Chapter 21: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
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3rd person POV. . . . . . .
"Hey i need to know what happened after the intake doors." Bellamy asks Lincoln as they trekked through the woods to Mount Weather. Bellamy was wearing grounder clothing to look the part, while Lincoln was dressed as a reaper with blood and limestone on his face.
"They remove your clothes, blast you with boiling water and douse you with something that burns even worse. From there we were sorted. The others were tagged harvest, i was tagged cerberus, turned into a reaper."
The name strikes a memory for Bellamy as he nods. "Cerberus? Three headed dog that guards the underworld."
Lincoln looks back at him strangely, and Bellamy shrugs. "My mom read mythology to us all the time. Octavia loved it."
That caused a smile to spread across his face and Bellamy sees it, finally accepts it their love. "Your good for her. You made her strong."
Lincoln thinks about his girlfriend, when he first met her to now, and doesnt see much difference. "She was already strong."
Bellamy hangs back, thinks about Lincolns loyalty to his sister that seemed almost instant upon meeting her. He knows why Enyo stayed, because to her it was the right thing to do, her people became a danger to her brother once they found out. It wasnt like Enyo took a shine to liking all of his people straight away, she used to be guarded and defensive around them, a wall up between her and them. Between her and him no matter how much they joked it was there until their day trip.
"Hey i- i need to ask you something." Lincoln stops, looks back at him to continue. "You protected my sister before you even knew her, why?"
Lincoln thinks before he speaks, willing to trust Octavia's brother now. "When i was a boy around Abrahams age, i saw a ship fall from the sky. Like Raven's. The man inside was hurt his body broken...i couldn't get him out."
Bellamy thinks for a second, the story familiar to him. "Suicide by Earth. I heard the stories in the guard i just...didnt know they were true."
"I brought him food, water. I didnt speak the enemies language yet, so i couldn't understand him but i wanted to. On the third day i told my father..." Lincoln paused, voice low and solemn as he carried on, "he made me kill him. The world's been trying to turn me into a monster for as long as i can remember. Same for Enyo too,that's why she's so protective of her brother so he wont become one. Lets keep moving."
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"I know we dont have a lot in common but we do have a common enemy and a common goal. And for us to reach it, to get our people out of Mount Weather, we need to work together." Kane anounces to the room in alpha station filled with more grounders than Skairku. The commander wanted them to learn from eachother so Indra had brought some of Trikru into Camp Jaha.
"Ogeda. Skaikru and Trikru." Together. Sky people and tree people. Kane said because he had asked Enyo to give him the words so he can show the grounders, show Indra, that they can become one people.
And it seemed to be going as well as can be expected until a man from Trikru and Murphy get into a fight, which automatically means that everyone else joins in as well.
Enyo elbows and shoves her way through the crowd to the source of the problem, and stops when she finally gets to the grounder and Murphy who are being pulled and shoved together by everyone.
"Nou!" Stop! "Nou acting like a goufa!" Stop acting like a child! She yells at them both, stepping between them roughly to keep them apart.
As she pulls Murphy one of the walls, she steps in front of him, blocking anyone to get to him. When they try to reach for him she elbows their faces, probably breaking noses but not giving a damn.
"Empleni!" Enough! Enyo shouts and everyone in the room stops, looks at her. "Osir souda learn kom our mistakes." We must learn from our mistakes. Her voice is determined, feirce and no one questions it which she doesnt expect. Marcus takes it from there, taking them all outside to train while he leaves Murphy with a bunch of clean up duty. Enyo doesn't believe thats fair, she knows it was her people that started it but Kane wanted to be on their good side.
"Hey," she says to Murphy as she walks beside him to the janitors closet. "Whatever that guy said, just ignore it."
Murphy narrows his eyes at her in suspicion. "You saying you believe me now? If you did then why didnt you say anything?"
"The same reason why Kane punished you and not him. To keep the peace they have to kiss some ass." Enyo sighs, serious and Murphy thinks that he could cut her some slack for things...maybe.
