And this is it! The final chapter!

But of course – Is this the end? No… Just the end of season 1

I imagine the sequel will be longer as this took place from halfway through the season whereas the season 2 piece will be from the very beginning. I will do my own version of the seasons but I do enjoy the storylines so of course there will be parts of the series… Just consider it the 100 if it was all about Clexa :')

There's a bit of jumping around in this chapter so I apologise for that but I like to write how I imagine it in my mind and it's all cut into different parts. Still I hope this is a satisfying ending for everyone! More notes at the bottom for you.

Anyway, on with the fic

Disclaimer: I'm at the end yet I still own nothing. What a shock

You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

Tom Petty

Bellamy sighed and looked back at the dropship. They were taking their tunnels to sneak back on the grounders. With any luck the walls would hold long enough for Finn and Raven to close the doors. Maybe they would notice that the 100 had left and would assume the camp was empty. He prayed that was the case, at least then Finn and Raven would have a fighting chance.

The last few bags were being packed and he realised it was time to leave. Bellamy walked through the doors to see Finn leaning over Raven and gently tempting water into her mouth.

"Hey"

They both looked up and Raven smiled, "Is it time?"

"Yeah" He hesitated slightly and tried one last time, "Are you sure you can't come with us?"

Finn smiled at him thankfully, "Thank you Bellamy but… we can't move Raven and I can't leave her"

"Maybe, but if the grounders find you…"

"Then the grounders find us but at least if we stay we might have a fighting chance. Chances are they'll follow you"

He had a point and Bellamy nodded, "Okay well we're still leaving at lot to chance here Finn"

"I know"

And he did. Bellamy could see it written all over his face. He knew as well as the rest of them, heck even Raven knew, that the likelihood of them surviving was next to nothing. But none of them would admit the truth that they knew… they would rather lie to themselves. Just one last time.

Bellamy looked between them and realised how awkward this was. None of them had ever seen eye to eye but now… They might never see each other ever again. He bit his lip not quite knowing what to say but Finn seemed to realise this because he stood up and pulled him into an awkwardly tight hug.

"May we meet again"

He nodded, "May we meet again"

"We will meet again" He lowered his eyes to Raven and smiled appreciatively, "Just stay alive long enough for me to kick your arse"

Bellamy laughed and nodded a goodbye to both. On his way out he passed several others including Jasper and Monty who wanted to say goodbye; he could allow them this moment.

A noise from one of the back tunnels drew his attention and his eyes widened in shock as Octavia appeared followed closely by an unknown figure. Several of the 100 raised their guns but Bellamy's focus was on Octavia who we pulled into a tight embrace.

"You're alive" He gasped out and felt her nod against him.

It was then that the grounder drew his attention, "Who the hell is that?"

Octavia pulled back and stood in front of him, "This is Lincoln, he's on our side, and Clarke is alive"

"Clarke's alive?"

A ripple went through the crowd and Finn appeared at the door followed by Monty and Jasper, "Where is she?"

"She's with Lexa… look it's a really long story"

Finn stormed over, "Who's Lexa?"

"The grounder that stabbed you"

At Bellamy's incredulous look she raised her hands, "She's on our side. She and Lincoln saved my life, Clarke's too, and now she and Clarke are going to try and find a way for our people to coexist"

"Peace talks?"

She nodded and Finn shook his head, "We don't have time to wait. The grounders have gone for the moment but they'll be back and when that happens they'll kill us all"

"That is why we're here" Everyone looked to the grounder, Lincoln, who had spoken for the first time, "There is an ally, Luna, who will keep you all safe until Lexa has everything sorted out here"

Bellamy nodded, "We were going to head there, do you know the way?"

Lincoln nodded, "I can show you but we must leave now"

Everyone moved into position and Bellamy took that moment to pull Octavia to the side, "Raven was shot, we can't afford to move her, so Finn is staying with her here. You need to say goodbye"

Octavia's eyes widened and her mouth parted in shock.

XoXoXoX

Clarke wasn't sure how long they were riding for but it was still dark when they pulled to a stop. Lexa jumped down and assisted Clarke. She looked around her trying to recognise any of her surroundings.

