The First On The Ground

Terms and Conditions

(AUGUST POV)

I'm still not over the fact that Bellamy accused me. I mean he every right to do it but I never thought he would be the one to do it. I dressed in my normal clothes besides my jacket. I kept the guard jacket since I'm still 'with' Pike. I'm walking around camp when I see Bellamy and Pike climb down from the lookout. I start walking in their direction.

"Open the gate," Bellamy orders.
"Do what he says," Pike says. The gate is opened to reveal two riders.
"Talk," Bellamy orders the riders. I watch as they glance at me before at each other.

"We speak with Keryon Gona only," One of the riders says.

"Who's that?" Pike asks and Bellamy looks back at me. Pike nods at me to go talk with them.

"Chichplei," I tell them to talk.

"English," Pike hisses at me.
"We seek the one you call Pike," One of the riders says.
"Why?" Bellamy asks. I nod to the riders.

"An army has fallen, blood soaking the earth where he took their lives one by one," The rider answers.
"Welcome to the war against Skaikru," Bellamy states and it takes everything in me not to glare at him.
"Life was taken. We demand life in return," The rider says.
"My life? What are your terms?" Pike asks as he walks forward to stand beside me and Bellamy.

"Come with us, and we walk away," The rider answers.
"Walk away from what?" Pike asks.

"By order of the Commander, you have been surrounded by an army of the 12 clans. In every direction, warriors wait to kill anyone who attempts to cross the blockade," The rider says before tossing down guards clothing. "To greet them as we greeted those we caught outside your walls today." Finally, Lexa has done something to help. "We left the bodies for the animals."
"That's enough," Bellamy says.
"Let's go," Pike orders.
"They won't leave. I have seen this before," Bellamy argues.
"The men who wore those uniforms took a long time to die," The rider says trying to scare the crowd.
"Bellamy, fall back," Pike orders. "August, you too." I take a few steps back but notice that Bellamy hasn't moved. "That's an order."
"If you do not give up your leader, you will all take a long time to die," The rider calls out. Good, these people need to be scared.
"Bellamy..." Pike says. The grounders look to me.

"Choose the side that's best for your people," The rider says before transferring his stare to Bellamy.
"I do that every day," Bellamy says before quickly drawing his gun and killing the grounders. I hold in a gasp. What has he turned into? Bellamy then looks over at me. "So far, nothing has changed my mind." Bellamy then walks back into camp. I walk in as the gate is closed and Pike looks to me shocked about what just happened. Not long after I go find my father.

"We can't do what's needed to defend this camp if every order I give is leaked before it can be executed. It's an old saying, but it's true the walls have ears, and we can't afford any more assumptions about who's a friend and who isn't, not your oldest acquaintance, not your husband, wife, or lover. We're fighting two wars now, and the more dangerous one is here inside this camp. We can't prove it yet, but Kane and his accomplices passed information to Octavia. I know none of you signed up to investigate your neighbors, but Monroe and Lacroix died because the traitors in this camp sold them out to the Grounders. Whoever did that will be hunted down and exposed for what they did to their own, for what they did to us. Now you get whatever resources, whatever personnel you need to make that happen. Dismissed," My father, Miller, Harper, and I listen to the meeting that Pike is having. I wasn't invited to this meeting and I can only guess that is because of Bellamy.
"If they're gonna play that game, we need to play it, too," My father says after he turns the radio off.
"Meaning?" Miller asks.