First two days
It was Sunday, the day after the party happened and she was arrested and as a rule, there were no visitors allowed for them up until Tuesday so Clarke knew that she wouldn't be seeing anyone of her friends for the next two days and with nothing to do in the cell but to look at the ceiling and talk to Charlie, she decided to train herself despite the small space, it would just have to work. So very early in the morning, she started exercising, Charlotte still asleep. She started with stretching her muscles all the way and once she was finished with that, she started doing sit ups.
Three series of 25 sit ups, five series of 20 pushups and Clarke didn't noticed it before but on their cell, there was a bar that Clarke remembered hadn't been there before in the other timeline and she knew there was only one person that could have done this for her and it was Kane, so she made a mental note to add this to the long list of things she needs to thank him for and with that she did some pull ups when finally after a few hours, Charlotte started to wake up to come face to face with Clarke doing all of that.
"What are you doing?" she asked curiously as she stopped and watched Clarke put her legs on the bar and fall backwards before she started doing reverse sit ups. "This is called exercising. It's good for the muscles and the stamina of the body as well for the mind. It helps me relax sometimes." She said as she kept doing it. "Who taught you?" the girl asked and Clarke could hear the curiosity on the tone of her voice and smiled at her. "No one taught me, silly. I had a book with images of exercises like this and I started copying them in my room. That was how I learned." She said and it wasn't a lie.
She did found a book like that, that showed images and explanation about the movements and it was on top of her desk in her room, the perfect cover for her knowledge on such a thing. There was no other way to get pass the suspicion of her skills in fighting if she wasn't training to be a cadet. "Can I try?" the little girl said after watching for a while and Clarke stopped before she looked at the girl while hanging upside down. "This one I am doing?" She asked and the girl nodded smiling as Clarke chuckled. "How about we start with an easy one first?" she said as she got down from the bar. "Do five of these." She said and showed the girl how to do a push up and waited.
Charlotte could barely do two before she fell onto the floor, panting for air. "Why is it so hard?" she groaned and Clarke smiled at her. "It's not hard. You are just not used to it so your muscles are crying out because they are unused to it but with time and a lot of practice, you will be able do it. This one and many more." She said as she did a few more herself before calling a day and drying herself off with the towel she was given. Charlotte tried again. This time she could do 3. "See? Time and practice." Clarke said and the girl nodded.
"What do you think is going to happen to us now, Clarke?" Charlotte said as she got up from her place on the floor and sat on her bed, crossing her legs up and facing Clarke. "What do you mean?" she asked the young girl. "Are we really going to get out of here or will they kill us? At least, with me." She said and Clarke sighed. "I want you to look at me and pay very close attention to what I am going to say to you right now, okay? It is very important that you listen, alright?" she said and the girl nodded as she paid attention to her friend.
"You are not dying here or anytime soon. You are going to get old and have your family and Wells and I will be the responsible uncle and aunt and Raven and Murphy will be the crazy ones and we will be very happy, all of us. You understand?" Clarke said firmly and a tear went down Charlotte's face but she quickly wiped it out without losing her smile. "Do you really think so?" she asked and Clarke smiled. "I know so. Just trust me. This is not where, much less when it ends for us." Clarke said and the girl smiled.
"I trust you." She said firmly and sincerely and Clarke smiled. "Good." She said as Charlotte made her a question that made her freeze in her place. "What if we were the ones who went to the Earth? How cool would it be?" She asked innocently and Clarke didn't know very well how to answer that question without raising suspicion in the smart little girl so she chose to go with a half-truth, half-hope kind of answer. "It would be awesome. The next generation better make very good use of it or else, I will hunt them down for making us stay up here." She said and Charlotte smiled.
"I will train very hard and then I will help you do that and we will whoop their asses for wasting their chance." She said laughing and Clarke smiled laughing along with her. "It's going to take some time before you are fit to take on anyone but for now, we will continue training so floor. I want those five push-ups we talked about." She said and Charlotte had a determinate look on her face and went into position and started doing it while Clarke watched and helped her when she needed it. She even joined her for a few more series and the time went by so fast.
The next day, after the guards brought them their lunch, they were finally allowed outside of their cells for 2 hours. So as soon as the doors opened, Clarke and Charlotte went in the direction of Murphy's cell, just as the boy was coming out of it and looking for his friend, finally getting to see the new addition coming his way. He smiled at the little one and smirked at Clarke who didn't waste time in hugging him. "Jackass." She said in his ear and he hugged her tighter. "You're here." He said and she understood what he meant and nodded. "I am here." She said before pulling back.
"Hey, braids." He said as he hugged Charlotte who smiled at his nickname for her. "So what did you do to get yourself in here, blondie?" he asked as if he had no idea and he didn't, not completely so she went onto explaining to him what exactly had happened and once she was finished, he started laughing so hard. "Man, what I would have done to have seen that." He said still laughing and she laughed as well. "I am proud of you, blondie." He said and she pushed him slightly. "Dumbass." She said and leaned against the railing with him by her side and Charlotte in front of them.
