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I was drawing peacefully of a dream, seeming more like a memory than anything else, when the doors swooshed open and I’m commanded to stand by the back wall. It could have been around 9 pm, we’re usually “suppose to be” in bed by now so it took me by surprise when they started to handcuff me. I wasn’t 18 yet; I still had a month left till my review.
I started to panic so I yelled and fought my way out before the handcuffs came on. I punched one guy in the nose and hit the other in the stomach to escape. It wasn’t just me being evacuated; it was the whole hundred of us. I ran to get away when they started to come after me but I saw a familiar face.
One that looks extremely worried. It was my mother.
I tried to ask her what was going on but she cut me off saying I had nothing to worry about; she started to go blurry as I started to become sleepy. The cops shot me with some type of drug.
I remember faintly my mom saying I was going to the ground before I saw black. This couldn’t be happening. The ground isn’t safe, at least here I would have been reviewed, had a chance to live, now I will die for sure and people weren’t going to know the truth about the ark.
Soon we will all be dead.
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I was doing my usual routine of a semi workout in this small room when two cops came in telling me to face the back wall. I asked them what was going on but they didn’t answer. As they led me out the room, I see everyone is in handcuffs being escorted by cops; I look to my right and see a blonde girl slowly falling to the ground as a needle is escaping her neck. One of the cops nose is bleeding, possibly broken, and I couldn’t understand why she would have hit him to begin with.
We are lead to this big room that I never knew existed. We were all given this silver bracelet; it had these needles in them that pricked us when it was put on. The doctor gave me the okay and went on to check the others.
The blonde girl was in a gurney still asleep when they put hers on. I couldn’t help but admire how cute she looked while she was sleeping. I had Clarke in my Earth Skills class and would admire her since she sat across from me. We would exchange glances and I think the teacher caught on because he partnered us up on our project about salvaging things we needed if we were ever stranded.
We were partners for a day before I got locked up.
I came back to reality when they started to lead us through a series of hallways into a drop ship. The cops were directing us into different parts of the ship but one guard grabbed me by my arm and led me inside. He seemed familiar but I couldn’t see his face, it was covered by a cap. He led me upstairs and stayed with us making sure everyone was buckled in. He stayed in there when they shut the doors and strapped in. Maybe more cops were downstairs to help protect us?
The ship deployed and that’s when I saw the fear in everyone’s face, I’d seen a couple of them in classes but never actually talked to them. The chancellor came on the screen giving us some bullshit speech on how “important” we are to the ark and the survival of our people.
Please.
You chose us because we’re expendable under the eyes of “our people”.
The ship started to shake and the lights were flashing, the chancellor was cut off and people started to scream, I was holding onto my belt making my knuckles white and holding my breathe. This was it, we’re entered the atmosphere and are about to land on Earth, it was a hard landing but once we knew we were safe the cop undid his seat belt and went down the stairs, everyone did the same thing.
I was the last to undo my belt and went down the stairs when I heard arguing.
2 boys were dead and Clarke was yelling at the cop to not open the door, we didn’t know if the air was breathable.
Bellamy? He wasn’t a cop, why was he here?
Octavia came in shortly hugging him asking him the same question I was thinking. Clarke was still telling him we should wait and make contact with the ark first. The chancellor’s son, Wells, agreed with her, Clarke rolled her eyes. Wait. Why is here too?
Bellamy said we were going to die anyway if we did wait; he was headed towards the latch when I spoke up. “Why don’t we wait to see if we hear something outside?” everyone’s eyes were on me, “I mean if we are going to die anyway we should see if something is outside waiting for us. That was a hard landing and this thing is huge, something might be outside waiting.” Everyone agreed and we waited about 5 minutes before Bellamy got impatient and decided to open the doors.
Everyone was standing completely still when he opened the door. Octavia was the first one out and then everyone ran out yelling in joy.
Everything was so…. green.
The air smelled…. absolutely amazing.
Everything about this was amazing.
Clarke was the last one out with Wells trailing her. She looked beautiful embracing what Earth had to offer us. She noticed me starring and started walking towards me.
Oh shit.
“Hey! Thanks for speaking up in there, at least someone has some common sense around here...” she let out a small giggle, oh that sound was so enchanting; “…it’s Lexa right? I remember you from Earth Skills.”
She started to look at me weird. Oh shit I should respond.
“No problem, yeah we were partners for about a day ha-ha” I couldn’t hold my nervous laugh. Gosh why does she make me feel this way? No. I can’t. Not after what happened with Costia. She nodded and walked away right after that.
Damn did I do something wrong?
