Hello there lovers of all that is The 100 – God I love this show and couldn't contain myself any longer. Wee little plot bunnies have been hopping around for a while and they finally woke up the muse. So here goes.

So this takes place S3 after E7.

'What happens after Lexa is killed'

I thought it might be a one shot but I can't just leave it like this …..can I?

**Formerly titled Aftermath - but there are now several with that title, so I changed it. ** didnt not change the chapter titles 'cause thats a lot of work :)

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"Octavia why do you keep looking behind you"? Indra asked as she watched the young warrior/woman, who was once her trusted second and now her friend, again look behind her into the distance.

Octavia signed "I guess I keep thinking that Clarke will show up. I don't understand decisions she's made but she's always put SkaiKru first. Maybe she's not who I thought she was. I thought if she came back to Arkadia with me that she could get them to hand over Pike and stop this war."

"Sometimes it seem that War is all the 12 clans know; it is how we have survived" Indra rode slowly looking straight ahead "This war of the clans has been brewing for a long time. I am not sure that even Clarke kom Skaikru could stop it."

"I know but at least Clarke could have….." Octavia thoughts were cut off when Indra stopped and raised her hand for silence. Octavia didn't question her mentor but just listened, they both looked behind as they heard a rider approving. Octavia drew her sword and Indra her dagger as they turned their horses towards the rider.

A lone horseman raced towards them "Hod op Indra kom Trikru" "Hod op!"

Indra lowers her dagger "it is Mikal kom Trikru. He was under my command before being chosen to serve Heda. While we have nothing to fear from him, his coming here can only be a foreshadowing."

Octavia lowers her sword but does not sheath it.

Mikal rides in fast "Indra, You must return immediately and you Octavia kom Skaikru you must get to Arkadia if you wish to live."

Indra's face hardens "What has happened, the blockade doesn't go into effect until dawn."

Mikal pauses and looks from Indra to Octavia and back to Indra "Heda, Lexa kom Trikru is dead Ticha"

Octavia sheaths her sword slowly as the words penetrate 'dead, dead? The coalition will fail without Lexa. What will that mean for Skaikru. For my friends' she thinks to herself.

Indra is shaken but always the warrior she puts aside emotions "How?" she asks sharply.

The Capital Warrior sits a bit taller and glares at Octavia "Wanheda. She killed her."

"No!" Octavia shouts "No. She wouldn't…. she couldn't" Octavia wasn't sure of the relationship between Clarke and Lexa but it was more than just leaders, friends at least, maybe more "Clarke couldn't, if you are Clarkes friend she will die for you, not kill you." She said to Indra.

Indra turned to her fellow Trikru warrior "Tell us what happened."

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Nate Miller stood watch in the Guard Tower overlooking the gate to Arkadia. As Sergeant of the Guard he was responsible for the duty Guards and for maintaining the security watch. The turret stood higher than the surrounding walls and provided him with an almost 360 degree view. Arkadia backed up to a mountain range to the East and to the North but to the West and South faced the valley with wide open spaces. Guard regularly patrolled the mountains but the tower was the main defensive position in what might have started as a small community but was rapidly becoming a fortress. A prison.

He pulls the binoculars up to his eyes and scans the surrounding valley; he then lowers them and squints, then pulls them back up and yells to the guard on the ground.

"Rider coming!"Miller calls out.

Lou, a guard from farm station yells back "Who?"

"Don't know but we'll find out soon enough they're coming in fast" Lou starts barking orders to the other guards and Miller hears the distinct sounds of weapons being made ready.

Looking again through the binoculars Miller watches as the rider approaches, riding fast and laying low over the back of the horse. Miller is puzzled; this rider is smaller than most grounders and with long black hair flying out behind her…..wait …Her? He looks again and hollers down to guard "Wait hold your fire, get Bellamy, get him NOW."

Bell comes running out of the command center "What's up Miller?" he calls up to the tower.

Nate climbs down from the ladder to face his friend and unit leader and in a quiet muffled voice says "It's Octavia, she's coming in hot and headed right for the main gate."

Bellamy tries to hide his surprise and turns towards the gate as Miller grabs his arm "If you let her in, Pike will kill her."

Bellamy looks down at Millers hand holding his arm and glares in to his eyes.

"Bellamy that's your sister" Miller says harshly through his teeth as he releases his grasp.

"Open the gate" Bellamy orders. As the gate opens he steps out and puts up his hands and grabs the horse as Octavia jumps off.

"O you can't be here" Bell speaks quietly "Pike knows you're working with Kane and that it was you that helped the grounders in the village, ….wait what happened?" he asks as he touches the bruises on her face "who did that to You?"

Octavia looks at him, at the brother she trusted but no longer knows "the grounders, the ones whose village you attacked" Octavia was stoic and stood her ground "Let me in Bell, I need to see Abby."

"O you can't, Pike will have you arrested" Bellamy watched his sisters face and felt a sudden chill, a damp cold creeping through his body. Something was wrong, very wrong. "O, look at me, tell me what's wrong."

Octavia shook her head as her eyes filled and a tear threatened to escape "No" she said looking him in the eyes "Abby needs to hear it first."

NO! Bellamy screams in his head. 'No No No the words matching his now racing heartbeat. He takes Octavia by the arm and walks through the gate, everything seems to be moving in slow motion; there is no sound and nothing looks as it did only moments before. There's no color. Anywhere.

Miller motioned for the guards to close the gate as Bellamy turned his head "Get Abby" he said to Miller "Have her meet us in the council room and find Kane too, she'll need him."

Miller's eyes met Bellamy's and then he looked at Octavia's face and knew. "God no" He muttered to no one as he sprinted towards medical.

