Octavia was out of breath, running beside Indra who didn't seem affected by the fact that they had been running for a while. They finally found the prisoners they were looking for, fighting reapers. She screamed and fought, going through the crowd easily. She recognized a few faces but she didn't stop running. She had her own mission. She had to find her brother.
That was it. She reached a corner. Bullets were flying everywhere. He was there.
"Bellamy!"
He looked over his shoulder but didn't move. "Octavia! What are you doing here?!"
Grounders were arriving too. The one with bow started to shoot when they could.
"Saving your ass" She looked in the other corridor before stepping back.
The mountain men weren't far, but no one was moving. She looked around before grabbing a shield from a grounder.
She ran towards the enemy, shield raised, screaming like a lunatic. In the end she let herself slide on the floor, shield on the top of her. A few mountain men fell and in an instant she was moving around, slicing and cutting any body part she could reach.
Quite a few followed her, hand to hand combat wasn't something the mountain men expected, added to the projectiles. A few minutes later Octavia slit a throat, searching for another adversary she found none. She stood tall among the grounders.
"Don't do that ever again!" Screamed Bellamy.
She smiled "You have to admit. That was cool!"
"Cool?! I nearly had a heart attack!"
"I'm a warrior now. That's what I do"
He shook his head and grabbed her arm. "No, no, no"
Bellamy was ready to face another mountain man, he was surprised when the hand felt on him belonged to a grounder.
He looked at his sister who just turned her head to the side. He clenched his jaw as he let go.
"We'll talk about this later"
"There is nothing to talk about. This is who I am now"
"You are my little sister"
"And I'll always be. I'll just kick ass too now"
He rolled his eyes. He wasn't sure how to deal with it. Like most of the time with his sister.
His radio went on. It was Jasper.
"Bellamy you need to get out asap"
There was not one second of rest damn it. He turned around and started to walk towards the exit. He just had to follow the long line of people. Octavia by his side, at least that was it. "What's going on?"
"Clarke has been hurt"
He looked at Octavia and without a word they started to run.
Marcus could see the light. That was it. They were out. He looked down at Clarke to see that she had lost consciousness. Crap.
He looked to the side. The sky people running with him looked as if they were about to drop.
His eyes hurt as he got out. He blinked a few times, eyes barely opened for a minute. He couldn't stop. Not until he reached a healer.
He called for one. As loud as he could. Turning around on himself to located one. A man signed to him. A few seconds later he reached the treatment tent. Wounded were being taken care of.
As soon as he got in he found a bed, gently lowered Clarke into it and took a step back.
The sky people entered too, bending over to breathe. They were weak, though he didn't expect them to keep up for so long.
He watched the healer work for a second.
"You have to save her"
"Her wounds are critical" He started to look in his pouch and Marcus had a bad feeling about this. The warrior pulled out a knife and held it to the healer's throat.
"Her fight is not over. If she is not breathing when I get back I'll skin you alive. Now. Where is the sky people's healer?"
The healer gulped "She is detained behind the last lines, with the commander"
He waited just enough time to be sure the message was clear before he grabbed one of the sky boy by the shirt. "Monty right?" The scared boy just nodded. "She does not leave your sight. I have to find your …doctor"
He was out. Grabbed a horse and galloped has fast as he could. Clarke couldn't die he was starting the like her. That and the heda was going to have him killed in a very painful way if her lover was to die.
He found the detainment tent and jumped down. Giving orders to get another horse. Walking in her found the woman he was looking for sitting in a chair surrounded by five fellow warrior.
"She is coming with me"
Abby got up as soon as recognize the grounder in front of her. He was her daughter's bodyguard.
A hand on his chest stopped him as he took a step forward. "She is not to move. Heda's order"
"The sky princess need this healer. Either let me pass or die" He glared hard as he tried again. This time no one stopped him. He grabbed the woman and put her across his shoulder and was on the move once more.
Head upside down the doctor huffed as she was treated as a rag doll. As long as he was taking her to her daughter she could deal with it. She just needed one thing. "Wait wait wait! I need my bag! Medical supplies!"
Lexa was standing as still and tall as she could looking at that fucking door. The mountain men weren't moving. They knew they couldn't open it. That was without counting on the sky people.
One was drilling a hole in that door. They would insert a bomb and blow it away. Sky people's style.
Once it was in, they would all back away. This was bound to be huge to break this door.
