While the hours passed as she made her way to the supplies, Clarke let her mind wonder a bit over the zombie and time traveling issues. Both topics made her feel like she was in some kind of horror/science fiction book or movie. She had already pinched her arm to make sure it wasn't a nightmare, well alright she did it a few times but she was alone out here so she only looked silly to herself. When most people that did that, they did it because something so amazing was happening and they wanted to make sure it was real, Clarke was hoping the opposite. She had hoped this hell she was in wasn't real. Unfortunately, it was real and she desperately wanted out.

The problems with zombies was something she didn't have to worry about like the others. They would always have to be careful so they didn't get bit, while she could just walk right up to them and nothing happened. It made her want to know why what was so different about her? Not enough to want to subject herself to becoming a lab rat but it did bother her that she didn't know. Was it something that was wrong with her? Also, what would the zombie DNA do to her? Nothing? Something crazy like that comic book character that was bitten by a spider and made him turn into a superhero, was that something that could happen to her? She really hoped not, she looked terrible in tights and being a superhero sounded exhausting. Maybe if this place was safe for them to stay in she could make a medical lab if they didn't have one, then at least she could run some tests on herself to see if she could find anything.

That brought her mind to the other hell- time travel. Seriously, it all was just unreal. Clarke hoped to find some books on the theory of it , she had many questions about how it might have happened and why. Why did they come back in time to this? Were they being punished for something, for their ancestors leaving? She shook her head at those thoughts, knowing she just sounded insane now. None of them were being punished, it was just something that happened and they now had to live with it. If somehow she ever found out more information good, but if not, well it wouldn't be the end of the world would it be? Cause that had already happened. Thank you, zombies, and who or whatever made it happen.

She had been so lost in her head that she didn't notice she had finally reached Mount Weather. Now all she had to do was find the hidden door on this side. Couldn't they have left better directions other than a general spot? It took her almost a half an hour of standing and just starting, trying to see something out of place before she found it. Luckily they had at least provided them with the code written on the map to get into the door or they would have never been able to get in.

It took a few sharp tugs on the handles before the doors swung open but before she could head inside she was stopped when a body slammed into hers, knocking her to the ground. She let out a scream so loud it had the birds around them flying as fast as they could.

Bellamy was pacing back and forth angry that he had let Clarke go, angry that it was even further away, angry that-

"Bell, stop, what's going on with you?" He looked down at the small hand on his arm and followed the hand up to the face of his baby sister.

He lightly pushed away from her to run his fingers through his hair, pulling at the ends of it. "She's out there alone O! With zombies! Because we traveled back in time straight into them! They ate most of us, ate! This is crazy!"

Octavia let her brother rant for a moment, knowing he needed to let it out. She wondered why and how the Clarke girl got into her brother's head so fast. Not just her but the rest of them too. She had watched her brother walk around to all of them, making sure they were ok and told them to try and rest. From seeing her only care for her to caring for these strangers should have made her feel jealous, instead, it made her feel proud.

"Bell pacing like this is only going to get you worked up more. You heard her, it will be hours before she gets back and we don't have any water. Why don't we just go sit down for now?" While she wanted to try and offer some support on the other things bothering him, Octavia had no clue what to say about zombies or time travel. She had heard the others talk about what they had seen or read about them but having been stuck living under the floor most of her life Octavia didn't have hardly any of those experiences. The only stories she knew were the ones Bellamy had told or read to her and zombies wasn't one he would have told her, worried that it would scare her.

Suddenly a flash of brilliance came to her! It was perfect, they could maybe find out more about the other person that was bitten and it would keep Bellamy's mind busy so he didn't pace a hole in the floor!

"Oh! How about instead we see if we can talk to that guy again, find out what he knows about the other person that got bitten? We need to know if anything else might happen to Clarke. She didn't turn, but what about any other symptoms?"

Bellamy was surprised at the suggestion, then more surprised he hadn't thought of it before now. With a smile in thanks to his sister, he went off to do just that, hoping he didn't get any more bad news.

Monty stopped him on his way, asking what he was going to do. Bellamy answered him and spoke just loud enough that the others heard as well, and one by one they got up and moved to get comfortable around the radio.

Bellamy blinked at them, wondering what just happened. One of the girls saw and gave him a grin. "It's as you and Monty said, she's one of us now, we have to stick together. You can't keep us in the dark about anything, we deserve to know too."

Citizen Z was goofing off just waiting for the Ark, no the time travelers? No, the.., shit he had to come up with a name for them. Them, he was waiting back from them on what they wanted to do. He had just won another game of thumb war against himself when the radio squeaked at him.

"Uh hello? Citizen Z? This is Bellamy Blake a friend of Clarke's. Are you there?"

Hmm. He didn't know if it was god or bad that it wasn't Clarke that was speaking to him. Did he come on too strong or fast about meeting the other group? Did he scare her?

"Hello Bellamy, this is Citizen Z. What can I do for you?"

"We wondered if you could give us some more information on the other person that was bitten? How is he doing? We know the bite didn't make him turn but did it do anything else to him? Is there anything we need to know or do for Clarke?"

Hmm. What to do? He was so glad he had switched them to a private channel during their first conversation, while there might not be much of a public left, he knew that this was not stuff that should be public knowledge.

On one hand Operation Bite-mark and it's secrets should stay with them. However, what would it really hurt to tell them a few things? Nothing too important, just the smaller basics.

"I haven't seen the man in person but I can tell you a few things. His health was fine at first, then it quickly worsened. He got weaker, had a fever, aches in his bones and it hurt him to walk. That lasted a few months before his strength came back plus some. That was shortly after he was bitten. Now on the outside, he looks terrible like he is very sick. The reports though, they say he claims to feel great. No tests have been run on him yet so no one is clear on what is going on inside his body. I wish I could tell you more."

"Thank you for what you could tell us, at least we know what we have to look forward to with Clarke."

"Not necessarily. He was injected with an experimental vaccine, Clarke wasn't. Something from the vaccine could have caused his issues, we have no way of knowing. This is why I suggested Clarke going with them to California. Has she agreed to go?"

The pause before anyone answered him seemed to last forever.

"Sorry, but no she has not. None of us like the idea of her just going off with strangers for her to be experimented on in ways we would have no way of protecting her from."

Citizen Z wanted to calm their fears and tell them that nothing like that would happen, but he didn't like to lie. It was very likely that once in California no one would ever see Murphy again except the doctors and scientists working on the cure. So it was very understandable that they came to the same or near the same conclusion and didn't want that to happen to someone they knew. His issue now was did he tell someone about the girl and have someone pick her up? Or did he just leave them alone? Citizen Z made a split-second decision that would, later on, save them all.

"I understand her choice. I do want you guys to know that I will still be here and can help with anything I can. Do you have a plan for what you'll do?"

"Thanks, man. Yeah, I think we have one. When we leave someone will let you know and as soon as we can get another radio working we'll let you know where we are."

"Good, I'd like to keep talking to you guys. I'll spend as much time as I can researching time travel, see what I can find. I don't promise to understand all of what I find, but I'll try."

"That would be awesome, thanks again. See you later man."

As the radio call ended Citizen Z sat back with a smile, happy with how he handled that. Maybe it wasn't for the best interest of the humans but letting Clarke go felt like the right choice. Now to pop in a new record and read up on time travel while he waited for Addy or Garnett to get in contact with him again.