Chapter 1
Two years. Two long years spent in the skybox, my only company being myself and the occasional visit from my parents and Jasper and Monty every once in a while.
Two years. Two long years of waiting for death. Because that's what was coming to me as soon as I would turn eighteen – death. Every single little crime would be punished by death. A stupid law in my opinion, but what was I to do? Rebel against the authority? I would, but a one woman army – not even a woman but a seventeen year old girl – locked up in her cell isn't gonna do much change.
But it sure was lonely for two years. Jasper and Monty were my best friends and they would always visit me when the visiting day came. Except when the pair of morons themselves got arrested and it was good-bye forever. No more Jasper and Monty lighting up my boring days in the skybox.
Six months. Six months till my eighteenth birthday – till my execution day – and my cell door was opened. I looked up from my place on the ground to see two guards coming in.
"What is this?" I asked, panic evident in my voice. "I'm not turning eighteen yet!"
"Prisoner 206, face the wall," one of the guards said, and I was quick to obey. I've had plenty of experience of what will happen if I don't obey.
"I asked what is this?" I said again, trying to act braver than I felt. I wasn't ready for my execution yet, even if I had been waiting for it for two years.
"Quiet," the same quard said. "Hold out your right arm."
This time I refused. "No, no, no, no, no. I'm not turning eighteen yet.
The guard didn't seem to care what I had to say, but forced my right hand towards him. The other guard took a metal wristband from a case he was holding and brought it towards me. As I saw the metal spikes on it, I started trashing. No way I was letting them put that on me. I tried to fight the guards, but they were just too strong for my small self. But that didn't stop me from trashing around in the slight hopes of getting out.
But the guards wouldn't have it. Both of them seemed to grow tired of my constant fighting and the other took out some sord of needle with unrecognizable liquid inside. Just the sight of it made me trash out even more, but i stopped in an instant as it was plunged into my neck.
The last thing I knew before blacking out was the metal wristband placed on my wrist.
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I woke up to somebody talking.
"Your dad's a dick Wells!" somebody yelled from behind me as I blinked, trying to see clearly.
"Morning sleepyhead," a girl's voice said next to me. As my vision cleared I looked to my left where a rather pretty brunette girl sat, smiling like she had just won a free trip to Earth. "Had a nice slumber I assume?"
"What's happening?" I asked her with a weak voice, staring at the screen where chancellor Jaha was saying something that I had missed completely.
"Chancellor Jaha decided to take a bunch of juvenile delinquents and send us to Earth to survive. Apparently we're expendable. Congradulations," she said with an excited tone.
I nodded, a little – okay ver – amazed. Earth? We're being sent to ground? Suddenly I could relate to the feeling of excitment that was written in the face of the girl next to me. A large grin broke out on my face and I was ready to start cheering like crazy.
And then people really strated to cheer. I turned my head to see that some guy had decided to take off his safetybelt and was now floating in the air.
"The spacewalk bandit strikes again!"
The girl next to me cheered and even i had to laugh. It might've not been the best idea from the boy, but it sure looked fun.
"Check it out, " the boy said to Wells Jaha. "Your dad floated me after all."
Wells Jaha said something to the guy, but I was too busy laughing to hear what it was.
"Hey you two, stay put if you wanna live," the blonde girl next to Wells said to some guys who had decided to take off their safetybelts too.
"Stay in your seats!" the girl tried to say as the boys started floating.
Then the parachutes kicked in. It felt as though somebody had kicked me straight on my lungs and we all jerked forward. The two boys who had taken their safetybelts off flew and crashed on the walls, but I didn't see what happened to spacewalker. It felt like the dropship had broken down as bright yellow sparks flew from the ceiling, turning out the lights.
Steam came out everywhere and I felt like I would soon start to hyperventilate. For some reason, the girl next to me grapped my hand and squeezed the life out of it, and I returned the favor. You're gonna make it, I tried to convince myself. It doesn't matter that everything in this ship is 1oo years old. We're all gonna make it. I took a deep breath. It didn't calm me at all.
Then it all stopped at once. The machine huming sounded for one last time, and was followed by silence. If it wasn't for the death grip the girl had on my hand, I would've been convinced that I was dead. The lights blinked before turning on permanently.