She sighed and looked around. She wished she could just walk away. Even before she had heard about the people getting out of the mountain.
She wanted to be part of the rescue mission, not a decoy. Clarke was in here. But it was more than just about the blonde. She couldn't back away until everybody was safe.
A big part of her wanted revenge. Blood must have blood was their way.
She froze when she saw Marcus, a woman thrown across his horse. He was going back to the mines it would seem. Something was wrong. She pulled her shoulder blades together, tensing without showing any sign to the outside.
Then she was screaming orders. She needed updates. She needed to know what was going on. Where was that Raven woman and her radio?
Bellamy and Octavia stopped as soon as they got out.
He turned to his sister. "Great. Now where to?"
"Healer's tent"
"Right behind you"
"Ah…" She looked around and he rolled his eyes.
"You don't know where it is" Stated Bellamy as he looked around. His eyes landed on a familiar face. "Echo? The healer's tent?"
She had obviously been taken care of in a way or another. She was wearing clothes. She look at him as she heard her name and pointed in a direction.
They went this way. Octavia commenting "Echo? Really that's a weird name"
"Grounder"
"No. I meant. It's weird, even for a grounder's name"
Bellamy didn't reply. Running and speaking were not his forte. It didn't seem to be a problem for his sister.
They were on the right track. Wounded were treated everywhere. Prisoners and warriors alike. Their blonde was nowhere to be seen, until they entered the tent.
"Clarke!"
Bellamy let himself fall to his knees beside his friend. Monty was standing there and Octavia went to stand beside him. "What's going on?"
"The healer is doing his best. A grounder went to get Doctor Griffin" Octavia nodded. She watched the healer change the cloth he had put around the blade to slow down the bleeding. Clarke was very pale, her breathing was weird.
The healer was sweating, shaking and mumbling to himself. This was bad.
They all jumped as something was dropped to the floor. Well…someone. The doctor looked around and was by her daughter's side in flash. She grabbed a knife from the healer and freed her hand. She couldn't be a mother. She had to be a doctor. She looked at the blade. She wasn't sure how to pull it out without an x-ray.
She took a deep breath. She could do this…in this unsanitary environment.
"Everyone who is not needed here has to step out"
She was sanitizing her hand with towelettes she had brought with her. She saw the healer look up at Marcus before breathing out and looking at her.
Marcus grabbed Bellamy who wouldn't bulge and pulled him out. The others were already outside.
Bellamy finally freed himself and got up. Dusting himself off, he complained. "We talked about this already. You can't just manhandle me like this"
"No. You said that. I deal with you as I see fit"
"Clarke would not agree to this!"
Octavia had never seen her brother like that. He was turning purple, obviously angry and frustrated with this grounder. They were arguing. Not for the first time obviously.
"So…who is that?" Octavia asked.
"That's Marcus. Clarke's personal bodyguard"
"Or as she called me. I'm his teddy bear" Marcus said, pointing at Bellamy while smiling at his shocked sister. Bellamy groaned as he put his hand above his eyes.
"Someone needs to pick up" Raven's voice was heard. Bellamy frowned as he grabbed his radio.
"What's going on Raven?"
"That's the question I have to ask. The commander spotted something that got her all riled up. She wants to speak to Clarke"
There was a pause during which Bellamy looked around at his friend. "She can't …talk right now"
"Bellamy…"
Octavia sighed and took the radio from her brother's hands.
"Is the commander with you?"
"No, she is giving orders. The door is about to get blown up"
"Listen. I don't know if we should tell her, but Clarke was stabbed during the battle. It doesn't look good"
"Shit. I don't want to be the messenger who tells her that!"
"Then stall"
"I don't know if lying to her is better…"
Octavia was annoyed as the other kept making signs she didn't understand. She turned around and jumped "Shit! Indra…"
"The commander cannot know her lover might die. We are about to walk into battle. Probably the most important we've ever fought. The commander needs to stay focused. We can't take that risk"
"Raven. Indra tells you to wing it" They all heard a groan coming from their receiver before their friend spoke responded.
"Fine. But if she kills me when she learns the truth, that's on you! I'll haunt for the rest of your life"
Octavia rolled her eyes. "Just tell her we got everybody out"
"She already knows. We are to get back in the mountain. We are going to attack on both fronts" Told Indra as she exchanged a look with her second.
