unity day; ❛ RULES ❜ ↷ the hundred
❝ you deserve some fun ❞

To say that Marcus Kane was an absent father would be the understatement of the century. He was never home often, even before his wife's death. But after signing her life sentence, he couldn't bear to look his own daughter in the eyes anymore. He tried to mask it all by mentioning her choice of friends and the rumors about her sleeping around with a few cadets. By judging everything she did. Truth is, it was all just to hide the huge amount of guilt in the pit of his stomach. Unfortunately, his daughter didn't see that. How could she? He never showed any trace of guilt or gave her comfort. Every time she looked at him, she only saw hatred burning in his eyes, not knowing that it was hatred for himself. Because of what he did and what he kept doing repeatedly: pushing her away even more every time he opened his mouth and told her how big of a disappointment she was. He didn't even think about the fact that he would never see his daughter again after she got arrested so he didn't hold back when they reached her cell.

"You really think mom would be so delighted by her beloved husband arresting his own daughter?" Gabriella asked bitterly, still shaken up about what happened a few hours prior but she didn't let him see that. Turns out the guard was in his office when she and John burned it so they were not locked up for just arson, murder too. "I guess you finally found the perfect excuse for getting rid of me. The useless daughter of the well-respected council member, Marcus Kane, getting floated for setting a guard's office on fire with him in it." She rolled her eyes and deadpanned. "Scandalous."

"After your mother's arrest, you have been acting like nothing more than a spoiled brat." Her father growled in anger and ignored her harsh words, "Spending time with delinquents and breaking the rules, making me have to bail you out, just so you can get attention. But now? There's no going back from this. You acted out of impulse and anger. You let it control you. So now you are going to have to face the consequences. Believe it or not, I am doing you a favor."

The teenage girl scoffed in disbelief which was followed by a cold chuckle. "Doing me a favor? You're sentencing me and my best friend to death, just like you did to mom. Do you even know why she was arrested?" When he responded with nothing but silence she pointed an accusing finger at him. "Of course not because you never bothered to ask. You just led her straight to that chamber and floated her. She was pregnant you selfish piece of shit-"

"That's enough. Gabi-" Kane scolded only for her to glare at him even harsher at the use of the nickname.

"Don't call me that! If you really wanted to do me a favor, you would turn around, leave, and never come back."

"What happened to you? How did such a joyful and selfless child turn into this?" Her father asked, but not with disgust. He was genuinely confused and was wondering when exactly he had failed her. In his eyes, killing her mother was his duty as a member of the council.

"Her father killed her mother. So I guess it's your fault that she died that day too." Her words were cold and void of any emotion.

Kane stared at her for a moment, trying to keep his emotions at bay before swallowing them down and speaking up with an authoritative tone, "The two guards in front of your cell will take you to Earth Skills once a month, I expect you to be on your best behavior."

"And if I refuse? What are you gonna do? Float me twice?"

Her father did not dare to look her in the eye and just turned around, making his way to the door, the teenage girl yelling after him.

"Go fuck yourself, Kane."

-

It has been a week since Gabriella, Clarke, and Bellamy brought guns back to camp. For the time being, everything had been going pretty smoothly. Bellamy and Miller have been leading most training sessions because they were the only ones who knew how to properly use them. Gabriella did not need that much help but Bellamy still insisted on helping her so that was what the two had been doing in their spare time.

Since the grounder escaped, the security around the walls has been bigger and more secure. They could not risk a grounder attack this close to winter.

And winter coming also meant one thing: Unity Day. Gabriella only realized it the day before, when Raven asked her to help her set up the projector connected to The Ark. Unity Day also made another thing come to her mind. Murphy's birthday passed and she did not even notice. It felt weird not having him around and there was a lot of time that she spent trying not to break down. Today only made it worse. Gabriella had not really enjoyed going to the Unity Day celebrations before she met Murphy and the three times she went with him were one of the best days of her life. Before that, skipping Unity Day has been a thing she has been doing with Sam annually.

"My friends, this is a history Unity Day. Every year, we mark the moment our ancestors of twelve stations joined to form The Ark, but this is the last time we do so while aboard her. Next year, we will be on the ground."

