Hi everyone! Chapter 3! I hope you like it. Thanks again to all of you that are following the story. Thanks again to my "editor" without you I couldn't be doing this!

Well, back to the story... please comment, give ideas, write whatever you like to cheer me up and motivate me :) It helps me to write the next chapter faster :)

Abby was pacing around the operation room while Marcus was sitting on a chair, looking at her with worry. Clarke had just told them what Lexa had explained to her, even the trip and the visit to Polis to meet the Grounder Council. Bellamy sat on another chair, looking lost in his thoughts. All of them were analyzing Clarke's words in their own way. For them, it was a difficult decision to make, but not for Clarke, she knew it might be the only option. She was tired of war, blood and suffering. She didn't trust Lexa anymore, but she wanted peace and safety for her people so bad that she was willing to go through it, and confront the Grounder Council.

"What if this is a trap?" Abby asked after a while when she stopped pacing.

"I don't think so mom, you saw it for yourself, Lexa almost died fighting. I think this time she is right…" she was cut off.

"Are you defending her?" Bellamy asked a little shocked when he returned from his thoughts.

Clarke sighed. "No, I'm not, but I think that it's a solution that doesn't involve blood and war, just a meeting with a Council." Clarke answered to Bellamy with determination.

"The Grounder Council Clarke" her mother reminded her finally looking at her.

"I know, but, what else can we do? Wait for the Ice Nation and its allies to come here and kill us all?" the blonde said raising her voice, standing up from her chair and hitting the table with her hands. "Their army is huge, you told me that mom. They would eat us up alive! So, any of you have a better idea?" Nobody said a word. "Well, the decision has been made. I'm going to Polis with Lexa". She stated.

The meeting continued for two more hours. They finally decided that Clarke would go to Polis, but not alone, Bellamy and Marcus would go too. They also decided that Octavia and Lincoln would go with them, as guards. Bellamy wasn't very pleased of the idea of her sister going, but he knew that she was a great and well trained warrior now, and she would want to go no doubt. After the meeting, they spent the afternoon doing all the necessary preparations for the journey, as well as Lexa and the two grounders that would go with them, one male and one female.

They journey to Polis was a one day trip, but they knew that a few grounders armies would be camping near the most known paths, so thanks to the commander's knowledge they took longer but safer paths.

The first night they set camp on a clearing that they found between the trees that usually surrounded them. They had enough tents for everybody. Octavia and Lincoln would share a tent while Marcus would share with Bellamy and Clarke would have a tent for her own. They sky people observed that the grounders just had one big tent, obviously the commander's tent. They wondered where the others two grounders would sleep. With the moon and the stars above them, they ate dinner in silence, and they quickly went to sleep after that. Everybody was entering their tents when the two grounders posted themselves at the entrance of the commander's tent. There was the answer, the grounders wouldn't be sleeping at all and they would be watching the commander's tent.

That night, Clarke was having a nightmare, always the same. What Clarke didn't know was that most of the nights she ended up screaming in her sleep. The nearest tent from Clarke's was Octavia's and Lincoln's. They both woke up because of the screams, agitated. Octavia then realized that the screams were coming from Clarke tents and she decided to go and see what was going on. She didn't see Lexa just leaving her tent and so when Lexa saw that Octavia was entering Clarke's tent, she stopped.

"Clarke, Clarke, wake up!" Octavia shook Clarke's shoulder.

Clarke woke up panting and sweating. A moment later she focused her view on Octavia. She was still breathing heavily. She suddenly hugged Octavia and tears started to go down from her eyes. Octavia hugged her back, rubbing her back.

"I'm sorry Octavia, I didn't meant to…" Clarke tried to apologize while she was releasing a little her hold on Octavia.

"Don't worry Clarke…" the young woman smiled at her. "Were you having a nightmare?" she asked still rubbing the blonde's back.

"Yeah… I…" she didn't know what to say to the brunette. The last time they had had a real conversation was inside the tunnels of Mount Weather, and she was very upset with her. "Octavia…" she looked at her with pain in her eyes "you don't have to do this… I know that I've not been your favorite person for a while now…" she lowered her eyes to look at her sheets.