The grounder was pulling her weapon from the side saddle but apart from that there was nothing else on the horse and Clarke watched as she sent it riding off carrying off down a path they wouldn't be taking.

"You think Anya will follow the horse tracks?"

Lexa nodded and sheathed her sword.

"Where are we?"

She indicated to the ground. Clarke looked down to see a crack in the ground beneath them, "We travel underground from here"

"What's underground?"

"Tunnels. Reaper tunnels"

Clarke grimaced and dared to ask, "What's a reaper?"

She hesitated and seemed to struggle with the words, "Pray you never meet one" Was all she gave and Clarke left it at that.

Lexa pushed away the few rocks that blocked the gap and slipped half her body through, "I will call up when it is safe"

Clarke nodded but a loud cracking sound drew both of their attention. For a split second Clarke thought Anya had found them before realising it had come from the sky. Her eyes widened as she watched in awe. It was the Ark. Parts of it were breaking an exploding as it broke through the atmosphere. Clarke watched at it burnt up and soared down to earth blinking in the heat.

She looked down at Lexa whose mouth was wide and eyes equally as she watched it's decent, "Your people"

"They're alive" Clarke breathed.

Lexa nodded, "Clarke we need to hurry"

She shook away the distraction, "Right. Go, I'm ready"

Lexa dropped down and Clarke bit her lip anxiously. She only had to wait a moment for Lexa call back up at her that it was safe and she joined her down in the tunnel.

"It's an old mine" She gasped.

Lexa had lit a torch and frowned at her but didn't ask and she raised her arm to light the way, "We follow this until it comes up at the other side. From there we follow the path made by my people toward TonDC"

"TonDC?"

"My war capitol" She stepped further into the tunnel, "This way Clarke"

Lexa was on edge. Despite the calm and stoic posture of the commander Clarke could see it and it put her on edge too. Lexa seemed to notice this and a dagger from her boot.

"Take this. Just in case" She added at Clarke's fearful look.

She nodded and they continued on in silence with a slight crouch and Clarke felt her grip on the dagger tighten just a little bit.

XoXoXoX

Bellamy stood up front next to Lincoln and Octavia.

"How long do we have?"

Lincoln's gaze kept flickering to the trees, "Not long. If the scouts find us then we will need to hurry"

Octavia's eyes were slightly distant and she was keeping close to this grounder. Bellamy frowned slightly but said nothing. This really wasn't the time and Lincoln was helping them… he hoped.

He looked behind him to the 100. Gunners on the outside were on edge but the few in the middle were getting complacent and their voices were raised too high.

"They're talking to loudly" Lincoln's hiss confirmed his thoughts.

Bellamy sidled up to Monroe, "Tell everyone to be quiet. We're not out of the woods yet"

"Literally" She quirked an eyebrow causing him to smirk but he said nothing and returned to his place beside Octavia and Lincoln.

A snap from ahead of them caused Lincoln to halt their movements with a raised hand, "They're here"

Bellamy raised his gun but he couldn't see anything, "What do we do?"

Lincoln looked around him, "Only a few will make it to Luna"

He understood the meaning. Some would have to stay and become targets for the scouts. The rest would be the survivors. Bellamy's gaze landed on the gunners behind him. He took a deep breath and turned to Octavia.

"You and Lincoln need to take everyone without a gun as fast as you can to Luna"

"No way" She shook her head, "I'm not leaving you"

"Not all of us can make it O and if I can do this to give you and the others more time then I will but please don't fight me on this"

"Bell…" Her eyes flickered over him searching for any words that would convince him but she knew it was pointless… His decision was made and he was right. They needed the time.

Lincoln was watching him over Octavia's shoulder and he called to the grounder, "Look after her"

He gave him a short nod and Octavia flung her arms around him, "At least try and get away?"

"I'll see what I can do" He smirked into her hair and felt her let out a short laugh.

"We'll come and find you… I promise"

Bellamy nodded and smiled just to please her but knew she wouldn't come back. It would be too risky even if Clarke did succeed.