"Listen," a familiar voice said. "No machine hum."
"Wow," another equally as familiar voice said. "That's a first.
People, me included started to take off their safetybelts and hurried off their seats, all eager to see the ground.
"I'm Octavia by the way," the girl said as she managed to take her safetybelt off.
"Max," I smiled.
"Stop! The air could be toxic!" somebody said on the lower level of the dropship as Octavia and I made our way down the ladder. I realized that the speaker had been the blonde girl next to Wells and that she was talking to a really handsome guy in a guards-uniform
"If the air is toxic we're all dead anyway," he said.
"Bellamy?" Octavia said and ran towards the guy. The expression on his face seemed to lighten up immediately in the sight of Octavia and he pulled her into his arms.
Were they dating? Just friends? Friends don't hold each other like that, so they must've been in a relationship or something.
"What the hell are you wearing?" Octavia asked from the guy, Bellamy, gesturing to the guards-jacket he had on. "A guards-uniform?" her tone was accusong and the look on Bellamy's face looked like he might've been feeling guilty.
"I borrowed it. To get to this dropship," he explained.
Aww, well wasn't that just cute. I felt a slight, extremely small, bang of jealousy in my chest, knowing that nobody had even, or ever will, love me so much that they'd steal a quards-uniform in order to be with me.
"Someone's gotta keep an eye on you," he smiled and Octavia hugged him again.
"Where's your wristband?" the blonde girl asked Octavia, who turned to look at her with a slightly annoyed look on her face.
"Do you mind? I haven't seen my brother in a year."
Oh. A brother. Well that was unexpected. And a little disgusting that I thought that they were a couple.
"Nobody has a brother!" somebody yelled from behind me.
"That's Octavia Blake! The girl they found hidden in the floor!"
Octavia didn't look angry after hearing that. No, she looked like she was absolutely furious. She tried to lunge forwrad, but luckily her brother, Bellamy Blake? took a grip on her arm.
"Octavia, Octavia no!" he said. "Let's give them something else to remember you by."
Octavia turned to her brother. "Yeah, like what?"
"Like being the first person on the ground in one hundred years."
The look on Octavia's face brightened immediately. Her brother opened the door, this time with no protests from the blondie. The door opened, revealing the beautiful sight full of trees, grass and everything I had ever imagined and more.
Carefully, Octavia started to take slow steps out of the dropship, obviously worrying about the blondie's previous warning. Octavia stopped on the edge of the dropship soor, before jumping on the ground. She took a couple of breaths before throwing her hands in the air.
"We're back bitches!"
The other delinquents started to cheer and ran out of the dropship as fast as they could. I stayed behind a little bit, exiting th dropship with the blondie, who looked just as amazed as I did.
"Amazing," I whispered, enjoying the feeling of the sun shining on my face.
The blondie looked at me with a slight smile. "It is, isn't it."
I was about to say something else when a pair of arms wrapped themselves around my waist and started spinning me around. The blondie looked at me and whoever was spinning me around, shot us a quick smile before taking off.
I let out a squeak, before I was set down. I turned around to see Jasper's smiling face staring down at me and I didn't waste a second wrapping my hands around his neck.
"Oh my god, I've missed you!" I said, my voice muffled by his neck. Jasper wrapped his arms around me tighter than neccessary, but I didn't mind. I had missed him too much to care.
Jasper rested his chin on top of my head. "I missed you more snuggles."
I detached my arms from his, only to slap him on the shoulder. He knew I hated him calling me that more than anything.
I expected Jasper to let go of me, yet he didn't. He only tightened his grip even more as I tried to push him away a little.
"Jasper, as much as I've missed you, I've missed the other guy in my life too," I said, looking at Monty who was smiling at me behind Jasper. Reluctantly, the boy unwrapped his arms from my waist, letting me fly to the arms of my other best friend, who hugged me with a slightly looser grip.
"Cool a map, can I get a bar in this town, I'll buy you a beer," I heard Jasper say behind me and I turned around to see Wells Jaha pushing him lightly.
"Do you mind?" Wells asked with an irritated tone.
