Chapter 8 Healing Hearts Octavia

The team had not found any tracks and the frustration was showing on Octavia's face. She was determined to prove to Lincoln she could lead a successful hunt. Bellamy could see the determination on her face, and it made him appreciate her fortitude. He wanted her to succeed and had faith in her. As he watched her; he couldn't help but think back to the little girl she used to be, she had been through so much and she came out stronger than he could ever have dreamed of. She was stubborn, but that's what gave her the strength to keep going and never give up.

"Bell, I found something," said Octavia. 'But they're not animal…BELL ! BEHIND YOU!,"she shouted.

Just as Octavia was turning to tell Bellamy and Monty about the tracks she found, she saw the grounders behind them.

There were eight warriors, she didn't recognize the dress as TriKru, but they immediately had the men pinned to the ground. Octavia froze, she knew she was outnumbered.

"Who are you? What do you want? There's a truce between our people, or haven't you heard?" asked Bellamy, as he struggled against the foot standing on his back.

"Lexa promised a truce between our people," said Octavia.

"We don't care about your truce with TrieKru, were looking for your Commander," said the grounder that appeared to be the leader of the group.

"Marcus Kane?" asked Octavia. "This isn't how…" she started but was struck hard across the face, knocking her to the ground.

"DON"T TOUCH HER," warned Bellamy through gritted teeth.

The grounder holding him swung his sword to Bellamy's throat; as a warning, and held it there.

"Were looking for the one named Bellamy Blake," said the lead grounder.

"I'm Bellamy Blake," he yelled," Don't hurt them."

The lead grounder, looked down at him, "You're the mighty warrior that took down the Mountain Men?" he laughed.

They lifted Monty and Bellamy to their knees, as they held knives to their throats. The grounder that struck Octavia also had her on her knees.

"What do you want?" asked Bellamy.

"Our commander wants to meet you, she wants to meet the man that killed our enemy, she wants you to join us in the Ice Nation," said the lead grounder.

"That's all fine, but I have responsibilities here with my people," said Bellamy

"This is not us asking you, this is us taking you," snarled the grounder, as he began tying Bellamy's hands.

As they pulled Bellamy to his feet he was struggling against them. At the same moment they pushed Monty and Octavia face forward, down to the ground and walked away from them. Bellamy was still struggling, when Octavia jumped up attempting to pull out her knife. The lead grounder turned and threw his knife just as she was moving towards him and it caught her in the abdomen.

Her look was of shock, as she saw the blade sticking out of her stomach. She fell to her knees, Monty holding her from behind, looking down at her, then to Bellamy in disbelief, as Bellamy jumped and screamed like a mad animal at the sight of his dying baby sister. He used his weight to push the grounder away with his body, trying to run to Octavia.

"NO, O, NO, NO …" he screamed.

Then his world went black as one of the warriors hit him across the back of his head. The large man hoisted his limp body over his shoulders and began to carry him away.

The lead grounder turned to Monty as he held Octavia, "follow us, and I will kill you as well," he said.

The Ice Nation warriors disappeared into the forest with Bellamy.

Monty didn't know what to do. He was left alone. The Ice nation took Bellamy, and he couldn't stop them alone. He was holding Octavia. He carefully laid her body down, kneeling beside her, he moved her hair out of her face, and looked at her. He felt helpless, knowing better than to try and move her or remove the knife. She was bleeding so he ripped his undershirt and put it around the knife where it entered her body.

He couldn't try carrying her. He knew he wasn't strong enough without risking more damage to her injury. He was afraid she was going to die in his arms, and he was helpless. If he left her to get help, and she died alone, he couldn't bear it.

"Monty," Octavia whispered with ragged breath. "They took him."

"Shhh, don't talk," said Monty, as tears filled his eyes. "You need to lay still, I have to find help." He told her.

Octavia was struggling through her pain; her hand on her stomach where the knife was. "You have to tell Lincoln, he needs to stop them, they'll kill him," she said through her pain.

"I'll find help, you have to be still," he said again.

"I'm scared Monty, I don't want to die," she cried.

"You're not going to die, you hear me?" he told her. "Listen you lay still," he said, as he took off his jacket and rolled it up and placed it carefully under her head. "I'm going to go for help, you stay still," he said.

Monty stood, and started running back towards camp Jaha when he ran into Lincoln and the others. Their eyes met and Lincoln knew it was not good. Monty had blood on his ripped shirt and he was missing his jacket.

"Lincoln," he shouted in a panic. "It's Octavia. She's hurt; we have to get her help."

Monty led the three to Octavia. When Lincoln saw her, he knew it was bad.

"Lincoln," she moaned his name. "You have to find them, they took Bellamy."

"Don't worry, I'll find your brother. First, we have to get you to Abby," said Lincoln.

Lincoln lifted her up carefully and carried her quickly back to camp. The three followed behind.

As they hurried back, Miller was asking Monty some details about the attackers.

"They were Ice Nation. Indra warned us, that's why we came looking for you, she said they wanted to find Bellamy, they think he's the chancellor or something. How many men were there," asked Miller?

"I think eight or nine, everything happened so fast. They came from behind, and had me and Bellamy before we even saw them. They had knives to our throats, when they realized it was Bellamy they tied him up and Octavia tried to go after them, they threw the knife. Bellamy went crazy, they knocked him out and took him."

"I didn't know what to do," said Monty. "I was afraid to leave her, but I knew I couldn't carry her myself."

"I was afraid if I left her she would die alone," said Monty. "She can't die."

Lincoln said, "She's not going to die, she's strong, your people will save her." As he spoke the words, he prayed he was right, he had to hurry and get her to camp, then he had to go after and kill the ones that tried to kill her.

Monroe radioed camp Jaha and let them know they were coming in with Octavia. She gave them the details.

Marcus, Abby and Jackson were waiting along with Raven and Jasper at the gate when they arrived.

Abby assessed the wound and rushed her to medical followed closely by Lincoln.

Abby stopped Lincoln at the door to medical, "You need to stay out here and let us work,' she said. "Octavia is strong, but it's serious, we don't know what damage has been done, we'll let you know as soon as we can."

Lincoln stood back, looking through the door. He felt completely helpless.

Miller, Monroe, Monty, Jasper and Raven followed by Marcus came towards medical.

"We have to go after Bellamy," said Monty.

"We can pick up their tracks if we hurry," said Miller. "But we may lose the light if we wait."

"Wait, just wait," said Marcus. "Lincoln said Ice Nation is ruthless, we can't go out and start a war."

"We didn't start a war. They did when they came here and tried to kill Octavia and took Bellamy," said Raven. "I say we go and get him back."

"We have guns," said Monroe. "We have to go."

"Just stop," said Marcus. "No one is going anywhere until we know what were up against."

Lincoln turned at that point.

"I can't do anything for Octavia, but she asked me to go after her brother. If there are eight Ice nation warriors out there that started this, they are dead men," said Lincoln as he stormed off towards the door.

Everyone looked at him, then towards Marcus.

"Bellamy went alone into Mount Weather, to save our lives. I'm going after him," said Monty.