My patient, my call
The two girls got inside the dropship and went all the way up until they got to the upper level where everyone was surrounding the boy so Clarke put a stop to it. "Okay. Let's organize this. Wells and Finn, you can go down and help Murphy with the meat. Octavia, you can go down as well. Monty, you will stay right?" She asked and he nodded. "Okay, then everyone else get down, please." She said as she went to Jasper's side. "Charlotte, gather a few things we can use as pillow and put it under his head." She said and the girl did as she asked as Wells and Octavia got down when she felt a presence beside her and it was Finn and when she looked at what was on his hand, she sighed.
The little two headed deer he made her before. When Raven found this and she claimed it as hers, that is when the older girl knew she was the one he had slept with but that would not happen here, no chance in hell. "Thank you." She said to him politely. "Now go please. I need to take a good look over him and his wound," She said and he nodded and left and when Charlotte got back and helped lifted Jasper's head up on the makeup pillow she made, Clarke didn't think twice before offering the deer to the girl. "For you," She said and the girl smiled, not having seen the whole exchange.
"It's cute." She said and Clarke smiled as she dipped the cloth in the water and extended it to the girl. "Okay, now put that away somewhere you won't lose and clean the cuts on his face while I check if he has any more wounds." She said and the girl did as told and she went to check him. "Is there anything I can do to help?" Monty asked and she looked at him. "Try and talk to him. If he loses consciousness, it could be a bad sign," She said and he nodded moving to his friend's line of view and started talking to him as Clarke and Charlotte smiled and continued their work.
Meanwhile on the Ark, Raven and Jake were walking along the halls in silence until they came to stop in front of a door on a pretty deserted area of the Ark that she had not been to before and he opened the door, going inside before he motioned for her to come in too and she did and there it was. The pod he told her about. The one she would use to get to Earth "Wow, is this a piece of a museum?" she said to him and he chuckled. "I know, I always felt the same way looking at this thing," He said and she smiled before she went closer and he crossed his arms and watched her take a look at it.
"How much time do I have to fix this?" she asked and he sighed. "Nine days." He said and she looked at him in shock and he nodded. "I know," He said sighing deeply and she looked back at the pod. "This is pure junk. They must have found this when they saved it from MIR 3 in 2102." She moved around it and came to look at him. "You want me to get a 130 year old escape pod ready to stand up to the inferno of reentry in nine days?" she asked slowly and he smiled at her. "Feeling challenged? Want to give up?" he asked and she looked at the necklace and held it before looking back at him.
"You got yourself a mechanic, jackass," She said and he smiled and nodded. "I knew I could count on you but Raven, I won't be able to help you. As head engineer and council member, I have the rest of the Ark to take care of. You will have to do this on your own but anything you need and I will do my best to help." He said and she nodded. "Don't worry. I got this and since we have such an adorable time limit, I better get started." She said getting her tool box and taking of her red jacket. "Very well, I will leave you to it and good luck, kid." He said leaving and she held onto her necklace tightly. "Yeah, good luck to me," she said before she started assessing what the problem with this thing was. Or rather what wasn't a problem.
Back in camp, Clarke had finished her work with Jasper for the moment. "I will go down and get us something to eat. Stay here with him and any change, come and get me, okay?" she said and the younger girl nodded and Clarke went to the ladder and got down, walking out of the dropship and seeing Murphy and Jessica in charge of the meat as she asked and no wristbands off, all of which made her smile. She saw Finn and Wells eating and came to them as they looked at her. "How is he?" Wells asked her and she sighed. "He is stable for now but he needs medicine." She said and they sighed.
"Why don't you go and get some meat for yourself? You deserve it. You were the one who caught it," Finn said and she nodded. "Yeah, I will. Thanks," She said to him and went to the fire and greeted everyone and Murphy already had her stick with meat in hand and passed to her. "Well done, blondie." He said clapping for her as she took a bite and sighed. "This is so good," She said and he nodded eating his piece as well. "I got Charlotte's and Monty's piece and the rest is already prepared for tomorrow," He said and she smiled.
"Thanks but I need to talk to you," She said sounding serious and he nodded understanding it was those conversations. They both grabbed the pieces and went to give Charlotte and Monty who thanked them and when they came back down, they went to the side of the dropship where they could oversee everyone enjoying and playing and Bellamy leaving camp to go looking for Octavia and they both smiled. "Lover boy number 1 will be in trouble," Murphy said and she smiled. "Yeah especially tomorrow that the acid fog will make its appearance," She said grimacing and he nodded. "I figured," He said.
"Look, Wells and I will leave tomorrow and Finn will probably come with us. Before, Charlotte went after the hunting party and she stayed with Bellamy and that's when he gives her the idea to slay her demons. I got half of that covered by making her friends with Wells but Atom will die if he goes and I would like to avoid all of it so keep Charlotte and Atom here if you can, okay?" she said and he nodded. "I will try my best but you know he will follow Bellamy," He said and she nodded sighing. "I know that and maybe there is nothing that can help avoid it. It's his choice after all and we can only do so much but that doesn't mean we can't try." She said and he nodded.
"Okay, I will try my best with Atom but don't worry, Charlotte is not going anywhere," He said and she nodded. "Thanks." She said and he smirked. "You got them to make that stretcher for Jasper and the panther, right?" he said and she laughed nodding. "I also killed the panther, if you want to know," She said joking and he laughed along with her just as Charlotte came out of the dropship and looked in their directions. "Clarke!" she called and ran to them. "Clarke, he is getting worse, I think." She said and Clarke nodded.
