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Clarke bristled at that, dropping the new bandage on his chest as she quickly stood. "You have no right to judge me or Bellamy. Especially not Bellamy as he has only done the best he could to protect all of us. We have no option but to use the weapons for our protection against the grounders." She quickly looked over towards the tent flap as Raven would enter and she would hand her all the supplies before leaving.
Chapter 10: Unity Day
"Clarke! Clarke they are calling you on the comm!" Came the call across the camp and Clarke would roll her eyes towards Bellamy as they shared an afternoon meal of dried meat and berries. After a quiet kiss to his forehead she would head over towards the tent with the comm link and sat before the screen, pulling the headphones on as she looked towards the council that was surrounding the council table. "Good Afternoon everyone." Clarke stated pleasantly before Jaha would cut her off.
"Clarke, we have some pressing business to discuss. With the oncoming of winter, we have decided that our exodus should begin after the snow has stopped falling." Jaha stated, cutting off the pleasantries as the others around the table all looked towards her and nodded.
Clarke stood frozen for a moment, looking at them in confusion as Bellamy entered from behind the screen. She looked up to meet his eyes for a moment before looking back towards them. "W-why? The Ark is running out of oxygen… and we need you down here for help."
"In good time, Clarke." Jaha stated, unaware that Bellamy had entered and could hear their exchange. "We need you all to start building farmable land, to start building housing for us when we start to arrive and there is another thing. We need to see about reaching a compromise with the Grounders, at least just until we get there."
Clarke frowned softly when she listened to his words and started to speak, "With all due respect, we don't have the resources to even survive through the winter months."
"Clarke… we won't be able to get ready to launch for another three months. You have your orders." Jaha stated simply, cutting her off as he disconnected the comm. Clarke groaned, resting back in the chair as she pressed her hand over her face for a moment then looked up towards Bellamy as he came to her. "Can you believe this?"
Bellamy would frown softly, crossing his arms against his chest as he contemplated what was going from what Jaha had stated. They would have a lot of work to do before they were able to survive the winter that was coming. "Well, we will just have to do what we need to do, Princess." He stated, giving her a small look. "Come on, let's go tell the kids."
Clarke shook her head at his words, angry that all their plans were not coming out correctly. But what could they do? The Ark had their rules and they were helpless against them. She followed him from the tent and into the area as they addressed the crowd.
"Listen up! The Ark has run into some complications so we will have to lay some groundwork. Monty, Finn, Miller, Jasper, and Raven will head up the engineering, mechanical, hunting, guard, and farming divisions. They will be responsible to finding individuals to help in these areas and if you would prefer one, let them know. Clarke will be heading up the medical area of expertise and I will be in charge of overall safety of the camp until Miller can get his team ready. Does anyone have any questions or concerns?" When no one else made a move forward or even spoke against his words Clarke would speak up. "We need to all work together to prepare for winter. We don't know what to expect on Earth, but we will meet it head on."
Clarke nodded to everyone as a few people started to move and she looked over to meet Bellamy's eyes in reassurance that they were doing the right thing when it came down to their people. What they didn't know was that Finn has snuck off from the camp and followed Octavia when she went to meet her grounder lover.
It was later on that night during the pre-work party that Clarke found herself finally relaxing for once, all under the watchful eye of Bellamy of course. She was just about to flip a piece of metal when Finn walked up to her side and caught the coin she was trying to flip. Clarke looked at him in surprise when Finn looked at her, "We need to talk."
She grimaced when Finn gripped her upper arm and started to leave her from the party. She would look over her shoulder to meet Bellamy's eyes and his narrowed dangerously. She looked away as Bellamy moved through the dancing crowd to follow them at a discreet distance.
"What do you want, Finn? Did something happen?" Clarke asked him.
"I need you to come with me, but I can't tell you why, okay?" Finn pleaded.
"Just tell me why first." She stated angrily as she crossed her arms against her chest. When Finn tried to grab her arm to direct her again, she would brush him off of her. "Hey… don't."
