Unity Day

Toby POV

"Okay so wait, slow down. Unity Day means what?" I asked Clarke

"It's they we celebrate the joining of the stations into the Ark. Japan, Australia, Canada, France, Brazil, China, Uganda, United Kingdom, India-"

I interrupt her. "Russia, USA and Venezuela. That's all great and everything but there was only one space station in orbit. The ISS. None of the other countries had even been up there except Russia, Canada, the US and the UK."

"Not until after 2025." She corrects me.

I sigh. "Of course not."

"Hey, you'll get it soon. Come on." She waves for me to follow her out of the drop ship.

We join up with the group of teenagers watching Chancellor Jahas speech. Clarke leaves me to go stand with Finn. Jasper comes walking out of his tent with a giant jug. "Yeah! Monty strikes again! Call this batch Unity Juice!" He starts filling up teenagers canteens and I look around confused. I stand back and watch as they all crowd around Jasper to get some of the alcohol.

"You don't want any?" Finn asks me.

I shrug. "I'm not old enough to drink."

"Oh kid. You're older than all of us." He laughs.

"Whatever." I wander away from him and stand at the edge of the camp, staring into the forest.

I get touchy whenever anyone mentions my time in cryo-freeze. It's still something I cannot fully comprehend or accept yet. There are times I still hope that if I pinch myself hard enough I'll wake up.

-/-

Clarke brings me with her to talk to Bellamy. "The comms are still dead, they cut out during the pageant."

"Best Unity Day ever." He jokes and Clarke laughs.

"Do you really think now's a good time to be having a party? I mean, the grounder is out there." She tells him worried.

I put my hand into my pockets. "Yes and I do believe that everyone is under the legal drinking age but you. " I say pointedly to Bellamy.

He just rolls his eyes. "Grounders. By now he's headed home, probably putting together a lynch mob." He watches the anxiety play across Clarkes face. "Relax, we've got security covered. Why don't you go get a drink? You look like you could use one." He suggests.

Clarke smiles and walks away. "I could use more than one." She says over her shoulder.

"Than have more than one. You deserve it." He yells at her retreating back.

I watch him watch her walk away. I don't do a very good job of being subtle though because he must catch me looking. "I-I wasn't."

"Don't worry about it. You should go have a drink too." He tells me.

I shake my head. "A drink is the last thing I need right now, believe me."

"Then talk to me." He suggests.

I look around. "Aren't you a little bit busy guarding everyone?"

"I can multitask." He smirks.

I snuggle deeper into the jacket I was given. "What do you want to know?"

"What was it like, in your time?"

I look up at the stars. "That's a lot of information for one talk. You're going to have to get specific."

"Okay, who was that girl in the tunnel?" He asks quietly.

I close my eyes. "That was Bria Callahan, my girlfriend." I swallow the lump in my throat and continue. "I met her when I was fourteen. She was fifteen at the time, but that didn't matter too much to either of us. We started dating a few months after we met. We were inseparable."

"You loved her?" He prods.

I open my eyes and look into his. "Yes, I did. But it doesn't matter now." I pat his arm. "I'm going to go get a drink after all. You deserve one too."

I walk over to the fire and someone hands me a cup of moonshine. I swig it down with a grimace. It doesn't matter what year it is. Alcohol burns no matter what, and doesn't taste any better either.

-/-

I stumble into a tent hours later and bump into a crate in front of the door. I giggle and sit down on it.

"Hello?" A small voice calls from the bed.

I stand up and smile. "Sorry I thought this one was empty." I turn around to go.

"No, it's alright. I don't mind. Some warning would be nice next time though." He sits up. "I don't believe we've met. Monty Green."He holds out his hand.

I stumble over and shake it. "Toby Masse."

"You're that girl Clarke and Bellamy found in cryo-freeze." He questions.

I roll my eyes. "Correct good sir, that is me."

"Are you drunk?" He asks

I cross my arms. "Why aren't you? You made the stuff."

"I wanted to sleep rather than drink."

I open the tent flap. "Well that's lame. It was good to meet you Monty Green."

I wave and step out of the tent. Not knowing where to go from here. I don't want to keep waking up in the drop ship, but apparently all the tents are taken.

"Over here Toby!" I hear a call. I turn and see Raven, Finns maybe girlfriend calling me over to their tent. I walk over and open the tent flap. I sit down in one of the chairs and close my eyes. Falling into a restless sleep.

-/-

I wake up and the tent is empty. Raven's gone and as far as I know Finn never even came in. I stand up and stretch, loosening the stiff joints in my body. I have a killer headache and I know that I drank too much last night. I shouldn't have let myself drink that much, and lose so much self control. The camp is quiet, most of the teenagers are nursing hangovers in their own tents so I try to be as quiet as possible as I make my way to the wall. I notice that there are less guards at their posts than there were last night. I know that if Bellamy knew that he would not be happy about it. I walk to the gate and notice that no one has tried to tell my to back off yet. I push the gate open and no one does anything to stop me. Bellamy really would be pissed.

I walk through the gate and into the forest. Running my hands along the bark I breathe in the scents of the woods. I used to live near a forest, the smell is familiar to me. I want to try and find a river, I haven't had a shower in one hundred and thirty years. I smile at the joke and wonder if it'll ever get old. Very quickly I hope.

I was never very good in the outdoors so very quickly I realize that I shouldn't have left camp. I should have waited to ask someone to take me outside of the wall. I turn around and look at the barrier in the distance. I take a step towards it and then stop. I sit down and lean against a tree. I pull the moss from the ground and run it between my fingers. I wasn't surprised that eventually we released nuclear warfare. In my time it had been looming over our heads. I'm more surprised that it took so long for it to happen.

-/-

I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I know it's pitch black outside. I hear people huffing and I walk towards the sound. Clarke, Bellamy, Finn, Octavia, Jasper and Raven are panting just outside the wall.

"What the hell happened to you guys?" I ask carefully. Jasper jumps and shoots a bullet off to the side of my arm. "Oh gee thanks."

Bellamy steps forwards. "We need to get inside the wall. Now. I don't even want to know what you're doing outside of it." He turns to Finn. "You got something to say?"

"Yeah! I told you, no guns." He yells at Bellamy.

Clarke steps in. "i told you we couldn't trust the grounders. I was right!"

"Why didn't you tell me what you were up too?" Raven asks Finn angrily,

I look around. "Guys, if you started a war then I think we should listen to Bellamy and get inside the wall."

"Stay out of it." Octavia says.

I step away while they continue to argue with each other and walk back into camp. I look up to the sky and watch something fall to the ground. It explodes against the side of the mountain in a ball of fire. I hope it wasn't our rescuers.