Where We Come From ✅ [Complete]

Chapter 45: Aftermath

Words in Bold are spoken in Trigedasleng.

As they walk, Sky mindlinks Coal and asks him to retrieve Pike's body telling him of its location and he complies. When she and Storm arrive at the secret tunnel's exit, there is a pile of body parts placed on the ground. She sees a burnt body, a dismembered corpse, and an alpha with a bullet wound. Storm places Emerson's head on top of the pile. Pureblood wolves are predators, they are the alphas of the animal kingdom and they went hunting. The pile of mangled body parts are the results of that hunt.

The others nod to both Sky and Storm then Lisa and Maya hand each wolf a backpack and they head inside the forest to change. A couple of minutes later, Ontari and Octavia emerge from the forest.

Now that the adrenaline in the bodies are wearing off, O feels a slight headache forming and when she places her hand on her head, she winces a little. She touches the sensitive area again and feels a bump on the side of her head where she was knocked out.

Inside one of the healing tents, Titus has just woken up. He feels like his head weighs double the size as before. Now that his senses are alert, he realizes he's lying on a cot. He groans out and begins to get up when he feels warm hands on his shoulder. When he looks up, he sees Lexa helping him.

"Take it easy, nontu, you had a really hard knock. There's already a bump on your forehead," she says softly. Her father slightly nods but then groans out. Any sudden head movement hurts.

"I will, ai yongon but I must push the pain aside and we must finish what we started," he tells her and she nods.

Still a little confused, he asks, "Where is Octavia? Both of us were attacked." As his eyes adjust, he sees the marks on her neck and growls out. "Who did this to you, ai yongon? Who?!"

"It's okay nontu. I am fine d-"

"Who, my precious flower? Who did it?" Titus asks again as he tries to contain his anger. His eyes are a stormy grey and Lexa knows that he is barely holding on to his self control. So in order to placate his worry she quickly answers, "It was Pike but Octavia already went after him. Please calm down nontu."

As best as he can, he gets up and hugs his child tightly to his chest, pumping out his protective pheromones. "I'm sorry I wasn't there to protect you. Please forgive me."

"Do not worry nontu, Bellamy protected me and Clarke although she got hit really hard on her head," Lexa says and her father gently pushes her away and looks deeply into her eyes. He can see she is trying to hold back her tears but her face is etched with worry. He pulls her again into his embrace and says, "She's strong and resilient. She will be okay. I can see she is still sleeping."

Lexa nods, "Yes because one of our healers was able to stop the bleeding."

When he looks more carefully at the sleeping form a few feet away, he sees the bandage around Clarke's head. "It's going to be alright Lexa, don't worry. Clarke will be fine and Octavia will be here at any moment," he says, reassuringly.

The tent flap slowly opens and Marcus comes in walking. "How are you feeling, Alpha?" He asks and the leader responds, "Better now that I'm awake. How is everything?"

"Good, more or less. We have managed to subdue the reapers and as we speak, the guards and warriors are taking them back to the Ark so Abby and the rest of our medical team can begin to expel the drugs out of their systems. Also, some of our omegas that are in distress and withdrawal are already heading to TonDC. On the Ark, we've never had a case of omega withdrawal and so we don't know how to help but your healers have and so we thought it best they help our omegas," Marcus replies.