Prepare for some Octavia and Raven time!... Not what your dirty minds think...
Kudos as always to my beta mini .moogle5 =)
"So some guard from the Ark shot the Commander and Echo killed Lincoln?" When they got to Octavia's quarters, she told Raven the whole story from the time Echo killed Lincoln until now.
Octavia just nodded. There wasn't much more to say to it.
"That bitch played us…with that stupid council? I need to make a few bombs to show them who's awesome!" Raven pumped her fist in the air.
Octavia chuckled at her friend's enthusiasm for bombs. At least someone is happy in the current situation. "You have to wait to see if Heda survives."
Raven turned to the other girl with a serious face. "What will happen if she doesn't?"
Octavia sighed and looked at ground. "Clarke will rule until the new Heda is found and trained." She played with her fingers. "But…" There was long pause before she looked at Raven. "…I doubt it will be that easy." Raven looked at her confused "You saw Clarke today. She's denying everything. If Heda really dies, she will lost it completely. She will march with our whole army on the Ark and kill everyone without mercy."
Raven shook her head. "She would never…she's Clarke! She believes in negotiation not war. And the Arkers are still her people."
It was Octavia's time to shake her head. "That was Clarke before. She really tried to solve it peacefully. I believe if Jasper wasn't an asshole she would have even tried to negotiate peace with Skaikru but…" Octavia sighed. "She changed after visiting Camp Jaha."
"What do you mean 'changed'?" Raven didn't like the sound of this. She had some idea but she hoped she was wrong.
"She is…I don't know if you saw that but she looks and act a lot like Heda. Most of the time she has that 'I don't care' expression on her face." Octavia sadly looked at ground.
Raven sighed. This was what she thought after Clarke breakdown at her cell. "Maybe we should just try to talk with her."
Once again Octavia shook her head. "I tried many times but she always say she has some political matter or she needs to go or she is tired. She doesn't want to talk…at least not with me." Octavia was thinking if she should voice her main concern or not. There was a long silence before she spoke again. "You know…sometimes I think that Heda is the only thing that's keeping Clarke sane." When she saw Raven want to protest, she stopped her with a move of her hand. "Wait! Hear me out. There was one time when Heda needed to go to the villages in the north to stop some fight and Clarke had to stay here because she broke her arm at training. It was only a few days after I arrived. After two days she had these hollow eyes, you know, like she was somewhere else. The third day, I was going to her quarters with food and I heard her talking to herself…"
Raven finally managed to interrupt her. "That's normal. I always talk to myself when I'm working!"
"Yes but it wasn't this kind of talking. She looked like she really saw someone. She was still repeating 'Let me be' and 'Why you just can't leave'."
"Maybe she just talked to you" Raven grinned.
Octavia glared at her for that. "Hey! When she saw me she looked surprised and asked me how long I was there. She looked really distressed."
Raven sighed. "So if the Commander die Clarke will lost it and we will be screwed. That's what you're saying?"
"Well not we…just everyone who pisses off Clarke. Which, how you saw, won't be hard at all."
"We need to do something! I'm too young to die!" Raven thought that Clarke would never do something like that after that what she saw today she wasn't so sure anymore.
"Well we can try to talk with her and then find out if anyone else betrayed the coalition." Octavia raised and moved to doors.
Raven stood up as well and moved with her friend. "Sounds like a plan to me."
Before they got to Clarke's quarters, some man stopped them. "Skaikru! Why is she walking around and why is she still alive? All of them should die for what they done!" He moved closer to Raven and unsheathed his dagger.
Octavia moved between him and her friend. "She is under Kwin's protection!"
That angered man even more. "You were one of them. Maybe that's how that assassin got inside. You are still one of them!"
Octavia was surprised by this she wasn't expecting that someone would think that she is a traitor. Before she could say anything Anya came to them. "Are you questioning Kwin's orders?"
Man turned to her. "How do you know those really Kwin's order? This girl could be lying to us!"
Octavia was surprised once again. That man had insulted her from being traitor but he trusted that Clarke would never do something like that. Trikru were really Clarke's people no matter what anyone else think.
"Enough! I heard her ordering it." Anya looked at that man like she dared him to say something else.
He just growled and with that left.
Octavia turned to Anya. "You heard her talking to us?"
"No, but Indra trust you. She would never do that if she didn't have a good reason." After a little pause she added. "And I doubt you would go against blondie."
Octavia nodded. "Talking about her, do you know where she is?"
"In her quarters. I just changed guarding it with Indra."
Octavia nodded once again and moved with Raven past Anya. Before they could move far away Anya talked again. "But you can't go to her."
Raven and Octavia looked at each other. This time it was Raven who talked. "Why?"
"Kwin's orders." When Anya saw that girls want to know more she continued with roll of her eyes. "Only Nyko and blondie can go inside."
Before anyone could say anything more a messenger came in. "I have a message for Kwin as she wished."
Anya looked between girls and messenger and she get an idea. "I'll take it there. You can leave." He nodded and left.
