Wamplis - Bellamy Blake

4. A Gift

I open my eyes and see that I'm still being carried. I start turning and trying to get out of my captures arms. I feel him let go, dropping me on the floor. I go to stand but see that my hands and legs are tied.

"Who are you?" I ask glaring at the hooded figure standing above me. If I was supposed to be dead they would've left me in mount weather.
"Don't worry about it." He responds taking his hood off to reveal his face. He has dark features and scars all over his face. If I hadn't been through hell and back I'd be afraid of him. He has no war paint so I can't tell what clan he's from.
"What do you want with me?" I ask.
"Enough questions, Wanheda." He says. I almost laugh.
"I'm not Wanheda. Wanheda has been captured already." I respond pushing my brows together.
"Lies." He says grabbing the back of my shirt to drag me up.

I manage to get on my feet trying to walk, but the ropes are making it almost impossible.
"If you untied my feet, I'd stop tripping." I say as the man is dragging me by my shirt.
"If I untied your feet, you'd run." He says.
"I have no weapons. If you just told me what's going on, maybe I'd oblige." I respond glaring at the man.

I watch the man pull out a knife and my breath sharpens for a moment before watching him cut the ropes by my feet.
"Another word and it'll be your throat next." He says.
"You haven't killed me yet, so I doubt that." I say. He grabs my collar pulling me close to him. I spit on him and he punches me hard making me fall to the ground.
"Be quiet, Wanheda." He says starting to walk, dragging me on the floor. I get myself back on my feet trying to figure out a way out of this.

If he thinks I'm Wanheda, where is Clarke? Maybe the idiot doesn't know she's already with Lexa.

We walk for many more miles before I feel my legs give out on me. I'm exhausted. My capture turns around to face me.
"Get back on your feet." He says.
"I can't." I mutter. He grabs the rope around my hands to pull me up.
"Walk." He says.
"Tell me where you're taking me." I say glaring at him.
"Walk." He says pulling me closer to him.
"If you're taking me to the commander, Wanheda is already there."
"All you do is lie." He says dragging me forward.

"When we get there and you realize I'm not Wanheda, I will kill you. That's a promise." I say. He stops walking turning to me. He rips a piece of cloth and ties it around my mouth.

I can start seeing Polis from far away. I laugh softly looking to the man holding me hostage. He turns to me pulling the ropes making me fall.
"You think this is funny?" He asks moving the gag down.
"I think you're an idiot." I answer honestly. He glares at me. "An idiot who's about to be killed." He lifts the gag back into place.

He continues to walk and I get back on my feet. Clarke better be there. I don't know what I'm going to do if she's not.

We get to the outside of Polis and the man pulls me in tighter. I look around at all the faces turned to see us, and hear all the quiet murmurs.

One of Lexa's guards stops infront of us.
"What is this?" He asks. I recognize him from training. I can't tell if he recognizes me.
"A gift for the commander." My capture says. The guard leads us inside.

I get put into the elevator and my mind starts to race. What if something happened to Lexa or Clarke and this man kills me? Well tries to. I won't let him kill me.

We step off the elevator and walk inside. The man pushes my head down so I can't see what's infront of me.

"This man says he has a gift for you." The guard says.
"Yes, I'm sorry for interrupting commander, but I've brought you Wanheda." He says grabbing the back of my head to have me face her. I see Lexa looking at me confused. My eyes turn and I see Clarke standing up next to her.

"Untie her." Lexa commands. The man does and I remove the gag. "This isn't Wanheda. Wanheda is here." Lexa points to Clarke.
"Told you." I scoff.

I hear a sword be drawn. He's going to kill me. I roll to the side hearing the metal clank on the floor next to me.
"Stop him!" Clarke yells.

I grab a knife from his pant pocket and slash his leg. He falls to the ground and I grab my sword from his hands and push it up his throat. I remove it as he starts twitching.

I turn to Lexa while the guards take him away.
"Sorry, Lexa. I made a promise to him I intended on keeping." I say.
"What was that?" She asks.
"Promised I'd kill him after he found out I wasn't Wanheda."
"Leave us." Lexa says to the people around us watching.

Everyone leaves except for Clarke. She helps me to my feet before throwing her arms around me.
"I thought you were dead." She says.
"No. It's hard to kill me apparently." I mutter pulling away to look at her. "Is Bellamy still here?" I ask hopeful. I need to tell him I'm alive.
"No. They left." Clarke says. I feel my heart break slightly.

———— Bellamy Blake

I can't breathe right, it feels like my heart had been taken out of my body and replaced with air. I stare at the bed infront of me. I couldnt even think about getting into it last night. The bedsheets smell like her. The whole room does. I shouldn't have left her there.

I feel the whole room start to spin and I fall to my knees and begin to sob. It was my fault. I left her there. I should've told Pike that there was no way in hell she wasn't coming with us. Or even, taken her place.

I hear the door open but I don't have the energy to turn.
"Bell." I hear Octavia say as she runs to my side holding me tightly.
"It's my fault." I start to sob into her shoulder.
"No it's not. It's Ice Nations fault. It's Echos fault." She says. I pull away to see a tear roll down her face.
"I loved her. Now she's gone." I say.
"I know. I loved her too." She says holding me tightly. My sister shouldn't be the one comforting me right now.

"It's time for the memorial." She says softly. I nod standing up. I don't know if I can do this. I don't even know how to go on right now.

I walk inside and listen to everyone go up.
"Who will speak for Nova Gales?" Pike asks. I stand up holding her knife tightly. I walk to the front of the room feeling my legs shake slightly underneath me.
"How do I begin? Nova saved anyone she could." I say starting to feel my voice shake. "She was our best fighter. She saved my life more times than I can count, but I couldn't do the same for her." I mutter feeling a tear roll down my cheek. I can't speak. The words are choking up in my throat.

I feel a hand on my shoulder and see Kane holding me up.
"Nova was our leader." I hear a voice say. I turn to see Harper stand up.
"She saved us all." Another says standing up. I watch as many more start to stand. I feel a small smile grow on my face. She did everything for us.

"We're only doing one person per death." Pike says. One person can't possibly explain how much Nova meant to us.
"Nova led the 100 when they had no leader." Kane says still at my side, ignoring Pike. "When I first got down to the ground I refused to give her a gun. But when she saw her friends tied up she took one out of our guards hand to save her friends. She wasn't just a leader, she was a friend. A savior. She did what she had to do to make sure her people were saved, and we will never forget the sacrifices she made for us." Kane says. I look up at him and give him a slight nod of gratitude.

"May we meet again." I say. And I hear the crowd repeat it.