Earth Skills Part 2

We walked through the forest for quite a while and I spotted a scout but they didn't approach us, they must have been desperate not to be seen by the 100 kids. Especially after someone just speared one kid in the chest.

I heard yelling and I walked quicker as did the others. Once we reached the border of their camp and I saw that it was just a fight between two of the 100 I stayed back and let Clarke deal with it. Octavia and Monty stopped, "Come down with us, Kassandra." Octavia said reaching for my hand.

I shook my head, "Deal with that first and get yourself bandaged myself up." I told her and she nodded and Monty helped her down to the group and I bent down and his in the bushes to hide from the sight of the 100.

I watched as one kid grabbed the other kid that he was fighting and held a knife to his throat. Clarke ran down, Finn on her tail. "Wells! Let him go!" Jaha's kid, huh, apparently today was full of surprises. I looked around, scanning the crowd for Bellamy to try and get a glance at one of my best friends that I thought I'd never seen again. It wasn't till I saw him rush over to Octavia that I had identified him. Monty gave Octavia over to Bellamy and he helped over to a log to sit down on to get her off her injured leg.

"Where's the food, princess?" Bellamy asked looking around to Clarke, Octavia, Monty, and Finn.

"We didn't make it to Mount Weather, isn't that obvious, Blake?" Finn said looking at Bellamy with hate and I wondered what was the deal with these two. Quite frankly it's good that they never made it to Mount Weather, the Mountain Men would have killed them.

"What the hell happened out there?" Bellamy asked Clarke.

"We were attacked."

Wells stepped forward towards her. "Attacked? By what?"

"Not what Chancellor. Who. Turns out that the last man from the ground died on the Ark, wasn't the last grounder." Octavia said as she took a peek at the terribly bandaged wound. I had the urge to yell at her for doing, the wound needed to be cleaned if she didn't want to risk it getting infected.

"It's true. Everything we thought we knew about the ground is wrong. There are people here, survivors. The good news is, that means we can survive. Radiation won't kill us. We have..." Clarke started but Finn cut her off.

"Bad news, the grounders will kill us."

"Where's the kid with the goggles?" Wells asked looking around noticing that they had come back one person short from their little mission.

"Jasper was hit. They took him." Clarke said and then I saw her look down and she went over to him and grabbed his arm and pulled down his sleeve to reveal a bare wrist. "Where's your wristband?"

Wells took his arm out of Clarke's grasp, "Ask him." He said pointing to Bellamy who looked away trying to avoid Clarke's gaze.

"How many, Bell?" She asked angrily.

"Twenty-four and counting." Clarke turned around to the kid behind her who was looking at her smugly.

"You idiots. Life support on the Ark is failing. That's why they sent us down here. They need to know the ground is survivable. And we need their help against the people out there. If you take off your wristbands, you're not just killing them, you're killing us." Clarke yelled throwing Bellamy a look of disappointment.

"We're stronger than you think, Clarke. You're one of the privileged. If they come down you'll have it good. But the rest of us, how many us could say the same?" he looked around and turned to the delinquents that stood around them. "We can take care of ourselves. That wristband on your arm? It makes you a prisoner. We are not prisoners anymore! They say they'll forgive your crimes. I say you're not criminals! You're fighters, survivors! The Grounders should worry about us!"

"More like you should worry about the grounders, jackass, they'll tear you to shreds." I muttered softly under my breath as the delinquents cheered. My god Bellamy had grown into an arrogant ass in the last fourteen years. I was quite ready to kick his ass, I would not let any more blood to be spilled, and now I wouldn't let everyone up on the ark die even though I had a grudge against my parents even though they did it to save my life. This was my chance to prevent a war and save lives, but Bellamy was going to destroy that very chance if he kept be an ass.

I saw Bellamy attempt to grab Clarke's arm to try and stop her but she ripped her arm out of his grasp and walked away towards the dropship, Monty following her.

I stayed where I was, they were going to go after Jasper and I would join them, they would need protection in case the grounders decided to attack them like they did Jasper when he crossed the river. I wouldn't let them die, and I had to make sure they didn't start a war especially since the clans were mostly at peace since Lexa had become Heda and the war. The tensions between Azgeda and Trikru were semi-peaceful and there was no killing until I crossed the border.

After a little while Clarke, Bellamy, Wells, and Murphy headed out of the camp. Wells and Clarke were in the front while both Murphy and Bellamy were in the back. I ran ahead into the trees and made sure that Clarke saw me to make sure she knew that I was following her.