"Right." Miller rolled his eyes, tuning out the rest of Jaha's speech. "After we did all the work. Someone shut him up."

"You shut up Miller." Raven shot back, "No one's forcing you to watch."

Gabriella chuckled at her remark and nudged her shoulder slightly, receiving the same gesture in return.

"Whoo! Yeah! Monty strikes again!"

The group of delinquents stopped listening to the speech and turned their attention to Jasper carrying a barrel of what Gabriella immediately knew was Monty's moonshine. The teenagers immediately started cheering when they realized they would be getting alcohol and a chance to get drunk before The Ark came down.

"Call this batch 'Unity Juice'. Who's thirsty?" Jasper yelled to the whole camp and Gabriella watched the teenagers circle around the table Jasper put the barrel down on. She knew it would get messy there for a while so she decided to head there later and walked over to Clarke.

"No Unity Juice for you, Princess?" She asked sarcastically, already knowing her best friend and alcohol did not mix well at all.

"Hilarious." Clarke chuckled and shook her head, "Why aren't you getting some moonshine? Don't you like, live for that stuff?"

"Oh, I do." Gabriella shrugged, "Monty promised to save me some for later so I wouldn't have to push through ninety wild teenagers to get to it. After that, I'll drink until someone is hot enough to hook up with."

Clarke hummed thoughtfully, "Nice."

"And you?"

"What about me?" The youngest Griffin asked innocently clueless like always when it came to those topics. Guys stuck to her like flies to poo, but she remained oblivious and uncomfortable any time a guy gave her attention.

Gabriella scoffed and nudged their elbows together with a suggestive wiggle of her eyebrows. "Did you get any after Rapunzel?"

Clarke's eyes comically widened and a faint blush tinted her cheeks as she stuttered, "N-no."

"Well then, Princess." The Kane girl wrapped her arm around her best friend's shoulder loosely, "You need a rebound and you need it fast."

"And who would that be?"

"Someone like Bellamy." Gabriella suggested bluntly, "Finn hates him and it will definitely make him jealous. Plus, I heard he likes to sleep around."

Clarke squints her eyes at the fellow blonde, "I thought you were the one that was supposed to sleep with Bellamy?"

Gabriella almost choked on air and her eyes went wide. "I don't know what you're talking about. Besides, I'm not sleeping with a guy that slept with that many girls. He brags about it too much for me to find it attractive."

"Are you calling him a manwhore?" Clarke chuckled in disbelief, gaping at the older girl.

"I never called him a man. His mentality is way too low for him to be considered one."

Both girls laughed at her words when Wells came out of the dropship and walked straight toward the duo.

"What's up, Charming?" Gabriella asked, giving him a sarcastic grin.

Wells gave her a small smile in return before asking hesitantly, "Mind if I borrow Clarke for a second?"

Gabriella looked between the two for a second before mouthing the words "rebound sex" to Clarke, not really caring if Wells noticed or not, and starting to walk away but not without yelling over her shoulder. "Use protection, kids!"

-

"Hey, boys "

Monty and Jasper grinned at the sight of Gabriella approaching them with a grin on her face, her attention mostly on Monty. "You got the stash, Mont?"

He nodded and pulled out a jar, giving it to her with a smile, "I've got a whole barrel for you, Bellamy and Clarke. So, in case you need more, you know where you'll find me."

"Thanks." She smiled and opened the jar of moonshine. She took a sip from it and smiled at the familiar burning in her throat. Nothing beats Monty's moonshine.

"You enjoying Unity Day, Queenie?" Jasper asked sarcastically, throwing a few berries into his mouth with his usual grin.

"You know I'm not." Gabriella chuckled, "Unity Day sucks."

"Why does Unity Day suck?" Monty asked, looking between the two, feeling as if he was missing out on an inside joke.

"Her dad forced her to be in the Unity Day pageant when she was like seven." Jasper said, chuckling to himself at the thought, "She never went to one after that until three years ago. She is practically traumatized."

"And seeing the council all standing together like that after knowing how many people they killed makes me sick in my stomach. Plus, it's basically an excuse for the council to get drunk off their asses without anyone being able to say anything about it." Gabriella added, downing her entire drink and passing the jar over to Monty so he could fill it up with more moonshine.

