"Silence is a true friend who never betrays." - Confucius
Valery was slowly and casually walking through the woods back to camp. She took a detour, so she could sing and hum hymns and songs as long as possible. She loved singing, she sang a lot of songs for the people of the Ark. Going from station to station in the evening, singing out loud and dancing. She passed a clear well, where you could see the reflection of the trees.
She hadn't seen a clear view of herself in over two years. She knew she had red, curly hair that reached the hollow of her back and green eyes. She took a deep breathe and sat down on her knees in front of the well. She bend over, and looked into the water.
She had a light shock when she saw herself. She had the same curly red hair, but her face had changed. She looked older (of course), really like a young woman. Her jawline was clearly visible and she was as pale as snow, as she watched her hand that was resting in the grass. She didn't think she looked pretty, for her mouth was big with thin lips. Pretty much like a frog. Her eyes were big and she always had an expression on her face as if she was scared.
She looked like her mother, exactly like her. Fragile, scared, innocent and friendly. She thought about her father and threw a rock in the water, that made her reflection wrinkle and disappear. She stood up and took a deep breathe. She continued her walk and hymn until she saw a group of people in the distance.
She narrowed her eyes, and saw Clarke, Finn and Bellamy, who was pushing someone against a tree. She didn't want to be seen, so she walked away. "Hey!" Finn yelled.
Valery closed her eyes and tried to disappear behind a tree. "Val, we can see your hair, come out!" Finn yelled annoyed. She cursed something and stood up, walking towards the people. She saw who the woman was that Bellamy held against the tree. "Raven Reyes? What are you doing here?"
Raven took a step back, narrowing her eyes at Valery. "Your boyfriend took my radio out of my ship and threw it in the water!" Raven snapped at Valery. "He's not my boyfriend," Valery replied with her teeth clenched, "and I know that."
"He killed Jaha." Raven said. "I know that as well." Valery replied quietly. "Ok, well good news, Jaha's not dead." Raven said.
Bellamy's face turned pale and Valery muttered a "What?" Raven nodded to confirm. "You're a lousy shot." Raven said to Bellamy.
"Hey, but Bellamy," Valery started with a forced smile and looked at him, "that means you are not a murderer and that my old man is not the Chancellor, but Jaha is still! And you always did what you had to do to protect your sister! That's who you are."
"Yes," Clarke said, "and he can do that again." Valery frowned and turned around. "What?" She asked.
Clarke took a deep breathe. "They are going to kill 300 innocent people on the Ark, because oxygen is running out..." Valery stared at Clarke.
"And if they'd know we are still alive, they'd come here and..." Valery said and slowly looked at Bellamy and inhaled deeply, "WHY DO YOU DO EVERYTHING TO SAVE YOUR OWN SKIN?" Valery yelled at Bellamy.
Clarke grabbed Valery's wrist. "You also still have your wristband on!" Clarke yelled to Valery. Raven smirked. "Yeah, like that will help," Raven laughed sarcastically, "they'd probably think she killed everyone or survived the radiation because she's a demonic witch." Valery glared at her and mumbled something in Irish, staring at Raven. "What did you do?" Raven snapped.
"I just put a dark spell on you." Valery said tiredly and forced a sarcastic smile and put her middle finger up to Raven. She slowly turned around. "I'll see you guys at camp." Valery said quietly and walked away from the group.
Valery felt light in her head, thoughts were running through her mind. she hated the Ark, but it was home. She wanted the people on the Ark to come here, they didn't do her harm. Just a hand full... Her father and Shumway. That was actually it... She took a deep breathe and sighed. She entered camp and looked for something to eat. She found a kind of fruit and ate slowly of it while sitting on a parachute. She watched the people in the camp, doing their things.
She laid down on her back and stared at the sky. She had no idea how long she was lying like that, until someone interrupted her. "Hey Val." Valery sat down up straight and looked at Finn. "Yes?" She asked slightly annoyed.
"Raven needs help, we need to carry a few things back to camp." Finn said. "I am not going to help her," Valery said and laid down on her back, "sorry." Finn sighed. "She didn't mean to act like that, she just got here. Do you even know how?" He asked.
"Yes, in fact I do. She probably fixed that old rocket thing in Mecha Station, me and my enemy Nygel sold it's pieces." Valery said airily. "Okay, so you come with us? Cuz if you are just lying here all day..." Finn said slowly. "Finn, I broke a rib, just call me out and go away." Valery snapped.
