Screams of the guards and soldiers of Mt. Weather that were sent to apprehend him, were the only sounds that Bellamy could hear loud and clear over the explosion that he made possible with an oxygen tank and a small torch.

Raven's not the only one who can exit with a bang.

He smiled inwardly at his own inside joke, hoping to be able to tell his friends how he actually disabled the acid fog. He imagined Clarke's half smile, trying to will herself not to laugh at such a joke, not wanting to give him the satisfaction that he was funny even if he saw her reaction anyways.

He grinned at the thought of his co-leader, letting himself rely on her image in his head as strength. No one can really read my mind here anyways.

As soon as the explosion subsided, he let himself take a quick breath and compose himself to prepare the army they can form from inside Mt. Weather. He made his way to Maya's quarters to inform them of his success and then he'll go back to the cages to free the Grounder Army.

Just a little more, we can actually be free.


Fuck it.

Raven sits up from her bed and approaches leaves for her office/lab. War can make a lot of things happen. Best not to have regrets now.

As she nears the door, she pushes aside any second thoughts about succumbing to her growing attraction over Wick. It's just how it is I have to fucking stop denying it.

Does he feel the same way?

She scolds herself inwardly as she enters the room, suddenly having second thoughts. She pushed aside her doubts once again as she strides over to Wick, cutting him off from whatever he was saying, and kissing him full on the lips.

He was surprised at first but returned her kiss passionately. He coaxed her to open her mouth as his tongue drunk her in the moment. She sighed as he let go of the kiss for a moment and looked her in the eyes.

"What made you change your mind?" Wick's eyes were dark with lust, but surely her eyes were the same as his.

"We're going to war. So just stop talking."She puts her arms around his neck, making him kiss her deeper so. A kiss that was hinted to happen, the moment they celebrated Bellamy's success in disabling the acid fog.

Wick and Raven continue to succumb to their lust, letting themselves feel the sexual tension they've been saving up for quite sometime. He puts her legs around his waist and lets her down on their work table, clearing up the objects as fast as he could.

He starts to take of her clothing, starting from her shirt to her bra. Of course, Raven wouldn't give up that easily, so she starts to take off his shirt, matching his pace. As Wick starts to slip off her pants, he touches the restraints of her leg support. Raven turns away slightly and sighs.

Shit.

"I'm just saying. Mine would have been easier to take off." Wick grins at her, the lust in his eyes still there, clearly not wanting to let go of the moment that they're both having. Raven returns his grin with a smirk.

"Didn't I tell you to stop talking, Wick?"

"It's Kyle by the way. You can call me Kyle."

Raven felt her heart warm up from his sweet gesture of letting her be aware of his first name. I didn't even know about it. The warm feeling in her heart continued to fire up as they made love, that small moment made it much more than just sex.

Although Raven wouldn't admit to that. Just not now.


The Commander instructs her men to call on all the generals to discuss the division of the teams on infiltrating Mt. Weather. She looks over to her Sky Counterpart as they wait for the generals to arrive.

Soon.

She had finally expressed her feeling towards Clarke. Even if the Blonde's reply was vague, it still held hope. Hope that her feelings are not exactly unrequited. She will have her answer soon. The war is about to begin but Lexa cannot wait for it to already be over.

We both deserve this.

Lexa finds herself looking around, only to meet Clarke's eyes from across the tent. Her heat flutters at Clarke's small smile before sending the blonde a smaller smile in return.

"Heda?" The commander reluctantly breaks eye contact with the sky girl when she hears one of her men call out to her. Lexa turns around and looks at him expectantly.

"We're ready if you are." Lexa nods at him before turning back to Clarke, motioning for the blonde to join her.

Lexa's people pile into the room and take the positions, followed by the Sky People.

"Welcome, Skaikru. Join us." The commander says just after Clarke takes her place behind her. Once everyone has settled down, Lexa lets Clarke take the lead, only interjecting when needed.

Lexa watches as Clarke passionately relates to the Skaikru the battleplan. The commander watches as she recalls how nervous Clarke had been only a few hours before. She knew the nerves were still there, but she couldn't help but let her heart swell up in pride as she watched Clarke fire her people up.

Her thoughts are interrupted when she feels Clarke's eyes on her. She takes a deep breath before walking towards the center of the room.

"The mountain has cast a shadow over these woods for too long. They've hunted us, controlled us, turned us into monsters. That ends today. Thanks to our alliance with the Sky People, the mountain will fall."

She pauses to let the words sink in. The room's silence is uniterrupted as every single soul focuses on the Commander's every word.

