The Weight of Deafness In Love and Survival The 100

Chapter 3-Something Is Wrong Here

Wells keeps me from getting pushed to the ground from the others rushing out. In our little group I was basically the little sister as I was the one who was protected by the other two and the one who broke up their fights, comforted the loser, and helped them make up. When the chaos in the dropship died down he lets me go and faces me before signing "It's safe for you to turn it back on." I sign "Thanks." Before reaching up and turning it back on. He nods before doing a dramatic motion for me to take the first step. I smile and shake my head at him but step out into the sunlight. "I'm going to see if the rough landing hurt our communication system. Are you going to be fine on your own?" Wells asks from next to me then causing me to sigh as I look at him with a 'really?' look. He throws his hands up in defense saying "I was just asking." "I'll be fine." I sign so he tells me seriously "Okay, but if you're in any trouble call out for either Clarke or I. We'll come running." I give him an 'I know' look then so he gives me a smile as he ruffles my hair. I swat him off causing him to laugh as he walks back into the ship.

Taking a deep breath then, I walk off the ramp and look around at everyone as they celebrated. As I walked around looking at the different plant life I wondered if we were actually where we were supposed to be since there was no sign of any type of bunker around us. Sighing I turn around to find either Wells or Clarke to ask them and luckily see Clarke at the dropship. Walking over I say, instead of signing "I don't think we're in the right place." Which I only did because I was behind her and her, her parents, Wells, his father, and my adoptive parents were the only ones I felt comfortable enough around to actually use my voice. Others on the Ark would make fun of me or worse when I did or when they found out I was the "stupid deaf girl" by looking at my processor.

Looking up at me from the map in front of her Clarke says "I know Coop. They dropped us on the wrong damn mountain." She then looks back at the map, points to a spot, says "We're here.", moves her finger up to the spot that has Mt Weather printed on it, and adds "Here's Mount Weather. There's a radiation soaked forest between us and our next meal." Sighing I sit next to the map so I was in front of her and when she looks back up at me I sign "At least we have each other." She smiles at me and nods before Wells walks out of the dropship and says "We got problems. The communications system is dead. I went to the roof. A dozen panels are missing. Heat fried the wires." As he joins us. "Well, all that matters right now is getting to mount weather. See? Look." Clarke says before doing the same thing she did with me with the map causing Wells to be stupid and ask "Where'd you learn to do that?"

I give him an 'even I can't help you now' look causing him to sigh out "Your father." It was then that a boy with goggles on his head came over saying "Ah, cool, a map. They got a bar in this town? I'll buy you a beer." Wells immediately grabbed his arm and started pushing him back with a "You mind?" That's when a somewhat familiar voice says "Hey, Hey, Hey. Hands off of him. He's with us." I look at the group of boys trying to figure out who was familiar as Wells says "Relax. We're just trying to figure out where we are." "We're on the ground. That not good enough for you?" Bellamy chimes in then from his spot next to Octavia as some other kids came to watch. Wells looks at him, walks over, and says "We need to find Mount Weather. You heard my father's message. That has to be our first priority." Causing Clarke and I to follow him knowing everyone but the two of us probably wanted him dead because of his father. "Screw your father. What you think you're in charge here? You and your little princesses?" Octavia snaps with hatred in her eyes as she looks at the three of us causing Clarke to shift over so she was blocking me from her as she tells her "Do you think we care who's in charge? We need to get to Mount Weather, not because the Chancellor said so, but because the longer we wait, the hungrier we will get. And the harder this'll be. How long do you think we will last without those supplies? We're looking at a twenty mile trek, okay? So if we want to get there before dark, we need to leave, now." Unfortunately instead of agreeing with logic Bellamy says "I got a better idea. You three go, find it for us. Let the privileged do the hard work for a change." Which causes almost everyone to say "Yeah" in agreement.

"You're not listening. We all need to go." Wells says before a boy with slicked back brown hair brushes past me as he comes up and pushed him announcing "Look at this everybody-the Chancellor of Earth!" "Think that's funny?" Wells asks only to have the boy kick the back of his ankle causing him to fall backwards and land on the ground. "Wells!" Both Clarke and I call out as we go to go to him but we get held back as the boy says "No, but that was." Wells got back up on his own and got into a fighting position, only now he was favoring his uninjured leg. It was then that Finn dropped down from the top of the dropship and landed in-between the two of them causing the ones holding Clarke and I to let go in surprise. "Kid has got one leg. How about you wait until it's a fair fight?" Finn tells him causing Octavia to come forward saying "Hey, spacewalker, rescue me next." This elicits a laugh from some of the others as the boy who attacked Wells turns around and Clarke and I once again go to go to Wells. But I'm once again stopped but this time by a hand gently grabbing my arm. I look in the direction of its owner and discover it's from the boy who attacked Wells, who was now looking at me with an indescribable look. I quickly pulled my arm from his grip and went over to Wells and Clarke ignoring the flash of shock in his eyes. His face looked kind of familiar but he just attacked Wells so it was not the time for figuring out who he was.