He turned to Monroe and the others, "I need a decent amount of you to stay and help me hold off the grounders for as long as possible but If you want to go then go, I won't stop you, and I can't ask any of you to die for me"

To his surprise more than half of the gunners nodded in approval and moved into a separate group. Miller made to join them but Bellamy pulled him back, "Go with them… I need you to look after Octavia"

He looked at Bellamy as though he was going to argue but decided against it and instead joined Octavia and the rest of the 100.

They were standing in two groups facing each other and Bellamy wondered whether any of them would see each other again. He sighed and held out his hand for Lincoln, "Thank you"

The grounder remained impassive but took his hand none the less.

Bellamy then turned to Octavia, Jasper and Monty, "Go and safe passage on your travels"

"Until our final journey to the ground" Jasper mumbled.

"We're already on the ground" Octavia snorted and Monty bit his lip nodding.

"Then the journey has changed. Now go and survive"

He watched them walk away and tried to fight back the lump in his throat. He wouldn't cry. He wouldn't fall at this final hurdle. He would keep them alive. All of them.

Raising his gun he turned to the trees and cried, "Come on!"

He was met with the roars of the remaining 100 and they waited for the retaliation.

XoXoXoX

Clarke couldn't see anything. The light Lexa was holding was too dim to actually make any difference to the impending darkness of the tunnel. There was no way of knowing who was behind them or what was ahead and Clarke was trying to fight back the feeling at the pit of her stomach. The dark played tricks on your mind, she knew that, but this really was dangerous territory and it didn't help to reassure her that even Lexa was on edge and wary.

There was a sickening squelch under foot and she didn't dare look down to see what it was. She could guess just fine on her own.

"Try to ignore that"

Clarke nodded, "Yeah. Easier said than done"

Silence drifted over them again but Clarke still had so many questions, "How is this going to work?"

"I am taking you to speak with my generals and the other clans, it will need to be agreed but I believe we can discuss and work a way of forming an alliance that suites both our people"

There was another pause and Clarke tried to find a way of forming the right words, "Lexa why… Why do your people fear the reapers?"

She didn't turn around but Clarke could see her body visible tense, "They are a most powerful enemy but none more so than the mountain men"

"What are the mountain men?"

"More questions Clarke" She sounded amused but Clarke didn't miss the avoidance of the question.

They didn't speak after that. The tunnels started to travel downhill and the path became steeper for them to travel on, more often than not Lexa had to assist Clarke over the rocks. The way became narrower and they had to slip between the gaps and breathe in just to fit. Just as Clarke thought claustrophobia might settle in the tunnel opened up into a much wider and readymade section.

She looked to the ground and spotted what she recognised as medal lining the ground.

"Mines" She breathed and Lexa gave her an odd look.

"These tunnels used to be mining tunnels"

Clarke stopped speaking when she realised Lexa had no idea what she was talking about and gave her and apologetic look, "Before the war"

They carried on down the path following the mining track with Lexa's fire leading the way. This section had a much stronger structure about it and it showed yet another part of the other world that had survived the war. She wondered how many paths stretched underground.

Lexa faltered slightly and Clarke looked past her to see the tunnel breaking off into two routes.

"Which way?"

She frowned and nodded.

"Well then what's the problem?"

"That"

Clarke looked up to see where the tunnel turned a corner. A dim glow could be seen in the distance. She felt her body froze and her eyes widened.

"What is that?"

"Reapers" Lexa snarled.

She spun round and through the fire to the ground and stomped it out. Before Clarke could say anything she pulled her down through a gap in the rock face.

They were incredibly close but too much fear was coursing through Clarke's body to find anything intimate about their current situation.

Lexa peered out quickly and then ducked back, "They're heading this way"

"What do we do?"

She bit her lip and looked Clarke directly in the eye, "They'll find us if we stay"

"And if we don't?"

"Then they'll track us"

Clarke sighed in disbelief and pulled her knees up to her chin, "The alliance-"

"Needs you" Lexa finished.

Her eyes widened in realisation at what Lexa was saying, "No" She shook her head.

