Okay so I'm sorry. So so sorry.
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Emerson forces them from the room at gunpoint leading them up the flights of stairs. Clarke eyes the level sign and realises they're being taken to level 5. Emerson takes them through a double door system that Clarke guesses is for the radiation contamination system then they're led through corridor after corridor and here Clarke finally sees the guards lining the wall. They keep going until Emerson comes to a stop at a door where he smirks at Clarke over his shoulder before pushing it open and leading them inside.
Clarke winces at the sight in front of her. They're in a large open room where the last members of the 100 are chained to the walls and a table sits empty in the middle of the room. Cage is sitting on a desk in the corner and beams at the sight of Clarke.
The blonde hears a gasp and looks up to see her mum hanging there staring at her desperately along with Kane, Raven, Monty and Jasper. Clarke shoots a glare at Cage but he just continues to smirk at her.
"Hello Clarke"
"Cage" She glowered at him.
He nodded his head and Clarke watched as Octavia was dragged to the wall beside Jasper and chained her up next to him. Clarke and Lexa were left standing next to one another as Emerson moved over to stand with Cage who was still smirking between them both.
"It was a good plan" He admitted, "But the moment I found your little mole sticking his nose where it shouldn't be I knew exactly what you were planning… It's a shame that the guards didn't take care of you at the door but at least now you'll be alive to see what happens next"
Mole. Clarke was aware that Bellamy was missing from the group of people in this room so either he was being held elsewhere or he had managed to escape and was still somewhere inside the mountain…
"Where are my people?" Lexa snarled.
Cage jumped down from the desk and pulled the gun from the holder on his belt, "I had no use for bleeding them after I discovered the cure was in the sky people"
Lexa glared at him, "That doesn't answer my question" She snapped.
"You'll find out soon enough"
She made to jump and tackle him but was forced back the butt of his gun pressed into her head. Clarke winced and held her breath until he backed off. Lexa glared after him as he wandered over to the two men in lab suites and spoke to them for a moment before turning back to the two leaders with a sigh.
"Clarke I never wanted this, I never wanted any of this, but I've found a way to save my people Clarke and I'm going to take it"
"It's wrong" She snapped, "You're killing me people"
"You would do the same" He argued.
"No… No. I wouldn't"
Cage shook his head at Clarke, "I'm sorry it has to be this way Clarke but your people hold the key to my people's survival. I don't have a choice"
"We always have a choice" Snapped Abby.
"Not where my people are concerned"
Clarke realised that they wouldn't be talking their way out of this. Cage was set on a goal and there would be no changing his mind now… Not without anything to offer in return.
"Where's Dante?" She asked. Maybe if she could keep him talking.
Cage sighed, "He disagreed with the methods but… He didn't disagree with the results"
"He's dead?"
"No. He's just not here"
Clarke watched him as he walked around the room gazing at each member of the Ark individually as he went passed them, "I think it's time to start drilling"
"Cage. I'm begging you for the last time-"
"It won't work Clarke, this is for my people, and so my decision is already made" Cage turned to the guards and nodded to Raven, "Her next"
Clarke's eyes widened and she jumped forward shouting, "NO!" only to be stopped by the gun pressing against her.
Raven struggled, shouted and kicked as they dragged her from the wall over to the table. Clarke could only watch as she was pinned down. She shared a fearful look with the mechanic and the doctors stepped forward with a drill in his hand.
Lexa stood silent next to her but Clarke couldn't tear her eyes from the sight of the drill being pressed into Raven's side as the girl let out a blood-curdling scream. She glanced up at Cage with burning eyes to see him smirking at her still. Her hand clenched into a fist.
"Stop"
She looked up to see Lexa watching Cage. Her face contorted into one of disgust and hatred at the sight of the man in front of her.
He laughed and lifted the gun to point at Lexa, "I'm sorry commander. I'm afraid I don't understand"
"You've bled my people dry and now you say that the sky people are the answer to that but where do you get the right to take any of these people's lives?"
"Where do you?" He darted over so he was standing over her, "You have killed far more than me commander"
"Yes… I have but I have never taken an innocent life"
He laughed and turned to Clarke pointing at Lexa, "See! She is no better than me Clarke and yet you pick her as an ally"
"I have never covered my own guilt with lies and hid behind my people" Lexa snarled at him.
Cage glared at her then turned to the guards behind them, "Since the commander hates hiding behind her people so much I think we'll reunite them now"
Two guards stepped forward and grasped Lexa by her arms. Clarke's eyes darted around momentary panic as she attempted to get to her before her arms were also caught by the guards standing behind her.
