Kane's Point Of View
"Every simulation has been run." Jaha began to say as he sat across from me at the table. All I could think was he hadn't run enough there had to be a way to get us to Earth.
This couldn't be it, I was almost positive Abby would agree with me. We both never left our children on good terms. Her child thinking horrible of her, last thing Clarke would think of her mother is that she killed her dad. My daughter would never get to see me as her dad. I will forever be in her memories as the dick that put her in the skybox, watched over her, punished her when she did badly.
I wasn't all right with those being Rayne's last thoughts of me. "Every system modification has been made. The hard and simple fact is that in fifty-one hours, life on the Ark will no longer be possible." Jaha's voice snapped me out of my thoughts.
I sat there staring the man down, how could he give up? He seemed to give up on trying to get to Earth ever since the news of his son reached him. I know Abby may have talked him into it, and maybe seeing all the children still on Ark so excited may have jolted him back. However this Chancellor before me seemed like he had once again given up hope of returning to Earth.
"I choose to find consolation in one remarkable truth." Jaha continued his speech, "The surviving members of the one hundred have proven themselves to be more resilient than we could've ever imagined. Our legacy will go on, and for that," Hearing him say that only made me think of my girl.
The last time I had spoken to Rayne she had been telling me how she was in love with Bellamy Blake. How she and Clarke where feuding, that they had made contact with some of the people on the ground. She told me about the one man named Lincoln, that not all their people were bad. I had to admit hearing her say she was with Bellamy unsettled me, however we knew how resilient he was at keeping his sister Octavia alive. So I knew she would be safe, as for her and her friendship with Clarke. I could only hope the two of them had solved things by now.
"I am not only grateful… but I am proud." He finished saying, staring at him as intently as I had been I noticed the tears forming in his eyes.
As much as it seemed to be paining him to know that Wells was dead, he knew the others would survive on in his name. I was proud knowing that my child was down there creating a new life. Even if it was with Bellamy Blake, I knew she was alive, safe.
It ate away at me knowing that I would never be able to hug Rayne, tell her I love her. Be a father to her, all I ever was to her was a council member, the bad guy. All the things her adoptive parents got to experience will just be dreams for me.
"So what do we tell our constituents to do now?" A woman asked from behind me, I closed my eyes trying to imagine a different life. A life where I didn't give up my child, a life where I was a father, the father I was meant to be. However in that life, Rayne would be here with me on the Ark now. Not alive on Earth like she currently was.
I turned around and looked at the tall slender woman behind me, her clothing tattered and a few sizes to big for her, she looked like she hadn't eaten her own rations in a few days either. Probably from feeding her family before herself, that was the kind of selflessness I wanted to have. That I should have had.
"What do we do now?" She asked again.
I turned back to Jaha as I watching him slowly turn his attention to the scared woman that was behind me. "Look inside." He told her, find your peace. In the meantime, I'm releasing all available resources to the surviving citizens of the Ark. There will be no more rationing. What we have belongs to all of us." He said as he pounded the gavel on the table a few times followed by everyone had began to leave the room with the exception on Abby, Jaha and myself.
I sat there staring at the table, not really knowing what to do, or how to think about what he'd just said. He just cut all hope that Abby and I had for getting to Earth to see out kids. Any of the parents of the one hundred down on Earth just lost all hope of joining their child.
I turned my head slightly to see Abby whom was still leaning against the wall holding back all her tears with every bit of restraint she seemed to have left. She'd been like this since I brought her and the others back to the main part of the station a day ago. She was stone like there was no talking to her, or maybe she just hated me. Understandable.
"Are you all right, Abby?" Jaha asked her softly as I spun around in my seat to look at her, our eyes met.
I could see the amount of pain she was feeling, just by looking into her eyes. The knowing was the worst part of all this pain. Knowing we were going to die, knowing we would never speak to our children again, knowing that we would die with them mad at us. None of the problems we created resolved.
I knew this was what she was feeling because it was the exact same pain that I was feeling. She kept her eyes hard like stones, settled on me as she slowly opened her mouth to respond. "Yes." She said her voice colder than ice, if that were even possible.
"I have a patient." She than said quickly, "She was hurt in the bomb blast. I need to go." She finished as she ran off and away from the two of us.
