As soon as Rory explains where she can find the other Azgedans, Octavia quickly exits, heading in the direction Rory and Roan had just come from. With Octavia dealing with Arcas and Saska, Rory and Roan focus on getting themselves back to her compartment in one piece. They start to quickly walk down the main corridor leading to the heart of the ship.
"The fastest way is through the mess hall," she tells him, leading the way down the corridors.
They twist and turn until finally, they walk through the doors into the large, cavernous room that's become the mess hall.
"Outskirts of the room," Roan tells her, "walk with purpose."
They weave their way around the outer reaches of the room, managing to avoid anyone that may want an update from Rory. They're almost out, they can quite literally see freedom staring back at them from the end of the approaching corridor when Rory hears an all too familiar voice coming from behind them.
"Lexa!" Clarke's voice rings in their ears. "What's going on?"
"Shit," Rory curses, "We need to hide." She reacts quickly, grabbing Roan by his shirt and pulling him behind one of the big metal columns attached to the outer-wall. She leans her head slightly round the column, spotting Lexa and a retina of her guards stood in the entrance they'd come through moments earlier.
"Where's Aurora?" They hear Lexa ask Clarke. Her voice echoing through the cavernous room.
"I don't know, I haven't seen her," Clarke replies. A bolt of fear jolts through her body, her mind instantly thinking the worst. "What's going on? Has something happened?"
Lexa stares back at her stoically. "The Skaiplana has walked a fugitive inside your Camp. A man I banished from my territory. I want him caught, and all those assisting him," she turns to her guards. "Including her. Spread out!" Her men do as she says, starting to disperse around the room. The second they do, Roan pulls Rory back behind the column so they're both hidden. "Where would she go, Clarke? Think!" Lexa shouts.
Clarke shakes her head slightly, her forehead crinkling in thought. "Kane's in the med bay, maybe she went to get him? Two of the Azgedans are there too." It's then that she remembers the message earlier. "There was a weird message over the tannoy earlier, Rory and Octavia's code names were mentioned about clearing a blockage. Whoever it was, they said Doctor Artemis. It was pointing Octavia to the med bay, it has to have been a coded message."
"It was a rouse," Lexa informs her. "Octavia told my men she had seen the Skaiplana outside with the Hainofa. She wasn't and she's not in the medbay either. Where else?"
"The Council Chamber? Or her compartment? Both can be sealed, and guarded. But," Clarke shakes her head, "she hates her compartment. Too many bad memories. I think she'd go to the Council Chamber."
"Council Room first, compartment second," Lexa decides. She calls her men back to her. "Lead the way, Clarke."
"They're coming this way, they're going to see us, Roan, the Council Chamber's off that corridor," Rory whispers, her eyes widening as she hears the heavy footsteps of the Trikru guards getting louder and louder. She presses herself further into the wall, wishing it would swallow them both whole.
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Decimate /-/ Bellamy Blake
FanfictionRory Montgomery is a lot of things to a lot of people: Queen. Revolutionary. Real. Killer. Free. Survivor. After crash landing on Earth with 99 other juvenile delinquents and reuniting with lost friends, Rory Montgomery learnt that Earth wasn't quit...