When I returned to the drop ship my anger must have been dripping off of me because when they noticed me they didn't say anything, they just let me sit down by Jasper, grabbing his hand.

And that's where I stayed for the next 2 days.

~100~

"Mummy where are we going?" five year old Lola Stangard pulled at her mother's pant leg as her parents made their way down an unfamiliar corridor.

Both of her parents stopped, her father picked her up off the ground , so she didn't have to keep on trying to keep up with their long strides. "We're going to visit some old friends." Her mother replied, continuing to lead them down the corridor.

They turned to the last door at the end of the corridor, Lola's mother knocked on it.

As if they were standing right next to the door, a couple, around the same age as Lola's parents, opened the door.

The adults shared a friendly greeting before the two strangers looked at Lola still in her father's arms.

"Is this Lola?" the women smiled warmly "Hello dear I'm Melissa Jordan and this is my Husband John. I remember when you were just a little baby."

Lola buried her head in her father's shoulder; she hated it when people said that to her, if they remembered her then why didn't she remember them?

"Jasper dear come greet our guests." Mrs. Jordan called back into the house.

Lola's father had just placed her on her feet when a boy around the same age as her appeared beside his parents.

"Hi, I'm Jasper," he sent her a toothy grin.

Lola smiled timidly back, "I'm Lola."

"His pulse is three eighty," Clarke's words brought me out of my thoughts. As if on cue Jasper let out a gut-wrenching moan.

There were shouts from the other delinquents that had taken refuge in the lower levels of the drop ship to sleep.

I grabbed Jasper's hand whispering to him lightly "Don't listen to them. You're gonna make it through this, okay? Promise."

He let out another moan that seemed to pierce my heart.

"Can he just die already?" one of the delinquents complained, causing me move to give the kid a piece of my mind.

Clarke grasped my arm tightly "Don't." I gave her a dark look before relenting "Can you go get some clean water?" I went to argue but she cut me off speaking again "You've been locked up in here for 2 days, Jasper will understand if you need to eat, or even just get some fresh air."

I sighed, nodding "Keep an eye on him." I quickly made my way down the ladder and out of the drop ship.

I was standing by the water basin when I heard the screaming of a little girl, quickly dropping the cup I made my way over to the girl who was obviously having a bad dream "Hey, wake up, it's okay. It's okay. It's just a dream," when she woke up I was able to see her face "Charlotte? I didn't know you came down here!" To be fair I hadn't really left Jasper's side. "How did you end up here?"

"Lola?"Charlotte whispered before launching herself into my arms. I just hugged her tightly.

After a moment I pulled back, putting my arms on her shoulders "Do you want to talk about it?"

She nodded slowly "It's... my parents. They were floated and they... and I see it in my dreams and I just..."

I sighed "I understand. My parents were floated too, do you remember?"she nodded slightly, rubbing the tears out of her eyes. "So how did you end up here?" I repeated my earlier question.

"Well... we were taking my parents' things to the redistribution centre and... I kind of lost it. They said I assaulted a guard."

"I can't say I blame you." I rubbed her shoulder before turning and point up to the sky "See that bright star up there? That's the Ark orbiting above us. I think whatever happened up there, you know, the pain... maybe we can move past that now. Maybe being on the ground is our second chance."

"Do you really believe that? After everything that happened to you? After Trevor?" the sound of his name felt like a knife in my heart.

I swallowed deeply. "We may never forget the things that happened to us, but one day when we think back to it we will be able to remember all the good, and the pain that we experienced will hurt that little bit less. At least that's what I'm hoping for."

~100~

After my little chat with Charlotte I made it my mission to keep a closer eye on her. I couldn't do anything to help Jasper and that killed me inside, but I could still protect Charlotte.

I made my way up to the top of the drop ship to check on Jasper, Wells was right behind me, checking on Clarke no doubt.

"This is infected. He could be septic." I was no doctor but even I knew what that meant. Blood poisoning. Clarke then turned to Monty "Any progress on using the wristbands to contact the Ark?"Monty was just staring at our best friend lying on the ground.

"Monty?" I walked over to him placing my hand on his shoulder.

He looked up at me before turning to Clarke, "That would be a firm no,"

Clarke let out a frustrated sigh "My mother would know what to do."

"How's he doing?" Wells asked, finally speaking up.

Clarke sent him a glare "How does it look like he's doing, Wells?"

Wells held up his hands in defence. "Hey, I'm just trying to help."

Clarke looked down at Jasper before turning back to Wells, then Finn "Right. You want to help? Hold him down."

I swallowed harshly, grabbing Monty's hand "We're not going to like this are we?"Monty spoke for the both of us.

When Jasper started to scream louder I buried my head in Monty's shoulder. Monty was right. I did not like this at all.

"Hold him still. I need to cut away the infected flesh." I heard Clarke bite out.

Octavia came running in yelling at Clarke "Stop it! You're killing him."

Finn looked over from holding down Jasper's legs. "She's trying to save his life."

"She can't" Another voice joined in. The sound of his voice almost made me groan aloud. Freaking Blake.

Wells stood up, getting into Bellamy's face "Back off."

"We didn't drag him through miles of woods just to let him die." Clarke glared at him.

"Kid's a goner. If you can't see that, you're deluded. He's making people crazy."

I sent him a fierce glare "Sorry if Jasper is an inconvenience to you," he just glared back at me.

"This isn't the Ark," Clarke spoke up again. "Down here, every life matters."