The grounder smiled in reassurance, "Just follow this path, and head straight, until you come to the top. After that you're only a mile out from TonDC"

"I'm not leaving you" She said defiantly.

Lexa smirked and raised her hand up with the sword and sliced at the back of her hair. She pulled it forward and handed Clarke part of her braid that she had cut off, "Find Indra or Anya and give them this, tell them it's mine and explain the alliance"

She opened Clarke's hand and closed it forcefully around the braid but didn't pull her palms away, "If I don't find you in two days then assume I am dead, help them find the next commander, and save your people"

Clarke shook her head, "I can't-"

"You can" Lexa's eyes scanned Clarke's and she raised her hand to the back of Clarke's head, "Save your people Clarke"

The commander pulled away and rose into a crouched position. The light had increased showing the approach of the reapers. She poked her head out slightly and prepared to leave when Clarke grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

Lexa stared the girl down and growled, "Clarke I have to-"

"No" She said quickly, her eyes flickering over Lexa's, "That's not it"

She didn't wait for Lexa to respond before pulling the other girl down and smashing their lips together. Her hand went up to the back of Lexa's head holding her there but she didn't need to because after a moment of shock she was kissing Clarke back. Her palms resting on Clarke's cheeks. Clarke felt the softness of Lexa's touch and her lips moving against hers ever so gently and wondered why she had waited so long.

It ended too soon. As soon as they had started Lexa was pulling away and making for the break in the wall.

She turned around at the last second at looked at Clarke. Her eyes were swimming in the emotion that the kiss had created but her voice didn't waver, "This is not the end Clarke"

A second later she was out of the gap and running. Clarke pushed her body into the rock face and watched the light come closer along with the sound of screeches and running footsteps. She watched the hoard move past and waited until she was plunged into darkness and could no longer hear their footsteps.

Clarke was still gripping onto the braid and refused to let go as she stood from her place on the ground left the safety of the cave.

Her hand was placed gently against the wall and she followed its path down the tunnel. Her feet tripped against the old mine tracks but she straightened herself up refusing to fall and injure herself now.

Clarke's hand parted from the wall for only a second but the next thing she knew her head collided with something hard and she was crashing against the ground.

Letting out a small cry she looked up expecting to see an unexpected wall, or worse a reaper, but instead she was met with the pure livid face of Anya bearing down on her.

"Sky girl" She snarled through heavy breathing.

There was blood pooling from her left shoulder and she was covered in mud. Clearly they had put up a fight much to the displeasure of the grounder.

Her arms reached down and grasped Clarke by her shoulders. She dragged her arm to her feet and pressed Clarke up against the wall.

"This is your fault"

"No" Clarke protested trying to raise her hand with the braid in it up, "You have to listen to me I know the commander"

Anya barked out a laugh, "The commander is far from here… I will believe no more of your lies"

She dropped one hand to her side and pulled out a knife. Anya pressed it against Clarke's neck, "I'll try not to enjoy this"

"Wait" Clarke spluttered and coughed, "I'm telling the truth look"

Anya spared a glance down to Clarke's hand and her eyes flashed in realisation, "Lexa gave it to me"

Her hold didn't loosen but she did look at Clarke for longer, her eyes scanning her face, and trying to look for any signs that she was lying. Clarke bit her lip anxiously waiting for Anya to make the decision. Only she never made it.

The arm against Clarke's throat slackened and a second later Anya had crumpled to the ground unconscious.

She looked up expecting to see Lexa or Lincoln standing there.

Instead she was met with the face of a gun.

She couldn't even process the dart entering her neck nor the figure standing before her in a full blown body suite before she too was rendered unconscious.

XoXoXoX

"Come on!"

Octavia didn't dare look back over her shoulder to see if the grounders were following. Instead she allowed Lincoln to lead as their pace sped up, desperate to get away from the scene before the fighting began.

"How far is it?"

Lincoln's arms were pumping but he was clearly slowing down to try and keep at her pace, "Far. We need to get out of the Trikru land first before we even reach Boat people territory"

She nodded. They would be safe if they could just get out of the woods.

