"There is one thing we say to death: Not today."

-Syrio Forel

2.

"It's been three hours, what are they waiting for?" Bellamy says interrupting the silence in the rover. Three hours of playing sitting ducks.

"Even with the light I don't see anyone." Kane says looking through the shutters of the rover.

"I say we make a run for it." Monty says.

I nod my head, "I'm with Monty, we're sitting ducks in here."

"No. Thats what they want us to do." Kane sighs.

"The boy is right." Indra says, "they can wait longer than we can."

Kane nods, "okay Bellamy, you get in the turret and you cover us. Once we get to that ridge over there," Kane points, "we'll cover you."

Bellamy zips up his jacket and nods, "copy that, run fast." He opens up the turret but before he can go up I grab his arm and he looks at me.

"Be safe." I tell him and he nods and sticks his body halfway through.  Not even a second after being up he speaks, "they're here."

My eyes widen as I point my gun up.

"Everybody out or the boy dies."  The mystery man says and Bellamy gets pulled out of the Rover.

"Bellamy!" I yell as kane yells too, "okay! Okay, we're coming out! Don't hurt him."

Kane starts to take off his gun strap and I set my gun down as well. As Kane looks back at us he turns the knob of the door and its quickly getting pulled open and next thing I know I'm getting shoved on the ground and someone has their knee on my back to keep me from getting up. I groan in pain as my back still hasn't healed entirely.

"All targets secure!" A woman's voice shouts. I hear some beeping getting closer and one of the men reaches Monty.

"Found it." He says and they raise Monty to his feet.

"Stop!" I yell. The man holding me down presses his knee further into my back making me yelp in pain, "quite." he says.

The man stands in front of Monty holding up the light we took from Ice Nation.

"It's mine, give it back!" Monty tries to reach for it but they pull him back.

"Monty, let it go!" Bellamy orders.

I struggle against the guys knee on my back until a woman speaks up, "Monty?"

The voice sounds familiar but I don't realize who it is until Monty is talking back, "mom?"

Monty is released slowly and Montys mom takes off her mask and goes to hug her son.

"I knew it." She says sounding close to tears. I sigh and turn my head back, "mind getting off me since we're all friends now?" I can see his eyes looking at me through the mask but he doesn't let me go until someone tells them to stand down. More particularly he addresses them as Farm Station. I stand up and walk over to Monty and his mom.

"Hannah." I adress her and she smiles lightly and pulls me in for a hug.

"Taylor, I'm glad you're alive." I pull away from the hug, "someones got to keep Monty alive." I tease and she smiles as Monty rolls his eyes. Kane, Pike, and Bellamy walk over.

"How many of you are there?" Kane asks Pike.

"Sixty-three. The rest are camped in the mountains north of here." Pike says and then adds, "grounder killers one and all. Am I right?" Everyone lets out a chant and I swallow and turn to Indra who looks angry and uncomfortable.

"We don't kill grounders, asshole." I say in Trigedasleng. He gives me a confused look and I see Indra smirking.

"You speak their tongue?" Pike questions me.

"No, I speak my tongue. I may have come from the ark but I'm a grounder just like the rest of us."  I explain to him, he looks annoyed but I can't bring myself to care. The grounders are our people. We are grounders. I am a grounder.

"Hate to cut this short. We gotta find Clarke." Bellamy says giving me a look to tell me to stop talking.

Pike turns to him, "Clarke Griffin? If only all my Earth Skills students were as good as her."

Bellamy smiles, "It's good to see you, sir."

Pike laughs, "you too."

"Move the tree." Kane orders and Pike tells his people to help. As I was about to go help a hand is being placed on my shoulder. I turn to see a man with a mask who I don't know but when he takes it off my eyes widen.

"Alex?" I question still in disbelief that he is standing before me.

Alex's mom was in the infirmary when I was stealing herbs to help sick Farm Station patients. Since his dad had passed awhile back he only had his mom so I took it upon myself to befriend him and help him as his mom was sick. He was a few years older but we got  along well. Sadly even the herbs couldn't help his mom and she had passed, Alex stopped talking to me which lead me to believe he wanted to grieve alone for awhile but I never saw him again.

"Taylor." He smiles before pulling me in for a hug I squeeze back an then pull away.

"How are you here right now?" I laugh in disbelief.

"I could ask you the same thing." He responds making me laugh.

"Wow, it is so good to see you."

"You too, Queen. You still dating that jackass?" I laugh and shake my head.

"No way. That was over two years ago." I explain and he nods.

"Good, he wasn't right for you." He nods in approval.

A cough interrupts our conversation and I turn to my right to see Bellamy.

"It's time to go." He says and I nod my head and turn to Alex.

"I'll see you at arkadia later." I tell him and he nods and I follow Bellamy.

"Who was that?" He questions as Pike tells his people to go to Arkadia.

