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Author's Notes: It's taking me longer to write then I thought. Being a new author I'm learning as I go. So I'm going to post shorter chapters more often. Please review if you have any constructive criticism.
Chapter Two
[Day 2 – Camp Jaha - Engineering]
The sun streamed in through the window of engineering signalling the start of a new day. Wick had just woken up and was looking at the still asleep Raven next to him. Propped up on his elbow he smiled at the beauty next to him. He was happy that Raven asked him to stay when he brought her to bed last night. When they had slept together a few days ago and Raven expressed no desire for a relationship Wick was ready to do whatever it took to prove that he would be good for her. Wick never left her side after getting blown up together, captured and tortured which seemed to bring the two closer together romantically.
Raven was lying on her stomach with her hair out of its usual ponytail sprawled out her back and bra. She began to stir so Wick whispered a "Good morning." She slowly opened her eyes and saw Wick smiling down at her. It took her a moment to remember where she was and what had happened last night. A combination of exhaustion and pain killers caused her to fall asleep last night as soon as she hit the pillow.
"Hey." She mumbled with a smile as she remembered asking Wick to stay last night.
"You're beautiful." He whispered sweetly to her.
Raven rolled over onto her back and closed her eyes, "It's too early for compliments."
Wick leaned over and quickly kissed her. Her eyes shot open as he said with a smile, "Well maybe we should get up and get to work then?"
She put her hand behind his neck pulling him in for another kiss. The kiss was longer this time now that she was awake and her mind was working again. "Maybe we should just call in sick today." She suggested.
"I don't think we can call in sick when we live in the place that we work."
"We?" she questioned with a smile.
"This place has a lot more privacy then where I was staying." Wick finished his sentence with another kiss.
Ten minutes later they were dressed and ready to get started on their task. Knowing that Monty would soon arrive they decided to get themselves out of bed before things went too far. Wick had set up two radio receivers while Raven had repaired a third. She was testing it out as Monty walked in the door. Having seen Jasper at breakfast he was eager to get busy and get his mind of the destruction of their friendship.
"Hey Monty." Raven welcomed him since she was the first to notice him in the door way.
"Hey guys. So how is this going to work? Aren't we basically looking for a needle in a hay stack?" Somehow that saying has survived a hundred years. None of them had even seen a hay stack. Wick moved beside Raven as Monty approached ready to hear the Plan.
"Well I figure we'll start looking in the frequencies that the Ark would normally use. I figure if anyone was trying to send us a message that is what they'd use. Basically a Hay pile and not a stack." The guys nodded in agreement as she continued, "Monty you'll start at the lower frequencies and move you ways up. Wick you start high and work your way down. I'll start in the middle."
"Let's get started then." Monty forced himself to sound excited as he took a seat and put on a set of headphones. With Monty's excitement Wick smiled at Raven as they both got to work listening for any signs of other survivors from the ark.
[Day 2 – Finn's Bunker]
Clarke suddenly awoke in the cot she passed out in last night. It wasn't the first time she had awoken from the nightmares last night but this time was different. There was light in the bunker from the entrance she has left open just a crack. She sat on the edge of the cot deciding she was tired of dreaming. Her nightmares consisted of either trying to clean blood from her hands which never seemed to go away or walking through the mess hall of Mount Weather. Some times she wouldn't wake up and she found herself stuck in the mess hall. All the doors would be sealed and closing her eyes wouldn't remove the image of the dead in their seats.
Get yourself together Clarke. She thought to herself as she got dressed. Jacket, shoulder guards, gloves, gun in her belt, and knife in her boot. Climbing out of the bunker she decided she needed to clear herself up and get her mind off Mount Weather. The guilt was killing her but at the same time she knew she wasn't guilty. There was no other option. She had to do what she did. Convincing herself of that was another matter. She headed to the pool at the base of a waterfall that she and Finn stopped at so long ago.
Clarke stripped down to her underwear and entered the pool. The cool water made her shiver as she sunk down into the water. The pool was separated from the rest of the river but she never closed her eyes to relax. She kept a watchful eye for the water monster that had attacked Octavia on the day they first arrived or the tree line for other intruders, human or animal. As she began to rub the physical and mental dirt from her body she thought of Finn. Apparently spending a night in that bunker brought him to the fore front of her thoughts. Thinking of Finn also brought Lexa into her thoughts which brought on an epiphany. This epiphany was another one of the truths that she needed to convince herself of.
