The legacy you left with me
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Chapter three
As soon as I said that a knock was heard on the door and my mother poked her head in. "Clarke, ten minutes are up" I look to my mom then back at Ontari "Hold on one second, I'll be right back" I told Ontari as I exit the room to see my mother standing with Miller. "I need the keys now!"I say holding my hand out towards Miller. Miller looks confused and my mom just looks over at me. "Clarke, what are you doing?" she asks. With my hand still out towards Miller I turn my head to address my mother. "I'm going with her mom; I have to do this if we want to avoid a war and more bloodshed." I then turn back to Miller "So give me the damn keys, or I will make you give them to me!" Usually I wouldn't threaten my friends like that, but time was not on our side. I guess I can also blame the day I have been having and the rise in hormones from being pregnant. Miller doesn't argue and hands over the keys with an "I hope you know what you're doing."I take the keys and go back in the room.
I walk over to Ontari and unlock her cuffs, "we have to move now!" I grab her arm and start to lead her out of the room. Once out we make our way, with my mother in tow to the secret passage that will lead us outside of Arkadia. I open the cover and go to crawl in when I'm stopped by my mother "Clarke, you can't be serious" I just face her "I have too mom" she just studies my face and sees how determined I am. "Fine, then I'm coming with you" she says leaving no room for debate but I try anyways "mom…" but my mother immediately cuts me off. "No, Clarke you're pregnant and it is not just about you anymore. So I'm going to make sure that you and the baby are safe." We continue to stare at each other until a voice breaks the intense silence between us. "p…pr..pregnant?" We both look over at Ontari who is sporting a look of shock along with something else I just can't place. Before I can think more of it an alarm sounds. Knowing that the guards just discovered Ontari had escaped and that we were running out of time, I give into my mom. "Okay but we have to go now." I let my mom climb in first, then Ontari, I then climb in and replace the cover. We follow the tunnel until we are out of Arkadia.
Once out I turn to Ontari, who is just sort of staring at me in a sort of trance. "Now what?"I ask. Pulling her out of it "I have two horses up over the hill; we will ride to Polis now." We start making our way up to the hill. We then come across two horses tied to a tree. Ontari mounts one while my mother and I mount the other. During the ride no one speaks, Onarti seems to be distracted by her thoughts and mom and I have nothing to talk about. We ride for some time, when the exhaustion from the day hits me. It wasn't until my mother felt my stomach rumble that she speaks "How about we take a break for the night, it's starting to get dark, and Clarke should rest." Ontari seems to come out of her thoughts then and nods. We stop and make camp for the night in a little clearing in the woods. I get a fire going and mom sets up the tents, Ontari leaves to search the perimeter to make sure we are safe. Time passes and my mom decides to go to bed, also being exhausted from the day's events. I am sitting by the fire by myself when my stomach rumbles again.
"Here" I look up and see Ontari, in her hands she is holding some dried meat and berries. "You should eat, it's not good for the fyucha (baby) if you don't" she says as she once again offers me the food. "Thanks" I say as I take the food from her hands, I put a piece of meat in my mouth. I almost moan at how good it tastes, and quickly go to put another piece into my mouth. Ontari just gives me a small smile and goes to sit on the other side of the fire, going back into thought. I continue to eat until Ontari spoke once again "the fyucha, it's hers isn't it, the past commanders" I swallow whats in my mouth and look down at the fire, I give a small nod. Ontari goes back to being quite looking out into the woods surrounding us. "You don't seem surprised" I say. She continues to look out into the woods "the past commander did many great and surprising things in her life, this is no different." "Lexa" I say bitterly, she turns to look at me "excuse me" she says confused. "Her name was Lexa, you always address her as the past commander, she was more than that." I say the last part quietly, as images of Lexa pop into my head, memories of her at her most vulnerable moments, where she wasn't the commander but was just Lexa.
As I think about it my hand unconsciously drifts to my lower stomach, where there is a small unnoticeable bump and covers it. If only she was here. Ontari watches me do this. "For most of my life I was raised to hate the past com…..Lexa by the Ice Queen, it is hard for me to call her by anything other than heda, even now that she's….." She suddenly stops and looks away. That last part though caught my attention. What was she going to say? I continue to ponder until she speaks again. "It's late Wanheda, you should rest" right when she said that I release a yawn, my exhaustion finally taking over. "Okay", I get up and go over to my small tent, as soon as I lay down I fall asleep.
Another shot goes off as I run to the door, suddenly I stop in my tracks "Lexa!" She looks at her hand covered in black blood as it bleeds through her shirt; she then looks at me, as she comes to the realization of what just happened. "no..no!"I scream as she falls over and hits the ground.
"No!"I scream as I pop up from the ground, breathing heavily from the nightmare I just had. If only it was a nightmare and not a memory of one of the worst days of my life. Shaken, I walk out of the tent. "Nightmare?" I look over to Ontari who was sitting by the coals of the once raging fire. I nod my head as I try to get my breathing under control. She soon gets up and walks over to me. She hands me her canteen filled with water. "Here this should help" I take the canteen and drink from it greedily. "thanks" I say handing it back to her, "Why are you up" I ask as she moves to sit back down by the coals. "I also had….dreams" she says, I move to sit next to her. We sit in silence until something from earlier today pops into my head. "Can I ask you something?"I ask Ontari who just nods her head. "Earlier today I asked why you came to warn me of the attack, you said you had your reasons, what are they? Why are you protecting me?" we sit there in silence for a while and right when I think she is not going to answer, she sighs "because…"she turns and looks me in my eyes "Lexa told me to."
AN: well what did you guys think? did you see that coming? next chapter will be in a day or two!