Hey people,
i know that few of you is waiting for me to update Blood Moon but we are not so far from the end of this fic - 3 or 4 chapters left. So I would like to finish this first (plus Lethal is busy. Sometimes I feel I'm the only no lifer here :D), anyway don't worry I will continue in that story it just will take some time. You know that updates are always random so I'm not saying any date or time that it will take but I'll update it some day :D
Thing number two: I want to really thank all of you for reviews, follows and favs it's amazing to know that people like something I wrote, so one big thank you for each one of you! =)
Ok, enough of my babbling and enjoy your story, kudos as always to beta mini. moogle5
She felt a weight on her chest, which was making it hard to breath. She just hoped it would be over soon.
"Not even break a sweat, huh?"
Octavia opened her eyes and in front of her she saw Raven with an uncharacteristically worried expression. She looked at her chest and saw the dead Azgeda warrior on top of her with her dagger in his back.
Raven took the dagger out of the dead body and pushed it away from the other girl. She quickly threw herself on her. "I told you not to die."
Octavia wrapped her arms around Raven and smiled. "Well, I'm still alive."
The mechanic moved away and looked over Octavia. "You're bleeding!" She started looking around frantically trying to find something that resembled a bandage of some sort.
Octavia was looking at the other girl. "I told you to go for that grenade."
"Yeah, you're welcome." After a few moments of searching dead bodies, Raven found something that looked like a first aid kit, she pulled out a bandages and started wrapping Octavia's injuries. "Next time be more careful. Or take me with you so I can save your ass and be the hero." Raven smirked while Octavia rolled her eyes.
The warrior waited until Raven finished patching up her wounds and then got up. "We need to go."
"But your leg..." Octavia interrupted her. "At least I won't need to wait for you." With that she took her sword from one of the bodies and moved in the direction of the warehouse.
Raven sighed. "Why do you have to be stubborn?"
"Well, I learned from the best." She turned to mechanic and grinned.
Raven just shook her head and moved with her companion.
Clarke was watching a retreating figure of her now probably former friend. After a moment, she turned to her wife and looked her over once again. "Are you sure you're ok?"
Lexa nodded. "Just give me my sword so I can kill that boy!"
Clarke put her hand on Lexa's shoulder to stop her from making any movement and shook her head "No, you're staying here. Outside are Azgeda warriors with guns and they're led by some crazy robot."
Lexa frowned. "Ro-what?" Her eyes went wide. "Azgeda? In Polis!? How did they get here? Why are we not fighting? We need to go." She tried to get up but Clarke stopped her once again. "How? I said you're going nowhere. You're still too wea..." Lexa glared at her so she quickly changed her chose of words. "You almost died, you can't go." Tears welled in Clarke's eyes as she remembered how motionless her wife was and the fear of losing her forever crawled back into her mind, her lip wobbled. She glanced back up at Lexa and saw a sad but very determined green eyes staring back at her. She knew Lexa wasn't going to change her mind. "If you feel so great then get up."
Commander slowly got up. "See? I'm fine." She was standing on wobbly legs.
Clarke moved to her to support Lexa so she didn't fall. "Lexa, you're too slow and they have guns."
"I'm Heda. I can fight."
They both heard sounds coming from the hall. Clarke helped Lexa sit back on the bed and quickly moved in front of her wife to protect her from any bullets or sword. She grabbed a sword and twirled it in her hand ready to cut down anyone who would dare hurt her wife.
But instead of any enemy Nyko with Indra and few guards ran inside. "Kwin, are you alright?" He turned to his commander. "Heda! You're awake. Let me look at you." He ran to her and started looking her over.
Clarke turned to the guards. "Stay here and don't let anyone inside." With that, she grabbed Monroe's gun and checked its magazine.
The guards nodded to the orders given and moved to watch the doors.
Clarke moved to Indra. "It's good to see you awake." She smiled at the older woman who just nodded. She sighed. "Can I ask you something?" Indra nodded again. "Make sure that Lexa doesn't do anything stupid."
Indra grabbed her arm and flashed her a knowing look. "And you try not to die. I don't want to see a heartbroken Heda again." She released her arm. "Shoot a few of them for me."
