Hey folks. Originally I was going to wait a bit to post this but was super excited about this one. I have spent months planning out this story. I have so many notes I don't know where to start. Anyway after many, many title changes and story line changes here is my first chapter. I hope you like it and Please review. I love hearing from people. I will update when I can but will try harder to do it more often. Thanks for reading and the only thing I truly own is my own OC"s

Chapter One: Decisions

They say the decisions you make in life shape the person you will become. Sometimes a person's decisions are good, sometimes a person's decisions are bad and sometimes the decisions we make are pure survival instincts. This is why the decision was made to send 100 teenagers to the ground of a radiation soaked planet. Fourteen days, that's how long she had been on this God forsaken planet. Fourteen days of surviving a hundred different teenagers vying for control. Fourteen days since everything she knew had been completely taken away. Not that her life before had been any easier but at least she had known what to expect, what they had expected. True what she had done had been her own doing, she wasn't slated to be on this mission to the ground, but after the last year, after everything that had happened, and she had decided to take her own destiny into her hands. She used every skill, every trick she had learned and she had survived, so far. At the moment she questioned that theory.

She was currently dangling in a not so sturdy homemade harness attached to a rope that was supposed to be anchored by the genius above her. She was being lowered over a cliff in order to retrieve one of the younger survivors that had somehow gotten herself stuck, on a ledge, about two hundred feet above a very sheer drop. The kid was terrified and rightly so since below was nothing but sharp rocks. The girl, who was only thirteen but looked to be about ten, stared up at her pale faced and eyes full of tears. Above her holding the rope was the one person in the world she did not want holding her life literally in his hands.
"You want to hurry up down there. You're not exactly the lightest thing." She glared up at him secretly glad that she could see anything at all. Truth be told being on good old Mother Earth had been the best thing that could have happened to her.
"John Murphy if you drop me so help me I will come back to haunt you and make your life a living hell." She heard him mumble something about it not getting much worse than it already was which in turn made her more determined to make good on her promise.
She had just about reached the girl when her rope came up a little short, tugging on it she yelled back up.
"Hey, I need a little slack here. I can almost reach her." She heard a few grunts from above and she was lowered down enough so that she was able to stand next to the girl on the narrow ledge. Reminding herself not to look down she looked the girl in the eye.
"Hey there, were going to get you up okay." The girl nodded and grabbed her sleeve in a death grip. The poor thing was terrified. "I'm Rylie. What's your name?" She knew that by now she should at least know all of the names of the hundred but in truth she had been rather busy and preferred to stick to herself, it drew less attention especially since she was completely blind when she first arrived. She had been most of her life. They had told her it was due to the low oxygen levels on the Ark. She on the other hand had another theory. Whichever it was her vision started to clear up not long after they had landed. Being blind most of her life had both advantages and disadvantages. For one her other senses where heightened and she could get around rather quickly. The down side was in an unfamiliar place it had proven to be much more difficult. Unfortunately since she was one of only two without a wrist band it was noticed rather quickly that she was indeed a stowaway, however her reasons where her own. Reasons she intended to keep to herself for the time being, she wasn't sure if anyone would actually believe her anyway.

"P…Pip" The young girl sputtered out.

"Okay Little Pip. We have a bit of a climb but my friend up there is going to help." She tied a bit of the rope harness around Pip and wrapped her arms around the girl encouraging her to hang on. "Okay, you ready?" She nodded as her arms tightened and Rylie looked up praying this would work. "Hey Murphy let's go!" She tugged on the rope only to find it very lose and tumbling down on top of her. "Murphy!" She yelled up to him. She was never a violent person but Murphy was defiantly testing that and her patients which she had been known to have an abundance of. Murphy however was going to be on the receiving end of a brutal beating when she got her hands on the weasel.

"What are we going to do now?" Pip asked with a panicked voice. Rylie took a deep breath and closed her eyes for a moment. If it had been just her she could scale the ridge because that was what she was trained to do, adapt, but not with Little Pip. As scared as she was there was no way she would make the climb. Out of frustration Rylie yelled out once again.

"Murphy I swear I will gut you! You little piece of sh…!"

"Rylie!" A very familiar and friendly voice came from above. Rylie felt herself relax with relief.

"Miller! Down here!" She shouted up. A face suddenly came into her view and she gave a sigh of relief. He had discovered her weakness shortly after they had landed and instead of outing her he had done the opposite and had quickly filled the void of being a brother. He had a mischievous smile on his face as he gave her a wave.

"Hi. Do you need a hand?"

"Yeah, that would be nice considering our last hero took off."

