Octavia comes back to camp to find the sick trikru being taken away. Octavia is confused and angry, and especially riled up when she sees that her brother is just letting this happen. She shouts at him, asks what’s the matter with him, why he’s doing this? Big brother, why?
She’s devastated.
Bellamy tells her to stop yelling, because if people know how opposed to Pike she is, she could have a target on her back. Octavia a) isn’t afraid of a target, good luck to them b) isn’t done yelling so she leads him to a room to talk privately. Bellamy tells her that it’s time to stop playing Grounder, and she is sad to hear him thinking like that again. This is who she is. It’s not just a phase, and he has to get used to it. She’s sad more than mad, I think, because where is the brother who understood when she said she had to leave? Where was the brother who said he understood but that she was always welcome? That with him, she was home? Surely he didn’t die at Mt. Weather with Gina. Surely he’s still in there somewhere.
But there’s no time to find him now. Because Octavia isn’t really leading him to a room where she can tear him a new one; she’s leading him to Clarke.
Clarke’s first order of business is to tell Bellamy to lay off Octavia. She won’t stand him being mean to her lil floorbaby. But before she can get to any other points on her list, Bellamy sasses the “mighty Wanheda” which seems like poor planning on his part. Clarke says that she got revenge on Ice Nation for the attack on Mt. Weather, that the fighting is over. But Bellamy isn’t sure she gets to decide that.
Clarke says, “We did our part.” So used to being a “we” already that she’s surprised by Bellamy’s eyebrow. “Lexa and I.” They started something new; they found a way to live together, and Pike ruined everything like some kind of Ryan Murphy.
Clarke says if Arkadia doesn’t work with her to make things right, Lexa will watch them all burn.
Clarke asks, “You want a war? You’ve got a war. But who are you fighting for?” Bellamy says they’re already at war and that they have been all this time. Clarke tries, she really tries, to get Bellamy to see that Pike is the problem, that he’s just being reactive and that he’s backing the wrong horse. That he’s better than this. Bellamy says this is who he is. He followed Clarke and Octavia on a path to learning to live in peace with the Grounders, but that he’s done trusting them now.
Clarke tries to appeal to his hero complex, saying that she needs him; she needs the guy who wouldn’t let her pull the lever in Mt. Weather alone. But Clarke left that guy, and that guy’s gone. Bellamy then puts the nails in his own coffin by throwing everything in her face: The missile, the deal with Lexa and how it backfired, the Mt. Weather Melting…he says that people die when she’s in charge.
Clarke has no words to defend herself. Everything he said was true. All she can say is, “I’m sorry.”
She’s sorry for leaving, but she figured it was fine because Bellamy was there. She’s realizing now how wrong she was. Bellamy sits down next to her and holds her hand. She says they can fix this, but she’s wrong. He cuffs her to the bed she’s sitting on.
