A/N: The next chapter is finally here, I am so so so sorry. I was stumped on what to do next and where to go from the last chapter. Im sorry for any mistakes, I quickly skimmed through it for proofing because I wanted to get it up as soon as possible. Its a pretty long chapter so hopefully the length makes up for the wait… Enjoy!
Chapter 9
Bellamy's Pov
The group had been walking for a day and a half. They had already passed by the old camp and by the lake and were now extremely close to the bottom of the mountain.
If Bellamy or any of the others were leading the way then they probably would have gotten there already, but Bellamy knew not to push his luck any more than he already had.
When they arrived to the start of the mountain Bellamy took a big breath and starting walking upward. He still couldn't believe all of this was happening. They came down here with the mindset that they were the first people to be on Earth in 97 years. Then they learned that there were still grounders who managed to survive the toxic air. And now they learned that there is this other group of people that are completely different from grounders and they have taken his people to some old military base that was thought to be uninhabited. It was extremely overwhelming. Everything that he was taught from the day he was born was a lie.
After another half hour passed, they finally made it to the designated meeting spot that Him, Finn and Theena set up. Everyone was told to stay as low as they could get just in case there was anyone on duty or on look out.
Bellamy lifted his head up and started to look around. There was no sign that Theena came back out again. But Bellamy was still hopeful she would come, they still had a day left. Well they had until morning at least. He would have waited a little longer for her but Kane said he would only give Bellamy a few hours for the girl to come out before they went in.
He understood Kane's need to get in as soon as possible, Bellamy too was counting down the time until he would reunite with his friends. But as much as he understood Kane's need to rush he also saw that being here made it all real. Bellamy realized that this entire time he didn't understand how real it actually was and truthfully it scared him. It scared him a lot.
Finn was sitting with a man from the ark talking while Octavia and Lincoln sat around a hidden fire. Bellamy was sitting facing them giving Lincoln deadly stares.
"Mr. Blake." A man spoke breaking him from his stare.
"Yes?" Bellamy replied to Kane.
"We need to discuss how we are going to get in if your little friend doesn't pull through. Will you please follow me?" Kane asked.
Bellamy only nodded in response as he stood up following in Kane's footsteps. They walked over to the other side of the camp where his group was sitting. Bellamy then saw the that Finn was following the man he was talking to before.
"Alright since everyone is here we should discuss what the backup plan is. We don't know for sure if that girl will be coming out so we need another stratedgy in the meantime. Any ideas." Kane said looking around.
Most people just shook their heads. Others were deep in thought. And Bellamy? All he could think about was how Clarke was right there and he could pretty much do nothing to help her.
"Maybe we could scale the perimeter and find a less obvious way in?" A guard said.
"We could make them notice our presence and request a meeting. Then if they refuse we can force a meeting." another said.
"Alright all reasonable ideas. Keep them coming. Come on Guys." Kane said almost pleading for more ideas.
Bellamy wanted to help but he really had no idea what to do. He looked over to Finn who was moving forward in the crowd.
"I seriously doubt that the mountain men will give us back our people without a fight. We have no choice but too fight our way through." Finn paused and took a deep breath. Bellamy knew how much he hated all this. "When we brought Theena back here she went in through a door on the east side. It will probably be easier to navigate through there if we are already close to where they are being held. " He looked up to Kane.
"How do you know that the 100 are being help in the same place she was being held in?" He asked.
"Well we know there are two sections in their society. The rich and powerful are in one ward, and the useless and sick are in the quarantine ward. They obviously wouldn't be placed in the upper class ward because the mount Weather still don't believe that it is safe to associate with people from the outside. So that only leaves the quarantine ward." Finn finished.
"Okay, thats good to know. We have our bearings. Now we need to find a way to get in." Kane looked around while Finn smiled slightly, proud that he was of some help.
"We could use these" Bellamy said as he took 3 grenades out of his bag."I took them before we left the ark, thought maybe they could be useful."
The group all looked to Kane to see what his response to Bellamy would be. It reminded Him about how whenever Clarke said something and that everyone would be looking straight at Bellamy to see his snarky remark or vice versa.
"You obviously thought right." Kane said and Bellamy swore there was a small smile on his face. "Heres what we are going to do: Everyone is going to stay back except for two. Those two are going to throw the 3 grenades at the door and run back as fast as possible. Got it?"
Everyone nodded.
"Any volunteers?" Kane said a few seconds later.
At first no one moved. This was a risky job to be doing. If you screw up, you either don't hit the target or you get yourself blown up. Bellamy was thinking of stepping forward. But he couldn't take the risk that things might not go well and he won't ever get inside.
After a minutes about 4 people stood up to offer, Kane then picked the two and stood up.
"Alright. We head east in 3 hours. Rest up, we have got a long day ahead of us." and with that he walked away and so did everyone else.
