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pamavery12- Thank you for reviewing and for saying that about my writing! I think you already know I checked your story out and I'm looking forward to reading the next chapter. :)
artificial-paradises- First of all, thank you so much for reviewing! And second of all, oh my god, please stop you're making me blush! It's so sweet of you to think that way about my writing, thank you! :)
And I came up with Angelos as the name of my character because, according to Wikipedia, Angelos was the daughter of Zeus and Hera and turned deity of the underworld in Greek mythology. I thought it was cool because my character grew up hiding under the floorboards, so she practically lived in the 'under'world. lol
artificial-paradises- Lea was kind of a last minute decision, but I'm so glad I included her in this story because, like you said, she will be helpful in alternating between the Ark and the ground.
In all honesty, I'm still trying to figure out Angelos' character. I know she has a dark past but she's still a girl of seventeen with the knowledge of probably a seventh grader, since she was imprisoned at 13, so that makes her a little bit vulnerable, even if she comes off as a strong young woman, and I'm trying not to make her a confusing character to the reader. And yes, I'm planning to do some character development with her, as well as with Lea, but you'll have to wait and read to see how that turns out. ;)
I'm so glad you found the back-story with them interesting. I've been wanting to write a relationship like that between two characters for a while, and I'm happy to know that I've managed to do just that so far.
Thanks again for reading and reviewing, dear! You had me smiling throughout the whole thing! I hope you enjoy this chapter as well. :)
"They dropped us on the wrong damn mountain," Clarke answered when Angelos asked why was she carrying the map around for.
She wasn't surprised. Leave it to the Ark to screw up everything, Angelos thought as Clarke unfolded the map flat across the dropship door.
"Chancellor Jaha said there were supplies at Mount Weather," the blonde said looking up at her. Angelos stepped closer to get a better look, "I'm looking for the fastest way we can get there."
"We got problems." Wells found them at the dropship door, turning their heads to him. Despite their unfriendly expressions the girls wore on their faces when they saw him, Wells said, "The communications system is dead. I went to the roof. A dozen panels are missing. Heat fried the wires."
"All that matters right now is getting to Mount Weather," Clarke insisted looking back at the map and drawing a line from point a to point b. "Look, this is us. And this is where we need to get to if we want to survive."
"Where'd you learn to do that?" She put down her pencil at Well's question and he nodded slowly in realization, "Your father."
"Cool, a map," a boy with goggles on his head broke the awkward silence as he approached the trio. "They got a bar on this town? I'll buy you a beer."
Wells turned around to face the lanky kid, giving him a shove to back away from Clarke, "You mind?"
Angelos crossed her arms, taking a step back from Wells, and saw that Clarke was wearing the same confused look on her face as her. Even if Angelos didn't give a damn about what the Chancellor's son did, she was surprised at the way Wells snapped at the teen.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Another guy came over with a group of criminals following behind, and he shot Wells a dirty look. "Hands off him. He's with us."
"Relax," Wells held up his hands and stepped back from the group. "We're just trying to find out where we are."
"We're on the ground." Angelos straighten her back, the voice that undoubtedly came from the guard sending chills down her spine. She didn't turn around to face him, but she was sure he smirked as he questioned, "That not good enough for you?"
Wells looked between the group of criminals and him, finally walking towards Bellamy, "We need to find Mount Weather. You heard my father's message. That has to be our first priority."
"Screw your father," Bellamy's little sister said. "What, you think you're in charge here? You and," her blue eyes landed on Clarke, "your little princess?"
Angelos shifted beside Clarke as all eyes fell on them, but the blonde didn't waver, "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 will be. How long do you think we'll last without those supplies? We're looking at a 20-mile trek, okay? So if we want to get there before dark, we need to leave. Now."
"I got a better idea," Bellamy spoke. "You two go, find it for us. Let the Privileged do the hard work for a change."
"Yeah!" the crowd agreed and Angelos rolled her eyes as she stood by and watched.
How stupid could they be? To think two people could carry food for a hundred?
If she were Clarke, she'd leave to find those supplies for her own. These idiots could starve to death for all Angelos cared. Actually, she wished they would. The less people to feed, the more food to share.
Her thoughts were broken when Wells urged, "No. You're not listening! We all need to go."
"Look at this everybody," Angelos was shoved aside by Murphy, the guy with murky-green eyes and slick, light-brown hair. She watched him with angry eyes as he came up to Wells, "The Chancellor of Earth."
"Think that's funny?" Jaha's son looked at him.
Murphy's face held a sadistic smirk, holding up his feet to kick Wells behind his knee. He fell to the ground twisting his ankle in the process and Clarke immediately tried to stop Murphy, but his friends held her back.
"No, but that was. Alright, come on."
