New Crisis Arrive

The four friends were talking and ended up being joined by the rest which consisted in Monty, Harper and even Jasper, Miller and Brian staying out of this reunion since they were on guard duty. It was quite fun to be around her friends like this and Clarke was quieter than usual still recovering from her talk with Bellamy and for speaking some of her feelings about Lexa to someone other than Raven out loud, so she listened more than she talked but that was okay by her. She has never been much of a funny person anyway, had always been on the more serious side and that still hasn't changed.

Finn had been right about that. She knew how to drink and get drunk but it wasn't something she liked doing, she much preferred to get lost in her paintings and her drawings than to pointlessly drink herself to a stupor but being like this with all of them was nice and something she had missed and feared she would never get a chance to do it again, especially where Jasper was concerned. She had feared that the ship had sailed and she would never be able to one day be his friend again but since their talk, things have gotten much better between them. Raven had been right about that as she was right about a lot of things, Clarke was learning.

He wasn't 100% back to the Jasper he had once been but neither was she nor would they ever be. There was a Jasper before and after Maya and there was a Clarke before and after Lexa and she guessed that it helped to start fixing their friendship the fact that he could see that too and that he knew that whatever he feels in regard to Maya's death, she is feeling it as well. She hated that she could only have him back because she lost Lexa, but it was what it was and she would the most out of it, after all, not everyone gets a second chance.

"So, Clarke, what is going on with the Coalition? Any news from Polis?" Monty asked her directly as the talk turned to a more serious tone and they all looked at Clarke since she was the one with those kinds of answers.

"Not really. There was a slight trouble with one of the Ambassadors but from what Kane told me that was solved, and Roan is still on the throne. So, we're good for now." Clarke said to them and they nodded.

"What happens if he doesn't stay in the throne? What happens if the Coalition falls and the clans no longer follow him?" Harper asked them and Clarke sighed.

"There will be an all-out war. Now, if it will be all the clans against us or if they will be against the Ice Nation given their track record especially with Trikru, I don't know." Clarke said to them and they nodded.

"But if that happens, will we side with Ice Nation? Aren't we their allies?" Monty asked her and she sighed. She wasn't looking forward to discussing this with anyone, but she promised herself to be honest with them. It was the least they deserved from her after everything.

"For now we have the same goal which is keeping the Coalition together so yes, we are working together with them but not really allies. However, if the Coalition truly breaks, we will not side with them and Roan already knows it." Clarke said to her friends.

"Do you think it will though? The Coalition? Will it really break and be every clan for its own?" Wick asked her and she nodded.

"The Coalition was a fairly new system and as we saw in Polis, not one very respected by the clans, not without a true Commander to unite them all like Lexa did. And since the only one with capacity to do that is Luna and she wants nothing to do with the Flame, we can only hope that it will hold long enough for another nightblood child to come and take the place and the throne so that doesn't happen." Clarke explained to them.

"So we are hoping for a miraculous child to come and save us from doom this time?" Jasper asked them and Clarke nodded.

"Unfortunately, yes." She said to them and they nodded.

"That is fucked up." Jasper said and Clarke could only agree.

"Yes, it is. Really fucked up." She answered.

"Have you guys seen Jaha lately?" Monty asked them and they shook their heads.

"I haven't talked to him at all." Clarke said.

"I don't want to see his face for the next 200 years and even then, it will be too soon. Nuh uh." Raven said to them in true Raven fashion, making them smile.

"Why are you asking that Monty?" Bellamy asked the boy.

"I saw him, working along with a few others and I felt bad about him. I mean, yes, he screwed up and almost brought world destruction 2.0 and we don't agree with what he did, not by a long shot but don't we understand better than anyone why he did it? He lost his wife, his son, he lost his place as Chancellor, the trust people had on him. He had no purpose, just pain and A.L.I.E offered to kill all those birds with just one small cybernetic stone. Is that too hard to understand? Why it was so easy for him to surrender to that?" Monty said to them.

It got them all thinking about it and they could see his point, Clarke more than anyone. "I know exactly what he felt. I lost my father, my best friend, my first love, I was forced to kill more than 600 hundred people in less than two weeks to save my people, I lost the love of my life, was tortured by my own mother. I know pain as does everyone in this table. Raven lost Finn and her leg. Bellamy lost his mother, his sister won't look at him. Harper lost her friend, you lost your parents. Jasper lost his parents and his girlfriend. Wick lost his friend and father." Clarke said to all of them about their losses.

"Everyone has pain. The pain reminds us of one very important fact, we are human. We feel, we love, we cry, we yell, we care. All of our emotions are connected one to the other because one emotion doesn't exclude the other. I can hate and love a person at the same time. I can wish them closer and wish them away at the same time. I can feel good and bad about something at the same time. And that is why A.L.I.E's chip if used would make us forget things like it did with Jaha, like it almost did with Raven." Clarke said.

"Every memory Jaha had of Wells and that Raven had of Finn was tainted by the pain of losing both of them so when the chip would block the pain, it would block the memories too and that is why when A.L.I.E offered me the chance to be a part of her new world, I refused and told her something I have always known. You don't erase pain, you overcome it." She said to them as she continued, "There was no amount of pain in this world that would make me want to forget one minute that I spent with my father, Wells, Finn, especially my time with Lexa." Clarke said.

"The pain we feel thinking about those we lost can serve to remind us that we lost them in the first place, but it can also remind us that we loved and were loved in return by amazing people who will stay with us forever. So yes, I think we can all agree that he had his reasons but, in the end, it was his choice to try and take the easy way out of the pain and it almost destroyed the rest of the human race. His actions had dire consequences and now he needs to learn to live with it as do we about our own choices every day." Clarke said to them as she finally finished.