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What am I doing? Why am I even trying? She won’t be into me. My mom’s in the council who decided to send us down here. She won’t ever forgive me for what my mom did to us. Ugh! She did seem a little nervous didn’t she? I mean we would exchange glances in class and passing periods and I would see her blush when she saw me catch her but I don’t know, she didn’t respond for a long time. Maybe she was contemplating to yell at me and to never talk to her again.
Fuck my life.
Walking away maybe would have feed the fire a bit more. Ugh, I’ll have to deal with that later. Now I need to see where Mount Weather was at to get the supplies so we can live. I had a map in my pocket which I assume mom gave to me.
Holy shit. They dropped us on the wrong fucking mountain!
This is about a two day trip. I have to let the others know and get us over there. Bellamy of course being the total douche canoe he is said that the rest would stay there while I go and get the supplies. I’m one person.
How is that smart at all?
He sent a couple others with me. Jasper, Monty, Finn, Octavia, well she came on her own despite what Bellamy wanted, and Lexa. Oh great. I guess I’ll have to deal with this now.
We hiked for about 4 hours just in awe of the forest. Everything was just how I imagined it to be.
No.
It was better than what I imagined.
We would all get distracted and just marvel at what nature had to offer. Monty and Jasper kept to themselves really. Jasper kept eyeing Lexa and Octavia walking with each other, not whispering but I couldn’t make what they were saying either.
Not that I care of course.
Finn was the first to call us all over when he saw a deer. It was so beautiful, just eating, being one with nature. He tried to get a closer look when a branch broke under his foot and the deer looked up and had TWO HEADS?! OH MY GOSH! That was not in the books I read about!
We all started to walk again in a bit of silence for a while before Finn started to question the ark on their decision to send us down today.
They couldn’t know. Not yet.
Before he could hype up the others I asked if they heard the water. Jasper was the first to start running towards the source of the noise and I was the last, thankful no one caught what Finn had said.
Hopefully.
When we got to the river, Octavia decided to strip and jump in for a swim and may I say….. Woah….
Lexa was staring at her with a blank expression that I couldn’t make out. She was starting to take off her shirt. OMG…
“Octavia get out of the water!” Jasper yelled in panic.
What?
I soon saw this huge snake thing take her under. We all pushed this huge rock into the other side of the water. It let go of Octavia and Jasper jumped in after her and got her out in time before it came back. I ripped part of Jaspers shirt off to tie up her leg where she was bitten.
She was going to be fine but she will be limping for a couple of days. We were too far to take her back so we made camp there for the night.
Jasper and Monty went to go get fire wood while Finn and Lexa went to go look for food.
“How’s your leg feeling?” Octavia said it hurt like a bitch but she’s glad Jasper had enough courage to go in after her unlike Finn. She had told me that “Finn was hers and that I shouldn’t be getting any ideas with him.” I told her she had nothing to worry about but I couldn’t help but have a weird feeling when she said that.
You can’t just claim someone.
Can you?
We didn’t talk much after that. I’m guessing she hates me too because of my mom. Soon Monty and Jasper came back with the firewood and Octavia got the fire going in no time. Finn and Lexa came back about 20 minutes later, laughing, I wonder if Octavia had the same conversation with Lexa as she did with me only a couple minutes ago?
I don’t care.
I made sure everyone had enough berries to last them till tomorrow. I got the reminders.
Lexa wouldn’t allow it though. She watched and waited to see how much I had before she got up and gave me more and had less than what I initially had to begin with. She said she didn’t eat much and headed back to her original spot before I got to protest.
Maybe she doesn’t hate me?
No, she does. She’s keeping me alive because I’m the only one who knows how to get to Mount Weather.
We all fell asleep soon after. Finn woke me up in the middle of the night. Oh my god, it was beautiful. The forest was… was… glowing.
He took me over to some footsteps he believed to be monkeys. “That’s not possible. There aren’t any monkeys in this region.” He made a valid point on how there wasn’t supposed to be a man eating snake or a glow in the dark forest either. I didn’t say anything else about that topic afterward.
We talked a lot about random facts that I read in books and where he learned how to track. I ended up falling asleep on his shoulder.
The next day we all starting hiking again. We noticed the river was blocking our way and there was no way either one of us was going to get into the water. Finn found this vine to cross and Jasper went first. He held up a sign saying “Mount Weather 4 miles” on the other side, “Come on princess your turn to go” Finn said as he gave me the vine.
I hate it when people call me that but I was in no position to complain.
I was about to go when a spear hit Jasper in the chest. Lexa grabbed and pulled me behind the rocks holding me close to her side looking around for whoever threw the spear, never loosening her grip. How did she get to me so fast? Everyone else followed. I couldn’t help but feel a little bit safer when she held me.
We’re not alone.