Finn sighed as he looked at her. "I set up a meeting with the grounders."
Clarke gasped in shocked outrage, looking back towards the crowd then back to him. "A meeting? I don't understand. With who? How?"
"I was just with the grounder that we had in the dropship. His name is Lincoln."
"Wa-wait a second." Clarke gasped out confused, moving her hand up to rub her head softly. "He spoke to you?"
"It's not important. If we want to live in peace—"
"Finn, we can't live in peace with people who've done nothing but kill us."
"Can you think of a better way to stop the bloodshed?" Finn asked her in anger, "Or are you too attached to Bellamy that you don't have a brain anymore."
Clarke's eyes widen, her hand moving up to slap his cheek quickly. She huffed out and spoke quickly to him, "Yeah, with the guns and with the guards that will come down."
"You really want the war?" He asked angrily, glancing around to make sure no one had seen the slap before he gripped her upper arms. "Clarke, this is our chance to avoid that."
Clarke looked up at him for a moment before she shrugged his hands off of her and finally relented. "Fine… just let me go get my pack and I'll meet you at the gate."
Clarke would quickly move back to the crowd and started to walk towards the tent that she had been sleeping with Bellamy in lately. She spotted him as he was walking that way as well so she reached out to grab his arm. "Hey… I need to talk to you."
Bellamy paused at the sound of her worried voice, tilting his head down to look down at her. "Finn's set up a meeting with the grounders." Clarke stated, watching as his eyes widen in response to that and he stepped forward to her. "I agreed to go… but I want you to follow us at a safe distance. I don't want to go unprotected, but they can't see the weapons."
"Clarke…" He protested, reaching up to run his knuckles over his cheek and jawline softly, "I don't like this…"
"Neither do I… but it's our chance." She stated softly, pleading with him and he would nod to her softly. Leaning down while pressing his fingers through her hair to direct her head up as they kissed deeply and passionately. Clarke gave out a loud moan as her fingers gripped his shirt tightly before she broke the kiss and stepped back, those blue eyes of her's wide as she looked around. "Remember… stay hidden."
Bellamy nodded softly, not wanting to let her go but he would slowly do so…. Watching her as he moved to get her pack and he would move to grab Raven and Jasper. "You two… grab some rifles and come with me."
"I'd love it if you were right about this, but did you ever think it was a trap?" Clarke asked him as they walked through the woods.
"Yeah, but with this being Unity Day and all I thought this would be a good idea." He stated softly, giving her a smile as he kept walking and he didn't notice as Clarke reached into her pocket to pull out the psychedelic nuts, dropping a few of them behind her to give Bellamy a way to follow her.
Bellamy paused as he squatted down to look at the items on the ground, slowly collecting them just like the other ones he had found along the trail. His fingers gripped the nuts tightly in his hands, swearing he would catch up to Clarke and keep her safe. He rolled his eyes in annoyance when Jasper and Raven said something annoying to each other. "Will you two cut it out? We are supposed to be stealthy, not announce our presence to everyone."
Clarke rushed to keep up when she heard the sound of rushing water, coming around the group of trees only to see Octavia there. Her eyes widen as she stepped forward, "Octavia?" Clarke was surprised to see the girl there and she quickly looked back to scan the woods to see if she could see any evidence of Bellamy and was relived when she saw a slight movement in the branches.
Clarke steeled herself, knowing that everything that was about to happen would be on her conscious. "So, that's how you set this up. With Octavia and the grounder." Clarke would meet Octavia's eyes, sympathy warring with anger at the brash girl. "You helped him escape, didn't you?"
Octavia would meet her eyes sternly before she would answer her, "I trust him, Clarke." Clarke would glance over towards Finn, "There's a lot of that going around." She turned her head sharply to the sound of footsteps running on the concrete of the bridge. Her eyes widening and taking a cautious step back when she realized who it was. She watched as Octavia ran forward towards Lincoln, them both pausing as she launched herself into his arms and held him tightly for a moment before Lincoln would slowly lower her down to her feet and meet Clarke's eyes. Clarke wanted to turn and call for Bellamy to join her but paused when Finn reached down to take her hand and grasped it tightly. Clarke frowned, looking down at their joined hands and then up towards him. "Just go with it." Finn muttered to her softly.
