Chapter 7
Clarke was in so much pain, she could only watch Bellamy and the others enter the dropship with an unconscious Lexa. She dropped to the ground the spasms going down her spine was unbearable, tears were forming in her eyes but she refused to let them shed instead she grinded her teeth together and tried to take deep even breaths. Raven saw her alpha in pain and rushed over to aid her, she gently put her hand on her alpha's back but quickly jumped back when she felt a sharp jolt of pain in her hand.
"Clarke I'm going to pick you up and take you to your tent to rest" Raven spoke calmly to soothe her Alpha.
Clarke snapped her head up and growled "No, I am not leaving Lexa!" another loud buzz sounded, Clarke tensed more when another set of spasms erupted over her body. Raven watched in fear while her alphas eyes started glowing and fading, her canines seemed to elongate and retract.
Clarke closed her eyes focusing on her breathing and heart rate, her heart was pounding so hard, it felt like it was going to explode from her chest.
"Raven I need some water" Clarke choked out. Raven quickly left and returned with a water canteen and wash cloth, she kneeled down putting the items on the ground and waited for Clarke's spasms to fade.
Raven slowly outstretched her hand when Clarke seemed to be in full control, she bit her lip and waited for the worst when she touched Clarke. She sighed in relief when she didn't receive another painful jolt.
"Are you ok Clarke? I brought you some water and a cloth to refresh you." She gently helped Clarke up and supported her when she wobbled.
"Thank you Raven, I'm ok." Before Raven could ask another question Clarke picked up the items, took a swig of water and quickly entered the dropship. Octavia saw the commotion and strode towards the dropship, Raven waited for her and quickly informed her about the situation before they entered the dropship.
Lexa was badly beaten, Clarke's heart broke at seeing her like this. She gently brushed Lexa's hair away from her bloody face and removed the cloth from her pocket applied some water and started cleaning her face.
"I'm so sorry Lexa." She whispered while cleaning her head wound. She watched as her skin slowly knitting back together. Before she could check her over an object dropped, her head snapped towards the sound. Her face morphed from worry to rage when she locked eyes with Bellamy.
To say that Clarke was furious was an understatement. "What the hell are you doing Bellamy?" Octavia and Raven quickly took position behind Clarke ready to attack at her command.
"You let one of them go, so I found another one." Clarke moved closer to Bellamy. Before she could get too close Finn stood in front of her.
"You should listen to him princess, they are dangerous. She killed five of us!" Clarke wanted to punch his stupid face.
"You should not be surprised when you attacked her." Raven growled while getting in front of Clarke to protect her alpha and was in Finns face snarling. Finn didn't answer he stood his ground and glared at Raven. They both started sizing each other up getting ready to fight.
While they were arguing, Lexa woke up and started growling at Bellamy.
Clarke moved around Raven but Finn grabbed her wrist and stopped her. This spurred Octavia into action, she grabbed Finns wrist and punched his face, a loud crack and wail was heard. Finn dropped Clarkes hand and cradled his nose trying to stop the bleeding.
"You know Finn every girl that gets to know you, ends up breaking your nose in a few days. why is that?" Raven wasn't expecting an answer to her question however couldn't stop the smirk forming on her face, she glanced at Octavia and Clarke who were grinning watching Finn hold his nose and curse at them like there was no tomorrow.
Clarke moved back to Bellamy. "Let her go!" She snarled.
Bellamy refused to back down, two of his minions moved in front of him, Octavia and Raven sprang in front of Clarke. When Lexa saw what was happening she tried to break her chains, she growled in frustration when the chains didn't budge, she stopped to reserve her energy and strength.
"You will listen to me, like everyone else!" He moved past his minions and growled at Clarke baring his teeth.
Clarke did the same and started circling him, without thinking she punched him square in the jaw, which only pissed Bellamy off. Punches were thrown from both parties.
While Bellamy and Clarke were fighting, Raven and Octavia had to manage Bellamy's four goons.
"Ready to get your butts kicked? Shame there isn't more of you." Octavia smiled at them, she glanced at Raven, they both nodded at each other and prepared to whoop some ass.
Clarke jumped at Bellamy and knocked him down. She straddled him so he couldn't move. She growled and snapped at his neck raising her hand preparing to strike, Bellamy whimpered and showed his neck.
Lexa watched the commotion, she started wrestling in her chains when she saw Bellamy strike at Clarke. She growled and pushed off the wall the chains snapped in midair. She elegantly changed into her wolf form and landed on top of Bellamy's minion. She tore his belly open with her claws, he screamed and tried to punch her away, he started to weaken and blood started pouring out his mouth. She bit into his neck, tearing his larynx out and stopped his fight completely.
