A/N: I am really not satisfied with this one. That's why it took me so long to post it. I don't like it, and I'm sorry I couldn't do better :/
Anyway... How much would you hate me if something really bad happened to Nyx...?
I mostly use the italic for sentences written in English but meant to be in another language, be it Trigedasleng or Italian. And if there are no " " it's someone's thoughts.
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Chapter Twenty-Six: Betrayed
But she opens her eyes again and death does not come that day. The knife retreats, although the grip doesn't loosen and brown hard eyes stare into her own gentler ones.
Faith struggles to talk, her throat hurting, but Ontari doesn't let her begin.
"What are you doing here?" Ontari growls and her voice is so different from the gentle one Faith was used to.
She stumbles on her words, not knowing what to say. She didn't really plan that far, she thought that surviving would have meant that Ontari could still be on her side, though this Ontari looked anything but.
"How did you get those scars?", it's the most dumb thing she could've said, but it's the only thing that reaches her brain.
Ontari stares at her with hard eyes and shoves her against the wall one more time before taking a step back. Faith waits for a reaction that doesn't come. Ontari is silent, until she presses the knife back to Faith's throat and hisses a warning.
"Stay far away from me, or you won't survive those same scars."
Ontari is gone before Faith can say much, but her last words still reach the retreating shadow. "I miss you".
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Faith can finally breath properly as she returns to the the main road, head bowed to hide herself, a grim expression on her face. On her way back she encounters other guards and look for a place to hide quickly, as she takes a turn into a small street, she feels someone grab her and usher her into a dark alley. Blond hair are barely hidden from the hood and she soon spots blue eyes that make her calm down.
Clarke's hand is still firm on her arm as Nyx jerks her away, furious eyes glaring at her.
Nobody says anything and Faith really can't stand the silence, so she starts to apologise, but Nyx cuts her off.
"You've seen her."
It's not a question, and she knows she's not supposed to confirm it, so she just lowers her gaze looking at the floor. She knows it was reckless, she endangered everyone and she worried her friends, but she had to see the girl.
Nyx's eyes are hard and she doesn't say anything else as she steps out into the street again and leads them back.
As they walk in silence, Faith feels Clarke's hand sliding up her back, a small comfort as their friend marches in front of them, still deadly silent. Faith knows she's in for a lesson and she knows she needs to apologise to the others for worrying them, so, as they get back to camp, she starts with Clarke, figuring she's the easy one.
And Clarke is upset, she was scared for her young friend, but she understands somehow and Faith's heart feels a bit lighter.
Nyx talks to her, eventually, after dinner, and Faith promises to make it up to her. Nyx shakes her head and ruffles her hair as she used to do when Faith was younger.
That night Faith thinks it all over in her head. She finds she doesn't regret going to Ontari, and she acknowledges there's still hope in her heart, hope that her friend is not really lost to her.
She falls asleep thinking about brown eyes that used to be a comfortable place to her.
Hatan watches the Sky People with a troubled mind, he looks back to Octavia quietly talking with Sylvia and can't help but wonder. He likes the girl, but he knows she is Bellamy's sister and he can't trust the boy, so can he trust her?
His dark mood doesn't go unnoticed by his friends and he tries not to worry them, although it feels like lying not telling them what he overheard. Soon Cham is at his side, questioning his foul expression and Hatan can't hide anything from the man who's like a brother to him.
Cham looks very disturbed by it and Hatan immediately regrets saying anything. His friend doesn't speak for a long time, and when he does, Hatan doesn't like what comes out of his lips.
"Obviously we can't trust her people, how do we know we can trust her?"
He believes in Clarke and Nyx, he doesn't like where Cham is taking the conversation.
"We thought she had left her people after destroying the Mountain, because she couldn't face them, because she couldn't go back. Yet, here her people are, rushing to rescue her with their weapons from a dead world. How do we know she was not lying in the first place?"
Hatan growls at him then, he tells him to shut up and stop that nosense. He doesn't want to doubt Clarke, he has faith in Nyx, Wit, Aeryn, he trusts their judgement, and if even the stoic and cold Malaya accepted Clarke as one of them, he will not doubt her. But Cham's words trouble him as much as those of the Sky people.
"Even if she is telling the truth and has nothing to do with their plans, she will have to choose. And do you really think she will not choose her family?" Cham falls quiet then, letting the words sink in and Hatan can't deny that the question is a valid one.