Bellamy scoffed "Take a look at him. He's a lost cause."

I swallowed thickly, looking down at my best friend who was covered in a thick layer of sweat and completely pale.

"Lola."Clarke urged me to look at her "I've spent my whole life watching my mother heal people. If I say there's hope, there's hope." I nodded, grasping Jasper's cold hand with two of mine.

"This isn't about hope, it's about guts. You don't have the guts to make the hard choices. I do. He's been like this for three days. If he's not better by tomorrow, I'll kill him myself."

I stood up from my place, standing right in front of him. "And if you even try, I will kill you, got it?"

Bellamy just shook his head at me before turning to Octavia. "Octavia, let's go."

She just shook her head, grabbing my hand "I'm staying here."

Bellamy just stalked out. I sent Octavia a grateful smile as we both knelt back next to Jasper.

"Power-hungry, self-serving jackass. He doesn't care about anyone but himself. No offense." Monty muttered under his breath before looking over at Octavia slightly guilty.

There was a slight pause before Finn spoke up. "Yeah. Bellamy is all that. But he also happens to be right."

... wait what?

I sent Finn a cold stare "I think you should leave."

He looked around for help from the others but they all looked away from his stare. "You can't be serious, Lola-"

"I'm insanely serious, Finn," I crossed my arms "You can think Jasper is a lost cause all you want, but there is no way in hell you're going to do it in here, pretending you're his friend or something."

Finn went to say something but just closed his mouth again, leaving the dropship.

Clarke wasn't long after him, saying she needed to find out what was in the poultice thing on Jasper's wound.

"You did the right thing." Monty spoke up after they left. I nodded, leaning my head on his shoulder.

After a moment of silence Octavia spoke up "So, how did the three of you meet?"

Monty and I grinned at each other "Earth Skills, we were eleven." I replied.

"We were told to choose get into pairs and as always you and Jasper chose each other, everyone had paired off and I didn't have a partner,"

"So we asked him to join us." I laughed "You looked so vulnerable it was so cute."

Monty rolled his eyes "If I remember correctly you didn't make it any better. You just yelled out 'Oi, you, you're with us.'"

"Oh yes, I remember. You never left us alone after that." I joked, causing Monty to shove my shoulder slightly.

There was a brief pause of silence as I stared down at my hand grasped tightly around Jasper's limp one. "You know," Monty spoke up again "Before that day I was always kinda scared and jealous of you two."

I gave him a confused look. "Scared and jealous? How do both of those go together?"

"Scared, because you were both were so intimidating, the friendship that you two had, it was as if it was impenetrable, and jealous because I wished I had someone that close to me."

I pulled him into a hug "You do have people that close to you, Jasper and I. We're all family." He nodded.

Octavia looked over at me "So how did you and Jasper know each other then?"

"Our parents were best friends, we met when we were five, and we actually hated each other at first."

"You play with dolls? Aren't you a boy?" Lola wrinkled her nose at Jasper as they sat in his room, while their parents talked in the lounge area.

"They aren't dolls! They're action figures!" Jasper pouted.

"Well they're stupid." Lola crossed her arms.

"You're stupid!" Jasper shouted at her.

It was a while later that I was walking through the campsite and I saw Charlotte heading into the woods. Confused and a little worried I started after her.

Moments later I saw her come up to Bellamy's hunting ground... this was not good. I quickly ran up, grabbing her arm just to pull her out of the way of Bellamy's axe which was hurtling straight for her head.

"Oh my god, Charlotte." I breathed, pulling her into my side. I turned to Bellamy "You nearly killed her!"

Bellamy ignored me turning to Charlotte "Why aren't you back at camp?"

"Well, what with that guy who was dying, I just… I couldn't listen anymore." She sent me a guilty look.

"He's not dying Charlotte." I informed her.

"There's Grounders out here. It's too dangerous for a little girl." Atom told her.

"I'm not little." oh here we go.

Bellamy just shrugged "Okay then," Before handing her a knife "But you can't hunt without a weapon. Ever killed something before?"

My jaw dropped as Charlotte shook her head. Oh course not! She was only thirteen!

"Who knows? Maybe you're good at it."

"You can't be serious?" I spluttered "There is no way in hell this is happening." I grabbed Charlotte's arm "Come on, Charlotte, We're going back to camp."

Charlotte pulled her arm from my grip "Stop it, Lola! I'm not Trevor!" I quickly released her arm, stepping back as if she had slapped me across the face. Her face portrayed the guilt she felt for that sentence "Lola, I'm sorr-"

"No."I cut her off, shaking my head "You're right. I'm going to-"

"What the hell is that?" Atom breathed, pointing to a huge orange cloud coming towards us.

"Nothing good." Bellamy spoke before grabbing both Charlotte and My hands, pulling us away from the cloud. "Come on we need to find shelter. There's caves this way."

A horn sounded off in the distance, almost as a warning as we ran through the woods to the caves. My hand slipped out of Bellamy's as I tripped, causing me to fall to the ground.

I felt someone grab under my arms, pulling me to my feet "Come on, the caves are just here" His gruff voice spoke, pulling me quickly into the caves.

"Bellamy!"I heard Atom shout, causing me to stop in my tracks. We both looked around for him but couldn't see anything through the growing fog. "Bellamy!"

"He'll be fine."Bellamy spoke as I started to cough from the fog. He pulled me inside the caves, away from the fog and away from Atom.

~100~