Forgiveness is Hard for Us

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Who knew that a simple day to day thing could be the very thing that would save Abigail?  While ALIE controlled them, she let them have autonomy in their day to day activities, and it is while going to infirmary (because even without pain they needed to be healed) that she trips.  Perhaps it was fate, perhaps mere luck, but she falls back onto an exposed pipe with a jagged edge that cuts deep into the back of her neck before smacking her skull on it.  For a time Abby is knocked out.  Blood seeps down the back of her neck onto the floor and down into her shirt and with it, the AI.  It takes time as it removes itself, the blood congealing into a black mess, but no one comes down the corridor.  

It takes time to come to reality and not quite a small bit of groaning.  Her head pounds and her neck aches, but more than that, her body feels as if it is on fire and also weighted.  Chestnut eyes stare up at the ceiling as she comes to and slowly she rolls over, dizzy with the loss of blood.  Memories hit her in a rush, everything that had happened since the moment she took the key.  Swiftly she rises, wobbly and stumbling, and she heads directly for the infirmary, pausing long enough to make sure no one is inside.  If anything Abby is efficient, her fear heightening her so that she can think past her pain.  She grabs a bag and proceeds to shove supplies in it, grabbing a large bandage and fastening it on the back of her neck before rolling it all around.  It is uncomfortable but she also couldn't just leave it gaping open.

Then the real flight begins.

Kane!  That is her first thought.  He had been removed from the cross (and now she feels horror where before she had felt nothing) not too long ago and had joined them.  She felt sick, a combination of knowing what she had done and the pain that seemed to radiate everywhere.  She spies him then in the hall on the ground floor.  It is a chore to mask her face into something more bland, a face that fit all who carried the AI.  "Marcus.  Help me with the prisoners.  It is time to see if they will take the key," she says.  It takes skill for her voice not to waver, for her eyes not to blink in a telling manner, but she does not wait to see if he will follow.  She heads out and down the steps to where the prisoners were being held.  The back of her neck seems to prickle knowing he is there, knowing that she had to get him someplace away from the others before she could help him, and one hand remained to her side at all times with a scalpel hidden by her fingers.

The guards stand to attention at the top of the stairs and she doesn't even nod to them as they go down.  She is startled, really, by the number of people inside as she pushes the door open.  Murphy was there and Indra!  And.. Pike.  She stares at him for only a moment before pointing.  "Hold him." Why they needed to hold them, who knew, but she hoped Marcus didn't question, just complied.  She followed him.  Closer, closer, closer, until the moment Marcus was right next to Pike and those metal bars.  Only then did she shove her weight into him to push him against the bars, scalpel swiping across the back of his neck if he holds still long enough.  


(I reckon Marcus should go next so he comes to and then Pike ) 


Marcus Kane
jess

[Marcus Kane]

Marcus no longer had the burdens of hundreds of people on his mind. He was no longer responsible for them. No longer carrying the weight of killing over 300, of sending their children down to die. He no longer carried the weight of knowing that if he failed, then the rest of them could die. A.L.I.E. had given him that peace. "Marcus." He heard a voice call to him, and he opened his eyes, to find Abigail there. Why had she not come to him in the city of light? It was a question that he could heard A.L.I.E. asking too. She could not longer read Abigail, and it was a cause of concern. "Help me with the prisoners. It is time to see if they will take the key," she told him, and Marcus waited until A.L.I.E. told him to go along with it. She wanted to know what had changed, and to see what was happening.

He said nothing, only followed her. The mission was one they were working toward anyway, so A.L.I.E. did not summon the others right away. She just watched, using Marcus' eyes to watch what was happening. "Hold him." She told Marcus, and he again, didn't move until A.L.I.E. told him too. Normally he would feel some guilt at looking at one of his former friends, whom he had turned over to the grounders, but there was nothing in his face as he turned to jess and moved to grab him--only there was where it went wrong.

He felt Abigail push him, and he tried to push back to turn it but it seemed she wasn't the only one holding him! A.L.I.E. was talking to him, demanding he stop her but Abigail had planned this well, and he went from feeling nothing to feeling everything--and it hurt like @&#%ing hell! Marcus' knees buckled, and he fell to the ground as he tried to handle everything he was hit with. Every emotion and physical pain swapped him in an instant. Especially his neck. Blinking up he looked up at her, "Abby?" he said her name, while forcing himself to stand--Marcus Kane would not let weakness show. He looked over at Pike, seeing his once friend chained and beaten. "Charles?"

[jess]

Pike breathed in and out. The pain was searing all over his body, from the cuts Indra implanted on him. His chest was moving up and down slowly. He was trying to take in all the pain without completely breaking. He closed his eyes for a mere second before he opened them again. He watched everyone as they were chained up to the wall. Murphy was chained to the floor. His eyes then moved to Indra as she gave him the stink eye. He quickly looked away hoping she wouldn't walk over to him and place more cuts. He tugged on the chains that were around his wrist but they wouldn't budge. He laid his head back and rested it on the bars. He picked his head back up when he heard footsteps walking in. It was Abby, and Marcus. Abby said something to Marcus as they began to walk towards Pike. His eyes softly widen and even more when Marcus stopped next to him and Abby did the bravest thing. Charles watched as something small crawled out of the back of Marcus's neck. What the hell? Pike thought. Marcus said Abby's name than he looked at Pike. They seemed to be themselves "What's going on?" Pike finally spoke up. He was hoping they would unchain him, that is if they were there to help him

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It took every nerve in her body to leap forth and thrust Marcus against the bars, to lift that scalpel and rake it down his neck not knowing if he would push back and kill himself. A.L.I.E certainly felt no qualms at killing her own people. It seemed, for a second, that this was all doomed. That Marcus would question her, that he would demand to know why she had not come to him in the City of Light, why they were down here. They were on a time sensitive schedule - if A.L.I.E. didn't suspect Abigail yet she soon would, and her fears would be confirmed. So quick as a snake she lashes out, her own body aching and stretching, remembering everything she had been put through since being implanted.

"Marcus," she whispers as he sinks down, the AI draining from him obediently with Pike watching on. No doubt he was confused as to what the hell was happening since Abigail had been demanding everyone take the chip for a while now. Dark eyes flick to him and then back to Marcus, emotions flitting through them. She remembers everything - the way the bullets had slapped into the Rover as Jasper left and Clarke peered out the back in horror. Oh, god, Clarke. "Marcus!" Relief coats her voice as she grabs Kane's upper arm to help pull him up. He was coming to remarkably quickly.

Pike speaks up and Abby lets go of Kane, grabbing the keys that he kept on him. She turns to Pike and begins to unlock his chains while the rest of the prisoners begin to shift around, a low hum that threatens to get louder. "Hush before the guards come running," she chastises them, giving a sharp look to everyone before finishing freeing Pike. He looked awful with cuts all over him but Abby didn't have time to question it before she took off to unlock each and every prisoner.

"We have to get out of here quickly before ALIE realizes what has happened." She does not know, yet, that ALIE already knew, that she always knew it seemed. "I didn't bring any guns. Can you make do Charles?" It was hard to look at him, even now, knowing what he had put them all through.