Ai Hod Yu In
Chapter 24
A/N: Hey guys! Hope you enjoy the chapter. Next chapter has Bellamy, and we will finally the two of them to talk about all the hurt between them. A lot of her people are angry with Clarke over her running away, and the fact that she had a child in that time is definitely not gonna help. Especially not with Bellamy, who was already a bit unstable about this time because of Gina dying and Pike manipulating him. Anyways, on for the stuff you are actually here for.
Clarke did her best to help Indra while they waited for Kane. It was a bad wound, but she would survive. Indra was strong.
"The bleeding has stopped. We need to get you something for the pain," Clarke told her. She noticed Indra staring at something, and turned around to see Octavia entering the tent, "Octavia? Where's Kane?"
"He sent me," she said, rushing to Indra's side, "Indra. Thank god."
"How did this happen," Lexa demanded, walking closer to them.
"Kane lost the election to Pike. Everything's different," Octavia admitted. Clarke was shocked. She'd only seen Pike the one time since coming to the ground, and looking back on it he had seemed a bit unhinged. How had people believed that he would make a good leader? How had Kane, who had tried his best to do right by the people, lost to him?
"Your people voted for this?" Lexa asked angrily, and Clarke knew that she had to do damage control. Her people could not have voted for this slaughter.
"No. No, I don't believe that," she said, turning to look at Octavia.
"How would you know, Clarke? You haven't been here. You've been off, god knows where, with a kid that you told no one about. A kid that, based on my calculations, has to be Finn's. Don't you think Raven deserved to know that beforehand? Did you even think about how she felt when she found out from Bellamy of all people that her ex-boyfriend has a secret love child with the girl he cheated on her with?" Octavia demanded.
"Listen to me. The Grounder army is gonna be here in less than a day. We don't have time to go over what I was thinking while pregnant," it felt weird for her to say it. It had become natural for her to say Madi was hers. She was, after all. She may not have carried her inside her, but the love she felt for the child was real. Still, it felt odd to lie about being pregnant. She did feel a pang of guilt for the pain that Raven was feeling. Octavia was right, she hadn't thought about her when she took up this mantle. Still, Raven's feelings did not outweigh Madi's life, and she could only hope that the young woman would forgive her for this eventually, "I need to see Bellamy."
"Bellamy was a part of this. He's with Pike. What makes you think he'll help us?" the other girl pointed out. Clarke wanted to say that it was only hope that Bellamy was being manipulated, that this wasn't him, but she had to admit that thinking about it, this was well within Bellamy's character. He thought he was doing right by his people, and that was the Bellamy she remembered. She just had to believe that she could convince him that this wasn't right for their people at all. Preferably before a Grounder army massacred their people.
"He saved Indra's life," she said instead, going with the easier explanation and turning to Lexa, "If what Octavia is saying is true, then Pike trusts him. If I can get to him, he can get to Pike."
"You can't just walk through the gates, Clarke. You've been living with their enemy. If it were me, I'd kill you on the spot. Do you want to leave your child an orphan? Madi needs you, as you well know. Will you really take that chance?" Lexa responded.
"I have to. I know that if anything happens to me, you will ensure Madi's safety. I trust you with the most important thing to me. But I need to ensure that my people are safe as well, and you know that as well as I do." Clarke looked Lexa right in the eyes as she said that, knowing the other woman would understand. She too had a responsibility to her people.
"I can get her in. There would still be risk of course, but she wouldn't have to walk through the front gate." Octavia told them both, nodding.
"Then it's settled. Clarke will go and get Pike, and Madi shall stay with us," Lexa said. Knowing that she was going into a dangerous situation, she kissed her little daughter's head.
"I love you, Madi. I will come back for you. I promise," Clarke whispered in her ear, kissing her head again. "Always."