𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄 || 𝐛. 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧

MONTY AND CLARKE HAD JUST INFORMED BELLAMY AND IVY OF SOMETHING SHOCKING. Apparently, when Miller put that worm in the container, he saved it, and they had bred it into enough worms to be weaponized against the miners. They were using them to experiment on the defectors that they had caught. And there was no possible way that that would end well. Bellamy shook his head, insisting that Octavia must not know about it. "My sister never approved of human testing. I don't care how crazy it's become down here."

"Desperation has a way of making the unimaginable a necessity," Clarke reminded him. They had been put in that situation many times, and they all had to make sacrifices for what they believed was the greater good of their people.

Ivy sighed, running a finger through her hair because Diyoza's crew were not the only ones on that land. They had people there too. She pointed out, "If she weaponizes those things and sends them into the valley, then Echo, Raven, Emori, Murphy, Kane, your mom—"

"Not just them. All of us," Monty corrected, and the Bishop woman hand not even thought about the fact that once the miners were wiped out, the worms would still be there, breeding and thriving. "Unleashing an invasive species on the last arable land on earth is a monumentally bad idea."

"Even if Octavia does know, she won't listen to me. We need help," Bellamy informed them, and they followed his gaze to where Indra was sitting across the room. He then stood up, and Ivy followed after him, not wanting to leave him to speak with her alone after what happened with Pike all those years ago. He had been there when Pike shot her and killed three hundred of her people. The Blake man asked her, "Can we talk to you privately?"

They waited for the rest of the people at her table to disperse before sitting across from her. Ivy asked, "Indra, would Cooper do something without my Octavia's approval?"

"Only if she got mine first, but since I don't know what the hell you're talking about, it's hard to say," the woman answered. Ivy realized that this was the first time that she had spoken to Indra directly since they got back, which was and odd thing to think about. Everything about their entire lives were strange, though.

"She brought back the worms," the Blake man answered, keeping his voice down. He looked around to make sure that no one was listening in somewhere. The last thing they needed was to cause a panic. "She's breeding them, experimenting on defectors. One of them is still alive. Our guess is she's trying to find a way to keep them dormant long enough to deliver them in the next defection."