"Yikes." The Green boy muttered, "That got dark fast."

Gabriella shrugged while Jasper snorted and said, "Well. daddy issues usually lead to having little to no respect for authority. So, it's probably that."

"God, you're an ass." The blonde said, pushing Jasper's shoulder back, "Why don't we move over and you can tell us what's up with you and Octavia? You have been avoiding her since the whole camp got high on nuts so you must've done something stupid."

"Okay I'll tell you but you can't tell anyone." Jasper said, giving her a stern look.

"I swear on my father's grave." Gabriella said solemnly and took the newly filled jar of moonshine from Monty while putting her free hand on her heart,

"Your dad is not dead." The goggle-wearing boy deadpanned, squinting his eyes at the shorter girl.

Gabriella sighed dramatically, "Let a girl dream, JJ."

Monty looked between his two friends with a grimace on his face. "You guys are so weird."

Ignoring his words, Jasper took a deep breath, "I told Octavia I loved her while I was high on jobi nuts."

Gabriella had to cover her mouth to keep herself from laughing, "Oh, I'm so sorry."

"Why do you immediately assume she rejected me?" Jasper said defensively.

Monty scoffed, answering instead of Gabriella, "Because Octavia is way too nice to actually reject one of her friends, so of course she'll choose the option of ignoring you instead."

"What he said." Gabriella agreed, pointing to Monty. Out of the corner of her eye, Gabriella noticed Bellamy standing in the corner and looking around so she turned to her two friends. "I'll see you two later."

Both of them already saw where she was looking and shared a look before smirking simultaneously. They watched as she turned around, Monty yelling after her, "Have fun!"

"But not too much fun!" Jasper added.

Gabriella rolled her eyes, flipped them off over her shoulder, and skipped over to Bellamy, who did not have a drink in his hand (much to her surprise) but was eating an apple. "Hey, stranger? What are you doing?"

Bellamy had to do a double take when he saw it was her walking over and not a random girl who was drunk off her ass. At the sight of the familiar blonde, his face lit up into a grin almost instantly. "Having fun yet, Bambi?"

Things between the two have been slowly going okay. They rarely talked unless they had to but Gabriella did not avoid him like the plague either. She figured that he was not the worst person in the world. And them constantly fighting was not good for the morale.

"Yeah." She nodded, "You are the one sulking in the corner of the camp and watching a bunch of teenagers get drunk like a creep."

"I'll have my fun when the grounders come." Bellamy said and took a bite out of his apple.

Gabriella rolled her eyes. "Come on Freckles. The actual adults are coming down soon, which means this is probably the last time we get to do something like this. And you're single, in a camp with a bunch of hot girls, some of whom actually turned eighteen after we came down so they're legal. Just use your chance while you still have it."

Bellamy stared at her for a few moments, an unfamiliar feeling in his stomach. Before he had the chance to say something back Clarke walked over.

"Hey. The comms are still dead. They cut out during the pageant." She informed them, stepping by Gabriella's side with a somewhat disappointed expression.

"Best Unity Day ever." Bellamy said sarcastically, the bored look on his face returning almost instantly once Clarke entered the conversation.

Gabriella hummed with a nonchalant look on her face. "It's not like we are really missing anything interesting."

The co-leaders shared small smiles and turned their attention to the partying teenagers. They finally started working well together. Their day trip made all three of them closer. The blondes finally saw a more vulnerable side of him and realized that he was not just a power-hungry jerk and he realized that their lives in Alpha Station were not as perfect as he thought.

"Do you really think now is a good time to be having a party? I mean, the grounder is out there." Clarke asked them, clearly still on edge.

"Grounders." Gabriella corrected, drinking more moonshine, "He is probably home by now - if he even has it - and maybe even informing his army about where we are and they will come to kill us any second." Seeing the freaked-out look on Clarke's face, Gabriella snorted, "Relax, Princess. I'm kidding. We've got security covering every possible hole in the walls and there are more people guarding everything than before." Clarke let out a sigh of relief and Gabriella smirked slightly as she remembered Wells dragging her away earlier, "Where's lover-boy?"

