it's for your own good (it's for the neighborhood)

by orange-yarn

100 word drabbles for CW's The 100. Spoilers through 1X08 Day Trip.

12. 1X04 Murphy's Law (Monty)

1X04 Murphy's Law (Monty)

You've been tinkering with the wristbands for over a week, taking them apart, and putting them back together. By now, you're more than a little familiar with how these things function - but there's still a sense of shock and amazement when you pry Clarke's loose and the little blue lights actually stay on.

You can do this, you think as you spend the day piecing together a transmitter from scavenged parts and pieces of the ship, patching it into the communication system. It's not that sophisticated, and it sure isn't pretty, but it'll work. You know it'll work.

(It doesn't.)