Wells got up and with his injured foot he brought up his fists to defend himself against Murphy. Soon, a crowd began to form around to see the fight between the prisoner and the Chancellor's son. Angelos did nothing to stop it. She didn't need to.
"Hey," Finn dropped down from the dropship and landed between Murphy and Wells before anything exciting started happening. "Kid's got one leg," he faced Murphy, "How about you wait until it's a fair fight."
Murphy clenched his jaw and took a small step back from Wells, shooting Finn a dirty look.
"Hey, Spacewalker," the teenaged girl standing next to the guard came up to him, "rescue me next."
The crowd snickered and whistled at this while Angelos was too busy studying the guard, who tightened his jaw and held a disapproving look as the couple exchanged flirtatious smiles. It was the same look her father had given Lea when she told them she had a boyfriend.
Angelos looked away, the last thing she wanted was to be reminded of her dad when she looked at him.
Helping bandaging up the Chancellor's son was the last thing Angelos could've dreamed of doing- next to setting foot on Earth, obviously- but after finding out that Clarke was the daughter of the woman who took care of her for most of her time in Confinement, she pushed her dislike towards Wells aside and helped the blonde tend his injured ankle.
"So, Mount Weather...," the two girls faced Finn, who came up to them with his hands in his jacket. "When do we leave?"
"Right now," Clarke stood up. Nodding to Angelos to pull Wells' pant leg down, Clarke said to them, "You can start looking for a source of water around here, dehydration's most likely to kill us sooner than anything on the ground. We'll be back tomorrow with food."
Wells and Angelos shared glances, and before he could say a word, the dark-haired girl stood up from the dirt and objected with Clarke, "His father isolated me in a cell for five years, I'm not staying behind to babysit him."
Just because Angelos wrapped some cloth around his ankle, it didn't make her his friend and she wasn't going to pretend he was, either.
Ignoring the iciness in her words, Wells agreed with Angelos, "I can take care of my self, Clarke."
"I didn't mean it like that." Wells lowered his eyes, trying to hide the hurt expression on his face as he realized he misinterpreted Clarke being worried about him.
"Okay," he swallowed and looked up at Finn and her, "but how are the two of you gonna carry enough food for a hundred?"
Finn turned around to pull Jasper and Monty with him, patting the boys' shoulders as he smiled, "Four of us. Can we go now?"
Before Clarke said anything, Octavia clapped her hands together as she skipped over to them, "Sounds like a party! Make it five."
At this, her brother grabbed her by the arm, "What the hell are you doing?"
"Going for a walk," she smiled innocently, breaking his hold on her and turning to the group.
"Hey, were you trying to take this off?" Clarke stepped towards Finn, grabbing his wrist and eying the metal wristband that had been scratched.
"Yeah, so?" he admitted with a shrug.
Angelos crossed her arms across her chest and looked as the blonde reprimanded him, the same way she'd done to her when Angelos tried taking her wristband off in the dropship, only a little louder, "So, this wristband transmits your vital signs to the Ark. Take it off and they'll think your dead."
"Should I care?"
"Well, I don't know," she looked at him incredulously. "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." When Finn didn't reply, she nodded, "Okay. Now, let's go."
After the group of five walked towards the forest, Clarke faced Angelos, who was not happy about being left with Wells, "Look after Wells or not, just find water. We're going to need it."
Angelos nodded, Clarke going over to where he was sitting against a big rock. Shaking her head, the blonde met the eyes of the boy who had once been her friend, "You shouldn't have come here, Wells."
With that, Clarke walked on behind the others, leaving Angelos to question Wells, "What'd you do to piss her off?"
He stopped playing with a stick and looked up at her, finally saying, "I turned her father in."
"Wow," Angelos breathed out, "you really are a dick."
He gave her a small shrug and thought about it for a moment before asking, "What did you do?" Angelos raised an eyebrow at him. "To piss the Council off?"
She smiled wryly, "If I told you, you'd hate me... and possibly fear me."
"Why would I hate you? Or fear you?" Wells brought his eyebrows together in confusion. He was used to the prisoners hating him because of his relation to the Chancellor, but even with all the cruel and demeaning looks the 100 sent his way, he would never bring himself to hate them. So why did she think he'd hate her?
"Come on, sun's going down soon and we have yet to find water," was all she said as she held out her hand to him.
Looking at her hand and up to her chocolate-brown eyes, Wells took her arm and brought himself up from the grass with a groan, catching the eye of Bellamy Blake as he walked past them.
The rest of the day, Angelos spent searching the forest for water but she had no luck. After watching her first sunset on Earth, Angelos realized she didn't want to return to the dropship, where there was nothing but obnoxious, loud teenagers, and wandered around for a few more hours in the dark silence of the forest.