Bellamy laughed at Clarke's confused face and nudged Gabriella's shoulder slightly. "I think you're gonna have to clarify which one, Bambi."

"I'm not having girl talk with you." Clarke said, giving Bellamy a deadpan look, crossing her arms over her chest in defense.

Gabriella's eyes widened in excitement and she almost let out a squeal, "Wow, I had no idea you would actually listen to me! You slept with Jaha Junior!"

The Griffin's eyes widened at the loudness of her voice and slapped her forearm while hissing, "I didn't sleep with him! It was like one kiss a few days ago but can we please not talk about this right now."

Bellamy whistled lowly in amusement, receiving the same glare from Clarke, that Gabriella got just seconds ago.

"You know what?" Clarke glared between the two, "I'm gonna go get a drink."

Gabriella chuckled, giving her wrist a slight squeeze, "Go and have some fun. You deserve it."

Nodding to herself, Clarke started to walk away only to stop before she got too far and turned around with a knowing glint, "So do you two by the way."

"I'll have my fun when the grounders come." Bellamy repeated what he said to Gabriella, making her roll her eyes. Clarke shook her head with an amused laugh and walked away.He took another bite of his apple and watched Gabriella down the jar of moonshine "What you were saying earlier? What am I supposed to do? Just grab some girl, throw her over my shoulder, get her drunk, then take her back to my tent?"

"Yeah." Gabriella shrugged and looked down at her empty cup with a slight pout, already feeling tipsy.

Bellamy stared at the side of her face for a moment before throwing what was left of his apple on the floor and literally throwing Gabriella over his shoulder, making her squeal in surprise. "I didn't mean me! Put me down. Bellamy!" Ignoring her protests, he carried her to a log at the other corner of the camp. Gabriella started punching his firm back when he ignored her and just laughed to himself, "Bellamy, I swear to god!"

Surprisingly, her words were followed by a giggle when Bellamy spun her around slightly, which made her stop punching him. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘥. She laughs loudly or snorts inappropriately but she never giggles. She did not like the effect Bellamy started to have on her so she decided to internally blame it on the moonshine.

Bellamy put her down and gave her a second to fix her now completely messy hair before he sat down on the log. The blonde sent him a glare before sitting down next to him with her hands crossed over her chest. The freckle-faced male chuckled at her pouting, making her glare at him again. "You know this isn't gonna work right? You're trying to woo me with your whole bad boy act but jokes on you, that's not my type."

(That was exactly her type.)

"Come on, Bambi." He nudged her with a flirtatious smirk, "Lighten up. I never asked you to sleep with me."

"It's not like you had to." The blonde returned the smirk, "I know I'm hot, but you could at least make the flirting less obvious."

He opened his mouth to defend himself but did not know what exactly to say so he changed the topic of the conversation, remembering how he actually did not know anything about her besides that she was a Kane who hated her father, why she hated him and that's she was a stubborn, know-it-all engineer with a big mouth. He wanted to know more, so he simply asked, "So why did you get arrested? I never asked and, shockingly, I never heard anyone talk about it."

"I killed someone." She said bluntly, resting her head in the palms of her hands that were set on her knees. Bellamy stared at the side of her face, not knowing if she was lying. He knew she was not the most reasonable person and that she had a short temper but he did not think she'd kill someone, at least not on purpose. He was not judging her, though. He would be a hypocrite to do so. And he knew she had her reasons.

"Me and John set fire to the chambers of the guard that arrested my mom and his dad." Gabriella clarified, "But we didn't know the guard was still inside."

"That's fucked." Bellamy grimaced.

The blonde nodded and chuckled, "Well, I would have gotten floated the day they sent us down here anyway. The murder was an accident but I still committed arson. When you fully think about it, the council screwed me over. They could have killed me quickly up there but instead, they sent me to a radiation-soaked planet where I will die anyway because they never bothered to know if anyone survived or not."

"Wait, you turned eighteen when we landed?" He asked, his eyebrows raising in surprise.

"Yup." She grinned in fake enthusiasm."Happy birthday to me."

Bellamy was going to say something else when Wells Jaha came running up to them, panting a little bit.

"What do you want, Charming?" She asked, her eyebrows furrowing. She was confused about why he would want to talk to her willingly. She thought they made their mutual dislike towards each other pretty clear.