"Raven…I need to go. Just…do what you can"
Octavia handed the radio back to Bellamy who just pushed his sister's hands away.
"Keep it. I'm taking Clarke's. We need to be able to reach each other once inside"
"We do not have time Octavia of the sky people"
Indra was on the move, so her second was right behind her. Bellamy by her side.
Jasper was going to follow when Monty grabbed his arm.
"What do you think you are doing?!"
"I need to make sure Maya is safe"
"And what do you think you'll be able to do?"
"Anything. I can't just leave her to die"
Monty sighed as he watched his best friend leave too. He looked up at the grounder who hadn't moved. "You are not going with them?"
"No" Was all Marcus said. He couldn't leave Clarke.
"Octavia? Octavia?! You b…"
"Any news?"
Raven jumped as she heard the commander's voice right behind her. She was so scared she let go of her radio and clumsily caught it before it could smash against the floor.
"Commander! You scared me!"
"Obviously. What did you learn?"
"They got everybody out"
Lexa didn't have to speak again for Raven to continue "I couldn't reach Clarke. Octavia told me she was…busy"
"You are not telling me everything you know Raven of the sky people"
Raven gulped and took as step back as the commander was getting closer.
"You'd better speak true" Lexa put her hand on her knife's handle.
"I don't know anything useful" Raven was trying to look as sure of herself as she could. She jumped once more when a loud boom was heard and the ground shook.
"They were not supposed to do it now" Was all Lexa said as she got out in a hurry. Raven behind her saw a big smoke column coming from the mountain.
Lexa was running in an instant. Giving orders as she was going. Making sure her people were ready and in position.
Protected by shields the first warriors were advancing. They were being shot at instantly.
Everybody took cover. They couldn't move without being shot down.
The enemy had taken position right by the opening, covered by the smoke. She wondered where they were to have a good enough view of them to be able to shoot.
She could see her warriors falling. That would not do. She barked a few orders and was on her way. Soldiers following her.
Eyes barely opened due to the smoke, she was walking forward, silently signing to her warrior how to position themselves. They had found the mountain men, and they were wearing masks. Most likely why the smoke wasn't a problem for them.
As soon as they shot by arrows, the mountain men stopped shooting at the rest of her army. She saw a few of her men drop. She knew they were too heavily armed. If they were to attack on foot, most of her warriors would die. She needed to make them run out of ammo.
That's what they did. Hiding behind tree, using the smoke to their advantage, until the mountain men shot less.
They had no choice but to attack then. Arrows were covering them. One side moved, then she did with her men.
In a blink of an eye she was had her sword out and was cutting though men with ease.
She was barely breathing had when it was over. She had felt the shift in the air. No one was fighting anymore. A few mountain men where moaning on the ground.
She knew the ones wearing the suits were going to die. They didn't matter. The other were to become prisoners. One dare tuning towards her.
"Commander! Commander! I have a deal to offer! Commander!"
She moved her head to the side, signaling to her warrior to let him speak.
"We can offer you peace"
"You can offer your surrender"
"We are well armed, organized…you'd lose many of you own"
"What is your offer?"
"Hand us the sky people and we'll have a long lasting peace between our people. Without losing any more lives"
Lexa was glaring at him. "You took them in as friends before betraying them. Now you want me to do the same. Dishonor myself"
"Try to convince yourself of whatever you want. Now that their leader is dead, there is nothing stopping you from a peace with us"
"Their leader? What do you mean?"
"We have been watching you. We know she was your lover"
"Was…"
"Our cameras caught one of your men carrying her body outside the mines"
She couldn't think. She just reacted and planted her knife deep in his shoulder.
"You lie"
"You know I don't! They didn't even tell you! What does that tell you?! We could…offer you peace, medicine…anything"
"If you speak true. Then her blood is on your people's hands" She twisted the knife and he screamed. "And we will destroy your kind. Then we will have peace"
She pulled out her knife. Wiped it on his clothes before putting it back in her scabbard.
"Get the prisoners to camp"
She couldn't run back to camp. She couldn't look as desperate as she felt. She walked back.
Screaming at her warriors to get ready. They were going in. She just had to make one stop before that.
She walked in, at a furious pace, in her tent, pulling her knife out and holding it at the sky girl's throat.
"Did you lie to me?! And know that if one more lie passes you lips it will be your last"
"I'm sorry I lied but I couldn't…" Raven next word got stuck in as she felt the blade move closer. The commander's hand were white because she was holding the handle so hard.
