Best Unity Day ever, part 2

On the ground, Clarke was back with her friends teasing Jessica and Wells for apparently taking the next step though they only talked about it once Charlotte left to get some food for herself. "Although I am glad that you guys are in a happy bubble of love and hormones, I don't need to hear the details of what goes on in that bubble, got that Murphy?" Clarke said to the guy as the others smiled. "Why not? If we can only have a sex life through theirs." Murphy said and Wells threw something at him.

"You don't get to live through anything that happens between Jessica and I, you pervert." He said and Murphy just laughed. "Hey, I can't do anything about it if the place you choose to get it on is right next to where I sleep. It's disgusting." Murphy said and Jessica chuckled and he looked at her. "What?" He asked her and she looked at him. "I just remembered that I don't know which one is your bed and which one is Wells'. So you may want to change your bed sheet." She said and as they understood what she meant, Raven and Clarke started cracking up as Murphy looked like she had just slapped him.

"You did it on my bed?" Murphy asked them and Wells shrugged. "What can I say? It gets really confusing to tell them apart at night." He said and Murphy pretended to gag as the girls laughed even harder at his face. "I am burning that bed. I mean it. Disgusting. Both of you." He said to the couple. "Well, you did ask for it." Raven said to him and knocked her cup with Clarke's and the others. "You do know I hate you with every fiber of my being, don't you Reyes?" He said to the mechanic who just smirked. "My feeling for you exactly, Murphy." She said to him and he groaned.

"Oh shut up. You two know you love each other. You know, I would dare to say you two would make a very cute couple." Clarke said and it looked like she had just grown a second head. "And I would dare say for both of us, that we hate you with every fiber of our being, Griffin." Murphy said and Raven nodded causing Clarke to laugh and that was when Finn came to where they were chatting around and asked to talk to her. She shared a look with Murphy and Raven and they already knew what would happen and nodded back and she stood up and followed him. "What do you want to talk to me about?" she asked. "I need you to come with me but I can't tell you why." He said like last time.

"Finn, tell me why or I won't go." She said firmly and he pulled her further away from the crowd. "I set up a meeting with the grounders," He said and she faked looking surprised. "A meeting? I don't get. With who? How?" she asked him. "I was just with the grounder that we had on the dropship, his name is Lincoln." He said. "Wait a second, he spoke to you?" she asked playing her part and he shook his head. "It's not important but if we have a chance to live in piece, we can stop the bloodshed and avoid a war." He said but she didn't interrupt him.

"This is our world now and I think we can do better than the first time around. I trust him." He said and she looked at him for a while before nodding. "Okay, then I will trust you. What were the terms of this meeting?" she asked him and he smiled, glad that she didn't protest his idea and agreed to go. "He will bring his leader and I will bring ours which is you and no weapons." He said to her and she sighed but nodded. "Okay, let's go then." She said and he smiled as they made their way towards the gate.

Becca had said that getting the attention of the Mountain to get them to kidnap the 100 was a marker but she hadn't explained to Clarke if the events leading up to that were as well so Clarke thought that she could change the war they had with the grounders through this meeting, without alerting Bellamy, he would not bring the guns and Jasper wouldn't screw it up for them but what she didn't know was that someone else overheard their conversation and while walking away, they bumped into Bellamy and had an idea.

Raven was once again working on the bullets, they weren't any luckier with them this time than they were last time so she was doing the same work again when Jasper came inside her tent slash workshop. "There you are," He said visibly more than tipsy as he came inside. "Alright. Listen. We're playing drunk ball. I bet Monroe my team's going win the Unity Day title. That's for you," He said passing her a cup that she took it with a smile on her face, "I know you Zero-G mechs have crazy hand-eye skills so what do you think? Must be better than what you're doing." He said to her and she smirked.

"I'm checking the gunpowder in these rounds so that if the Grounders try to kill us all, maybe, just maybe we can get a few shots off beforehand," She explained to him. "That's intense." He said and she nodded, "Yes, but there are a few that got gassed off." She said avoid blowing one. "You know my dad's gonna flip for this scrap metal. 'My kingdom for a soda can.' That's what he always used to say. What about you? Got any family?" he asked and she smiled. "Biological, no but I do have a family." She said thinking of her friends.

