Chapter 18
Clarke was lying on her bed thinking how terrible her plan to escape was going when she heard the opening of the door behind her.
"You don't need to be here. I will manage." She recognized the voice it belonged to, Wells.
"She is dangerous."
"She is restrained so it will be fine." Wells waited until the guard closed the door behind him and he moved to Clarke. "Are you ok?"
She scoffed. "The people who are keeping me prisoner are asking me this a lot."
"If it was my decision I would let you go but I can't." He moved closer to her.
When she saw him moving his hands closer to her she flinched and tried to move as far away as she could. "Don't you dare touch me you traitor! How could you join them?!"
"Clarke it's ..."
The blonde girl interrupted him before he could finish. "Don't 'Clarke' me. You're here and my mother told me you came here voluntarily." After little pause she added in quitter voices. "Unlike me."
"Clarke let me explain." He pleaded his old friend.
She snorted. "It is not like I can walk away, right?" When she saw that he wasn't doing anything she continued with a sigh. "So talk."
Wells looked around room to be sure no one is really around and he nodded. "Octavia and Bellamy sent me here. They're going to come for you." He moved towards the blonde and started undoing her restraints. "Stay down so the guards can't see you're free."
"So go distract them." She soothed her wrists.
Wells shook his head. "No. That's not the plan."
"The plan?"
He nodded. "Our people plan to get in here tonight. They will tell me when they are at the fence and I'll stop it's electricity with Raven's help." When he saw Clarke's confused face he took a radio from his pocket. "A gift from Raven."
Blonde nodded clearly pleased with her pack's thinking. "What would we do without her."
"She said the same thing. Anyway, when they get here they will get us out."
Clarke thought about it for a moment. "No."
"No?"
"You're staying." Wells looked at her confused. "They took you here, no question asked, just because you're the Chancellors son. You're not a prisoner like me, right?" Wells just nodded to that. "Plus you already have radio. I need someone watching over them to inform me about any possible danger."
"But they will know it was me who let you go."
"No they won't. You will leave now and won't come see me again. When Raven calls, you will stop electricity to the fence."
"I tried already but I need a key to the power box and the only key is with some engineer named Wick."
Clarke thought about it for a moment. "I have an idea."
At the Dropship Anya, Lexa, Raven, Bellamy, Octavia and Lincoln had a meeting about Clarke's rescue plan.
Raven was pacing around. Nervous about her alpha's whereabouts. "We need to do something now!"
Anya glared at her girlfriend. "Just sit down. You're making me nervous."
"At least you know how I feel. I'm not leaving her there to die!" She moved to the doors ready to help her friend and kill everyone in her way.
Octavia ran to her and grabbed her wrist to stop her. Raven turned to her and growled. That got Anya's attention who growled as well. Thanks to that, Bellamy growled to protect his sister.
When Lexa heard what was happening she had enough and snarled.
Everyone stopped and looked at her. Bellamy, still remembering his last encounter with Lexa, moved slightly behind Raven.
In any other occasion Lexa would smirk at this, but not now. Her true mate is being held prisoner in the Skaikru camp and she will get her back. "Raven is right. We waited long enough."
"But Lexa…"
Lexa snarled at her former mentor. "No! I have been waiting long enough! I will not leave her there to die."
"Raven, Heda. We can't move. Wells doesn't know how to disable the fence." Lincoln said before both girls looked at him like they were ready to kill him. Luckily before any of them could act there were sounds from the radio at Raven's belt.
"Raven, are you there?"
Everyone in the room talked at once. "Clarke?!"
Lexa snarled to silence everyone once again. Then she moved closer to Raven and talked into the radio. "Clarke, are you hurt?" She talked gently like she wasn't snarling at anyone a few short moments ago.
"Lexa? You're alive. How?" Clarke couldn't believe that other alpha survived all the shootings.
"We had backup. Are you hurt?"
"Don't worry I'm fine." When Clarke heard that Lexa wasn't asking more questions she continued. "Wells and I come up with a new plan. He will be staying here as our spy."
Anya chimed in. "I never expected that, and I think I will ever say this to you again, but that's actually not a bad idea."
"Well, thank you Anya. I guess…" Clarke cleared her throat. "Anyway here's the plan."
"Are your restraints loose enough?"
Clarke nodded. "Yeah. Don't worry Wells. It's fine. My guard won't know anything. Just take care of the door while I distract him." Wells only nodded to his alpha. "Wells?" In reply the boy raised an eyebrow to show she had his attention. "Try to not get caught, ok?"
He smiled at his friend and nodded. "No problem, Clarke. You just focus on trying not to die."
She smiled back at him and nodded. Her smile quickly vanished and she started to thrash around on her bed and yelled. "You bastard how could you! I trusted you!"
Wells quickly moved away from Clarke and looked at the door to see if a guard noticed their little scene. When he saw nothing he started yelling too. "Guards! Guards!"
That did the trick and they both could hear the door opening and a guard come inside. "What is happening?" The only answer he got was Clarke trashing on the bed and cursing. So he moved to her and tried to calm her.
Wells just hoped that Clarke could keep the guard busy long enough for him to break the door as Raven described to him. He reached the door and looked around the corridor to see if anyone who could possibly see him. Luckily it was late at night, so no one was around. He quickly did his job and right when he wanted to turn to her and give her their secret signal he heard the blonde girl whimper. A Low growl escaped from his mouth when he saw a guard with an electric shock rod.