"And" He stepped closer to Clarke, "I think you can go with them Clarke. I'd keep you alive but I have more than enough of your people for that and I think you'd only do more harm than good"
She glared at his smirking face as she was dragged from the room after Lexa. The last thing she saw was her mother's panicked expression and Raven's face contorted into agony.
Clarke and Lexa were taken back through the doors they entered with from level 5 and out onto the platforms that led god knows where. The guards had clearly accepted the treatment so standing outside was nothing to them.
Emerson was once again leading them and Clarke could only watch as the night air hit them at the same time the darkness did along with the sounds of running water. Dread filled her where she wondered where they were being taken.
Emerson opened a side door and stood beside it silently. It looked like an elevator though inside of the metal casing it was merely a cage door and walls. Clarke and Lexa were shoved inside as Emerson closed the door behind them locking it closed.
Emerson stepped back and raised a hand to the control panel on the side, "I'm sorry it has to end this way Clarke"
"No you're not"
He shrugged, "We'd keep you alive for your bone marrow but Cage believes you're dangerous and I have to agree with him…"
Emerson pressed his hand against the side and a shudder went through the cage. It started to move down at a snail's pace and he shouted to her over the noise, "We've let you keep your weapons but I don't know how long they'll protect you for… It was a pleasure to meet you Clarke"
She watched as his smug face disappeared over the edge of the floor ad she and Lexa were plunged into darkness.
XoXoXoX
"Clarke"
She could just make out Lexa's outline in their small space but she could feel the heat radiating off of the girl's body as she whispered out for the blonde. Clarke reached her hand out and felt it link with Lexa's hand.
"Yes?"
"I am sorry"
Clarke paused and listened to the silence for a moment then turned to Lexa, "What are you sorry for?"
"Everything" Lexa mumbled and Clarke felt her move back so she was leaning back against the wall behind them. Her hand slipped from Clarke's as she slid down the wall and Clarke walked over so she could sit beside the brunette on the floor, "I wasted time with you, I dragged you into this… I made a mistake and got you caught up in it"
"It was our plan" She reminded her, "I involved myself, I saved you in that dropship, I let you go, I tried for the alliance, I escaped mount weather… I found you again"
Lexa looked up and Clarke could just about make out the features on her face. The blonde lifted a hand to place it gently against her face.
"He wants us dead"
Clarke nodded, "Whatever's down there… He doesn't want us coming out alive"
They wouldn't have left them without guards if there was a chance of them coming out alive.
"If you get a chance" Lexa whispered, "Tell me you'll run"
"You're asking me to leave you?"
She felt Lexa shake her head, "I'm asking you to save yourself. For me"
"I won't leave you" Clarke rubbed her thumb against the commander's cheek and she leant into the touch.
"You have to Clarke. You have to save your people… They come first above all else"
"We don't even know what's down there" Clarke shook her head.
Lexa lifted her hands to take Clarke's in her own, "Cage wants us dead… Whatever is down there he means to kill us and I have to know that if you get the chance then you'll take it"
Clarke's breath hitched. She's asking me to leave her to die. She's asking me if I could do it? The thing is Clarke did understand and she hated her for it. She hated that Lexa was making perfect sense, hated that she was right, and hated that if it came down to it Clarke would have to leave Lexa because that would be Lexa's final wish. Clarke just didn't know if she had the strength to turn away from this girl.
"Please" She whimpered, "Please don't ask me to do this Lexa…"
"Clarke-"
Clarke choked on the lump in her throat, "No. No… Please don't ask me to do this… Don't ask me to leave you Lexa"
"You know you have to Clarke" Lexa whispered.
"You know the answer"
"I do" Lexa nodded, "That's why I know you'll do it because this is about your people Clarke, not me, it's always been about them. I'm irrelevant in that"
Lexa's hands were on her face wiping away the tears she didn't even realise were falling. Clarke gasped and caught the brunette's hand in her own as she raised her other hand up to tilt Lexa's chin so she could capture the girl's lips with her own and whimper against them.
"You're not irrelevant to me"
She wrapped her arms around Lexa's neck forcing her closer as the brunette's hands dropped to her waist and Clarke pressed her body flush against hers. The kiss was slow and soft, not heated and desperate, and yet she wanted more. She would always want more.
Clarke pulled back just an inch so her forehead was resting against Lexa's and her grip tightened on the brunette's cheek, her tears now flowing freely, as she gasped desperately. Lexa's hold on her was tight and desperate as if she was afraid if she let go Clarke would move away but the blonde had no intention of going anywhere.
"I'm not leaving you Lexa" She repeated.
Lexa let out something that sounded like a laugh but was filled with desperation. She kissed Clarke's lips forcefully.
