15. Clarke, Is That You?
Bellamy was pacing back and forth outside the medical bay, worried as well as impatient over how long it was taking for Clarke to give Finn the antidote and stitch him up, but most of all he was pissed that she had chased him and everyone who didn't have any medical knowledge to wait outside until she was done. Sure, he could understand that Clarke needed her space to work, but seriously did she expect him to be calm after the whole hour she and Octavia had been alone in the woods with a grounder and completely worried about their safety?
Apparently she did since the moment she and Octavia entered back into the camp, both of them hurried inside the medical bay without saying so much as a word to him or anyone else other than that they all should wait outside. He was used to his kind of treatment from Octavia, but not so much from Clarke. However the princess kept on surprising him, so his expectations was pretty shattered at this point, but strangely enough he really didn't mind it.
He was so focused on his thought that he didn't notice at first Jasper and Monty approaching him because they had just gotten the news that Clarke was back since they had been working on some project in order to pass time.
"Still no news about Finn?" Monty asked worried. Jasper stood next to him with the same worried expression on his face, since both were good friends with the Spacewalker. Bellamy stopped his pace and quickly shook his head as a response. Both Jasper and Monty was dejected over hearing this, but they didn't say anything which was totally fine by him. They weren't friends or talked much on a regular basis, and he was pretty sure that Jasper and Monty thought he was a jackass, so nothing he said could be comforting to neither of them. Instead the three of them stood there, waiting to hear some kind of news. Any kind of news for that better, because Bellamy didn't believe the stuff about no new is good news. After all he was more of a pessimist when it came to serious matters like life and death than an optimist.
Sweat was streaming down her face and she was practically forcing her hand not to shiver uncontrollable while she was trying to open Finn's mouth in order for him to drink the antidote. She couldn't spill or waste the antidote, since this was the only antidote they had and if something happened to it there was no chance she could get another one. Not unless she wanted Finn to die in the meantime.
However Finn wasn't doing her many favors opening his mouth, more importantly drinking the antidote. Clarke was starting to get more and more frustrated over her patient's inability to corporate. Because the antidote need to be taking an effect on him before she could start stitching up his injuries. But how in the world was she going to get him to drink the antidote?
"Raven," Clarke said. The girl looked up from her sitting position on the floor. She had been giving the assignment to clean the bloody stained cloths that Clarke used to put pressure on the wound; meanwhile Octavia was putting pressure on the wound in order for him not to bleed out and possibly remain stable until Clarke could get to him. "I need your help with something. I need you to drink the antidote and give it mouth to mouth."
Raven looked confused and most of all suspicious over her request. Not that Clarke blamed her over that since people don't normally ask this kind of request from someone they barely knew, especially since she and Raven had not gotten on the best foot with each other. However there was this kind of spark about Raven that Clarke genuinely liked and she wasn't going to kiss her boyfriend without permission, though she would rather not do it at all even if it was to save his life, so that is why she was asking for her assistance. Luckily for her, Raven was jumping for the opportunity to help her boyfriend in any way possible, so she took the flask from Clarke's hand and drank it without swallowing it before she leaned in to kiss Finn on the mouth. At first nothing seemed to be happening, but then he swallowed heavily and Raven pulled away.
"Now what?" Raven asked, using one of the clean cloths to clean around her mouth.
"Now, we wait a little till the antidote take its effect and then I can finally start stitching him up," Clarke said. Octavia nodded her head and took the now blood stained cloth away from the wound. It was then she began noticing something odd about injury.
"Hey, Clarke, is the wound supposed to that?" Octavia asked, pointing insecurely at the wound. Clarke turned to check on wound and saw the blood running out quicker and in an even faster pace than what it had done earlier and it didn't make any sense for it to do so either. As far as she knew the antidote Lincoln gave her shouldn't be able to do that and there was nothing else that she could see that could cause this kind of effect.
"No, it is not supposed to do that," Clarke mumbled. She grabbed a clean cloth and put pressure on the wound, but it was already soaked half through within a couple of minutes. "Damn it!"
"Isn't there anything you can do?" Octavia said agitated. Clarke didn't say anything, but her face must have said everything. She didn't know what was wrong and more importantly how to fix it, apparently during her apprenticeship this had obviously not been part of the course, which now left her in serious situation. "What are we going to do now?"
Clarke was thinking over and over. If she didn't do anything fast then Finn was going to die and after all that effort to get the antidote would all go to waste. The only thing she could think of and was probably the only thing that could work. However it was also the one thing she was more reluctant and if she had to be honest, was the last thing she wanted to do at all, but it looks she wasn't having any other choice.
"There is one possibility, but it depend on how good you are making miracles happen," Clarke sighed and ran a hand through her hair in an annoyed manner. It was in scenarios like this she really wished she were someone else other than herself.
Bellamy had been sitting on the ground when the drop ship door opened and out came Octavia and Raven. Both the two girls seemed agitated and worried, but also determined about something. It was exactly why he got even more suspicious and concerned when they came over to Monty.
"I need your help, Monty," Raven said straightforward. "From what I hear you have engineer experience."
Monty nodded confused. He and along with everyone else was confused over why Raven would need an engineer, especially when both she and Octavia should be inside the medical bay helping Clarke out.
