Chapter 3
Callie and Kane walked into the command centre and immediately looked at the monitors.
"Anything happening other than Jasper being speared?" Kane asked.
"They made it back to camp and are trying to gather a rescue party but most of the kids don't want to go," the technician on duty said. Kane nodded and turned to the monitor that showed Clarke and saw her walking towards the troublemaker and his sister. Kane switched to Octavia's monitor and listened in.
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Octavia winced and drew in an audible hiss as Bellamy looked over her wound.
"What the hell was it?" Bellamy asked, still pissed his sister was hurt.
"I don't know. The others said it looked like a giant snake," Octavia replied.
"You could have been killed!" Bellamy said, almost accusingly.
"She would have if Jasper didn't jump in to save her," Clarke told him, coming up to him from behind.
"You guys leaving? I'm coming too," Octavia said.
"No, no. No way, not again!" Bellamy objected.
"He's right. Your leg is just gonna slow us down," Clarke said flatly. She turned to Bellamy. "I'm here for you," she told him.
"Clarke, what are you doing?" Wells asked, not understanding why she wanted the biggest hater of Alpha to go with them. Clarke ignored him.
"I hear you've got a gun." Bellmy pulled his shirt up to reveal the handgun. "Good, follow me."
"And why would I do that?" Bellamy asked. Clarke leaned in a little bit and lowered her voice.
"Because you want them to follow you and right now, they're thinking only one of us is scared." She told him. Bellamy thought about it and realised if he didn't go, he'd be seen as someone who didn't give a crap about them, as someone who would let them die as long as he himself and his sister were okay.
"Murphy, come with me. Atom? My sister does not leave this camp. We clear?" Octavia was pissed.
"I don't need a babysitter!" she said. Bellamy ignored her and continued talking to Atom.
"Anyone touches her, they answer to me." Atom nodded. "Let's go," he said to the others. Octavia made to go after them but Atom grabbed her arm.
"You're staying here," he told her flatly. Octavia was still pissed and she let Atom know about it.
"I'm gonna make your life a living hell!" she shouted at him.
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"She probably will," Callie said. "She has so much anger to let out and she can't because her brother is too protective of her." Kane grunted and nodded. He'd seen it before with other second children they'd been forced to arrest and imprison. Anger at their parents for having them, anger at the Ark laws that said they shouldn't have. Anger that they had to stay hidden, anger at missing out on things that were a rite of passage for a child growing up and anger at the situation they were currently in - knowing they were going to die the day they became an adult. With Octavia now on the ground, she should have been allowed to get some of the anger out, but her brother was smothering her thinking he had to protect her when she didn't want it.
"I think if Bellamy Blake does not let up on the protection, she'll break out and do anything she can to circumvent him. It could divide them."
"The rest of us don't have siblings so we have no experience with sibling rivalry. Maybe it'll get better as they get older," Callie said, shrugging. It was not like they had any experience with it. They returned their attention to the screens.
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Clarke and Wells walked out of the camp.
"Those guys aren't just bullies, Clarke. They're dangerous criminals."
"I'm counting on it," Clarke said with a finality that Wells knew meant she was done talking.
Meanwhile they heard Murphy talking to Bellamy. They switched to their conversation.
"Since when are we in the rescuing business, huh?" Murphy asked supercilliously.
"The Ark thinks the Prince is dead. Once they think the Princess is too, they'll never come down. I'm getting that wristband even if I have to cut off her hand to do it." Bellamy strode ahead and Murphy smirked at the thought.
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"What do we do, Marcus?" Callie asked fearfully. Clarke was the daughter of her best friend.
"There's nothing we can do. They have to figure it out themselves. We can't get there for another two weeks at the earliest." Callie turned around and looked at the screens again.
"What happens if they succeed and cut off her hand?"
"You can't think about that, Callie. You have to hope they can stop Bellamy from killing them or hurting them. He does know that Clarke is their only medic so I think he was just bluffing about that."
"You think so?" she asked.
"Yes, I do." Callie nodded and turned to the screens to watch Clarke. Kane looked at Callie and hoped he was right. If they did kill her or cut off her hand, he knew there was nothing anyone could do to prevent Abby from killing him for hurting her daughter. Abby's temper was well-known. Alright, so she may not actually kill him, but she would make his life a misery and arrest him for any law she could. The Exodus charter says all crimes are forgiven on the ground, that was any crime committed on the Ark. Bellamy had a free pass for killing Shumway as it was committed on the Ark and he was now on the ground, automatically forgiven. This new crime however, would be made on the ground and even if there were no laws in the camp, when the rest of them went down, there would be and he would be arrested retrospectively for the assault and actual bodily harm. And with the cameras the prisoners had, there would be video proof.
