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She feels the entire drop-ship stop, the machine switching off as it smashes into the ground, rocking every single one of them in their seats. She hears three thumps come from upstairs, and hopes that they weren't the sound of bodies crashing onto the second level floor. Her entire body shaking as she struggles to breathe, she attempts to open her harness with shaking hands. She closes her eyes, drawing in a breath to steady herself as she calms down, and opens her eyes again to get herself out of this stupid goddam harness only to find a boy squatted in front of her, frowning at her oddly, and then smirking when his brown eyes meet her own blue ones. "What're you doing, princess?" He asks in a drawling voice, still smirking. She narrows her eyes at him slightly, untrusting and judging, and replies "Trying to calm down so I can get this bloody harness off of me" He laughs lightly, reaching out with large hands and unbuckling her with no trouble, his hands lingering at her waist slightly, then rocking back slightly to look at her. Slightly flustered, she breathes quickly "Thanks", afraid to look into his eyes again. He smirks at her again, and, getting tired of his smug face, she mutters to him as she stands up, "Could you stop smirking like that? It's unsettling" He laughs, looking up at her from his position on the ground before standing up, thus leaving little to no space in between the two of them, and she realises how fucking big he is. He's at least a head taller than her, and broad, with large shoulders and a generally large body. He smiles down at her, still smirking slightly, and replies "Sorry, wouldn't mean to upset you now, would I?" She smiles slightly, cocking her head to look at him and asking "What's your name then? Mister wise guy?" He laughs lightly again, his breath washing over her face, and replies "Bellamy. What about you, princess?" She frowns slightly, replying tightly "Brooklyn. And would you stop calling me princess, please?" He smirks, and says "Nice name, but I actually quite like princess myself" She smiles sarcastically and says "Huh. You know what, I actually quite like dick-head come to think of it" He laughs again and says "So I see you're quite the sassy one, hey?" Brooklyn smirks cynically and replies "Yeah, I spose I am" He smiles down at her, and opens his mouth before he's cut off by a voice squeaking "Bellamy?"
The smirk still on his face, he shifts his gaze to over Brooklyn's head, and his eyes widen and the smirk turns into a full-blown, cheek-splitting smile as he replies "Hey O" Brooklyn looks behind her and sees a younger looking girl with brunette with green eyes and tan skin, beaming at Bellamy. Brooklyn realises this is some sort of reunion and steps out of the way slightly, and just in time, as the brunette rushes towards the boy and crushes him with an immediately returned hug, both of them squeezing each other tightly. "How the hell did you end up down here?" The girl asks Bellamy, and he pushes her away at arm's length to look at her as he replies "Oh, you know, I always find a way" The girl laughs, pulling him back into another hug as she whispers "I missed you, big brother" He nods, replying "Me too" Brooklyn smiles at the scene, then remembers some of the words the two just spoke, and says before she can stop herself "Wait, brother? What? How?" They both grimace slightly, but neither seem too offended by her interruption as the girl replies "What? You haven't heard my story?" Bellamy shakes his head slightly at his sister, but she just shrugs him off, looking at Brooklyn again and continuing "I'm Octavia Blake, the one who was arrested for being born" When it was obvious that Brooklyn still didn't recognise the girl's story, Octavia says "The floor girl" Recognition washes over Brooklyn as she realises who this is and what happened to Octavia and her family, and she looks at the two siblings and says "Oh shit, sorry. Bit insensitive" Octavia smiles appreciatively at her, whilst Bellamy smirks again, and says "No worries princess" Brooklyn can't help but roll her eyes at the ridiculous nickname, and Bellamy smiles at her, catching Octavia's attention, as she says with an almost identical smirk "I see you two have already met. Making friends already, are we?" Brooklyn blushes and smiles at her, already liking Octavia.
"Come on, let's get off this piece of junk, shall we?" Bellamy drawls, and Octavia smiles at him, then Brooklyn, grabbing her hand and pulling her after Bellamy, who had started off in the direction of the door of the drop-ship. "Is the entire lock-up down here?" Brooklyn asks Octavia astounded, and Octavia replies "Yeah, I think so. Why?" Brooklyn starts looking around frantically, replying quickly "I was wondering if my friend would be down here" Octavia frowns back at her, and she explains "A friend from before lock-up" Octavia nods, then continues to follow her brother, still dragging Brooklyn behind her. Their little procession stops at the door to the drop-ship, and Bellamy starts trying to open it, only to be stopped by a voice coming from the ladder leading to the second floor shouting out "Wait-we don't know what's out there" Bellamy, Octavia and Brooklyn all look towards the ladder to find Clarke Griffin climbing down with a determined look on her face. Bellamy rolls his eyes in the direction of Brooklyn, and she smirks back at him, waiting for him to be yelled at by the bossiest person on the ship. All eyes on the drop-ship turn to Clarke as she storms across the short space to the door and addresses Bellamy again "You can't open that now! We don't know if there's any radiation or not, or if the air is breathable, or" "Well I guess we'll find out pretty soon, hey?" Bellamy interrupts her as he reaches again for the door, opening it and letting it swing down, and everyone is blinded momentarily by a bright light, the sun. Shielding her eyes, Brooklyn looks out and sees dense green trees and grass, and, sensing Bellamy looking at her, she smiles up at him, and he returns her beam with his own smirking one, and walks over to her and nudges her, pointing to lowered door of the drop-ship, and she looks to see Octavia making her way cautiously down the slope of the drop-ship, then jumping down onto the ground, breathing in the fresh air and throwing her head back and yelling "We're back, bitches!" Everyone cheers, swarming onto the ground behind her, and running off to look at the newly discovered surroundings, and Bellamy grins down at her cheekily, saying "You coming, princess?"
