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Indra had left hours ago when she heard the horn announcing a new Commander had risen, leaving me alone in the cave still handcuffed. As the morning went by, I heard footsteps at the entrance of the cave, so I rose up. The first to come in were Harper, Miller, and Bryan with tired looks on their faces; when Harper landed her eyes on me I knew something was wrong. Octavia. Sam, not again. Sinclair was next, looking at the ground as he walked past me, followed by a defeated Kane and Octavia with her sword on her hands, eyes glued to it. Sheda was the last to come inside carrying Sam in his arms and I felt both relieved and jealous at the sight; then, I realized.
- "Where's Lincoln?"
Sheda walked past me, narrowing his eyes as we made eye contact; Sam was holding onto his neck and had her head buried in his chest and her eyes remained closed, if she was awake, she completely ignored my presence, and that hurt. I wanted to move towards them, to check if Sam was alright but Octavia's voice stopped me.
- "Pike put a bullet in his brain." –she let go of the sword and took off her jacket as she started sobbing.
- "O... O, I am so sorry."
Before I knew it, Octavia's fist collapsed with my jaw with all her strength; I could feel her pain. This is not how I wanted things to go. I looked at her once more and soon enough she started punching me again, harder each time as I started to bleed.
- "Octavia, that's enough."
- "Kane, stay out of this."
I warned him and he looked down right before I received another hit; she wasn't containing herself and soon enough the hits got lower until she hit my stomach and I fell to the ground, but she wasn't done; she pulled me up by my hair and held me up with both hands on the collar of my jacket as she started using her knees to cause some more damage on my abdomen and lower body. I fell to the ground once more and this time, Miller tried to move Octavia away from me but she pushed him away.
- "Miller, back off."
I spat some blood as I prompted him before he got hurt too; I glanced at O once more, she was covered in my blood now and tears were running down her face as she sobbed loudly. She screamed before hitting my jaw once, twice, thrice...
- "You're dead to me!" –Octavia ended with tears in her eyes as I laid on the ground looking up at her, my face covered in my blood as well as her hands- "All yours." –she looked at Sam that had made her way next to us, completely unintimidated by O unlike everyone else in the cave- "You can kill him if that's what you need, it's not like I care nor would I blame you..." –she looked at me as she ended- "After all, if Sheda hadn't stopped you, that'd have been you too."