"I'm gonna kill him." Bellamy grounded out as he gripped the gun tightly in his hands, his angry gaze taking in Finn touching HIS Clarke and the fact that the grounder had his hands all over his little sister.
"Which one?" Jasper asked in disbelief while Raven echoed him. "I'm gonna kill Finn…" Bellamy didn't say anything else as he pulled the rifle into his shoulder, looking through the scope towards the grounder that currently had his hands over his sister. He knew if time came to it Raven would make Finn regret ever touching his princess, but who would protect Octavia from herself?
"Wait…. Look." Came Raven's voice from behind him as she touched his shoulder and directed his attention towards the other end of the bridge where something was moving out from the shelter of the trees.
"Oh, my god. Horses!" Clarke gasped, momentarily taken aback by the sight of the large beasts they only read about in the story books that came from Earth. As the three riders approached her gaze went over the two men and then towards the person in the center of the group. A woman with what looked like war paint across her features.
"Hey! We said no weapons!" Finn stated, rushing forward but bringing her as well with their fingers still laced together.
"I was told there wouldn't be." Lincoln protested, standing next to Octavia and holding her hand to reassure her that everything would be alright. Clarke saw the move, looking over them for a moment as she tried to take her hand back from Finn's. Finn glared down at her, keeping their fingers tightly locked together.
This move didn't go unnoticed by the people around them, in fact, Raven let out a muttering breath and the female grounder smirked.
"It's too late now." Clarke stated, jerking her hand away from Finn now as she started to walk forward to meet her fate and watched with hope blooming as the female grounder lowered herself from the horse and started to walk towards her as well to meet in the center of the bridge between the two groups. She paused when she heard something behind her, turning her head and seeing Finn had tried to follow her only for Lincoln to put a hand out in front of him. "She goes alone."
Bellamy held his breath as he watched Clarke walk out into the open on the bridge, watching the way she proudly held her head high. He gripped his rifle, keeping it in the pointed down position to not incite any kind of war.
The two women paused in the center of the bridge, their eyes taking in each other and trying to figure out motives that the other was hiding.
"Your name is Clarke?" Came the strong voice in English and Clarke only took a second to show her surprise before she would answer with a simple, "Yes."
"I'm Anya." She stated simply and Clarke would hold out her hand towards her in offered manners. Anya would look down over her hand for a moment, as if checking for a blade before she would reach out to grab her inner arm, their palms meeting against each other's wrists as Anya studied her. The connection was brief as she pulled back and shifted. "We have a lot to discuss before we are friendlier than a greeting handshake."
"I think we got off to a rough start…" Clarke stated as she looked up to meet her eyes, "but we want to find a way to live together in peace."
Anya's brows raised before she spoke, "I understand. You started a war that you don't know how to end."
Clarke shook her head in surprise before speaking, "What? No. We didn't start anything. You attacked us for no reason."
"No reason?" Anya echoed. "The missiles you launched burned a village to the ground."
Clarke shook her head in confusion for a moment, "Missiles? No… oh the flares! No, we were trying to signal our families on the Ark that we were alive." She stated as she pointed up towards the sky. "We had no idea that a village was so close to us that we would have harmed them." Clarke stated with remorse full on her face. She swallowed for a moment before she would speak to her again. "I am a healer… I can help them if you would allow it."
Anya fumed, staring down at the younger girl and crossing her arms against her chest as she thought about her offer. She would glance behind her to the boy that was almost pacing before she spoke, "Is that your protector? Lincoln told me he claims to be."
"My protector?" Clarke asked in confusion, tossing her head softly.
"Your right-hand man, your co-leader." Anya stated in clear annoyance.