"I-- uh, need to talk to you about...something." He looked at Bellamy for a second before back at the blonde, "It's urgent."

Gabriella huffed and looked at Bellamy, getting a shrug from him as okay for her to leave before she got up and followed Wells to a private corner of the camp where Clarke and Finn were already waiting.

Noticing the terrified look on her best friend's, Gabriella immediately thought the worst, looking between the trio when she and Wells got close enough. "Holy shit are you pregnant?"

Clarke's eyes widened at the words and she blinked at the fellow blonde in shock while Finn squinted his eyes in confusion, "What?"

"I'm not pregnant." Clarke said as if it was the most obvious thing ever. And it was because all teenage girls got implants at sixteen to make sure they would not get pregnant at a young age and the delinquents were not any different. Gabriella, though, was always the one to think the worst and that was one of the worst possible things that could happen to any teenager that was on the ground without any real medical help.

"Wells and I set up the meeting with the grounders." Finn said, making Gabriella's confusion fade into annoyance.

"You two did what?" She hissed in disbelief, crossing her arms over her chest. She could not believe the two would be dumb enough to set up a meeting with people who attacked them multiple times. Especially on Unity Day. The holiday meant nothing to her but it meant something to most of the kids in the camp.

"We followed Octavia who was meeting the guy Bellamy tortured In the dropship, his name was Lincoln." Wells started only for Gabriella to cut him off.

"Wait, he speaks English?"

"That's not important right now." Clarke interrupted, "They arranged for the two of us to meet with their leaders to negotiate peace between them and our people."

"You really think that's a good idea?" Gabriella asked, surprised her best friend would be up for a meeting with the people who almost killed Wells.

Clarke bit her lip and shrugged, "I think we should see where that goes..."

"Seriously?" The Kane girl scoffed, "What if they attack one of us again? We have no way to contact The Ark anymore. I can name you a hundred reasons why we shouldn't do this."

"Ella please." Clarke pleaded, "This is the only way the war between us won't escalate even further than it already has."

Gabriella narrowed her eyes at the two boys on either side of Clarke and let out a sigh, "Okay, but we're bringing guns."

"No." Finn was quick to shake his head, "We're not bringing backup. Those weren't the terms. If we're gonna do this, we have to give it a fair shoot."

When Gabriella met Clarke's eyes again she saw something familiar flash in them. She had a plan. She always had a plan.

"Fine." Gabriella gave in, "We'll meet you at the gate later, I have to talk to Clarke for a minute."

Wells and Finn looked at Clarke who was still looking at her fellow leader and reluctantly walked away.

Once the boys were out of earthshot, Gabriella flashed Clarke a small smirk, "So we're bringing backup?"

"We're bringing backup."

-

The two blondes found Bellamy walking around camp, looking around the spread-out drunk delinquents. He was always trying to take care of everyone.

"Bellamy." Gabriella called, making him stop walking and turn back at them, "We need to talk to you."

He gave them a coy smirk, his eyes lingering on Gabriella just a moment too long (enough to have her roll her eyes so his attention would not be brought to her flushed cheeks). "Having fun yet, Blondies?"

"Not now." Gabriella scolded him for his flirting as she and Clarke stood on either side of him, "It's serious."

"It always is..." Bellamy huffed, rolling his eyes and putting his hands on his hips, "so talk."

"Finn and Wells set up a meeting with the grounders." Clarke announced, "The two of us are leaving to talk to them."

"Because you figure that impaling people on spears is code for 'let's be friends'? Have you lost your damn mind?" Bellamy glared between them, in disbelief that they would even give this meeting a second thought after everything that happened since the hundred landed on Earth.

"It won't be that bad if we have backup." Gabriella told him, "That's where you come in."

"We have to live with these people." Clarke added, trying to get him to give in but Bellamy still had his doubts.

"They'll probably gut you." He said bitterly, his dislike for grounders evident in his tone, "String you up as a warning."

"By backup, I meant guns." Gabriella clarified, "To be exact, you, and whoever you choose to bring will be right behind us, carrying guns. We need you to cover us the entire time. And I trust you enough to not let us die."