Raven gulped and looked into the commander's eyes once again to watch her blink rapidly.
Was she restraining herself from crying? She could see more than anger in the green eyes in front of her. She understood, the commander was devastated.
"We thought it wasn't the best moment to tell you"
"So your people wanted to manipulate me?! What did you think I would do after learning…her death?"
"Death?! No, no! Clarke is not dead"
"I told you not to lie"
"I'm not! I swear!"
"She is not dead?" The question was asked in a strange tone as the commander took a step back.
"No. She is hurt. Badly. And we don't know…So we lied. We thought you didn't need it on your mind now"
Deep down Lexa knew that if Marcus had grabbed the annoying doctor, it had to be important. She just didn't want to listen to that too familiar fear. She couldn't lose Clarke.
She took a deep breath.
"All of this will be dealt with once this battle is over"
"We…" Raven shut up at the glare she was getting before the commander walked out. Blood must have blood.
Inside the tent Raven had suddenly gotten religious and was prying to whoever was listening to keep Clarke alive. She was the only one who could keep the commander in line.
All that was left were the door was supposed to be was a big hole.
The first warriors were getting in, shields raised. Lexa was a few rows behind, looking everywhere for trap or any sign of danger.
It was strange, they were progressing slowly, but they didn't come across a single human being. Spreading around. Checking every room. No one.
Level after level they did the same thing, until they reached the 4th floor.
There was a flash of light and when she heard the loud detonation Lexa was already in the air.
It took her a moment to get her bearings back. She raised herself slowly off the floor. She looked around, a loud ringing still in her ears.
An explosion. The people in front of her protected her from the blast, but they weren't so lucky. Some were groaning, others were screaming.
There was a lot of blood, some dismembered body parts…the blood smell was covered by another she wasn't familiar with. Probably whatever caused the explosion.
She groaned as she got up. Swaying a little as she got back on her feet.
She couldn't lead her people to be slaughtered. She gave a few orders to step back to the end of the corridor. And they were to bring to her the sky woman, Raven.
Warriors were running putting up some kind of barricade while Lexa was setting temporarily post in an empty room. From the door she looked as the wounded were taken out as quickly as possible.
Raven was pacing in the commander's tent as three masked grounders walked in, covered in blood. Two of them grabbed one of her arm each while the other was walking behind them, carrying her bag and radio.
She struggled. She didn't want to die.
"What's going on?! Where are you taking me?! What…!"
One of the big guys pulled on her arm to shut her up. "We are taking you to the heda"
That didn't reassure her, but she stopped fighting anyway. It was pointless.
Raven was pushed unceremoniously into a room. Bag and radio pushed into her hands. She let out a groan as they did so.
She froze when she turned around. The commander was talking with a man.
Raven waited a moment. After no reaction from the woman of any kind she cleared her throat, only then did Lexa turn around. Deadly serious.
"Raven of the sky people. Clarke told me once you were some kind of technology expert"
Uncomfortable under their stares she replied awkwardly. "I wouldn't use the word expert b…"
"We did come across any enemy until we reached this floor. They have bombs. How can we walk passed them?"
"Bombs? What do they look like?"
"Small, round. They throw them at us"
"Grenades. I can't really help you with that"
"We need to move forward" The commander took a step towards her as she said that.
Thinking fast Raven asked "You said you didn't see anyone until now. Did you find anything that looked like a command room?"
The commander frowned at her words so she felt the need to explain. "A room filled with computers and screens"
The commander nodded and gave orders in trigedasleng. A man walked out. "We'll find such room. I need you to contact Bellamy"
She followed the commander's sight to her radio. That she could do.
"Bellamy come in?"
She waited for a few seconds before she heard her friend's voice. She couldn't reply as the commander grabbed her hand.
"Where are you?"
"Commander? Wha…"
"Don't make me repeat myself"
"We barely got in. The door was not as easy as we thought to break"
"We are facing the enemy on level four. They are using…grenades. Progress carefully"
Lexa handed back the radio to the sky woman while Bellamy "Copy that" before enquiring about something else.
"Can we speak to the mountain men using your radio?"
"Ah…Yes"
"Get to it"
"Just a sec. What will you want me to say to them?"
Raven asked as she changed frequencies.
"Just make your machine work. I'll do the talking"
Raven nodded once she was done. Pushing her hand under the commander's mouth. The radio was ready.