"But seriously, be prepared for tomorrow. Junior and Tools will eat you alive once they see you. I mean it. They did it to me and what I did wasn't half as bad, I can only imagine what they will do it to you too." He said and she knew he was right but she didn't know how right he was. She thought she was prepared for seeing her other friends and for taking their anger for getting herself in here but by the look on their faces when she entered the visiting room, she knew they were about to berate her real hard and as soon as she sat down and the guards closed the door, Raven was the one to break the silence.
"What in the actual hell?" she almost yelled and Clarke closed her eyes in grimace. "I know, Ray. I am sorry. It just happened." Clarke couldn't find anything better to say at the moment. "What the hell just happened?" Wells asked and by his tone of voice, she was in big trouble but not too long now and he will be here too so he really shouldn't be berating her like this though she was the only one in the room who knew that so she kept quiet. "At the party, Shumway insulted Murphy and Charlottes saying they were criminals and I lost it. I overreacted, I know but I was just so angry when he said that about them that the next thing I know, he was on the floor and I was hitting him with a bat." She said and Wells sighed.
"You're lucky your parents are friends with my Dad." Wells said and Clarke looked at him confusedly. "Why do you say that?" she asked. "Because you haven't seen him, Clarke. His whole face is purple. It's bad. You did a number on him." Raven said almost sounding as if she was proud of her and Wells nodded. "My Dad intervened with him in your favor and warned him that if anything happened to you while you were in here, accident or not, he would pay for it, otherwise, he would have already repaid the favor, believe me. He is not a good person." Wells said and Clarke understood what he meant but she wasn't worried.
She could take on him and his goons. "Well, thank your father for me then." She said to him and he nodded. "What is going to happen to you, Griff?" Raven asked and Clarke sighed. "In 6 months, I get a second hearing and they will decide if I get to live or die. Pretty simple." She said and shrugged. "That is your approach to this? A shrug?" Wells said and she looked at him. "I said this to Charlie and I will say this to both of you. This is not my end, okay? My life will not end now, I just feel within me that this is not the end and I feel that we all will be okay and together again. She said she trusts me with that, do you?" she said and they looked at each other.
"You know we do, Clarke." Wells said and she smiled. "Then don't worry about me. I will be fine besides I got Charlie as my roommate so we have the most fun in that cell." She said and told them about her talks with the girl and her meeting with Murphy the day before and seeing her so calm, composed and happy, the two friends started to relax. "Truthfully, I expected you to be sad." Raven said and Clarke smiled holding her hand. "I am sad we don't get to spend our days all of us together but I'm not sad I am here. I did what I did and I would do it again to protect my friends." Clarke said and Raven nodded.
"I guess I can understand. I would have probably done the same." She said and Clarke squeezed her hand shaking her head. "Raven, you're the only one who can't do something like this because they will float you immediately since you're not a minor anymore so please, no matter what you hear, don't do what I did. None of us want to lose your awesomeness. Okay? We need you more than you will ever know." Clarke said talking not only about her friend but also the genius mechanic that the girl is and Raven chuckled. Wells smiled at what she said.
"Is there anything you need from us?" Wells asked her and Clarke nodded. "Yes, there is. Keep a close eye on my parents. I can't see them every day so I get worried, especially my Dad. He is more like me so you get the whole picture." She said and they all chuckled knowing exactly how Jake was especially where Clarke was involved and with the look she was giving him, Wells understood that she was worried about the glitch and her father getting into trouble for that so he nodded at her.
"Don't worry, we will not let him do anything stupid." He said to her and she smiled at him. "Thank you. You guys are the best friends someone could ask for. I love you guys very much." She said and they nodded. "We love you too Griff. And despite your craziness, you are the best friends someone could have too and no matter what, you can always count with us to be there for you." Raven said and Clarke teared up a little. It was exactly what she needed to hear to keep going and she couldn't wait until she could wake the girl up.
Once again, the same guard opened the door and announced that the visit was over. They said goodbye with hugs and kisses and jokes and Clarke was escorted back to her cell, and once inside, they removed the handcuffs and closed the door leaving the two girls alone and Charlotte was looking at her expectingly. "So how bad was it?" she asked curiously and Clarke laughed. "Raven did want to bite my head off but I know just how to deal with her so it was cool." Clarke said as she lay down on her bed turning to her side to look at the younger girl.
"And Wells?" Charlotte asked and Clarke sighed. "I think he was more hurt than angry. Ever since we were babies, he always wanted to be there to protect me from anything and anyone so I guess deep down he feels like he failed to do that so he will take some time to come back to his normal self but they will both be okay as will we." She said and Charlotte smiled as Clarke turned on her back and looked up at the ceiling as her mind wandered off to a certain brunette girl who was on Earth. Soon, very soon.