"Show time," She said to him and went along with the girl and he nodded before he moved to their tent and opened it to find Wells and Jessica making out, touchy feely and all. The two of them blushed as they pulled apart and were speechless so all he could do was chuckle at them. "Sorry, Junior. I didn't mean to cockblock you. I will go to the other one." He said laughing as he walked out and into the next tent while still laughing hard. As Clarke and Charlotte got up to where they had Jasper, they went straight to the boy. She grabbed her father's watch and checked his pulse.
"His pulse is dropping." She said to the girl and he moaned once again. "Shut up that kid." Someone said from lower levels, it was about to start, people ordering her to shut him up or just kill him. She got closer to Jasper and whispered to him, "Don't listen to them. You're going to make through this, okay? I'm Wanheda, I command you not to die one me, Jas." Clarke said so only he could hear her even if he didn't and caressed his hair. "Charlie, can you watch him? I will get some clean water. Be right back." She said and went down and out of the dropship and looked up at the sky before going to get the water she needed and went back inside.
Jasper couldn't sleep all night. Clarke got Charlotte to go to sleep after a few hours but she stayed up with him checking over him and so did Monty and all night, there were people saying mean things to Jasper and she just ignored them and kept taking care of him but it was already morning and soon enough she knew she would have to be leaving and she started taking the poultice off his wound and started cleaning it as Finn came up. "The grounders cauterized his wound. They saved his life," She said. "Saved his life so they could string him up for live bait," Finn said as he leaned against the metal wall. "Garden of Eden, this ain't."
"This is infected. Any progress with fixing the communication system?" she asked Monty and he shook his head. "That would be a firm no." He said just as Wells came up the ladder. "How is he doing?" he asked crunching down on her side. "Not well but there is only one thing I can do now so I will need you to hold his leg and Finn, hold his arms," She said to the boys as she grabbed the knife and put it on the fire on her side. "I'm not going to like this, am I?" Monty asked and she shook her head. "No, you're not." She said grimly and waited for a couple of minutes for the knife to heat up.
"Okay, are you guys ready? He can't move or I could hurt him more." She said and the boys nodded and she grabbed the knife and moved over to the wound and as soon as it made contact, Jasper's screams got worse and he started trashing. "Hold him still. I need to cut the infected flesh before it gets worse," She said to them and Jasper was losing consciousness just as Octavia came up. "Stop, you're killing him," She said to Clarke. "She's trying to save his life," Finn said as Bellamy came up. "She can't," He said and Wells stood up to face him. "Back off." He said to the guy.
"He is not going to die. Period. If you are not here to be anything other than a jackass, leave." Clarke said as she continued her work. "The kid's a goner. If you can't see that, you're deluded. He is making people crazy." Bellamy said and she turned to look at him. "Should I give up on you too if you find yourself in his situation one day? Simply let you die because people are irritated?" she asked him and he got quiet. "My mother is the chief doctor and if I say he is going to make it, he is going to make it. There is still hope for him." She said turning back to her patient. "This is not about hope. It's about guts. You don't have the guts to make the hard choices." He said to her.
"I do. He's been like this for 3 days. If he is not better by tomorrow, I will kill him myself." He said but just before he turned to leave, Clarke turned to him. "Since this is about guts, let me tell you something. If you don't leave Jasper alone, you will find yourselves without your guts, how about that?" she said seriously as she saw Wells smile and Finn smirk and she turned her back on the guy. "Octavia, let's go," He said and she didn't even look at him. "I'm staying here." She said firmly and Clarke smirked as he went down the ladder.
"Power hungry, self-serving jackass. He doesn't care about anyone but himself. No offense." Monty said and Octavia shrugged. "Yeah, Bellamy is all of that but he also happens to be right." Finn said and Clarke looked at him. "No, he is not." She said firmly then she wrapped his wound and grabbed the poultice. "Octavia, look after him for a while. I will ask for Charlotte to come up here, she knows what to do. Wells, come with me," She said and stood up and went for the ladder and got down, Wells following her outside.
"Take a look at this and see if you know what this is after all you're the botany ace. I will go get Charlotte." She said and passed the poultice to him and walked out and went to the tent Murphy said were hers and the girls and she went in and there she was, sleeping peacefully and Clarke hated to wake her up but she needed her so she shook the girl. "Charlie, wake up. I need your help." She said and it didn't take long for the girl to wake up. "Hey, what is it?" she said and Clarke smiled. "I need you to go take care of Jasper for me, can you do that?" she said and Charlotte nodded.
"Okay." She said and then she was out of the tent and Clarke followed and could see her running to the dropship and she went back to where Wells was looking at the plants like she asked. "And?" she said and he looked at her. "Easy, seaweed." He said though she already knew but she played as if she didn't. "It has antibiotic properties so a tea would be better, we just need to find more of it." She said and he nodded as Finn came to them. "Are you angry?" he asked her and she looked at him. "No." She said and turned back to Wells.
"There's got to be a water source nearby." She said to her friend and he nodded at her. "It would have to have a slow current and the water would be more red than green." He said and Finn intervened. "I know just the place." He said and so did she but not yet so she nodded. "Good, then get ready to leave. Both of you." She said grabbing her bag and moving out, passing by Murphy and nodding as he nodded back and the boys followed her out of camp.