In Times Of Crisis, Make A Plan

[Nicolette Carmichael]

Today was an important day. It was time for some planning. A plan to get the delinquents out of Mount Weather. It was such an important job, and she was honoured to help out with the planning. She was glad to be able to help. She didn't have a lot of experience with things like planning, other than the stories in her mind, but she hoped that she could come through for Clarke and the others. She wanted to be useful. 

Nic took a deep breath just before she entered the planning room. It was all so official, and she seemed to be one of the first ones there. She wasn't surprised, that was her, always early for everything. So she waited around. Clarke had approached her earlier that day to help with the planning, which had surprised the guard. But Nic accepted readily. It was strange to her, to have Clarke be in a higher position than her, when only months earlier Nic had been in that higher position. How times had changed. She didn't mind. Clarke seemed to be a natural born leader, and she seemed to have grown up a lot while she was down on the ground. In a good way. And now here she was, after escaping from Mount Weather. Crazy, crazy times, Nic thought to herself. 

She spotted the girl and approached her, giving her a small smile, hopefully to lighten the mood just a little. "Hi, Clarke." She paused a moment. "Thanks again for letting me come along." It seemed that their relationship was built on some sort of mutual respect, which seemed to make everything a little bit easier. It meant Nic could easily talk to her, and would just as easily die for her, protect her, because that not only was her job, but with that respect it would be easy, no doubt about it. It was because Clarke was a good leader, from what she's heard and seen. 

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Clarke Griffin

[Clarke Griffin]

Clarke had to be strong. She had to deal with the grounders, with her people and with planning, on top of it Bellamy was inside the mountain, to help, yes, but it could easily tilt and all fall apart. Part of her expected everything to go to hell even. But she tried to hold onto what strength she had left. She was fighting for people. She had a purpose and she hoped to succeed. When it came to the planning, though, things were slightly different. They had maps by now. Highlightes stylized maps of the area, maps of inside the mountain and different perspective. Clarke already knew the Grounders perspective, she had to figure out theirs, though. Which was why she was reaching out to a lot of people. She needed ideas.

This was why she had requested Nic. Nic was clever and was very humane in things. She liked that about her. Clarke would expect her to be analytical and given her handicap, capable of making a plan that would allow them to look out for injured ones. On top of it, she thought Nic might have a perspective towards saving instead of just winning. This had to be their goal: To save as many people as possible instead of just bringing down the mountain. The Grounders had a strong perspective towards that.

“Nicolette. Good that you came.” Clarke smiled at her former guard. “I need your perspective on things." She needed it desperately even. Clarke pointed at the maps. “We need to get in and out. Bellamy is going to disable the most vicious defense mechanisms, but we still need a way in and out, one that we can take with minimal collateral damage.”

Nicolette Carmichael

[Nicolette Carmichael]

Seeing the maps, it really brought home how important it was. Clarke quickly went into business mode, pointing at the map after a brief greeting. She explained what the plan was. Right. In and out. 
Looking at the intricate map she thought. "Well. There would be no point going in through the front. It would be too heavily guarded." She said, staring at the map. There weren't many ways in which they could get into the mountain. It was a bunker after all. There shouldn't be many ways to get in. But maybe... Just maybe that could be the way out, just not in. Though for now she kept the thoughts to herself. They had to establish a way in first. 

Nic knew how important this mission was. This plan HAD to work. They had to get their people out of there. They had to save as many people as possible. The whole situation was a war. But a war they couldn't possibly win in traditional ways. The normal strategies that Nic had read about would not work. This was a very delicate situation, and the wrong plan could unravel it. It could leave all their people dead. Nic couldn't let that happen. And she was sure Clarke wouldn't let that happen either. 

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Clarke Griffin

[Clarke Griffin]

“That depends on the definition of ‘front’.” Clarke pointed out. There were not many ways inside to begin with. Clarke pointed to an entrance. “We consider this one the front entrance and main gate. This” She pointed to the entrance on the mountain top. “Is impratctical anyway. We don’t have many more entrances. The others run through the mines here.” Clarke pointed to all of them, or at least the ones they had record of. Maybe that was not all of them. Actually that was probably not even close to being all of them.

“We want to avoid those a bit. That’s where the reapers are. We could take them on with our guns, though. The question is if we can make a proper move. Bellamy is to release the Grounders inside the mountain, to have part of our army inside already. If everything else fails, we could always provide them with a distraction so they might take down Mount Weather from the inside.” But she thought that to be very risky. What if it didn’t work? What if the distraction was futile and inside everything got discovered and shot down? What if her friends got killed in there? She didn’t want to think about it. “Which entrance would you see our guns taking?”

Nicolette Carmichael