41. Somewhere To Hide

There was something ominous in the air he could feel it with very inch of his body. Something was about to happen, and that something was anything but good. Lincoln, who was watching over the mountain from a great distance in order for him not to get caught by the Mountain Men, looked away from the hard rock fortress and used his senses to check his surrounding to see if there was someone approaching him or was simply a big enough presence to cause distress to the animal life, which could explain the ominous feeling in the air. At first everything was completely quiet except for the small murmuring coming from the Mountain Men guards, but then suddenly a twig snapped and made him to turn in the direction he heard the sound. It was coming from the deeper part of the woods, just a few feet from his location. Slowly, but in a quick movement, he retrieved his knife from his belt and prepared himself for an attack. Then he waited for a moment for whoever was approaching him to take the next step, which happened a few minutes later, and then pounced to attack. Everything happened so fast that there was barely time to take notice of the surroundings and whom exactly he was attacking, but in the end he stood there with his knife against the throat of a fellow Grounder from his old tribe, Felix.

"What are you doing here?" Lincoln said with a low and deep voice that could even scare the crap out of the Mountain Men. "If your intention is to kill me then I will remind you that I'm far more experienced than you, which means I can kill you faster than you can kill me. So for the next few seconds chose your words wisely."

Felix remaining composed and steady like a rock nodded carefully. Both of them knew that what he had just said was the truth and that it would be foolish to attempt an attack on him, but he took notice in his former tribe mate body language that expressed a serious and firmer demeanor. However just as a precaution Lincoln waited a few moments before he removed the knife from his throat. Felix let out a relieved sigh before he turned his attention back on him and said calmly with a rude tone, "I see that your abilities as well as perception hasn't diminished since your exile, although I was surprised when I heard you chose that strange girl from the sky over your own tribe, the Great Lincoln going against the tribe and its traditions for the Sky People. There was even words going around that you have a lover from the sky as well. For a moment I wondered if you had grown soft or something."

Lincoln didn't say anything, only glared at the young man who was like most Grounders with brown skin, brown eyes, muscular built and with tribal tattoos around his entire body. Even before he was exiled he never really liked Felix that much, mainly because there had always been a competition between them regarding who was the best warrior, but that didn't mean he overlooked everything the young man said. Felix did have his moments were he was useful and reasonable, although now was particular not one of them. So it was no wonder really why he wasn't going to try to defend his choice in picking Clarke and Octavia over his tribe since he knew Felix wouldn't listen or care for that matter. He still cared for his tribe and had been tried his best to be helpful to his tribe regarding everything that has happened, not that made the situation better seeing as his tribe still saw him as a traitor despite his few friends.

"Why are you here?" Lincoln asked instead, not interested in continuing this silly discussion and honestly had more important things to do than bicker with a former tribe mate.

Felix's demeanor changed once again and became more sullen as he said seriously, "I thought you should know that the Commander has agreed to an alliance with the Mountain Men."

"What?" Lincoln exclaimed, although his voice was still low enough so that the Mountain Men guards wouldn't hear him from the distance. "What possessed her to do something that foolish? Doesn't she realize that these people are cruel and shouldn't be trusted with?"

Felix just shrugged his shoulders, but his facial expression didn't change. Apparently he wasn't the only one who doubted Lexa's decision and probably wasn't very well received by the other tribe members as well.

"We are losing the war and we don't have a lot more people to spare to continue it either, so I guess she agreed to the deal if we got our people that are imprisoned inside back," Felix answered, nodding his head slightly towards the mountain. "Anyways thought you should know the truth, especially when we are coming to retrieve the prisoners."

Then he turned and began taking slow steps back into the woods, but stopped for a second like he suddenly remembered something and said, "Oh, yeah, one more thing. It seems that Lexa has also informed the Mountain Men about that Blondie of yours and how there is another person inside the mountain right now to rescue her."

Lincoln's eyes became dark with fury as he took in what Felix had just informed him of. Not once had he thought badly about Lexa, even though she made rational yet coldhearted decisions when it came to leading her tribe, but this was far beyond the worst thing she could have possibly done not only to him but to Clarke as well. How could she think that agreeing to an alliance with the Mountain Men was for the best of the tribe? How could she stand there and betray them like that?

Something inside of him just snapped. All loyalty to the Commander and his tribe had in just seconds shattered into pieces and was replaced with fury and the greatest betrayal. Now there was nothing left keeping him from affiliating with Octavia's people entirely, placing his entire trust and loyalty to her and the Sky People.