It might be on terrible circumstances, the Ark dying but at least I got to see my friends again after all these years and I'll get to see my parents again if we can get a message up to the Ark and they come down before they all die, I grabbed the pendant around my neck and opened it and looked down to see the photos of my parents and I smiled at the memories that I had of them. I didn't have as any memories of them anymore after I made a new life for myself as Princess Of Azgeda. I still may not be happy with them, Me keeping the 100 safe was to prevent a war and to also make sure now that I made sure those of the ark survived since it was dying.

We had been walking for a while, following the trail that the warriors had left when they dragged Jasper away. They seemed like intentional in making sure they left tracks, blood, and broken branches, this was leading into a trap of some sort using Jasper as bait. That's why they didn't kill him.

"Hey, hold up. What's the rush? You don't survive a spear through the heart." I looked back to see Bellamy waving the gun in the air.

Wells walked over to Bellamy, "Put the gun away, Bellamy." Murphy shoved Wells away from Bellamy.

"Well, why don't you do something about it, huh?" Murphy asked challenging Wells.

"Jasper screamed when they moved him. If the spear had struck his heart he would have died instantly, It doesn't mean we have any time to waste." She turned to continue walking but Bellamy grabbed her wrist.

"Soon as you take off the wristband, we can go Clarke." He said and Clarke tore her arm out of his grasp.

"You may have come down here to protect both Octavia and I but I don't need your protection. You've been quiet and an ass to me ever since we landed. And the only way the Ark is going to think I'm dead is if I'm dead. Got it?" Bellamy's face changed for a moment, hurt by the words Clarke had thrown at him.

"Brave Princess." he commented and I heard movement near them and I took out my sword just in case but it was only Finn.

"Hey, why don't you find your own nickname? You call this a rescue party? Got to split up, cover more ground. Clarke, come with me." Finn said and Clarke followed him, sparing one look to Bellamy, a look of disappointment and sadness was written across her face but then she turned back to Finn.

"Better late than never." She said thanking him for his rescue and I walked with those two leaving the others behind as they just started coming, attempting to keep up with Finn and Clarke.

When the others were far enough behind me I walked closer to them along the bushed that they had approached and walked through them trying to talk to both of them. "Be careful once we reach where Trikru has taken your friend it's more than likely a trap to kill you all." I warned her and she looked over to me and nodded.

"I'm happy you're alive Kassandra, you don't know devastated Bellamy and I were once we found out that you had died in landing on Earth." She told me softly, smiling.

On The Ark

Fourteen Years Ago

Abby walked into her quarters the devastation of what had happened could clearly been seen on her face. Both Clarke and Bellamy were playing around and Jake was sitting on the couch watching the kids play. Jake looked up to see his wife place her bag on the table and look up at him sadly.

"Abby, is everything ok?" he asked getting up, heading over to his wife.

Abby shook her head and looked to the children who had stopped playing and were looking at her curiously. "Mommy is Kassandra coming over today, or is she still in trouble because her blood is diffrent from the rest of us?" Clarke asked and Abby looked down in sadness and Jake realized what had happened.

"Clarke, Bellamy can you go into the other room for a moment, I'll call you out in a few minutes." Jake asked and they nodded and headed into Clarke's room and closed the door.

Jake turned to Abby who had tears running down her face and she broke down, "Kassandra didn't make it to the ground did she?" Jake asked.

Abby sniffled, "She did but she died on impact, that's all we know, we have no way to tell anything about if the radiation levels were safe enough." She was silent for a moment before she broke down again. "I swore to Marcus and Callie when they came to me and told us that Kassandra had black blood I'd keep her safe and I failed. She got hurt on my watch in the mess hall when I was watching her for the day while Callie and Marcus were stuck in meetings for a few hours. I caused her death, I caused Callie and Marcus to loose their daughter." She cried and Jake grabbed her hands and squeezed them.

"Abby, please don't blame yourself, it was their decision to send her to the ground they wanted to give her a chance and not float her. " Jake said and Abby looked up to him.

"I still feel responsible Jake, I'm the reason that the council found out. Maybe if I had kept a better eye on the two none of this would have happened and I wouldn't have lost my best friend." She said and Jake pulled her up into a hug.

"I'm sure Callie doesn't hate you Abby, neither does Marcus. The two of them are just mourning their daughter. Give them time." Jake said and he squeezed her tightly and unknown to them they were being listened into by Clarke and Bellamy who were utterly horrified that they are best friend had died and they never got a chance to say goodbye to her. They closed the door silently and Clarke wrapped his arms around him and started crying silently into his shoulder and Bellamy wrapped his arms around her trying to comfort Clarke as she cried and he tried to hold the tears back, to try and stay strong but he couldn't and he let them fall as both him and Clarke mourned the loss of their best friend, she may have been stubborn, she got that from her father. But she was one of the best friends the two had ever have, even though she had been diffrent from everyone else on the Ark.