He's wandered down the slope of the door slightly, and his hand is reaching towards her, and she grins at him, taking it and following him to the ground, replying "Hell yeah" They both jump onto the ground, and grin widely at each other, and Brooklyn throws her head back, closing her eyes and breathing in the amazing fresh air, saying "Well this sure is nice" Bellamy chuckles at her side, and walks off towards the lower part of the surrounding area, calling over his shoulder "Coming?" Brooklyn looks around once more, then follows him towards Octavia. "How did you even get down here?" Octavia asks Bellamy, and he tenses up slightly, saying "I have my ways" Octavia turns around to look at him fully, asking suspiciously "How, Bellamy?" He just shakes his head, saying "Stop asking. You can't know yet" Octavia frowns at her brother again, then changes the subject slightly, turning to Brooklyn and asking "What about you, Brooklyn. How'd you end up here? Are you a criminal?" She teases, and Brooklyn grows visibly uncomfortable, and though Octavia is now facing away from her, Bellamy sees this, and frowns at her confusedly, as she answers shiftily "Helping a friend. Didn't end too well" Bellamy looks at her curiously, obviously wanting more information, but Brooklyn avoids his eyes carefully, walking slightly away from the siblings and crouching down to look at a small bush, her long, bright red-orange hair falling around her face and hiding it from view. She hears commotion coming from the higher ground closer to the drop-ship and straightens up, thankful for the distraction, and says "Come on. Let's see what's going on up there" Bellamy frowns at her once more and she's worried that he's going to ask again about her imprisonment, but Octavia bursts in between the two, pulling Bellamy behind her and walking up towards the drop-ship. Brooklyn lets out a breath of relief, calming herself down quickly before following the pair up the slope.
She stands next to Bellamy, looking at the scene. Clarke and Wells, the stupid chancellor's son, are standing in front of a group of a few boys, with Jasper and Monty standing off to the side slightly, talking and muttering between each other as usual. Brooklyn catches Monty's eyes, and smiles brightly, waving at her old friend, and he smiles back, nudging Jasper and pointing to Brooklyn. Jasper smiles at her, and she waves again, then looks back to the scene un-folding in front of her. Clarke and Wells are obviously having a disagreement with the group of boys, and Wells raises his voice to say "Relax. We're just trying to figure out where we are" At this, Bellamy steps forward slightly, saying "We're on the ground. Isn't that good enough for you?" Wells turns around, exposing the boys behind him. Brooklyn shifts her gaze from Wells, who is frowning at Bellamy, to the people behind him, and her eyes widen as they meet Murphy's. His face cracks into a shit-eating grin as he sees her, and he breaks away from his entourage to run down towards her, and she rushes towards him, catapulting herself into his arms and crushing him into a bone-crushing hug, her face nestling itself into his chest as tears escape her eyes and she whispers "I thought I'd never see you again" He hugs her tighter as he replies "Me too" He holds her at arms-length, taking in her blue eyes, pale skin and bright hair, and she says tearfully "I thought they were gonna float you, John" He grimaces, then pulls her back towards him for another tight hug, muttering "I wouldn't let that happen and you know it, Lyn" She nods against his chest, and then pulls away as a throat is cleared from behind them. She wipes her cheeks with the back of hand quickly, glancing behind her to see Bellamy looking at her questioningly as Octavia has a look of surprise painted all over her face. "Sorry", Brooklyn mutters, as Bellamy and Octavia walk up the slop towards Wells and Clarke and stand next to Murphy and Brooklyn. Wells, who was staring at Brooklyn and Murphy's close embrace, shook his head slightly, addressing Bellamy and saying "We need to find Mount Weather. You heard my father's message; that has to be our first priority" Octavia huffs, saying "Screw your father" When Wells just looks at her blankly, she continues "What. You think you're in charge here? You and your little princess?" She smirks at Clarke, who bites back with "Do you think we care who's in charge? We need to get to Mt. Weather! Not because the Chancellor said so but because the longer we wait, the hungrier we'll get and the harder this will be. How long do you think we'll last without those supplies? We're looking at a twenty mile trek, ok. So if we want to get there before dark we need to leave. Now" Bellamy steps forward slightly, saying "I have a better idea. You two go, find it for us. Let the privileged to the work for a change" A few people shout their agreement, but Wells interrupts, saying "You're not listening. We all need to go!"