She looked up from the dead body and growled loudly. Bellamy and his minions heard the threatening growl, they looked up and saw the same terrifying wolf from the woods that had bloody fangs, with blood dripping from her jaw. Bellamy's minions ran out the dropship not wanting to face the wolf again, Bellamy tried to wriggle free from Clarkes grasp, he whimpered and went limp when he felt Clarke squeeze his neck in a warning gesture. Clarke looked down and released Bellamy from her grasp, Bellamy quickly ran out the dropship without looking back.
Lexa watched them all flee, she glanced towards the others when her eyes locked with Clarke's she quickly averted her gaze to the ground, she didn't want Clarke to see her like this.
Clarke run to the other alpha and looked her over, she parted some fur to make sure Lexa wasn't hurt. She sighed in relief when it wasn't Lexa's blood and calmed a little. Clarke slowly rubbed Lexa's neck and raised her head. "Are you ok?"
Lexa looked at Clarke and slowly nodded. Clarke looked her over again and saw another blood stain that she hadn't noticed before, she quickly touched the wound and jumped back when Lexa flinched. Clarke slowly moved the fur to one side and saw a bullet hole in Lexa's ribcage just like Monroe had. This must have happened before she came to the dropship, probably the reason how they managed to bring her here.
She turned to Raven and Octavia. "Bring me that dagger, I need to remove these bullets."
Raven quickly handed the dagger to Clarke. Clarke rubbed Lexa's shoulder and looked into her eyes.
"Lexa this is going to hurt, I will go as quickly as I can but you need to lie down on your side so I can get a better angle." Clarke tried to help the wolf down as best as she could. She started to remove the bullets and was amazed at Lexa's pain tolerance, she didn't flinch once. Clarke doubled checked to see that she removed all the bullets, she hoped that she did.
"That's the last one" Clarke rubbed Lexa's neck and watched while her wounds healed to make sure she was healing properly. Lexa tried to get up but Clarke quickly stopped her. "You need to rest first, don't be stubborn and listen to your doctor." Lexa growled at her, but stayed down enjoying Clarkes caress.
"What now boss?" Raven asked Clarke.
"We get Lexa out." That was Clarke's only concern.
"And then?" Raven was keen to hear the plan, but Clarke didn't have one.
"I don't know." Clarke was desperate to get Lexa back to the safety of her people.
"Monroe and the others can help us." Octavia chimed in, the others nodded in agreement.
Lexa got up and barked. "I take it that we are ready to go?" Clarke checked on Lexa's ribcage to makes sure she was fully healed, she nodded her agreement once satisfied.
"Both of you should change, it will make the plan go smoother and try not to kill anyone unless necessary." Both girls nodded and shifted.
Clarke led the three wolves to the lower levels of the dropship. Before they could get out they saw Monroe. "Clarke thank god I found you, Bellamy's minions went crazy and the camp looks like a war zone!"
They all ran after Monroe and saw Harper and Monty guarding the dropships entrance. Outside they saw what Monroe meant, the camp was in chaos, everyone was fighting and some were even shifting.
Lexa tensed next to her.
Clarke looked at her. "Please don't." Lexa looked back at her and sat down.
"Thanks." Lexa growled and looked away. Clarke would have smiled if her people weren't killing each other.
Clarke saw Bellamy walking her way. "Stop this madness Bellamy."
"I did nothing, they were already fighting when I came out." Before he could stand next to Clarke Lexa moved in front of her and growled at him. The other wolves tensed and watched the interaction.
"Keep your puppy away from me!" Lexa growled some more and Bellamy took a quick step back. "They might be going crazy because of her stench, do her people bathe or what?"
"You can smell her?" Bellamy nodded "You're another alpha…" Clarke thought about it, that explains why they dislike each other.
"What? Look Clarke, I don't know what you're talking about but it can wait we need to stop them before they kill each other."
Clarke looked at Lexa and murmured. "Two packs cannot live in one territory." Lexa looked back at her and barked.
"How can we stop this?" Lexa moved closer to Bellamy, she growled and swiped at him with her paw. Bellamy jumped back at that. "What, the…"
"No, we're not killing him, any other idea?" Lexa growled and just stared at her.
Bellamy looked terrified. "Will she do something to me? Clarke I'm too young to die!" His voice was a lot higher than normal.
"I don't know, I cannot control her. I'm sure she's very pissed off with what you did to her earlier, so just leave her be and she might do the same." Lexa jumped forward and showed her fangs, Bellamy jumped back and fell on his ass. "CLARKE!"
"Stop whimpering Bellamy! Stop your pack and I will stop mine" Bellamy looked confused.
"Try yelling at them, it works for me most of the time." Bellamy just stared at her. Clarke could see that this wasn't getting her anywhere so she went for the best tactic, she smacked him hard and shouted "Yell at them!"
He snapped out from his confusion while rubbing his head and tried. "Stop it." Nothing happened, Clarke looked at him and gestured for him to try again.
He tried once again without any luck, he looked at Clarke and tried a demanding voice but still nothing. Clarke had enough and looked at Lexa for help.
