Unsurprisingly, it wasn't long before Bellamy was back on his feet, almost like the whole stabbing ordeal had never happened in the first place. And even though it took Clarke a bit longer to actually believe him when he said he was fine, she was grateful for that.
Raven had gotten the radio set up into a digital screen, making it possible to see the people they spoke with on the ark as well as talk to them. Clarke had been vehemently avoiding her mother though, so she hadn't used it herself yet.
"Hey, Clarke!" Clarke turned toward Raven at the girls voice and saw the mechanic standing at the edge of the dropship.
"C'mere a sec," She said, and something in her tone filled Clarke's gut with dread. What now?
Clarke followed Raven into the dropship, where she was immediately cornered by the girl.
"What's with you and Finn? Huh?" Raven was all in her face and it took Clarke a moment to actually process the words, before her face contorted in confusion.
"Finn..?" She asked, and Raven seemed taken aback by the blonde's tone.
"Y- yeah. Are you not..?" Clarke just kept staring at her, and after a couple seconds, Raven took a step back, rubbing her hand over her face.
"Ugh, I'm sorry. I thought you and him had a thing, or something." Clarke only grew more confused at that.
"What? Why?" Were the only words she could muster up in response to the raven haired girls accusations.
"He's just..." A sigh. "He's been gone all the time, and he always seems - i don't know - off around me or something. You two seemed pretty good friends so I guess I just assumed..."
"Hey, it's okay. But I wouldn't do that to you Raven, you're my friend too, you know. And I can't say for sure I know what's going on with Finn but ever since we got down to the ground, so for as long as I've known him, he's been leaving at random and exploring the forest all the time. Bellamy and I have both tried to stop him, I've told him it's dangerous, but he always just says something stupid like 'I eat danger for breakfast' or something." Raven let's out a stressed laugh at her poor Finn impression, and Clarke feels some of the tension clear from the room at that.
"You know, if you're really worried, you should probably just talk to Finn. I can't give great relationship advice or anything, but I do know from personal experience that you shouldn't keep distrust towards people when you're not even sure that they deserve it in the first place." Clarke's mind went to Wells. She swallowed the sudden lump in her throat as she thought of her best friend.
Raven seemed consider her advice before nodding.
"Damn, for a girl who's been in solitary for a year, you sure are good at people stuff." Clarke felt a smile curve her lips at the other girls words.
"I try," She said, and Raven smiled at her before nodding once and heading towards the exit.
"Hey, sorry about that whole accusing you thing, not cool of me. And I'm glad were friends." She said, before walking outside, hopefully to try to find Finn and talk to him.
Clarke turned away from the door only to see Octavia perched on the ladder behind her.
"Hey, Clarke." The younger girl offered her a smile as she climbed the rest of the way down the ladder.
"Have you seen Bel anywhere?" Clarke frowned at Octavia's question, trying to recall if she had.
"No, I haven't seen him all day actually." She said, suddenly realizing how odd that was.
"Me neither. Miller and a couple other guys are missing too though, so they're probably out hunting or something, right?" Clarke could tell younger Blake was a little desperate for reassurance, and her suggestion sounded valid enough so she nodded.
"Yeah, that makes sense." She offered a smile at her friend.
But then that dread in her gut was back, and she was starting to wonder if it was even put there by Raven in the first place. She swallowed thickly as Octavia left the dropship. At least she wasn't worried.
And Clarke shouldn't be either. Bellamy was definitely out hunting or exploring or something like that. He didn't need to tell Clarke that he was going when he did something like that. Just because he had let her know the last couple times didn't mean anything. Maybe he just forgot to this time. Yeah, probably. She was probably worried over nothing.
But the feeling in her gut didn't go away.
...
"We need Clarke! Now!" Miller's frantic voice had Clarke jumping from her place at the fire and running over the gates that were being hauled open.
Why did they need her? Someone must be hurt. And if Miller was with Bellamy, did that mean..?
