Robby pov
Throughout the last month, I have been training in combat with Lincoln, we've grown closer and developed a mutual respect. Lincoln wouldn't let Octavia train in combat at first, but he let her come the days we would learn trangedaslang. We've become mostly fluent in the language and the three of us have become close friends. We laugh and have fun during training, even the grueling parts. The combat days when Octavia doesn't want to sleep in, she comes and watches us. I started sleeping in her tent more often. Eventually, I moved in pretty much full time. Most nights we were too tired and went straight to bed. Lincoln has taught her some moves. The bamboo sticks have been his method of training me in sword combat. They still sting like a bitch and draw plenty of blood, but they aren't lethal. I last quite a while against Lincoln now and it usually doesn't end until one of us tires out. It's almost always me though. Lincoln has also been training my body. He has me go on long runs through the woods and haul big rocks and logs across a waist deep stream that thankfully has no giant water snakes. He also found a tree that he has me do set after set of pull ups which eventually become muscle ups as my body grows stronger. My body has grown bigger and more built than ever before and I come back with less and less marks each day. I let Clarke and Raven in on my secret because Clarke knew I was up to something whenever I would come back every morning covered in gashes and tattooed with bruises. I was also draining suture kits and running out of excuses. Octavia joined me on the runs and I even let her spar because she seemed like she wanted to train. I went easy at first, but I really didn't need to because she was extremely tough and a natural warrior. If I went easy, she usually knocked me on my ass. The three of us would spend time after training laughing and chatting by the river or in Lincoln's cave. Lincoln actually had a decent sense of humor, but was serious most of the time. This specific day after a long sparring match with the bamboo branches, I finally took him down. I swept his leg and he went down and I put him in a headlock where I could break his neck if I wanted. He grunted and tapped out. I cheered and he clapped me on the shoulder and congratulated me in trangedaslang. Octavia ran up and gave me a long kiss. We decided to celebrate and Lincoln decided to give us stuff. He gave Octavia his sketchbook I looked at the day we almost tortured him and he said he'd give me my gift later. As Octavia and I were walking back to camp, She was flipping though the book with a concentrated expression.
"Holy shit, today's Unity Day," I suddenly blurt out.
"Cool," Octavia responds uninterested.
"How could you not like Unity Day? We have Monty for moon shine and there's gonna be a huge party. It's gonna be awesome. You'll love it, I promise. Also, no guards or curfew tonight," I say giddily.
She looks down in sadness and I don't know why. Maybe she doesn't like parties. I suddenly remember that she's probably never been to a party because she spent her life in one room so she might be nervous or something.
"Everything cool O?" I ask with concern
"Yeah I'm fine it's just that... the last party I went to, I was arrested and my mom got floated. All because I was born," she says looking down in shame.
I instantly wrap my arms around her and she hugs back. She sniffles and then instantly wipes her eyes aggressively.
"Octavia Blake, your birth was an amazing thing. Everyone thinks your great. You have nothing to be ashamed of at all," I say looking her in the eye.
"A lot of the girls at camp think I'm a crazy bitch. I hear them talking behind my back," Octavia says shaking her head and tossing her arms in the air as tears roll down her face.
"They're just jealous of how beautiful and kick ass you are. Think of all the other people down here that actually matter like Clarke, Jasper, Monty, Bellamy, Raven, Lincoln, and hell, even Finn that think your amazing. And hey, if it's any consolation, I think your pretty damn awesome," I say smirking at her.
She stands there quietly for a second and I think I said something wrong. Then she simply hugs me tightly and whispers "thank you."
"If you want we can go someone else for the night," I say even tho I really want to be there for the first earth party, but if she's happy, I'm happy.
"How about we stay for a little while then go hang with Lincoln," she suggests.
"Sounds like a plan, plus I'm curious to see what he was gonna give me. Maybe it's another sketchbook," I say jokingly.