"Hey hands off him, he's with us," another voice came out, and I turned my head to see a boy followed by a squad of scary looking guys stopping right in front of Wells.
"Relax," Wells said, raising his arms slighty in surrender. "We're just trying to figure out where we are."
"We're on the ground!" Bellamy Blake said from behind us. "Isn't that good enough for you?"
"We have to find mount wheather," Wells said, making his way towards Bellamy with the blondie hot on his heels.
I stopped caring about them as they left and turned back to my best friends. I slapped them both on their arms, making them wince and let out complaines.
"What was that for?" Monty asked, rubbing the spot I hit him on.
I rolled my eyes. "For getting arrested."
Jasper chuckled and despite my protests, he lifted me up in his arms again.
"Put me down Jordan," I rolled my eyes but couldn't contain my smile as he hugged me close to his chest. My feet were offf the ground and my head was resting on top of his as he burried his face into my neck and took a deep breath. "Seriously, that tickles."
He put me down and in an instant Jasper and Monty were turned around by spacewalker to face the blondie.
"Four of us," he said and Clarke nodded. "Can we go now?"
"Sounds like a party," Octavia joined the scene. "Make it five.
I frowned. "Six actually, what ever we're doing."
"Heading off to mount weather," Finn informed me.
Then Bellamy Blake decided to enter, taking a hold of Octavia's arm. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Going for a walk," Octavia retorted.
The blondie started to question Finn of his wristband and went off to tell us all how we shouldn't take them off. I, being highly intelligent and cared about my family up in the ark, took her warning seriously, but by the look on Bellamy's face, I somehow got the idea that he was going to do the exact opposite.
"Okay," the blondie said. "Now let's go."
I soon learned that the blondie was called Clarke Griffin. Somehow I thought that I should've known that, considering that she was one of the priviledged and her mother was the best medic in the entire ark.
For some reason Jasper insisted on holding my hand as we walked. Every once in a while I would walk faster than him or tried to separate from him, he would just squeeze my hand tighter, preventing me from letting go.
"Do you mind?" I laughed at him. "You're acting like a child that has become over-attatched to his mother."
Jasper just laughed and scooped me up in his arms again, carrying me around. "Sorry, I've just missed you so much."
"So you feel like you need to be in constant contact with me?"
Jasper nodded. "Preferably."
I shook my head and tried to pry his hands off me so I could walk on my own. No such luck. He being stronger than he looks, I just gave into it and let him carry me, considering that I had missed him too.
At some point Jasper did put me down, and I placed a kiss on his cheek, making him blush a little bit. I laughed and turned around watching as Finn placed a purple flower behind Octavia's ear.
"Now that my friend, is game," Jasper said to Monty, smiling.
"That my friend," Monty said pointing at the flower. "Is poison sumac," he said before picking one up.
"What?" Octavia squeaked and pulled it quickly from her hair. "It is?"
"The flowers aren't poisonous," Monty informed her. "They're medicinal, calming actually."
Monty placed the flower in his mouth just as Clarke turned to us. "Hey guys, would you try to keep up?"
"Come on Clarke, how do you block all this out?" Finn asked her and Clarke went off again, telling him about how we haven't seen any animals and how we can't be sure wether or not the radiation will kill us, and blah blah blah.
"Sure is pretty though. Come on."
"Someone just slip her some poison sumac," Octavia retorded making the rest of us snort.
Soon Finn started to question Jasper and Monty of what they did to get arrested.
"Sumac isn't the only herb in the garden. If you know what I mean," Monty smiled.
"Someone forgot to replace what we took."
"Someone's apologized for like a thousand times."
I snorted. Typical of them. I should've known immediatelyafter I heard of their arrest that they would've done something like that. They were always doing stuff like that, no matter what I told them. Nothing can come between a boy and his drugs.
Then Finn turned to me. "How about you doll? What got you behind the bars?"
"Hacked into the ark's systems,"I shrugged. "I would've gotten away with it, until I didn't"
"Why would you want to hack into ark's system?" Octavia asked me.
"For fun," I rolled my eyes.
"How about you Octavia?" Jasper asked. "What did they get you for?"
Octavia looked both annoyed and angry at the same time. "For being born."