Bellamy's expression slightly softened and he tilted his head, "Do Finn and Wells know about this?"

"They don't need to know."

-

As Gabriella, Clarke, Wells, and Finn walked further and further into the woods, Gabriella felt herself quickly sober up. She was clenching her first around the knife in her jacket pocket the whole way through the woods in case a grounder or more tried to ambush them. She knew it was not likely it would do too much damage but it made her feel safe enough.

"I'd love it if you were right about this, but did you ever consider it might be a trap?" Clarke asked, holding onto Gabriella's wrist so she would not start freaking out even more than she already was. The slightly older girl did not mind the gesture. Surprisingly, the knowledge that the other was not too far away kept both of them grounded.

"Yup," Finn says nonchalantly, making both of the blondes glare at the back of his head harshly, "but since it's Unity Day, I decided to have hope instead."

Wells' silent grunt of pain made Clarke snap her attention to him and stop walking to walk up to him. She walked over to him, ignoring obvious jealousy radiating off of Finn, and looked at him in concern. "Let me take a look at that."

He nodded and unzipped his jacket to lift up the hem of his shirt to reveal the still obvious wound. Clarke frowned deeply at the sight and looked up to see Wells watching her intently and held eye contact with him for a moment.

Gabriella whistled to herself in amusement, enjoying seeing Finn uncomfortable at the sight. Clarke shook herself out of the small trance and pulled his shirt back down, allowing him to zip his jacket back up.

She turned to give Finn a glare, "Seriously, Finn. You're putting a lot of faith in a guy who stuck a knife in Wells."

"And you're sounding more and more like Bellamy. Both of you are." Finn said in disappointment, shaking his head at his former one-night stand.

"And that's bad, why?" Gabriella could not help but ask, "All the three of us have done is keep people alive. Including Bellamy. So how about you stop whining so we can get this meeting over with."

With another glare thrown in Wells' direction, Finn started walking in front of them. The two obviously had some tension between them which came from both of them having romantic feelings for Clarke but besides that, they had the same priorities. Gabriella was definitely Team Wells. He always loved her and his loyalty always lied with her. Finn, on the other hand, took her virginity and made her believe she was the most special girl in the world for him when he actually had a girlfriend on The Ark. Finn was just mad that Wells never messed up as badly as him.

Clarke gave Gabriella a look which she received a nod at, before dragging Wells to follow behind Finn. Gabriella made sure none of the boys were looking back before throwing some jobi nuts on the ground to help Bellamy to know which path they took.

-

The sun had finally risen when the group of four finally made it to the bridge where the meeting was supposed to be held. Gabriella was surprised to see Octavia waiting for them, not realizing how she did not notice her sneaking out of camp. Other than the Blake sister, the bridge was empty which meant the grounders were not here yet.

Octavia let out a sigh of relief when Gabriella came into view and did not hesitate to wrap her arm around her neck to tackle her into a hug. The blonde wrapped her arms around the younger girl's waist, "You're an idiot for sneaking out and not telling me you know that, right?"

"Sorry." Octavia apologized sheepishly when they pulled away, but she did not look that apologetic. She was slowly getting the freedom she always wanted due to the fact that her brother finally gave her space and stopped breathing down her neck.

"So that's how you set this up." Clarke realized with a short huff, "You helped him escape didn't you?"

Octavia sighed and looked at Clarke solemnly, "I trust him, Clarke."

"There's a lot of that going around." Clarke muttered, giving Finn a side glare, which he tried his hardest to avoid by looking at the other side of the bridge.

He let out a short gasp, his eyes widening. "Someone's coming."

All of them turned around to see the same grounder Bellamy and his boys locked in the dropship run across the bridge and straight to them, Octavia running straight into his arms to envelop him into a hug. Gabriella's eyes widened and realization flashed across her features at the way they were looking at each other.

"Oh."

The grounder, Gabriella learned was called Lincoln, soon looked up to lock eyes with the two blonde leaders. He gave Gabriella a slight now and his lips twitched into a ghost of a smile, recognizing her as the girl who yelled at the guy that captured him. His eyes soon shifted towards Clarke and his expression turned blank again. Clarke's eyes shone in fear and she took a step back only for Gabriella to grab her wrist and pull her back to whisper, "It's gonna be fine."