"I thought only Clarke and Nyko can go inside." Raven eyed her warily.
Anya smirked. "Yes, only Clarke and Nyko…and important messages." She handed the message to Raven. "We'll see if she will protect you even after you get inside."
"You said you'll take it there." Raven was genuinely confused.
"And risking that she'll get mad and kill me? No, thanks. Plus you two wanted to get inside, didn't you?" Anya grinned at them.
Raven took the piece of paper and slowly nodded.
Anya nodded back at them and before she left she mentioned. "Just try not to piss her off. I don't want to clean up after you two. It's hard to find someone who can get blood out of furniture."
Raven turned to Octavia with wide eyes. "Did she just implied that Clarke will kill us?"
Other girl just waved her hand. "It's Anya. You can't take her too serious." When she saw that her words didn't helped much other girl she changed subject. "We should go if we ever want to get there." Raven nodded and they moved to Heda's quarters.
As Anya said to them they saw Indra guarding there. Before she could say anything Octavia talked. "We have important message for Kwin." She took piece of paper from Raven's hand and waved it in front of Indra's face. When she saw that older woman want to protest she continued. "She's expecting this and if we don't give it to her right now she'll be pissed."
"What's in there?" Indra raised eyebrow at her former second.
That caught Octavia by surprise. "Ehm…"
Luckily Raven was here to save her. "Names. She wanted to know some names." Octavia remembered what Clarke said that guard in prison and eagerly nodded. Maybe they are not even lying right now.
Indra nodded and moved aside.
Both girls got inside. They saw sleeping Clarke on chair with her head on bed next to an unconscious Lexa.
Raven leaned to Octavia and whispered. "Should we wa-" before she could end her sentence, she was pushed to the closest wall by Clarke with a dagger on her neck.
When blonde girl saw who it was she lowered her weapon.
"Oh my god, Clarke! You scared the shit out of me." Raven was touching her neck to make sure her head was still attached to her body.
Clarke shook her head. "Sorry I had a nightmare and I…"
Raven could see hope in Clarke's eyes for a moment.
Blonde girl turned around and looked at bed. When she saw that not everything was just a dream she sighed and released Raven. "Why are you here? I gave order to not let anyone inside."
Octavia handed her piece of paper. "We have a message for you." When she saw Clarke reading it she continued. "And we wanted to talk."
Clarke moved away from them without even raising her head from message. "I told you we will talk tomorrow." She sat on chair where she was sleeping before.
Octavia saw untouched food on table. "When was the last time you eat something Clarke?" Only answer to her question was silence.
Raven had enough and moved to their blonde leader. "Look we are just trying to help to you. And if you will not eat, you won't help anyone." This time instead of silence the answer came in form of stomach rumble.
Raven and Octavia grinned at a blushing Clarke. "See? You need to eat something." Clarke sighed, put message aside and moved to table with food. She started eating.
After a moment, Clarke turned to Raven. "Are you staying or you want to go back to camp Jaha?"
Raven and Octavia sat next to the blonde girl at the table. "After everything I heard about Echo I would rather stay here. If it's not a problem?" She raised eyebrow at the blonde girl.
Clarke shook her head. "Not for me." She pointed to Raven's clothes. "But you need to change this if you want to stay." She saw confusion on Raven's face so she continued. "You want to stay with us so you need to be one of us. Octavia can train you" She looked at Octavia for affirmation.
Octavia eagerly nodded. "I'll kick your sorry ass Reyes."
The blonde girl pointedly looked at her friend. "Train…not kill."
"I don't want to ruin your fantasies but I'm crippled, remember?" Raven pointed at her brace.
"Oh…it's not a problem around Polis are some herbs that can help you to get your leg functional again." Blonde said it like it was nothing.
Raven wasn't so calm about it. "WHAT? H-how?"
Clarke shrugged her shoulders and ate another piece of her food. "I don't know. Radiation?"
"Why you didn't tell me sooner?" Raven glared at Clarke.
"Oh, sorry. I have my own problems." She pointed at the bed with Lexa's body and glared back at Raven.
Octavia decided to stop their glaring contest and cleared her throat to get both girls attention. "Yes, we all have many problems, can we at least not fight?" Both girl sighed and nodded.
"It's Trikru secret so try not to talk about it. I can give you some of it." Raven eagerly nodded. She still couldn't believe her leg will be fine.
Clarke stood and move to drawer. She take some bag from it and handed it to Raven. "If you will need more just…just…" Clarke touched her head. She needed to hold onto chair so she didn't fall.
Octavia was next to her in instant. "Are you ok? You need something?"
Clarke wave her hand. "It's ok. I was just dizzy. Nothing I can't…nothing…"
Few moments later, Octavia and Raven saw how Clarke's unconscious body fall on the ground.
Let's pretend that Raven can get her leg back…I just want to see (write) badass Raven with swords and bombs…just say it with me – GROUNDER RAVEN! :D
Any ideas what happened to Clarke?