5. Halted Rescue-Mission

"But he didn't do anything, Bellamy. He didn't harm me in any way and I know for certain that he wasn't going to either!" Octavia exclaimed. "Please just let him go!"

Bellamy shook his head. His arms was crossed and had the same expression on his face that told her that he wasn't going to listen to her or do what she was asking him to do. The two siblings were standing outside the room where the grounder was locked inside, having yet again a shouting match over how he was handling things.

Octavia had spent the entire way back to camp shouting at everyone, trying to convince him and everyone that the grounder wasn't dangerous and that they should let him go. However Bellamy's mind determined that this unknown grounder, who had his hands on his little sister, couldn't be trusted and they needed to gather as much information they could about the grounders. Which was why when they reached the camp they tied him up and locked him inside the drop ship, and then brutally interrogated him. The entire time Bellamy was cold and empty, but on the inside he knew that a part of him was dying for what they were doing. Every time he whipped the grounder's back and blood began dripping down, he had to force himself not to break down. The only thing that kept him doing these horrible things to another human being was his need to protect Octavia and the other kids. And like he said he was willing to take the tough decisions, even if it meant that his sister would never forgive him for doing so.

"I don't care if you believe he wasn't going to hurt you, O. All I know is that there is a dangerous threat out there, who wishes to harm us, possibly kill us," Bellamy said angrily. "My priority is to keep you and everyone here safe."

"You don't even care about the other kids!" Octavia argued. "Besides kidnapping a grounder and torturing him without any reasonable cause doesn't exactly makes the situation better either. What are you going to do once the other grounders finds out what you are doing?"

Bellamy had to admit that his sister had a point, but there was no way he was going to admit that out loud. She was right on both grounds, but he knew what he was going to do if the rest of the grounders were going to place an attack on them. It was simple, he was going to fight back and he wasn't afraid to face them if it was to protect his sister.

"I don't have to explain myself to you," Bellamy said. His head turned away and faced the floor. He didn't want to watch his sister's angry and defiant expression any longer, especially since he feared that that expression would change into fear and disgust towards him. He could accept her hatred because she had millions of reasons to be angry with him and everyone else.

Anyways his mind was set and he wasn't going to change his mind just because of Octavia's weird obsession with the grounder. They fought some more, but in the end he walked away from her and entered room where they kept the grounder. Besides he was far too tired to listen to her anymore, but he managed to hear her swearing and mumbling something to herself. About what exactly he had no idea, but at that moment he didn't care since he had more important things to do than arguing with her about a grounder.

Octavia hadn't expected Bellamy to change his mind. No one seemed to listen to her no matter how much she protested and begged everyone to let Lincoln go. Even more so when they started to torture him, but her words was gone in the wind apparently. She hoped that Finn, the most humane and pacifist guy on camp to take her side and help her, but he and Bellamy wasn't exactly friends so there was no way he was going to listen to the Spacewalker. So when she realized that she wasn't getting anywhere with neither Bellamy nor anyone else, she decided to take matters into her own hands. If they weren't going to listen then she just had to find someone who would and didn't care about Bellamy's orders. And she had just the person perfect for that, and that was Clarke. She was certain that Clarke would jump on it to save Lincoln, but first thing she needed to do was to get out of the camp and without getting spotted by the other campers.

Fortunately for her, everyone seemed to be busy with doing his or her job on the camp or helping Bellamy torturing Lincoln. She shuddered just thinking about Lincoln tied up with sweat and blood running down his skin. Somehow he managed to stay quiet during the whole interrogation and didn't say or show anything that indicated he was in pain and was willing to confess to anything. Something that annoyed Bellamy a lot and wouldn't admit out loud to anyone, not even to her. However she knew the truth and almost wanted to smirk about it, but decided against it since she didn't need to give her brother more incentive to harm Lincoln.

Anyways she snuck out around the time when there was scheduled for a guard shift by the front gate of the camp and ran like a mad man in the direction of where she and Lincoln had been walking earlier and where the cave was located. She stumbled a few times and she was starting to feel a slight pain on her injured ankle, but ignored it until she had finally reached the cave and found Clarke sitting on the ground drawing. Clarke looked surprised to see her, but smiled for a second before she realized that something was wrong when she didn't gave a smile back. Instantly Clarke got up and walked up to her and asked with a serious tone, "What happened? Something is wrong with Lincoln?"

"My brother and the other kids caught Lincoln and forced him back to camp," Octavia said agitated. Something just broke when she had to explain everything to Clarke, so it was difficult for her to stay calm when she knew exactly what her brother was doing back at the camp. "They think he is a threat towards us and that he was going to harm me, but he didn't…"

She was babbling, not able to keep her sentences reasonable until Clarke grabbed her arms.

