❛ empire now ❜
★ ₊˚.  ❪ the chip ❫
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"WHEN..."

Learning that Clarke Griffin had taken Bellamy, Everlee, Oslo and Foxx to where Luna and her brother were, Anakin was pissed. He was just as pissed as he was the day that Lincoln had abducted Octavia and taken her back to his cave. But he couldn't do anything as he was needed back in polis, he trusted Roan to find Clarke by any means and bring her back to polis with the flame — dead or alive.

He took Daisy, Marie and John Murphy back to polis; having offered to bring back Raven, who was Murphy's girlfriend, even after he had shot her in the body and screwed up her leg. But she denied when she realized that it was a long journey back and her body hurt way too much.

But now, Anakin sat on his throne with those he cared about standing beside it, and well, John Murphy too. He was listening to those who needed something, he'd accept or he'd deny what they needed depending on what he could do as the commander who wasn't the real commander.

"Next." Murphy spoke, playing the roll as a flame keeper perfectly. Everyone was believing that after Titas had disappeared, that Murphy had taken the role on after having been trained under Lexa's orders.

"What do you want?" Anakin question as the person who knelt before him continued to kneel until he had said something. He recognized the man who had stood, and with anger in his veins, he stood and looked right towards his guard. "Clear the room, now!"

"Marie, John, I see you've done well for yourselves." Jaha gave a heartfelt grin as he looked between the two he had sent to earth on what they all believed was a death mission — hell, it still was a death mission to just live.

"Jaha, what are you doing here?" Marie snapped in a harsh tone, her hand resting on the handle of her sword as she prepared to kill on Anakin's orders.

"I'm here to offer Anakin a chance at being a real commander." Jaha told the group, only this time, his body language changed as if he was someone new. "To be who he's always wanted to be."

"How can you make such claims! "Anakin swung his sword outwards and let it rest near the man's neck. Livid. He was seeing red. "I am the last nightblood, and I am the commander."

"Clarke Griffin has the flame, and you can't find her." Jaha spoke and Anakin was ready to stab the man if it wasn't such a hassle to clean up. "I can help you."

"How?" Anakin tilted his head and moved away his sword.

Jaha opened his hand and held out the chip, the one he knew Raven had taken previously, the one he saved her from. "You take this, and you won't need the flame, or the past commanders. You'll just need this."

"No." Anakin pushed his hand away and moved back so he was sitting on his throne. "I've seen what that has done, and I will not take it."

"Than Daisy and Marie will die." Jaha told him with an honest nod and the doors swung open and a few people who Anakin assumed had been chipped, stepped into the throne room. "You take it, and we leave the three standing with you alone, or they die and you live with three more deaths on your already bloody hands."

Anakin glanced at Marie, who had already picked Daisy up and held her against her chest in a hug, shielding her from everything. "Marie, take Daisy and Murphy and leave the throne room."

"Anakin ..." Marie didn't move. She just clutched the child closest to her body.

Anakin narrowed his eyes. "I gave you an order, go, now."

Jaha smiled. "That's a good choice."

When Anakin knew that the three were at least on a different floor, he took the chip from the man. "You promise that they will stay safe?"

"I do." Jaha nodded.

Anakin knew that they could say safe on their own, that's why he dropped the chip and placed his heel on it and broke it into pieces. "You should have worried about yourself."

And he grasped his knife and swung his arm until he felt two arms grasp his body to keep him still. He had succeeded in harming those who had come near him, but those under the influence of the chip, didn't feel any pain.

"Open, son." Jaha held the chip out and Anakin closed his mouth and clenched his jaw. When Jaha realized he couldn't place the chip in his mouth, he nodded at whoever was standing behind Anakin.

"Ah." Anakin let out as a knife was pressed into his side, his lips parting and Jaha slid the chip into his mouth before he even realized what was happening.

Aw fuck.