A/N: Hi! Thank you guys for the reviews! I appreciate it and I'm glad you are enjoying this story so far. Anyways.

REPLYING TO REVIEWS:

AmaraJoy: Rory is 17 but is two months away from turning eighteen at this time.

NoSocialLifeHere: How Rory became a Nightblood is explained a little after A.L.I.E. comes into the storyline (like more towards the end when Clarke goes into the City of Light). It ties into Bekka.

Without further adieu:

I only own my OCs and this storyline, the dialogue and events from the show belong to their respective owners.

Sentences like this in quotations are grounders, or anyone, speaking in Trigedasleng. Other sentences in the same form are thoughts.

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SEVEN: The Missile

The 12 clans and Skaikru all gathered in TonDC for a meeting to finally take the battle to the mountain.

But Clarke Griffin was in a hurry on her way to the village with not so great news. The Mountain Men were going to bombard the meeting with a missile to cripple their army. Lexa was speaking with Marcus when the blonde leader arrives with a grounder flanking her.

"Clarke of the Sky People has honored us with her presence." Lexa says.

"I'm sorry I'm late, Commander." Clarke looks around for Rory, hoping to apologize for yesterday after some thought later that night.

Lexa sighs, "She's out with a few warriors." The Commander says.

"Well, you made good time." Marcus decides to change the subject, "I assume the kids at Mount Weather are okay?"

"For now." Clarke looks from Marcus back to Lexa, "Can we talk in private?"

"Yes. This way." Lexa turns around.

She leads Clarke into the building that would have held the meeting, but it would be postponed as the blonde tells the Commander of the missile.

"A missile?" Lexa questions, "You're sure?"

"Yes. We have to start evacuating now." Clarke says, ready to run outside and yell at everyone to leave.

"No." Lexa states, shaking her head.

"What do you mean, no, Lexa?" Clarke asks.

"If we evacuate, they'll know we have a spy inside their walls." Lexa states the obvious.

"Not necessarily." Clarke says with the raise of her brow.

"We can't risk it." Lexa shakes her head and turns away to walk over to the table.

Clarke moves over to her, "What's the point of having an inside man if we can't act on what he tells us?" She asks.

"Is the acid fog disabled?" Lexa questions her, "Is our sleeping army uncaged?" Clarke shakes her head, "Then Bellamy's job is not done. Without him, we can't win this war."

"So what're you saying?" Clarke asks, confused, "We just do nothing? Let them bomb us?"

"It'll be a blow." Lexa pauses as she glances around the table, "But our army will be safe inside the woods. And it will inspire them." She says.

Clarke steps closer, "And what about us?" She looks around, "What about Rory?" She questions, knowing how much that Lexa and her people were so interested in her.

Lexa almost wanted to consider running out there to find the dark-haired girl and bring her with them, "We slip away." She turns to Clarke, "Right now. We can't afford to have anyone else find out. Rory will just have to wait." The Commander grabs two cowls, "Put this on." She hands one to Clarke.

"Lexa wait, you don't understand." They start walking towards another entrance, "I provoked Mount Weather. I sent a message to distract them from Bellamy." She states.

"Clarke, sometimes you have to concede a battle to win a war." Lexa says.

"No." The blonde pauses as she thinks, "We can inform the leaders of the clans. Pick a rendezvous point in the woods. Each of them can slip out separately." She suggests.

"And how many more people will they tell? Where do we draw the line?" Lexa asks.

"Well, then cancel the meeting! Start a fire, something!" Clarke yells.

Lexa turns to the entrance, "Clarke, we don't have time for this." She starts walking.

"No, no." She catches up to her and grabs her arm to make Lexa turn towards her, "This is wrong." Clarke says.

Lexa steps up to Clarke, "It's also our only choice, and you know it. You could have warned everyone out there, but you didn't. You said nothing, not even to your own people." She pauses, "This is war, Clarke. People die. You showed true strength today. Don't let emotions stop you now." She sighs, "It's time to go."

Lexa leaves through the back entrance with Clarke behind her a second later.

Neither one looking back.


Loud screaming and gunshots were the first things that she heard.