When Finn was tired to that stake and she was saying goodbye she realized she loved him. Even with everything that happened between Finn and Raven and the fact that Finn went a little crazy and massacred Tondc looking for her she loved him. If she realized she loved him before he gave himself up and she was forced to kill him to save him from torture things would have been different. It was too late by then. Maybe they could have been happy together.
"Lexa." She whispered to herself as she thought out the rest of her epiphany. She cared for Lexa, there was no denying that. After Lexa kissed her she told her she wasn't ready yet it because she was torn in all different directions for different reasons. Now that everything was over she wasn't torn in all different directions; only two. Lexa had hurt her by making a deal with Mount Weather. She understood the reasoning behind the deal but it hurt regardless of the reason. Lexa had also let her walls down and shown that she cared for and trusted her. She understood how much effort it took for Lexa to admit these things. It wasn't too late with Lexa like it was with Finn. There was time to make a choice.
Choice 1: Just because you care for someone doesn't mean you should be with them.
Choice 2: Love should be given a chance.
Clarke sighed and then let her whole body drop below the waters surface. She had a lot of thinking to do.
[Day 2 – Camp Jaha - Engineering]
It had been almost an hour of searching through radio frequencies and they've found nothing but static. The room was mostly silent for that time aside from when Wick returned with some breakfast for Raven and himself. Suddenly Raven takes off her headphones and yelled out, "I hear something!"
Wick and Monty quickly take off their head phones and turn to Raven. She unplugs her headphones and a series of repeating beeps play through the speakers on the radio receiver. The three were all silent in amazement but also listening to the pattern trying to figure it out. Both guys got out of their chairs and stood behind Raven.
"It's just repeating numbers." Monty said.
"Ya but someone is out there. Hopefully alive." Raven was excited they actually found something.
Wick put his hand on Raven's shoulder and smiled, "Alright, let's try to respond."
"Okay… Okay." She raised her hands off the desk and took a deep breath trying to calm down and think. She turned to Wick, "Go find Abby or Kane and tell them we've found something. Monty grab me that microphone over there."
"Okay, I'll be right back. Say hi for me." He joked as he quickly walked out of the room.
Monty handed her the microphone and said, "If they're only broadcasting tones maybe they can't hear us."
She plugged in the mic and replied, "Maybe they don't have a mic but are listening. We'll see if anything changes after we send them our message." Monty nodded in agreement and motioned for her to continue. Pressing the button on the mic she began her message, "This is Alpha station. Is anyone receiving on this frequency? I repeat. This is Alpha station. Is anyone listening?" Both were silent once again waiting for either a voice reply or a change in the beeps emanating from the speakers.
[Day 2 – Camp Jaha – Court yard]
Octavia and Lincoln were in their tent getting dressed. Yesterday they had set up a tent at what was referred to by some as Raven's gate. Next to the electric fence and shielded from most of the courtyard by a large piece of metal debris from the crash they felt they had a little privacy. They had been issued a place to stay inside the ark but it was a large room that was shared with many other people. This section of the ark wasn't' designed to handle this many occupants so people slept where they could find the space. Octavia asked Kane for a tent and he agreed. Surprising her he also allowed her and Lincoln to retain their weapons. Kane had collected all the guns from the kids that were rescued from Mount Weather because only the guards were allowed to carry guns inside the camp. He never asked her and Lincoln for their swords and knifes.
Lincoln was worried about Octavia because he knew she didn't like it here. She considered herself a grounder now and wasn't happy with the Sky people for the way they treated her family or how they treated others. She was only here for her brother. She couldn't leave Bellamy yet. From what Octavia had told him about how the ark worked it was similar to grounder laws; Harsh punishments for crimes that effected the society.
He made a suggestion to help ease her mind, "We should go hunting."
As she strapped her sword to her back she agreed, "Okay. I'll tell Bellamy that we're going." She was always willing to spend alone time with Lincoln. Not just because she loved him and a little alone time was welcome but because she always wanted to learn things. Lincoln enjoyed teacher her the ways of his people. Whether it was survival skills, the Trigedasleng language or about himself or his culture he enjoyed teaching her. "Lets go." He smiled and they exited the tent.
As they walked out from behind the metal debris they scanned the area for Bellamy. They didn't see him so Octavia decided to ask someone. Before she went to Tondc with Indra she spent most of her time by herself. Not really interacting with the people of the ark. She spotted someone she knew and walked up to him.
