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"I want the Mountain Men dead" I told my people, walking through the forest toward the beginning of a war. "They've slaughtered our people, drained their blood and used it for themselves. It's time they pay the price" Grounders and sky people nodded and cheered around me. Lexa walked in front of me, her brown hair swaying back and forth as we trudged through the night.
Lexa stopped in her tracks when one of her guards told her something. She turned around to look at the large group of warriors following behind her "we shall rest for the night. It will be a short slumber, we must attack our enemy at dawn before they realize we're coming". We planned on walking until we reached the bottom of Mount weather, but a lot of our people were tired and injured, especially those who were at Ton D.C. People nodded and began to settle down near tree trunks or sit and drink whatever water we had left. Lexa walked a little ways ahead with some of her guards, so I followed suit. She turned toward me, looking over my shoulder as to make sure no one could hear us.
"What's wrong?" I asked, noticing the hint of worry Lexa showed on her face. "Do they know we're coming?"
She shook her head " Do you think we have enough with us?" She asked, her eyes scanning over the warriors behind me.
"I think we can do it. Bellamy is going to let out all the Grounders in the Mountain, plus my people in there and we have an army here now" I said, sitting down on a fallen log. Lexa sat too and motioned for her guards to go and rest.
"I know, but everyone's weak Clarke. The people inside, they've been tortured and cut open, and most of the people here were at Ton D.C." She laid her head in her hands, covering her face as her body hunched over with exhaustion.
I laid one hand on her back and lifted her face to mine with my other. "Lexa, we can do this. We're not going to be stupid and just charge in there. We've thought this through. We have a strategy, and a back up strategy if the first one doesn't work out." I reassured her, rubbing small circles on her back. "Bellamy is going to radio Raven, who's going to radio me, when all the Grounders inside are out of their cages. We're going to go in through the Reaper tunnels because we can control them with the devices from Mount Weather. We got this, we're going to win." She nodded hesitantly and laid her head on my shoulder.
"You should sleep" she said a few moments later with her head still on my shoulder and her fingers intertwined with mine.
"So should you" I said, getting up slowly and stretching both my hands out to help her up. She took them graciously and stood up, looking around for a place to rest. I took her hand and walked her to a nearby tree, where we both sat down to lean against the hard bark. Lexa shifted a few times, obviously uncomfortable with these sleeping positions. After a few minutes of restlessness, she decided instead to lay down, using my lap as a pillow for her head. I smiled, running my fingers through her hair, before I heard her breathing slow to a steady pace. I soon shut my eyes, trying to quiet the voices in my head.
I awoke to the absence of warmth on my legs. Lexa was attempting, and failing, to get up without waking me. "Sorry" she mumbled as she stood, stretching her arms out and yawning. People around us were slowly waking up, while some were already awake and sharpening their weapons. I stood, holding back a yawn as Indra walked up to us.
"We are ready when you are" she said to Lexa, eyeing me standing close behind her leader.
"Thank you Indra, awake everyone and prepare. We will leave soon" Lexa said, her front hard like it always is when she talks, or commands, her people. Indra nodded and walked off, waking people along her path. "When will Bellamy radio us?" she asked.
"Soon hopefully. Raven told him to wait until at least the afternoon to give us time to prepare." I spun her around so we could be face to face. Her face was hard, but her emerald eyes continued to show signs of worry. "Lexa, we can do this, I know we can" She nodded and smirked, one corner of her mouth raising to show me, and only me, that she had emotions. She grabbed my hand swiftly and pulled me further away from the group into the woods.
She stopped unexpectedly and pushed me into a nearby tree, one hand grasping my waist while the other held my face. The warrior pressed her lips to mine, much more wanting than any times before. She trailed her tongue along my bottom lip to gain entrance to my mouth, and I wrapped my arms around her neck to pull her even closer. I bit onto her bottom lip before she pulled away, her eyes still closed. She touched her forehead to mine, and we stood there for what felt like forever, but what could have only been for a few minutes. Wrapped up in each other, neither one of us wanting to let go first. I finally opened my eyes to see her already watching me.
"You are my hope" she whispered lightly, lifting her head to kiss my forehead gently. She let go of me and started to walk back, but I grasped onto her wrist, pulling her back to me. I kissed her cheek and then we embraced, her strong arms wrapping around my waist. "Love is not weakness. It is strength" I whispered into her hair. She nodded and pulled away, both of us walking side by side back to our people and to the war that was to come.
