The Weight of Deafness In Love and Survival The 100
Chapter 2-Dropship
I groaned and lifted my head up only to hear the familiar voice of Wells say "Welcome back, Coop." I whip my head in his direction next to me as Clarke snaps "Wells, why the hell are you here?" from her spot next to him. "When I found out they were sending prisoners to the ground, I got myself arrested. I came for you. Both of you." He replies looking at both of us, me with his stupid grin he got when talking to me about Clarke and his feelings for her. The three of us have been friends from the moment I met them and he's been head over heels for her the whole time so it was a surprise that he told his dad knowing that her dad would get floated and we might get floated because of it. I've always suspected that someone else told but Wells said he did and I don't even know who else would have known.
It was then that everything rattled and shook making almost everyone scream as I realize he said the ground. The dream was becoming a reality but then again we're probably all going to die because of it. "What was that?" Clarke asks so Wells replies "That was the atmosphere." Then the screens turned on revealing the face of the Chancellor and the prerecorded message begins: "Prisoners of the Ark. Hear me now. You've been given a second chance, and as your chancellor it's my hope that you see this as not just a chance for you, but a chance for all of us. Indeed for mankind itself. We have no idea what is waiting for you down there. If the odds of survival were better, we would've sent others. Frankly, we're sending you because your crimes have made you expendable." "Your dad is a dick, Wells!" Someone yelled then causing laughter to come from some of them as the message continues: "Those crimes will be forgiven, your records wiped clean. The drop site has been chosen carefully. Before the last war, Mount Weather was a military base built within a mountain. It was to be stocked with enough nonperishables to sustain three hundred people for up to two years." But it was then that someone yelled "Hey check it out." Followed by another saying "Spacewalk bandit strikes again." Turning my head I watch as a boy floats over to us, doing flips, and floating on his back in front of us he says "Check it out, your dad floated me after all." With a wink in my direction and a smirk in Clarke's as Wells tells him "You should strap in before the parachutes deploy." I roll my eyes at him as Clarke orders two others "Hey, you two, stay put if you want to live." "Hey, you're the traitors who've been in solitary for a year." The boy says then looking between Clarke and I as the message says: "Mount Weather is Life. You must located those supplies immediately. Your responsibility is to stay alive."
"You're the idiot who wasted a month of oxygen on an illegal spacewalk." Clarke practically growls at him in response only for him to say "But it was fun. I'm Finn." We look at him in disbelief before the two who were working to join him finally got out of their restraints causing Clarke to yell at them "Stay in your seats!" Almost on cue the ship lurched as the ships parachutes opened and flung the three around the ship. Yells erupted as one had hit a pipe causing it to burst open and spill white steam into the room. "Finn, are you okay?" Clarke yells in the direction he flew only for a groan in response and sparks to came from the ceiling then. I couldn't stop myself from griping the red straps of the seat so hard my knuckles were now white. "Retrorockets ought to have fired by now!" Wells says so Clarke looks at us and says "Okay, everything in the ship is a hundred years old, right? Just give it a second!" "Clarke, there's something I have to tell you! I'm sorry I got your father arrested." Wells says then causing Clarke to yell "Don't you talk about my father." "Please, I can't die knowing that you hate me." Wells insists so Clarke yells at him "They didn't just arrest my father, Wells, they executed him! I do hate you!" It was then that the ship started shaking even worse and we were thrown into darkness for a few seconds. That's when there was a loud machine hum until we come to a stop.
After a minute of calm someone says "Listen. No machine hum." "That's a first." Someone responds before the buckles undid and practically everyone bolted out of the seats. I placed a hand on Wells shoulder as he was still reeling from Clarke telling him she hated him as she ran over to where the three had been thrown asking "Finn, is he breathing?" He looks up at me sadly then so I give him a small smile. He returns it was a small nod in thanks before someone shouts "The outer door is on the lower level! Let's go!" "No! We can't just open the doors!" Clarke calls rushing over to the crowd going down the ladder. At this Wells grabs my hand and pulls me along to follow Clarke down as someone says "Hey, just back it up, guys." Clarke yells a simple "Stop!" now jumping off the ladder as Wells and I start climbing down. We got to the bottom just in time to watch her push her way through the crowd to the single guard saying "The air could be toxic." "If the air is toxic, we're all dead, anyway." He tells her only for someone to ask "Bellamy?" Looking in the direction it came from was a pretty dark-brown haired girl coming down from the ladder. Everyone's silent as she makes her way towards him, his face showing how much he loved her.
"My God, look how big you are." He says smiling as she pulls him into a hug before asking "What the hell are you wearing, a guard's uniform?" "I borrowed it to get on the drop ship. Someone has got to keep an eye on you." He answers causing Clarke to interrupt "Where's your wristband?" The girl spun around, annoyed, and says "Do you mind? I haven't seen my brother in a year." This causes someone to call "No one has a brother!" That was true, one kid per family was the rules. "That's Octavia Blake, the girl they found hidden in the floor." Someone else says so I look at Wells confused as the girl, Octavia, lunged out to attack the speaker. "It happened after you and Clarke were arrested." He tells me as Bellamy holds her back saying "Octavia, Octavia. No. Let's give them something else to remember you by." "Yeah? Like what?" Octavia questions her brother who answers with "Like being the first person on the ground in one-hundred years." Before reaching out and flipping the switch to open the door. A loud hissing followed as the door started to lower, allowing light to spill into the ship and causing my processor to start ringing from the overload of sound of the ships machines and metallic screeching of the door opening. I quickly turn it off before any damage could be done to it or me as I look around at the things that I'd only heard of or seen pictures of; trees, grass, and flowers. Octavia slowly makes her way down the ramp, pausing, then dropping onto the ground she throws her hand in the air and probably yells something which causes basically everyone to rush out.