"You're not taking part in the ass kissing?" Murphy asks, sarcastic.
She levels him with a stare that could challenge even the unbreakable. "More like ass kicking."
He rolls his eyes, muttering "yeah thats sounds about right."
He reaches in the closet for the mop and bucket but she reaches out to stop him.
She pulls them from his grip and throws them without grace back into the closet and firmly shuts the door, her back up against it, arms folded.
"As much as i hate to say it im on mopping duty and I'm already in enough shit as it is." Murphy groans when she puts her foot to his stomach to shove him away.
"If you want to marry the mop i wont stop you. But if not then just hang out here for a while and I'll handle Kane." She suggests, shrugging.
Murphy lets his stare linger, as if trying to find something that she could gain from helping him. Saying it the way he knows best. The Murphy attitude way. "You defending me all the time is creeping me out."
Enyo rolls her eyes. "Your an ass but you and me have similarities."
Murphy scoffs, both disbelieving and mocking. "Yeah, like what?"
"We're both sarcastic, especially in serious life threatening situations because its the only way we can cope. We're both grumpy pretty much all the time and have zero hope. No tolerance for bullshit. And something happened to us as kids to make us change into who we are." Enyo states listing them off on her fingers.
Murphys eyes turn hard but a little glassy if she weren't takng notice she wouldnt have seen it. "You dont know anything about me."
Enyo frowns and lists off the last thing. "And we both prefer to go solo rather than let people too close."
"Your wrong." At Enyo's confusion he continues, "even my own people like you better than me. You have your brother, Lincoln, Clarke...and Bellamy."
"i like you better than i like me." She admits blunt. And if Murphy wasn't suspicious beofre he is now.
"Why?"
She shrugs again. "I may not like the shit you did and i definitely wont ever forgive you for hanging Bellamy but your not un-saveable...your still a prick."
Murphy lets out a laugh and hums in agreement. "Your not much of a delight either."
"Much? Only much? I'll take it as a compliment." She gloates and he rolls his eyes again.
"You do that." Murphy snarks, maybe ,slightly enjoing the company.
She salutes him but gives him the fingers in a whatever see you later prick, way but unknown to them, they wont see eachother for a long time.
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"Whats wrong Fio? Afraid of a LITTLE competition?" Enyo taunts knowing that he hates it when she does it. She is by far the smallest grounder there, but her people are aware that height doesnt restrict anyone. He goes to swing but she uses his arm as leverage to jump up and wrap her legs around his neck to twist and pull him down to the ground.
She wasnt the strongest grounder, she knew that but she was fast. And she had taught herself a few tricks that always give her an advantage. Fio got up again, more enraged that he couldnt beat someone like her, and she was well aware that the only reason Indra was letting her train with them was because they want her ass to get kicked.
"Impressive, aren't they?" Kane says to Octavia, who stands beside him watching them. Octavia watches Enyo, how someone so small compared to the rest can still take someone twice her size down.
Kane watches as they get shoved down by their oponenets but none of them look weakened by it. "What doesnt kill them, makes them stronger."
Ocatvia wants nothing more than to be like that and states that she is the next to fight.
Indra shoots her down immediately, "only warriors train here."
Octavia doesnt like it when she's shot down again no matter how much she tries, getting rejected by another clan like she had her own people.
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"Guns can keep them alive...its like they're afraid of them." Kane wonders aloud.
"They are." Octavia responds, still sharpening Lincoln sword and remembers what he and Enyo had told her when she asked. "Legend has it if a grounder picks up a gun, even to shoot another grounder, Mount Weather will wipe out their entire village. Cant have your blood supply defending themselves right?"
Kane thinks for a moment, their chances would be more efficient if the grounders had guns. "If we dont arm them, we cant win."
Octavia stands up, sheathing Lincolns sword. "Like hell we can't."
"We dont know enough about these people." Kane states to the guard next to him, thinking that even if he asked Enyo to spy on them for him, she wouldn't do it. If something happened he had no doubt she would tell him but he needed to be aware of anything.