"What is going on? Why do you need Monty?" Bellamy asked frustrated. He couldn't stand being sidelined and the last person to know things, which apparently seems like how Clarke run things, based on how tight lip she was regarding everything about herself and her actions.
"Listen, Bell, Finn's condition has escalated for the worse and… well we need help for someone who has even more medical experience than Clarke," Octavia tried to smooth him over, placing each of her hands on his arms. "We are going to try and contact the Ark."
Hearing that his sister and the other were trying to contact the Ark flipped him over, and that was to say it nicely. He had been determined to keep his and everyone existence here on the ground low profile when he ordered all the kids to remove the tracking bracelets they received before they left for the ground. If the Ark ever came down here on the ground it was without a doubt that they were going to kill him, which is why he needed to get away from the camp soon. However if they were planning on doing what they said they were doing, then he had to make preparations faster than he was expecting and he wasn't going to simply rush into things just for the sake of the Spacewalker's life.
"No-no-no, we are not going to try and contact the Ark," Bellamy argued. Raven, Octavia, Monty, Jasper and him were going back inside the drop ship and inside one of the unoccupied sections that apparently they were going to use as a workshop to fix the radios.
"Sorry, Bellamy, but right now your order is not even for consideration," Octavia argued back. "We need to save Finn's life and in order to do so we need the Ark despite how much we all really don't. No offense."
That last part was more comment to the others than to him due to the fact that most of the kids down here had family on the Ark, meanwhile he and Octavia was the only thing left from their family so they weren't in need for the Ark. He felt bad for the others being unable to contact their family, but still he wasn't willing to go along with this plan.
"But we can't," Bellamy said, though his argument was starting to sound weak. "Besides who was it that came up with the genius idea?"
"Clarke," Raven and Octavia said at the exact same time. Then they all began to work, practically ignoring his existence. However he was just about to tell them to shut it down and actually have another serious talk with Clarke when Octavia saw the look on his face and said sadly, "Please Bellamy. I think about if it had been me in this situation. Wouldn't you have done everything you could to save my life, even going to the Ark to ask for help?"
Although he was pissed over how everyone, including Clarke, seemed to be working against him in every way possibly by contacting the Ark and trying to save Finn's life. But he had to admit that if the roles was reversed and it was Octavia's life on the line then he would do everything in his power to save her life.
"Fine, I will go along with it for now," Bellamy replied grudgingly. "But that doesn't mean I liking it."
"Funny, that was exactly what Clarke said when she suggested his plan," Octavia said lightly. However she quickly caught on what she had just said and placed a hand over her mouth like she was regretting what she had just said. Bellamy tilted his head and his eyebrow rose slightly in suspicion over what she had just said, and was just about to ask her how and why Clarke had mentioned and seemed to know about the Ark since most of the kids here was refraining themselves from talking about the life in space. Unfortunate for him was that Octavia was needed for her assistance in gathering equipment, so she managed to dodge his questioning. However that didn't change t troubled him that she knew about the Ark, but it was reasonable to believe his sister had told her and that she would be cautious about establishing contact with them. However although he couldn't place his finger around it, there was something that told him that there was more than met the eye about this while situation and he was determined to find out what.
Hours went by and Clarke was practically panicking over facing her past. Lincoln might have warned her about telling everyone about her identity and past, but she had definitely not expected to be facing some of it now. She wanted to crawl into a cave and hide because she wasn't ready facing her, not after everything she had done, but then again a life was at stake so her personal issue was irrelevant at this point. She turned to look at Finn, who was at the moment unconscious, but still heavily breathing. He was somehow stable, which was a real miracle considering the circumstances. The antidote was kicking in thankfully, but it didn't seem to have any effect on the current problem. Hopefully she was going to be able to change that once the others managed to established contact with the Ark.
As she was thinking this, Bellamy entered the medical bay and informed her that after a few arguments between Monty and Raven they had managed to make some contact with the Ark, more specific the counsel. Clarke felt her nerves returning and she was almost afraid that her knees was going to buckle, but then Bellamy's warm hand was placed on her back and guiding her out the door and towards another room inside the drop skip. And during the entire time Bellamy had his hand on her back and she felt all hot and tingling on the inside and if someone looked very closely they might even say she was blushing, but she was grateful that Bellamy and everyone else in the room was too occupied with the radio and the screen that showed an middle-age woman with long brown hair and a man a little older with dark brown hair. However the gooey feelings disappeared when she saw those two people on the screen and the panic resurface. She recognized them immediately, but they didn't seem to have seen her since they continued talking with Raven and Monty. Clarke didn't really listen on the conversation, but was solely interested in the woman who she had not seen or heard from in a year.
"…Anyways we have a grave situation down here, which require your medical expertise Dr. Griffin," Raven explained. "The only person here who has some medical experience hasn't experienced this kind of symptom before."
"Can this person describe the cause of the injury as well as the injury itself?" the woman asked seriously. Clarke almost wanted laugh over how even now she felt undermined in this person presence, but contained it and instead interrupted the conversation and began listing several things about the injury. Once she was done she waited expectantly for a response and wasn't surprised when the woman said shocked, "Clarke, is that you?"
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