The first thing she felt was a lot of weight on her torso as well as one of her arms, not being able to feel the other.

Warm liquid slips out of her hairline down the side of her face as her eyes open and takes in her surroundings. She looks around at the rubble as more screams come from the crack above her. She tries to move but lets out a loud scream of her own, looking over to the arm that she couldn't feel and notices that blood tainted her jacket before she tries moving it again. Another yelp escapes her lips as she moves it, telling the girl that it was possibly broken.

Rory knew she had to move or she could risk losing her arm so she pushes up the piece of rubble as hard as she could. It's lifted off of her and she quickly rolls away when it slams onto the ground with a 'smack'. She coughs as dust appears but gets up and leans against another piece of rubble. Her blood starts to run down her leg so she looks at her wound, cussing when she notices that her wound had reopened. Movement up ahead makes her glance over as she sees Marcus stuck under rubble as well.

"Kane..." Rory says as she reaches him after using the rubble to do so.

She falls onto her stomach after tripping over a rock but continues to crawl over as best she can, "R-Rory?...are you...are you okay?" Marcus struggles to get out.

"I'm fine. Just a broken arm...I think." She notices the state he's in, "You, on the other hand. We gotta get you out." Rory uses her right arm to sit up.

He sees the blood coating her pants and jacket as well as the cut on her hairline, "That's more than just a broken arm…" Marcus says.

Rory shakes her head, "It's fine. Now come on, help me push." She gets up on her knees, wincing as she does, before putting her good hand on the large piece of rubble.

She pulls and pulls but it wouldn't budge off of his leg so she tries the next best thing, "Help! We need help!" Rory yells towards the opening not too far away.

Rory tries to pull it back for another few minutes before leaning her forehead against the piece of metal...she couldn't do it. She wasn't strong enough…

"Hold on, I'm coming!" Someone says from behind her.

She glances that way as Abby crawls through with a flashlight, "Abby!" Rory moves so Abby could see Marcus's condition.

"It's my leg." Marcus tells her.

Abby nods and Rory maneuvers so she could get to it, "You're bleeding. But not that bad." She says after she checks his leg, "Can you move your toes?"

Marcus tries to, "Yeah." He says.

"Good. I don't think anything is broken. You're lucky." Abby turns to Rory when she sees the dark patch on the arm she was cradling and on her jeans, "You need to get out of here and find Nyko before your wounds get worse. And that arm."

"No." Rory shakes her head, "I'm not leaving him."

Abby looks at her in a way that made Rory suspicious as to why until she nods, "Okay. Help me get him out." The doctor starts to push the metal.

Rory helps her as much as she can, but even with the two of them nothing budges, "Not that lucky." Marcus states until they hear a woman sobbing, "That could be Clarke."

"We're not leaving you here." Abby says as Marcus looks back to her.

The two keep pulling to get the man out as more gunshots go off above, "What's going on up there?" Rory asks Abby.

"There's a sniper...he's got the survivors pinned down." Abby looks around for anything to help them and finds a metal pipe, grabbing it to give them leverage, "But I think a few are trying to find his location."

Abby starts to use the pipe before she gains an idea and moves to Marcus on the other side to start pushing the piece of metal up until his blood starts to squirt out, "Don't move, don't move!" She yells at him before she drops the metal back down and he screams in pain, "Your femoral artery is lacerated. The weight of the beam...is the only thing keeping you alive."

Marcus lets out a laugh, "Heh. Hell of a bandage." He groans as his leg sparks in pain.

"I'll figure it out. In the meantime…" Abby turns to Rory, "Please go and get help for yourself, Rory. I swear to you that I will get him out of here." She says.

Rory searches the doctor's eyes before nodding, "Okay...okay I'll go." The dark-haired girl leaves the two alone.

"She's one hell of a tough kid." Abby says as they watch her crawl out the way the doctor came in, "It's no wonder the Grounders like her since they value strength over morals."

"Yeah, but she's not just any kid…" Marcus sighs as he decides to finally let this off his shoulders and looks at Abby, "She's my kid."