"I love you"
Clarke froze in Lexa's arms and slowly leant away from her lips. She opened her eyes and could just make out Lexa staring back at her.
"Fuck you" She hissed and slammed her hands against Lexa's chest hard but the grounder didn't move, "Fuck you. You can't say something like that then ask me to leave you to die. Fuck you Lexa"
Clarke tried to move away from the brunette but she caught the blonde's wrists in her own and held the girl firm against her, "Clarke"
"No!" She bared her teeth and tried to push Lexa away but the girl wouldn't move, "Get off me Lexa"
"Clarke, listen-"
"Get off!" She cried. Tears now flowing freely down her face as she tried, and failed, to push her away, "Fuck you Lexa"
The brunette pulled her closer so their bodies were pressed against each other and Clarke was wrapped in her arms as she took a shuddering breath, "Fuck you…"
Clarke's arms were wrapped around Lexa's neck and she pressed her face into the brunette's neck as Lexa tightened her hold on Clarke. She took another breath trying to calm her breathing.
"I love you Clarke" She breathed against her ear, "I love you…"
Lexa lifted a hand to run through Clarke's hair as she kissed the girl's cheek, "I love you…"
Her chest hurt. With each confession Lexa seemed to find a new way to enforce the words into Clarke but that just made it all the more painful for her. She wanted to slap her. She wanted to hate her so much for putting her in this position, for asking this of her, for forcing her to make this decision but she couldn't… She could only love her.
"I love you"
Clarke wasn't sure who said it that time but by the way Lexa's body froze against hers she knew the brunette had heard her. Lexa leant away and gazed down at Clarke, gently lifted a hand to cup the blonde's chin and pulled her in for another kiss.
A shudder went through the cage and the two pulled away as light flooded through the compartment. A clattering of growls and groans reached their ears and Clarke guessed that they must be reaching their destination.
The two stood from the ground hand as Clarke pulled out her gun and Lexa unsheathed her sword. Their movements began to slow and suddenly the walls gave way to a long corridor ahead of them that was separated from them by the cage door.
"Clarke…"
"I know"
A hoard of reapers lay before them. At the sight of the two girls they charged for the gate slamming against it and trying to reach them through the gaps in the bars. They pressed against the wall behind them and Clarke tightened her grip on Lexa's hand.
Cage turned them all into reapers.
Clarke gasped as the bars bent back at the force and looked around her in desperation for help. Her eyes focussed on the ceiling above her which was bared like the walls however there was a trap door directly above where she and Lexa were standing.
"Lexa" She caught the grounders attention and nodded up to it, "We can get out there"
"Shoot it"
Lexa's voice was firm in determination and Clarke nodded at the steely look in her eyes. Ignoring the reapers pressing against the bars aimed her gun and fired. The lock smashed and fell away at the contact causing Lexa to duck down so Clarke could use her to propel herself up and through the hatch.
She pushed it open and grasped onto the sides just as a face appeared above her.
"Bellamy?"
He nodded and held out a hand for her to take, "I managed to stay in the vents whilst Cage was rounding everyone up. I was heading down to meet you at the door when I heard the reaper cage moving and I just knew something was up the moment everyone left for level 5"
Clarke took his hand and allowed him to pull her up into the vent beside him. She turned around and held out a hand for Lexa to take but before the brunette could even reach up the bars gave way under the reapers joined weight.
She let out a scream just as Lexa jumped enough to grasp onto the bars. Clarke and Bellamy leant forward to pull her up and she was half way through when her body was vigorously pulled back down. She let out a cry of pain and Clarke leant over further to see one of the reapers holding onto her leg.
Lexa looked up at Clarke with desperate eyes as the reaper swung with his sword and slashed at his side causing another cry of pain to rip from her throat. Clarke grits her teeth and held on to Lexa's arm but she could feel the girl slipping from her grasp.
"Help me Bellamy" She gasped.
"I am!" He snapped.
Another cry of pain and Clarke looked down to see Lexa barely holding onto the bars. Her face was contorted into pain as she gazed up at Clarke and instantly the blonde knew what she was going to do.
"No!" She jumped forward but Bellamy held onto her.
Lexa shook her head, "Go Clarke"
"I said I wouldn't leave you" She growled.
Bellamy tugged on her chest, "Clarke, come on"
She ignored him as the corner of her eyes stung at the sight of Lexa hanging there. Clarke shook her head slowly as Lexa let out a gasping laugh and growled at her.
"Kill Cage"
Clarke lost the strength to fight of Bellamy as she watched Lexa slip from the bars. She let out a cry of anguish as he pulled her back from the edge and through the vent.
"LEXA!"
Casually listens to depressing music to put in the mood for writing angsty shit. So yeah... That happened