Octavia laughs out loud and we walk back to camp. When we arrive we hear Jaha's voice on some radio. (How fucking wonderful).
He's spouting shit about unity day.
"After we did all the work. Someone shut him up," Miller says smiling and shaking his head.
"You shut up Miller. No one asked you to watch," Raven says in a sassy tone.
I decide to tune out Jaha and walk to my tent and relax for a while. Octavia is in there flipping through Lincoln's sketchbook.
"You sure like that book," I say with a hint of jealousy.
"What? He's a good artist," Octavia says shrugging.
She turns to look at me and her expression goes from blank to amused as she sees my skeptical face.
"Don't get jealous. Just because I see y'all both shirtless most days doesn't mean I'm falling for him instead of you. However, I do like the changes his training is doing to your body," Octavia teases as her eyes trail around my body.
I flex with joking emphasis.
"Nah your not getting away from me that easily," she says grinning at me.
"Oh I could never," I say and wrap my arms around her and kiss her neck from behind.
"You know the reason I didn't want you to train in combat wasn't because I thought you couldn't do it. The reason was that I care about you and I wouldn't know what do to with myself if you got hurt," I say kissing the back of her head.
"Yeah, I understand. The reason I wanted to train so badly was so people could see me as something other than Bellamy's sister," she says.
"Well I'm glad Lincoln and I let you train with us. At first, I saw you as Octavia Blake, the extremely attractive hot head with a heart of gold that stole mine. Now I still see you as that, but it's more Octavia, the badass warrior who I wouldn't wanna piss off," I say.
She rolls over and looks up at me.
"Well I see you as Robby Kane, the warrior who I can't stop staring at," she flirts tilting her head to the side and slyly grinning at me.
I lean down and kiss her. The kiss lasts a while until we hear someone yelling outside. We both get up to run outside expecting something to be going down. I sigh in relief when I see Jasper sprinting holding some metal jug.
"Whoo! Yeah! Monty strikes again!" He shouts shaking the jug full of his moonshine.
"Party time," I say to Octavia who looks excited.
I grab two canteens and look over to Octavia.
"How about we get one for Lincoln as a gift," I say smirking like a little kid who just got an awesome present.
Octavia nods and smiles. I sprint over to the crowd. Jasper sees me and smiles.
"Robby Kane, my man!" He yells holding out his hand.
"You and Monty know how to party bro," I say excitedly as he fills my canteens.
We high five and I make my way through the crowd. I run back to Octavia who smiles giddily.
"I have a suggestion. Why don't we party for a while then go chill with Lincoln once the drunks pass out and most of the others retire," I propose.
She grabs one of the canteens aggressively.
"Let's do itit," Octavia says with a large smirk.
The party is a lot of fun and Octavia is having a wonderful time. It would be better with music, but people are having fun anyway. Octavia and I won a game of quarters against Sterling and Clarke. When Octavia makes the last shot everyone drunkingly cheers including us two. I decide to go have a chat with Bellamy for some reason.
"Why so serious?" I say grinning as I stumble slightly up to him.
He chuckles and says "glad your having fun," I can tell he's had a few drinks, but not a lot.
"I'm glad Octavia is having fun," he follows up.
He slaps a hand on my shoulder rather hard due to the alcohol.
"She's the life of the party man," I say with drunk confidence.
He wraps his arm around my shoulder.
"You know Robby, I'm sorry I tied you to a tree and tried to kill you. I thought you were a snobby pain in the ass at first, but I like you Robby," he says looking me in the eye.
"Thanks man you too," I say.
"Ya know what Bellamy, tomorrow we worry about the grounders, but tonight, we do whatever the hell we want, whenever the hell we want," I say smiling at how slurred my words sound.
He smiles and says "damn right,"
I offer him some moonshine and he shakes his head.
"Cmon drink it. Itl put hair on your balls," I tease.
He laughs. He actually laughs. It's very quick, but my drunk ass notices.
"I've done it. I've made Bellamy Blake laugh," I say taunting him.