Octavia was sure they had only been running for a moments before she heard the scream. Whipping her head round she watched one of the 100 fall to the ground.

"They're here" She raced forward to her fallen ally but Lincoln pulled her back just as Jasper too fell to the ground.

He was closer and Octavia looked him over, there was no visible injury, just a single pink dark protruding from his neck. She frowned and turned to Lincoln who was watching the trees wide eyed as more of the 100 fell to the ground unconscious.

"Who are they?"

"Mountain men" He snarled.

Octavia opened her mouth confused but he threw her over his shoulder instead and she cried out in protest, "Hey! Stop! Put me down"

"I said I would keep you safe"

He ignored her kicking and screaming and ran. Leaving the 100 to their fate. Leaving her friends to their fate.

He just ran. Through the forest and weaving through trees. Lincoln didn't turn back to see if they were being followed and he turn to help any of the 100 that were attempting and failing to follow them. Octavia continued to scream, cry and kick against him but still he did not put her down.

At some point Lincoln decided she was making too much noise because the last thing she remembers before it all went dark was a sickening thud against the back of her head.

XoXoXoX

Clarke's eyes flickered open slowly. Her whole body ached and she bent at an awkward angle.

She attempted to lift her head but she was met with resistance and the feeling of her head crunching against metal. Clarke looked up to see the top of a cage keeping her head pressed down. Her hands gripped through the gap and she tried to shake it but it didn't move. Only shuddered slightly.

Clarke winced and sat up at best she could in the narrow space. In front of her was the cage door and she crawled over to peer out. She wasn't alone.

The walls were lined with cages and through another door more hung from the ceiling and rose up as far as she could see. Her eyes widened and she peered into the cage next to her to spot the mass of another body curled in the corner furthest from her. At the sound of Clarke's approach the face lifted up and Clarke gasped in recognition.

"Anya"

XoXoXoX

My hope is blood on broken glass

A shattered hole, a scattered past

And I can't wake up cause the darkness won't let go

And I can't wake up cause the darkness is taking hold

Everything is lost

And this nightmare's closing in

Everything is lost

There's a some wrong beneath my skin

This is the end... of me

This is the end of me

Jasper looked around at the white walls with eyes widened in fear. His head spun and he looked down at the clean sheets and cold floor beneath him. His face lifted to the door on the other side of the room. He bit his lip and stood on unstable feet.

Walking over her tried to ignore his legs shaking slightly.

There are angels and demons at war inside my chest

The good and the evil are fighting to possess

And I can't stand up as the ground shakes underneath

Lincoln stared down at the unconscious form of Octavia beside the fire and smiled slightly. He would protect her. For Lexa. For Clarke. For Bellamy… For himself.

And I can't stand up as the earth gives under me

Everything is lost

And this nightmare's closing in

Everything is lost

There's a some wrong beneath my skin

This is the end of me

This is the end of me

Jasper peered through the circular window to see another door opposite him in the short corridor. He frowned in confusion as Monty's face appeared but is disappeared once his gaze landed on the sign to the right of his door.

Mount Weather Quarantine

Everything is lost

And this nightmare's closing in

Everything is lost

There's a some wrong beneath my skin

This is the end of me

This is the end of me

Clarke sat back silently in the cage and watched them take another grounder kicking and screaming against their hold. She looked to Anya who was leaning back and staring with unseeing eyes. Most of them in the cages held similar expressions.

She winced and linked her fingers through the nearest holes in the cages.

She had dropped Lexa's braid in the tunnel.

This is not the end Clarke

She smiled lightly remembering Lexa's voice and closed her eyes as the tears leaked out and threatened to spill over.

"This can't be the end of me"

Oh well… Now that was fun. I have to say I love that song so much – title of the fic. I think it really suites the 100.

So that's the end of this :'( but not for the whole thing! Da daaa... I know exactly where I'm going with this so please bear with me :)

Anyway I hope it's a satisfying ending to the fic and this was officially the longest chapter yet – yay

Review? Let me know what you think?

Thank you all for keeping with this and giving it the love that it has received so I thank you all xxxx