"Yeah, we all have each other now." He said to her and she nodded just as Bellamy came inside with guns and Raven didn't like what this meant at all. "Jasper, you're coming with me." he said passing the rifle to the boy who took off his goggles. "I am?" he asked the guy and Bellamy nodded, "You can handle a gun, can't you?" he said and the guy moved to grab the bullets and Raven stopped him. "Well if you're planning on shooting something, you better think twice. I haven't checked those yet." She said to him and he grabbed the other ones.

"What do you need them for?" she asked really hoping to hear a different answer but here it was. "Your boyfriend's being an idiot." He said to her and she sighed, this was not looking good. "We should ask Clarke what we should do first," Jasper said and Bellamy looked at him. "She is with Finn being another idiot now, let's go." He said and left the tent and the boy drank what was left on the cup and followed and she knew she didn't have time to warn Murphy so she just grabbed her bag and followed them out of camp hoping she could help Clarke make the disaster on the bridge better but not being so confident about it. Thing was she knew Clarke didn't plan on telling Bellamy about the meeting, so who did?

Meanwhile with Clarke and Finn, they were walking through the woods. "You know that this could be a trap, right?" she said to him and he nodded smiling at her. "Yep but since this is Unity Day, I decided to have hope instead like you suggested." He said to her and took a big step and winced. "Stop, let me look at your wound." She said to him and they stopped as he lifted his shirt and she took a look without the awkwardness from before. "Seriously, you are exerting yourself when it's not fully healed yet. You need to be more careful." She said to him.

"Well, I will remember to rest after we secure peace between our people and theirs until then we should get going. I don't think they like to wait and we don't have time to waste." He said to her. "We certainly don't." Clarke said to herself and followed after him as they continued on their track and so did the team behind them. Raven tried to make noise to alert Clarke but they were too far back for her to hear so she knew she would only be able to help when they got to the bridge so she kept quiet and let Bellamy lead and hoped everything would work out for them. At least she could still hope, right?

It took them some time especially since the sun came up while they were on their way towards the meeting place but they got there and Octavia was waiting, she seemed nervous about the whole thing and as they came closer to her, Clarke smirked at the girl. "So this is how you set this up?" she asked Finn and turned to Octavia. "You helped him escape. Lincoln, right?" She said simply stating a fact and the girl nodded. "I trust him Clarke." She said to the blonde and Clarke nodded. "I can take a guess on why, better yet, how." She said with a small smile and they heard the noises coming from the bushes and Clarke already knew it was Lincoln.

She was about to smile as she watched the two of them running towards each other when she looked to the side and saw who she hoped she wouldn't see there. How the hell did they found out about this? She sighed looking down and then back at them and saw that Raven looked as sad as she did because they knew what would or could happen now and then she saw Lincoln and Octavia pulling back from the hug and as he looked at her, instead of stepping back in fear, she simply gave him a small smile and a nod that he returned when they heard the noises of people coming and Clarke prepared herself for this.

First, of course, came the warriors mounting their horses which Clarke pointed out and then came Anya just as she remembered her. Finn walked to Lincoln and Clarke followed him. "Hey, we said no weapons." He said to the grounder and Lincoln turned to look at his people. "I was told there wouldn't be." He said and Clarke sighed. "Well, there is and there is nothing we can do about it. Should I go?" she asked Lincoln who nodded at her and Finn tried to go too but the grounder stopped him. "She goes alone." He said to the boy and Finn turned to her worriedly and she shook her head. "Wait here." She said to him firmly and started walking.

Anya got down from her horse and started walking towards her too and soon enough they stood in the middle facing each other. "Your name is Clarke?" Anya asked and Clarke nodded, "Yes, it is," She said without wavering. "I'm Anya," The woman said and of course, Clarke didn't extend her hand this time since she knew that wasn't the way they greeted each other and she didn't need the small humiliation of having to retreat her unshaken hand. "I came here to talk to you about peace." Clarke said firmly to the woman.

"Peace? You're invaders, your ship landed in our territory," Anya said to her and Clarke nodded her head at the older woman. "You're right, it did. I could tell you that we had no idea that the ground was survivable, and never imagined that there were survivors which is the truth because we really didn't know or didn't think is possible to be survivor but that's just us being egotistical ignorants. I know." She said and the woman seemed intrigued by her answer and let her continue talking which was a good signal so Clarke didn't stop.