"Bellamy?" Octavia said looking up at her brother who still held her arm dragging her toward the Ark.

Bell shook his head "Don't."

They walk into the council room just as Pike and his second in command Hannah Green, walk in "Well Bellamy, good work" Pike said, "I know this must be hard for you but where did you find her?"

Bellamy doesn't answer right away and he doesn't look at Pike "She walked through the front gate."

"So she turned herself in, well she might just be the key to getting some intel on Kane. Take her to interrogation."

Again Bellamy didn't answer and doesn't move, Pike narrows his eyes "Son I told you to take her to interrogation."
Bellamy looks up at Pike, he never noticed before but when Pike called him 'Son' it was demeaning. It didn't feel the same as when Kane said it.

"She needs to speak to Abby. It's important." Bell finally let go of his sisters arm and sat her in a chair.

"Bellamy I gave you an order. Now I don't know what's going on here, but…."

"Miller said Octavia was here" Abby's entrance interrupted Pike as Miller escorted her & Kane into the room. As she looked around the room she knew something was wrong "Octavia are you ok? Do I need to take you to medical?" she took Octavia's face in her hands, looking at her cuts and bruises, if taking her to medical would save her from Pike Abby would do it.

The young dark haired woman looked up sadly at Abby "No. but I have news from Polis and I wanted you to hear it from me."

Abby's face fell and her mouth went dry as she sat down suddenly "About Clarke?"

Octavia nodded her head. She looked around the room "I don't know where to start. The commander issued a blockade around Arkadia as retaliation for the attack on the village 2 days ago; they were planning to start arriving by this afternoon. Thousands of warriors with a kill order for anyone caught outside the gates."

"Were? What changed?" Pike asked.

"The commander…." Octavia paused and took a deep breath "…Lexa was killed this morning. Indra and I were riding here to tell you about the blockade when a messenger found us. Indra went back to Polis while I rode here."

Bellamy felt relief rush through his body as he let out the breath he had been holding since he walked Octavia through the gate and thought to himself 'it's the commander that's dead, Lexas dead… not… His thoughts were interrupted.

"There's more" Octavia said "Clarke is the one that killed her, she shot her."

"What?!" Abby exclaimed.

"How? Why?" Kane asked taking the seat next to Abby.

Octavia paused "I'm not sure, the messenger said there was a fight" she pause….. "But Abby" Octavia put her hand on Bellamy's arm, as if to brace him and looked at Abby, "When it happened, I imagine it all happened very quickly but….. Oh God…. Titus Killed her. He killed Clarke" Octavia began to cry softly as Abby stood up quickly only to find her legs wouldn't hold her and she collapsed into Kane's arms.

Pike slowly sat down in the chancellor's seat and took a deep breath "Octavia I know this is hard but can you tell us what happened?"

Bellamy heard every word his sister was saying but very little of it registered. It was as if all the air had been sucked out of the room, he couldn't breathe, and he couldn't make his eyes focus. 'What was wrong with the floor' he thought, it was moving; he felt a gentle hand on his shoulder as Miller helped him in to the chair next to Octavia and relieved him of his rifle. 'They'd lost her. He'd lost her, he'd lost Clarke. Forever.'

Octavia wiped her face on her sleeve, took a deep breath and remembered all that Indra had taught her about strength & courage. "Apparently Clarke had found out that Murphy was charged with stealing and being held in the capital."

"Murphy?" Kane asked "Murphy was there? Are you sure?"

She nodded "Yes, He had stolen something with the symbol of the Commander on it and that's punishable by death, something the city guards usually handle, but Titus found out that Murphy was a Skaikru so he questioned him about it."

"You mean tortured don't you?" Miller said.

Octavia shrugged "I don't know, probably" she continued "The report is that Clarke found out where he was, freed him and took him to her room, I guess she was going to help him escape, but Lexa and Titus walked in and there was some kind of a fight, Clarke had her gun and said that she and Murphy were going to leave and as she backed towards the door a guard rushed in and her gun went off and the commander was shot."

Pike got up and starting pacing the room as Octavia continued.

"Titus drew his sword and according to the messenger 'defended his commander buy cutting off the hand that held the gun. Murphy tried to stop him but all that got him was killed. Titus ran him through….and then …." she could no longer hold back the tears that rolled down her cheeks "…then... he killed her. I'm so sorry Abby, I'm so sorry. I tried to get her to leave with me" Openly crying now Octavia reached over to take hold of Abby's hand as Miller stepped in to put a hand on her shoulder, Pike stopped his pacing and with his back to the table he looked up offering prayers for two more that the Ark lost at the hands of the Grounders and no one notice Bellamy slip out.

He didn't know where he was going, he just knew he had to find some air; he walked out of the Ark and across the grounds. He didn't see the faces of his friends, all he could see were bright blue eyes: he didn't hear them as they asked if it was true, he only heard Clarkes voice and all the times they fought: he didn't see Jasper follow him towards the gate, he didn't see Harper hold off the guards as he opened the gate and walked out, he only knew that he had lost her, his brave princess was gone and now nothing mattered. All they had fought for, all the sacrifices that had been made it was all meaningless now. He needed air…. why couldn't he find air. He needed to find out who was screaming ….. and he needed to make them to stop.

Jasper knelt beside Bellamy and put his arm around his friend and let him scream. He was joined by Monty who sat on the other side, then Harper and Raven and the few that were left of The 100. They surrounded their friend and leader and they did their best to be strong for him. Because that's what Clarke would have done.

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Oh so yea I could leave it here….but where's the fun in that. Tell me what you think. I appreciate honesty but don't be harsh, I'm a delicate flower.

CE