Clarke smiled at the older woman. She was always surprised when Indra didn't want her dead. She nodded and left the room.
"When this is over we need to go back there. There is so many useful things! Why have you guys never used them?" Raven had huge smile on her face and her eyes shined with happiness.
Both of them were leaving storehouse with grenade secured on Raven's belt.
Octavia grunted. "Except that no one of us knows how to use it?" She tried to keep up with the mechanic but the girl was fast with that brace. She held to one of the buildings for support.
Raven continued walking. "Ok, ok just calm down O. I never was with grounders before." After few moments of silence she stopped. "Why don't I hear you complaining?" She turned around and saw Octavia holding onto the building and hardly breathing she ran over to her. "We need to get you to Nyko. All your clothes are soaked in blood." She saw how Octavia wanted to say something but she stopped her. "Stop telling me you're fine when you're clearly not."
Octavia opened her mouth to say something but instead of that her legs stopped working and she started falling. Luckily, Raven caught her. "Damn O!" She put Octavia's arm around her shoulders to support the warrior. "I need at least one of your legs to work."
"Sorry Raven."
"Don't you dare! We will find someone who will help you." She looked at Octavia who was barely conscious anymore. "Please don't die. I need you O."
Octavia looked at her and weakly grinned. "Yes because you don't know where we are."
Other girl shook her head. "Not just because of that." She looked around them. "But if you tell me which way it won't hurt."
Octavia showed direction with her chin and they both started slowly moving there.
After few minutes, they get into another crossroad. "So which way O?" When Raven didn't hear Octavia answer, she looked at her and lightly shook her. "O? No, no, no. What did I tell you about dying on me?" She started panicking and raised her voice. "I care about you, you idiot!" Right after that an arrow landed in front of her. She saw warriors coming from every direction. "Go away! I have grenade. I can kill you all." It didn't scare them away. They actually started moving faster. So she took grenade from her belt. "If I will die I will take all of you with me!"
One of the warriors spoke. "Death to Skaikru!"
"Skaikru? Wait! I'm not working for Skaikru." She hid grenade. "I'm helping Clarke...I, I mean Kwin." She looked at Octavia. "If she was awake she would tell you. Please she needs help."
That stopped them. "How can we know you're not playing? You could just kill her and drag her with you so we didn't hurt you."
"Why would I...?"
"Enough!" Everyone turned to new voice.
"Anya! I would never expect to say this but I'm so happy to see you. Octavia needs help." After little pause she added. "And I don't think I can hold her any longer."
Anya pointed to warrior closest to the girls. "Help her and take her to the healer." He nodded and lifted Octavia up.
"Hey, be careful! If you hurt her I will make you go boom."
Warrior glared at her and with a grunt left.
Anya saw how Raven was looking after other girl and moved to her. "You don't need to worry. We have a healer in our camp. It's not far away."
After few moments they got into camp, which was surrounded on two sided by city walls.
"Why did you stay there?" Raven looked around camp.
"Well, we tried to fight our way to palace but they started shooting at us so we had to retreat back. Don't even get me start about Aleena." Anya shook her head. "Octavia looks better than most of our warriors."
"So you know where Aleena is?" Anya nodded and waited for Raven to continue. "Take me there."
General's eyes were wide open. "Were you even listening to me? You have no chance. You will have to wait. We are attacking them from advance but it's a slow tactic."
Raven looked at her. "I can kill her." She showed Anya grenade. "This will kill her. I just need to get it to her."
"How?"
"We don't have time for explaining."
"So what do you need?" Anya was intrigued by the idea of quickly ending this without more bloodshed on their side.
"We need a few warriors who would be for a distraction. I will explain it to them."
Anya nodded. "Give me five minutes."
Raven nodded and waited until Anya come back with around forty warriors. She could feel pain in her leg increasing but she decided to ignore it as long as possible. At the end, all she needs to do is boom one lady; she can do that even without leg.
Anya came to her. "Is this enough?"
Raven nodded. "So listen to me, guys. I need you to distract that crazy lady so I can get close to her." She showed them grenade. "And put this into her pocket or something like that. Anyway when you see me running away you need to run as well otherwise you will die." She grinned at them. "Get it?" Everyone nodded. "Good. So let's go."