"Okay, hang on there while we figure out a way to get the two of you up."

"We?" She had a sudden worry about who else was up there. She really was not all that fond of being a spectacle. Just as she was about to it question again, another head popped over the side.

"Hey there Sunshine." Great, she thought as she mentally rolled her eyes, her second least favorite person to have her life literally in his hands. He had a smirk on his face that she would just love to wipe off and the same mischievous look in his eyes that Miller had. "Having a little trouble are you?"

"Why don't you come down here Blake and I will show you a little trouble." Bellamy Blake didn't laugh much or even full on smile but something about her always seemed to amuse him as she could hear him chuckle up above her. This only proceeded in annoying her further.

"Promises, promises."

"Blake!" She yelled up at him but he continued as if she hadn't said anything at all.

"Only if you say please Bellamy I really need your help." She took a deep breath and looked up with the best defeated look she could muster.

"Please Bellamy I really need you to pull me up!" She shouted the last part of the sentence feeling all of her frustration coming to a head. She heard shuffling up above her and a snort of disappointment. Pip looked at her as her arms tightened even more around her neck making it hard to breath.

"He's going to pull us up right?" Pip asked in a scared voice at her neck. Bellamy Blake was a pain in the ass, ornery, and had so many mood swings that it gave her whip lash but one thing she had learned about him was he had a soft spot for kids and she knew that she wouldn't let a little girl suffer. She on the other hand was a different matter. They were both the same age, a few years older than the rest of the 100 and both had been stowaways but that was where the similarities ended. Where she was quiet and reserved he was the polar opposite. She didn't find him intimidating and he found her to be a challenge to figure out. When he could get the others to do his bidding and follow his orders her response was to walk in the opposite direction and hide out until his stormy mood had past. When she didn't hear anything for a moment a thought started to run through her head.

"He wouldn't dare…" Just then she saw a rope fall over the side and landed beside her, attached from up above. Miller's head looked over the side once more.

"Okay we have it anchored. Tie it around the girl and we will pull you up one at a time." She nodded her head and then attempted to loosen Pip's grip from her neck.

"Okay Little Pip, now comes the part that I need help with. I am going to tie this around you and they are going to pull you up. Just don't look down and don't struggle okay?"

"What about you?" She asked in a scared voice.

"I'll be right behind you."

"I'm scared. What if I fall?"

"Hey, you listen here. It's okay to be scared and I am not going to let you fall." She hoped as she tightened the rope around the girl and gave it a tug. This time the rope held. "Okay, she's ready." Slowly bit by bit Pip was raised above her. She could hear the little girl whimper and Rylie kept giving her words of encouragement. After a few minutes she was up over the side. Rylie gave a sigh of relief and was planning her next move when the rope fell over the side again this time with Bellamy looking over the side all traces of teasing was nowhere to be seen and business once more. She really didn't want to trust him but there are times in one life when a little trust must be given and looking at the side of the cliff she could see that it would prove to be difficult to scale.

"Okay Sunshine, your turn." She looked up at him and then the rope sighing as she slowly tied the rope around her waist wrapping the useless rope from Murphy's attempt around her shoulder. No sense in losing a perfectly good rope. She could use it to strangle Murphy…again. "You know I'm aging as we stand here." Bellamy yelled down to her with a trace of impatience. The man truly didn't believe in taking his time to carefully plan the next steps.

She was afraid the rope wouldn't hold as she gave it a tug testing its strength. She thought it had a little give which left her with a sense of worry. The last thing she needed was to fall to her death in a less than heroic way. "What's the matter, don't you trust me." The voice above said to her to which she responded by glaring up at him.

"Just checking, I wouldn't want any unforeseen accidents that involve me tumbling to my death." She could hear him scoff as she firmly planted her feet along the side of the cliff and started to pull herself up the cliff.

She was about half way up when she heard a snap and felt herself falling about a quarter of the way back down causing her to bang her head on the side of the cliff. What she had feared was starting to come true. She could hear yelling up above her but not words. She knew the rope wouldn't hold her much longer so she quickly formed a plan. Reaching down to her thigh where she kept a knife tied, she retrieved it. Finding a good foot hold she started to saw at the rope. When the rope gave way she started her free climb back to the top, using her knife as an anchor she made her accent. Years of feeling her way in the world she was able to find hard to see hand holds rather quickly.

"What the hell…" came the words from above as they felt her rope give. She looked up as several worried faces looked over the side at her.

"What is she doing?" Someone, she wasn't sure who, asked.