"Clarke, it's Raven," As soon as Clarke hears his voice, she feels relief wash over her. That relief is quickly replaced with worry when she registers Bellamy's words.
"What? What happened?" She asks quickly, panic seeping into her tone.
"We found her when we were out, she was just lying there, and she looked terrible. We thought she was dead at first." Miller answers and Clarke quickly follows Bellamy, who has Raven in his arms, to the dropship.
"Well what the hell happened to her?" She asks, needing to know more than that.
"We don't know, she wasn't conscious. This was next to her though," Another guy from the group hands her a canteen, one from their camp. She must have been drinking out of it.
When they reach the dropship, Bellamy puts Raven onto the metal table where he lay, just a few weeks earlier. As soon as she's out of his arms, he turns around and walks out, muttering to Miller, the only one of their group that had followed him in the dropship.
Clarke doesn't have time to ask where the hell he's going, or what they're talking about. She quickly focuses her attention on Raven, touching her hand to the girls forehead.
Her skin is on fire and she's sweating like crazy. Her complexion has paled to an almost greenish tint, and her eyes flutter as if she's in pain.
Clarke examines the canteen briefly, but it offers her no help. As far as she can tell, it's just a metal tube from the dropship with a few sips of water inside. She puts it down and looks back at Raven, praying she can figure this out on her own. The last thing she wants to do is talk to her mother again.
"Oh my god, Clarke what happened?" Octavia is hopping down from one of the upper levels of the dropship when she notices Raven. Jasper and Monty quickly follow, clearly concerned.
"I don't know, Bellamy and the others found her like this. She seems sick, really sick." Clarke quickly checks the girl for injuries, but other than a few scrapes on her hands there's nothing to be found.
"Shit." Clarke murmurs, and Monty approaches slowly.
"Where did they find her?" He asks, and Clarke just shakes her head, not even knowing the answer to that. She needed Bellamy back in here now, she needed him to give her more information.
As if on cue, heavy footsteps sounded behind he and she turned around, feeling relieved for only a second. Then she noticed.
"What the hell, Bel!?" Octavia is the first person to say something about it.
Behind the elder Blake sibling, three of their crew are lugging in an unconscious grounder, not just any grounder, but the same one who took Octavia. This was bad, really bad.
"Bellamy, what do you think you're doing?" Clarke abandons Raven's side momentarily to block the path of her soulmate, who seems itching to get away from this conversation, to get away from her.
"What I have to. We need answers, Clarke." He says, not meeting her eyes.
"So what? You're gonna torture him?" Clarke wasn't being 100% serious, but when Bellamy clenches his jaw and adverts his eyes even further, dread fills her stomach.
"You can't! This isn't who we are!" Her voice is pleading, and silence hangs heavily in the air for a few seconds, before Bellamy's eyes finally find hers.
"It is now," He says, his voice just above a growl as her pushes past her, the others following him with the grounder. The quickly climb to the top floor of the dropship, before shutting the trap door behind them.
Clarke stays frozen in place, staring into nothing for a few more seconds, before Monty suddenly cries out to her.
"Clarke, she's seizing!" His voice shocks her back to reality and she pushed her whole interaction with Bellamy to the back of her mind for the time being, knowing there was more important things to worry about.
"Get her on her side," Clarke instructs, helping Monty to roll the girl over as she starts foaming from the mouth. Clarke's eyes grow wide in panic as she watched the girl convulse. But as worried as she is, she recognizes this behaviour. She remembers learning about back in medical school on the Ark.
Pale skin, sweating, fever, seizing, it all added up to something... but what was it? She just needed a second to think!
And then it hit her. Poison.
Raven had been poisoned.
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this took way too long to update! im so sorry about that! ive been super busy but im really hoping to update more often now. thought id switch it up a bit with the whole poisoning thing because i really wanna expand on clarke and ravens relationship. it also plays a somewhat key role in a finn thing thats gonna be coming up soon too sooo
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