"Nathan, have you seen Bellamy?"
He looked at Octavia then to Lincoln and back. The 44 rescued from Mount Weather weren't used to dealing with grounders. Before they were captured they were at war with grounders. Now Octavia looked like a grounder and Lincoln looked like he could kill anyone in this camp without breaking a sweat. The 44 learned on the walk back to Camp Jaha from Mount Weather that the couple were on their side.
"I just seen him inside talking with Kane." He replied.
"Thanks." She said as her and Lincoln moved inside the ark. Nathan didn't give the best directions but at least they knew Bellamy was inside some where. As they walked towards the ark they often got odd looks from the people. They couldn't really determine the reason behind the looks but they assumed it was because of what they looked like and who they were. Even not having war paint on their faces they still looked dangerous to the civilians of the ark.
Both of them looked forward to getting outside the fence.
Luckily inside they saw Bellamy walking with Kane and Wick towards engineering. He was no longer wearing the stolen Mount Weather guard uniform and was back to his normal dark jacket and pants.
"Bellamy!" she shouted as she quickened her pace to catch up before they walked out of sight.
"Come on!" he waved for the two to catch up and come with them.
"What's going on? " She asked when they caught up.
"Raven found a signal from another ark station." He answered.
"Why now?" Lincoln asked confused about the timing. Why now and not before.
"Now that Mount Weather is no longer jamming everything we can listen for others."
Wick was the first to enter engineering and the beeping could still be heard through the speakers. "Did they reply?" he asked as he approached Raven. Monty and her turned to face the new comers and she replied, "No. We tried a few times but no change in the signal."
"How do you know it is an ark station?" inquired Kane. Always thinking about security it was the first question he had to ask.
"Who else could it be." She replied.
"Where are they?" Was the next question asked by Bellamy.
Raven, Wick and Monty looked at each and their engineer and mechanic minds began to work. The three all came to the same conclusion at the same time. Raven was the first to speak. "We'd need a transmitter and a receiver."
"And an amplifier." Monty added as Wick continued.
"And a battery."
She nodded, "Take it what… like a couple hundred meters."
"Kilometer would be best." Wick suggested.
"What are you talking about?" Kane asked the question that was on everyone's mind who didn't know what the three were talking about.
With a smirk at their lack of understanding Raven answered, "If we put together those pieces and we take them out a kilometer we can triangulate the signal and get a direction."
"We're in." Octavia stepped forward as everyone looked at her. She realized that she liked to have goals or tasks and volunteering for this mission would give her something to accomplish as well as get her out of camp.
"Absolutely not!" ordered Bellamy out of familiarity. Lincoln stepped forward to stand beside Octavia silently agreeing with her decision to go. Bellamy then realized that Octavia was a different person then the last time he saw her. He was used to trying to protect her from the outside world and its dangers. Before he had infiltrated Mount Weather she was strong and determined but now she was a warrior capable of taking care of herself.
"Bell." She replied in a tone that said stop treating me like a child.
"Okay." He nodded accepting who she was now.
Kane looked around at everyone as he made his decision. "Okay. You'll go. I'll send two guards with you." He looked to Bellamy as he continued, "Come with me to the armory and I'll issue you a weapon." He no longer had an issue giving Bellamy a gun as he did in the past. Bellamy had proven many times over that he was as capable as any of the guards.
Monty wrapped his sweater around his chest and said, "I'm not going." He looked hesitant to leave the camp. It was true because the last time he went out into the forest he was taken by the mountain men. A kilometer was just too far from camp right now.
"It's alright. You can stay with me and do the important work here." Raven smiled at Monty while she pattered her bandaged leg. Wick put his hand on her shoulder to comfort her. He knew how much she didn't like to be left behind and feel helpless. Knowing what he was doing she engaged her sass as she looked to Wick, "Hey I learned my lesson from my last leg injury. This time I'm embracing my lack of mobility."
Kane motioned for Bellamy to follow him out. Bellamy nodded then addressed everyone else who was going on this mission. "Get the gear you need and meet me at the front gate."
Author's Notes: Same questions I'd like input on from chapter one.
Some Input I need from you guys.
1) What should I do with Jasper. How long should he be angry and upset. No one really likes an angry Jasper but I want to do his Character Justice.
2) Murphy and Jaha's story. Any Ideas? I don't really know what to do with them. So I need some input because if I can't come up with anything soon I'm going to have to use another enemy to bring into the story.