"You okay?" I sign crouching down next to Clarke in front of Wells causing him to say "Yeah." before Finn comes up to us and asks "So Mount Weather. When do we leave?" Clarke stands and says "Right now." As she looks at him before turning back to Wells and I adding "We'll be back tomorrow with food." "I'm going too." I sign quickly as I jump up causing Clarke to smile and ruffle my hair with an "Of course." This causes Wells to ask "How are the three of you going to carry enough food for 100?" With that Finn turns around, grabs goggles and the Asian next to him, pulls them out of the group they were in, and asks "Five of us. Can we go now?"

That's when Octavia comes over saying "Sounds like a party, make it six." "Hey, what the hell are you doing?" Bellamy asks coming after his sister and grabbing her arm only for her to say a simple "Going for a walk." That's when Clarke suddenly asks "Hey, were you trying to take this off?" stepping towards Finn and grabbing his arm with the wrist band. That's when I notice the scratch marks on his bracelet and shake my head at him as he asks "Yeah. So?" "So, this wristband transmits your vital signs to the ark. Take it off, and they'll think you're dead." Clarke answers causing him to ask "Should I care?" "Well, I don't know. Do you want the people you love to think you're dead? Do you want them to follow you down here in two months? Because they won't if they think we're dying." Clarke practically scoffs out in response causing him to be silent as he just looks at the ground in shame and after a few moments of this she added "Okay. Now let's go." Finn and the boys start walking as Octavia looks at Bellamy for permission. "Go on." He tells her so she smiles happily and kisses him on the cheek in thanks before jogging to catch up to the three boys as Clarke and I look at Wells. "You shouldn't have come here, Wells. Let's go Coop." She says before starting to follow the others so give him a small smile as I sign "See you tomorrow." He nods so I turn and quickly catch up to Clarke and Octavia.

"Before you two get any ideas, Finn is mine." Octavia states as soon as I'm next to Clarke causing Clarke to look at me for my opinion so I sign a simple "I don't care." So Clarke tells Octavia "Before you get any ideas, we don't care." She seems satisfied with that answer and jogs forward to catch up with the three boys, or probably just Finn. "I'm going to go up and lead." Clarke says then looking at me so I nod. She nods back before jogging to the front and taking the lead.

After the dropship was no longer in sight we start to pass a bunch of purple flowers called Poison Sumac. Despite the name they were medicinal as if used correctly they had a calming effect. That's when I noticed that the two boys in front of me stopped. Stepping between the two I look between them in question. In response the Asian motioned forward to Octavia and Finn as Finn placed one of the flowers behind her ear and goggles says "Now, that, my friends, is game." "That, my friend, is Poison Sumac." The Asian says picking up one of the flowers himself causing Octavia to instantly freak out and swat it out of her hair asking "What? It is?" I shake my head no as the Asian explains "The flowers themselves aren't poisonous. They're medicinal, calming, actually." Taking a bite out of the flower. "His family grows all the pharmaceuticals on the ark." Goggles says just before Clarke stops, whirls around, and asks "Hey, guys, would you try to keep up?" Which causes Finn to hold his arms out and ask "Come on, Clarke. How do you block all this out?" "Well, it's simple. I wonder, 'why haven't we seen any animals?' Maybe it's because there are none. Maybe we've already been exposed to enough radiation to kill us. Sure is pretty, though. Come on." She responds before turning back around causing Octavia to say "Someone should slip her some Poison Sumac." Which causes Finn to breathe out a laugh and goggles to start cracking up as we start walking again.

That's when Finn looks over his shoulder at the three of us and says "I got to know what you two did to get busted." "Sumac is not the only herb in the garden, if you know what I mean." The Asian says and goggles adds "Someone forgot to replace what we took." "Someone has apologized, like a thousand times." The Asian shoots back but goggles ignores him and asks "How about you, Octavia? What'd they get you for?" I look at him with an 'are you really that stupid?' look as Octavia stays silent for a second before answering "Being born." And picking up her pace. "That is so not game." The Asian tells goggles hitting him once on the arm.

They end up hitting each other back and forth for a few times before I shake my head and follow Finn to the crouching Octavia and Clarke. When we get there Clarke turns to us with a finger to her lips so we both crouch down, him in the middle of the two and me next to Clarke. We're soon joined by the other two boys as we all watch the deer. "No animals, huh?" Finn asks before crouching a little forward and ending up stepping on a twig, which snaps. The deer's head snaps up and reveals two faces. We all flinch backwards in surprise before it takes off running. Clarke was right…there was something wrong here.