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Callie walked into the command centre after her work and watched as the camp was busy building a wall while others did other things. She saw Octavia playing some kind of game.
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"Hey, I saw that. You cheated!" Octavia said good-naturedly to one of the three guys she was playing the game with. Atom wandered over to them.
"Hey, guys, the wall's not going to build itself." The three boys got up and left. Atom walked up to Octavia.
"Walls won't stop what's out there. We need weapons," she said.
"So build weapons. Look, your brother wasn't kidding about that. He'll hurt them."
"Come on, we were just talking," Octavia protested. "You're too hot to be my brother's bitch." Callie winced. That was not something to say to a guy.
"I'm no-one's bitch," Atom told her.
"Good, then prove it." She got up and wandered over to one of the boys she'd been playing cards with. "Come with me," she said to him. The boy dropped the wood he was carrying and followed her into the dropship.
Callie watched as they climbed to the top deck. The boy sat on the edge of the hatch and smiled at Octavia who seemed unsure about what she'd just started. Callie was watching Octavia and saw her frown and then she looked at Octavia's feed and saw the boy pulled back down through the hatch.
"Get out of here!" she heard Atom say before his head appeared through the hatch.
"Nobody's bitch, huh? Maybe one of these days you'll realise you can't control me."
"You know that guy you were with? Did you know he was in for murder?" Octavia's eyes widened in shock. "You want to know something funny?" Atom asked. Octavia gave a small nod. "I'm actually protecting him from you." Atom smiled before dropping through the hatch and locking the hatch.
"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing?!" Octavia yelled.
"Consider yourself controlled!" Atom yelled back.
"Is that all you got? They locked me under the floor for sixteen years just for being born! This is nothing!" Octavia yelled back, trying to be brave - and incredibly angry.
"Ahem, you want to keep it down?" a voice said from behind her. Octavia whipped around and spotted Monty. She sighed in relief. "I'm trying to concentrate." Octavia smiled and went over to him.
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"She seems troubled," Jaha said, walking over to Callie.
"Wouldn't you be if you spent the first sixteen years of your life living under the floorboards and when you are discovered, you're put into prison knowing the very day you become an adult is the day you die?" Jaha slowly nodded.
"I suppose so," he said. "But she doesn't seem very mature. She's nearly seventeen."
"Again, what socialisation did she do in the first sixteen years of her life? Her mother and brother? Those are good at keeping secrets, but they can't socialse a person like everyday interactions from childhood. Every child learns that people are not nice and children are some of the worst. She never had that. What you are seeing is a young girl who's suddenly found her freedom, only to find her brother is trying to curtail it. A brother who doesn't seem to understand that she doesn't need that kind of protection anymore. She needs guidance, not restrictions. If they are not careful, she'll break out somehow and go off on her own. She may decide she needs to prove herself to them and do something stupid."
"She was in prison for a year, though," Jaha said.
"With a bunch of criminals. I doubt they'll have socialised her the way we would have. They'll have taught her their jaded view of people, of the Ark leadership and of authority in general. I suspect that includes her brother. She needs to do things for herself but her brother is not letting her."
"Think she'll go rogue?"
"Probably, but then I think most of them will, including Alpha's kids. What have they got to lose other than their freedom when we go down?"
"Meaning?"
"Think about it, Chancellor. Those kids have been dropped from the Ark. It's basically killing them by floating. We know they are alive but from their point of view, they don't know we know. They are now on the ground and they have proven the ground is safe. The Exodus charter says they will be pardoned for their crimes, so you cannot round them up for being criminals. Those who turn 18 before we go down have had their sentences carried out. If you round them up, it may seem to them as if you intend to kill them for turning 18."
"That's not what we intend to do, but we do have to protect them."
