he punches her gut three times and she lets out a cry of pain.
"Keep crying, little girl." By the way his voice sounded, she could tell he was taunting her.
"Kieran, that's enough. The Commander would have your head." The taller grounder says, grabbing the smaller one's arm again.
"No, she won't, Gustus." The smaller one says as he tips up the girl's chin to make her look at them, "She's just a sky girl and one of the ones who helped kill our warriors."
The smaller one lifts up the girl's shirt, showing her abdomen before he makes two more cuts there. The girl doubles over in pain as more tears fall down her cheeks. The grounder pays no attention to the cuts as he kneels down and creates two new ones on her left leg before digging the knife into her right thigh until there was no more blade to go in, making her scream in pain. He takes it out but the grounder stops after he notices the black liquid flowing down her stomach when the girl falls down to her knees. He then looks at her arms and notices the same. His bloody knife falls to the ground as he stares wide-eyed at the blood.
"Natblida…" The two grounders in the room mumble to themselves as they watch the girl bleed.
The cell door opening makes both the taller one and smaller snap their heads towards it as a girl her age walks in, "What do you think you're doing, Lieutenant?" The green-eyed girl asks, not paying any attention to the dark-haired girl and the red sash behind her told the chained up girl that she held some sort of power.
"Her blood, Commander…" The smaller one points to the girl.
She sees the black liquid and stares in surprise but recovers quickly, "Out. I wish to speak with her alone." The girl with the red sash says, waiting as everyone scrambles out of the cell.
Once they were alone, the girl with the red sash comes closer, "What is your name?" She asks.
The chained girl was hesitant to answer, "R-Rory…" She speaks softly.
"Are there others like you?" The girl asks, pacing in front of her.
The chained girl furrows her brow, "Others...like me?" She asks, confused.
"Nightbloods." The girl says.
"I don't…" The chained girl then glances where the other girl was looking and realizes she was talking about her blood, "No...I'm the only one." She says, looking down.
The other girl nods before she calls the tall grounder back inside, "Take her down and put her with the other two. She is not to be harmed, understood?" She orders him, walking towards the cell entrance.
"Yes, Commander." The tall grounder says as she leaves.
He walks over to the girl, making her become frightened until he unchains her. The grounder picks her up when he sees she couldn't walk and takes her out of the cell to one five away from where she had been. The girl catches sight of two faces she knew as she feels relief flow through her. The grounder opens the door and carries her inside, setting her down against the wall slowly as he doesn't chain her leg up like the other two.
The grounder leaves and Marcus Kane is the first to speak up, "Aurora? Are you okay?" He becomes overly concerned about the girl when he sees the cuts and notices a bruise starting to form on her jaw.
Rory nods slightly while trying to hide her pain, "Just a few scratches." They both look at her like she was crazy after seeing the deep cuts all across her body, "Okay fine, I feel like shit. Fuck, Murphy wasn't kidding about how cruel they are."
"Maybe peace isn't an option if they're torturing our people, Marcus." Jaha says as he starts to break a stick he picked up off the ground.
Marcus shakes his head, "No. I still have to believe that we can live in peace." He says to Jaha.
Rory lets out a small laugh, "You sound like Clarke and Finn, Kane." The seventeen-year-old girl cradles her stomach when she tries to get more comfortable.
Their conversation is cut short when the cell door opens once more. Marcus stands as the grounder that carried her in walks inside with a few other warriors. Rory notices that he was wearing the red sash that the girl was. The warriors all glance at Rory before the grounder orders them to go over to Jaha. They start picking him up before punching him. Marcus tells them to stop but they don't listen.
"We came in peace." Marcus states as he looks over to the warriors still beating Jaha before turning back to the grounder, "We came in peace! Please!" He says more sternly.
Rory watches as they stop and hold Jaha up as the grounder looks over at a girl behind him that the dark-haired girl immediately recognized, "You speak of peace while you send an assassin into one of my villages." The tall grounder says.
"What are you talking about?" Marcus asks, stepping forward.
The grounder ignores his question, "Blood must have blood." He looks to Jaha before taking out his knife and pointing it towards them, "One of you will die. Here. Today. By the others hand. I will hear the terms of your surrender from the man who lives." He drops the knife onto the floor before turning to the girl.
"Fetch us when it's done." He moves to leave.
Marcus steps forward again but is stopped by the chain around his ankle, "And what about her?" He points to Rory, "Does she have to be a part of this? She's just a kid." He says, hoping that the grounder would see reason.
The grounder shakes his head, "She is a Natblida. No one will touch her. And no harm will come to her. Not even from you, or we would have your head." He glances over at the girl that came in who nods silently.
"What do you mean?" Marcus asks, wondering what the word meant.
But the grounder ignores him, leaving and both Marcus and Jaha glance down at the blade before looking at each other. Rory moves her attention to the other girl in the room when she pretends to limp over to her with a bowl and cloth in hand. Rory went to stop her and tell the girl that she didn't have to but the girl dips the cloth into the water before reaching up to clean Rory's wounds. The green-eyed girl cleans Rory's deepest wound, the one on her leg, and wraps a tight bandage around it. She felt uneasy that the girl from earlier was here with them, but she doesn't speak up as the green-eyed girl stares at her as if daring her to actually say something.