"This is Lexa. Commander of the army inside your mountain"
They waited a few minutes before finally hearing someone.
"I am President Cage Wallace. What do you want?"
"Offer you a chance to survive"
"We are well protected"
"Starving isn't a good death"
"We have enough supplies"
"To last a while. We are not giving up. And I am to understand that once we manage to find our way to you. You'll all be killed by radiations. Will you be the one to bring your whole kind to its end?"
Silence ensued. Nothing for a long time.
A Warrior walked in. Informing the heda that his mission was complete.
"Can we move and be in the contact at the same time?"
"Sure" Raven was feeling a little less tensed after understanding she wasn't in trouble.
"Then follow. We found the room you were looking for"
Raven followed the commander until they both walked in a room Surveillance room. Instantly the sky woman was on the move. Typing away on a computer. The screens booted.
Lexa looked up as she saw corridors represented on the walls all around them.
Smiling Raven said. "We have eyes everywhere"
"Can you see their men?"
The camera moved, again and again. The tech stopped when the 4th floor appeared.
They could see the mountain men. All of them wearing their usual blue suits, heavily armed.
"What else can you do from here?"
"They have access codes. I'm a tech. That's not my area of expertise"
"You can't do more"
"I'll try but someone else could do more. If we can manage to get control here, we could do pretty much everything"
"Including opening all doors?"
"That…that would kill them all"
"Can we do it?"
"I can't"
"Can one of the sky people do it?"
Raven froze, she didn't know if she liked the implication of what she was hearing. She jumped when the commander hit the table. "Can one of you do it?!"
"Y…yes"
"Who?"
"The one I know would be…Monty"
The commander just moved her head while looking at one of her warriors for him to move.
"I want to speak to them again"
Raven nodded and presented the radio to Lexa again.
"President. We are going to open every single gate in that mountain"
"As if you primitives could"
If she took offense it didn't show. "The sky people walk with us. And they want your blood just as much as we do"
There was a long pause again.
"If we were to surrender. What would be your conditions?"
"Commander! Their soldiers are walking!" Exclaimed a grounder's warrior.
Lexa looked up. The mountain men were starting to move closer to her soldiers.
"I'm not sure I am willing to spare your people anymore. Seeing as you are treating me like a fool by ordering your men to attack again"
Lexa took the radio from Raven's hand before putting it down on the table.
"What can you control on the level they are hiding on?"
"Not a lot can be controlled on level 5. Maybe…lights?"
"Turn them off"
Raven did as she was told but still asked. "Why are we doing this?"
"They need to know we are in control now"
Their fight had been going on for a while. The grounders were organized. There was just a few mountain men soldiers left. Monty was stalling. The commander wanted him to get access to everything. He knew if she knew he already had she'd tell him to do something terrible as Raven had informed him.
Another enemy fell. Raven picked up the radio. "Commander. Only two soldiers left on your floor. Things are a little more complicated for Indra"
It seems they expected them to get in through the mines.
"Tell your friend to cut off something more or open the gates. I know you are stalling"
Lexa was looking up straight at the camera as she replied on the radio.
"She can't be for real. Right?" Raven turned to her friend as she asked. The look Monty gave her told her what she needed to know. She sighed as she leaned over his shoulder.
"What can you do that would be enough? Oh…"
"Yes. I'll cut their ventilation system"
It didn't take long. A few minutes later Cage was speaking on the radio.
"Commander I didn't think you would be so cruel let us die in the dark, suffocating"
Lexa was with her men in a corridor. "I didn't think you were arrogant enough to lead your people to such a place"
"What do you want?" The president sounded defeated.
"Call back your men. Every person who's been healed is to step out and I'll see what can be done about your people"
"You give me no guarantee"
"I guarantee, if you do not obey you'll know what it's like to be buried alive"
Lexa looked up at the camera once more, until she heard Raven's voice once again. "The soldiers are backing away"
Less than half an hour later four men were walking out.
Warriors by her side Lexa didn't move. She remained silent as she watched them walk up to her.
"President Cage Wallace?"
The man in front of her nodded. "Commander"
"I'm surprised you kept your word" She couldn't say what she was really surprised about. He was willing to give his life for his people. Something out of character from what she had heard from the sky people.
He didn't comment and just glared. So be it. "Search them and tie them up"
Once their hands were tied behind their backs Lexa picked up the radio. "You are good to go. And let Indra know. We guard them but I need her out" She knew Raven and her friend would understand.
