Fact : Alessa is a gifted strategist - she can successfully carry out any mission alone or with a very large army no matter how difficult or simple it may be.

It didn't take long to find Jasper after they had eaten. The boy was barely alive and a pain to carry back, but they managed somehow. It provided Clarke the time to learn about the Alessa's clan and their believes – some she understood, even if they sounded extreme and unnecessary, some she just accepted as necessity.

The days that followed we're agonizing – Jasper's screams kept the camp on the edge and the brunette couldn't risk leaving, even for a few hours. Not with Bellamy so locked on getting every bracelet offline. Luckily, most still listened to her, but Bellamy was getting more and more people on his side fast. Clarke has just finished re-wrapping his wounds when the man tried again.

"He's dying! We should just end his misery and do everyone a favor."

Alessa sighed – after an hour she'd hoped he would understand that her final answer was no "If he dies on his own, then fine. But we don't kill our own Bell, we're not bloody savages."

"They left him for death!" he yelled angrily.

"You're wrong, Bellamy. They didn't." Clarke interrupted.

"Clarke's right-"

"Of course you agree with princess! Ever since you got here, you've done nothing but follow her!"

Alessa growled "They treated his wound." She started as she made a step towards the man "They left him where we could find him." Another step "They put him a good deal above the ground so that animals won't kill him." They were an inch away now as Alessa growled again, louder and animalistic this time, for both Bellamy and the crowd that formed around them "So tell me, what bloody part tells you, genius, that they wanted to fucking murder him?"

Bellamy was silence – he had tried to corner the girl and make more people follow him, and now he was the one cornered. He knew Alessa was dangerous and unpredictable, but the way she growled, the way she looked at him so cold and emotionless, this wasn't the woman he saw talking with Clarke, the woman who cares for the group Clarke apparently has, this was a cold-blooded killer, a monster with no remorse. But that wasn't the scariest part, the scariest thing came after. Clarke came between them and pushed Alessa away, but she was still looking at him. Clarke called her name to catch her attention. That's when it happened – in the slip of an eyes, the monster disappeared, the cold and emotionless look turned warm and protective. In was a second, but he saw it – if one second was enough for her to jump from protective and friendly to a monster… Alessa was much more dangerous than any of them had anticipated.

"You may try to make the Ark think you all are death for whatever reason you're hiding, but anyone with half-a-brain could figure out that you're actually taking them off." She finished before walking away with Clarke and Octavia behind her. Bellamy cursed loudly before dismissing the others.

The girls spent the rest of the night keeping an eye on Jasper. He wasn't getting any better, but Clarke was adamant about him surviving.

"Bellamy might be a jackass, but he's right Clarke." Finn broke the silence.

"I saw my mother heal people, Finn. If I say he will make it, he will." Before glaring at him "If that's all you had to say, please leave. I need to concentrate and people around me get me distracted."

"You don't seem to be bothered by Alex…" with that he was gone.

Clarke sighed and turned to Alessa, she had been keeping Bellamy and his men away from them. Most backed down, but some had to be forced – some kids almost managed to land a lucky hit with some sort of bat, but she caught it with her forearm and broke it in two. None tried after that and the girl insisted she was fine, but her swollen arm was most likely broken.

"You should let me take a look at your arm, it looks broken."

The brunette smiled "Focus on Jasper, princess. He needs more help than me." And focused on her hand – Clarke was right, her bone had moved and was just about to break skin, but she was used to pain while the boy wasn't. "I had a lot of broken bones while I was training so it's nothing new..." she smirked "Or is it just an excuse to check for other injuries?"

Clarke blushed "You'd wish. And if that was supposed to make me less worried, it had the opposite effect. You're important, Alessa. You hold this chaos together somehow, we need you – I need you."

Right when Alessa was about to reply, a soft groan made them both look at the sleeping girl "I have nothing against you two getting together, but please keep the sexual tension at a minimum. I'm trying to sleep…"

"It would be very useful if you do so, I can't sleep." Monty continued

It was Alessa's turn to blush and groan "Go back to sleep, all of you. I'll keep an eye on Jasper."

Monty and Octavia turned and fell asleep instantly. Clarke tried to do so too, but the intense stare the older girl gave Jasper while she was lost in thoughts kept her from doing so. She gulped, she thought she considered the older girl family, but she couldn't deny she was extremely good looking. The blonde took a deep breath and faced the wall, she didn't have feelings for the older girl, she was sure of that, but maybe Octavia was right - they've both been on edge ever since the 100 came, they were under a lot of stress and neither she, nor Alessa had done anything to relax. That's what was happening and they had to find a way to deal with this - as fast as possible before they do something stupid...

Clarke came upon a rather delicate problem - can they find a way to deal with this without hurting anyone in the process?