Disclaimer: I do not own The 100 or the characters in it. They are owned by Kass Morgan
Summery: Clarke was always good at keeping secrets. In fact, she's been keeping one since she was six years old and it's about to come out in the open.
Couples: Bellarke eventually
Rating: T probably because of swearing mostly but also because of mature content.
Author's Note: Thank you everyone for your kind reviews! I'm glad people like that I'm kind of sticking to the original story but not at the same time lol it means so much to mean! Hope everyone likes this!
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Bellamy and Clarke immediately gave their supplies, minus two guns to Monty, who tells them that Octavia was chasing a glowing butterfly and never came back. After a half hour him, Finn, and Jasper all searched within 5 miles but none of them could find her. Finn was an okay tracker, but he was no Bellamy.
"We'll get her back. You guys stay here and protect our home." Clarke says to Monty handing him a gun and telling him to use it only if he has no other choice and if Raven has time maybe she can fix the bullets.
"We'll be back once we find her." She says and he nods before giving her a quick hug. Monty and Clarke had a good friendship going since the drop and Jasper being taken, and she knew that she could depend on him no matter what.
"Bring O back home safe." He says nodding to Bellamy who was anxious to get out there and look for his sister. His sister, his responsibility.
They move fast but efficient, trying to track her movements until they reach a hill of some kind.
"It looks like she fell here." Clarke comments distractedly before looking at Bellamy and making her way down the cliff. It was hard walking, she could only imagine her best friend falling down this steep hill. Bellamy was a few steps ahead of her, and she knew his mind must be very determined to find anything that would lead him to his sister.
Bellamy crouches down and sees blood on a rock. It was still wet so it must have been recent.
"Clarke, come and look. I think she may have hit her head." He calls her over and she gets close to him and touches the blood with shaking hands.
"It's room temperature, so it happened recently." She whispers looking around and noticing footprints by the area.
"Someone took her." She says fearfully looking at Bellamy and trying not to cry. She couldn't lose Octavia. Not after everything that has happened, she couldn't lose her best friend.
Bellamy closes his eyes and tries to swallow his own pain. One of them needed to be in their right mind while they find his sister and Clarke has lost too much recently for it to be her.
"It may not be her blood, but for now, we need to assume it is and that she's hurt right now. We will find her." He says some what softly trying to convince her and himself.
He stands up and holds his hand out for her.
"Come on, we need to follow the tracks. Hopefully we can find the bastard that took her and be back before first light. You have enough water?" He asks gently and she nods numbly before taking his hand and got up from the floor.
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Octavia opens her eyes and rubs her sore head in pain. She had no idea where she was but she knew she had to get out of here. She looks around and sees she is in a cave of some kind. It was practically pitch black in here, only a ray of light shinning next to her. It reminded her too much of being under the floor.
"I am not afraid." She whispers before getting up. She makes a step before she sees her leg is chained to the wall. Fear creeps in and she looks around for something to protect herself with. Finding nothing she takes a deep breath, preparing herself for whoever took her. What could they possibly want from her?
"I am not afraid. I am wanted, I am loved, I was meant to exist." She mutters to herself.
"You were." A deep voice replies in the darkness making Octavia look around in fright. She didn't see anyone, but she knew someone was here. A grounder. A grounder took her and was going to kill her. Maybe do worse than kill her.
"What do you want from me?" She asks and is proud when her voice doesn't shake.
"You hit your head." He replies and slowly makes his way towards her and into the light. Octavia gasps in surprise. It was a man. He had dark skin, with animal skins covering his body, tattoos on his neck, but it was his eyes that caught her attention the most.
They were staring at her with such tenderness. A gentle look like that on such an intimidating man surprised her.
"Why am I here?" She asks him pleadingly moving her leg to rattle the chains that bound her.
"You hit your head." He says again softly moving closer to her and putting a bandage on her head. Octavia winces, from the pain or from his closeness she isn't sure. There was something about him that made her less afraid but he was still holding her here and not telling her why. She wouldn't let her guard down just yet.
He holds out a small vial for her to take. It was a yellow color and looked like some sort of medicine... or poison.
"What is it?" She asks looking at the vial then at him.
"It helps the pain." He says holding it out again, patiently waiting for her to take. After a couple seconds, Octavia takes the vial and drowns the contexts. If it was poison she would die, but she couldn't escape without a key and she knew she was no match for this strong looking man.
"Thank you." She whispers as she sits back down and he sits by her. Not too close for her to be uncomfortable but close enough that she can see his every move. Her head was starting to feel better so maybe he was trying to help her after all. She just wanted to know why. They have run into grounders since being on Earth and none of them were too interested in helping them, only killing them.