Monty told Jasper how he so did not have game and Clarke ran ahead of us before grouching down on the ground. She motioned us to come closer and we did, only to see a grey deer, eating the grass on the ground.
"No animals huh?" Finn asked and tried to get a little closer, stepping on a small branch. Apparently it scared the animal, as it lifted it's head to look at us. Or maybe I should say heads, considering that it had two of them. The toher one was growing right next to the other one, letting us see the flesh between them.
The deer skipped away, leaving us petrified.
"What the hell?" I asked, realizing that I had grabbed Jasper's hand in the progress. I was about to let go when he squuezed my hand tighter.
"What scared?" I teased him as we continued our way to mount weather.
Jasper shook his head. "No, I just like holding your hand," he smiled at me, making me blush unintentionally. My reaction seemed to please him, as his smile widened even more and he pulled me closer.
"You look cute when you blush," he whispered in my ear, preventing me from consentrating in what Clarke was saying about how she got arrested.
I blinked and looked at him. "You're acting weird. Well, weirder than usual."
Jasper just laughed and I let go of his hand to run up to Octavia.
"You and Jasper are just one disgustingly adorable couple," she smirked at me.
"Oh no, no," I shook my head. "Not a couple, never a couple. Just friends."
She gave me a weird look before smirking. "Are you sure he's aware of that?"
I was about to ask Octavia what she meant, but then she ran ahead and started to take her pants off. I looked in confusion, until I saw the river.
"Octavia I'm not sure if that's such a good idea," I said unsurely but she just smirked at me.
"Oh damn. I love earth," I heard a voice say behind me, and I turned around to see Jasper staring at Octavia. I slapped him in the chest, making his eyes turn to me and I rolled mine.
"You should do that too," he whispered looking me up and down.
I gave him a confused look. He really was acting weirder today. I saw something in his eyes, something unrecognizable and new, as he watched me up and down before setting his eyes on me. I swallowed and blinked.
"No thanks," I scoffed turning to look at Octavia, wanting to cut the eye-contact with him. "I don't even know how to swim."
"Octavia what the hell are you doing?" Clarke yelled, making Octavia glance at her before jumping into the water. We ran to the rock from which she jumped to see her surfacing back up.
"Octavia we can't swim!" Monty yelled.
"No but we can stand."
Octavia stood up and laughed. Clarke told us that there wasn't supposed to be ariver where we were. Only reactin she got was from Finn, who told her to start taking her clothes off.
"So are you gonna take your clothes off?" Jasper asked me with a smirk. He turned me back to look at him, but I just took a small step back, looking at the water again.
"No thanks," I gulped.
"Why?" Jasper laughed, looking at me as my eyes widened in horror.
"That's why," I pointed at the giant black creature that was getting closer to Octavia by the second. "Octavia get out of the water, now!"
It all happed fast. The creature grabbed Octavia by her leg(I figured it seemed to be some kind of giant snake) and pulled her out of the water. The rest of us screamed, running to the other side of the river, unsure what we were to do. I, being the coward I was, closed my eyes, not wanting to see any blood or her corpse surfacing. I only heard splash and a couple moments later, when I opened my eyes again, I heard coughing, a wet Jasper and Octavia, hugging him as if her life depended on it.
It probably did.
"Not to self: next time, save the girl," Monty laughed, making Jasper and I chuckle too.
We decided to stop for the night as the sun started to go down. Everyone else seemed to have no trouble falling asleep, especially Octavia, but I couldn't seem to be able to even close my eyes. So I just sat against a tree and went through the events of the day. This one day on the ground had been a lot more colorful than two years stuck in the skybox. I shook my head, staring at the sky, just wondering how my parents were coping up there.
"Can't sleep?" I heard somebody say and I turne my head to look at none other than Jasper sitting down next to me.
I shook my head in response, before resting it on his shoulder. "You were really brave," I commented, making him chuckle.
"Maybe a little," he said. "Maybe next time I can save you. Hopefully you'll be as grateful as Octavia, or maybe even more."
"What do you mean?" I asked him, lifting my head to look at him in the eyes, noticing how close he had gotten. His face was only about an inch from mine and as I tried to make a little bit distance between the two of us, he grabbed my hand, pulling me back.