Anya led them all to the square where they last saw Aleena. She could see that Raven was in pain so she decided to take a slower pace. They were getting closer so she decided to talk with younger girl. "Are you sure you can make it? Don't you need backup? You have just one try. I hope you know this."
Raven glared at her. "You do your job and I will do mine."
Anya nodded. "You will just wait until we will take their attention and then you will run to her from the back and do your thing. It's easy as that."
Raven nodded and watched how Anya unsheathed her sword and with her warriors ran to the Ice Nation warriors and Aleena. Luckily for them, there were no warriors with guns or they just finally ran out of bullets.
Raven waited a few minutes before the attention of all Ice nation warriors was directed to other side of the square. She started moving in the direction of Aleena. She was moving behind the old woman's back without being noticed.
She was almost there when Aleena turned around. "You really thought you're stealthy?"
Before Raven could even think about her next move, Aleena lifted her and threw her to the closest wall. Impact was so strong that it broke her brace.
Aleena moved to her, ready to finish her job. "You people won't ever learn your lesson."
Raven decided that if she's going to die then she will take that woman with her so she activated grenade and waited for her final boom.
After that everything happened so fast. She heard shooting and saw Clarke with gun shooting at Aleena who turned to intruder. "How naive of me to think that Skaikru will do something right for once." With that the old woman started to move to Clarke.
Raven quickly put grenade into Aleena's pocket who thanks to Clarke distraction didn't noticed a thing.
Mechanic tried to get up but without a brace her leg was totally useless. She won't be able to get out of blast radius of grenade. She felt some arms wrapping around her and lifting her up. Before she realized what was happening someone put her on their shoulder and ran as fast as they could. All she could see was their ass covered by coat which looked familiar. "Anya?" Before anyone could answer they heard sounds of the blast and were thrown to ground thanks to it.
Anya and Raven turned to the center of the blast and waited until the dust settled. All they saw was some wiring and hardware pieces. Raven grinned at the general and was surprised to see that the general was actually smiling.
When Anya noticed that Raven was looking at her she quickly changed her face back to neutral expression. She unsheathed her sword, raised her sword and yelled. "We won! Kill the rest of them." Which was answered by roaring and warriors running from every directions.
Most of Azgeda warriors decided to run away but only exit from city was covered with Trikru warriors so they decided to run deeper into city and were followed by city guards.
Raven remembered who saved her life. "Clarke!" Anya turned to her clearly confused. "Clarke was there. We have to look if she is ok." She tried to get up but almost fell on the ground. Only thing that stopped her from colliding with ground was Anya. "No."
Raven looked at her with wide eyes. "No? What do you mean no? I should have known your people would betray her. What if she is dead? What if she needs a healer?"
"She told me I have to get you to healer no matter what you tell me. I won't go against her orders." When Anya didn't hear Raven saying anything she continued. "Have a little faith in her. Heda would not choose someone weak to be her wife."
The rest of their journey to the healer's camp was spent in silence.
Raven didn't see much of camp until Anya lied her on one bed and left right after that.
"Look who's here." Raven turned to voice and she grinned when she saw Octavia on a bed next to her. "So you survived." Octavia grinned back to her.
Raven slowly got up from her bed and moved on wobbly legs to other girl.
Octavia got up too in case mechanic will need some help. She wasn't expecting mechanic to wrap arms tightly around her. "Raven? I can't breathe."
"You deserve that, you idiot! I thought you're going to die!" Raven started silently sobbing and whispered so Octavia can barely hear. "I was scared."
Octavia wrapped arms around Raven and without any thinking she kissed her. When she realized that Raven wasn't kissing her back she tried to pull away but Raven stopped her with hand in her hair and deepened their kiss.
They both separated when they heard someone clearing their throat.
"I can come back later." Clarke grinned at them. "Good to see you two alive...this much." Both girls blushed at last comment which made Clarke's grin only grow wider.
"Wait, your arm." Dark haired girls looked at blonde.
Clarke waved them away. "It's nothing serious don't worry. I was just a little too close to the blast radius." After little pause her smile faded and she whispered. "Just don't tell Lexa about it."