"I have a message I want you to give to the Commander when you see her," Lincoln said strained, trying desperately to contain his feelings. Felix nodded and waited patiently for the message, so he continued his words carefully but with an angry force that could kill someone in fear. "Tell her that whatever relationship and loyalty she had with me and Clarke is entirely destroyed by her betrayal and that she is to no longer contact or seek us out ever again unless she had a death wish because neither of us can ever forgive her for this. And also tell her that the next time I see her will be when I rip off her head from her body to throw it away like garbage."

His threat was clear and Felix didn't wait two seconds before he ran back to Tondc to inform the Commander about his message. Once Felix was gone out of sight Lincoln began running back to the 100 camp as Octavia called it to inform her the bad news and how now her brother and best friend's lives were in a lot more danger than ever before.

They ran and ran in what seemed to be an endless hallway filled with locked doors and no way of escape. Bellamy turned his head back for a second to see if the guards were on their trail, and although he didn't see anything he could still hear the heaviness of feet running down the corridors. He looked down at Clarke, who still had that heavy and concerned look on her face like the one he had seen during their talk earlier. Something was obviously on her mind, nagging her and made her feel horrible enough that she felt the need to push him away. However that wasn't an option in his book, no matter how reasonable she could be or at least tried to be regarding that matter, and there was no way he was going to let her go now after he had gone through everything to find and rescue her. He was holding her right hand in his left, only to tighten his grip before he began dragging her further down the seemingly empty hallway.

They turned corner and saw a door that was slight opened and in short walking distance as well. He stopped on his path, with Clarke bumping into his back due the sudden stop, and thought over if that was a good hiding place, seeing as he wasn't sure if there was someone in there and if there were would it be possible for them to get away, but he quickly made his decision as he and Clarke went inside and closed the door shut behind them and locked it tight and waited in silence for the guards to walk past their location and continue on further down the hall.

Fortunately the room proved to be empty at the moment, but Bellamy made a careful search around the room to make sure just in case someone was hiding in plain sight. Once he had taken the necessary precautions he looked around the room to determine where exactly they had decided to hide and what the room was used for. It wasn't a locker-room like the one he had been inside earlier, however the walls were rock-based and were supported by metal panels and at one side of the room there were computers that was monitoring everything that was going on inside the mountain. There was also a radio, which would have been useful to contact the camp, but there were a few risks that could lead them to get exposed by the enemy and get imprisoned or worse get killed. Then there was as well the uncertainty that it even worked, especially if they were the ones operating on since neither he nor Clarke was very talented with radios as well as any other technical equipment other than average knowledge.

Clarke was standing in front of monitor, watching the events from the screen and held a serious and thoughtful expression on her face. He walked up to her, standing next to her and turned to see what she was looking at. Her gaze was mainly focused on one screen that showed a lab where a doctor was drawing blood from who he assumed was a patient.

"Princess, is everything all right?" He asked carefully, noticing how tense she became by looking at the screen and at his question. She didn't say anything at first only shook her head before she said sadly, "No, yes, I don't know really. That doctor…Dr. Tsing I can't figure out what her idea is testing out blood like she is a vampire from those old stories."

"So you met this woman before," Bellamy stated, and then he remembered what those guards were talking about before he found Clarke. How the doctor was performing some kind of experiment on her, although nothing had been really clear about what exactly the doc was looking for or what the point was with her experiment. "Did she do anything to hurt you?"

"No, at least I don't think so," Clarke replied unsure. "She drugged me and drew out some of my blood, but I can't really remember anything beside that because I was unconscious afterwards and when I woke up I was back in my cell in different clothes though."

He wasn't sure if he was supposed to feel reassured or angry by the lack of knowledge, but seeing as he couldn't see anything physical wrong with her he let it go. Instead he went back to their current situation and how they were going to proceed from this point on. They couldn't easily get out of the mountain the same way he came in and according to Clarke the sewer system wasn't located this deep in the mountain, so that was also a bust.

He looked at the radio again, there was still a chance they could contact the camp and at least ask for help. The only problem was how they were going to get it to work and get it on the right frequency and not to some other radio inside around the mountain?

Clarke turned to see what he was looking at, realizing what he was thinking about without him actually saying the words. The she asked more strongly, "Do you think we can use it? Make it work?"

"I don't know," Bellamy shrugged his shoulders and approached the radio and took a closer look at it. "Seeing as we don't have many options at the moment we might as well try and hope for the best."

Clarke nodded and put her hands on her hips and said, "All right, if you work on the radio then I can keep an eye on monitors and watch out for any guards. Sounds like a plan?"

Bellamy agreed almost immediately and then they both began to work on the task they had given themselves. They could only hope that things went smoothly and that the situation wouldn't escalate for the worse.

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