We stood ready at the bottom of Mount Weather, low enough to escape the cameras' view, but high enough to attack at any moment. The tunnels stood before us, two large black holes drilled into the mountain. Hunched down to hide from sight, I was in the front with Lexa by my side, Indra and Octavia behind us. Grounders and sky people alike crouched in front of the tunnels, like lions ready to pounce. Then a crackle was heard from the radio I held firmly in my hand.
"They're out Clarke, he got them out" I heard Raven's voice say excitedly through the small device in my hand. Lexa looked at me, her hand holding onto a long sword-like knife. She nodded, and I inhaled a big breath of fresh air before Lexa stood. She began running into one tunnel, and I followed suit. Our large group of warriors divided into two groups, and quickly entered the dimly lit underpass that stood before them. We used the devices as planned to control the Reapers. The mad creations of the horrible Mountain Men sank to the ground at the high pitched noises and we continued on through the black holes.
Our group stopped at a shaft, that stood a little ways above our heads, where a rope dangled down for our access to Mount Weather. I quickly grabbed on, using all my upper body strength to climb the rope into the shaft, and then used my legs to help quicken my pace. I could feel someone begin to climb as well as I reached the top. I climbed out and dropped onto concrete floor, standing quickly and readying my weapon incase they heard us coming. I scanned the room, a doctor's lab with empty cages, before turning my attention to the Commander coming up behind me.
"Now where" she asked quietly as more and more of our people entered the room. I began walking toward the door, peaking out the window to make sure the coast was clear.
We walked until I heard voices echoing off the white walls of the underground town. Coming toward us were men in white and yellow vests, guns in their hands, aimed down at the ground. Their faces when they saw us showed so much fear that they didn't even have time to react before they were knifed.
We continued on until we met with Bellamy and a small group of grounders and my people. I quickly hugged them, smiling at Jasper and Harper before we marched on. As we turned a corner, the war began.
Bullets ran past my head, and I pushed back, trying to make everyone go back around the corner, but it was too late. Some people fell from bullets entering their bodies, but more continued on, using their weapons to bypass the small blockade of Mountain soldiers. Their were more that came after as we entered what I remembered to be the dining hall. Our people against theirs, bullets zoomed by, knives hit metal and bone, cries came from all around. I shot at and stabbed at whatever stood in front of me, attempting to stay alive long enough to win this war. I lost track of Lexa, unable to find her in the crowd of bodies that killed and died around me. Then someone grabbed onto me from behind. I quickly turned to stab them with my knife, but I met the bloody face of a friend.
"Clarke, go" Bellamy shouted, trying to be louder than the gun fire and cries. "Go help the injured escape, they need you out there" he pointed to a door leading the way we entered. "We got this here covered"
"Where's Lexa?" I asked
"She went to help. Go Clarke" he said before turning and shooting a nearby man in yellow. I turned and ran for the door, quickly retracing my steps back. I met up with Monty, who was helping two grounders out toward the shaft. I picked up the arm of one and hung it over my shoulder, trying to help her to her feet.
We finally found the room where many injured grounders and a few sky people stood, waiting to go down into the tunnels. I scanned the room until my eyes fell onto my warrior. She was helping her people down the shaft, quickly lifting and helping them up and into the escape route. I helped too, carrying people and the unconscious to the shaft and into freedom. We had almost everyone gone when noise could be heard from the hallway and the door burst open. Mountain Men aimed their guns and fired, bullets hitting the few who hadn't yet gone down the shaft. I quickly lifted my gun, shooting at the first few soldiers. Monty shot at them too as Lexa helped the last few into the shaft.
"Monty go!" I yelled. He ran to the shaft and jumped down.
"Clarke" I heard Lexa next to me. She started firing too, using a gun I had showed her to use before we had came. I turned to go down when I heard a bullet hit flesh alongside me. And then another. A hand grabbed onto my shoulder as the young Commander tried to stay up. Someone was yelling, and I think it was me, but I couldn't tell. I lifted her up, her hand still pulling the trigger at the men trying to kill us. I quickly climbed into the shaft, Lexa in my arms. I could hear her heart pumping and feel her blood on my hands as I held onto the girl I loved.