"As Clarke said, we spare the innocent. As for the gulty, jus drein jus daun."

Before Lexa knows it, the entire room starts chanting those four words over and over. The sound of every person in that room chanting those words sent a chill down her spine.

Please, let this war be over soon.


Lexa, Clarke and a good number of their warriors stand before the door separating them from the mountain men. The sun was still high up in the sky, and the one Clarke called Monroe just finished drilling a hole into the door.

Lexa watches Clarke from her periphery, and she sees the blonde shift uncomfortably as they wait for Raven's team to complete their mission. Lexa catches the eye of her blonde counterpart, and raises her eyebrows in question. Clarke shrugs, but sends her a smile that was very small, unnoticable even, before turning to converse with one of the Sky warriors.

The two barely talked from the moment they and the rest of the army positioned themselves outside the door of the mountain, but Lexa's mind was repeatedly assaulted by the memory of that kiss they shared not even more than a day ago. Every time she caught sight of the blonde lead her thoughts to stray towards that kiss. Lexa frowns.

Now is not the time for this. The people trapped inside that mountain come first.


When the sun finally sets, Clarke's nerves also come back. The blonde seeks Lexa out and stands a couple of feet from her before whispering.

"It's taking too long." Clarke says, still shifting around uncomfortably.

"It takes as long as it takes." Lexa says, trying to comfort the other girl. When Clarke does not reply, she continues, trying to get Clarke's mind off the fact that the power is still on. "What will you do when it's over?"

"I have no idea."

The commander's head swims with different thoughts as she hears Clarke's answer. Lexa slaps herself internally as she finds herself hanging on to every word coming out of Clarke's mouth. The question was supposed to be a way to get the blonde's mind off their current situation and not bring light to whatever it is that was going on between them.

"Well, what do you want?"

"Nothing. My people back. I can't think past today."

Her heart breaks a little at the complete disregard of the hidden implications of her question, but she reminds herself that she was being selfish.

The people trapped inside that mountain come first.

She reminds herself as she watches Clarke stare at the door, before turning her head towards it as well.

"You should come with me to the Capitol."

She feels Clarke's eyes bore into the side of her head. She meets Clarke's eyes nervously, berating herself quietly as she breathes out the next few words carefully.

"Polis will change the way you think of us."

Where the hell did that come from? Did I jus-

"You already have."

Lexa smiles contentedly at that reply. Once again, it was a vague statement about their future, and she couldn't help but think that it was becoming their thing.


As soon the power goes out, the guns start shooting as well. Everybody takes cover, and once again, Lexa finds herself huddled right beside Clarke. The blonde holds out the buttom that would activate the explosion out to Lexa before saying,

"To those we have lost,"

"And those we'll soon find." The commander finishes Clarke's words as she puts her hand over Clarke's on the button.

They push once, twice, nothing happens. They had less than a minute now.

Clarke runs towards the door after claiming that they were being jammed. It takes a whole lot of effort on Lexa's part to not jump up and run after the blonde, but sighs in relief when Lincoln does the same thing she was thinking of doing.

When one of the Sky People steps up to try to get to the door, she orders a shield wall for him, but he and the wall fall even before even reaching the door.

They were losing hope as quickly as their window was closing. At that moment, everything felt surreal. All Lexa knew was that they had failed, and she did not know how she was going to be able to console Clarke who definitely was going to be disappointed.

When she hears an explosion, her head snaps up.

"It worked!" Clarke's tone of delight was enough to push Lexa even more. They were one step closer to freeing their people!

"We need to get to that ridge to get the shooters." She says to no one on particular. Lincoln rises from behind her, but Lexa quickly turns to stop him.

"No! You stay with Clarke. When the shooting stops, get that door open."

With that, the Commander and a few of her people run towards the direction of the shooters. Lexa suddenly catches herself thinking of keeping Clarke safe more than anything else, and for the third time, she reminds herself that the people trapped in the mountain come first.

Hodnes laik kwelnes. Especially now.


Hey! Sorry for the late update! Stuff got in the way, but we're back and ready for the finale! We're cutting this chapter after Lincoln explodes the bomb, but as you can see, we've set up the chapter for a pretty emotional version of Lexa's betrayal. Get ready for more of Lexa's inner conflict in the next one! Speaking of which, with the finale comes the start of this story's deviation from the series. Whether or nor we go completely AU from that point will be based on the finale but either way, we have awesome plans once the events in the series get out of the way. Also, Clarke actually getting torn between Bellamy and Lexa will come into play, so that's exciting. I am excited! Rant over. -M