CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE:

"I DIDN'T PURPOSELY KILL THEM!"

Like usual, the reaper tunnels were dark all around, the lights that were usually hooked onto the stone and sharp walls all out from the power that had been exploded from Mount Weather. The ground and the train tracks in the tunnels were dirty, no reapers or any living thing, other than the two sky girls, being seen inside. It was silent as the only sound could be the occasional kicks of small rocks that could be seen on the ground from one of the girls inside the tunnels, finding themselves bored and wanting to entertain themselves as they waited.

After Indra had left them when creating small cuts on their necks, the two sky girls found themselves sitting side by side against a metal bin as they waited. As Octavia fiddled with her sword, Y/n held a rock in her glove covered hands as she fiddled with the grey rock in her grip. When the sound of an alarm blaring throughout the tunnels caught their attention, the girls exchanged a glance as they stood up, turning around just when a body fell from the ramp and into the metal bin in front of them.

Y/n's e/c eyes widened at the sight of one of her own people laying there in front of her, blood and bruises all around as they laid limp in front of the two girls. Her skin was pale, full of bruises and cuts that no doubt came from the doctors inside of Mount Weather. There people were still in there and, from what the girls could tell, they were being killed off one by one just so the civilians in Mount Weather could live on the ground, only to most likely be killed from the things and threats already outside.

As Y/n found herself staring down at the lifeless girl with tearful eyes, blaming herself because of all of this, Octavia's head snapped up when the sound of footsteps echoed from the tunnels, gripping her sword as she slowly ventured around the bin. As the footsteps got closer and the shadow of the person was in her sight, the brunette raised her sword, ready to attack, only to stop at the sight of Clarke stopping right in front of her.

"Octavia. Y/n." Clarke pants out as Octavia spun around with a clenched jaw. "You both stayed."

"Screw you. Of course we stayed. We know where our loyalties lie." Octavia snaps.

"We have to get in there." Clarke states, beginning to walk past her.

Octavia grabs her arm, stopping her. "If that was possible, do you think we'd still be out here?"

In the corner of her eye, Y/n watched Octavia grip her sister's arm as she turned her in the direction of the lifeless girl, who they all knew as Fox, laying in the bin in front of them. Eyes widening, Clarke stared at one of her own people before looking up at the brunette, then to her sister who sniffles, rubbing her hand against her nose as she steps back from the bin, their eyes making contact with one another's.

"Why did Lexa sound the retreat?" Y/n asks.

Clarke sighs, getting her arm out of Octavia's grip. "She made a deal with Mount Weather, freed the grounders, and now we're on our own."

The two trailed behind the blonde as she stormed up to the door she hadn't seen in so long. Y/n was quick to rush right to the blonde, pushing her back and away from the door when she slammed her hand against the door as if someone would answer on the other side. Gulping, Clarke spins around, trying to think of another way they could get through that door.

"What about Lincoln?" Octavia questions. "There's no way he would've gone along with a plan like this."

"He didn't. They took him." Clarke replies as she brings her gun up, aiming it at the machine beside the door.

Y/n quickly pushes her hand down. "What's wrong with you?"

"I am getting through that door." Clarke tells her.

"And that's your plan? Bellamy's counting on you. Everyone's always counting on you." Y/n recalls, her narrowed eyes meeting her sister's wide ones.

"Well, what do you want from me?" Clarke asks.

"You trusted Lexa. You let a bomb drop on Tondc. You let all those people--" Y/n lists off.

"At least I didn't purposely kill them!" Clarke exclaims. "And I am doing the best I can!"

"Yeah? Well, it's not good enough." Octavia intervenes, glaring at the blonde right in front of her.

The brunette looks over at the other Griffin twin, seeing she was looking down at her feet, clearly thinking of her sister's words that she had said. Just then, the sound of a beeping caught all their attention as Clarke raised her gun up while Octavia and Y/n grabbed their swords. However, they all felt relief fill them at the sight of Bellamy Blake standing there in front of him. A sigh of relief escaping her, Octavia was the first to step forward as she wrapped her arms around her older brother, feeling him immediately hug back.

As they hugged, Bellamy's eyes met Y/n's e/c ones and when the brother and sister pulled away, Y/n gulped as she wrapped her arms around the boy she thought of as her friend after getting to know him better. Bellamy's arms wrapped around her torso as he hugged her back just as tight, glad she was okay. He was surprised to see her new appearance, the same way he was when he saw his sister's appearance as well.

When they pulled away and the Blake boy walked to Clarke, Y/n felt a smile grow onto her face at the sight of her two friends she had met back when they first landed on the ground with the rest of the one hundred. Monty Green met her eyes as he and Octavia pulled away and the two were hugging one another tightly. The other boy of the duo that had always been together back at their old camp with the one hundred pulled away from Octavia's hug when he turned to the Griffin girl, watching as her and his best friend pulled away. The brown eyes of Jasper Jordan met Y/n's e/c eyes and they both stepped forward, arms hugging each other.

Both Octavia and Y/n stepped back a bit in surprise when a girl in a hazmat suit suddenly stepped out from the door, surprising them. However, they were quick to loosen up a bit when Jasper reassured them that the girl was with them, being introduced to her and learning her name was Maya.

When Bellamy stepped away after him and Clarke finished speaking, Jasper had been the first to rush over to the blonde and wrap his arms around him, causing her to stumble back a bit but she hugged him back with one another, feeling herself smile that the two boys she knew she could trust when she had been in Mount Weather were alright and alive.

Not wanting to wait until the two pulled away from their hug, Monty was right behind his best friend as he wrapped his skinny arms around both of them, meaning to hug Clarke as well as the blonde's other arm wrapped around him. Still hugging them, the blonde's blue eyes met Maya's over the boys shoulders, mouthing a small 'thank you' to the brunette, receiving a nod in reply.

The sound of beeping made Jasper pull away, followed by Monty as the brunette looked over at Maya, rushing over and checking the tank she had attached to her hazmat suit, panic filling him when he realized she had thirty minutes left until she'd run out of oxygen at where they were at the moment.

"Thirty minutes." Jasper mumbles to himself. "And we just changed it. That can't be right. It's her last tank."

Clarke steps forward. "Hey. Uh, we'll find you another one."

Maya shakes her head. "All the supplemental oxygen is on level five."

"Then we have to get you to level five." Jasper declares.

"Five isn't safe for any of us." Maya denies.

"We'll take the trash chute again. It'll work." Jasper assures, determined to give her more oxygen.

"To get in, maybe. Maya's right. Every soldier in this mountain is there." Bellamy intervenes. "We'll never make it out."

"We can do this. We'll split up." Jasper suggests.

Octavia nods, stepping forward. "Okay. You guys go for Dante."

"We'll help Maya." Y/n adds.

Looking to Jasper, who's hands had been shaky nervously, Y/n rests her hand on his shoulder, softly squeezing it as if to reassure him that Maya would be okay before they were venturing past the door, Bellamy being the last one as he closed it up behind them in case if anyone were to come by and see that it was open, and to make sure no reapers would come through and kill them and destroy the mountain.