Chapter 10
Clarke darted through the tent exit, temporarily forgetting about Octavia shouting at her as she was leaving. Her thoughts evolved around Bellamy, 'how could he have a meeting without me about the grounders? How could he not wake me up? How long have I been asleep?'
Clarke caught a glimpse of Octavia trying to keep up with her quick pace. "Clarke…" breathing deeply and trying to catch her breath, "Wait up… Please!"
Clarke stopped dead in her tracks, looking to Octavia, the look of panic written all over her face. "You don't understand! I need to get to them, I mean how long have they even been gone?" Panic was flooding through her veins and flowing through her body, what if they had gone off without her and got seriously injured? What if they planned something and kept her out of it? What if they planned a suicide mission? What if she would be left alone to raise her baby because of something stupid Bellamy did? But then as Octavia spoke again Clarke pulled herself from her thoughts; it took all of her willpower. Looking to Octavia who was doubled over, clutching her stomach and trying to catch her breath.
"Then help me to understand, Clarke." Looking at Clarke with a sense of confusion.
How could she even explain it to Octavia without making her panic? "Look Octavia, ask Bellamy when we find him. Now where the hell are they?" Clarke was turning her head from side to side hoping to catch a glimpse of Bellamy whilst waiting for Octavia to reply.
Octavia knew something bad was going on and if Clarke wouldn't tell her then Bellamy was the only person left who would. "They should be in the drop ship," but just before Clarke when into full-on-speed mode Octavia grabbed her arm and spun her back around again, looking straight into her eyes. "Is it bad, Clarke?"
Clarke stood still and nodded. She didn't need to say anything, her facial expression said it all.
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"Bellamy, clearly you haven't looked at all the possible options. When they see we don't have Murphy they will leave us alone, let us go like they did with Mel."
"There's no way of stopping it in less we have Murphy! They're grounders, there's no such thing as reasoning with them! And, Miller, if it hasn't already occurred to you there are no other options except the one to fight!" Bellamy was fuming, he had been trying to get Miller to see sense for what seemed like forever when in fact it had been about 10 minutes but it was like talking to a brick wall. An extremely annoying brick wall.
Just as Miller was about to repeat the exact same answer again Clarke darted through the drop ship door.
Clarke's eyes were wide as she searched around the room until her eyes rested on Bellamy's, breathing out a sigh of relief. He was still here. Virtually running up to him she hugged him tightly.
"Clarke?" Bellamy stood shocked. Embracing her hug, "What are you doing here?" looking down to Clarke as he was hugging her but then his eyes drifted towards Octavia who was standing in the drop ship entrance but then they soon were placed back on Clarke when she spoke.
"Octavia told me you left with Mel and Miller to talk in private," stepping back from their hug, Clarke hit him on his chest with her fist attempting to mask her pain. "You can't just leave me like that! What if you had planned something dangerous and gotten yourself killed! What would I have done then?" A tear escaped from her eye but it was soon wiped away with Bellamy's thumb.
"I would never leave you Princess! Not ever." But then as Octavia walked further into the dropship his attention was turned to her, "Hey, O. I thought I told you to let Clarke rest?" His arms crossed as he waited for an answer from Octavia.
"Hey, Bell. When are you going to tell me what's happening? And, for the record, I didn't wake Clarke up."
Bellamy uncrossed his arms as he looked at Octavia, and then knowing to well that she wouldn't give up trying to find out what was going on he told her everything. Although he didn't want to tell Octavia everything it would definitely be safer than her trying to find out everything by herself.
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Octavia looked up, shock pulsing through her veins. "We're going to die. We're all going to die!" But just as Bellamy was about to speak, Octavia stood up and bolted. She had to get away, anywhere but here.
"Octavia?" Bellamy shouted, "Hey, Octavia!" Bellamy turned to look at Clarke, as if apologising before he ran out of the dropship door after his little sister, Octavia.
Clarke understood why, after all she was his little sister and Clarke would so the exact same if she was in his position.
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Bellamy was running after Octavia, the memories of her on the arc when she was little and scared were rushing back to him. "Hey! Octavia!" looking ahead of him, he could still see her running. The camp wasn't very big but it would still take a minute to run from one end to the other, so he knew he wouldn't be running after her for long.