"Alright run along pretty boy," Bellamy says jokingly.
I see Clarke walking up and I decide to find Octavia.
She comes up to me and puts her hands on my shoulders.
"Robby!" She yells in a very drunk voice while laughing her ass off.
"O, you wanna head out and see Lincoln?" I whisper.
"Yeah let's go," she says.
"But before we go I gotta say something first," I whisper.
"Everybody listen up!" I yell.
People stop and turn their attention to me and everything goes quiet.
"We need to salute the man who made this all possible with his wonderful batch of moonshine and his incredibly fucking intelligent brain! A toast, to our friend and brother, Monty Green!" I shout holding up my cup and I catch sight of Monty who is looking around a bit nervously.
"To Monty!" Numerous people in the crowd drunkingly cheer while holding up their cups.
Monty grins widely as people pat him on the back and he clinks cups with Jasper and they drink.
I slowly sober up on the walk while helping a very drunk Octavia walk. I see the cave and we go inside. I decide to sneak up on Lincoln. It was a running gag we had whenever one of us would scare the other from behind and start a fight.
I get out my knife and hold it up to his throat.
"Never let your guard down," I say smugly.
Due to the alcohol I stand no chance and he puts me in a headlock in record time.
"What does a warrior do? What does a warrior do?" He asks in his instructive tone.
I make a gross choking sound and tap out furiously on his arm.
"There's no tapping in a fight!" He says smiling and lets me go.
"You two just can't stop can you? Oh boys" Octavia sighs sitting down with a genuinely happy smile.
"What happened to you two, Jobi nuts?" Lincoln asks incredulously.
"Even better," I say.
"We thought since you gave us things, that we'd give you a gift as well," I say holding up the canteen of moonshine.
"What is it?" Lincoln asks.
"Only the best shit. Moonshine," I say tossing him the canteen.
"What's it do?" Lincoln asks when he catches it.
"It tastes like dirt, but it gets you feeling amazing," I say with drunk enthusiasm.
Lincoln takes a swig and looks unfazed by the strength of the alcohol.
"Yeah that doesn't taste too great," Lincoln says as he swallows.
He takes another swig and sits down.
"So why are y'all here? training isn't until tomorrow," Lincoln says.
"We got bored and decided to come hang with you," Octavia says.
"Well Robby, it's a good thing you're here because I've finished making your weapon," Lincoln says.
I look to the fire and see a metal object glowing red hot from the flames.
It looks almost like a ..."sword!" I shout out loud because the alcohol causes me to sound like a little kid spotting a birthday gift.
"Octavia, yours will be coming soon," Lincoln addresses.
Octavia just nods, but looks like she's about to fall asleep. Lincoln finishes branding the metal and once it cools off, he hands the blade to me.
"Congratulations Robby kom skaikru," Lincoln says with pride as he hands me my sword.
I look at it in awe.
"Thanks," I simply say, but I can't believe I have a sword now.
"You have earned it and you have also earned the title of warrior," Lincoln says and sticks out his arm.
I clasp his forearm in the grounder handshake.
"Thank you. I'll do everything I can to honor what I've earned," I say with 100% seriousness.
I put it down extremely gently on the ground and go over to Octavia who is slumped on a rock. She drunkingly gets up and plops down on my lap.
"I love you," she says as she gives me a sloppy kiss.
"Alright I love you to. Try to relax," I say stifling a laugh and gently push her head away.
Lincoln just smiles slightly.
"I'm sure there are plenty of women in grounderville or where ever y'all live," I say shrugging
He simply half smiles and shakes his head.
"I don't have time for that. Not right now," he says looking longingly at the fire.
"Don't worry you'll find the one. I promise. Things are worth waiting for," I say.
Octavia rests her head on my shoulder and slowly breathes on my neck. I'm still a little drunk, but nearly sober. Suddenly we hear footsteps and none other than Finn runs into the cave wielding a knife.