"Old friend." I explain and he nods.

Bellamy opens the Rover door and allows me to go in first and he follows behind me and takes a seat to my right. 

"Fall in." Bellamy tells us as he leads us to the big hut we came across. We hear clashing and yelling as we get closer and when we finally enter we see a blonde haired girl on the floor as a grounder holds a knife to her throat. Bellamy quickly pulls the trigger shooting him down and I look around to make sure no one else is here.

"Are you okay?" Bellamy questions the girl and she nods and stands up.

Indra walks past the girl and looks into the back room before telling her in trigedasleng that we are here to help.

"English!" Pike orders and I roll my eyes. I can already tell me and Pike will not be getting along.

"Pike, go outside. Take Monty and Hannah and search the perimeter." Kane demands and he nods and they walk out.

"We're looking for Wanheda." Indra says.

The girl points to the grounder on the floor, "so was he."

"Please. She's in danger." Bellamy adds and she sighs.

"You're skaikru?" She asks and I nod my head, "yeah."

"She was here last night."

"Did she say where she was going?" Kane asks.

"She was here when I fell asleep and gone when I woke up." Something about her tone makes it seem like she as saddened by this I don't look too much into it though because this is the first lead we've had in awhile.

"She give you any indication of where she might go?" I ask her and she shakes her head, "no. But he did. He said that his partner came back for her. It was ice nation. I hope you find her." Now I know she had some feelings for Clarke whatever they may be.

"Thank you." Bellamy nods at her as Monty walks in, "good news. I found fresh tracks."

I smile, go Monty!

Bellamy nods and walks up to him, "great. Start the rover."

Monty sighs, "thats the bed news. Too many trees. We have to go on foot."

"Then we'll go on foot." I say and Kane turns to me, "yes we will." I nod at him and he smiles lightly.

"I dont like him." Indra tells me referring to Pike right behind us as we walk through the tall wheat grass. I laugh lightly.

"Neither do I. He's going to screw up what we have with you guys. We can't afford it." I say, after mount weather I spent more time with Octavia and Lincoln, they helped me with trigedasleng more and when I would talk to Indra occasionally she helped clear some things up for me too.

"We can always take him out." She says looking back at him. I laugh, "sounds tempting but I don't think thats a good way to show them that we honor our truce."

She sighs, "shame."

"What are you two talking about?" Pike interrupts making us turn slightly to see him while walking.

"Just grounder gossip." I say sarcastically with a big grin.

"You're not a grounder, you speak English, you come from The Ark." Pike says sternly making me stop walking and Indra stops as well.

"You don't know me, Pike. I am what I am, I speak what I want, and The Ark is just where I was born, it is not my home."  I snide.

He eyes me, "where is your home then?"

Bellamy pops into my head as soon as his question leaves his mouth. I turn to look at Bellamy who's walking ahead with Kane. My home is wherever Bellamy is but I won't let him know that, this man deserves nothing from me.

"My home is where my friends lie, my friends kom skaikru and my friends kom trikru." I say and continue walking forward - Indra walking with me again.

"Hold." Kane says putting his hand in the air making us all stop.

"What is it?" I question.

I start to hear drums in the distance.

"War drums." He says.

"Azgeda." Indra cuts in. Great.

"You can tell it's Ice Nation from the sound?" Monty asks her.

"No, from them." She nods her head to our left and I see two bodies on the floor.

The group starts running towards the bodies, "we need to get those bodies off the field. Unless you're good with them thinking we did this." Pike explains.

I stay standing with Bellamy as he nudges me about something on the other side of us.

"Wait, theres people at 12 o'clock." Bellamy says looking through his scope as I do the same. I see two people, a man and a women. When the women turns her head I gasp. It's Clarke.

I look to Bellamy with wide eyes and he nods at me as we try to run to her but Pike stops us.

"Hey, wait, you'll never make it in time."

Monty walks up to us, "he's right, look." I sigh and hold up my gun to look through the scope to see Ice Nation - a lot of them.

"No way we'd get across without being seen." Monty shakes his head.

"We have to try or else he will get away with Clarke." I plead.

Bellamy helps, "we need to go after them, he could kill her."

I shake my head, "if he wanted her dead he would've killed her already, there's no point in dragging her along." I then realize what might be going on, "He wants to turn her in, to Ice Nations queen so she can kill her."

"Look, we should lay low, let the army pass. Then we find Clarke." Pike reasons.

"Guys, there's a cave." Monty interrupts.

Pike nods his head, "we just got lucky, come on."

We start to pick up the bodies and Indra speaks up, "I can't go with you. Ice Nation has crossed the border. They're marching against my commander. I have to warn her."

"We'll get Clarke." Kane reassures Indra.

"You better. If the Ice Queen gets her first, she'll be dead and we'll be at war." Indra repeats what I said earlier.

A part of me wants to go with her but I know need to help here. I also want to help Clarke.