So Rory keeps her mouth shut as she lets the girl tend to her wounds while Marcus and Jaha sit back down in defeat, "Why did they call you that, Aurora?" Jaha asks.
"Don't ask me." Rory shrugs, just as confused as the other two, "And don't call me that." She sends a glare to the Chancellor, referring to her real name as she looks away from the men.
They leave it be afterward and Rory felt like asking the girl cleaning her wounds, but she had a feeling that she'd get no answer. Marcus starts to rub at his ankle again while he tries to get the cuff off and only succeeds in drawing more blood. Rory watches him struggle until the girl was done and limps back over to the wall across from her.
Marcus and Jaha both look back at the knife, "They want us to turn on each other." Jaha says to Marcus.
"They want justice." The girl finally speaks up.
Marcus grows angry, "Lives have been lost on both sides." The girl looks at him, almost ready to attack if need be, "That's why we need to end. This. War!" He takes off his jacket and throws it towards the cell door, making the girl flinch.
Rory notices, "Hey, dial it down a notch?" She suggests to Marcus before nodding over to the other girl, even if the girl had been faking it.
Marcus sighs before grabbing his boot to put it back on, sliding the cuff up his leg while Jaha gets up to walk over to the girl, "What's your name?" Jaha asks as he squats down next to her.
She doesn't reply right away and then looks at him from the corner of her eye, "Lexa." The girl says.
"Lexa." Jaha repeats and he watches her for a moment, "I'm Thelonious." He then turns to point at Marcus and Rory, "And this is Marcus and Rory." Rory was glad he didn't say her real name again, "Your Commander spoke of an assassin in..in a village?"
"Yes." Lexa spoke softly while Jaha narrows his eyes, "Eighteen of our people were murdered. Elders. Children." Her words make Jaha furrow his brows and look at Marcus.
Marcus sits forward and faces her, "We had nothing to do with that." He says.
"It doesn't matter. The Commander thinks you did." Lexa looks at Jaha, "One of you must pick up the knife." She pauses, "That is our way."
"And if we refuse?" Jaha asks.
Lexa looks at him, "Then the Commander will use it to slit both of your throats." She says.
Marcus glances over to Rory, "And why not her? Why did your Commander call her a...um.." He struggles to say the word.
"Natblida." Lexa finishes for him.
"Yes. What does that mean?" Marcus asks.
Lexa doesn't reply, not wanting to tell the other two one of the secrets of their culture. Rory sighs and hits her head against the wall softly, wishing that these grounders weren't so stubborn. She stares at the ceiling and wonders if the others were all right. She was worried about Raven the most as she remembers the state that the mechanic was in. A cold breeze passes through the cell that makes her shiver. Marcus notices and gets up, grabbing his jacket before putting it over her.
She mumbles her thanks as he sits back down and looks over at the knife, "This has gone on long enough. There has to be another way to resolve this." Jaha says when he moves from leaning against the wall and stands next to Marcus, "Something we haven't thought of yet."
"There isn't." Lexa states, making Jaha look over at her.
"She's right. They're not budging." Marcus says.
Jaha leans down to whisper, "We can offer a trade. These people are primitive. I've seen how they live. Our technology, our medicine. All we'd ask for in return is peace." He suggests, hoping the man before him would agree.
Marcus looks at him, "If we truly want peace...they told us how to get it." He says.
"Through murder?" Jaha says, nodding over to the knife.
"Through sacrifice…" Marcus whispers.
Marcus stands and walks over to the knife, leaning down and picking it up as he stares at it, "Marcus. What are you doing?" Jaha asks.
"If we don't make a choice...then we'll both die." Marcus looks over to Lexa, "And the killing won't end." He holds the knife in front of him before standing up and turning to Jaha, "There's only one way out of this." Jaha stands up as Marcus walks towards him before holding the hilt end of the knife out to him, "You have to kill me."
Rory stares at Marcus for a few seconds before looking at the knife, "You're going to sacrifice yourself?" Marcus glances over at her.
He nods and looks back at Jaha, "You have to do this. It's our only choice." He urges him to take the knife.
But the man shakes his head, "Kane, no." Jaha says.
"They respect strength. Let's show them ours." Marcus states, still trying to get Jaha to take it.
"I said, no." Jaha then lets out a sigh, "You did not order the massacre."
Marcus lets out a laugh, "Not that one." He says, referring to the ones they killed off before the flares were sent to signal that the 100 were still alive.
"Marcus, you don't need redemption. The choice we made on the Ark was about survival. We did what we had to so that the human race could survive." Jaha tries to make him see reason.
"The human race was already surviving." Marcus says.
"Then we did it for our people." Jaha says.
"Yes, and now we must do this." Jaha only shakes his head at Marcus's words, "It's the only way." Marcus says.
"Not gonna happen." Jaha continues to stand his ground.