Octavia had hit the edge of the camp and collapsed into a broken mess on the ground, and it took Bellamy only about 5 seconds to catch up to her, "O, don't run off like that." Bellamy sat down beside her, pulling her into a hug and telling her that he wouldn't let anybody hurt her but he was more shocked than surprised when she pulled away from his hug as Octavia had never done that before, it always seemed to do the trick and calm her down.
"Bell, I'm not a kid anymore! You can't just tell me that we're gonna be fine!" Octavia stood up, "I mean we are all going to die! They're going to attack us and kill us all!"
As Octavia was speaking and pacing up and down Bellamy stood up and as quickly as he could he walked up to Octavia, turned her around and pulled her into another hug. This time not letting go.
Octavia was thrashing around in his grip, attempting to get out of it. "Let me go Bell!" but then she collapsed in his grip and her tears just fell freely down her cheeks, "What are we going to do Bell? They're going to kill…" taking a deep breath and trying to control her crying Octavia continued, "K-Kill us, aren't they?"
Bellamy, still holding Octavia tight in arms, comforted her just like he did back on the ark whenever she had a bad dream or was scared. "You're not going to die, I won't let that happen!" looking down to Octavia, and then woods just beyond the wall which would soon be crawling with grounders, "I won't let anything happen to you, ever. I promise. We can fight back, we have guns. We can win."
At that comment Octavia looked up. Her tears stopped, wiping away the last couple of tears that were on her cheek. "Guns? Like real guns?" Bellamy nodded, the hope that they could win this war if it happened was starting to get much stronger.
Once the news had sunk in, that they actually had proper guns, Octavia pulled away from Bellamy. Looking him straight on, "why the hell didn't you tell me you had guns?" But before Bellamy could answer Octavia Quickly spoke again, eager to know if she was the only one oblivious to the fact that they had guns, "Who else knows Bell? About the guns?"
"O, I had to hide the guns away. Could you imagine this camp, a bunch of hormonal teens, with guns? Forget about the grounders, we would all be dead." A small smile appeared on his face but then his frown reappeared, "O, nobody can find out about the guns, not yet."
"Bell, we have to tell people! You can't just keep this a secret, people are going to find out… probably when the grounders are attacking and then how do we defend ourselves if no one is prepared?" Octavia turned around and pointed to everybody around them, although they were close, they weren't close enough to hear what Bellamy and Octavia were talking about. "They are your people Bell. They deserve to know, they deserve a fighting chance at winning this war."
Bellamy looked around, taking a few seconds to look at everybody working and doing their daily chores, building up the wall surrounding the dropship, repairing all the damaged tents and building huts for the winter. "Your right O, we have to tell them. We have to be ready to fight. First things first we speak to Clarke; see what she thinks about the whole 'telling everyone' idea."
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"No! What do you think everyone will do? It will cause a mass panic!" Clarke breathed in, "It's bad enough with people panicking about winter, what will it be like if they're find out we're about to be attacked?"
Octavia looked from Bellamy to Clarke again and again until finally she spoke, "Bell, seriously you can't be thinking it would be better not to tell anyone! If you keep this a secret we will all die!"
Bellamy looked to Octavia, "Hey, O, Clarke's right. If we tell everyone they will panic and it will just make us an easier target."
Octavia crossed her arms and huffed, like she usually did when she didn't get her own way but this time she had to get Bellamy to see sense. Even if that meant going outside and telling everyone now what was going to happen but just as she was about to leave Clarke spoke.
"No, she's right Bellamy." Sitting down, Clarke placed a hand protectively over her stomach, "Octavia's right. If we don't tell everyone right now, if we don't prepare with the little time we've got, we will all die."
Octavia gave a small smile letting Clarke know she was doing the right thing, "We should tell them now, the quicker we tell them the more time we have to prepare." Although Clarke seemed to be staring into space with her hand still over her stomach protectively, "Clarke? Bell is Clarke okay?"
Bellamy walked up to Clarke placing his hand on her shoulder, "Hey, Clarke?" Crouching down to face her, "You and our baby are going to be fine, okay?" Clarke nodded in response but she still seemed worried. However, Bellamy could deal with that once everybody has been told no matter how much it hurt him to see Clarke like that the thing that came first right now was telling everybody. "Well, we might as well tell everyone the news now." He put out his hand for Clarke to take and she took it, standing up she kissed him on the cheek and whispered into his ear, 'thanks'.
"Will you two get a room!" Octavia said breaking into laugh and winking at her brother.
Clarke blushed at the comment and then walked out with Bellamy's hand in hers to tell everyone the news.
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