Grounder | An Anya Love Story

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Recap

All I could hear was yelling, who's yelling I'm not sure but only yelling. 'This isn't a very peaceful way to die. There is to much yelling, why can't anyone be quiet'. I let out a choked laugh blood spilling from my mouth. I coughed up some more blood before finally deciding it was time to close my eyes and go to sleep. It wasn't my heart but it will work. 'Here I come Finn, I'm sorry it took this long.'

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Clarke

Lexa pulled me into a cell and the first thing that caught my attention was the smell of blood and the next was the woman laying on the floor that Anya was desperately trying to make stop bleeding. I was moving before I could think or even process who it was, deep down I knew who it was. There was a rock lodged into her side in between two of the ribs aiming for what looks like the heart but she hit the lungs instead. Blood was still streaming out of her mouth. She was breathing but barley. 

"I need a knife and a tube." I slowly pulled the rock out of her side. Just like when Linchon stabbed Finn. I got shaky, like Finn. Finally looking at the woman who I was fixing my breath caught in my throat. She wasn't supposed to die. There was a tap on my shoulder bringing me out of my shock, Lexa stood there with the knife and tube in her hand. 

"Tell me what I need to do to help save her." I gave her a small smile before I went back to pulling out the rock. Once it was out Maria gurgled up more blood, it spewed out of her mouth more.

"Hand me the tube now." Lexa quickly gave me the tube as I inserted it into Maria where the rock was. This is the same thing I did for Tris, the same thing. Blood started to flow out of the tube onto the floor. Lexa was looking at Maria like she would never see her again. 

The blood was rushing out of the tube at a fast pace but there was still some falling from her mouth going down her throat. I quickly turned her on her stomach so the blood didn't go down her throat. The blood from the tube stopped draining and her breathing is still labored. 

"She should be fine to move but she needs to go to a place with more equipment and a better place to work." Lexa nodded and said something to the guards before they came over and tried to roll her on her back. "No!" I stopped them "she needs to be carried with her stomach down so the blood doesn't choke her." The guards nodded bringing her up out of the cellars. Anya was quick to fallow them never straying far from Marias side. 

"Will she be alright?" Lexa asked with worry lacing her voice. 

"I'm not sure but I hope so. I don't think Raven could handle losing her." She nodded her head. 

"Anya couldn't handle losing her. She is strong she will make it through this, she has to." With that Lexa left the room fallowing the guards and Anya. My eyes looked around at the blood that was on the floor before I picked up the knife that I randomly threw off to the side before making my way out towards everyone else. 

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I stitched up Maria and sat by her keeping my gaze on her rising chest and making sure that it doesn't stop. I haven't allowed Anya or Lexa back into the room after I finished I have just been watching her holding the rock the I found covered in blood on the ground. 

What was I going to tell Raven oh god what am I going to tell Kane. I could see her hands twitch every now and again but I knew she wasn't going to wake up anytime soon. The tears flowed freely down my face thinking back to the last couple of days and letting the emotions come back to me. She blames me for Finns death and I don't blame her. It was my fault that he is dead, I killed him. 

A knock on door broke me out of my thoughts the guards opened the door and Lexa strolled through the door with Anya not far behind her. Anya made a B-line towards Maria while Lexa came over to me. I watched as Anya moved the hair out of her face and and whispered something to her. I stared at the pair longingly before I slipped my hand into Lexas.

"When will she wake up." Lexa asks me quietly not interrupting Anya.

"If she wakes up it will only be for time to tell." I took a deep breath "She is stable right now but that could change, she needs to be under constant supervision for the next couple days." 

She nodded her head again before saying something to the guards who then left the room only coming back with a few more chairs and setting them down. "You go try and get some sleep, Anya and I will watch her. If we need you we will come get you." She kissed my head softly "You did good Clarke, you saved her life." She gave me a gentle push towards the door, and with one last look at Marias sleeping formed on the table I left the room going to get some much needed sleep.