Gabriella turned her head to the side subtly, noticing three familiar figures behind the threes.

Bellamy, Raven, and Jasper.

She made eye contact with Bellamy, who was already watching her, and gave him a small nod, which he returned.

Her attention was soon torn away from the trio when three horses came into sight at the other side of the bridge. There were two warriors on the black horses, while a woman was on the brown horse between them.

"We said no weapons." Wells was quick to turn to Lincoln, noticing the two warriors had different weapons.

"I was told there would not be." Lincoln sighed, giving the two blondes an apologetic look.

Clarke shrugged, gripping the strap of her backpack, "It's too late now."

Gabriella tugged on her best friend's wrist, starting to walk forward, Finn and Wells hot on their heels only to stop when Lincoln blocked their way. "They go alone."

Clarke gave them a reassuring look, "We'll be fine."

"Clarke..."

Finn was cut off by Clarke turning away from him with a determined look on her face, "It's time to do better."

The two female leaders of the delinquents made their way to the middle of the bridge, meeting the supposed leader of the grounders.

The grounder woman looked at them up and down slowly, before focusing her attention on Clarke, "Your name is Clarke?"

"Yes."

Her attention cut to Gabriella, "And you are Ella?"

Gabriella refused to speak for now and gave her a short nod.

"I'm Anya."

As always, Clarke was the well-mannered one and removed her hand from Gabriella's to extend it to Anya.

When Anya did nothing but stare at it blankly, Clarke let her hand fall back by her side, deciding to start the negotiation first, "I think we got off to a rough start, but we want to find a way to live together, in peace."

"I understand." Anya drew out, intimidating both girls a bit, "You started a war that you don't know how to end."

"What?" Gabriella furrowed her eyebrows and spoke without a hint of hesitation, "We didn't start anything. You attacked one of our own when we landed for no reason--"

"No reason?" Anya cut off, raising her voice slightly, "The missiles you launched burned a village to the ground."

Realization dawned on both blondes, Clarke being the one to speak this time, "The flares? No, that was a signal meant for our families. We had no idea--"

"You're invaders. Your ship landed in our territory."

Gabriella scoffed, crossing her arms over her chest in defense. "We had no idea anyone was down here in the first place. As far as we know, the last person here died at the end of the world because of radiation. That's the main reason we lived in space in the first place. We didn't know Earth was even survivable until we were sent down here to test it."

"You knew we were here when you sent an armed raiding party to capture one and torture him." Anya glared at them. "These are all acts of war."

Noticing that Gabriella was about to probably make the situation worse, Clarke spoke up instead, "I see your point. That's why we need to put an end to all of this."

Anya studied the girls carefully before speaking again, calmer this time, "Lincoln said there are more of you coming down, warriors."

"The guard, yes." Clarke confirmed, "But also farmers, doctors, engineers. We can help each other, but not if we're at war."

"Can you promise that these new arrivals will not attack us? That they will respect the terms the three of us agree on?" Anya asked, still skeptical.

"No." Gabriella answered instantly, "But we will do anything we can do to stay true to the terms we set today."

"Why would I agree to an alliance that your people can break the moment they get here?"

"Because if you don't then there is a more likely chance our people will attack your people as soon as they come down." The Kane shrugged, "We're doing this to prevent death on both sides."

-

Raven watched as Anya's face flashed with annoyance and anger at whatever Gabriella was saying and commented, "Grounder Princess looks pissed."

Bellamy tilted his head, obviously seeing what she meant, noticing Gabriella was losing patience too, if her clenched fist were anything to go by. "Our Queenie has that effect."

-

"If you fire the first shot, those people coming down won't bother negotiating." Clarke said in an almost threatening tone, "Our technology...they will wipe you out."

"They would not be the first to try." The grounder said coldly.

Gabriella opened her mouth to keep the negotiation going before a familiar shout cut her off.

"Ella! Clarke! Run."

The blondes snapped their heads to look behind them, seeing their so-called backup shooting into the trees. Anya quickly snatched Gabriella's wrist and pulled her knife out, only for someone behind them to shoot her in her left shoulder. Gabriella looked behind her to see Bellamy looking up at her with a worried look on his face and she gave him a nod to assure him she was fine.

