Alrighty then, here's chapter 2!
I don't own the 100
They had been walking…and walking…and walking. Clarke was in the lead while the rest of them hung back. It was pretty easy for Alex to start to get annoyed. Jasper and Monty were conversing which was actually pretty funny. Then there was Finn and Octavia who hadn't stopped flirting since they started walking until of course Finn picked up a flower and put it in Octavia's hair, only to find out from Monty that it was poisonous….
It seemed like Clarke was the only one with her head screwed on right in this bunch. After Octavia brushed Finn off from almost poisoning her, he went to bother Clarke who seemed to be in her own little world.
"Clarke, why don't you slow it down a bit and enjoy the scenery?" Finn popped off the question. Clarke scoffed at him slightly before waving her hand at him.
"I'll slow down when we make it to Mount Weather." Was her curt reply. Finn laughed lightly before jogging a little bit to catch up with her.
"You gotta stop worrying so much Clarke and relax, take a look at the flowers or something, they're beautiful." Clarke whipped around fast, Finn stopped abruptly to stop from mowing right into her.
"Why haven't we seen any animals or heard any for that matter? Maybe it's because they can't survive, maybe we've already been exposed to enough radiation to kill us," She took a small glance around her. "Sure is pretty though." Clarke turned around and went right back to walking. Finn deflated for a moment before he started asking everyone's reasons for being down here in the first place.
"Sumac isn't the only herb in the garden if you know what I mean." Monty shared.
Jasper looked over to Monty, his eyes almost rolling. "And somebody forgot to replace what we took."
Monty scoffed at Jasper. "Which I've apologized for a thousand times." Jasper shook his head at Monty and nodded over to Octavia.
"What about you Octavia, what they get you for?" Octavia's mood seemed to dwindle.
"Being born." Octavia answered and then everything went tense. Octavia sighed and looked over at Alex.
"So shooter, I've heard the story but you can never trust those things, you wanna share with the group?" Alex looked over to her and then to the rest who actually looked interested in his side of the story. Alex sighed, he knew he would have to tell them or they would chew his ass out until he did.
"Ok so I was locked up for assaulting a guard and then shooting another, hints the nickname 'shooter', because my family was living on next to nothing and they found out my mother was taking in extra rations so they floated her, which led to me getting locked up in solitary." Finn scrunched up his face in confusion.
"But I thought you were part of the guard?" Alex looked over to Finn and shrugged.
"Yea I was, so?" He asked. Finn shrugged back and stuck his hands in his pockets.
"I don't know, I just thought since you were part of the guard you guys would be friends or something." Alex bit the inside of his lip from a nervous habit.
"Just because I was a part of the guard didn't mean I had to enjoy it." Finn nodded in acceptance, taking his word for it. As Alex looked forward again he almost didn't see Clarke who was just stopped. He was about to make a remark before she held her hand up, signaling them to be quiet. Finn stalked up beside him and looked from behind Clarke.
Finn smiled slightly and turned to Clarke. "No animals huh?" He asked Clarke. He squatted down and moved slowly towards the deer. Alex glanced over to Clarke to see what she thought only to see a smile on her face. This entire time they've been down here he hasn't seen her smile a real smile once until now.
"So the princess does smile?" He probably shouldn't have said that but he couldn't help it. To his surprise, her smile didn't fall or even falter, but grew slightly. She huffed at him jokingly and crawled towards Finn. He crawled to the other side of her and he heard the others behind him do the same. They all shared a look of excitement at the animal. Clarke decided she wasn't close enough and moved her hand forward and snapped a branch. The deer looked forward at them and shocked them. It had two heads…two heads.
He heard Jasper flinch behind him. "Where the hell are we?" Jasper asked what they all were thinking. Alex blinked as he watched the deer run off.
"Welcome to Earth." He said gruffly.
As they walked off the shocking experience, Finn became bold enough to start talking again.
"You know what I don't get? Why send us down here now? Why wait a hundred years and then pick today?" Finn asked.
"Who cares? I'm just glad they did because I woke up rotting in a cell and now I'm spinning in the forest." Octavia said dreamily. She hooked onto a tree and spun around to prove her sentence and maybe catch the eye of Finn but was unsuccessful.