With that, Murphy shifts slightly, and, knowing what he's trying to do, Brooklyn grabs his arm, whispering quickly "John, don't" He shrugs her off, walking towards Wells and pushing him slightly, saying mockingly; "Look at this everybody, the chancellor of earth" Brooklyn sighs, shifting back slightly, knowing what is coming and that she won't be able to stop John, and Bellamy glances down at her questioningly, but she just nods towards Wells and Murphy. "You think that's funny?" Wells says to Murphy, and he snaps, pushing Wells to the ground after kicking his legs out from under him, saying once he's on the ground "No but that was" "Wells!" Clarke shouts dramatically, and a few people grab her arms as she tries to launch herself at Murphy. Wells grunts, lifting himself off the ground and getting into a fighting stance. "Alright" Murphy mutters, obviously looking for a fight. "John" Brooklyn calls out threateningly, and he just looks at her as though to say "Calm down, I got this" She rolls her eyes, sensing Bellamy watching her and Murphy's mostly silent conversation. Murphy turns back towards Wells, and just as Murphy is about to take the first swing, Finn jumps down from a ledge on the drop-ship, landing in between the two. "Kid's got one leg. How about you wait until it's a fair fight" Finn says to Murphy, and he simply looks him up and down, Brooklyn rolling her eyes at the drama of it all and walking towards them to pull Murphy away. As she gets closer, Murphy turns around to face her, smirking at her and throwing his arm around her petite shoulders, saying quietly "He loves the attention, doesn't he" Brooklyn laughs, replying sarcastically "Nah. He just jumps from buildings all the time, breaking up fights. He's kinda like a version of Batman who needs a haircut" Murphy laughed, hugging her towards him further, saying "Geez I missed you, Lyn" Brooklyn laughed, replying "You too, John" As Finn turns around, he's met with a girl called Brenda, who says "Hey spacewalker, rescue me next" Finn smirks at her lightly, as everyone laughs at the blatant flirtation in Brenda's demand, and Murphy leans down to say into Brooklyn's ear "Well looks like his Batman charade worked, he's got himself some fans already" Brooklyn laughed, nudging him away from her and saying "And how many did you earn from that little performance, hey John?" Murphy laughed, poking her shoulder and saying "Well I don't think I needed any more. My fan base is getting pretty large as it is" Brooklyn shakes her head, laughing lightly and saying "Alright then, mister I'm so cocky my head might sink the ark" Murphy laughs, replying quickly "Well that won't be a problem anymore now, will it?" Brooklyn shakes her head, saying happily "Nope. Your head can grow as big as it wants now. It's free" She winks at him, then walks back over to Bellamy, who was talking with Octavia.
Just as they reach the two siblings, Octavia says "I've been locked up, one way or another, for all my life! I am done following orders. I need to have fun Bellamy. I need to do something crazy just because I can, and no one, including you, is going to stop me!" Octavia spins around to find Brooklyn and Murphy muttering between themselves, and she stops in front of them, causing Brooklyn to look up and smile at her. Just then, they all hear Wells say loudly "How are two of you going to carry enough food for a hundred?" They look towards him and find Clarke and Finn standing in front of him, and Finn turns around and grabs Monty and Jasper, saying "Make that four" Octavia smiles cheekily at Brooklyn, grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the group, saying "Sounds like a party. Make it six" Brooklyn smiles apologetically at Jasper and Monty, who both shrug and fix their attention on Octavia. Bellamy comes up from behind them and grabs Brooklyn's shoulder, asking her and Octavia, "Hey, what the hell are you doing?" Brooklyn shrugs, looking at him defiantly and saying "Going for a walk" Before he can reply, Clarke starts telling Finn off for trying to take of his wristband, and goes on a miniature rant about how if you take the wristbands off, the Ark will think you're dead, and won't follow the 100 down to earth once they see it's survivable. She finishes, saying "Ok. Now come on" Finn, Jasper, Monty and Clarke start to leave, and Brooklyn turns around to find John, hugging him quickly and saying "I'll be back soon" He nods, hugging her back quickly before turning back to the boy he had been talking to, and Brooklyn turns back and follows Jasper, hanging back slightly for Octavia, who is talking to Bellamy. She kisses his cheek, smiling at him and then running to catch up to Brooklyn, who looks at Bellamy's worried expression and winks at him, and he grins, calling out "Be careful, princess" Brooklyn nods, grinning, and turns around with Octavia by her side, trudging after the small group.