"Why would I call you out?" He asked. "Because everyone does and if everyone still does I am also gonna act like it, okay? I'll help later when you are back at camp." Valery said. "Okay, Val." Finn smiled and he walked away with a few others out of camp. After an hour or something, they came back with equipment. More like parts of Raven's ship. Apparently, the plan was to shot light rockets up in the air, to give a sign. Quite a good idea.
Valery saw Raven, Clarke, Finn and Bellamy. Bellamy was the one who walked up at Valery. "Are you okay?" He asked quite nervously. Valery nodded. "Are you?" She asked. He nodded slowly and sat down next to Valery. "What are you doing here, Bellamy?" Valery asked tiredly. Bellamy shrugged. "Are you angry at me?" He asked.
Valery frowned and looked startled. "What?" She asked confused. "Well, no," she continued, "are you angry at me?" Bellamy nodded. "Yeah I am, but it's getting less." He replied. "I probably deserved that." Valery said. "I just wanted to say sorry," he started, "I mean how Murphy and the rest treated you... they shouldn't have done that. Just me."
"Well, jeez, thanks." Valery replied flatly. "Okay, that being said, I was wondering what you said to Raven." He asked with a smirk.
"Why would you care?" Valery asked confused. "You used to be quite funny and I could use a laugh now." Bellamy replied airily. "Just walk up to your girlfriend and tell her Raven didn't bring shampoo, that'll be a laugh." Valery replied.
Bellamy grinned. "She is not my girlfriend... Please, just tell me." Bellamy asked again.
"It was stupid..." Valery said and she looked at Bellamy who shrugged. Valery glared at him and sighed. "Your front teeth are so large you could eat an apple through a picket fence." Bellamy smiled broadly and shook his head. "Typically you." He said.
Valery looked at him, just looked. This was just so weird and awkward. Like what does he want? Bellamy looked back at Valery, who saw her worried face. "Always so sad and nervously looking... It's hard to remember how you used to laugh." He said quite flatly. "Maybe you could have visited me in prison." Valery replied indifferently. "I tried, but I wasn't allowed." Bellamy replied.
"Wait, what? You tried to visit me?" Valery asked. Bellamy nodded. "I wasn't allowed. They told me you lost your mind and that you might tell me something." Valery stared at the grass. "Only Abby knows..." She mumbled and Bellamy nodded in agreement. "It does makes me quite curious now." He said. Valery shook her head. "I can't tell you, if it's not true..." Valery started.
Bellamy grabbed her hand. "Please tell me... Give me a reason not to be angry at you." Bellamy said. Valery took a deep breathe and held her hand in front of her mouth, holding it there, while she stared at the grass. Bellamy grabbed her hand and pulled it away form her mouth. He let her hand go again.
"I thought I was pregnant," she said quietly, "I didn't got my period for weeks. I thought because people got sick and weird things that it wasn't anything," she wiped a tear of her cheek, "but suddenly I felt it... I was growing," she said dreamily, but suddenly looked sad.
She looked at Bellamy, who was sitting with his face resting in his hands. "I am sorry, I just wanted to protect you. This is punishable on the Ark..." Valery said and she shocked when Bellamy suddenly pulled his face up, that was pale but filled with rage and disbelief. "I could have wed you, then nothing would have happened!" Bellamy snapped.
"Bell," Valery started, "I told you, I am not sure." Bellamy looked at Valery. "Oh and why not?" He asked quite angrily. "Because I woke up with my fanny wet of blood on a floor! Was it a miscarriage or my period? I got stunned by Shumway and thrown in a cell! And I was only sixteen!" She yelled.
Bellamy looked at Valery, shaking his head. "If I had only known Val, I would have done anything to get you out of there." Valery gave a little smile. "Like shooting the Chancellor?" She asked carefully. Bellamy smirked. "Val, that isn't funny."
Valery looked at him. "But would it make any difference for us together?" Valery asked slowly. "I mean, if Abby would say if it was miscarriage or not?" She said quickly. "For now it does a little bit." He said and he squeezed in her hand again. He stood up and Valery pulled her hands up at him.
"Pull me up, we've got some firework to launch." Bellamy grabbed her hands and pulled her up.
"Yeah I am not that excited... If Jaha sees me..." He mumbled. 'If my dad sees me, jeeeez..." Bellamy looked at Val, who took a second or two before she finished her sentence, smiling, "he'd shit his pants." Valery made a weird face and Bellamy smiled broadly, shaking his head. "And otherwise we just run, right?" She said while she shrugged and she ran off to Finn, to help.
Valery helped Finn and Clarke with one rocket and they wiped the sweat of their foreheads when it was finished. It was dark when all three rockets were finished. "Thanks for the help, Val," Raven said and she smiled, "really." Valery smiled and gave a short nod in return. They all gathered behind the rockets, and they shot them.
