Juniper slowly began to open her eyes. She was leaning against Bellamy's legs as she stretched her arms out. Accidentally hitting Bellamy in the face, he was speaking to Clarke about what happened with Finn.

On the walk to the village, Clarke, Juniper and Archer exchanged their story with Bellamy and Octavia. Turns out, Lincoln had saved Octavia's life by bringing him to his village and leaving her with only his people. Then she saw him been taken away by the Reapers. She searched for him, but was still searching. She said it with no emotion at all, Octavia had changed. 

Bellamy had kept fairly silent about Finn, now was his chance to tell them.

"Did you get any sleep?" Clarke asked as she looked down at Juniper. She was rubbing her eyes before she leaned back on Bellamy. Bellamy smiled a little as Juniper held onto his hand. Juniper nodded her head as she looked over at Archer, he was sitting by himself, looking into the distance.

"Ready to find Finn." Juniper answered as she looked up at Bellamy. 

"You haven't seen him. Losing Clarke, the others, the war, it changed him. He executed the Grounder that drew us the map. Pulled the trigger without even blinking and walked away." Bellamy explained worried and Juniper could hide her emotions. That was not Finn, Finn was love not hate,  peace not war, kind of guy. Like, Juniper.

"That doesn't sound like Finn." Clarke whispered, she was in shock as well.

"No, it doesn't. I saw what he was capable of, and still I let him go with Murphy and two automatic rifles." Bellamy whispered blaming himself and Juniper shook her head as she turned. She held onto Bellamy's face before kissing his forehead.

"You did what you believed was right, you needed to get that girl back and tell Abby what had happened." Juniper explained as she sat on the log beside Bellamy.

"When we got back to the dropship and no one was there, we assumed it was the Grounders." Bellamy defended and Juniper nodded her head as she rested it on his shoulder.

"Of course, you did. You couldn't have known it was the mountain men." Juniper argued and Clarke nodded her head. They did not even think it was Mount Weather.

"Nobody could have known." Clarke added and Juniper nodded her head.

"How long until chocolate cake turns into being hung upside down and drained for their blood?" Bellamy asked and Juniper wanted to smile at his line, but couldn't because she knew that it was going to be soon. Juniper could only guess that her Mom was going to be first.

"I don't know, but we don't have much time." Clarke answered.

"Okay. First, we find Finn, then our people in Mount Weather." Bellamy decided and Octavia came out of nowhere, all ready to start walking again.

"And Lincoln. Think we've slept long enough." Octavia said bluntly before she began walking. The rest of the group all traced behind her. They had walked for a mile or two, before they got to a pivotal point in the map.

"This is it. Which way to the village?" Bellamy asked and Octavia stayed silent. This was where Lincoln was taken from Octavia and has not been seen since. "O?" Bellamy asked as Octavia began to break down. 

"The reapers came from there. I couldn't save him, Bell. I couldn't save him." Octavia cried out as Bellamy held onto his sister. She had not cried like that over Lincoln before, she truly loved him. Juniper knew how she was feeling, everybody did. They have all had their struggle.

"Octavia." Juniper whispered as she placed a hand on Octavia's shoulder comfortingly. Archer walked up to give his piece.

"I'm sorry but his fight is now over." Archer stated and Juniper immediately grabbed onto Archer and yanked him back. They were not needing Archer's negativity.

"You can't go around saying that." Juniper warned and Archer did the biggest eye-roll, Juniper was not sure if his eyes were going to come back down.

"It's true though." Archer hissed and Juniper just shoved him a little angrily. 

"You don't know that." Juniper stated as Archer took a step closer to her, there was barely any room between the pair. Thank god, Bellamy was not looking in their direction.

"This is just like you sky people, you are too-" Archer began to say but Juniper cut him off.

"Too what? Emotional, optimistic." Juniper asked loudly. Archer sneered back at her, their was something about Juniper that could just make him so mad. But mad in the way where he liked it, her liked her, where he wanted to kiss her because of how powerful it would be. But he knew that the time and place was not right.

"Naive."

"We just don't see feelings as a weakness." Juniper argued as she rolled her eyes and looked away.

"Well mine are, that's what I was taught as a child." Archer scoffed and Juniper just chuckled to herself. He had no idea about feelings or a moral compass.

"Well, I express my feelings, like you are a jackass." Juniper shouted before she walked over to the rest of them, Archer a few paces behind her. Everyone was ready to go.

"It's through here." Octavia said as she began to speed walk. Bellamy and Archer followed after. Clarke hung back with Juniper.

"What happened with Archer?" Clarke asked and Juniper just shrugged it off.

"He's just a dick." 

"Why are you letting him get under your skin?" Clarke asked inquisitively and Juniper had no idea herself. Normally, those thing would not bug her. She would just ignore them because they had no interest in her well being. But, there was something different about Archer.

"I don't know. I'm not like this." Juniper sighed as she glanced at Archer and then Bellamy. Two different guys, bringing out two completely different emotions in Juniper.

