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Eventually Octavia spoke "So tell me about what happened with you and that Grounder," she brushed the tears from her face and looked up at the older girl.
"There's not really much to tell."
"Come on, you were out all night, you had to be with the fog, or did he just leave you to fend for yourself?"
Alexis shook her head and sighed, if Octavia wanted to distract herself from what she was feeling right now, then she guessed she could help her, "He didn't leave me, we were by the fire when we heard that horn, the acid fog came in fast but he led us to some caves that weren't too far away."
"And? Come on you were with him the whole night! What happened?"
"Nothing, we just talked you know, he learned about me, I learned about him, nothing happened. I mean I only met him like two days ago."
"Ok so tell me about him, he could speak English obviously, otherwise it would have been pretty difficult for you guys to talk to each other."
"Yeah, ok," Alexis nodded and made herself more comfortable on the ground next to Octavia, "he spoke English, but he definitely knows another language, he would slip into it a few times, when he wasn't really paying attention. His name's Roan, he's from Azgeda, the Ice Nation, it's called. But he's been living in this territory for quite some time, apparently the Ice Nation is one of twelve clans that live on this land. Right now we're on Trikru's land, they're the Grounder's that attacked you guys by the Mountain."
"If he's from another territory why is he living here?"
Alexis hesitated for a moment, when she'd asked Roan that question he didn't seem all the keen on answering it, in fact she had to push him into responding, so she didn't think that he would take to kindly to having his business spread amongst others, "He didn't say, I'm assuming he just wanted a change you know, I mean, a place called Ice Nation has got to be cold all the time and people are bound to get tired of it."
"So was that all you talked about?"
"Noooo..." she drew the word out as she tried to figure out what to say to her first and only human friend, "He asked about me, he thought it was weird that I'd never had meat before or felt the Sun, or been swimming. He said he could never imagine a life like it. And you know, then it got late, and I got cold, and I may have slid under his arms and put my arms around his waist so I could burrow under his coat. And you know, he may have let me..."
"What?!" Octavia shrieked tackling Alexis to the ground and sitting on top of the older girl, "That is not nothing! That is a whole lot of something! And I can't believe you're only just telling me about this now!"
"Nothing happened Octavia!" Alexis protested, "We just slept."
"Yeah, next to each other, snuggled in together, sharing warmth! And from what you've told me, he's not the type of guy who would just let you do that, unless he liked you..."
"Or wanted something from me," the older girl countered, "I'm just the shiny new object that literally fell from the sky, he's just curious, and sooner rather than later that curiosity will be sated, besides the other Grounders have been trying to kill us, wouldn't you say that gives him a pretty compelling reason to just kill me when he gets bored."
"God you're so negative Lex, all the freaking time," Octavia whined a little. Reminding Alexis that though they were all here to survive, Octaivia was only a 16 years old.
"Okay, so I may not have been as cold as I let on…"
"I knew it!" Octavia grinned, "tell me everything!"
"There's not much to tell O, but he smelt great, like what I imagine a guy should smell like, you know, like the woods and leather and something that was just him. He felt even better." She shrugged and smiled at Octavia impishly.
"So…when are you going to see him again?"
It had been two days since the acid fog had hit, two days since they'd lost Atom, two days since Roan had gone to the border of Azgeda, and a day since Wells had been killed by the Grounders, or at least that's what they all thought. Since Wells' death the 100 had been on edge, and Bellamy had insisted that they all stay within the walls that they were building around the camp. Which meant that the four hadn't gone anywhere either. Production on their second home had stalled, for some reason Bellamy couldn't keep away from Rosa, everywhere she went he would pop up and Rosa couldn't help but blush whenever his eyes would meet hers. The boys were acting ridiculously immature about it, first Alexis had a crush and now so did Rosa, and as badly as the girls wanted to kick their asses, it was good to see Shade actually enjoying himself for once. It was so difficult to get him to smile up on the Ark, but down on the ground, every so often, he was happy. Which was why the girls suffered him and Quinn and their stupid jokes, and their snickering.