"Sir, is it wise to waste rations when we don't know for sure?" I asked him as I watched a stupid smile form onto his lips, only for it to vanish as quickly as it'd appeared.
"But we do know for sure." He told me.
"Well, I can't just do nothing. Rayne is down there." I told him. "I have to find a solution, I need to get to Earth so I can be with my child." I said my voice rising with frustration and anger as I pushed back on the chair standing up.
Jaha took followed suit standing up and trying to reason with me, calm me down. "Hey, I know this is hard to accept, I know you have so much to fight for, but if you'd like to spend your remaining time rerunning simulations, by all means you can do that." He told me, "I, however, will be spending my time with family and a bottle of ninety- seven year old scotch." He continued before looking at me before I turned on my heel and began to walk away before his voice caught my attention forcing me to turn back around.
"I know how much it kills you inside." He said. "I know giving her up to those people was the hardest choice of your life, never being able to tell her who her real parents where, being her real father. I know what you lost, so I know why you feel the need to fight so hard to be with her but Marcus… we will never be able to join those kids. We just have to accept that and take pride in the fact that at least you will not die… with the thought that she never found out… because she did." He told me causing the breath in my throat to hitch.
"That's just not good enough for me Thelonious, it might be good enough for you… but until I get to hold my kid in my arms and tell her that I love her, always have… giving up isn't good enough for me… I don't understand why you have." I spat at him before again turning around and stalking off to Earth Central.
Bellamy's Point of View
It had been two days without Rayne, two days since she, Clarke, Finn and Monty had all gone missing. Since the grounders had taken them, all I knew was that I felt like a part of my heart had been ripped from my chest. A part of me hoped that maybe my sister's grounder boyfriend had found at least one of them and was keeping them safe. However a big part of me knew the likely hood of any of them still being alive was dwindling with each hour they where gone.
"Come on. These foxholes aren't gonna build themselves." I shouted out to everyone around me.
For the past few days Raven had not only been making grenades but mines, along with ignoring and avoiding me as much as she could. I suppose my rejection to her proposal wasn't something she liked very much. A lot has in fact happened since the day Monty went missing, we found Dax's body behind the drop ship. I guess someone got sick of knowing a murderer was amongst us.
I didn't want to admit it but; I had a sneaking suspicion it was Murphy who ended him. He and I had been talking more the past few days, he told me how uncomfortable it had made him knowing the guy who tried to kill Clarke and I and threatened to kill Rayne and the rest of us was with us. I walked closer towards Raven and Jasper as they began to set up one of the mines.
"Better hope those landmines work. All the gunpowder we're wasting, we could be making more grenades." I told her, admitting and showing how much not having her here with me was the last thing the camp needed to see. They needed to see that I was strong, yet Octavia could tell, as I was sure Jasper and Raven could too.
I knew the rest of the camp only cared about Finn, Clarke, Rayne and Monty when they needed something from one of them. No other times, even if we where a camp and worked together. We all still seemed to only care about ourselves.
"Want to come over here and test one?" Raven asked harshly, she was annoyed with me that much was obvious. "Cute." I sighed, "I need this entire section mined by morning." I told them. "Then you finish the south field." I turned around and began to walk away to check on the other groups when I heard Raven shout to me, "Hey!"
"I told you, we're going after Finn, Clarke, Rayne and Monty in the morning." She told me, I was aware she told me. There was no denying how much I wanted to set up a huge search party and hunt the four of them down. However we needed to protect ourselves, we needed to stay safe. Even if I hated the fact if it was me that got lost out there and Rayne here she would stop at nothing till she found Clarke and I.
I shook my head; "And I told you, nobody leaves the camp." I told her as I turned around a second time starting to walk away again when I felt Raven grab my arm. "I'm talking to you." She snarled.
"We can't just abandon our people." Raven said her eyes filling with tears. "How can you act like you don't care that Rayne is out there alone right now?" She said. "I thought you loved her?"
I opened my mouth to talk when she continued to rant at me, "You want to lead them, show them you give a damn… they know Rayne is out there… and they see you standing here building bombs not going after her. They see how you don't care for her, what makes them think you care for them?" She asked as a gunshot went off.
"Woah! What the hell was that?" Someone shouted as both Raven and I turned around and walked quickly towards the gunshot. "Hey…" I said as I began to walk towards Sterling. "What the hell is the matter with you?"