Lexa moved forward slowly, Bellamy jumped and hid behind Clarke, who rolled her eyes at his behavior.
Lexa howled, everyone in the camp stopped fighting and looked her way. Her blood stained mouth made her look terrifying, the shifted wolfs whimpered and made themselves as low as possible, while the others fled the scene. The only people left were the delinquents who had guns, they started firing at her.
Lexa was already anticipating this, she dodged the bullets and jumped at one of them with mouth wide open and teeth glistening.
Clarke turned around to the group behind her she looked at Monroe, Monty and Harper. "You three shift now", without a thought they shifted and waited further instructions. "All of you take their weapons away I don't want anymore bloodshed."
Lexa ripped a man's arm off, he started screaming and turned around to face his enemy. His own blood dropped onto his face, he grabbed for his knife and tried to plunge it into the wolves throat, the wolf was to quick and ripped his other arm off, he could hear his bones break and watched in horror as she flung his arm away, she brought her claws up and slowly slid it down his face to his groin.
Lexa looked up from the dead body and saw Clarke's pack disarming other delinquents, even Bellamy was following Clarke's orders. Lexa watched as newly shifted wolves started following Clarke's orders and not Bellamy's. The twenty delinquents left were swiftly taken care of.
Clarke quickly moved towards Lexa and Lexa met her half way. "Are you injured, do you need anything?" Clarke walked around the wolf and made sure to check under Lexa's body. Lexa allowed Clarke to check her over to calm her down, once Clarke had done a thorough once over she looked up at Lexa. "Sorry I had to make sure you were ok, I don't want a repeat of what happened before. You never told me you were even hurt before." Lexa nuzzled the upset girl, Clarke stroked Lexa's head lovingly.
"Next time you want to talk with me, send someone else to get me or at least stay in your human form." Lexa opened her mouth and stuck her tongue out.
Clarke chuckled and playfully pushed Lexa's head away. "I don't know how I'm supposed to interpret that." Lexa titled her head at Clarke. "Anyway, I'm sorry what happened to you and what they did to you." Clarke lowered her head, tears formed in her eyes. "I should have been there to protect you from them, I hope you won't kill my people for a few idiots however, I would understand the reason if you did." Lexa barked, Clarke looked up at Lexa and had an idea. "Lexa stay here, sorry no pun intended ok?" Lexa glared at Clarke and waited.
Clarke turned to the crowd of delinquents. "Raven!" Raven was still in her wolf form and trotted over. "I need you to be my translator, can you listen to Lexa and later tell me? " Raven happily barked and turned to Lexa.
Clarke watched the two wolves bark to and fro with one another. Lexa locked eyes with Clarke before running off and disappearing into the forest.
"Why does she always do that?" Clarke was talking more to herself than anyone else. Of course it wouldn't be Raven if she didn't comment, even if Clarke couldn't understand, she continued to bark her sassy comment.
Clarke looked at Raven knowing full well she was saying something sassy, she playfully punched the werewolf and walked into her tent before saying " Keep your comments to yourself Raven."
A while later Raven entered her tent in human form.
Clarke looked up from her drawing. "So… what did Lexa say?"
"I would like to eat something you know, it's been a long day." Raven said with a dead serious face.
Clarke glared at her. "Raven!"
Raven pouted knowing full well that food would have to wait, she rubbed her growling stomach. "She will send someone in a few days to come and collect you. Oh and try not to let her messenger get killed because the consequences would be fatal."
"That's all?" Clarke was surprised, she didn't want any retribution for chaining her to the wall.
Raven shrugged her shoulders. "Yeah, she wasn't exactly talkative."
Clarke nodded. "Do you know where Bell is?"
Raven gestured with her hand to the exit. "Outside?"
"You are really funny when you're hungry." Clarke said sarcastically. She moved past her and went looking for Bellamy.
Clarke found him talking with some guards. "Bellamy, can we talk?"
Bellamy turned to her. "Sure, princess, what's up?"
"Somewhere else." He nodded and followed Clarke into her tent, luckily Raven had left her tent in search for food.
"So?" Bellamy was a little nervous. Clarke never minded speaking in front of others and the fight they had before put him on edge.
"No one will attack the Grounders again, do I make myself clear?" Bellamy quickly nodded. "Grounders will be coming in a few days and I don't want any problems or bloodshed." Bellamy continued to nod. When Clarke didn't say anything else he thought he was dismissed and started to make his way outside.
Clarke voice stopped him. "One more thing." He turned around to look at her, she moved closer to him and whispered into his ear "If you ever touch Lexa again, I will kill you myself and trust me it will be a very slow painful death." She looked at Bellamy with a predator like smile. Bellamy's eyes bulged open and he gulped hard, he nodded in horror and zipped out the tent.
Clarke rubbed her head and stared at the tent flap, she had no idea why she had even threatened Bell like that. She sat on the bed and stared at the picture she drew of Lexa, what was it about this green eyed girl?