"I'm getting real sick of this 'keeping an eye on us' shit." Alexis growled as she helped Rosa lift one off the logs the 100 were using to build a fence.
"Bellamy's just worried about us." Rosa insisted, "With Wells dying practically in camp, he doesn't want anything to happen to any of us."
"You mean he doesn't want anything to happen to Octavia and y-o-u."
"Oh real mature Lex." Rosa scowled at her.
"Hey the guys may be total assholes right now but they're not wrong, Bellamy wants you."
"Shut up, what about you and that Grounder, what's his name…oh right Roan."
Alexis narrowed her eyes at her friend, "I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Oh yeah, cus I thought he smelt great and felt even better."
"That little snitch!"
"Oh don't blame her, I pulled it right out of her head."
"Rosa!"
"Oh don't look at me like that, how else was I supposed to find out, were you going to tell me?" Rosa scowled at the other girl.
"Wait… are you jealous that I talked to her?"
"What? No!" she stalked away from Alexis and the other girl followed, "Don't be ridiculous."
"You are!" Alexis said, catching up with her friend.
"No! I mean, I've only been your friend for five years, she's been your friend for like a minute, why wouldn't you tell her all about your night with the Grounder?" She growled and pushed Alexis away from her.
"Rosa!" Alexis called running after the girl, "Rosa wait!"
Roan was lying on a makeshift bed in a cave fairly close to where Skaikru had made camp, the meeting he'd had with his mother had not gone as he expected and he wasn't sure whether that was good thing or not. Choosing not to think about it he decided instead to spend some more time with the little Mutant that had been occupying his thoughts more and more. Currently he was waiting for Alexis to come and find him, she'd been the one to seek him out before, and he had thought, with her obvious curiosity, she would seek him out again. But she had not, in fact it had been four days since he'd last seen her and he was feeling…odd about it. He wasn't worried about her, not really, her fighting skills were definitely sub-par and the only reason she'd gotten away from him the first time was due to his shock when she revealed that she was a Mutant, but her abilities meant that she could take care of herself, she could be hurt, but she could heal from it almost immediately. So he couldn't explain his sudden feeling of uneasiness now that she was away from him, perhaps it was because of the way she'd left after she'd spent the night away from her camp.
That night, she'd curled into him for warmth and he'd let her, she'd fallen asleep with her face buried in his neck, arms securely around his waist, her whole body pressed up against his, as close as they could be. But then she'd woken with a jolt, panic on her face and a scream on her lips, and when she'd realised that he was there with her, that he'd witnessed her terror, she'd bolted. So there he was, close enough to their camp that he knew she'd be able to pick up his scent, but still she hadn't shown up.
"Ok, that's it," Alexis threw down the log that she'd been carrying over to the makeshift wall that the 100 were building. She headed over to Quinn, who was busy on another section, "Yo Quinn!" she jogged over, "I'm out, find someone else to finish this wall."
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" he asked, brushing dark hair out of his eyes, "Last I checked, everyone's freaked out by this Grounder threat."
Alexis looked over at the group of teens rather dispassionately before turning back to her fellow mutant, "I don't care, I look at these people and I just see the guards, Kane, Jaha, Dr Griffin, I can't bring myself to care for these people, because as soon as they find out what we are, they'll treat us the same way."
"You don't know that!" Quinn insisted, "They were treated like garbage by the people of the Arc, they have no reason to hate us." He gestured to the teens that surrounded them and Alexis shook her head in disagreement.
"Of course they'll hate us Q, they don't understand us, and people fear what they don't understand, and they hate what they fear. Believe me, once they're more organised, those friends you've made they'll drop you like bad habit."
"And what about you and Octavia huh, you think she'll be any different?"
"No, I think she'll be just like the rest of them, and I'm ready for that."