The commander walked out the mountain, head held high, prisoners in tow. Every warrior they came across stepped aside to let them pass, soon they were hitting they weapons against anything that would make some noise, creating a stop metallic beat.
When they finally got outside, they started to chant "heda" in synch with the beat.
They didn't have time to build a proper cell. The mountain men they had captured were ordered to sit down in a pen. Guards were positioned all around it.
Lexa didn't really stopped as she dropped off their new prisoners. "If they try to get one finger out. Cut it off"
She was on her way again. She needed to go on the other side of this front as fast as she could.
A few generals behind her. She was organizing a counsel that would start as soon as Indra would arrive.
Alone for this, Lexa slowed down for a few seconds as she saw the healer's tent she was looking for. Marcus was there.
Glaring, her pace was getting angry, furious by the time she reached him.
He took a few steps back as she was getting closer. He was scared but knew he deserved whatever was coming.
Lexa punched her warrior as hard as she could in the face before moving behind him in a swift more. She hit the back of his knee, making him fall, her blade was against his throat instantly.
"Yu gonplei ste odon"
"Hey!"
Lexa looked up still glaring. Clarke's mother was in front of them, barely out the tent it would seem. Lexa wasn't moving. She looked around. Not one of her people seemed surprised. The sky people on the other hand were all looking at her with wide eyes.
Abigail Griffin had blood on her hands and clothes. She seemed exhausted but she was still standing up to her. So much like Clarke sometimes.
"His duty was to protect Clarke. She is seriously injured and he is not"
"He is the only reason my daughter is still alive"
The two women looked at each other for a second before Lexa pushed Marcus forward as she took a step back and a deep breath.
"How is Clarke?"
"Critical but stable" Replied the doctor as she started to look at Marcus wounds. Right there.
"Will she live?"
"I…I don't know. We can only wait now"
Lexa nodded and started to pace. "The mountain men surrendered. Clarke wanted me to spare the innocent"
"And you will, won't you?" Abby asked.
"I shouldn't. They'll remain a threat. They think our lives are worthless. And with no blood, they'll die, no?"
"We can surely work on something" Abby didn't really know how to react to that side of the commander.
"My people will not give their blood. And the mountain men will hunt every single one of you as long as they are trapped in that mountain"
"It seems you've already made up your mind"
"I have. I can't spare them. Every single person in that mountain knew what they were doing to my people"
"What about the children?"
"This is why I am here"
"If you seek forgiv…"
"No. I have a questions"
"Then spit it out. Many people need my help" A healer had stepped out the tent to bring her bag. The doctor was sewing Marcus up.
"I want to use the mountain men treatment on the children"
Abby stopped as she heard that. She wasn't sure she was understanding. "The process kills my people"
"I know. This is why I want to use the mountain men. The ones who are already cured"
Abby thought about it as she was finishing taking care of a cut. Once the mountain men bodies metabolized it completely…
"I'd need you to do it. None of my healer could"
"You want me to kill these men"
"Either way they will die. My people will want their blood"
Abby stood up. "How many soldiers do you have? And how many children would need the bone marrow?"
"Does it really matter?"
"Don't you feel a thing?!"
"This is not about my heart" Lexa glanced at the healer's tent. "I'm doing what's best for all of us"
Maya had been chosen to be their mediator. Announcing to mountain people there wouldn't receive any kind of treatment anymore. The grounders were not willing to give willingly what had previously been taken by force. And there wasn't enough bone marrow for everyone. Lexa wanted to know how they would react to the news.
When the remaining mountain people understood what was to happen there was a rise. They started to fight among themselves. A few were killed before they agree, the survivors would be chosen by lot. The only ones aloud to put their name had to be under the age of fifteen.
Maya had been offered the definitive treatment. She had refused. Which got her into an awful fight with Jasper. In the end he stole a vial and injected the girl with it.
The commander barely slept after they had conquered mount Weather. She had a terrible headache as she was watching a tied up Japser being scolded at by Maya.
"Enough!"
Lexa looked at Indra was seemed eager to hit one, if not the two teens.
Jasper didn't back down. "I did what I had to. She deserved to live"
"That was not your choice to make!" Exclaimed the mountain girl.
"We should just get them both drilled and save more children" Offered Indra.