"It's up here." Octavia stated and all they could hear was the sound of a automatic rifle. Juniper gasped before they all went racing up the hill to see what it was. The five of them all stood still, Finn was firing at innocent people, men, women and children. Old people. Everyone, he was just killing them. 

"Finn." Juniper whispered before looking up at Archer. A tear treacled down his face as he watched his friends, his family being gunned down. Finn stopped shooting when he saw a horrified Clarke looked at him.

"I found you." Finn whispered and Juniper looked to her left to see Clarke, shaking her head. This was not the Finn she fell in love with, this was some killing machine.

"Nomon, Nontu." Archer screamed out as he saw his parents lying on the ground, a bullet wound in each of them. Juniper ran past Murphy, as she followed after Archer.

"Archer, what is it?" Juniper asked seriously as Archer fell down beside his parents.

"They are my parents." Archer answered quickly as he began to try stop the bleeding. Juniper's heart fell as she watched Archer cry over his parents. Looks like Finn had kept them all in a pen like some animals. Octavia was already trying to treat a child that Finn had massacred. 

"We need a stretcher now!" Juniper shouted as she looked at a frozen Clarke. "Clarke!" Juniper screamed in despair as she watched Archer's parents bleed out. She knelt down and put pressure on Archer's dad, Orion's, wound. Clarke ran over and leaned down beside Juniper.

"Are those-?" Clarke whispered as she held onto Archer's Mom's, Lily, wound. Archer stood up and began to pace.

"Can we save them?" Juniper asked worried. 

"We are going to need two stretchers and people to carry them. Once, they get to my Mom-"

"I'm going to kill him." Archer screamed over Clarke as he charged for Finn, who was pointing a gun right at Archer. He had no hesitation in killing Archer, none at all.

"Bellamy, tell Finn to stop!" Juniper screamed out and Bellamy took the gun off of Finn before holding Archer back. Archer was growling to kill Finn, begging to. "Octavia, Murphy, find wood and start making a stretcher." Juniper instructed and they both just did it. Everybody knew not to mess with Juniper when she was like this, because she would explode.

"My sister." Archer screamed out as walked past the dead bodies to get to the pen. A teenage girl, with big brown eyes and beautiful braided hair, stood up, looking exactly like Archer. She was beautiful, even with tear-stained cheeks and  "Aria!" Archer cried out as the teenager ran up to him.

"Ai laik hir, bro." Aria cried out in trigedasleng, which means 'I'm here, brother. Juniper cried as she teared her shirt and helped Clarke bandage up the wounds. This was all too much for her, she had never imagined this when saving Finn.

"We've got two stretchers." Murphy said as he and Octavia placed them down beside Archer's parents.

"Get them on." Juniper instructed as Bellamy and Archer placed them on the stretchers. They took one whilst Murphy and Aria took another. Aria was not allowing Finn to go near the bodies, she was wanting to do it herself.

"We are taking my sister too." Archer stated and Juniper nodded her head. She saw that everybody was ready.

"Let's go, before it gets dark." Juniper said bluntly before they started their walk home. Clarke made sure to stay next to Juniper because Clarke could not even look at Finn, never mind speak to him.

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"Juniper Eden Green, we have to talk, now!" Damon shouted as Juniper walked into the medical tent to check on Archer's family. Juniper sighed as she clenched her cheeks, she was going to get in trouble. Juniper turned around slowly and sighed. "Bellamy told me what you did." Damon added and Juniper scoffed, why wasn't Bellamy taking the blame for her. Damon and Bellamy were such good friends now, it would be easy for Bellamy, not for Juniper.

"He was on the plan too." Juniper whined and Damon nodded his head.

"Yes, but I heard it was your idea to save your friends family. You saved that entire family." Damon added smiling proudly at his daughter. However, Juniper did not feel proud, because eighteen others died because they could not save them.

"But we left so many others to die." Juniper whispered before her Dad held onto her. Juniper hugged back with love, she decided to speak to her Dad and stop ignoring him. Life was short, especially down on Earth with their track record. "What's going to happen to Finn?" Juniper asked and Damon sighed, they had no idea what was going to happen.

"I don't know, honey." Damon answered as they pulled out of the hug. "Can we talk about your Mother?" Damon asked as Archer coughed grabbing Juniper's attention.

"Sorry, my parents are awake and want to talk to you, Juni." Archer said as he interrupted Juniper and her Dad. Juniper nodded her head and Archer walked back over to his family.

"I can meet you by the bar." Juniper explained and her Dad nodded his head.

"Okay." Damon grinned before he walked off, he was glad that Juniper was speaking to him. Juniper turned on her heels and walked towards Archer and his family by some beds.

"Nomon, Nontu, Aria, dison laik Juniper." Archer introduced Juniper to his family. Juniper waved at them all before standing next to Archer.

"Hei, em's nice gon hit op yu." Juniper said slowly in trigedasleng. She said, 'Hi, it's nice to meet you all'.  "Was that right?" Juniper asked as they all looked at her in shock.

"You speak, Trigedasleng?" Archer asked in shock, everything Juniper did made him like her more and more. 

"No, I'm learning. I only know that."