"When I spoke of your people to our family, someone asked me if you were hostile and I explained to them that you had every right to be, because like you said, this is your land and we invaded it without asking permission and if it was the other way around, my people would probably have reacted worse so I want you to know that I understand why you would want us gone, I would do so too. But what I want, what I need for you to understand is that my people is dying where we come from and the Earth is the only solution so they will be coming down and will land on your territory but if we can arrange an agreement, any trouble coming from that can be avoided." Clarke said to the woman before she continued,

"My people haven't touched the ground in a hundred years and we never thought we would, at least not this generation of us but, here we are now, and we would very much like to have a small part of land so that we could live and prosper without hurting anyone, least of all your people. We just want to be able to have a life down here and I think as a leader, you can understand how important providing that for my people is important to me. In my situation, wouldn't you do the same for yours?" Clarke said firmly but also gently so that she would appear self-confident but not overly confident, something she tried to learn from Lexa.

"You said you want peace but you sent an armed group to capture Lincoln and some of you tried to torture him." Anya said but not as aggressively as last time. "He attacked my friend, the one by his side behind me and someone in my camp thought he could offer us information but I stopped them from even touching him, ask Lincoln if you need confirmation of that." Clarke said counting down to when Jasper would screw this up because she knew he would, she tried to change it but she could see that this was something that needs to happen so she just want to leave a good impression before it all goes to hell.

"Look Anya, what my friend believed when he proposed this meeting and what I also believe is that this doesn't have to end in bloodshed on any side, mine or yours. War is the last thing I want for any of us and I truly believe that peace can be achieved between both our people, I want that more than anything." Clarke said passionately trying to convince Anya of her sincerity and of her wishes of peace and the warrior crossed her arms. "Your people are coming down from the sky, is that right?" Anya asked her and Clarke nodded.

"Yes, farmers, doctors, children and I don't want them to come down here and not enjoy the Earth because they have to worry about your people attacking us at any time. Besides, the world was once the home of so many people and war was what almost destroyed us all. Don't you think we can do better, be better than they were?" she said to the warrior who seemed to stop for a second and contemplate about her words and at least she knew the impression she was giving Anya was a better on than the last. That she would consider a win.

"Can you promise that these new arrivals won't attack us and will respect the terms you and I agree on?" she asked and Clarke nodded firmly. "They won't have a choice. They will agree to the terms we set even if I have to beat all of them up for it myself and believe me, with how much I want this peace between us, they better not test me." She said and the woman had a smirk on her face. "You have confidence." She said to her and Clarke shook her head. "I'm a leader and I only want what is best for my people, nothing more nothing less. But you must know that sometimes there are idiots that don't follow what we tell them to do." Clarke said to her and the woman nodded.

"I know how that works, had to beat a few of those myself." She said to the blonde and Clarke nodded at her. "Exactly. I wouldn't do anything to jeopardize this because I know that this is right for my people but there are some who think they know better than me and will try to act on their own accords but I will try to contain them as best as I possibly can and I guess that is all a leader can promise another in a situation like this, don't you agree?" she said sincerely and Anya nodded. All was going well between the two women when suddenly she heard Jasper's scream. "Clarke, run." He yelled.

He started shooting but Raven quickly came to him and knocked off his gun but the grounders were already retaliating, guns had to be raised again and Bellamy joined in the attack. And when Anya tried to take her knife out, Clarke didn't think twice when she saw Bellamy raise his gun and dove against the woman tackling her to the ground landing on top of her and she looked at her in the eyes. "Those are the idiots I was telling you about. I didn't order this. Stay down or they will shoot you." Clarke said to the woman, grabbed her knife, stood up and threw at Bellamy's hand scratching it.

"Bellamy, stop shooting at them, right now! Get out of here!" Clarke called out to him and had to dodge to the ground as an arrow passed by her head and she looked back at Anya who was still lying down. "I am so sorry. I did not want this to happen. I hope you know that, at least." She said looking at the warrior with guilt in her eyes before she took off in a run and Finn came to her side as they dodged the arrows and as Clarke looked back, she noticed Anya going back to her people and getting on her horse.

The two leaders shared a look Clarke couldn't understand what it meant before the warrior turned around and left before they saw an arrow hit Lincoln as they came near him and Octavia. "Don't stop running until you get behind your walls, go. Take her." The grounder said motioning to Octavia and Clarke just pulled the girl as she called for Lincoln and they continued running and as they entered the woods, they ended up meeting the other three as they just continued running out of there.