Faye's eyes never left the wall. She sat facing away from Octavia. She wasn't mad at her, she just wanted to be alone, but they were stuck in this cell together.
"Heh heh." Octavia let out a random laugh as she stared at the ground.
"Something funny?" Faye looked down at her hands. "Because I don't see anything humorous about this." She shook her head.
"I'm smiling because I realized I finally understand you." Octavia said.
"Really? How so?" Faye asked. She turned on the cot to face the brunette across from her.
"You have Madi, I have Hope. I'd do anything to keep her safe." Octavia said.
"How long we're you on Penance?" Faye asked.
"We call it Skyring." Octavia corrected. "10 years. Good ones."
To Faye, Octavia was always the girl from space, parading as a Grounder. A little girl who wanted to grow up a warrior, but now Octavia showed some aging. She looked older than Faye, she seemed to act her age, too.
"What?" Faye asked when she saw her tears.
"A couple of days ago, she was just our little girl. Now she's messed up like the rest of us."
They might have been more similar than either of them realized.
Though Faye had many years with Madi and Clarke, now they felt like short days that she couldn't get back. And both Octavia and Faye were trying to keep them from ending up like them and being where they are now.
Octavia finally understood why Faye kept Madi away from everything.
Faye went over to Octavia's side just as the door was opening. Fay's grabbed her hand as they both turned their heads.
"You need backup to talk to us now?" Faye asked as she looked up at him.
"It's ok." Bellamy looked back at the guards. They walked out and closed the door.
"It's about time. I have been racking my brain, trying to figure out how you telling Cadogan the truth about the Flame helps us. You know what I've come up with? It doesn't."
"I couldn't lie to him."
He also couldn't look Faye in the eyes.
"Really? Why not?" Octavia demanded.
"I had an experience, something that changed me to the core, something that explains why we're still here and where we're going. It came to me in a vision. Mom was there. The Shepard led me to her, and there was a light, and it was beautiful and warm and peaceful, and I chose it, and when I opened my eyes, the storm has passed just like that."
And just like that he forgot who his family was?
"Bellamy—"
"Faye, I—I know how this sounds, but it's real. a war is coming, the Last War we will ever fight. Win it, and we become the light." Bellamy explained just like every other person on this planet.
"Is that what the cult leader told you?" Faye asked.
"Did he tell you what happens if we lose?" Octavia asked.
"We wont."
"We turn into crystal, wiped out like Medusa turning people to stone. It's the end of everything." Octavia said.
"Not everything, just us. If I told you the AI that destroyed Earth was storing our minds in a City of Light, would that be anymore believable? What about a group of astronauts turning themselves into gods by transferring their minds into the bodies of their own followers in order to live forever?"
"Okay. Yes. We've seen our share of crazy, but that doesn't change the fact that fighting some war to become the light is as ridiculous as the clothes you're wearing." Faye said, gesturing to his white robes. What was he, a priest?
"There's one way to find out." He shrugged, ignoring how she was talking to him, like she didn't know him.
"Tell me where the Flame is." He requested.
"No." Faye shook her head.
"Faye, yesterday, you were offering it up in exchange for safe passage." Bellamy reminded her.
"Yesterday, I was bluffing. I made a deal to save my friends, knowing damn well I had no intention of following through with it. Today, I'm standing in front of the man I love, who I thought was dead, and I don't even recognize him."
"Faye, I am the same person who has refused to give up on you. There is so much more at stake here than you know, and I know you don't believe in transcendence, but I'm telling you it's real, and I am asking you to believe in me." Bellamy pleaded.
"Even if you're right, even if everything you're saying is true, I will not help that man start his war."
He looked to Octavia for any sort of help, but these two were finally on the same side.
"Tell me where the Flame is."
"Or what?" Octavia asked.
"Dozens of Disciples are dead, including First Disciple Anders."
"You didn't even know him. And everyone of them had tried to keep us from saving our friends." Fay's pleaded.
"And now I am trying to save you, all of you." Bellamy said. "Faye, if you don't tell me where it is, they will execute all of you. Please let me help."
"Go float yourself." He wasn't listening to reason. He was choosing a man he hardly knew over the two most important people in his life.
He looked back at Octavia but she only turned her back on him, going to Faye's side.
"Guards." The door opened. "Take this one to M-Cap." He gestured to Faye.
"What?" Faye and Octavia said at the same time.
The guards grabbed Faye by the arms and Octavia started to go towards them when Bellamy held her back.
"Bellamy, what are you doing?"
"What I have to do."
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Atlantis
Fanfiction"I'm sorry, I just can't pretend to be something like that." "But you are something. You are Worheda." Faye kom Trikru will have to put her past behind her to save her future and people.