"She sure seems to." The guard comments on Octavia's retreating figure.
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"Step aside sky girl, we're hungry." Indra demands, leading the pack of grounders towards the gate to hunt.
"Make me." Octavia challenges and stares her down until Indra tells Fio to fight with her.
Enyo watches from next to Indra as Octavia attacks with her held in anger. She watches as Octavia takes punch after punch and kick after kick but always gets back up. Enyo sees Indramove to stop Fio from attacking her further and goes to help Octavia off the ground.
As she passes Indra she sees the hidden respect. "She might not be the best but she never stops fighting."
Helping Octavia she pulls one of her arms around her shoulder while Kane grabs her other. They move towards medical that has been moved into Alpha station. Octavia has blood all over her face and will definitely feel sore for the next couple of days.
"How many times have i told you that skill will win over aggression?" Enyo chastises but they here how proud she is.
"What are you trying to prove?" Kane asks her.
"What doesnt kill you makes you stronger." Octavia breathes out.
Enyo gives her a smirk. "You better hope so."
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"You okay?" Bellamy sees Lincolns internal struggle when he crushes the vial with his foot, genuinely worried about him. Lincoln ignores the question and looks ahead of them.
"As soon as they open the intake doors we attack, do not let it close. Once they're all dead, you go in and I'll make it look like you escaped. Once your inside..." Lincoln trails off sighing.
"I know." Bellamy finishes, he'll be on his own.
They hear more reapers come from where they came, another raiding party. Lincoln starts to panic and Bellamy refuses to leave, having a squabble until thereapers come into view, having to play their parts. Before they put the blindfold over Bellamy's eyes he nods to Lincoln, needs to know that he's with him on this, Lincoln nods back. Bellamy puts his life and trust into Lincolns hands and breathes heavily when he can no longer see.
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"I need you to be my eyes and ears." Kane propositions Octavia once Enyo leaves to take some food from the hunt to Raven and Abraham.
"Your asking me to be a spy?" Octavia demands, offended.
"Im asking you to look out for your people." Kane amends.
Octavia gives him a hard look as she leaves him to sit with Indra.. "I am."
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"I think i know how to take Mount Weather." Clarke breathes suddenly gaining an idea. "We've been trying to get inside but they've already let us in."
"What are you talking about?" Lexa asks her.
"Your army is already there. Locked in cages, we just need someone on the inside to let them out." Clarke states, eyes flickering with her plan.
"Bellamy." Lexa answers to which Clarke nods. "You have faith in him?"
Clarke nods again, thinking of her friends. "I have faith in them both."
Lexa knows who she means. "I hope your faith is well placed because if he cant get inside we cant win."
"he will and if he can't the Enyo is our best shot." Clarke says, killing the fire with her boot and walking back with Lexa to the village.
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As Bellamy is kneeled on the floor with other gronders lined up next to him, he notices how Lincoln doesnt make a move to attack when the intake doors are opened and shut. Panic bubbles up inside him as he is tagged harvest and he watches Lincoln, knowing that something is wrong. Lincoln kneels down like the rest of the reapers and Bellamy stares at him terrified, watching as the mountain men inject the reaper serum into him. Lincolns body sags and spasms as he falls to lay on the ground at the feeling of it back in his system, while Bellamy starts to shake from fear, having zero control over this ad hating the feeling that he's come to die with the rest of his people before he can save them.
They're all tagged harvest by DR Tsing whose in a radiation suit and the mountain men round them up and towards the doors into mount weather. Belamy struggles, putting up a fight, elbowing and punching his way out of their grip until hes it at the back of the head and falls to the floor. He's dazed as they drag him inside, Lincoln watching as he knows Bellamy is carted away to his death.
Authors note: his chapter is done but i found the episode quite boring as i re watched it so i struggled to write this one. Next chapter will be up by tonight. I wil try to get 3 up by tomorrow because im really excited to write them out. Prepare yourselves x
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