Sacrifice and Survival

The meeting

"Octavia said you wanted to see me." Bellamy said as he walked into the council room with Octavia right behind him.

Bellamy looked briefly at Abby and quickly lowered his eyes "I'm sorry about Clarke Abby, I should have said something sooner but...well...." He left it at that, what could he say that would make either of them feel better.

Abby swallowed "thank you Bellamy" she paused and looked up catching and holding his gaze "I'm sorry for your loss too."

He looked at her, he and Abby hadn't agreed on many things since they landed on the ground, actually they hadn't agreed on anything, except Clarke and what she meant to each of them. Bellamy nodded his thanks and took a seat to the council table.

"Kane you know you don't get to call council meetings" Pike said in his booming voice as he entered the room "As chancellor that's my job" he looked around the room "Good morning Abby, Bellamy, Miss Blake. You want to tell me what this is about Kane" he took his seat at the head of the table.

"I have been thinking about Clarke and all she accomplished here on the ground, all that she suffered and all that she was willing to do to help our people, her people. And it occurred to me that if Clarke were in my shoes and if it was you Abby or Bellamy or any of the 100 , she would have already been investigating your deaths, but we haven't asked a single question about hers."

"Like what?" Octavia asked.

"You two knew her and Murphy the best and from what you've told me Murphy and Clarke fought, you & she banished him and he tried at least once to kill you both and he shot Raven. So here's my question, given all that why are we to believe that Clarke would try to help him, to rescue him?"

Bellamy looked at Kane "Because that's what Clarke would do, she took care of everyone."

"Even Murphy ""Octavia said. "After they banished him, he was captured by the Grounders and a few weeks later showed up at the drop ship, in bad shape, Bell here wanted to kill him" she patted his hand and he shrugged "but Clarke stopped him, she saw where the grounders had tortured him and she believed him when he said that he escaped. Of course we didn't know that the grounders had infected him with a virus and then 'let' him escape. We were all pretty sick for a while but she took care of him, along with all the others."

Kane nodded "Ok so we'll assume for the moment that part of the story is true."

"Kane what is this about?" Pike spoke up "You don't have any authority here and your taking time away from gearing up for the inevitable attack that we know is coming."

Kane looked at Pike, "This is about finding the truth about the death of one of our own. And since when do I need authority to ask questions? Abby...." he looked at Abby and smiled just a little and looked at Bellamy "...and Bellamy, the people Clarke loved the most deserve that, they deserve answers."

Pike leaned back in his chair and waved his hand as if to grant the go ahead.

"Good... Bellamy when we all went to Polis and to TonDC we were required to give up all weapons. Why would Clark have a gun?"

Bellamy frowned and leaned into the table 'he hadn't thought about that, he can't believe he missed that'.... "that's a good question."

Abby spoke up "Maybe Lexa let her have one, for security."

Octavia shook her head "No, No way....even the commander couldn't change that law, it goes back all most to the beginning, no one possesses firearms. Even the guards surrounding the commander don't carry them."

"And Clarke had security; she had her own guards appointed by Lexa" Bellamy said.

"So at least some of the story told to Octavia is most likely false...." He paused for a deep breath "So, what else don't we know?"

Abby looked shocked "are you saying that Clarke might be alive?"

Kane looked at her and took her hand "I don't know, but I do know that if she's dead, we need to know exactly what happened." Kane looked back to the others in the room "Because if she is responsible for the death of the commander, then the Coalition would fall apart and the clans would attack not only each other but us..."

Pike looks at Kane "I think your right to think about what other things might have happened but you're missing something what if Clarke isn't responsible for the commander's' death? What if it's a set up?"

"A Scapegoat?" Bellamy says "Someone could be using her as a scapegoat? Who would benefit the most from that?"

"The Ice Nation would stand to gain a lot if Lexa were to die and Skaikru were held responsible." Octavia said

"Even if we can prove that, it's no guarantee the coalition could hold." Abby said.

Pike added "And why would they go to the trouble of setting up Clarke, we've seen what the Ice nation can go, how big the army is, they don't need a scapegoat to further their agenda."

"Wait ..... Just wait" Bellamy said as he slowly leaned in "we're getting ahead of ourselves. We aren't even sure Clarke and Murphy are really dead. We only know what Octavia was told." He paused "We need to find out.".... He looked around the room ...."We need to get to Polis."

Ok so a short chapter but the next one is in the pipeline and will be up soon.  Let me know what you think, I promise it's going to get very interesting very soon...

~ce