If Clarke were to choose a side between Sky and Ice, which would she choose? Is it really believable that she would think twice before choosing her people and family?
Livio betrays them.
Elia dies at the hands of the soldiers who ambush them in the small camp, the only one they told Livio about. Malaya insisted on making the boys believe most of the rebels where yet to arrive and now they're all grateful for it.
There is a fight, one they cannot win, they are highly outnumbered and the soldiers are not alone, royal guards are with them and they are the best warriors in Ice. Malaya struggles to hold her own as she pushes the other rebels to retreat.
Clarke manages to get a hold of Faith, pulling the girl away from the fight, Goral and Kora are fighting side to side, holding back the soldiers to give the others time to run. Few of them die, Xavier tries to save a young boy and almost gets killed as he's attacked by three soldiers, Jivin runs to help him and together they manage to put some distance between them and the soldiers.
Nyx, Rokh and Jeanne are still in the middle of the fight, Clarke rushes to help them and Malaya follows as soon as she has cleared an escape way to allow a quick retreat when they are all together.
Jeanne is badly wounded when Goral gets to her, leaving Xavier and Kora to protect the escape way. He has to pick her up because she can't run, he hands her to Xavier and turns just in time to see the worst happen.
Clarke is fighting off soldiers with Faith, a royal guard engages her in a fight and the blonde does her best to remember the sparring with Nyx and Liri's lessons. Faith is struggling, still refusing to run back to safety, she stubbornly fights her way out of a nasty situation and turns to see Clarke staring in shock at the same young man she saw Ontari with a few days ago.
The battle seems to stop, time halting with it, as everyone stares at the person between two pointing swords.
Everything proceeds in slow motion for Faith, she doesn't even realise she's screaming and kicking as Malaya and Clarke struggle to pull her back. The next thing she knows is that they're all retreating, the soldiers leaving with their prize.
Ontari avoids her eyes as Faith looks at her, betrayal, regret and fury written all over her face. She snarls at the dark haired warrior and swears to get revenge, she yells and tries to break free from her friends' hold, she tries to reach the girl who she can't believe she thought could still be her friend. She wants to kill her.
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Nyx is gone. Clarke is still in shock as she enters the tent with Malaya, Faith and Goral. Aeryn immediately goes over to them, terror flashing in her eyes at their expressions.
Clarke keeps seeing the scene, Nyx engaging Roan in a fight, none of them able to prevail although he was obviously way better trained than her, and then Ontari joining the fight. That's when Nyx lost.
Clarke remembers Malaya desperately trying to reach her friend, she remembers herself struggling to get rid of the soldiers she was still fighting to go help the brunette. But neither of them had been fast enough. Nyx lost her sword, Roan pointed his own at her chest, Ontari immediately raising hers at the rebel's back, discouraging her from attempting to reach for her daggers.
Clarke saw Xavier at the back of her eye getting a hold of a bow, knocking an arrow and never having the opportunity to let it fly at Roan or Ontari. Royal guards were upon him in seconds and his arrow struck one in the chest, never reaching the two warriors who were capturing Nyx. Goral was the one who had yelled to retreat, and Clarke barely recalls grasping at Faith and needing Malaya's help to keep the girl from following the soldiers. She remembers watching them tying Nyx, she remembers Ontari staring their way, a few royal guards laughing and they were gone. The way back to the bigger camp had passed in shock and denial.
They trusted the wrong people. Livio betrayed them, probably hoping to be accepted in the royal guard, Elia was dead and Nyx was captured. What could they do now?
She's forced back from her thoughts by Aeryn demanding an answer, but everyone is averting their eyes, none finding the words.
"Livio betrayed us. Elia is dead, some of our own are dead. Nyx was captured." she's surprised to hear her voice steady and hard, she also realises she's spoken in English, but Aeryn understood. As she sees Aeryn crumble in front of them, she feels a cold sensation washing over her, she feels oddly calm as ice cold reason pushes the pain back. It seems she never has time to grief when she needs to. She didn't get time to grief for Wells, she didn't get to grief for Finn at all, she was always forced to push the pain away and focus on what needed to be done. Her people needed her and she put aside her own feelings for them, she has to do the same now.
She will acknowledge the pain later, now Aeryn needs her, Faith needs her, Malaya, Goral, the rebels need her. Her people need her. Her family needs her, her friends are breaking and she has to be the one to hold them together. Nyx would want her to.
