The princess
It fell.
It crumbled under the weight of construction, section eight of the wall was on the ground and several were caught up in its path. The it entire right side of Murphy's face was covered in blood from a head wound. Miller had Five long gashes on his shoulder and upper back. Finn's has gashes all over his ribs and arms and a possible concussion. Roma had a possible broken arm and a concussion. Jasper ripped his wound open trying to get out of the way of the fall and still was caught and has now bruised ribs.
"I don't think you have one, but take it easy," I reaches over to the hidden pot and fill one of three small silver cups up maybe a fourth of the way up with water and hand it to him. "Drink this."
He hands it back wincing as he stood up and hobbling over to his makeshift bed. "I already drank my share for today," he rasped sitting down. I follow him over with the cup in hand and put it back in his hand.
"It's my ration, just drink it, Jasper you can have the other half," I say picking up another glass.
"Clarke, it's your water rations. You need them just as much, you gave away yesterdays and your food rations the day before that. You need to drink it," He said sitting down.
"You need fluids. Jasper too," Well said as I walked over to the pot and filled the other glass a fourth of the way up and handed it to Jasper. Who then pulls up and stands, putting the cup between the pods wall and the makeshift cot. He pulls up and takes the glass from my hand.
"I'm gonna take it to Monty later," he said hiding it and laying back down.
I snap I look around the room everyone with a basically untreated wound. No ones had enough water in days, food even less time. They're all weak, and had they not been they may have gotten away to begin with. I run my hands through my hair, the room spins, my vision blurs. I feel my body nearing collapse, my breath was running short. My body shook as words echoed through my head, "You can stop this."
"I can stop this," I whispered softly.
"Clar you okay?" Jasper asks me I stare at him nodding my head.
"I need a minute," I say as I leave the hatch jumping down. I walk out of the pod, taking deep breaths as I made my way to and out the gates. I do my best to drown out the sounds, of a fight, bracelets being ripped off, of Monty and Atom moaning in the hot sun, cheering as someone is beating, calls of my name as I leave. My heart pounds in my chest as I my mind races, I can stop this. It'd be a small price to pay for it all. What ifs came up, what if Jasper loses too much blood? Or Finn passes out? Wells hand gets infected? Monty and Atom die in those trees? It'd be all my fault, my pride will have killed them all. Like everything else I touch, they'd all be dead. I fall to my knees the moment I reach the river clenching my fists around the dirt, letting tears flow that were locked up the day I was put in the sky box.
"Dad, what do I do?" I scream through my sobs. "I'm all alone, it's my choices decided our fate...I'm scared!" I snap my head around hearing a snap.
"You're not alone."
Wells. He walks over and kneels down next to me. Wrapping his arms around me like when we were kids outside the council room. Listening to the sound of rage filled hits and screams. Diane was on the council until three weeks after I was locked up. It was all guards in the room plus her on Kane, Jaha and my mother. They'd hide bruises under long sleeves and jackets and body paint if it could be spared. It got worse as we grew, and it always had away of happening when we were there. I still see the night Cassandra Mary Anne Michelson Jaha went into break it up and came out with a fractured skull.
"Wells, I have to do it. I can't, not knowing I can do something," I sobbed into his shirt grabbing handfuls of it. "He'd know what to do, had never given up. Came down here after us if we'd lost the communication. He'd stop it. I'm a jinx, him, Monty, Atom and all of you"
"I know, but that's why you can't, I'll fix it," He mutters to me. "It's what big brothers are for." I smiled slightly remembering days when are families shared living quarters. He me little sis and I called him big brother. It was so simple and innocent as we sat up at night reading books to each other
"How Wells?" I asked shaking in his arms.
"Just give me Twenty four hours."
"But what if you can't?" I sob out to him.
"we can deal with tomorrow when tomorrow comes," H whispered in my I hair, I pull away wiping my eyes gathering my self.
"Alright, what's first?" I asked him clearing my throat.
"We go back like nothing happened, and tonight when everyone's a asleep we cut Monty and Atom down. We have to fix the communication," He nodded.
The Doctor
I was cornered as Jaha and Kane walked in Raven hiding in the pod.
"Abby we know what you're doing, it's beyond reckless, full of false hope and a crime," Kane said slinging two sacks, a receiver and a part at me.
"But, if your insistent on doing this. I'm insistent on coming with you. When will it be done?" Jaha asked, Raven stuck her head out and reached her hand up for the part which I tossed to her.
"Enough air and padded enough for three? eight days and I'll need oil."
"Wednesday, at twenty-two hundred hours. We leave."