"Get down!" Wells shouted but Gabriella ignored him and grabbed her best friend's wrist, running to their side of the bridge as fast as she could.

The grounders around them kept shooting arrows, while Jasper, Raven, and Bellamy were shooting at them and the blondes tried to get to safety fast.

Once the two reached the end of the bridge, Finn grabbed Clarke to check if she was okay and Wells put his hands on Gabriella's shoulders to pull her back behind them. The Kane did not even have time to question his actions when one of the grounders shot an arrow into Lincoln's chest, making Octavia gasp in surprise and worry.

"Oh, my god! Lincoln!" Octavia's eyes widened and she tried to hold his larger body up. "You've been hit."

"It's just a scratch." The grounder assured her, pulling the arrow out.

"Octavia." Gabriella started, pulling Octavia's attention to her, "We have to run."

"I'm not leaving him." The Blake sister said stubbornly, only for Finn and Wells to come on either side of her, the latter saying.

"We need to go. Don't stop until we get to the camp walls."

The two teenagers dragged Octavia into the forest, Gabriella and Clarke already running in front of them, none of them daring to look back.

Somewhere during the run to the camp, Jasper, Raven, and Bellamy joined them but they still did not stop until they got to the camp walls.

Once they finally got there, the trio who had the guns dropped them onto the ground and they all tried to catch their breath from running that long.

Noticing Finn and Wells looking between all of them with judgy eyes, Bellamy glared at them, "You got something to say?"

"Yeah!" Finn snapped, "I told you no guns!"

"Ella and I told you we couldn't trust the grounders. We were right." Clarke snapped back.

"Why didn't you tell me what you were up to?" Raven asked her boyfriend.

"I tried, but you were too busy making bullets for your gun!"

Finn's words made Gabriella's anger increase, "You're lucky she was! If she didn't bring that we would be dead right now!"

"They came there to kill you, Finn." Bellamy added, standing next to Gabriella.

"You don't know that." Wells scoffed, "Jasper fired the first shot."

"You ruined everything." Octavia finally spoke, glaring at Jasper and turning around to walk back into camp.

"I saved you!" Jasper called after her, trying to keep the hurt from showing in his voice, "You're welcome."

Gabriella watched Jasper walk back to camp, his shoulders down in defeat.

"Well, if we weren't at war before we sure as hell are now." Finn said, giving Clarke a desperate look. He wanted her to say she was wrong and side with him. But if he thought that was going to happen, he did not know her as well as he thought he did. "You didn't have to trust the grounders. You just had to trust me."

Clarke gave him a shocked look while the other two leaders simultaneously scoffed in disbelief. Finn shook his head in disappointment again before brushing past the leaders and into camp. Raven gave the engineer of the group an apologetic look before following her boyfriend inside.

"Like I said," Bellamy drawled out sarcastically, "best Unity Day ever."

"Well, it marked something, alright." Gabriella said with an obviously fake grin that instantly dropped at the sound of an explosion in the distance. All four of them turned to the sky to see the exodus ship the council and the guards were supposed to come down with falling from space.

"The exodus ship?" Bellamy squinted his eyes at the brightness, "Your parents are early."

Clarke and Wells shared excited smiles while the frown on Gabriella's face deepened even more. Bellamy placed his warm hand on her shoulder and gave her a worried look. She tried to ignore her anxiety because she knew that she was going to see her father sooner than she would like.

Gabriella looked back at the sky to see the exodus ship going way too fast. "Something is wrong. It's going too fast and there is no parachute."

In a flash, the ship crashed far into the forest, an explosion echoing. Clarke collapsed into Wells' arms, both of them sobbing into each other's shoulders while Gabriella stared at the place where the explosion was in shock, barely registering another warm hand taking place on her shoulder. There was only one thing repeating in her head like a mantra.

Her father was dead.

A/N: here we have some quality bella bonding time where they're not trying to kill each other and gabi enjoying the love triangle that clarke has no idea she's stuck in

this chapter's song is my tears ricochet by miss swift to represent gabi and kane's relationship

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