Clarke's POV
Its been two days since since she started using the crutches. When they gave her an X ray, it proved that Dr Cooper was right about it not being broken. But despite that her ankle was still severely fractured.
It hurt her even more the day after. She was barely able to get out of bed. The guard even had to carry her to the experiment room yesterday because the pain was too much.
Dr Cooper didn't really think it was a big deal. He gave clarke a pill and then injected her in the ankle with a healing serum they came up with here, So now after 2 days its starting to feel like its back to normal. Well almost normal.
Even though she had a hurt ankle, that sure didn't stop them from preforming the rigorous and terrible tests on her. Today it was actually two tests in one day. In the morning they gave her something that was supposed to test her senses while slowing down her bodily functions so they can take a closer look at everything. It turned out she was allergic to whatever they gave her and it almost made her heart stop. Then in the afternoon it was shock treatments while the crown was in her head. She was exhausted.
Clarke hadn't been to the cafeteria in those two days. They told her it was because the tests they were giving her were extremely rigorous tests and she needed rest. That of course was true but they didn't care before about that, why did they now?
The only one of her friends she saw was Monty and that was only because he was living right across the hall from her.
They communicated by breathing on the glass and spelling words on them so the other person could see. Their conversations were never complicated, always simple and straight to the point.
Today when she got back to her room she was able to walk around without her crutches, it still hurt but she managed. As she sat on the bed she felt a itching feeling to talk to Monty to see what was going on with them and to see if they had been passing around the message. She got up from the bed and made her way to her window.
When she looked across the hall she saw the door open and a person in a contamination suit cleaning it out. There was no trace of Monty. It was like he had never even been there at all.
Clarke was angry. Where was he? What were they planning on doing now. She began banging on the door. Screaming at the person in the suit to answer her questions. When she noticed how the person was ignoring her, her anger then was met with panic.
She frantically searched the room trying to figure out a way out. She thought of the screw she saved and hid under the clothes. She could use the screw to try and take out the other screws in the door. She ran to the drawer but then realized that doing that would take too long.
She couldn't take this anymore. She established that she would let them do whatever they had to do her. Clarke could handle all the tests, she was the leader it was her job to take care of everyone. But now they clean out Monty's room and he is nowhere to be found? Well thats the last thing she is going to just sit around and accept.
Clarke still searching for a way out looked in every place of the she came up with nothing she ran to the door and banged as hard as she could on the window.
An idea quickly came to mind. The window was glass which meant that it was easy to shatter, if she could just break the glass she could unlock the automatic switch on the other side of the wall.
She instantly picked up the IV machine and threw off the the bags. Then she took a running start toward the window and smashed the IV into the window which caused it to break.
There were shards of glass everywhere. Clarke quickly shoved the extra pieces of the ledge as she reached through as her hand aimlessly felt for the switch. She found it rather fast and pulled it to the other side which caused the door click open.
She withdrew her arm from the window and felt a sharp pain going up her right arm. When she looked at it she saw a huge cut on her arm. It was deep and there was blood gushing out of it. Clarke shook off the pain and opened the door. When she was outside she saw the guard didn't seem to notice that Clarke had escaped. She bent down to pick up a shard of glass then continued to move forward.
Truthfully she didn't know what she was going to do next. She was just going with whatever her body would naturally do. When she got behind the person in the suit, she pulled the mask off of them and pushed them against the wall while holding a piece of glass to their throat.
It was a girl. She seemed young. Not as young as Theena but still younger than what Clarke would have expected she would see.
"Where is he!" Clarke screamed.
"What? Who." The girl replied.
"My friend! The boy whose room your cleaning! WHERE IS HE?!" Clarke screamed even louder as she shoved the glass closer to their throat.
"Please I don't know they are doing to him! Im just cleaning up." She cried.
"Do you know where he is?" Clarke asked.
"Yes" The girl sobbed.
"Then take me to him. Now." Clarke said as she spun the girl around, still holding the glass to her neck.
The girl obliged to Clarke's demands and she started walking down the hall. She went a way Clarke has never been before. She walked down the opposite way of the hall and made about 4 turns before reaching an elevator. The girl pressed the button and the doors opened. She didn't move. Clarke was get annoyed so she stuck the knife closer to her neck until the worker stepped inside.
When inside the doors closed behind them Clarke moved over to the keypad at the side. There was 7 numbers and Clarke was clueless as to which one she had to press.
"Which one." Clarke whispered in her ear. The girl didn't react she was only crying. "Which one!" Clarke said again, louder this time.
The worker pointed at the 1st button and Clarke pushed it immediately. The elevator started to move and they were on their way down.
The girl didn't move a muscle if she did, the knife would probably cut her. She was trying her best to hold back her sobs, she was scared. Clarke felt a little pang of sympathy for her but quickly threw the thought from her mind. The mountain people didn't care about what they were doing to them so why should she care?
