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His knees hit the ground as Octavia watched hopelessly and helplessly. Tears filled her eyes as she watched the man she loved talk to the monster of a man: Pike. Pike pulled out his gun and cocked it. Octavia's face crumpled as she prepared herself for Lincoln's death. She asked herself how this could have happened and tried to remember the good times.
Pike raised his gun to Lincoln's head, and his mouth moved one more time. Octavia closed her eyes and waited for the gunshot that would crush her heart and kill Lincoln. Suddenly, three shots rang out. A gut wrenching sob broke through her chest until she heard Kane gasp and felt him shake her. She yanked her shoulder away from him and snapped her eyes open. She saw Lincoln lying on the ground, but there was no blood. At least not around him; Pike, on the other hand, was lying in a pool of his own blood with an arrow in his chest along with three other guards in the same condition. This rest of the guards continued to shoot into the field beyond camp where the arrows came from before fleeing to the ship to regroup and formulate a defense against an enemy they couldn't see.
Out of the corner of her eye, Octavia saw a small form with a bow and quiver on its back sprinting through the field outside of Arcadia. When the form, who turned out to be a girl no older than seventeen with skin like Lincolns and long, crazy hair, got to the electric fence, she set out a device, clicked a button, and ran away from the fence throwing her hands over her ears and tucking her head between her knees. Then the device detonated, blowing a hole in the fence. She ran through the hole and directly for Lincoln. At first, a rush of fear rushed over Octavia which quickly dissipated when she saw the girl turn Lincoln over and check his pulse. He was unwounded, and as soon as he made eye contact with the girl, he wrapped his arms around her as tightly as he could with his hand on the back of her head.
This was like a knife to Octavia's heart. Who was this girl and why did Lincoln seem to...love her? Octavia looked to Cane who looked to be in shock.
"Come on. Let's go." Kane looked at her with disbelief. "What about Lincoln? Let's go get him! We can bring him to the cave."
"We'll leave a trail; it looks like they're busy," she spat as she watched the girl and Lincoln look around before running to the drop ship, the girl with her bow and him with a gun.
"He'll always find me." Octavia hoped that her voice was filled with hope instead of the despair that filled her mind.
While they walked away, Lincoln and the girl were running to the dropship and heading to the prison. When they got there, the guards were ready but not ready enough. Lincoln took out the guys who he knew were absolutely loyal to Pike first and when they were all dead, he demanded surrender. Lincoln and the girl faced wounds of their own. Lincoln had a gunshot wound on his leg, and the girl had one in her shoulder. The rest of the guards lay down their weapons. Lincoln locked them in a room and tended to the girl. She wrapped his leg while he patched his shoulder.
"Get ready to move out," Lincoln said to his people. When they were all ready to leave, they walked out into the common room, Pike's gun in the girl's hands. When they got to the common room, Lincoln shouted to get everyone's attention.
"Charles Pike kom Skaikru is dead," the girl yelled, throwing his gun forward. "If your people attack any more villages in the coalition, I will personally shoot you in the neck." And with that, the group turned to leave.
"Wait! Where are you going?" an unexpected voice asked. Jasper stepped forward which made the girl tense up. Lincoln smirked at the girls change and then turned to Jasper.
"To find Octavia. You're welcome to come if you want." Jasper shrugged, "Nothing better to do."
Lincoln grabbed the keys to one of the Humvees and started to get in the front seat.
"Wait! I brought horses. Jasper can drive the Humvee while you ride with me," the girl said while walking to the front of the camp, shooting Jasper a small smile over her shoulder, making him blush. Lincoln shook his head at her and nodded to Jasper, telling him to meet them at the front. When he got to the front he looked at the girl who walked towards him with two horses. When she got to him, she handed him the reins to the larger horse and kissed his cheek.
"I can't wait to meet her," she said with a wink. "Who?" Lincoln stuttered out.
"The girl who has brought light to your eyes and a smile that rivals the sun to your face. I just hope that she deserves you."
They both mounted their horses and waited for Jasper. After he pulled around to the front, they took off. Lincoln easily found the trail his Octavia had left him, and it was pretty easy to follow. After riding for about an hour, they came across a cave.
Lincoln dismounted and handed his reins to the girl to tie to a tree. When he started walking into the cave, he heard a voice.
"Jasper, stay with them; we're going in." Lincoln turned his head towards the girl who was apparently going in with him. He gave a questioning glance to the bow in her skillful hands.
"What? This could be a trap. I'd rather risk the chance of looking foolish than be shot without even having a weapon in my hand." Lincoln laughed at the girl beside him and took a good look at her. She looked older and fiercer than the last time he had seen her. Her hair was longer, but it wasn't braided which was strange for her. Her paint resembled his, but he noticed that it also had influence from a certain Heda with whom she was spending her time. At least before she was killed by her flame keeper.
They walked into the cave as a united front and were met with guns.
"Told you so," muttered the girl who had raised her bow. As soon as the people in the cave saw Lincoln's face, they lowered their guns. After a few seconds, and Lincoln's warning glare, the girl rolled her eyes and lowered her weapon. The first face he saw was Octavia. He approached her with his hands out, but she rushed past him with a growl. He turned his head just in time for him to see Octavia pin the girl against the wall with her hands constricting on her throat.
"Who is she, Lincoln? Is she your second girlfriend?" Octavia growled out while choking the younger girl who looked furious. The girl's hands were balled up at her sides, and if looks could kill, Octavia would be long dead. The girl's teeth were barred, and she looked ready to kill which took Octavia back. However, her resolve stayed strong, and she tightened her grip on the girl's neck, forcing a choking noise from her throat.
"What? O, are you crazy? Let go of her. Sweet Jesus, what is wrong with you?" Lincoln griped Octavia around her waist and pulled her away from the girl who stayed against the wall, trying to contain her anger.
"What's wrong with me?! What is wrong with you? You come traipsing through here with a new woman who you seemed pretty fond of back at Arcadia! So you tell me, Lincoln, do I sound crazy to you?" Octavia had tears in her eyes, and Bellamy who stood close by, ready to defend his sister, looked furiously at the girl on the wall.
Lincoln grabbed Octavia's face, "Tavia, one, I could never love anyone the way I love you. You are my everything, and nothing will ever change that. Two, even if I didn't know you, I wouldn't be able to love her like that." At this point, Octavia looks skeptical, and the girl looks smug.
"I'm confused. What do that mean?" Octavia demanded.
The girl stepped in, "It means that if you ever get married, we'll be sisters." Octavia's eyes got the size of dinner plates. Lincoln chuckled.
"Octavia Blake, I would like you to meet my sister, Kathleena kom Trikru."
Level 1: passed. And Lincoln did not die. He gets to move on to the next level with his sister XD! Have an amazing day, week, month, year! See you guys later!