"No. He isn't. My right-hand man and co-leader is named Bellamy. He is brother to the girl that is with Lincoln." Clarke stated, meeting Anya's eyes to try to read the other woman.
"You're invaders. You landed into our territory without permission and then hunted without authorization." Anya stated, unable to like the girl with so much riding on the table.
"Anya," Clarke started softly. "We didn't know anyone was here. We were all told that everyone had died ninety-five years ago. We only learned differently when one of us was speared through the chest. Imagine in our place, if you would. We were one hundred teens between the ages of twelve and seventeen being sent to an unlivable planet because of crimes."
She watched the other woman tilt her head at that, drumming her fingers on her hand as she spoke, "Explain."
"If anyone under the age of eighteen commits a crime on the Ark, they are sent to prison till they are eighteen where they would have a chance at life or death at the hands of a council. Instead of doing this to all of us, they sent us here."
Anya was baffled, wrinkling her brow as if she were trying to understand. "They sent… children to a planet no one had seen in almost a hundred years without any means of survival?" When Clarke shook her head, she would scoff. "I will need to report this to my commander. You can go now… back to your camp till then. You may hunt in your area for the time being, but the river to the east and this river here will be your boundary. We shall meet here on this bridge in one week's time."
"Thank you…" she stated, shocked and surprised that they relented so easily. She started to turn away from Anya when she heard the other woman speak once more.
"Oh… and Clarke?" Anya called which caused Clarke to turn her attention to her. "Do not break any of the rules or I won't be able to save you from the commander."
Clarke would nod softly to the woman before starting to walk back towards the group that waited for her. Finn looked eager to know what had been said and tried to take her hand again only for her to push him away from her. She would look up to meet Lincoln and Octavia's face before she directed to the woods. "We will talk there." She stated simply, unwilling to go through what just happened twice. She was quiet, contemplating, while they walked into a tree line and she would stop after a few minutes.
"Why did we stop?" Octavia asked simply and Clarke would look up towards her. "Backup." Clarke simply stated, watching out the corner of her eye as Bellamy, Jasper and Raven appeared from the trees. Each of them was holding their weapons pointed downwards in case and Bellamy would quickly walk up towards Clarke. She didn't protest as she was pulled against the bigger man, his hand entangling in her golden hair as he pressed his head against her own for a moment. After seeming to control himself he turned his angry eyes towards the grounder and took a menacing step towards him.
"Bell… don't." Clarke stated softly, resting her hand on his upper arm to stop the fight that was about to happen. "The woman listened to what I had to say. She is going to go speak with the commander, whoever that is, and we are suppose to meet her back here in a week. Lincoln was right to set this all up and the only reason she listened to me at all was because of Lincoln." She stated simply, looking up to meet his eyes for a moment before she would look over towards Lincoln with a soft nod of thanks.
"See… I told you everything would work out." Finn stated as he stepped forward only for Clarke to turn angrily towards him.
"As for you… you are a liar." She stated to the baffled expressions of everyone else and Raven would be the one to speak up. Her dark eyes looking over the both of them, "What do you mean?"
Lincoln would be the one to speak, pressing his fingers into Octavia's smaller hand. "He told me that he was the co-leader of the group. Was I mistaken?"
Bellamy felt his anger build inside of him till he was almost seeing red and he would have taken another step towards Finn if it weren't for Clarke speaking, "No. He isn't."
When Lincoln was quiet for a moment he would look down to Octavia as she spoke to him. "What does a co-leader do exactly? I have a feeling that the term is different for grounders than us." Lincoln would nod softly before speaking to Bellamy. "It means that with Clarke being the leader of the group, the co-leader is the one to make the harder decisions, the wars and battles. He is her protector, her guardian, her friend and her lover."
Bellamy nearly growled when he heard those words and Raven looked shocked towards Finn. "Did you know this?" Bellamy accused Finn, only being restrained by the fact that Clarke was still holding onto his strong arms.