"I didn't know the grounders could speak English." She comments and he looks at her more intensely if that was possible.
"Only the warriors can." He replies nodding to himself as if to say he was a warrior. A warrior that could easily kill her.
"What's your name?" She asks trying to get as much out of him as possible. She also hated the silence, but she knew that if she some how got out of this, she could give the information to Bellamy and Clarke.
Bellamy and Clarke. She knew they must be looking for her by now and just hopes they are safe.
"Lincoln of the Tree People." He says and it makes her smile. Lincoln. It somehow suited him.
"I'm Octavia Blake." She says softly and is surprised when he lets out a tiny smile.
"Octavia." He whispers in awe before taking out a book and writing something down.
"I've been watching you since you came from the sky." He comments and it makes her heart flutter. It should be creepy to know someone has been watching her but it's not. It's nice to be seen. After so many years not being known to many, to have someone instantly want to know her was refreshing.
"Why?" She had to ask and he looks at her.
"I don't know." He answers honestly before handing her his book. She flips through it carefully and sees many drawings of plants and people before she makes her way to the last used page.
It was a drawing of her, smiling and on the bottom it said, "Octavia of the Sky People." It was a beautiful picture, he captured her in complete happiness.
She looks up at him and smiles when he sees his embarrassed expression. It was really cute if she were honest with herself.
"Are you going to let me go?" She asks as she hands him back the book.
Lincoln looks at her thoughtfully for a minute. He didn't want her to go but he knew he had to. Hopefully he will see her again, hopefully she will want to see him again.
"Yes." He says honestly and she smiles and nods.
"So, tell me more about yourself. I hate silence so you need to talk more." She says and Lincoln shakes his head before letting out another tiny smile. Octavia decided that she liked his smile.
"What do you want to know?" He asks. He was never a man of words but for her...he'd give her the moon if she just kept looking and talking to him.
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The sun was set an hour before Bellamy and Clarke decide to make camp for the night. They tried tracing the footprints but they suddenly go dark. They knew it was a grounder that took her and know they are good at keeping themselves hidden.
Bellamy sets a fire as Clarke sits in front of it not moving. She's been silent since they found the blood and to be honest, he was worried about her.
He sits next to her and they both stare at the fire.
"You know, I never did get the chance to thank you. You know, for taking care of Octavia all these years. You are good for her, better than I ever was." He says looking at her and sees tears welling up in her eyes. She shakes her head in denial at his words.
"I can't lose her Bell. Without her, I have no one. I did...everything I could to make sure she was safe. I can't lose her to some grounder." She says looking at him as the tears make their way down her cheeks.
He knows exactly how she feels. Without Octavia, they both have no one. No one to protect, no one to love. Yeah they were starting to think of the other campers as family but it wasn't the same. Octavia was there whole world.
"We'll find her. Even if we have to go to war with those grounders, we are bringing her home where she belongs." He says determined and she lets out a small smile.
"You know...I wasn't completely honest with you before." She says and he looks over to her confused.
Was she going to tell him the secret she and O were keeping from him?
"My dad...he figured out that I knew Octavia after she was arrested. I never told anyone but he figured out I knew about her." She tells him and he looks at her and motions for her to go on.
(Flashback)
Fifteen year old Clarke is sitting at the table biting her cheek so hard, she knew she was going to draw blood. It was a day after the Masquerade dance and she was sitting with her parents listening to her mother talk. Octavia's fearful eyes were the last thing she ever saw of her best friend. And Aurora, oh god! She will never see her again. A woman she considered a second mother was going to die. Die, because Clarke didn't do enough to protect her.
"I just can't believe it. Aurora Blake managed to hide her second child under the floor for fourteen years! How she managed that, I will never know." Abby scoffs. She can't believe a section 16 seamstress, fooled the guards, the council, and the chancellor for so long. It was baffling! The woman seemed too mousy, to...stupid to pull that off.
Clarke closes her eyes trying to stop herself from ringing her mother's neck. She has to bite her lip till she tastes blood.
"Clarke, I know Chancellor Jaha is going to want to speak to you in the morning, something about how you went to the seamstress a lot. He just wants to talk, nothing big." She says not even looking at her daughter for confirmation. Theloneus wouldn't do anything to put her daughter in harms way, she knows that for a fact.
Jake says nothing, just listens to his wife tell him and Clarke about how the second child, Octavia Blake's trial was going to take place tomorrow afternoon and Aurora Blake would be floated first thing in the morning. He looks over at his daughter and sees her staring at her food not saying anything. There was a little blood on her lip, but his wife doesn't notice. His poor daughter looked like her whole world just fell apart.