"They won't see it like that, sir. They'll think you are taking them prisoner again. Right now, they are trying to figure it out - on their own. When we go down there and you round them up and ignore them again, how do you think they are going to feel? Remember, some of them will turn 18 before we go down, including Clarke and Wells. You have to offer them something. You can't just round them up, they'll fight back. Right now, they are experiencing their first taste of true freedom. No-one to tell them what to do, no-one to guide them, no-one arresting them for any crime that we deem is a crime - and let's be honest, some of them are downright stupid. Would you like that? To have freedom for a couple of months and then have someone say they were too young and needed protection? Where is the protection, Chancellor? We can't protect them at the moment. We sent them down to die. We sent them down with no weapons and nothing else they could use. From their point of view, this is the first step to their own independence. This is what Octavia's experiencing. She's figuring it out." Jaha nodded.
"I still don't like it."
"You don't have to like it, you just have to acknowledge that they are a group of people - not kids - who will be more in tune with the ground than we are. A group of people who have earned the right to their own settlement and community."
"I'll think about it," Jaha said, turning his attention back to the monitors.
"Don't think too long, Chancellor. This is their time on the ground and whatever they learn, they'll be more experienced. We cannot ignore their advice based solely on their age. We need everyone and we need to stop seeing children as too stupid to do things without adult supervision. Those kids down there are proving they don't need us to survive, but we will need them to survive down there. Nothing we've seen has anything to do with the way we live up here. It's completely alien to us." Callie walked away, unable to hold her tongue if he continued to see mouths to feed instead of intelligent, thinking young people.
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There was a knock on the door and Abby went to answer it.
"Hey, Callie, come in," she said to her best friend. Callie entered the Griffin's quarters. "What's up?"
"Just Jaha seeing children and not young adults. He still thinks that when we go down, he can round them up and keep them confined to 'protect' them!" Callie said. Abby was silent. Callie looked at her. "You think the same?"
"They're kids, Callie."
"They're prisoners who've earned the right at redemption - and that's redemption for themselves, not redemption from us. Would you like Clarke held prisoner again just because she was one on the Ark?"
"No, but she cannot be allowed to roam free,"
"Why not?" Callie asked. "Forget that she's your daughter and tell me why she cannot live her own life away from the Ark?"
"I can't forget she's my daughter," Abby said. "She's the only family I have left."
"She won't be if you confine her. She needs to grow and that means independence. On the Ark that basically means having your own bedroom and being allowed out a little later. Down on the ground however, it means real freedom. No adults telling them what to do, no-one saying they can't do something someone else deems scary or dangerous. If you think about it, if we all did that then nothing would get done. Someone has to take that first step into the unknown and those young people did that - maybe not willingly, but they are leading the way. Clarke has the right to choose her own life, Abby. We cannot live it for her."
"We?"
"She's the closest thing I'll get to a child," Callie said, shrugging. Abby had already confirmed that Callie was unable to carry a child to term, therefore no child of her own would be a viable option.
Abby turned back to the monitor with Clarke and Well's feeds on it.
"Where are they?" Callie asked, moving to Abby's side.
"Moving towards where they last saw Jasper."
"Is she safe?"
"Probably not, she's on the ground."
"And you think of the ground as a scary place," Callie guessed.
"We're not supposed to be the generation that went down, Caliie. I'm not ready for it, not prepared."
"There's no way we could be, Abby. Everyone's scared of the unknown."
"It's not just that, but what about medicines? After a hundred years, most wil be useless and maybe poisonous."
"Then start reading about the old way of making medicines. There's a couple of books in the library about that. I saw them a couple of years ago."
"Did you read them?" Abby said, now interested.
"No, but I did flick through one of the books. Did you know that Willow bark can be used as a painkiller?"
"Really?" Abby said.
"Uh-huh," Callie said, sitting down to watch as the kids went for the injured Jasper.
Maybe I should read those books," Abby said, sitting beside Callie as she watched Clarke and Wells.
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"Hey, hold up, what's the rush?" Bellamy asked. "You don't survive a spear through the heart." Abby winced. She hoped Jasper's parents weren't watching. She gasped as Bellamy pulled out his gun.
"Put the gun away, Bellamy," Wells said.
"Well, why don't you do something about it, huh?" taunted Murphy. Clarke had had enough.
"Jasper screamed when they moved him. If the spear had struck his heart, he'd have died instantly. It doesn't mean we have time to waste." Abby nodded along though she knew it may not be instantly, but it would certainly be quick.
"As soon as you take the wristband off, we can go," Bellamy said, menacingly. Clarke got into his face.
"The only way the Ark is gonna think I'm dead is if I'm dead. Got it?" Clarke was not going to back down from this pair of bullies.