Indra quickly walks off and I turn around to see Ice Nation almost amongst us.

"We need to get to that cave, now." I tell them as I help Monty pick up one of the bodies as everyone quickly runs to it. The man is heavy but we are soon at the cave and we set them on the ground. I look to see them passing where we were just at, that was close.

"We're losing her." Bellamy says.

"Relax, save your energy." Kane sighs and Pike interjects as well, "he's right, the army will move soon. You'll need your strength for what comes next." Bellamy nods in acceptance and takes a seat right by me. I slide my hand through his and he sends me a faint smile. The cave is quiet until Monty walks over to his mom who is sitting to my left.

"I need to know what happened." He says crouching down to her. We all overheard her earlier when she told Monty his father died. I remember always going over to their place and sharing jokes and laughing with his dad. He was a good man.

"We landed in the snow. Your father said it absorbed some of the impact. That's why we survived." She starts to get choked up as she continues brining tears to my eyes.

"The snow looked so beautiful." She says, she tries to speak again but her voice breaks and she calls for Pike to continue the story.

"The children were playing in it. They were the first to die. Fifteen of them." I swallow hard and tear rolls down my cheek. Bellamy squeezes my hand and I squeeze back.

"If not for your father, would have been more. He pulled four kids back into the ship. All four alive today. They got him when he went back for the fifth." He says. More tears start to roll down my cheek and Bellamy pulls me into his arms.

"Your father died a hero, Monty." Pike adds.

Monty starts to cry a little but nods his head.

"We've been fighting grounders ever since." I now realize why they hate the grounders so much, that was their first experience with them. I know the grounders were our enemies when we got down here but after the war it all changed. But just because of this doesn't mean all grounders are like this, maybe just some of Ice Nation but the grounders I've made friends with are people I would gladly die for.

"That was the Ice Nation. Not all grounders are them same." I speak up lifting my head from Bellamys shoulder. Kane nods in agreement.

"They are to me." Pike tells me, his eyes hold fire behind them and I can see that he not only doesn't agree with me but doesn't like me too much. the feeling is mutual so I can't bring myself to care.

"This was a bad plan." I hiss as me and Bellamy walk among the Ice Nation. As Monty was talking about mount weather to Pike and his mom we quietly undressed the grounders and put on their clothes. Which brings us to where we were now.

"It was your idea!" Bellamy argues.

"Yeah, well my idea is starting to backfire." I say as a grounder makes his way over to us. He eyes us suspiciously an then continues on.

"Close call." Bellamy mutters.

"Come on." I start walking away from the band of grounders and towards the way we last saw Clarke and the man. We finally get into the woods and far out from the grounders that we can take off our masks. We walk further until we reach a decline of steps into a tunnel. I look to Bellamy as he nods and we take out our swords. We slowly walk down the steps, we walk further inside once we reach the bottom and I notice a pillar with hands tied to it. I quickly make my way over as Bellamy watches my back. I step in front of the pillar to see Clarke and she looks up at me with wide eyes. Bellamy soon stands beside me.

"Bellamy? Taylor?" Her voice is muffled a little bit by the cloth so I go to take it out.

"We're going to get you out of here." Bellamy explains to her but as the cloth leaves her mouth she shouts, "look out!"

Next thing I know me and Bellamy are getting pushed to the ground and the man in front of us is holding one sword to my neck and another sword to Bellamys.

"No, please don't. I'll do anything. I'll stop fighting. Just, please, don't kill them." He doesn't say anything for awhile until finally he moves the swords from out necks. I almost sigh in relief until I feel the blade dig into my thigh and get pulled back out quickly. I yelp in pain and out of instinct put my hands to the cut.

"No!" Bellamy yells, trying to get to me but the man speaks up, "don't follow us." and then knocks him out. I yell and then everything goes black.

A/N:
Hey guys! I know it's been a week since I posted the first chapter for this book but like always, I've been extremely busy. I'm sorry I couldn't post sooner but I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Sometimes it's a little hard to write because you want to incorporate all the important conversations and lines from the show but you also don't want the story sounding bland and all dialogue so sometimes it's hard to pick it all apart which is also why I sometimes take awhile to post chapters. But nonetheless, the chapter is here and I liked it! We met new characters in this chapter, some you know from the show and one who I have added!

Also can we talk about the latest episode of The 100??? Freaking Bellarke. Is all I have to say. They are so in love with each other, I was seriously crying when he wrote her name down on the list. Even Jaha sees the love.

Anyways, I hope you guys like this chapter! I'm really enjoying seeing all your comments on Queen and Castle, I love it!
Also, Queen has reached 43k and Castle has 20k!!! That's just amazing! Thank you guys so much for your continuous support even when I take awhile to post! It means so much to me and I hope you guys love this book as much as you did the others. I have a feeling this book is going to be the best one yet. ;)

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