"Maybe they found something in a satellite? Something caught their attention causing them to act fast on the situation?" Monty threw in.
"It wasn't a satellite. The ark is dying." Clarke stated, making everyone including him stop in their tracks. Well this was new. "At the population level now on the Ark, they have about 3 months of life support left, maybe an extra month now that we're gone."
"So that's the treason they locked you up for? Why they kept you in solitary and floated your dad?" Finn wondered.
Clarke looked to him seriously. "My father was the head engineer who discovered the flaw, he thought the people deserved to know. The council of course disagreed…my mother disagreed. They were afraid of the people's reactions, afraid it would cause a panic or a riot. We were going to go public with it anyways until Wells.."
"Turned your dad in?" Finn finished. Clarkes face went downcast as she looked to the ground slightly. For some reason, Alex got just a little irritated with what he said.
"Hey spacewalker, you wanna keep your comments to yourself?" Clarke's head rose a bit to meet his eyes and gave him a silent thank you before opening her mouth to speak again.
"Anyways, my father and I were arrested before either one of us could say anything. Th-,"
"I also heard you assaulted a guard a-" Alex gave Finn one look and him shut up while Clarke continued like she wasn't interrupted to begin with.
"That's why today, why it's ok to take the risk. Even if we die, they bought themselves some more time."
"They're just going to continue to kill more people aren't they?" Monty asked. Clarke nodded at his question sadly. Suddenly Finn passed him and put a hand on Clarkes shoulder.
"We have to warn them…" Finn said. Clarke raised her head to look at him.
"That's what my father said." And they continued to look at each other. Alex tapped his foot impatiently, his arms crossed and his jaw tightened as they just kept looking at each other. He cleared his throat gaining their attention.
"Shouldn't we be picking up the pace Blondie?" He said impatiently. Clarke had the decency to blush before stepping out of Finns reach and continued walking forward. Finn's shoulders fell as he watched her walk off. He looked at Alex annoyed but Alex just shrugged with a smirk on his face before walking to catch up with Clarke.
They walked for another few minutes; Alex wasn't really paying attention until Monty gasped a few paces behind him.
"Water." Monty breathed out, a large smile coming onto his face. Alex looked out unto a river. It was jus like in the books, everything seemed to be perfect. Octavia squealed slightly, taking him out of his looking. She ran over to the edge of the rock before she started stripping. Maybe telling Bellamy she would be fine was the wrong thing to say. Maybe he should have let her stay back at camp…
"Damn I love earth." He heard Jasper mutter to Monty.
Alex was about to yell at Octavia because is she gets hurt, Bellamy's going to be all over him, but Blondie seemed to beat him to the scolding.
"Octavia! What do you think you're doing?" Clarke yelled. Octavia looked back with a smile.
"Taking a dip Clarke." Octavia exclaimed before diving into the water. They ran up to the edge of the rock where some of her clothes laid and looked over.
"Hey umm, Octavia, we can't swim." Minty pointed out to her. Her head bobbed from the surface of the water before she rose up with a smirk.
"No but we can stand." Alex laughed at her remark and looked over to Clarke who he would have thought to be smiling at a find like this, like she had with the deer, but her face was contorted in concentration and confusion as she looked around, something that worried Alex.
"What's wrong Clarke?" He asked.
"There's not supposed to be a river here," Clarke muttered. Alex immediately started looking around for something dangerous on instinct.
Finn laughed beside her and nudged her. "Well there is princess so take off your damn clothes." Clarke seemed to relax at Finns demeanor but before she could do anything they heard Jasper scream out.
"Octavia, get out of the water!" His voice was filled with panic. All of them looked to Octavia and soon saw what Jasper was panicked about. There was some sort of serpent in the water that was going strait for Octavia. Alex racked his brain to try to think of what it could be, trying to remember anything from the books that explained what it was.
Clarke took action beside him and yelled for help to distract the creature. Alex thought it was sorta a dumb idea, why would it leave it's prey for something else? But they tried it anyways. They threw rocks at it but Alex went for the boulder on the ledge. He apparently underestimated just how dug into the Earth it was because he struggled some. Clarke hunkered down beside him and helped him, only slightly he might add, push the boulder into the water and against his thinking, the serpent released Octavia.