Abby's eyes widen as she holds onto the pipe, "What?" She asks with raised brows.

"It's a long story. One for another time, if I survive." Marcus says, referring to his wound.

This was one story Abigail Griffin truly wanted to know.


When Rory climbs out of the opening, she instantly ducks down when the sniper tries to take a shot at her. Someone calls her name from afar and she spots Octavia with the other Seconds. Rory does her best to run over to her before jumping onto the ground right next to the girl. Octavia helps her to sit up against the rubble.

"You okay, sparks?" Octavia asks when she notices the girl cradling her arm.

"Arm's possibly broken." They all jump when the rubble that was being held up where she came from comes crashing down, "No no no…" Rory clenches her jaw, "Shit."

"What?" Octavia watches the girl freak out.

Rory looks back to Octavia, "Kane and Abby are down there. She told me to come up here to find Nyko." She says.

Octavia was about to reply when two more shots go off and one hits a Grounder's leg, "We can't wait anymore." A warrior's Second from Azgeda states while Octavia looks beyond the rubble, "Our people are dying down there."

Octavia looks at the rubble across from them before gaining a thought, "If we can get to the crater, we could tunnel in from the side." She suggests.

"There's no cover." Another Second, one from Sangedakru, says.

The Azgeda Second takes a sip of some unknown liquid out of a bottle, "I'll do it." He puts the cap back on and gets up before starting to run.

But more gunshots go off that make him fall to the ground and crawl back, "Get back, get back!" Octavia helps him get back over to them.

The Second who spoke earlier comes in between Rory and Octavia, "Any other bad ideas?" She asks.

Octavia looks at a fire nearby and then grabs the bottle the Azgeda Second had dropped and drinks from it before securing the top, "Just one." She throws it into the fire which makes it blow up.

It creates smoke and Rory smirks, "Nice one, O." Octavia grins at the girl's praise.

Octavia is the first to run behind the cover of the smoke before sliding down to the rubble with the two Seconds following behind. Rory stays with the others who were injured and starts to peak over the rubble to see through the smoke. Every once in a while she could spot the glare of the sniper's scope but he was too fast for her to see where he could be. Feet patting on the ground make her turn forward as the man from before appears beside her.

"You again?" Rory chuckles and shakes her head, "How do you always manage to show up right in the nick of time?" She asks

The man shrugs, "I heard the missile drop." He then nods to her arm, "You gonna be okay?"

"I'm fine." Rory looks up at him, "I'm Rory, by the way."

"Fenrir." He says.

She nods before she looks back over to the treeline, "Okay Mr. Sniper, let's see how you fare against Fenrir and me."

The man lets out a laugh.

Rory glares at him, "What? I thought I sounded cool." She gets up but still stays low, "Guess not..."

She and the man transverse to the treeline and keep in that cover as they walk around the village to where the gunshots get louder.

It was midday by the time she starts to reach some snow, but her arm kept her from going as fast as she did at the start of their trek. The throbbing kept rising and rising and it was distracting Rory. She nearly takes a break when she hears the gunshots as clear as day before they hit a rock nearby. She spots Lincoln behind it before Clarke pops up and starts shooting at part of a dry fallen tree. Lincoln moves while the sniper is distracted. Rory goes to join her blonde friend.

But the sniper spots the dark-haired girl and starts to shoot again, making Rory fall to the ground for cover. He stops and comes out of hiding before Lincoln jumps out of the bushes. Lincoln slams his weapon down onto the sniper's which causes them to start fighting after the gun is dropped. He gains the upper hand and knocks the sniper to the ground, punching him a few times before grabbing his knife and prepares to thrust it into him when the sniper pulls out a device. He activates it which makes Lincoln cover his ears at the loud sound.

It gives him enough time to grab Lincoln and hold a knife to his throat as he stands when Clarke comes out with her gun drawn, "Drop your weapon." The sniper orders.

Lincoln grunts, "Just let him kill me, then take him out." He struggles against the man, "Clarke, please. Your people need you."

"You are my people." Clarke states just as she goes to pull the trigger.

