I was so happy to see that I got so much positive feedback 3 Thanks to everyone that reivewed, followed and favorited my story. Of course there will be Bellarke, I won't make you guys wait too long.

I'm going to switch between Clarke and Octavia because they're the two main characters in my two biggest plot lines.

Octavia's POV

"So what's this secret deal that you made with Lexa?" I asked Lincoln.

Despite the fact that Indra had stripped my status as her second, and the fact that Lexa had banned Lincoln again, he had struck a deal with Lexa to let me and him back after he brought her Cage's head. He still hadn't told me the details yet, but I was going to find out sooner or later whether it was from him or not.

"She told me that if I could find Clarke and convince her to come back, we would be forgiven," he scoffed at the word 'forgiven'.

Forgiven for what? Wanting to make peace between our people? Not abandoning my own brother? It didn't matter whether or not what we did was wrong, if we didn't make amends with the Grounders, they might kill us on spot if they ever see us again. They were Lincoln's friends and family, it was all that he knew. I knew exactly what it was like to be hated and ridiculed by your entire people. I was the girl that was never supposed to be born, had taken up extra food and supplies. I might as well just shot oxygen straight into space, that's how useless they thought I was. Unlike me, Lincoln had been respected and loved by his people...I could only imagine what it was like to have all that taken away. If there was a way to get that back for him without sacrificing anyone or our morals, I was all for it.

"So I'm assuming you found Clarke," I said.

"Yup." He answered curtly. He wasn't big on talking while walking. Something about keeping a lookout for danger while in the woods. Although now that the Mountain Men were completely gone, we only had nature to worry about.

"Where do you find her?" I asked.

"Walking around in circles," he said. "She was pretty out of it."

There was another thing that I felt bad about. Giving Clarke crap for not doing a good job as a leader. She wanted so much to believe that the Grounders and our people could get along almost as much as I did. What she didn't know is that saving their own people was much more important to the Grounder's than the alliance made with the Sky People, I had learned that after spending so much time training with them as Indra's second. The Grounders had been fooled by Lexa just as much as Clarke and I had. She did everything that I would have done in her position, so I had no right to tell her. I could only imagine what Bellamy and Clarke were going through after they had aradiated level 5 at Mount Weather. Obviously, Clarke would do anything to save our people...even kill off an entire other civilization.

"What do you think is going to happen between our people?" I said. "Do you think it's going to be a full on war again?"

"I don't know your group that well, but if you did what Lexa did to you guys, the Grounder's would definitely backlash," he said. "It's really up to your people."

'My' people. To be honest, I didn't really have a people. The kids from the drop ship was the first time that I had ever really been social with anyone but my mom and brother. Unfortunately any guy was afraid to come within ten feet of me with my brother giving the death look. Then I felt at home with the Grounders, but now that was gone. And going back to the people that jailed me just for being born...that didn't sound like a fairly tale to me. The only way for me to be happy, the only place that I could be happy, was with Lincoln. We were two people, both ousted at one point by our people, had hope for those very same people to get along and wanted nothing more than peace. We were the post-apocalyptic version of Romeo and Juliet, except (even when we thought that the other might be dead) our story wasn't going to end in double suicide.

"I think for now they're going to be too busy trying to recover from all the shit the've been through," I said.

"With winter coming, there's no time for a war," he said.

I had been cold before, but it was getting colder each night. The word 'winter' meant nothing to me so far since I hadn't experienced it yet, but according to Lincoln there was a lot of death during this time, especially if people hadn't collected enough food during the fall. Despite so many cons about winter, I was looking forward to the first snow. I guess it'll be along the same lines of seeing the moon or the sunrise for the first time.

"Do you know how much farther it is?"

We'd been walking for three days. At least I knew that we were going somewhere this time and we weren't going to stay in the woods for the rest of our lives.

"You said two and a half days," I reminded him. "It's been over three."

"That's how long it takes me," he said. "With all the breaks you take and how long it takes to wake you up..."

What can I say? I can sleep soundly on the ground now that I'm not afraid of being floated just for being alive like on the Ark. Not to mention, I still wasn't used to walking around in a space bigger than my cell on the Ark prison.

"Okay, okay," I said.

I looked at the hill ahead of us. We were at the bottom of it. Well, I was. Lincoln was already hauling ass almost halfway up it. He had such long legs that I had to run in order to keep up with him. At the top of the hill, I saw something unfamiliar. There were lights at the bottom of the hill and not the glowing kind.

"What is that?" I asked

Lincoln wrapped his arms around my shoulders. "That is Polis."

Just a reminder, Polis is the capitol for the Grounders, just in case you forgot.

Thanks for reading :)