Exile (The 100)

How We Got To Peace

Chapter 45
5x08

"I don't care how you make it happen, Lexa." Diyoza said over the radio. "Kill Octavia if you have to. Bring her to me in chains, and I'll do it for you. Or she can surrender herself, bring me my son, but your red queen doesn't seem like the type."

Clarke rubbed Bellamy's back. He wouldn't even look at Lexa while she was working things out about Octavia's death.

"Let me worry about that." Lexa said into the radio.

"We have an understanding, then." Diyoza stated.

"We do." Lexa agreed.

"Good. Call me back when it's done and we can work out the details of your crossing. Over and out." Diyoza said.

"No way." Bellamy said looking down at the table.

"Bellamy..." Lexa started.

He turned to look at her. "We are not killing my sister, Lexa. I don't care how crazy she is." He took the radio. "Run the loop. The rover's charged." Bellamy gave the radio to Monty. "We're getting our friends. That was reckless. We had a plan. You agreed."

"That was before your sister made Madi and Fisher her second." Lexa growled. She looked at Monty. "If I had trained TJ better he would be going to war too." He turned to look at her. "That army marches to war as soon as they find out the eye is down. I won't let that happen."

"So we don't tell anyone?" Harper asked.

"They'll know as soon as we drive away." Monty stated.

"Oh, who cares? We grab Fisher, Madi, Sage, and TJ, and we go." Bellamy planned.

"Bellamy, they're at her side." Clarke stated.

"She's my sister, Clarke." Bellamy said.

"I know." Clarke told him.

"Tell me, what else I can." Lexa ordered.

"We stop the war." Monty suggested.

"How?" Harper questioned.

"Algae." Monty grabbed his bag and showed them some algae he had left.

"Monty..." Bellamy sighed.

"Cooper already gave me permission to show what it can do. She's meeting me before the afternoon meal, so I can take her to the..." Monty explained.

Bellamy walked over to him. "That's enough." He took the algae.

"Hey, give it back."

"Monty, Bellamy's right." Harper agreed. "Cooper's worse than Octavia. No offense."

Bellamy gave Monty back his algae.

"Besides, the first batch put Murphy into a coma, for almost a week." Harper stated. "By the time it's ready to eat..."

"The first culture, and we're not gonna get it this time, we're gonna feed it to the plants." Monty explained. "If I can make the farm viable again, then we'll still have a chance."

The door opened and Octavia walked in. She noticed the eye was down. "The spy did her job?"

"Oh, we were just about to send for you." Bellamy said. "Told you echo would get it done."

"Can the enemy still see us?" She asked Monty.

"For now, yes. It's technical, but..." Monty started to explain.

"He has to run a loop to mask our troop movements." Cooper said. "When the time comes, we need to clear the surface to reduce the risk of anyone noticing the same people moving in the same direction again and again."