"So instead you're running off to that Grounder again." Quinn was not shy about the fact that he disapproved of how much time she was spending away from camp, in the company of the Grounder Prince, but nothing he said to Alexis would deter her.
"That Grounder didn't look at me with fear when he found out what I am, he didn't smell of deception, he genuinely wanted to know about me. So yeah Q, I'd much rather spend my time with that Grounder, then here, trying to make camp safe for a bunch of people that aren't going to appreciate it." She turned away from her friend before he could say anything else and headed out of camp.
Shade, who had witnessed the argument, came up to him as his friend left, "Where's she going?"
"Where do you think?" Quinn scowled at the mutant's retreating back.
"One of these days, she going to get caught, and get in so much trouble."
"Yeah, well you try stopping her next time."
The Commander was sat Indra and Anya as they came up with a plan to deal with the new threat that had fallen from the sky. "We have more problems," Indra said, closing the door behind her in order to keep any eavesdroppers at bay. "One of our scouts saw Prince Roan skulking round the boarders of Azgeda four days ago. The Queen came to meet him, neither crossed the boundary line but they spoke at length. And the Prince has been laying his head near Skaikru's camp, I am worried he has found out that Mutants have fallen from the Skai and has told the Queen."
"You think she has told him to keep an eye on them?" The Commander asked.
"He has moved closer to Skaikru's camp. The Queen will either want them to be hers or want them dead." Indra replied.
The Commander frowned thoughtfully, it was times like this she wished she had just killed the Prince and been done with it, now the problems that he could potentially cause for her and her people were disastrous. "Send our best scout, find out if he's made contact with the Mutants."
"If he has?"
"Watch him for now, but if he makes contact with Azgeda again then kill him."
Indra nodded and left to send out their scout.
The 100 were done building for the day so when Bellamy looked for Rosa, she wasn't difficult to find. She was sat on the outskirts of the camp, glaring at someone on the other side. He sat next to her and followed her gaze before speaking, "You know last I checked, Octavia didn't do anything to you."
Rosa broke her glare and glanced over at the boy sitting next to her, "I wasn't looking at Octavia."
"You right, you weren't, you were glaring at her like she's just killed your puppy or something, and since she's my baby sister, I'd like to know what she did to you."
"Nothing," Rosa insisted and looked away from him, but Bellamy wouldn't let up. She could feel his eyes on her and she sighed, "It's not- It's not her fault, it's just, Alexis is talking to her, and not to me, it's like I don't even know her anymore."
Bellamy tried, but he couldn't stop the smile that had spread across his face, no one had ever been jealous of Octavia for something, she'd never had anything that anyone had ever wanted before. "You're jealous of Octavia?"
"I'm not!" she said sharply, "I'm not, I just miss my friend."
"Look, O said that you three were all Alexis had in the Sky Box, and before that she was alone right?" At Rosa's nod he continued, "She's just trying to see if she can make new friends, Octavia spent 15 years under the floor in our quarters, you can't deny that the two would have a connection. You're not losing your friend, she's growing as person. It gives you the chance to do the same."
"I know," Rosa replied, Alexis had tried to say as much when she'd chased after the telepath, but Rosa was in no mood to listen. "It's not Octavia's fault and she doesn't deserve my anger, but Lex isn't here, so I have no one to direct it to."
Bellamy frowned at that and Rosa cringed internally realising what she'd just said and who she'd said it to, "Where is she?"
Shaking her head, she stood, dusting off her pants, "I don't know, maybe Octavia does." Shrugging she left before she could put her foot any further in her mouth.
"Knock, knock," Alexis called, standing at the mouth of the cave that she knew the Grounder Prince was staying in.
A few moments later Roan came to the cave mouth and stood in front of her, "Where've you been?" he rumbled, causing her lips to quirk into a little smirk.
"You miss me?"
Roan scoffed and headed back inside the cave and she followed him with a skip in her step. "It's been four days, you said you were curious about me, so I thought you'd pay me a visit sooner."