Clarke whimpered again and her body went limp. All that Wells wanted to do in that moment was to tear the guard's head off but he knew he had to finish his mission otherwise his alpha could encounter more trouble. So with one last look at her he said, "I should probably go."
The guard nodded. "Yeah, I told you she is dangerous. Next time you should listen to me."
Wells just politely nodded and moved to the next part of their plan – stealing the key to power box from Wick so he could stop electricity in fence.
He saw Wick sitting in a workroom as expected. "Hey, Wells. You're here for that chips your father wanted?"
Wells frowned. He had no clue why his father would want any chips. "Ehm, no. I just wanted to see what you have here and make sure there aren't any problem."
Wick smiled. "No problems. Everything is fine, Wells."
Wells spotted the key to power box at table before he could talk with Wick some more he was stopped by Wick's radio. "Hey, Wick, move your ass to prison!"
He picked his radio. "What is wrong?"
"That stupid doors are not working and I don't want to be with that crazy girl in one room."
"Fine. I'll be there." Wick sighed. "Sorry Wells. I need to go. But see you later and tell your father that I have the list he wanted."
Once again Wells had no clue what other man wanted so he just nodded again.
Right when Wick moved outside of the room Wells took key and went to the power box.
"Commander stop pacing!" Raven finally understood why it made Anya so nervous before.
Lexa was dressed in Skaikru clothes so she would fit in better once they were in the camp. She growled and continued with her pacing. "He should have already called us by now. How long have we been here anyway?"
It was only Lexa and Raven standing in front of the fence around Skaikru camp, they were standing on the farthest end of fence so they weren't spotted by any guards.
"We have been waiting here only five minutes Commander. He will call soon." After a little pause Raven added. "Or I will tear his head off myself."
Lexa stopped in her spot and smirked. She liked this girl's loyalty to Clarke. "You understand your wolf."
"Anya explained a lot of things to me."
"I see." Lexa turned to look at the Skaikru camp like it was the most interesting thing in the world. "I'm glad that Clarke has someone so loyal in her pack."
Raven titled head towards the other girl. "Everyone at the Dropship is loyal to her."
Before Lexa could react, Raven's radio came to life. "Raven, it's done. You're free to go. Rest of the job is on you now."
Raven took radio from her belt. "Thanks, Wells." Then there was silence so she put the radio back and looked at Lexa. Both girls nodded to each other and moved to the fence.
As Wells promised the fence was without electricity. It was late at night so only the guards were outside. It wasn't hard to avoid the patrols and they got inside quickly.
When they were inside the fallen Ark Lexa felt like she was in the mountain again. She froze in place.
Raven noticed the alpha's problems and moved to her. "Commander, is everything alright?" Lexa looked at her with a pale face but said nothing. So Raven tried another tactic. She put her hand on Lexa's shoulder in attempt to bring her mind back to their mission. "Lexa! We need to get Clarke out of here quickly. Who knows what they want to do to her. If we just stand here we are putting many people at risk."
Lexa took a deep breath. "You're right. Let's get this over with."
Raven lead them thru some corridors for a few minutes before they reached an intersection.
Raven pointed in one direction "That way you find the prison." Lexa nodded. "Don't forget to get Clarke to the fence in time." Raven put her hand on Lexa's shoulder once again. "We can't lose both of our alphas." She smirked at Lexa and went in the other direction.
When Raven parted ways with Lexa she went directly to the workroom.
As Wells promised the key was still at the power box. Raven moved right to box and took from her pocket a timer she made back at the Dropship. She set it for 30 minutes and put it into the power box. They have 30 minutes to get out of here before the timer destroy itself and power in fence is restored. Raven hoped both alphas would make it in time. She closed the box and put the key on worktable. She sighed and moved outside room.
Lexa got to something that looked like the room Raven and the other wolves from Clarke's pack described to her. She saw two men standing at a door. One of them tried to fix it. She knew that she couldn't hurt that one. They needed him alive and unharmed. Wick is their cover for Wells. Everyone will think that Wick helped them get Clarke away and Wells will be saved thanks to that.
After a moment Lexa saw how Wick moved from the door which was now fully functional. She quickly hide behind the corner so he didn't see her on his way back to the workroom. When he disappeared behind another corner she looked and now saw the lone guard.
She didn't understand how someone so stupid could have been made a guard. He looked like he was sleeping. So she silently moved to him and with one swift motion she broke his neck.
Lexa opened the door using the dead guard's key card, thanks to Raven's brief on how to use it.
She got inside the room and dragged the dead guard with her. Leaving him somewhere in the corner.
Lexa quickly moved to the only bed in room where she saw Clarke. She was so happy that she forgot about everything and just caressed blonde girl's cheek.
Clarke smiled at the other alpha. "You're really alive."
They were just looking into each other's eyes for some time before Lexa came back to her senses and started undoing Clarke's binds. "We need to move. Raven is definitely done with her part by now."
Raven waited outside of the Skaikru camp but Clarke and Lexa were nowhere to be found. They didn't have much time left. She didn't know what happened to both alphas but she decided to find out by herself and went back inside.