The elevator door opened and when Clarke looked out it wasn't like the bright white rooms she was used too. Instead what she saw a long concrete hallway with flickering dim lights hanging she averted her eyes a little more down the hall she saw a long row of paintings of men that had plaques were getting weirder and weirder.
"Where he is?" Clarke asked again.
"That way I think." The girl said shakily.
"Go." Clarke shoved her.
"Please. I will take you but just take the glass away. Please." The worker pleaded.
"Just keep walking" Clarke ordered.
They walked down the hall and Clark saw the paintings of the men up close this time. She recognized a few from school on the ark. They were all past presidents of the U.S. Makes sense since this was supposed to be a government base.
When they were about to turn another corner Clarke heard shuffling and quickly retreated back to wall to keep from being seen.
"Sh" Clarke warned. But the girl didn't listen and a lll of a sudden she screamed so loud that the whole building probably heard.
Within seconds the slow shuffling turned into what sounded like a stampede heading toward where they were. Quickly Clarke threw the girl away from here and started running, trying to find some safety.
She couldn't go back to being locked up in her room. She needed to get out of there, get out of this place. Earth gave her a chance at freedom and they took it all away.
Clarke was running aimlessly. This level was nothing she had ever seen before. At least if she was upstairs she could have managed to get around a little, but here? She was lost.
The guards were right on her tail when she stopped shortly because she saw something she would never imagine she was a glass window looking into a room full of Tv monitors. They were monitoring the ark. It was video footage of the halls on the ark, they were empty. A video of the rooms and of the lunch hall and then there was one that shocked Clarke the most. It was a video of Jaha, he was sitting in the sky deck, drinking out of a bottle alone.
What the hell?
Clarke began to wonder how this was even possible, but then was knocked to the ground by a guard. She tried a little to fight but eventually gave up under the pressure. She laid there, on the cold hard floor wondering how long they have been watching them.
Another guard came and cuffed her arms behind a back. Then she felt a strong hit the back of her and everything went black.
Bellamy's POV
It was dawn and the group was just about to start their plan on getting inside. Theena hadn't showed up and it worried Bellamy a lot. She was sure that she would be back out by now and she wasn't. But Bellamy had to do his best to ignore his fears, he had to have his mind set on getting in their and getting his people and now Theena out.
Slowly they made their way to the east side where they were going to throw the grenades to. The group stayed very far back in order to avoid getting blown to pieces.
"Listen up everyone." Kane spoke. "We are going with plan B since the girl didn't come out. Paul, Andrea, and Adam; you three have offered to risk your lives to get us in so we will risk ours to make sure you get back safely. Remember get as close as you can without being too close. Throw them at the door simultaneously and run back behind the big rock over there. Everyone understand?" He asked.
"Yes sir." The three replied in unison.
"Great, be careful and get it done." Kane said strongly.
The three nodded before walking toward the door. It was weird watching them walk off to their possible death. They were risking their lives for kids they didn't know and it made Bellamy guilty. He should have been the one risking his life. Why did he deserve to get off easy? These were his people and he was just letting them do the dirty work.
The three guards got in position with a grenade in each of their hands. One was holding it and the other was on the pin.
"READY!" Kane screamed. "FIRE!"
And right away the three tore the pin off and threw them straight at the door. As soon as they were released from their hands the three quickly turned on their heels and ran as fast as they could straight toward the rock.
It felt like forever before the explosion went off, when in reality it had only been 4 seconds. Adam had made it to the rock and Andrea was pretty much there too but Paul was the less fortunate of the three and was pretty far from the safety point when the bomb went off.
The whole group went running. All in different directions. Some to the door, some to the rock and some to paul who was screaming in pain.
Bellamy ran to Paul. He didn't know why, his body just led him there. When he got to his side Kane was already there kneeling next to him shouting orders at the fellow guards.
"Bring him back to camp and clean up his wounds!" He shouted. "You! Marcus! Stay behind and watch over him while we go inside. Don't leave camp until we get back!" Kane ordered.
They carried off Paul's body and Kane stood up and quickly headed for the door. Bellamy followed with Finn and the others on his tail. When they got passed the smoke he saw it worked. A huge smile appeared on his face. It actually worked, they were in and he was going to get his people back. He was going to get Clarke back.
Clarke's POV
Clarke woke up in a white room like she did every other day. She wondered if it had all been a dream and she didn't actually hold a girl hostage or didn't see the monitors of Jaha on the ark.
As she tried to move she realized she couldn't. She was strapped down at the ankles and wrist and the crown was on her head again except it was so much more tighter on her head then ever lifted her head slightly up to see wires all around her arms and legs and noticed she wasn't in her usual room. This room was smaller, with only one bed in it, machinery and nothing else.
