Atlantis

Chapter Seventy

Clarke and Faye sat alone in a room on the ship the prisoners used to get down. 

"No permanent damage. I think you'll live." Clarke said as she continued to examine Faye's neck. Her fingers stopped at the scar where the Flame had burrowed into Faye's brain stem. 

"Thank you." Faye turned away. Her voice was still weak and she wouldn't tell Clarke it hurt to speak. 

Faye laid on the bench and thought about what had just happened. The others were back. Faye had almost forgotten them, she thought they would forget to come down and all live happily in space together. 

she shouldn't have listened to Clarke, she should have simply killed them all like she knew how to do. 

Faye could feel herself drifting towards sleep.

Faye could hear the commanders summoning her to the dream space where she always saw them. 

"Faye." Clarke woke Faye up when she started to hear footsteps. The door opened and Clarke watched Bellamy walk in. She ran to hug him. "You're back." She smiled. 

Bellamy ran to sit next to Faye on the bench. He helped her sit up and she lost her breath when she saw him. 

There was so much she wanted to say, she tried to think of just one thing to say. Faye ignored everything the commanders had been saying to her for the past 6 years. She wasn't alone and Bellamy was back. 

"It's you." She smiled. He stopped Diyoza and saved her and Clarke. She pulled him closer and wrapped her arms around him. At first she didn't believe it was him standing outside the church, but she now knew she was wrong.

"Yeah, I'm really here." Bellamy whispered in her ear.

Clarke cleared her throat and watched them look at her. She smiled smugly at them. 

"Madi?" Faye realized. 

"She's safe. She's in the woods with the others. Diyoza won't look for them as long as we're in control." Bellamy said. 

"You're all still alive?" Clarke asked. "Murphy, Monty, Raven?"

"Echo and Emori. Yeah" Bellamy smiled. "You saved us all." He said. 

"And now you're home." 

"Wait." Clarke stopped another heartwarming hug. "Why'd she release us?" She asked.

"We made a deal." Bellamy said. "She agreed to open the bunker."

"Huh." Clarke smiled.

Bellamy pulled out a radio and explained everything to Raven and Murphy who had been left behind. 

"No. There are a few people who want to say hello." Bellamy handed the radio over to Clarke and Faye.

"Raven, Murphy, it's really good to hear your voices." Clarke said. 

"Clarke? I don't believe it. Is Faye there too?" Raven asked.

"Jeez, and they call me the cockroach." Murphy said.

"You are." Faye said. 

"Hey, you guys just be careful up there, okay? We'll talk more once this is all over. I want to hear everything." Clarke said. 

"Okay, but first, thank you for saving our lives." Raven said.

"We miss you both." Faye said.

"We got to go." Bellamy said, placing his hand on her shoulder. "Raven, stay safe. We'll talk soon."

- - -

Faye was the second person in the bunker. Everyone watched her come down. A fence was put up to keep people from a blood stained floor.

Faye turned to find Octavia hugging Bellamy. When Octavia opened her eyes to see Faye she walked towards her. 

Octavia grabbed her hand and Faye pulled her into a hug. When Octavia pulled away, she smiled. 

"Your hair." She said in amazement. Faye's hair had a few red streaks in it and was once just above her hips and was now just below her shoulders.

"Your hair." Faye said in return. "Indra." Faye was shocked and relieved to see her friend from so long ago. 

"Heda." She bowed her head out of respect before hugging Faye.

"Who are they?" Octavia demanded when she saw Diyoza and McCreary.

"We're here to rescue you." Diyoza said. 

"Why are you armed?" Octavia asked. 

"O, O, it's okay." Bellamy told her. "We have an understanding." 

"Before we get to that, where's my mom?" Clarke asked Octavia.

"I'll take her to her mother." Indra offered and the two left. 

"So I take it you're his sister." Diyoza said. 

"Yes. Sorry. Octavia, this is Colonel Diyoza." Bellamy said. 

"Colonel?" Octavia asked. 

"Used to be. Love the war paint, by the way." Diyoza said.

"Okay, so how do we do this?" Bellamy asked, trying to get them to stop glaring at each other.

"Two at a time." Diyoza said. "Why don't you people get your things, and we'll get started as soon as we're ready topside?" Diyoza announced. Nobody moved and she looked back at Octavia.

With one glance they all started to leave and get packing. 

"Exactly how many people should we be prepping for extraction?" McCreary asked.

"1,200." Faye said. 

"814." Faye turned her head at Octavia's answer.

Diyoza looked between the two. "Copy that. The number of people we're saving today is 814. You got that, Shaw? How's it coming up there?" 

Octavia was the first to be hooked up to leave. 

"Kom falau oso na gyon op." The people around them chanted.

Bellamy looked at Faye. "From the ashes we will rise."

Bellamy insisted Faye was the next person to go. "No hard feelings about earlier?" McCreary said as he hooked Faye up.

"Not at all, brandwoda."