"Well I do have other things to do you know, my life doesn't just revolve around you." She could feel tension rising in Roan so she stepped in front of him and put her arms around his neck, moving in close, she whispered in his ear, "I missed you Roan."
Roan could feel the tension in him melt away and he allowed his arms to encircle her waist, and took in her scent, "Where have you been?"
"A member of the camp was killed, everybody thinks the Grounders did it so Bellamy's been keeping a close eye on everyone and by close eye, I mean he's not letting anyone out of camp. In fact technically I'm not even supposed to be here right now."
Roan pulled away from her and moved back towards his sleeping area and she followed, "If you're not supposed to be here then why are you?"
"I literally cannot take it anymore. Do you know what 99 unwashed horny teenagers smell like, do you know what they sound like?! Because I do, and it's not good, at all. Besides like I said, I missed you." She shrugged and brushed past him and moved to sit on his makeshift bed. "So, what shall we do now?"
So far Bellamy had been able to ensure that the 100 were kept busy, he had them building walls and making knives and sharpening spears because the idea that the Grounders had gotten so close to their camp to kill one of them, even if that one was Wells Jaha, unsettled him. What if it had been Octavia that had been alone out there? Or Rosa? He didn't even want to think about it, so instead he insisted that everyone stay within camp, the only people allowed to leave were the hunting parties and even then they had to be back at camp before dark. But now he knew that one of them was missing, Alexis, Rosa's friend had disappeared and neither Rosa nor Octavia were being very forthcoming as to her whereabouts. He frowned in thought, there was something definitely off with Alexis. That night that he'd brought the panther back to camp for them to eat he was so sure he'd seen her eyes glow yellow. But that had to have just been the reflection of the fire right? There was no way that her eyes, even for a split second could look exactly like those of the panther that had been shot. Bellamy was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't sense that he was being watched from the other side of camp, he didn't even look up from where his stare was currently fixated. If he had he would have seen a pair of glowing red eyes hidden in the trees just outside their camps perimeter. If had looked up, then maybe he would have realised that it wasn't the Grounders that he had to be worried about.
Alexis groaned as her back hit the dirt violently, Roan had decided that if she was going to waltz about the forest on her own then she was going to learn how to fight. The two were in the clearing just outside of his cave and she was currently getting nowhere. Sure she'd landed a punch or two but her inner animal didn't sense any danger from the handsome Grounder and therefore wasn't up for giving her any of it's expertise. Getting back to her feet she lunged at him again, this time managing to tackle him to the ground, sitting her smirk of victory was short-lived as Roan flipped the two so he was on top of her. Holding a knife to her throat he grinned, "Dead," he whispered.
Scowling Alexis pulled her legs to her chest and moved to kick him off of her much like she had done the first time the two had fought, but unfortunately for he was ready for her this time. Dropping the knife he grabbed both her knees pulling them apart so they were either side of his body, preventing her from getting any leverage, he gripped both her wrists in one hand while he used the other to hold down her hips so she couldn't twist them to get out of their position. Panting with exertion Alexis tried to shift her hips anyway but only succeeded in pressing her pelvis against his and then froze when she felt him shift his own to meet her. All of a sudden she was panting for a whole different reason, she could feel him pressed against every inch of her body and his scent had changed drastically, his eyes darkening with something unfamiliar as she felt something press into her lower half.
Roan stared down and the mutant who had somehow managed to worm he way into his life, her dark hair was splayed out around her like some sort of halo, and her chest was heaving, her breasts pressed tightly against his chest. Her pupils were blown wide and her eyes darted between his own and his lips. Her own mouth opened slightly and her tongue darted out to wet her lips and before he knew it his mouth was pressed against hers in a searing kiss.
So I figured I'd move the story along with our favourite pair, you don't think it's too fast do you? Also now we can start to see cracks forming within the fearsome foursome of Mutants, exactly what do you think will happen between them. And who is it that the 100 should really be afraid of?
Tune in next time to find out!
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