"The hell I don't have to be in here!" Clarke snapped at her mother. "I'm not leaving him," she said, a mix of anger, sadness, and pain in her eyes. "Stop trying to protect me and just tell me how to help him." She said, unable to take her eyes off of an unconscious Bellamy. His back was a complete mess, and Clarke felt tears drip down her cheeks as she grabbed water and bandages, and began to help her mother and Jackson take care of him. Her hands on Bellamy's back were soft, gentle touches. She jumped several minutes later, startled, when an enraged and pained scream sounded from a few miles away. The sound wasn't from camp, and Clarke knew then that it was Octavia. The scream turned into two, then three, and then kept going. It sounded like a wounded animal, and it chilled her to her bones. "Octavia," she whispered.
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"I did this to them," Octavia said as she leaned into Lincoln's arms. He kissed her, and she tightened her grip on him, kissing him again. They turned and started to leave when
they heard footsteps. They both checked the area and saw some movement. "Lincoln, no!" She said when he pushed her to the ground. Octavia knew that he wanted to protect
her. She drew her sword as well, but it was too late. Lincoln had taken out 3 of their 4 attackers, when the 4th one shoved a sword through Lincoln's back and into his chest. The
last Grounder turned to her with a smirk and was about to attack her, when Lincoln stood up and stabbed the remaining Grounder.
She dropped her own sword and ran to Lincoln as he coughed up blood, fell to his knees and then the ground, and quit moving. "NO!!!!! LINCOLN!!!!" The screams ripped from Octavia's throat as she cradled his body in her arms. She slid her fingers over his eyes, closing them. A few moments later, she carefully moved his body out of sight hidden in a well blocked cave, before going to find Nyko, Lincoln's best friend. Lincoln's body was returned to his people. A ceremony was held and his body was given a warrior's funeral and burned, and her heart ached.
Octavia was lucky enough to be welcomed into Lincoln's clan and spent the next several months with them. Learning more of their language and ways. She had stopped her weekly contact with Clarke, the day following Lincoln's death. Nyko and Indra were the only people that Octavia saw daily. She rarely ventured out of what used to be Lincoln's home. It was
hard to look at his friends and see their pain over losing him. Octavia could barely deal with her own pain. She missed Lincoln, her brother, and her friends and had decided to take
Indra up on her offer to learn how to fight. Things got a little tense when it became obvious that Octavia was pregnant, but she refused to let fear control her and along with Nyko
and Indra, continued to learn how to fight and learned lessons in their way of first aid.
Months passed and Octavia bonded with Lincoln's clan more and more. She had become good friend's with Indra and Nyko, and once the baby had been born, promised to leave their village at the request of Nyko. Other clans had become aware of Lincoln's death and of who she was to him and the baby, so she asked Nyko and Indra to escort her back to Arkadia. They planned to stop a mile away, so that they could return to the village without risking them.
They got to the stopping point and she got out of the cart that Nyko had been pulling her and her daughter in. She handed her daughter, Laqueta, to Nyko to hold, as she told Indra goodbye. Then Octavia told Nyko goodbye and grabbed her daughter and their things, and started the mile walk to Arkadia. Once she arrived at the gate, Octavia stood there with
Lincoln's sword on her back, a bag over her shoulder and her daughter in her arms. Her face and the rest of her body contained many scars from training and from battle over the
last several months, when she lived in Lincoln's village and fought to protect it. The gate opened and several guard's ran at her, more than a dozen gun's trained on her. "I wanna
talk to Kane and Bellamy."