"Preach to the church, sister. Amen." Raven said jokingly and the serious tone they had taken was dropped and everyone laughed at the mechanic and they started on lighter topic but all of them heard her words and they couldn't help but to agree with what she said about it. Even the ones who took the chip had to admit she was right. It was an easy out who took more than it gave, and they could all agree on how glad they were that it was destroyed. They continued with their talk until Miller came running in towards their table.

"Miller, slow down. What's wrong?" Bellamy said to the guy who was panting.

"I'm sorry but it's something urgent," He said to them before he looked at Clarke, "The team that was returning from Polis today, along with your mom, they were attacked on the way here. They are almost arriving back in camp. The Lieutenant in charge just radioed that they are close but most of them are badly injured. I send a team to greet them and help them get safely back." Miller informed them and Clarke felt her breath hitch before she shook her head.

"I have to go. Miller, get Jackson and the others." Clarke said back in leader mode before she stood up and run away with Miller following right behind her.

"Bell, go with her, I'm on my way," Raven said to him and he nodded before running after the blonde, "Sorry guys, rain check after this next crisis." Raven said as she stood up and followed them along with Wick in a slower pace, thanks to her leg while the others only sighed.

"And here we go again." Jasper said sarcastically as he raised his glass and the others clunked theirs with his, knowing that he was right.

Once they got outside, Clarke headed straight to the gates to wait for the team to get back Miller was right beside her and Bellamy arrived as well. It took a little longer for Raven to get there but she did and held Clarke's hand the moment she came to stand beside her friend. "Abby will be fine." Raven said to her and Clarke nodded squeezing her hand.

"I hope so." She said and suddenly the gates were being opened and the Rover was driven inside the camp first before the tuck as the gates closed and Clarke didn't wait before she ran towards it as the guard came out of the driver's side.

"Where is my mom? Is she okay?" She asked him and he nodded.

"Yes, she is in the back taking care of the others." He said and she went towards the truck and saw her mom holding a guy's leg as blood was all over her clothes and others moaned in pain.

"Mom, you okay?" Clarke asked and Abby nodded.

"Yes, but they are not. We need to get them to medical. Now." Abby said and Clarke nodded.

"Come on guys. We need the stretchers here." She said before she pulled herself up on the truck and went to check on the others.

"Bellamy, I need you to double the security around camp. We don't know what this attack means or who did it or if it was a single on instead of more, so we need to be cautious. I want patrols around the clock throughout the camp's perimeter, no shooting unless attacked first, at night we might shoot allies. You got that?" Clarke said to the guy and he nodded.

"Got it." Bellamy replied to her as he started moving around gathering the guards and giving them the orders and organizing the patrols as quickly as possible, just in case, these attackers tried anything right now.

"Raven, I will be helping my mom with the patients, so I need you to take charge of camp while I'm busy." Clarke said and the girl nodded, "Mom, do you know who it was?" Clarke asked her and Abby shook her head.

"No but it was not the grounders. This was a different group. They wore all black except for a symbol in the middle of their chest that doesn't fit with the clans' sigils." Abby said to her and Clarke looked at Raven.

"Okay, make sure the people know it was not the grounders that attacked us, we don't need more hate spreading around." The blonde said and her friend nodded as mother and daughter continued to check on the patients.

As fast as it was possible, the guards helped carry the injured out of the truck and towards medical and Clarke went to help her mom. "There are three of them that need immediate surgery. So Jackson, you and me will have to do one each simultaneously. Are you up for it?" Abby said to Clarke who nodded her head.

"Yes, just tell me which one is mine, and let's get it started." Clarke said as she went to get prepared for surgery as did her mother and Jackson, luckily there were enough assistants to help all three of them as the surgeries were done simultaneously.

Clarke was given the surgery of the guy with the messed up leg and she tried her best to save it but the leg was too badly injured and the amount of blood he was losing was too much and too fast so she had to make a call and she did what needed to be done, she had to cut off his leg. So, she grabbed the saw and started cutting it, he was in anesthesia so he wasn't feeling a thing but it was the first time she had to do something like this. Once she was finished, she started closing the wound as best as she could and luckily, the rest of the surgery went well and he was still alive, although there was a moment in which his heart stopped beating which was what prompted her to cut the leg off. It was killing him.

Once the surgery was done and he was being taken care of after a few hours, Clarke shrugged out of the surgery attire and went to check on the others guards, the less injured one and took care of their wounds, once that was over, both her mother and Jackson came out of their own surgery and her mom wasn't looking too good so Clarke immediately excused herself and went to them. "And? What happened?" She asked them.

"I lost mine and Jackson's will make a recovery." Abby said to her daughter as she sighed. Clarke knew her mother hated losing patients, especially in surgery but she knew there was nothing more her mother could have done that she didn't do already.

"I'm so sorry, Mom." Clarke said and hugged her as Jackson excused himself.

"It's okay. What about yours?" She asked and Clarke sighed.

"I almost lost him a few times, but I managed to get him back. The leg, on the other hand, was killing him so I had to cut it off but other than that now he will have to live with one less member, he will be perfectly fine." Clarke said to her and Abby nodded.

"That is very good to hear, and you made the right choice, sweetheart. I am sure he will understand," Abby said to her and Clarke could only nod her head before she let her eyes roam over her mother's body in search of any hidden injury she didn't see before.

"What about you, Mom? Are you okay? Are you injured anywhere?" Clarke asked her and Abby smiled before shaking her head.

"No, except for a split lip and a bruised eye tomorrow, I'm fine. I promise. They didn't hurt me." Abby said to her, assuring and Clarke hugged her again.

"I missed you Mom." Clarke said honestly and Abby tightened her hold on her daughter.

"I missed you too sweetie. So very much." She said as the Griffin women stayed like that for a long while, drawing comfort from one another.