"Octavia, Octavia, calm down, okay?" Clarke said concerned. "Tell me everything from the beginning. You mentioned you had a brother, but that is not possible."

"It is possible," Octavia replied wearily. "All the kids that came down on that drop ship were delinquents, all hundred of us, are kids who was locked in the sky box for doing any kind of criminal action. I was locked up for being born and I have spent my entire life hiding underneath the floorboards, while my older brother Bellamy and my mother did everything to keep me alive. I don't have to time to give you the whole story right now, but I got arrested and then I was sent down here with the others. My brother managed to get himself on the ship and followed me down here. He acts currently as the leader for the camp and makes the big decisions around, but when he found me with Lincoln he assumed that he was a dangerous threat to everyone, like he was going to do harm towards us. And Lincoln brought back to the camp to be interrogated, but what they are doing is brutal and terrible. They are torturing him, Clarke. And I can't get them to stop and let him go."

Clarke was quiet, only nodding her head while maintaining this thoughtful look on her face, like she was analyzing the information and processing what she was going to do about.

"Okay, I need you to sneak me inside the camp if we are going to have a chance to save Lincoln," Clarke said finally. Her facial expression was in way similar to her brother's, strong and determined, ready for a fight. However unlike her brother Clarke looked like she had a plan behind her actions.

"I should find a way to get you inside the camp," Octavia replied unsurely. "However once we get to Lincoln, I'm not sure if I can get you two out the same way. Not even sure out of the camp in general."

"Oh, that's okay," Clarke smirked. "I have a couple of ideas for an escape plan."

Just like Octavia anticipated, during the guard shift she managed to sneak them inside the camp. However what she had not anticipated was that most of the kids around camp was gathered around the fire and was ready for supper. So it was harder to slip through the large group of kids without anyone noticing them heading towards the drop ship. That is why every time someone was walking past them, Clarke hid herself behind whatever was around or simply keeping her gaze somewhere they couldn't look directly at her face. It worked fortunately and as they slowly approached the drop ship, Clarke told her to go inside the ship first in order to find out how many people was inside and how many people was guarded at the room where Lincoln was kept, meanwhile she would stay outside and out of site in the mean time. Octavia did what she asked and was gone for a while, so Clarke took the opportunity to observe the camp-life and found it liberating. She was in a way jealous over the closeness these teens had with each other, that they came down here and managed to stay together as a group was admirable. But then she remembers the reason why these kids were down here. They were sent by the Ark to die.

She shook her head, trying to ignore the dark thoughts that were associated with the Ark. Then turned her head towards the drop ship door and focused on waiting, but when the door opened up she immediately hid behind one of the near-by tents. Out the door came a group of guys, one of the Clarke recognized as her mystery man from the forest, and they were all covered in blood. Nausea built up in her stomach, realizing whose blood was on their hands and clothes, but somehow managed to get control of her nausea so she wouldn't throw up. The guys walked past her hiding spot and Octavia showed up behind them. Her gaze searched around until she found and walked up to her.

"Okay, it looks like Bellamy and the others are done interrogating for now," Octavia reported. "There is no guard watching the door, but they locked it shut so no one can enter or exit without the key, which ironically my brother has in his possession and is definitely not going to give us.

That would be a problem, since the drop ship wasn't constructed with other exits so it wasn't possible to enter from another entrance.

"Hmm…" Clarke thought out loud. "Can you point out your brother for me?"

Octavia nodded and used her finger to point at the guy Clarke had an altercation with in the forest. Now the universe was playing a horrible trick on her. What is the possibility that the guy who stood between them and Lincoln was the same guy she met in the forest, who put a gun to her head during their first meeting?

"Damn it," Clarke hissed. Octavia looked at her with a huge question mark on her face. "My original plan was to pickpocket it, but I'm pretty sure that won't work."

"Why not?" Octavia asked, tilting her head slightly to the left. "Have you two met each other before?"

"Yeah, we have met," Clarke nodded. "And let me tell you after our meeting, there is no way he is going to give me anything."

Octavia asked again and Clarke gave the clip note version on their meeting in the forest, how he had a gun to her head and she having a knife to his throat. Octavia almost laughed over how she had interacted with her brother, but she understood her point. Her brother wasn't going to give up the key that easily.

"What do you suggest we do?" Octavia asked concerned. Clarke thought over it some more then a sneaky grin appeared on her face.

"How do you feel about drugging your brother?"

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