Everybody Wants to Rule the World

[Nina Eaton]

Nina ran a hand through her hair, wanting to pull it out due to the stress she was currently under. Things were not going how they had all wished for them to go. She was glad that they had found Farm Station, but the celebration hadn't lasted long after Mount Weather had been blown up with almost all of their people inside. It had been a devastating blow to their people and it had not helped ease the tension between their people and the Grounders. Most of the people from Alpha Station were fine with the Grounders, but Farm Station was having no part of them. They blamed them for everything and while Nina understood their anger, she found it unfair to group all of the grounders into one group. Not every grounder was the same. There were different clans and they knew that. So why punish one clan for something a different one did? It made Nina think back to history classes and the groups of people that had been wiped out due to a strong hatred. She wasn't going to let that happen to the grounders, not after everything they had done for them.

She was still pissed over the Mount Weather thing, but that was on Lexa. She knew that some grounders would have stayed to help them if they had been given a choice of leaving or staying. Sure, most of them might have left but they were still people and Nina believed that there were good people in the world. If all of the grounders were so terrible, she doubted that three hundred of them would be sitting outside their walls in case the Ice Nation decided to hit them again. It hadn't gone over well with Farm Station, and that's when Nina began to get worried. It appeared that Pike held the attention of his entire station and she was afraid that something bad was going to happen. She didn't want Pike taking anything into his own hands, especially when they were so close to getting another alliance with the grounders set in stone.

Later on, Nina had been eavesdropping on a conversation between Pike and Bellamy. It had been difficult given the open area so she had been unable to hide, but she had strained to listen as best she could. She didn't get all of it but she got that Pike wanted to go out there and strike against the grounder army. She hoped that Bellamy wouldn't agree to help him, but he had been in such a bad place since the Mount Weather explosion. She didn't know if she could go to her friend anymore so she found herself looking for someone with more pull. If she could stop a massacre, then she sure as hell was going to do that.

Nina rushed through camp, eyes searching for Kane everywhere. She tried to look natural, not wanting anyone to raise suspicions as to what she was doing, but it was difficult given all the red flags going off in her mind. When she spotted him she quickly walked over and got his attention. "Sir, I need to speak with you," she said. Her eyes conveyed the things she didn't dare speak out loud. Panic. Urgency. Worry. She didn't want the wrong person hearing because she knew she would lose any sort of advantage she had. "It's important," she added. Lowering her voice and moving her head more into his personal space. "Regarding Pike."


Marcus Kane

[Marcus Kane]

Marcus Kane had made poor choices before. He had gotten 320 of his own people killed, before he was even Chancellor. He knew about the weight that came with making sure your people stayed alive. He knew the burden of failing them. He also knew that killing only lead to more killing--these were things that he wished Pike understood more. That killing your friends, because of fear, only left you without allies. He could forgive that, but Pike was desperate to hold onto power, and he was willing to do whatever it took to make it happen.

Marcus stood against one of the outer walls of the fallen Ark, and was waiting the happenings inside a building not far from him. He was standing casually, but he knew everyone around him knew that he was spying. Openly spying. He wanted Pike to know that he was watching. "Sir, I need to speak with you," Looking down at one of his---one of Pike's guards, Marcus said nothing. "It's important," Still he said nothing, while be tried to gauge what the girl was up too. "Regarding Pike." But she had his attention.

Pushing from the wall, Marcus gave a single nod, "Not here." She could be a spy, sent to watch him, but he liked to thin he knew which of this form guards were still loyal to him. He wouldn't risk their lives by allowing them to get involved, but he wasn't going to dismiss them and make them feel like they were all alone. So instead he lead her over to an empty fire pit. No one was around them, and talking wasn't a crime (yet) so he sat down on the edge and waited for her to join him. "Before you continue, you should know that just talking to me will have Pike looking at everything you do a bit closer." It was the only warning he would give her. She wasn't a kid, she didn't need him to hold her hand.

[Nina Eaton]

Glad that she had gotten his attention, Nina followed him over towards an empty fire pit and she sat down next to him so the two could talk without anyone eavesdropping. She listened to his warning but gave a curt nod in return. She knew what she was doing. If she was afraid of something happening to her then she would have kept her mouth shut. But Nina knew that Pike was doing something wrong and Marcus was the only one she could think of going to. "I know," she said. "But he's planning on taking the grounder army out. I think he's going to get someone to give him and Farm Station guns." She glanced up to make sure no one was paying any attention to them. They appeared to not be but you could never be too sure. People were great at eavesdropping or even pretending like they were busy doing something else. Nina left the part out about Bellamy being the one to get them guns, as she hoped he wouldn't do it.

"Actually," Nina began. "I have a plan for that too. I'll be telling Pike I'm trying to talk to you to get any information. As a member of the guard, you trust me. So Pike will understand where I'm coming from," she explained. She didn't know whether or not Kane actually trusted her, but the explanation was solid enough to get Pike willing to let her give it a try. "But I'll be reporting back to you. Sir, my loyalty lies with you." Nina planned on making Pike believe she was double crossing Kane, when in reality she would be double crossing him. Sure, it could get her killed if she got caught but she would rather die than do nothing about Pike's plan.


Marcus Kane