"Nothing," he whispered, moving his closer, as if to kiss me. I was quick to stand up and I let out a nervous laughter, looking around me.
"Where's Clarke and Finn?" I asked, noticing their absense. How could I not have noticed that they were gone?
"Who cares?" Jasper said, seeming to grow a little agitated. He licked his lips and had this rather irritated look on his face.
I bit my lip. I had no idea what was up with him today. He seemed clingier than usual – but that was probably because he hadn't seen me in so long. Bu there was something else too, something I couldn't put my finger on.
I couldn't stand the look on his face. Carefully, I put my hand on his face, rubbing his cheek gently. He took a deep breath before unexpectedly taking a hold of my hand, placing his lips on my palm, leaving a lingering kiss there. Then one on my wrist and another a little higher. I didn't dare to move my hand away.
"What are you doing?" I asked, confused as his lips moved closer to my elbow, making me move closer to him by the second. "You're acting kinda odd today."
Jasper removed his lips from my arm, only to pull me as close as possible, his other hand still holding my arm and other wrapping itself around my waist. I looked down at his arm in confusion before lifting my gaze to meet his. I noticed that he had taken his goggles off for the night, letting his messy curly hair fall on his ears.
"What do you mean?" he asked, resting his head on top of mine.
I rolled my eyes. "You're acting particularly clingy."
"You're my best friend," he stated, letting my arm drop to my side and moving his hand to my hair, pulling the hair-tie off so my long dark hair fell on my back. "Of course I'm clingy when it comes to you."
"Monty is your best friend too," I noted, a small mischievious smile forming on my face. "Do you kiss and hold him too?"
Jasper narrowed his eyes, before letting a smile form on his features. "Of course. Never doubt that."
"Prove it."
I might've seen wrong, considering it was quite dark, but Jasper seemed to pale a little. I gave him a challening look and let out a breath of relief, as he let me go and walked over to where Monty was sleeping.
"Go on, don't be shy," I said as Jasper got on his knees next to Monty who was mumbling in his sleep.
Jasper hesitated a little before pressing three kisses on Monty's face. Surprisingly, Monty didn't wake up, not even when I bursted out laughing like crazy and Jasper pulled me with him, away from our other best friend who continued his sweet dreams.
"Never talk about this, to anyone," he said.
The next morning we continued our journey to mount weather.
"We have to try to cross over to the other side without getting in the water," Clarke says as she watches the river where Octavia almost died.
"How do we do that?" I scoff, leaning my back on a tree.
"We can use this," Finn says, taking a hold of a vine. "I'll go first."
He would have seemed brave if there weren't a slightly paniced look on his face as he grips the vine with both of his hands. I laugh a little, unintentionally. Not so brave spacewalker now are we?
"You wanted to go first. Quit stalling," Clarke says to Finn. "Mount Weather awaits."
As Finn was getting ready to go, Jasper stops him and offers to go first. I chuckle a little at his need to prove his bravery once again. Jasper too looks a little nervous as Finn tells him how badass he is.
I give Jasper a highfive. "No need to be scared goggles."
"Yeah the trick is not fighting it," Finn says, boosting Jasper's confidence.
"See you on the other side."
Jasper inhales slightly before taking off. The vine takes him all the way to the other side, where he lets his feet touch the ground, the rest of us cheering.
"We are Apogee!" he yells at us, as our cheering continues. I laugh as Jasper starts to cheer like a five years old.
Finn suggests that Clarke goes next and as she gets ready to take off, jasper picks up a sing and continues his cheering.
And then, out of nowhere, a spear flies across the river, sparring him right next to his chest. I make a move forward, unsure what to do, when Monty pulls me down with the rest of them.
"We're not alone," Clarke says finally.
An: okay I know this sucks, but I'm a horrid writer when it comes to having to follow some other plot. I really felt like there isn't enough Jasper's stories, so I decided to make one, even if this is going to be Bellamy/oc/Jasper. I hope you enjoy, and sorry if my writing sucks when, it would be slightly better if I didn't have to follow a plot that I didn't make up completely. I might leave out some lines and make up my own lines and scenes in order to make this enjoyable reading.
Tell me what you think! Constructive criticism is always appreciated!