We Remain- Chapter two

Clarke POV

"Can you see her?" I asked Bellamy anxiously. We sat behind a large bush, just outside the grounders perimeter.

Taking the binoculars down from his face he frowned at me "we just got here princess. Give me a second."

Monty who decided to follow us was chatting away unknowingly to himself, "I always wondered how I'd die. Going out with a bang had always been the plan. Not a gun or anything, but something people will remember.

I rolled my eyes spinning around at him, "Quite will you, do you want to be spotted."

Turning back to the grounder camp I tried my best scanning the tents for any clues where Octavia and Lincoln were being held, but the glare from the torches kept distracting me.

Frustrated I took the binoculars Monty was failing to use. "You're holding them the wrong way" I couldn't help but notice the slight blush that suddenly appeared on his cheeks.

As I lifted my hand up to wipe some dirt off my face I noticed my left hand was covered in dried blood. "There's a river on the other side of the perimeter, I'll go wash my hands and check the other side of the camp while I'm there."

Bellamy nodded, "Bring Monty with you, it's Grounder city here and you need some back up."

I was slightly offended that he thought I'd need protection, but I didn't mention it. Instead I stormed off ahead in hopes Monty got the picture that I was not interested in partnering up.

5min later:

Closing in on the small river I could hear something to the left of the river and ducked behind a huge tree that had obviously fallen during a recent storm.

Peering over the tree stump I could see a small figure by the water wearing a worn out rag as a coat of sorts. Her petite arms were out of the rags scrubbing her hands vigorously, and seemed to be sobbing. Instantly I felt bad for the girl. She reminded me of myself the night I killed Finn, I rubbed my skin raw that night trying to remove blood that was already long gone.

I was so memorised by the scene I was surprised when the girl looked up. She didn't see me but I saw her and I was shocked to find it was Lexa. Her facial war paint was gone and her eye's were filled with tear's. She looked nothing like a commander, only a young girl. Her eyes usually looked like daggers when she was in commander mode but here by herself and unguarded they looked so innocent almost like a childs. This was lexa not the commander.

I'd seen glimpses of this Lexa but never to this extent and it made me gasp which was a huge mistake as I saw her whole demeanor change the instant she realised she might not be alone.

Not hanging around to be found out I bolted in the direction of Bellamy and Monty.

"Hey princess, you didn't take long" Bellamy frowned as soon as he caught sight of me.

"We have to go," I said quickly. Bellamy and Monty simply looked at me like I had two heads. "NOW!" I demanded.

Octavia POV

After meeting with the Commander her bodyguard who I now refer to as 'asshole' made his way back though the celebration feast with me still flung over his shoulder. We then passed multiple tents until he stopped in front of one with what looked like a metal pole in the middle and another guard wearing a freaky mask out front of the flap.

"In" he spoke in Trigedasleng, dropping me on the ground.

"No problem asshole" I responded sarcastically. But quickly made my way inside hoping Lincoln was in there and to my delight he was.

There he was tied to a pole in the middle of the tent. "Octavia?" he whispered.

Tripping over my feet I crawled my way towards him as quick as possible and grabbed his face in both my hands, noticing the bruises on his face. Rage filled me as I stroked his right cheek that seemed to have been spared of any injury. "What did they do to you?"

Clarke POV

Once we made our way back to the camp we made with the 20 people from mount weather we were out of breath, but that didn't stop Bellamy who turned on me. "What the hell was that, princess" he said in a accusing tone.

"Like I told you I went to the river but when I got there I noticed Lexa was there…"

He cut me off "Lexa? You mean the commander?" he asked confused.

"Yeah, what's the difference?" I responded slightly defensive.

He shared a look with Monty who had his eyebrows raised "Nothing, just seems kinda personal to use her name."

"Well it's not" I snapped back.

Before Bellamy could say anything else Raven was in front of us. I noticed she had stopped crying and the puffiness in her eyes had gone down. I felt guilty I wasn't the one who had been crying, I just lost my mum but the truth is I felt I lost my mum a long time ago, probably when I found out she had my dad killed.

"So what's next" she asked looking behind me then frowned, "Where's Octavia?"

Thankfully Bellamy stepped forward "There's been a slight set back."

It was close to Dawn when Monty, Jasper and Raven joined Bellamy and I by the small fire. As they made themselves comfortable I looked around noticing everyone else were still asleep.

Jasper was the first to speak "It weird you know, all being to together again. It's the same but different ya know?"

Monty nodded "It's Finn" he explained. Apparently word of Finn's death had gotten out already.

I smiled sadly at Finn's name, when we stayed Camp Jaha no one spoke his name. Why would they though, to them he was just another arc prisoner and a screwed up kid. They didn't know him like we did.

Raven trying to stir away any conversation about Finn spoke up. "We need to start moving before someone finds us. There's…" before she could continue Bellamy cut her off

"I'm not leaving without Octavia," he said with conviction.

Throwing her hands around Raven snapped back "I never suggested that, but daylights coming and you need to get back out there."

Exhausted I added "Raven's right Bellamy we can't wait till tonight we need to get Octavia and Lincoln now."

"How we going to do that after last night, the commander has probably ten times the amount of grounders guarding the perimeter and going out in broad daylight is suicide."

"I have a plan" I responded.

So I decided to stick with my original plan and make this a Clexa.