"Thank you for saving my families life. You saved my son, us." Lily thanked and Juniper held onto her hand sympathetically.

"I'm so sorry for what happened to you, we had no idea that he would do all of that." Juniper explained, even though her explanation could not solve the pain of eighteen deaths. Only coming to terms could bring peace.

"Jus drien jus daun." Orion whispered and Juniper held her hand up to her ear. She was trying to make out what he had said.

"Sorry what did you say?" Juniper asked politely and Archer glared at his Dad.

"It's nothing." Archer shrugged off but Juniper could sense it was not nothing, it was something big. 

"You will get justice for your people." Juniper promised, even though she did not want to know what that justice was.

"We owe our lives to you." Lily smiled and Juniper shook her head.

"My mother taught me to love everyone the same and help, don't take things in return for your kindness." Juniper explained with a grin, she always smiled when speaking about her mother.

"Your Mother seems like a brave and intelligent woman." Lily commented and Juniper nodded her head, smiling.

"She is and I just want her back." Juniper replied grinning

"Back?" Aria asked confused. Juniper chuckled a little at her own choice of words, she was not making any sense.

"She's in Mount Weather, with your people, my people and I want to get them all out." Juniper explained. 

"We will." Archer promised and Juniper smiled at him. She had forgiven him for what happened before the village, despite Archer not knowing. 

"Bilaik kru are ai kru." Juniper smiled in Trigedasleng, which means 'your people are my people'. Archer's family looked at her and smiled before they repeated it in sync for her. Juniper laughed to herself and Archer found her breathtaking, like something he had never seen before.

"Bilaik kru are ai kru." 

"Juniper, I'll take it from here." Jackson smiled as he walked up to the family. Juniper nodded her head before she squeezed Jackson's hand. He had been a big help in stitching up Orion and Lily's bullet wounds. 

"Thanks, Jackson." Juniper whispered and Archer's family saw the trust that Juniper had in Jackson and respected her for that. "I'll see you guys later. We will find a place for you all to stay." Juniper promised before she began to walk off. 

"Juni." Archer called and his ran after her. 

"Yeah?" Juniper asked as she giggled. Archer had grabbed her hand and took her to a bed behind a curtain, so nobody could see. Juniper was confused, she had no idea what Archer was doing.

"Thanks for everything." Archer said genuinely as he sat down on the bed, beside Juniper. Juniper laughed as she touched Archer's shoulder delicately. 

"Archer, you would do the same for anyone else." Juniper purred it off. Archer wouldn't have. He was only out for Trikru, no one else. He wasn't like Juniper, but he yearned for her heart. Archer hung his head and Juniper raised an eyebrow, worried.

"I wouldn't for Skaikru, unlike you." Archer admitted and Juniper smiled at his honesty. She loved that in somebody, because she was honest herself. Or at least, she believed herself to be.

"We are not your enemy. We just want peace." Juniper explained and Archer nodded his head.

"I'm sorry for what I said before my village." Archer apologized and Juniper shrugged it off.

"It's okay. You have your opinions and values, and who am I to ask you to change? I just hope your values and mine can work in harmony." Juniper replied maturely and Archer exhaled as he nodded his head. He just kept on looking at Juniper, he could not get over how beautiful she was inside and out.

"You are kind, Juniper." Archer whispered as he looked into Juniper's eyes. Juniper avoided his eye line as she giggled to herself. 

Archer knew that was his chance, he had no other option. He leaned in and started to kiss Juniper. Juniper completely froze, the only person she had ever kissed was Bellamy, the only person she had ever had feelings for was Bellamy. It was like Bellamy and her were just it, end game. 

But, Juniper could feel herself wanting to kiss Archer, needing to kiss Archer. As she could not lie to herself, she did find him physically attractive, honest and their was something pure about him. So, she kissed him back. Three seconds in, she pulled away and all she could think about was how Bellamy was going to react.

Juniper needed to not think like that, was Bellamy really thinking about that when he got into bed with Raven. But, Juniper does not need to stoop down to Bellamy's level, she was better than that. She was just feeling a whirlwind of emotions. Archer went to go speak but Juniper held her hand up.

"I should go." Juniper whispered before she started to leave the tent. Juniper was just annoyed that Archer knew her situation and still did that. Still tried to mess with her head. She was annoyed that she was going to have to tell Bellamy. She was annoyed that she liked the kiss, liked the kiss a lot. 

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oh no, trouble in paradise... 

what is juniper going to do? how is she going to feel about being in a triangle? or will it just be a line? what will happen with her dad?

i hope you like that I added onto the original script for this. would you want more of this in the future? 

sorry i just love this chapter ahah !!!

also this book may be dead for a couple of days, and that is because I'm going to basically plan out this entire book. because (a little secret into my writing life), I basically type up the entire script and any add-ons I do, re-do the script in some parts and split it up into chapters. So, then when I go back to turn the script into an actual chapter, I know what I am writing. Sometimes I change it when rewriting, but it effectively helps a lot.

so yeah, 

but hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I think it's quite cute for everything that happens in it.

mrs n o'brien x