Two weeks later.
"Bellamy, come on we don't have to sit around and argue," Raven said.
"What do you want me to say? We can't win. They are coming for us, all of us." Bellamy added. He looked around at the gloomy faces around him. He thrusted his hand on the table to highlight the seriousness of the current situation. "We leave now, nobody gets hurt."
"Except us," Monte said. "Who knows whats going to happen if we don't fight."
"And if we do?" Octavia asked. Monte put his head down. "Bellamy's right, okay we leave nobody else suffers, we stay and fight everybody else does."
"Why would turn ourselves in to the same people who have done everything to show we can't trust them." Jasper pointed out. "They wont keep their word."
"We can't possibly fight," Clarke stated. "Being here, now is more difficult then it ever was. We were sent to die so that every person in that camp could live. So the blood in our veins came from the very land which we our standing on. Were not sky people and we never were. We were from the ground always. Were meant to survive on the ground and if that means sacrifice then so be it. If time has taught us anything is that war is not the answer. It has lead to billions of death, to bombs, and suffering. To orphans and to disease. To horror and loss but everything that humanity has failed to do we can fix. Sacrifice is one of the only things that humanity has failed to grasp. The only thing that right now could save not just are people but theirs. The grounders aren't stupid, they understand that, so if paying for a past is the only way for some to have a future, I say so be it. If we turn ourselves in, we may not even die."
"You think a big speech is going to make me want die," Jasper countered.
"No, but I it's gonna help me," Clarke said. "I'm going and I hope I'm going to be good enough to hold them back long enough for us to think of another solution."
Clarke walked to the doorway but stopped after hearing Bellamy's voice, "Wait." Bellamy moved next to her. "Two's better than one." Clarke smiled at the gesture that expressed his courage and bravery.
Octavia walked up from behind the other side of the table. She stood beside Bellamy who smiled at her. Monte followed with Harper and a few other familiar faces leaving only Jasper and Raven stayed at the other end of the room.
"I'm not going," Jasper said.
"Raven?" Harper asked hoping that her friend would join them.
"I'm not being any weaker." Raven shook her head.
"Sometimes weakness is giving up if its for a reason. And this is. Raven you're not weak if you're not weak if you come, you're weak if you stay." Clarke tried convincing.
Raven walked right up to Clarke. Looking her dead in the eye. Then moved right past her while hitting Clarke's shoulder and out the door. Jasper went out after her staring at Clarke and the others as he left the room.
Bellamy turned to Clarke, "It will be okay, they have all us." He put his arm around her for comfort.
Octavia stood behind them and glared at the sight.
Abby entered the room and went straight towards Clarke, "You can't do this." Her face covered in tears with thought of losing her daughter.
"Mom, I have to do this."
"Why?" Abby asked.
"Because they will attack to get us. Their army of thousands verse us isn't a winning fight. You always told me to pick my battles. I'm choosing not to pick this one. Mom they want everyone from the 100 to suffer. As some sort of blood must have blood thing for every thing we have done. Peace isn't an option until they get justice. Mom were leaving" Clarke hugged her mother with a sincerety that touched everyone in the room.
Abby kissed her daughters forehead. "I love you Clarke."
"I love you too mom." Clarke whimpered.
Clarke left her mothers grasp. She and the other kids left the room. They marched out of camp with all eyes on them. People around Arkadia stood beside them but avoiding their path. They left Arkadia and vanished from the villagers eyesight.