Lexa had thought about it. It was a very painful process. She couldn't punish Maya for she had done nothing wrong. Jasper had to be disciplined one way or another.
Where were the sky people she had requested for this?
Just as Lexa sighed Kane walked in.
"Sorry. Abby was supposed to come but Clarke woke up. I think someone should be here to plead young Maya's case too"
Who cared about that anymore?! Lexa got up from her throne instantly.
"Clarke is awake?"
Kane glanced at the others in the room before replying "She woke up for a few minutes. She was in a lot of pain. One of your healer gave her something local to help. She drank and fell asleep pretty fast after that. About the situation here…"
Lexa wanted to deal with it and fast. She had so many things to do, and she wanted to be by Clarke's side the next time she was to open her eyes.
"I think Maya should be spared. She didn't know what Jasper intended to do"
Kane nodded "I agree. We are willing to take her as one of us. If that's okay with you"
"Fine. From now on, she isSkaikru" The commander looked at Indra. Her general looked as angry as usual, but didn't object.
"The other one is the problem. He disobeyed orders. Stole from your doctors and a child will die because of him. These offenses are punishable by death"
Jasper eyes grew wide as the commander said that. It was Maya who stood up for him.
"No! You can't just kill him!"
"I think Indra was right. We should take his life and use his…bone marrow to save the ones he condemned"
Jasper was shaking his head from side to side as he took a step back. Indra grabbed her sword's handle.
Kane saw it and put his hand on the boy's shoulder.
"Commander. He is part of the sky people. He should be judged by his own"
"His crimes occurred within this alliance"
"Yes, but it was not against any of your people. His crimes are against the mountain people"
"He stole medicine to give it to her"
"Stole if from our doctors"
Kane was calm as ever. Just like Lexa.
"Our justice should have common grounds" Said Lexa as she walked closer to the sky man.
"I agree. When it regards both our people"
"What would be your punishment for what he did?"
"It's not only for me to decide. But I think…. he'll probably be lashed"
The commander nodded before looking at Indra "Let it be known, his crimes weren't against our people"
Her general walked out in a huff.
Lexa gave looked at Kane in the eyes before walking out herself. She could barely walk three feet before being called, again. "Heda! We have a problem!"
Clarke was never left alone in the healer's tent. Marcus barely left her side but he was never on his own.
Octavia was sitting next to her, talking quietly with Lincoln.
While Lexa was sitting on the other side of her lover, watching Clarke's chest rise and fall. She was breathing, she was alive.
It had been three days. Lexa had crisis after crisis to deal with and Clarke had woke up without her here. To make it worse, it was way more than once. A healer had explained to the sky people what kind of plant could be used against the pain. At least the commander knew Clarke wasn't hurting.
Octavia's voice got suddenly very high and loud. "What?!"
Lexa glared hard at the young warrior. An exchange couldn't take place then as the blonde mumbled something, even if her eyes were still closed.
Lexa froze for a second, it wasn't a problem for Octavia.
"Glad to see you are still with us"
"Urgh. Shut up O. Don't make me hurt you"
Octavia snorted. "As if you could"
Clarke finally opened her blue eyes to glare at Octavia. "I need more muscle to frown than to slap you. Don't tempt me"
"You need to rest. If you want someone hurt, I'll do the maiming"
As soon as she heard Lexa's voice Clarke turned to her. "Hi"
"Hey. I'm so glad to see your blue eyes again " Which was the part of her that won, not the one that was worried to death and angry at the stunt she had pulled.
Clarke let out the goofiest smile Lexa had ever seen on her face. "My little raccoon!"
Lexa would deny what happened next for the rest of her life. She blushed. She had told the blond she could call her that only in private. Octavia snorted and the commander glared.
Clarke looked at Octavia when she made that noise. "I wouldn't do that if I were you, annoying raccoon in training. The raccoon in chief looks like she is about to have your head"
The blonde said it as she would a whisper, but it was loud.
Octavia couldn't help it anymore and laughed out loud. Lincoln eyes were wide, as soon as he saw his commander move, he pulled his lover outside.
Lexa could still hear the sky woman laughing very hard outside the tent. So she screamed "Shof op!"
The laughing only got louder. Lexa closed her eyes for a second. If Octavia spoke about it to anyone, she'd just have to kill her.
Lexa sighed as she looked at her very high lover. At least the plant had a strong enough effect on her. She was definitely not in pain anymore.