But right before then, the man behind Rory throws his hatchet at the sniper, making him let go of Lincoln. Fenrir was no longer there when the dark-haired girl turns to look so Rory chooses then to show her face.

"Uh...hi guys?" Rory's eyes were still wide from what the man had done.

Lincoln lets out a small laugh, "You've got quite the throw there." He tells the dark-haired girl.

"I what?" Rory asks, confused.

Lincoln only shakes his head as Lexa comes to stand next to Clarke, "Did that make you feel better?" The Commander asks Clarke.

"No." Clarke says as tears well up in her eyes.

Lincoln grabs his horn, "I've got to signal that he's dead." He moves away from the three girls.

Rory watches him leave before she turns to Clarke and walks up to her, "Rory, listen I-" Clarke starts as she notices how fast Rory was walking.

But the dark-haired girl only hugs her tightly, "Shut up, Griffin." She squeezes her with her good arm, "We had a fight. It's nothing new. Nothing we can't repair and get over." Rory says as she pulls back.

Clarke gives her a smile, "Yeah…" She trails off when she sees Rory cradling her arm and notices the blood on her leg, "Rory, why aren't you bandaged? And why isn't your arm in a sling or something?" The blonde takes off her cowl and uses it to make a makeshift sling for Rory's left arm.

"Well...your mom told me to go find Nyko, but I got a little...sidetracked." She gestures to her being there with them.

"Is my mom okay?" Clarke asks, concerned.

"I don't know. When I left, Octavia and the other Seconds were starting to clear out the rubble to get to her and Kane." Rory says and Clarke nods.

"Then let's go."

The four of them had arrived by nightfall where Rory had been the first to appear as she sees Marcus being placed on the ground. Octavia was putting a blanket over him when Lincoln arrives next to Rory, looking for Octavia. The couple runs to each other and embrace before engaging in a lot of kissing which makes Rory shake her head and chuckle. Lincoln and Octavia look back up to Rory when Clarke and Lexa arrive next to her. Abby comes out of the rubble as the grounders around them start to chant the word Heda.

Lexa raises her hand into the air and they stop, "What happened here will not stand. The Mountain will fall." She pauses and looks around at everyone, "The dead will be avenged!"

The Grounders all start cheering, "Enough! That's enough!" Abby yells, making them stop before she looks at Lexa, "There are still others in the wreckage. We heard them. Go to work!" Rory smiles at the doctor while everyone rushes to help.

But she nearly jumps when someone's hand lands on her shoulder. She looks to see Fenrir was standing by her side. Rory furrows her brow before she watches him leave to go help the wounded to her left. Shaking her head, she turns to the blonde and brunette as Lexa begins to talk again.

"With our two people working together, we're gonna win this war, Clarke." Lexa states.

Clarke nods in response before she glances at Rory and notices the man, "Who's he?" The blonde asks.

Rory looks away as her gaze turns to him, "Um...Fenrir." She says.

Clarke narrows her eyes when Fenrir turns to look at her, but ignores it. Lexa interrupts them by saying that they are going to head out and keeps her eyes on Rory for a moment, but she soon leaves the three. Rory narrows her eyes before she gets up and runs after Lexa. She grabs Lexa's arm, making her turn to her.

"What's wrong?" Rory asks, having seen the way that Lexa looked at her before she left.

Lexa doesn't answer but instead makes sure to glance at all of Rory's wounds as if checking to make sure she was okay. The Commander was about to say something until some of her warriors pull her away to so they could start heading out. Rory watches her leave with her heartstrings pulling until Lexa disappears from her line of sight.

"Rory? You coming?" It was Octavia that had brought her out of her stupor.

Rory shakes her head to clear her thoughts, "Yeah…" She replies.

"Come on then." Octavia says, turning around to leave.

Rory follows the girl when they reach Indra and catch up with Clarke as everyone starts to leave.

One thing was still on her mind.

Why hadn't Lexa said anything?

A/N: Hope you liked it! Let me know what you think!

Quick question: When should I let the kiss happen? Before S3 (when we go into the three months that is between s2 & s3)? Or in S3 (which won't be until chapter 20 or so)? I'm kind of stuck at that point in my document lol.

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