Octavia was silent for a moment, staring at the blonde. She finally spoke. "You know… for a while… yeah, I was pissed off with you Clarke… I couldn't believe that you trusted Lexa and let TonDc be destroyed along with all the people who died there. But… I get it now… thanks to you and Bellamy all of us are alive… I get that you did what you have to do…" she pushed gently Clarke's jaw so she could look at her. "And as far as I can see, the decisions you made are still haunting you…"

"I see them every night Octavia…" Clarke whispered, tears in her eyes again. "I see all those kids… all those blistered bodies… Maya… I can't put away all those images no matter how hard I try…"

Octavia hugged her again. "You need to forgive yourself Clarke…" she whispered softly. She just stayed there hugging her friend and trying to comfort her. After a while, Clarke just felt asleep in Octavia's arms, and she gently laid Clarke on the bed again, letting her sleep. When she got out from the tent she saw the commander standing in the entrance of her tent. She gave Octavia a sign to approach her. Octavia obeyed.

"Is she alright?" asked the commander with an expressionless face.

"Yeah, she is sleeping again, I think she will be alright until morning" reassured the young warrior.

"Good, I don't want our enemies to hear noises and coming to us" the taller girl said before entering the tent.

Octavia stared the tent for a moment, wondering if that was her only reason for asking about Clarke's state.

The next morning the dismantled the camp in silence and continued the trip. The tension between the sky people and the grounders was obvious. Lexa and her warriors always at the front, and the rest of them just behind, following them. So it was a surprise for all of them when Bellamy rode where the female grounder was and started to talk to her. She stared at him for several moments and then she talked back to him. Lexa didn't seem very surprised for that though and she said nothing about it. Echo had told her about the brave sky boy that tried to help them back in Mount Weather. The both of them continued the trip riding side by side, chatting.

It was nightfall when they started to see a large and huge city full of firelights at distance. They could see a variety of buildings, with different colors and different shapes. It seemed to have no end. The more they approached it, the more the sky people were in awe. When they reached the doors of the city all of them were speechless. There were no guards or warriors, just people walking from one place to another, laughing, chatting and smiling. Parents with their children walked freely, merchants in their posts, most of them gathering their goods in order to go home after a long work day.

They entered the city still on their steeds, making an entrance. When people realized that her heda was back, they started to come closer and greeting the commander with bows and chanting "heda". Quickly, they had to stop riding, and they dismounted the steeds and in no time somebody took the horses in order to take care of them. More and more people started to gather around them, greeting their heda but also looking with strange looks at the new people who had arrived. Suddenly, a little girl with brown hair approached Clarke, with happiness and awe in her blue young clear eyes.

"Skai heda?" the little girl asked shyly.

"Sha" Clarke answered smiling, watching the adorable girl in front of her.

"Mochof" the girl said before giving Clarke a quick embrace. Then the girl said a few sentences in trigedaslang that the blonde didn't understand, giggled and ran away.

Clarke stood there for several moments, in trance, without knowing how to react, confused. All the sky people seemed confused too.

"She said thanks to you she got her brother and father back. She doesn't feel fear anymore because she knows that the mountain men are gone" she had gotten closer to Clarke when she spoke. Clarke almost jumped from her skin when the brunette approached her, she didn't hear her getting closer to her.

"But… why?" Clarke was still stunned.

"They know that you defeated them Clarke… everybody knows…" Lexa explained. "You don't know how many have their loved ones back or how many have lost their loved ones by the mountain men's hands" Lexa tried to speak emotionless. "And now, for the first time in 97 years, they feel safe…" she looked around, watching all the people, all her people. Clarke could see how Lexa's eyes shined for one second. "Kandia will guide to you where you will be staying. Tonight we rest, tomorrow we will meet the Council." And just with that she walked away, followed by her guards and by a lot of the citizens, adoring her.

A smiling and cute grounder suddenly appeared in front of them. She had black braided hair, gentle eyes and she was wearing a brown long cotton dress with a white belt. Clarke and the rest of them, except for Lincoln, were still stunned and open mouthed by everything around them. It took several moments for them to react and follow the girl.

Sorry if there is not much Clexa action, but I have the feeling that things between Octavia and Clarke needed to be fixed, so I focused in them first. What do you think?