"Brave Princess," Bellamy said, mockingly.
"Hey, why don't you find your own nickname," Finn said, coming up from behind the bullies. "You call this a rescue party? Gotta split up. Clarke, come with me," he said, not stopping. Clarke went with him.
"Better late than never," she muttered.
"I like to think so," Finn replied.
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Abby sighed in relief that Finn had arrived. At least now she had someone in her corner who wasn't from Alpha.
"I feel sorry for him," Callie said.
"Who? Bellamy?" Abby asked.
"No, Wells, look at him," she said, pointing to Bellamy's feed that was more focused on Wells than anywhere else.
"Wells? Why?"
"He's in love with Clarke and has been for years. I doubt she knows about it though."
Wells is in love with Clarke?" Abby said, not quite believing it.
"You didn't know?" Callie asked, turning to her. "Abby, how could you miss it? Most of Alpha knows about it."
"But Clarke doesn't?"
"Doubt it. Wells is too scared to lose her friendship so I doubt he'll tell her." Abby turned to Wells' feed and saw it was moving between Clarke and ahead of him, but it would always return to Clarke.
"How did I not see it?" Abby asked in amazement.
"Maybe you didn't want to see it. It would mean she was growing up and both you and Jake were worried about it." Abby nodded and turned back to the screen in time to see Bellamy watching Wells.
Abby turned to Wells' feed and saw he was still watching Clarke more than the ground.
"Guess we have more in common than meets the eye, huh?" Bellamy said to Wells.
"We have nothing in common," Wells told him, still watching Clarke.
"No? We both came down here to protect someone we love. Your secret's safe with me," Bellamy said. He waited a beat before he continued. "Of course it's worse for you. With Finn around, Clarke doesn't even see you. It's like you're not even here." Wells looked at him, knowing he was right but wishing he was wrong.
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Kane was in the command centre watching the feeds just like anyone else. He knew Abby would be watching Clarke, so he turned his attention back to the camp. He saw kids building the walls and gate, chopping wood with crude axes made from bits of the ship. He had to commend them for their ingenuity. He wouldn't have thought of that so soon after going down. Nothing was happening very much. He turned to Monty's feed. Monty was trying to use the wristbands to communicate with the Ark. Of course, the Ark knew every move they made, but the kids didn't know that. Octavia was seated by Monty on the upper deck. They were alone, still locked in by Atom.
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"He may not be my real brother, but he's always there. Every memory I have, there's Jasper. I should be out there."
"You gonna cry?" Octavia asked him, teasingly. Monty smirked and let out a little laugh.
"Shut up!" he said, jokingly. Octavia giggled. Monty got serious.
"You sure about this? Your brother won't approve of you helping us contact the Ark," Monty said.
"He's not my keeper. Let's just do this." Monty looked at her. "Let's do this," she repeated and held out her arm. Monty turned her arm over and pushed the pry bar under the band. He had to push down on her arm to break the band. "Aargh..! Ow!" Octavia said, rubbing her wrist.
"Sorry," Monty said and looked at the prongs on the band and watched as the lights faded. "Dead," he said with a heavy sigh.
"Oh," Octavia said, also saddened that she couldn't help them.
"Damn it!" Monty said.
"If we can't take it off, how do you expect to turn it into a radio?" Suddenly, the hatch clanged open and Atom pushed it upwards and looked in. Both Octavia and Monty looked at him.
"Go on, I'll be fine. Work to do," Monty said, giving Octavia permission to leave the deck instead of staying to keep him company.
"Hey Monty? Jasper would understand why you stayed."
"How is someone raised beneath the floor, not a total basket case?" Monty asked. Octavia smiled.
"Who says I'm not?" she said before disappearing down the hatch.
"It's because he loves you. Your brother? You're not a basket case because you were loved." Atom said.
"Yeah, I'm a lucky girl," Octavia said, sarcastically.
"I'm not saying I had it worse than you, Octavia, because I didn't. But you have someone who would do anything for you. I envy that," he said before leaving the dropship.
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Kane thought about Octavia's unique situation. Born in secrecy, hidden away under the floorboards for over fifteen years and then thrown in prison upon discovery. Atom was right that she wasn't a basket case and Kane wonderd how it happened. It couldn't have just been because she was loved. There were kids who were loved but were bad people, some kids had bad parents but were generally good kids. He didn't think Octavia's true personality would come out until she had been on the ground for a few months at least and probably only when Bellamy wasn't around. She needed to grow without his influence.
