We Rise After We Fall

i. heroes

Clarke slowly pulled her hand away from the lever. What just happened? She slowly peered up at the monitor.. 100s of people were on the ground, rolling in pain and screaming. Cage's eyes locked onto the camera. Clarke's stomach turned.

"I got Maya into her suit.. just in case this happened." Clarke stated.

She turned away quickly, and opened the door. Emerson was long gone by now. Her hands felt too heavy to hold up.

What had she done?

Her mind was just blurry, she didn't know what she was doing.. but the next thing she knew she was sticking a shot of bone marrow into Maya's port to save her.

"Clarke." Jasper said sternly.

Clarke turned to look at him.

"Thank you." He said, with a nod.

Clarke didn't say anything, she did nod. She felt scared, maybe she was scared of herself. Killing all of those people. She felt anger too, she was angry at Lexa.. how could she do this?

Clarke looked around at the trees, at the flowers. She was quiet though. How could she not be? Bellamy was with Octavia in the middle of the crowd.

Clarke just hung back with Monty. He was pretty messed up too, he didn't pull the lever but he killed all of those people too.

"It wasn't what we expected, huh?" Monty said faintly, breaking the silence.

Clarke let out a quick sigh.

"Yeah." She said with nod.

"Hopefully we won't have to fight from now on." Monty said, questioning himself.

"The truce is broken, but we're not at war.. so I don't know what to expect." Clarke analyzed.

Clarke didn't know what to expect overall. This was just the bare beginning of what's to come. She looked through the crowd, examining everyone's face. She wished that she could just disappear. Disappear? Is that an option? I mean I guess she could run away.. but people would come looking for her. Clarke searched through her mind. The more she thought about it the more she thought it was a good idea.

There it was.. Camp Jaha. But what she had heard on the way back they were planning to change the name to Arkadia, since Jaha had left for the City of Light. Bellamy stood at the gate, waiting for Clarke.

"Clarke? Clarke, C'mon." Monty's voice filled the silence.

"I.." She started. "I'm not going in."

Monty froze in his steps.

"How.. how long will you be gone?" He asked, concerned.

Clarke just shrugged. She pulled him into a hug. And they pulled back, Monty looked over at Bellamy.

"Good luck." He said, walking off. Trying not to smile.

Damn, even Monty knew Bellamy would be able to convince her to stay. Clarke stood her ground as Bellamy walked up to her. He stood next to her.

"I think we deserve a drink." He started.
"Have one for me.." Clarke said.

"Hey.. we'll get through this." His voice was quiet.