"I'm sorry, man. I fell asleep." He began to tell me. "I've been on watch all day." Once I reached him I grabbed him by the scruff of his neck, "We've all been on watch all day!" I growled at him. "That bullet was one less dead grounder."
"Bell, you're scaring people." I heard Octavia say from beside me causing me to turn my head to face her not letting go of the guy. "They should be scared!" I told her, pushing the boy back as I turned around and began to address the camp.
"The bomb on the bridge bought us some time to prepare, but that time is up!" I shouted to them all, "The grounders are out there right now, waiting for us to leave and picking us off one by one when we do! Clarke, Finn, Monty and Rayne are gone. Probably dead." I told them all the words breaking my heart even more as they left my mouth.
The last thing I wanted to think was that she was gone for good. Not once I had finally gotten her, once she and Clarke had finally made up. Everything was so good, I should never have let her leave the camp, and I shouldn't have let any of them leave the camp. I knew they wanted them, and yet I foolishly thought they would still be safe.
"And if you want to be next, I can't stop you, but no guns are leaving this camp!" I continued, "This camp is the only thing keeping us alive!"
Everyone stood there staring at me hoping for some sort of guidance, however all I wanted to do was let the tears that where building up behind my eyes out. "Get back to work!" I shouted as my voice began to break.
Rayne's Point of View
I woke up my head throbbing; the grounder that was told to take me to their base camp only made it a few miles away from where he'd grabbed me when he was shot with an arrow dropping me to the ground. I don't think I'd ever been more excited to see Lincoln. Not that seeing him any other time would have been terrible.
"Drink." He said passing me a small bowl with some water in it.
"Thanks." I smiled softly to him. "Has he woken up yet?" I asked curiously. Looking over at Finn's body next to the fire, yesterday after Lincoln had saved my life he hid me in a cave leaving to go save Finn and Clarke. However he only managed to get Finn. Why he was risking his life for us I would never know.
By the time he and Finn returned here, it was nightfall and he had fallen asleep. The fact that he was still sleeping baffled me; I suppose it was a guy thing. Bellamy was able to sleep almost entire days away too. Bellamy, god I missed him, his touch, his lips.
"Why does Anya want me so badly… surely as your leader she'd have—" Lincoln held his hand up to cut me off.
"She is not my leader; she is not the leader of our people. Anya is just in charge of a group. All I know is that she was tasked with bringing you to a man named Tristan who was ordered to take you back to our commander… I don't know why… no one does." He told me.
"I don't see what makes me so special, hell Clarke is smarter than me, Octavia is prettier… it just… why me?"
Lincoln shrugged; "I think your families name line is the same as the leader of my people… he must think that by taking you in that he is protecting his name sake. Who knows, I just know I don't agree with what they are doing." He told me as we both turned quickly at the sound of Finn stirring on the ground.
"Rayne?" He said as his eyes opened and landed on me, "You're alive?"
I smiled; "Yep. Sorry to disappoint." Finn shook his head, "Is Clarke here?" He asked.
"We're going to get her." Lincoln answered him as Finn and I responded in unison. His voice sounding happy, mine sounding confused. "We are?"
"You two will waiting here." He continued as he began to dress in the guard's uniform that was supposed to have taken me. "Count to two hundred… then you will ignite this beacon and wait for my return." He said hopping onto a horse and taking off leaving a very confused Finn beside me.
"They see him as a traitor how does he plan on… getting Clarke?" I asked.
"Same way he got both of us, I'll assume… by force?"
I nodded smiling at Finn, "I really hope he gets her quickly." I mentioned sitting down next to the tiny fire we had.
"I really hope they haven't already killed her." Finn commented sitting next to me.
We sat there counting in our heads till finally Finn stood up and took the torch over towards the beacon as he shoved it inside igniting the entire thing in flames. Before walking back over to me holding his hand out to me helping me up off the ground. We watched over the edge of the hillside we were on looking down towards where Lincoln had pointed out to us would be their camp.
Sure enough, just like he said they lit their beacon too. Alerting us that they had gotten our signal. Signal for what we had no idea but we knew this meant it wasn't long now till Lincoln would be back, and back with Clarke. Which meant we could get back to our camp soon and figure out what to do from there.