Clarke looked over to her right arm and saw that the cut she had received wasn't stitched up like it was supposed to be and saw that their was a IV in that arm. When she looked at the other arm there was an IV in that one as well.
She was in so much pain. She could feel the blood pouring out of her arm and dripping downout of her forehead. She felt the blood pumping into the IV and felt the suction cups that were on her chest and stomach that were sending mini shocks into her body. It was so much pain all at once, and Clarke couldn't stop herself from crying.
Her sobs were interrupted by Dr Cooper, who opened the door quickly and shut it behind him just as fast.
"Ms Griffin, you're awake." He said grimly. He was obviously not trying to hold up his fake friendly attitude anymore.
"What are you doing to me?" Clarke said through her tears.
She wasn't trying to keep up her act either. She wasn't trying to act tough and strong. She was done. They finally broke her.
"Well, after the last stunt you pulled we had to move you to a more secure location and take extreme measures in preventing that from ever happening again." He said.
"Like what" She asked quietly.
"Ms Griffin, this may be a little troubling to hear but we have decided that you are more a danger to us than you are asset." He said.
"You mean you're going to kill me?" Clarke asked confused.
"Ultimately? Yes, we are going to terminate your existence. But, we want still need data from you, so we have decided that you would give us better results if we just had all your data without all the resistance. We are going to drain your blood and collect your brain waves so we could use it for tests later on." He paused. "Clarke, we never wanted it to come down to this. We tried being nice and being your friend, but you left us with no choice." He turned and began to exit the room before Clarke gathered up enough strength to call out to him.
"Just answer one question for me?" She asked and he turned back around to her. Clarke saw a smile appear on his face.
"This reminds me of your first day here when you asked me to answer your question. But just like you were then, you are now, which is that you are in no position to be asking questions." He said.
"Please, you're going to kill me. I deserve at least one more answer before I go." She pleaded.
"Very Well. What is it?" Andrew asked.
"Where is Monty and Is he Okay?" She asked.
"That is two but I will allow it. Monty is okay and he is sharing a room with Jasper now in a different corridor. The only reason he went down to that floor was to meet with the agricultural scientist we have here." He finished and Clarke let out a sigh of relief.
"Thanks." She mumbled.
"Have a nice day Ms. Griffin." He said as he closed the door behind him.
She was scared. Clarke rarely liked to admit it but she was scared. I mean, this was it. She was going to die, and she was going to die alone, Trapped in a room while tied down to a bed.
What would death be like? Would it be quick or slow? Would she be reunited with her parents and Wells or would she be alone, like how she was right now?
As she waited in this room, waiting to die, she realized that she had a lot to be happy about. I mean, she made it. She made it to earth. She accomplished her parents absolute dream. She was able to experience life again by being sent down here. Clarke was never the one to have a lot of friends but down here, She actually made friends. She had Monty, Jasper and Finn and Miller and Raven and Octavia.
She had Bellamy. But she didn't know what he was to her. Was he her friend or was he something else?
Clarke knew that Bellamy cared about her, and she cared about him. Pretty much more than anyone else down here. She didn't know why. Maybe because he was her co-leader and she needed him or maybe it was because he was one of the only people who was real with Clarke. He never tried to act a certain way or be anyone other than who he was with her. He didn't automatically like Clarke and didn't even want to try to like her. But he did, he cared about her all on his own and she cared about him because he was real. He didn't play games. When Bellamy didn't like her in those first few days he showed it. After their day trip he showed compassion and vulunerbility because that was exactly how he felt at that time and he didn't care about hiding it from Clarke. He was real with her.
Her mind fled from the idea of Bellamy when she heard a huge boom and felt the bed shake violently. The shake made everything worse. She felt dizzy now and she could barely keep her eyes open.
What she was feeling was unbearable. Clarke was a fighter, but how much can a person take? What she did next was something that Clarke thought was impossible for her. She gave up. She closed her eyes and prayed for death to come soon and give her an escape from her pain.
Author's note: Thanks for reading guys! All of your reviews and favorites and follows mean the world. I get so excited every time I get a notification of another one, so thanks.
Also:
1)I am going to shamelessly promote myself. I have a new story that I have written for the 100. Its a multi-chapter AU fic about the 100 and the zombie apocalypse called 'Alone Together'. The second chapter will be up very soon and it would mean the absolute world to me if you would check it out and tell me what you think!
2)There was a guest who reviewed on the last chapter asking how I know Bellamy is alive and to PM them. I am sorry I haven't Pm'd you I don't think you can private message a guest and truthfully I don't know how to pm anyone in general. Guest or not. But the footage was of Bellamy running through the forest with a spear on the CW sizzle reel. There was some controversy over whether or not that was from last season, but now we know for certain that it is from this season because it was shown in the new trailer for the upcoming episode. Hope that helped you out if you were still confused.
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