"Trying to get herself killed." Bellamy added with an angry voice. "What the hell do you think you are doing?" He yelled down at her. She was so focused on what she was doing that she only said one word.

"Climbing" She suddenly was struck by another one of her famous great ideas "Hey Blake you want to save me so badly, than catch this." Without thinking about the outcome she removed the first rope from her shoulder and one handed threw it up at him. She just hoped it was enough for him to catch. Thankfully it was as he quickly caught the bundle as it came barreling at his face. She felt the rope go tight again as it was being secured and she could feel herself being pulled up over the ledge. As she reached the top her fingers curled around the top as she attempted to pull herself up. Instead she felt a hand suddenly tight on her arm and someone reaching down and grasping the back of her home made harness. Pulling her up and over she collapsed on top of her rescuer and tried to get her breathing under control. She felt the person beneath her chuckle as his hands were suddenly in her hair lifting her head. Her blue gray eyes suddenly meant dark brown ones with a look of amusement in them.

"If you really wanted to get to me why didn't you just say so?" She shot up a little too quickly and immediately regretted it as a wave of dizziness hit her. Presumably from the knock in the head she had received. She hissed as she stumbled and placed a hand to her head which came away with a bit of blood on it. Bellamy was instantly at her side looking her over. "You're hurt." He stated as he tried to probe the wound but she shied way from his touch.

"You're observant." She added suddenly annoyed at any signs of weakness. Showing weakness was something she could not afford to show. She tried to get up again only to find his hand on her shoulder keeping her in place.

"Sit, until Clarke gets here."

"I'm fine really. I just need to go kick Murphy's ass and then I promise I will feel so much better." He chuckled at her again.

"You will have to get in line for that one." She looked around to discover that they were suddenly alone.

"Where is everyone?"

"I sent Miller and Pip to fetch Clarke. Just relax and let me marvel in the fact that little miss I don't need anyone actually needed someone." She looked up at him with steeling eyes.

"You're enjoying this a little too much Blake." This earned her a half smile as he slightly turned away.

"Maybe just a little."

Before either one could say another word a blur suddenly came at her wrapping her in a huge hug as Pip started to weep into her shoulder.

"I thought you were going to die!" She wailed. It broke Rylie's heart. Most of these kids had already lost so much. Rylie returned the hug trying to shush the child and tried to figure out, not for the first time, what a kid such as Pip had done to earn her a spot in the sky box. The whole thing made her angry for reasons she would examine later.

"Oh Little Pip, it will take a lot more than a big old mountain to do me in." After a minute Pip let go and brushed the tears from her eyes and sat up.

"I'm sorry." She said sadly not meeting her eyes.

"For what?" Clark asked as she approached the two of them in full doctor mode. The scene before her was almost amusing to her.

"For running away. Some of the others were laughing at me and I was just looking for a place to hide. I knew I shouldn't be outside of the gate but I just couldn't be in there anymore." Rylie nodded her head in understanding. Clark opened her mouth to scold her but Rylie got to it first. Rylie really wasn't Clark's biggest fan for various reasons and sometimes her need to be right really grated on Rylie's nerves.

"I do understand but next time that happens just come and find me okay?" Pip nodded her head in agreement. "Remember you are not alone in all of this." She added as Clark finished her head and helped Rylie to her feet. She swayed slightly and found a firm hand grip her elbow. She looked up to find Bellamy looking down at her with a serious look on his face.

"Good piece of advice you gave there Sunshine. You might want to try listening to it yourself."

"You know I do have a name." She said as she looked up at him. "Just in case you forgot…" She let the sentence trail off.

"I know your name Rylie. You're just like a ray of Sunshine." He said dripped in slight sarcasm. This earned him a snort as she looked away. She had expected him to let go of her arm and keep on walking which was his usual feat. This time however he stayed by her side as they made their way back to camp. Pip also at her side never letting go of her hand. She suddenly realized she now had her own little side kick. A funny feeling crawled up into her chest at she looked down at the hand that clung to hers. Physical contact of any kind was not something she was use to and she wasn't sure how to deal with it. Any kind of gesture made her unsure. She must have had a strange look on her face because Bellamy bent down and whispered in her ear.

"Just go with it." She felt her face flush slightly but if he noticed he didn't say. With a sudden sigh of relief the camp had finally come into sight. Now her mind had switched gears, making her next move. She looked around at what they had accomplished in the last few weeks. They had come down with nothing and from nothing came something. They had started a semi workable society. Between surviving a scattering of grounder attacks among other things they were surviving. It could be done. But she still had a mission and that included finding John Murphy and kicking his sorry little ass.