Sacrifice and Survival

The Insurrection

"Excuse me sir" David Miller says walking into the command center "There's a crowd building outside, they're demanding to speak to you and they don't look like a happy bunch."

Pike nods at Miller "Let them know I'm on my way." He turns back to the tactical board that he and Bellamy are working on "The life of a chancellor." Pike says to Bellamy as Miller leaves.

"Let me go sir, I can get the crowd to disburse" Bellamy cocks his head "I'll arrest a few that should quiet them down."

"No..... no, I'll go talk to them. I have neglected one of the primary duties of being Chancellor, pacifying the people who got me the job. I'm sure they're just nervous about the blockade and the food rationing we started last week."

Bellamy just nodded "Certainly Sir, whatever you say." He turned back towards the tact board that mapped out the ARK and the known positions of the grounder blockade as Pike started to exit the room.

He turned back towards Bellamy "You should come too Bellamy, they need to see you standing with me; they need to learn to respect your new position as my second in command." Pike turned and Bellamy fixed his eyes on the back of his commanding officer as he stretched his back and moved his neck side to side until it popped, his face was a blank slate, normally everything you wanted to know about Bellamy Blake was written on his face, but not anymore he had gotten quite good at masking his expressions, he grabbed his Guard jacket off the back of a chair and followed Pike out the door.

Octavia looked up as she heard the door to her cell open expecting to see Nathan or Will or one of the other guards assigned to her. Pike had kept her locked up for almist three Iweeks now; the only people she saw were her guards and Abby and she hadn't really seen Abby that much lately. Jasper tried to see her once but didn't get very far, he was pretty drunk and Nathan managed to get him back to his quarters. Raven sent her a book to read but other than that she hadn't had contact with anyone. In fact she'd only seen Bellamy once and that was when she was first arrested. But she hadn't seen any one at all in almost a week and she was getting worried, even the guards that brought her food didn't talk much.

But as her door opened today she was surprised to see Abby walk in carrying her box of medical supplies.

"Hi sweetie, how are you doing?" Abby asked as she pulled the lone chair next to Octavia's bed and leaned in "Are you feeling OK? Do you need anything?" Abby nodded towards the door letting Octavia know that someone might be listening.

"I'm fine Abby, bored mostly, I have been getting headaches" she added.

"Oh well let me check a few things while I'm here" Abby took her stethoscope and put it to her back and listened to her breathing "Deep breath please."

Then carefully pulled her shirt opened and put the scope inside her shirt and Octavia gasped a little and she looked at Abby with wide eyes "Oh sorry you know these things get cold."

Abby took her pulse and looked into her eyes and after a few more minutes she concluded her exam "I think the headaches might be due to limited physical activity, I'll see if I can convince Pike to let you out for an hour a day."

"Good luck with that" Octavia said "I can't get him to talk to me. He needs to sentence me to death or cut me loose!" She yelled in the direction of the door, and then smiled at Abby. "How's Kane?" Octavia asked. Abby's face fell and she sighed "I don't know, they won't let me in detention. If a prisoner needs something Jackson is the only one allowed in there now. But I'm sure he's fine.... I hope he's fine. I heard he's in with Lincoln so at least he's not alone."

Octavia rolled her eyes "yea this sucks." Octavia paused "Have you seen Bellamy at all?" she asked quietly, almost afraid of the answer.

Octavia's eyes held a sadness when it came to her brother, sadness and anger, resentment and distrust, but hidden inside was the love of a little sister for her big brother.