"How could she have known when they were doing surprise inspections? Unless she had help, we all know Dashnaw is easily persuaded not that anyone will turn him in." Abby continues not noticing her daughter's silence or her husband's distress and eats her food trying to figure the mystery of Aurora Blake out.
"I wonder if her son is going to be floated too. Usually they don't fault the child of their parents but he was aiding his mother's crimes for fourteen years." She finishes thoughtfully and Clarke's eyes snap up in fear before she gets up and goes into her room without a word to either of her parents.
When Jake walks in a half hour later, he sees his baby girl laying on her bed crying her eyes out. Saying nothing, he pulls her into his arms and holds her tight. She cries harder than he's ever seen her cry before. In all Clarke's life, he's only seen her cry when she was a baby, after that never. His daughter was always so strong that it killed him to see her life this.
"I'm so sorry about your friend sweetie. So, so sorry." He whispers into her ear and he feels her freeze before looking up at him.
"As soon as I heard, it all made sense to me. Why you always wanted to go with me to Aurora when your cloths were ripped, how you suddenly had ripped shirts every other day, why you got so mad at your mother lying about the one child law, you disappearing all the time. Everything. Aurora is a smart woman, but I know with only YOUR help she was able to keep her daughter safe for so long." He whispers and she lets out a small smile.
"I have to protect Bellamy. I...I promised Aurora I would make sure he didn't float." She finally says and Jake nods.
"I'm going to go with you tomorrow when you talk to Jaha and try and help Bellamy. We will figure this out baby girl. You're not alone anymore." He says and she smiles sadly before wrapping her arms around her father.
It didn't help a lot, but it was something.
(End Flashback)
Clarke looks over at Bellamy who was thinking about his own trial after Octavia was arrested.
"Your mom and I always said when Octavia got arrested that I would deny ever knowing about her. That way, when you got questioned they couldn't put charges on you for your mom's...decision to keep her daughter." She said in a bitter tone at the last part as she poked a stick into the fire watching it crackle. Aurora was braver than any other woman on The Ark, she wanted her daughter so much she was willing to die for her.
"Why did my mom not tell me about you?" He had to know and she smiled a little.
"She and I both knew that if you knew about me, you would try and sell me out to save your mom." She says and laughs when he looked a little guilty. It was true and they both knew it.
"Now I wouldn't have minded considering, but the problem with that would have been if the council knew that I knew, they would still have killed Aurora...along with you and me." She says looking at him seriously and he pondered her words. Before he would have argued that because she was a council's daughter, they would have spared her. However, considering she was in prison for treason of all things, it was believable that they would float her too.
"Still...it would have been nice to know I wasn't as alone with the secret as I thought." He admits and she puts her hand over his and squeezing it tightly. She doesn't say all the things she's wants to say; how she always wanted him to know about her too, how she would force herself not to go up to him and try and be friends, what she did for him. She wants to, but she says nothing.
"You were never alone Bellamy. I was always around." She says simply before taking her hand off his.
They didn't say a word for the rest of the night, the heat from the others' hand giving them comfort even after they break apart.
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At first light, they both quickly pack up their things. They needed to keep moving before they lost Octavia forever.
Clarke throws him a rations package as she nibbles on her dried berries and nuts. She sees him give nod in thanks as he rips his open and empties his food in seconds.
"We need to get moving." He says gruffly. Last night he couldn't sleep at all. He just kept looking over at Clarke's peaceful form and wondering how much his family relied on her without him even knowing it. She was a lot stronger than he ever gave her credit for...and he was a complete asshole to her while they were on The Ark. He was so hurtful to her on multiple occasions and yet she said she was always there for him. She apparently did something so big for him that she doesn't even want him to know.
Before they could get moving, they hear a rustle in the bushes. Clarke looks over to Bellamy as she gets her gun ready, ready to shoot whoever or whatever was by them. Before either of them could shoot however, it was Octavia that comes out of the bushes.
"Bell! Clarke!" Octavia exclaims happily as she rushes into her brother's arms holding him tightly. She was afraid she would be looking for hours for them.
"O! We were looking for you! Are you okay? What happened?" Bellamy holds onto his sister for his dear life. Thank goodness she was here and she seemed okay.
"I'm okay, I fell and hit my head." She replied before breaking away from him and giving Clarke a hug as well.
"Who bandaged you?" Clarke asks softly noticing the bandage on her head. She looked okay, she actually looked happy if she were being honest.
"His name is Lincoln. He's a grounder and he told me not everyone wants war. Some want peace." She says looking at the two leaders of their camp. They would listen to her, she just knew it.
TBC!