Blodreina

Impact Pt. 1

TW: refrences to blood and injuries, death, guns

Sage's POV

"A missle? You're sure," Lexa asks slowly. Obviously the reaction Clarke was looking for out of us was the opposite of what happened. We both seemed calm and not at all worried. I only was acting this way because of Lexa. If she's calm then I'll be calm too. Clarke on the other hand is quite the opposite, especially when Lexa says that she isn't going to call for Tondc to be evacuated. At first that took me by surprise but then slowly as she explains why I start to understand. If we evacuate it'll give up Bellamy's position. It'll reveal there's a mole in the mountain and they'll stop at nothing to find him. Since he has limited knowledge of the mountain and only one person to turn too it won't take long. Without him our plan won't work and then none of us will get our people back. Lexa is thinking long term while Clarke is thinking short term, and she can't afford to keep doing that. Clearly not done with this Clarke presses further but it's falling in deaf ears as Lexa walks over to the table with all the maps on it. "Is the acid fog disabled? Is our sleeping army uncaged? Hell we don't even know how to get inside!" While my outburst surprises the blonde because of its coldness I feel a sense of pride radiating from Lexa. I hit the nail right on the head, there's no way we can give Bellamy up. Not when his job is clearly not done. Lexa backs me up when Clarke tries to figure out a way around my words, now making her question what our call to inaction really means. "It'll be a blow but the army will be safe inside the woods and the attack will inspire them." That doesn't fully give Clarke her answer and the leader knows that, she's just choosing her words very carefully. "You two will slip into the woods. If you go now I can distract everyone else," I say. This takes all the stress of revealing that part of her plan to Clarke away. Looking at Lexa we nod our heads at one another before I turn around and walk out of the room. A good thing about me staying behind is that I can at least tell a good lie, unlike the blonde, and there was no way I was giving her the chance to convince me to go with them. If we all left that'd look suspicious. We were all targets the mounting men were after and everyone would easily catch on after that.

The second I walked outside they all swarmed me with questions. They wanted to know what we talked about but I deflected the questions with ease, my demeanor directly reflecting Lexa's. "Clarke is just nervous about Bellamy and when we got in an argument Lexa sent me back out here." That's been a common occurrence for Clarke and I lately and we've been distant since the attack. We've turned into each other's personal punching bags and no one knows what to do. Except for Octavia who knows it's nothing. It's never gotten this bad before but at the end of everyday we're smiling and laughing together. That fact alone makes them even more concerned and equally as confused. They all nod with an awkward smile before going back to whatever they were doing. Octavia and I go back to the gate to keep watch like we did before the blonde arrived, her gaze this time never leaving me. "Are you okay," she asks quietly while wrapping me up in her arms and kissing my cheek. With a small smile I lean into her touch and nod my head instead of speaking. Even though I'm not mad, her actions and the sound of the wind flowing through the trees calms me. I just hope my lie gave them enough time to sneak out before anything happens. Clarke is stubborn and I know they got into an actual argument before she eventually gave in. She knows Lexa is right, but sometimes she needs a little time to act like she's more morally sound than her before agreeing. Clarke had an opportunity to warn people without even talking to Lexa first. But she never did. That fact alone is what she'll use to convince the blonde on her side and away from her annoying moral high ground she tries to put herself on. If she truly had morals, she would've warned us.

After a few minutes of standing here more seconds start to join us, some of them actually talking to us too. Then out of nowhere while Atohl starts complaining about keeping watch with the rest of us Octavia's head snaps to our right. "Did you hear that? Someone's out there," she says while taking a step forward. The three of us venture further into the woods, each of us turned in different directions. I just really hope it wasn't Clarke tripping over something while they got away. We stop at the start of the denser part of the woods when a nearby bush rustles and Atohl rushes up to it without us. "This one's mine sky girls," he says mockingly. Keeping an eye on the gate and the bush we become increasingly uneasy when the rustling stops and he doesn't call out for us or come back. As if our minds were connected we both lunge forward to go check on him. When we push through the bush we see him on the ground dead with Lincoln digging through his pockets and fighting the urge to drink his blood. "Hey no! Lincoln stop it!" We both rush over and push him away at the same time he finally gives in to his urges. The last time we saw him he was cured, so he must've gotten captured while getting Bellamy in the mountain or he purposely got captured to be able to get a shot. Either way Octavia and I are a mix of disappointed and sad because of this. We thought he was fine, but he hid how much he craved the drug from us the whole time.