Jasper not wasting a second jumped into the water after her. Right as they pulled them up onto a partially sunken rock the serpent swam past them. Clarke quickly got on her knees beside Octavia as Octavia hugged Jasper telling him thank you thank you over and over again. Clarke tore a piece of Jaspers shirt to make a temporary bandage and wrapped it around Octavia's leg.
Monty crouched down beside Alex and reached out and squeezed Jaspers shoulder smiling at him. "Note to self, next time, save the girl." Monty said, causing everyone to laugh as the tension eased down.
Next thing ya know after Octavia's near death experience, they had made a rope out of vines. They watched as Jasper swung across the river and landing on the other side. Everyone cheered for him as he made it over. Clarke stood watching Jasper rejoice before handing her the vine.
"Alright princess, you're up." Clarke smiled and took Finns place behind the vine.
"Alright Clarke! You got this!" Jasper shouted excitedly from the other side of the river.
"You're gonna go next right Alex?" Clarke asked. Alex looked over to Clarke and nodded, why not? He walked over and stood next to Clarke to await his turn.
"Hey guys we did it! Mount Weather! Jasper exclaimed, holding up a sign with Mount Weather written on it. That's when things went down hill. A spear sped by them and lodged into Jaspers chest.
Clarke being Clarke immediately went to the ledge to try to get to Jasper but Alex grabbed onto her arm tightly and pulled her down with him. "Jasper!" Clarke cried, trying to get out of his hands. Alex gripped her more forcefully and put a hand over her mouth to quiet her.
"Damn Blondie, shut up and stay down!" They all stilled as they listened. They couldn't hear a single sound out of the ordinary. He thought about getting his gun, but decided to wait; he didn't really want to reveal his secret weapon just yet. Clarke's hand went up to his and pulled down his hand from her mouth slowly, not wanting to even move really.
"Guys," She talked lowly. "I don't think we're alone." Alex sighed as she said it, knowing being alone down here was not good for them at all.
"Figure that out all on your own Blondie?" He muttered, but this time he didn't get a smile from her.
They waited a few more minutes before Finn stood up first to look around. He motioned for everyone to get up and then they started moving, fast. His heart was racing from running on end; it felt like they hadn't stopped in hours, which was probably true.
Finally Finn slowed down and glanced behind them. Sure that nothing was following them he slowed to a stop along with everyone else. Clarke was the first to recover marching up to Finn.
"We have to go back to get him." She stated firmly. Finn who was still catching his breath, looked at her like she was crazy.
"Are you kidding me Clarke? Jasper just got speared; with precise accuracy I might add, from the side of the river that we're on. I'm no doctor but that spear hit his heart Clarke." He left the sentence hanging, not really wanting to say that Jasper might be dead.
"He screamed while we were running, I heard it, so he has to be alive." Monty pointed out. Clarke nodded to him and looked back to Finn.
"He's right. Jasper screamed when they moved him." Finn sighed and threw his hands in the air.
"That doesn't mean he's alive right now Clarke!" Clarke narrowed her eyes at him.
"It means that he wasn't dead when they shot him Finn. If they wanted to kill him they would have if their accuracy says anything. If there's a chance he's alive then I'm taking it." She said finished, marching in front of them. Alex sighed and ran a hand through his light brown, cropped hair in frustration. This girl was stubborn, there was no way they were talking her out of this.
Finn walked up beside him as he watched her stomp away. "There is no way we are going to be able to talk her out of this." Alex laughed lightly.
"My thoughts exactly," He paused to think. "But I agree with her. We can't just leave Jasper if there's a chance he's still alive. Although it might now be our safest option, we just got here, no weapons no nothing, all we have is my…" He stopped short before he said gun. Finn looked up to him, since he was taller than Finn, waiting for him to continue his sentence.
"All we have is my combat skills from the guard, but judging from the spear it doesn't look like our enemy is really into close up fighting anyways." Alex muttered. What they didn't know was that Clarke heard the whole conversation. She heard how Alex stood up for her and her plan; she couldn't stop the smile that appeared on her face.
Well there ya have it. I don't feel like I put Alex in there enough but I'm working through it, it's a little weird having on OC in there. Anyways, please review and tell me what you thought!