Valery was standing next to Bellamy, holding her breathe when she saw the three red rockets shooting in the sky. "You think they can see it from up there?" Bellamy asked Clarke, who was standing at the other side of Bellamy. "I don't know, I hope so." She replied. Valery looked like them as if they were shooting stars, and she wanted to make a wish.
"Can you wish on this kind of shooting star?" Clarke asked and looked at Bellamy who didn't say anything. "Forget it." Clarke said.
"No, Clarke, I was just wondering the same thing." Valery said and smiled. "I wouldn't even know where to wish for." Bellamy said flatly. "Oh, I do," Valery said dreamily, "I hope that if they come down here, that someone would bring my radio." She smiled at Clarke and Bellamy, who smiled in return.
"What about you Clarke?" Bellamy asked. Clarke smiled, but didn't say anything. She was looking towards Finn, who had his arm wrapped around Raven's shoulders. Valery decided not to say anything, and to just look up to the sky.
The camp was asleep, but Valery woke up in the middle of the night. She stepped out of the drop ship and saw Bellamy walking fast through the camp, looking in every tent, holding a torch. "Hey, what are you doing?" She asked sleepily. "Have you seen Octavia?" He asked with big eyes. "No, I haven't..." She said and she yawned.
"I'll help you look for her." She said and she walked away. "You don't have to, with your rib..." But before Bellamy could finish his sentence, she was already behind the drop ship to look. When she came back, Clarke was looking as well. After a few minutes, Valery walked to Clarke and Bellamy.
"Maybe we should wake a few people up, it's quite dangerous going only with the three of us... and if we have a bigger group, we will find her quicker if we split up in small groups." Valery suggested.
Bellamy nodded in agreement. "Yes, that will do." He said. Valery stepped into the drop ship and woke up Jasper and Monty. When Jasper heard the news, he freaked out and immediately walked outside. Everyone gathered outside. "Everyone grab a weapon. My sister has been out there for 12 hours, we are not coming back without her." Bellamy said.
Valery was standing above the parachute with weapons, but everyone already took it. Bellamy walked up to her and gave her a metal stick with a very sharp end, like a spear. "Thanks." She said and grabbed it out of his hands. "Oh god, it's heavy." She mumbled and almost dropped it. Bellamy gave her his ax and took the spear himself.
"Come on, you're going with me." Bellamy said and lead Valery out of the camp. "Finn, we are leaving!" Bellamy yelled. Valery looked behind her, and saw Finn climbing out of his tent. Valery's head was very close to Bellamy's torch.
"Don't sent my hair on fire please." She grinned when she bend over covering her head with her hands. "Well, it's already red," Bellamy said, "but I'll watch out. You do need to brush it, you look like that animation movie figure."
"Merida from Brave?" She asked with a smile and Bellamy nodded. Valery looked up from the sky. "What is that?" She yelled abruptly. Everyone else was also looking up to the sky. "Wow it's so bright!" One guy said.
"It's beautiful!" Valery looked closer and her hand reached towards her mouth. A hundred, even more, little lights got shot towards the earth, and Valery knew what that meant, but Raven said it first.
"They didn't work." Raven said, They didn't see the flares." Valery looked at Bellamy. "And a meteor shower tells you that?" He asked indifferently. "That's not meteor shower..." Valery said carefully. "It's a funeral..."
"Exactly. Hundreds of bodies are being returned to the Ark. They didn't get our message. This is what it looks like from the other side." Clarke said. "This is all because of you!" Raven snapped and ran up to Bellamy, but Finn stopped her. "I helped you find the radio!" He replied.
"Yeah, after you jacked it from my pod and trashed it." Raven snapped back. "Yes he knows and now he has to live with it." Clarke said. "All I know is that my sister is out there and I have to find her." Bellamy replied. Valery just got an idea. "I'll come in a sec." She said to Bellamy and walked back to Raven, who was standing with Clarke and Finn.
"I know you can't fix the radio right now, and I don't know how you can even do that if you could, but," Valery took a break and looked at Finn and Clarke, "there was a toy car with a controller under that hatch, can't that help?" Finn and Clarke shrugged. "Well, I do need a transmitter. If it has radio frequency, it can help." Raven said.
"Valery!" Bellamy yelled. Valery looked at Bellamy and back to Raven. "I have to go," Valery said and smiled, "good luck guys!" She walked away and got caught up by Finn. "They are going to look for it and try to fix the radio." Finn said with a smile. "Good," Valery said, "let's hope it'll work."
