Regina(On Hold) // The 100

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Clarke desperately wanted to find the crash site of the exodus ship, but she wanted to tend to my injuries first. She took me into her tent with some cloth and bandages. She sat in front of me and grabbed my hand.

Her eyes lingered on the cut on my hand, and it was like she had completely forgotten what she was doing. "Clarke? Are you ok?" I asked, trying to be strong, but I was hurting just as much as she was. I was just glad that Strisis didn't know that our dad was supposed to be on the first dropship.

Clarke's eyes snapped up to mine and nodded. "Yeah." She looked back down at my hand. "It's just... I've never seen blood that color." She began cleaning the cut.

"It's called Nightblood," I told her. "Goes back to their first commander." Clarke looked impressed by it, but her smile didn't last long as she thought back to the exodus ship. She didn't say anything more as she wrapped up my hand, but she made sure that the color of my blood wasn't visible through the bandage.

Then, she placed a gentle hand over the wound on my thigh as she unwrapped the tourniquet. "I need to cover this so it doesn't get infected," she told me, and I knew exactly what she was getting at. I glanced at the tent entrance making sure it was clear, and I began to remove my pants. I pulled them down to my knees to give Clarke access to the wound. When she began to clean it, I noticed how spaced out she was. She must've had a lot on her mind.

When Clarke started to bandage the wound, I grabbed her hand. "I'm sorry about your mom," I told her.

She gave a sad, fake smile. "What about Kane?" she asked me. "He was there, too."

I sighed. "I know. But the Ark was running out of air. At least their deaths were quick," I said. Sometimes, I wished my and my sister's pod burnt up in the atmosphere. It would've saved us so much pain. 

When Clarke was finished, she said, "Bellamy and I are putting a group together and we're leaving at first light. We have to find out why it crashed."

I didn't think Clarke should go because her mom was on the exodus, but Clarke wanted answers. I wanted them, too, but I couldn't bring myself to face the incident. Clarke and I went to sleep in her tent, and she was gone by the time I woke up. So were Bellamy, Finn, and Raven. All of them must've been at the crash site.

With Clarke and Bellamy gone all day, the camp was surprisingly quiet. Everyone was trying not to think about the retaliation that was soon to happen. The Grounders had the element of surprise. They could storm our camp at any moment and we wouldn't know until they were here and attacking.

They could have us surrounded and we wouldn't know, forming a blockade just waiting for someone to try to leave.

Octavia, however, wasn't worried about it as much as she was worried about Lincoln. She had been waiting to find any sign from him, like the white flowers he left for her on Unity Day.

"Eirene!" Derek called out, and to my surprise, my sister ran over to him. Derek handed her a gun and pointed to a post by the wall. Everyone had been coming up with nicknames for Strisis since no one knew her real name, and everyone seemed to agree on the nickname Eirene. I felt like it fit Strisis well because Eirene was the Goddess of peace.

I felt it to be ironic. Enyo was the Goddess of violent war, and Eirene was the Goddess of peace. And we were meant to be sisters.

I walked over to the post my sister was just assigned to. She looked like she could be a real guard. Maybe on the Ark, she could've been. "Hey, Strisis," I said getting her attention. Strisis looked down at me for a second then back through the scope of her gun. I felt bad for getting upset with her when she left camp with Bellamy. She didn't place full trust in him, but there was enough that she didn't think he'd hurt her. "I think it's nice that Bellamy trains with you all the time, he seems to really like you."