"You're a good man, Thelonious." Marcus steps back, "I won't let you die for me." He proceeds to slit his wrist.
"Marcus, no!" Both Jaha and Rory move to Marcus as he falls and lets go of the knife while Jaha tells Rory to keep pressure on the wound before he looks at Lexa, "Help us, please." She doesn't move, "Please." Lexa looks over at Rory who pleads with her eyes before Lexa grabs one of the bandages.
"Come on, please." Jaha asks as Lexa limps over to them and hands him the bandage, "Thank you." He takes it and Rory removes her hand so he could start wrapping Marcus's wrist, "I told you, we didn't come all this way to die." Jaha says to Marcus before he looks up at Lexa, grabs the knife, and seizes her as he holds the blade to her neck.
"Thelonious, no." Marcus says while Rory stands up.
"Jaha, stop. You don't know what you're doing." Rory limps over to him, the wounds on her thighs reopening with every movement as she winces.
"I choose to live!" He yells at Rory and Marcus.
The guard hurries to open the door and the grounder from before comes running in, "Take off these chains." Jaha orders them while Marcus stands up.
"Thelonious, please. She's just an innocent girl." He tries to get Jaha to let her go while Rory stands off to the side, glancing between the grounder and Lexa.
"He made his choice." Lexa speaks up in the grounder language, "This one's mine." Rory didn't like the sound of her tone.
Lexa hits Jaha's face, making him lean over before she grabs his arm and pins him down as she disarms him. She holds the knife to his throat while he looks at her with a new found fear.
"Okay." Jaha nods and holds his hand up in surrender.
Lexa looks over to Marcus before getting up off of Jaha and taking the headband out of her hair, "I've heard what I needed to hear." She tells the three standing by the door.
"Yes, Commander." They bow to her as she throws the headband into the corner and turns to face Marcus and Jaha.
Marcus stares at her as the grounder and another take the knife and put on the red sash from before, "You're the Commander?" He asks as she buckles the sash.
Lexa stalks forward, "I have learned much about you. It's clear your intentions are honorable. Your desire for peace is true." Marcus nods in agreement, "Free him." She orders as a warrior comes to them with keys in hand, "Later we will talk. In the meantime, your friend will be used to send a message."
"No." Marcus says as the grounder that frees him holds a knife at his throat while two more enter, "No, stop." They start to beat Jaha again, "Stop! Stop, please!"
Rory steps forward then and pushes the two warriors away from Jaha, "Stop! He had no intention of harming your Commander! He wants peace as much as Marcus." The warriors glance over at Lexa who nods.
The warriors then grab Jaha, hoisting him up while the warrior that held Marcus lets him go and the other two watch as Jaha is dragged out of the cell, "The massacre must be answered. Blood must have blood." Lexa says as Marcus continues to watch Jaha go.
Lexa turns to the grounder from before and the guard standing next to him, "The Sky Nightblood rides with us. Let the army know we march to the Sky People's camp." She orders the two, leaving with the guard while the other nods and bows to her.
Rory tries to move away as the grounder comes to her, "Wait, no-" Marcus speaks up and tries to stop him, but the grounder simply shrugs him off.
The grounder grabs her arm and drags her towards the cell door, "Kane!" She yells and struggles against the grounder's grip until they arrive outside.
Several warriors were packing up around the village and shouting at each other. Rory stops struggling as the grounder makes stand before a large tent. They wait for a while with the grounder holding her while at attention until the tent flap opens. A dark-skinned female warrior walks out with a glare and she looks Rory up and down before sneering. The warrior walks away into another tent as Rory watches her leave. The tent flap opens once more as Lexa walks out, this time she wore clothing that made her look...well more like the title of Commander. Rory also notices the face paint and grows uneasy once more under the Commander's gaze when she approaches her and the other grounder.
"She rides with you." Lexa tells the grounder as she looks to Aurora, "You will ride with Gustus while we march to the rest of your people." The Commander leaves then as a warrior brings her horse to her.
Rory doesn't say a word even as Gustus brings his horse over and helps her up, getting on after her.
The army then leaves the village.
The warriors that took Jaha leave him on the outskirts of the Sky People's camp.
Jaha scrambles up the hillside once they disappear, "Help!" He yells, but there was no answer, "Help me!" He tries again as he hears talking above and two guards from the Ark rush over to him with their weapons drawn.
"Show us your hands." The guard orders as Jaha stands up.
He faces the people, showing his hands and walks by the guard, "Stand down." He says, pushing the weapon away.
He walks over to Abby and Clarke, "Thelonious?" Abby asks in disbelief as he walks slightly past her and falls to his knees while looking at the Ark.
"I have a message...from the Commander." He pauses to catch his breath while Clarke glances at him, "Leave...or die." Jaha closes his eyes as he continues to breathe hard, "We have two days. And Clarke..." Abby and Clarke exchange a look before the blonde leans down next to him as he opens his eyes and grabs her arm, "They have Aurora."
Clarke immediately stands up and looks at her mom.
What did they want with Aurora?
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