He turned to Jasper's feed, but it was black,meaning he was unconscious. His bio signs were still there, but barely. He hoped Clarke's group got to him quickly. It didn't look like he had much time.
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Abby was in the command centre, once more watching Clarke and her group make their way towards Jasper. Jaha and Kane walked in.
"I've been thinking about Mount Weather. How come they didn't attack until Jasper crossed the river? It's not like we were being quiet and they didn't know we were there," Finn said to Clarke as they walked along. Jaha and Abby looked at each other.
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"Never thought of that," Abby said.
"Me neither," Jaha said as Kane kept quiet and watched the kids.
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"They waited for us to cross! The river's a boundary!" Clarke said, understanding that it was not because of who they were, but where they wanted to go. "Which means Mount Weather is off limits." Clarke snorted. "How are we gonna get those supplies? What are we gonna do for food?"
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Again Abby and Jaha looked at each other. Jaha turned to a technician.
"Any movement from Mount Weather?" he asked.
"None so far, Chancellor, but if these Grounders are as good at camouflage as we think they are, we wouldn't be able to see them from here anyway." Jaha nodded in understanding.
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"Wow!" Finn said as they came upon a river with a waterfall.
"Well, at least we don't have to worry about water," Clarke said. Finn waded into the water.
"Oh yeah," he said, happily. Clarke was anxious to find Jasper before he bled out.
"Come on Finn, we don't have time for this."
"Clarke, we've been hiking for hours. We need to take a break," Finn said, lowering himself into the cold water.
"I'll take a break when we find Jasper," Clarke told him. Finn came towards her. "Come on," Clarke said, trying to back away as Finn grabbed her wrist. "No, no, FInn! Don't!" she said, just before he pulled her into the water. Clarke gasped. "Damn it Finn!" she said to him. He smiled at her and Clarke realised she was buoyant in the water and it felt wonderful to immerse herself in it. Something they couldn't do on the Ark. "Oh, wow. Okay, maybe for a minute," She capitulated.
"Yeah," Fin said smiling before he sobered a bit as he spoke next. "I think I know why you're so hell bent on finding Jasper, why you're always taking care of everybody else," Finn said to her.
"Now you sound like my mother," Clarke said. She saw the look on his face. "No, go on, this should be good. The delinquent psychiatrist."
"You couldn't save your father," Finn said, quietly. Clarke stilled as she looked at him, not knowing what to say. She looked away from him and behind him. She stared at something before she realised what it was. She splashed her way over to the other side of the river. Finn followed her. Clarke looked at a large pool of blood on a large stone. Finn looked as well. He dipped his finger into the still wet blood but didn't say anything. Clarke bent down and pulled an object from the water by the stone. It was Jasper's goggles.
"We're close," Finn said. Both were serious now.
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In Farm station, Jasper's parents gasped as Clarke pulled their son's goggles out of the water.
"Jasper!" his mother called out.
"They'll find him," her husband said. "We know he's still alive." She clung to him as she pleaded with deities she didn't know to save him. They turned back to the monitors and watched, waiting to see if their son was still alive.
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"Hey, how do we know this is the right way?" Murphy asked in a bored tone.
"We don't. Spacewalker thinks he's a tracker," Bellamy said, almost in derision.
"It's called cutting sign. Fourth year earth skills. He's good," Wells explained.
"You want to keep it down or should I paint a target on your backs?!" Finn asked sarcastically. He stopped as he saw a broken twig. He touched it, lifting it slightly and then looking at the pebbles on the ground. He knelt by some blood drops and checked the direction they were going. Bellamy watched as Clarke knelt by him, watching Finn. Bellamy turned to Wells.
"See? You're invisible." Wells said nothing but he was pissed that Bellamy kept calling him on it. Just then, they heard a moan in the distance.
"What the hell was that?" Murphy asked, looking around.
"Now would be a good time to take out that gun," Clarke said in Bellamy's direction. Her voice was grim and a little scared. More moaning accompanied their journey towards him. They broke through some trees and saw Jasper tied to a tree among the branches. He was shirtless with his hands tied above his head. There was something on his stomach.
"Jasper! Oh, God!" Clarke said, shocked to see him. She started forward.
"Clarke, be careful!" Finn warned her.
