Abby sat in Clarke's old cell looking at the Earth through the window on the ceiling. The door opened up and Abby stood up and a guard walked into the cell and behind him Jaha followed.

"Prisoner, step to the rear of the cell." Abby stepped back keeping her eyes in Jaha ready to question her.

"You can leave us alone now sergeant.

"Sir." The Guard started to question looking back at Jaha and then exited to room not wanting to argue with the man

"Has Raven started her decent?" Environmental factors?" she questioned and got no answer.

"As of this morning, Oxygen is down 16%. Co2 and Methane are heading to red levels." Jaha informed Abby and she looked at him surprised.

"But, our projections said that we wouldn't be critical for another three months."

"Your husbands projections were wrong. The Council has granted you work release pending review. Medical is overwhelmed. Dizziness, fatigue, vision problems." Jaha told her and he set the case that he held behind him down on the small table in the room.

"It's pulmonary toxicity. I know how they feel. She leaned up against the wall and closed her eyes. The problem was worse than she had imagined, the effects were affecting the population of the Ark faster than she realized.

"Thr Prison section has been on half air since midnight." He handed Abby oxygen and she she shook her head when she laid her eyes on it.

"No. I'm not going to take more than my share." she refused and he kept out for her to take. Jaha knew that Abby was stubborn and that she never gave up easily, but neither did he on occasion, especially when it came to his friends. "We start choosing who gets extra o2, and were one step closer to choosing who lives and who dies."

"Abby... The Council approved Kane's population reduction plan three hours ago." Jaha said and Abby's head perked up in surprise.

"You voted without me? Why?"

"You broke the law Abby, you helped Raven launch herself down in a pod to an irradiated planet and probably kill herself in the process. Another life lost, her death is on your hands." There was a beat of silence. "It wouldn't have mattered anyways, we followed the rules of order. It wouldn't have mattered. Their approval was unanimous. We start in 12 hours."

"How many?" Abby asked

"320 people will be excised from the grid."

"No, murdered, Thelonious. 320 people will be murdered."

"We need to wait for Raven to report back."

"Look at those numbers. Every hour that passes, we put more people in danger.

"She risked her life for those people."

"No, you risked her life. When you let her believe that loving a boy somehow meant trusting her life in a hundred year old metal coffin. And that trust is going to kill her. Another child dead, just like the others, just like our own." He trust the oxygen back at her. "Take this. People are suffering. You can help."

"Raven will make it to Earth. I know she will." Abby said confidently to Jaha and put the mask over her mouth, taking deep breaths.

"Goodspeed to her."

Octavia and Clarke were exploring the woods around the ship with caution of Cassandra's warning. They rather not be killed tonight. They had been looking for more food, they had plenty of meat back at camp but they thought it would be good if they had nuts and berries also.

Clarke was sitting at a bush picking some of the berries that looked ready enough and putting it in the collection bag that they had managed to whip up with the supplies that they had.

"Clarke, do you think Kassandra will be ok?" Octavia asked her and Clarke turned her head around to look at her and shrugged.

"I have hope O. She survived down here for fourteen years. The chances are pretty high." She commented but deep down she was worried but wouldn't show it. Her long time best friend from the Ark was still alive. She was diffrent, a lot diffrent. But she didn't mind cause so was she. So was everyone else. The ground gave you a diffrent perspective on life, in space they had so many rules up there that they had to worry about. Down here things were a bit diffrent but at least they were not confined to the station. They had the world at their fingertips. "Hopefully the radio parts from her pod are still in good condition so Mnty can use them to be able to contact the Ark, before they decide to start decreasing the population to save air.

There was a flash of light above them and they looked up into the sky to see what looked like a comet flying through the atmosphere.

After a moment the sky lit up even more as what could be made out as a pod crashed down in the woods.

"Octavia, that was a pod! The Ark has sent something down." Clarke said looking over to Octavia excitedly.

"Or someone" Octavia said and she started running off in the direction of the landing site of the pod and Clarke ran after her grabbing her arm stopping her in her path.

"Wait, we need to go back to camp and grab some sort of weapon. There are grounders out there." She said and after Octavia nodded and both of them started off back to camp.

Everyone in camp was ether around the fire and just hanging around when a boom erupted in the sky, "Check it out." Everyone looked up into the sky to see a ship falling through the sky towards the ground in the distance.

"Bellamy! Get out here." Someone yelled and a few moments later Bellamy walked out of the dropship and up into the sky where several people were pointing up at and he saw the ship crash on the distance and ducked back into the dropship, a plan already brewing on how to deal with this new problem. On that ship there were ether supplies or there was a person aboard, but he did know one thing. There was a radio on the pod and no one would get their hands on it. He knew his relationship with Clarke, O, and Kassandra would be tougher now but it would be worth it in the long run. I wouldn't have to worry about the Ark being on my ass if they ended up making it to the ground after I shot the chancellor.

Alright the last day that I know that ill be able to update for at least a while will probably be June 10th. Just wanted to let you guys know. Comment down below what you think. Ill try my best to get updates over the summer but I cant promise anything. It'll be hard without a laptop. I'll try to get more chapters out so I wont be on my regular schedule of updating.

-icewarrior413