Finn swallowed tightly before he looked towards Raven when he answered. "Yes… Bellamy, you have to understand that Clarke needs someone-" His words were cut off when Raven slapped him across his face hard enough, he stumbled backwards with the force. Bellamy stared down at the man, stepping away before he did something to the man that wouldn't be accepted by the others.
"You are lucky you aren't dead right now." Bellamy grounded out, his vision still blurred with his anger and he then pointed towards Octavia and the grounder. "I'm not finished with either of you either."
"Bellamy… let's just go back to camp and speak to everyone about this... Lincoln will come with us and be able to help us learn what we can do to avoid any more misunderstandings. We need this to work if we are going to survive winter." Clarke pleaded, staring up at him and she waited till he was slowly starting to understand the words that she was telling him. Bellamy would slowly nod, looking down at her with those dark brown eyes. His fingers trailing through her hair once more before he nodded and pointed in direction of their camp.
The party of six were quiet the rest of the way back to the camp, Raven was in front of everyone with Octavia and Lincoln behind her, then Clarke and Bellamy and finally Finn bringing up the rear… the far rear. Bellamy called out to Miller when they got close to camp so no one would try to take aim at the grounder and start firing. Bellamy would smirk over to the impressed look that Lincoln gave off and would enter the camp once the gate was open.
Clarke would let out a sigh, trying to think of the right words as she slowly approached the group of kids that stared at them in surprise and at Lincoln in horror and fear. "Everyone… I have spoke with the grounder leader from the area and there has been made mention of demands. For us to live in peace with the Grounders we will need to follow their rules. As of right now, the boundaries are set by the rivers. We will be able to hunt and explore, but we are not allowed to cross those areas and we are not to use any kind of weapons against the grounders. They will not be attacking us and we are to meet again in a week."
Bellamy would clear his throat, crossing his arms against his chest as he addressed them all. "The Grounders seem to believe that Clarke and myself are the leaders of the group. That means, if any Grounders come and inquire about us, you all will have to answer that. If anyone else would like to step up as a leader we can have a vote to change it." Bellamy waited as everyone looked between each other for a moment and would only one person would step forward. Miller. "Bellamy, I think we can all agree that we have only made it this far because of you and Clarke. I for one, don't think anyone else would be a good leader that could ever take either of your place."
Bellamy felt such pride as multiple people confirmed with simple 'yes's' and he would give a nod to them. Bellamy would then motion Lincoln forward and would motion to the group. "Everyone, this is Lincoln… he will act as our interrupter in learning how to behave with the other grounder clan. Please refer to him if you have any questions or concerns. Other than that, it is business as usual and any other questions see Miller, myself or Clarke."
Bellamy gave everyone another look and he would dismissed them with a nod of his hand. He then turned his attention to where Finn was standing behind Clarke and he walked up to where they were almost nose to nose. "If you ever, ever, touch her again, Spacewalker, I will make you hurt." He stated, allowing all the anger and hatred to drip in his voice. He watched in satisfaction as the other man frowned and backed away from him rather quickly, pleased that he succeeded in scaring him off.
A loud sonic boom filled the air, making them all snap their heads up to the sky to see the fireball falling at too face of a speed as he spoke to Clarke, "Looks like your mom is early…"
Clarke stared up at the sight, shaking her head after a moment. "Wait… it's too fast without a parachute... something's wrong." She gasped out when an explosion cloud filled the night sky and she sank down to her knees in shock. Bellamy grabbed her tightly, holding her and supporting her as she gasped out in her agony. "Shh… Clarke…" He whispered against her, slowly helping her up and leading her towards the tent that he had moved all her things into. He slowly helped her remove her boots and his own as he moved down into the bedding to hold her close to him as she started to sob it out.
*Sorry for the short chapter everyone, just a busy day with meetings from work even though I was on vacation. How does everyone like this? I always thought that if Anya let Clarke explained and if Clarke was a little more open with Anya, they could have settled this differently. I hope to have the next chapter up tomorrow.