"Jasper," Clarke said again, stepping forward and her foot went through a camouflage cover. "What the hell?" She looked up at Bellamy who was the only thing keeping her from falling onto sharpened spikes at the bottom of the hole. She saw his face and knew he was having a dilemma. Did he let her go or save her?
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"Dear God!" Abby said, hand to her mouth. Callie held her, rubbing her arms and back.
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"Clarke! Pull her up! Pull her up!" Finn said moving forward. Murphy was on one side with Finn on the other, helping Bellamy pull her up. "You okay?" he asked her once she was safely out of the hole.
"Yeah. We need to get him down."
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Abby sighed in relief that Clarke was safe. She wasn't the only one on the Ark either. The life of those kids had become important to the Arkers. Prisoners whose lives were forfeit on the Ark were now living on the ground, trying to make a life for themselves as best they could.
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"I'll climb up there and cut the vines," Finn said.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm with you," Wells said.
"No, stay with Clarke and watch him," Finn said, pointing to Bellamy. "You. Let's go," he said to Murphy. Murphy looked at Bellamy who nodded.
"There's a poultice on his wound," Clarke said, looking at Jasper.
"Medicine? Why would they save his life just to string him up as live bait?" Wells asked, confused.
"Maybe what they're trying to catch, likes it's dinner to be breathing," Bellamy said.
"Maybe what they're trying to catch is us," Finn proposed.
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Gasps sounded around the Ark as work stopped as everyone was glued to the monitors, watching another life or death struggle. Raven had also stopped work on the pod as she watched her boyfriend be a hero.
"Come on Finn, get him down and get the hell out of there!" Raven mumbled to the monitor.
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"Hurry up, Murphy," Finn said as his knife cut through one vine.
"Be careful," Clarke warned. They heard a distant growl and looked around, trying to pinpoint it.
"What the hell was that?" Murphy asked.
"Grounders?" Bellamy asked. They watched as a large black cat walked into the clearing through some bushes.
"Bellamy, gun!" Clarke said, alarmed. Bellamy went for his gun but it was missing. A shot rang out and then another as Wells aimed for the large cat. The cat disappeared into the bushes and they were all looking in different directions, looking for it. Suddenly the cat sprang out of the bushes and Wells shot it before it could land on Bellamy. Wells kept firing even though the gun was empty. Clarke watched Wells, puzzled that Wells was the one to shoot it.
"Now she sees you," Bellamy said. Wells turned his head to see Clarke watching him.
"Hurry up!" Clarke said. "We're out of ammo and we don't know if there are more of them around." Jasper was lowered out of the tree to Bellamy and Wells who had made a simple stretcher for him. The parachute was used to wrap the cat in. There was no point in wasting it. It was food. Wells and Clarke carried Jasper and Bellamy and Murphy carried the cat. Finn would spell them after about half an hour and they would keep switching off until they reached camp.
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There were sighs of relief throughout the Ark as the kids had once again defied the odds and survived. Jaha and Abby were relieved that their kids had survived and Jaha was secretly pleased that Wells had taken Bellamy's gun and used it to defend themselves. Abby was glad that Bellamy had not let go of her daughter. She may not have been killed, but she would have been seriously injured. Abby didn't know how to feel about Bellamy. On one hand he was trying to keep them alive, but on the other, he had another agenda which he seemed determined to follow - no matter how many people had to die in the process!
Raven sighed in relief that her boyfriend was safe. She was proud he'd learned enough in Earth Skills to track Jasper and help rescue him. She was still pissed that he was flirting with Clarke. She sighed once more and made her way down to the pod to continue fixing it. The sooner she got down, the better. She needed to get down there before he did something all three would regret.
Farm station was awash with whispered conversations about Jasper and what they were doing to rescue him. Most of them were glad that Clarke, Wells, Finn and Monty were doing something proactive to help him while they knew Bellamy and Murphy were only there to cause trouble. They hoped that once Jasper was back in camp, they'd be safer.
Kane was worried that now they had a way of seeing them, not much work was getting done on the Ark. He had his guards walking through the stations reminding them that they needed to work to keep the Ark safe until they could go down themselves. It usually meant they went back to work but kept talking about whatever they'd seen and whoever they'd followed. It lasted until the guards had gone and then the work slowed down once more while the talking continued.
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Put this out in case my internet goes down again. Keeps going down for hours at a time! So frustrating!