When she returned, she found that the others had the brains to know how to start a fire, although they didn't have enough intelligence, as the criminals gathered around the bonfire and used the flames to prop their wristbands open.
"What the hell are you doing?" She exclaimed to Murphy, who held out a girl's wrist close to the fire.
"How 'bout we show you," Mbege came up from behind, surprising her when she felt his strong hand closing the grip on her arm.
"Let me go," she growled, jerking her arm away from him but before she could make another move, Murphy grabbed her other arm.
"We got another one, Bellamy!" Murphy told the man, who Angelos noticed had switched his uniform jacket for one of the criminals.
But even if he wore a red dress or bleached his hair blond, Angelos would always recognize him as the guard who watched Dad, Mom, and Lea be taken away, without moving a damn finger to stop it. No matter what, she would always remember him dragging her down the Ark's halls to the Sky Box.
"You know what to do," he nodded and the moment his eyes met hers, even if it was just a quick glance, Angelos felt the blood bubbling up inside her with fury.
"You sons of bitches, let go of me!" She yelled, thrashing against Mbege's and Murphy's hold, but that didn't stop them from taking off her wristband.
"What the hell are you doing?" Wells appeared a second too late, as he watched John Murphy hold up Angelos' metal wristband in victory and throw it to the fire with the others.
Mbege took a step forward, ready to explain things to the Chancellor's son, but Bellamy put his hand up and stopped him. "We're liberating ourselves. What does it look like?"
"It looks like you're trying to get us all killed. The communication system is dead. These wristbands are all we got. Take them off, and the Ark will think we're dying, that it's not safe for them to follow!"
"That's the point, Chancellor," some of the crowd snickered at the latter. With a smirk, Bellamy asked the delinquents, "We can take care of ourselves, can't we?"
"Yeah!" They burst out in agreement.
"You think this is a game?" Wells looked between them. "Those aren't just our friends and our parents up there. They're our farmers, our doctors, our engineers. I don't care what he tells you. We won't survive here on our own, and besides, if it really is safe, how could you not want the rest of our people to come down?"
"My people already are down. Those people," Bellamy pointed up at the sky, "locked my people up."
"That's some classy shit coming from you, Bellamy!" He spun around, the crowd growing quiet as Angelos seethed. "Remember me? I'm Angelos Hicks, the girl you locked up in Confinement." His dark eyes widened as the girl took a step closer, her eyes reflecting the flames of the fire as they bore into him. "You were part of the lot who got my family killed," to the crowd she said, pointing a finger at Bellamy, "and he's going to get all of you killed, too, if you keep taking those wristbands off!"
Murmurs erupted from the audience, but he shook his head and accused Wells, "Those people killed my mother for the crime of having a second child! His father did that."
"My father didn't write the laws," Wells spoke up.
"No. He enforced them, but not anymore." Bellamy searched the crowd for Angelos, the girl he'd sent to prison at thirteen, and his next words were directed at her as he told the crowd, "We won't have to follow their laws to protect the ones we care about, because, here, there are no laws. Here, we do whatever the hell we want whenever the hell we want!"
"Yeah! Yeah!" The delinquents cheered, but Angelos' anger remained visible on her face.
"Now, you don't have to like it, Wells," he faced the young Jaha. "You can even try to stop it or change it. Kill me. You know why? Whatever the hell we want."
"Whatever the hell we want!" Murphy repeated and soon the crowd started chanting 'Whatever the hell we want' as loud as they could.
Just when Angelos thought they couldn't get any louder, thunder roared and the teenagers went wild as drops of rain fell from the sky.
"Rain! Real rain!" the girl that had taken her wristband off before her exclaimed with a grin across her face.
For a minute, Angelos let her eyes close and her head tilt back to allow the rain pour on her face, enjoying the feeling of thousands of water droplets splash against her cool skin. But then she lowered back her head, and opened her eyes to see Wells storming off angrily with his limping leg.
She didn't know what angered her more, the fact that she had been forced to take her wristband off, or that, even if it had been Bellamy who'd done it, she felt relieved to know that nothing tied her to the Ark anymore.
Not being able to decide, she walked towards Bellamy and stopped to meet his eyes.
Through wet eyelashes, he stared back at her, her voice stone-hard as she told him, "You're a monster."
A/N: Gotta be honest and say that I wasn't going to update today because I'm at bed sick and didn't feel like writing, but your reviews and follows pushed me to get off my lazy butt and write this chapter. So, here you have it, the final part to the Pilot just as promised!
I hope y'all enjoyed it and maybe leave a review! Thanks for reading/adding to your favorites/following/reviewing and I wish you lovelies a good day/night! :)