Two:
Clarke
My head felt woozy and I dimly heard the chatter of people around me, but the sound of engines and electronic devices made me slowly open my eyes and I realised that we were sitting in a drop ship strapped to our sits. Desperately I looked around to see my watch was thankfully still attached to my wrist, but my other wrist had that weird mental bracelet was on my other wrist and showed no sign of coming off. What the hell happened? This wasn't right, was this some sort of execution that the Council was making to keep more orygen on the Ark? Kill every few hundred people and send hope the human race doesn't reproduce for another few years, that sounds like something Jaha would decide.
"Welcome back to the land of the living." I turned to see Wells sitting beside me with a somber look on his face. No, he can't be here! This wasn't who I imagined spending my execution with. Lauren and Wells were much closer than I was with either of them, but that bitterness that grew when Jaha killed my father intensified when I looked into those dark brown eyes.
"What are you doing here!" I demanded, but Wells merely held up his wrist to show his metal bracelet. He got himself arrested, what for? For me?
"When I heard Lauren…" Wells began, but his voice faltered as he turned to look at someone past my shoulder and I followed his gaze to see Lauren sitting in a row of seats by the wall. All these teenagers were either excited or bawling their eyes out, but Lauren was staring up at the ceiling and I noticed that she was breathing three heartbreaking words.
May we meet again, may we meet again…
I wanted to speak to her, but I had no idea what to say to her. I had one selfish moment where I wanted to do the right thing, but it had cost me my best friend and my father still died.
"Lauren…" Wells began, his eyes pleading as Lauren reluctantly looked his way and her eyes were so icy and unfeeling it was like looking at a woman who had known nothing but misery instead of a seventeen year old girl "I'm sorry about your mother…"
Guilt filled my chest as Lauren glared back at Wells with such loathing, he looked like she had broken him into a million pieces - Lauren was directing her anger and hatred for the death of her father at him.
"Don't talk to me about her," Lauren hissed, but her eyes betrayed the slightest look of pain, but before she could say another word the monitors above us went blank and quickly a picture of Councillor Jaha appeared on the screen.
Prisoners of the Ark, you've been given a second chance.
Lauren
I didn't know whether to scream or cry, but seeing Jaha's face filled my body with such hatred even I couldn't describe it. Everything that has gone wrong in my life was because of one man and his son was the guy I used to have feelings for, but now all I saw was his Dad. Then there was Clarke, she blamed my Mum for the faults found in the oxygen supplies and she had the nerve to look at me like I was something broken beyond repair. Maybe I was, but I didn't want her pity. As Jaha's speech continued to chat bullshit about saving the human race if Earth was survivable and if it wasn't, well we were disposable. I closed my eyes and gripped the restraints holding me into my chair and thought of how my life could possibly end: being suffocated by toxic gas was most likely.
The engine started and the drop ship detached from the Ark… speeding towards Earth.
Would I see Mum again if I died? Or would it be blackness… nothing?
The sounds of giggling disrupted my dark thoughts and I reluctantly opened my eyes to see a guy had taken off his belt and was floating towards Clarke.
"Go, Finn!" someone shouted.
Finn smirked at Clarke with a look he clearly thought was sexy, but I thought he looked more like an arrogant idiot.
"Looks like your dad floated me after all," Finn chuckled, winking at Clarke as he pulled his hands behind his head "name's Finn."
And just as would be expected from teenagers that were immature and impulsive, two guys took off their seatbelts and glided up into the air as the ship sped father.
"Sit down!" I shouted as Clarke ordered "Stay in your seats if you wanna live!"
Then before anyone could see how it happened, a guy knocked into a piece of equipment and clouds quickly burst from the pipes and sent the two guys soaring into the opposite wall with a deadening sound. The ship lost control as it suddenly bolted through the atmosphere and towards the earth, all controls having lost control over the ship. We were now plummeting to our deaths. Screams filled the small area and people were panicking as sparks flashed above them.
"Just give it a second, it's an old ship!" Clarke tried to reason, but my eyes locked with Wells and we both knew no one was saving us.
"Lauren, I'm so sorry about what happened!" Wells shouted over the screams, I turned my head away from his to avoid his eyes that were begging for forgiveness. I couldn't forgive him… I can't!
"Just shut up, Wells!" I screamed, tears streaming down my eyes as I glared at him.
"I'm sorry your mum got arrested," Wells shouted, his voice choked with emotion "but I can't die with you hating me!"
"My mum wasn't arrested, she was murdered by your father!" I screamed tearfully, glaring at his tear-filled eyes and I angrily yelled what I thought were my last words "I'll always hate you!"
The lights went out and the ship came to a sudden halt, silence falling.
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