Arcadia Academy

Chapter 8

Dr. Jackson was looking through Clarke's chart while she watched anxiously. She was so tired of being stuck in the infirmary. Everybody from the unit had been to visit her, Raven and Octavia never missed an opportunity to come fill Clarke in on everything that had happened that day. She loved that they were keeping her involved but she was tired of missing it all. She just wanted to be better and back to the unit.

Miller had come to see her once profusely apologizing for everything. Clarke could tell he hadn't meant to give her a concussion. She forgave him even though she often felt pretty angry with him when she got frustrated that she was still stuck in the infirmary. Lincoln had even come to visit a couple of times, he seemed to feel guilty because he taught Miller that move and it had gone so wrong.

"If I clear you to go back you need to keep filling out your symptom checklist for the rest of the week and no lying about symptoms." Dr. Jackson warned. "Also no all nighters, I know it will be exciting to be back but you need your rest."

"Okay!" Clarke hopped up and was grateful when her head didn't start to pound since she had just been told to take it easy. "Thank you!" Clarke eagerly pulled her already packed bag out from under the bed.

"I see you were expecting the news." Jackson laughed.

"I will admit I thought of sneaking out anyway if you said no." Clarke grinned as she walked out past him.

Octavia and Raven were waiting right outside of the infirmary house with big grins on their faces.

"She's free!" Raven ran over and picked Clarke up in a big hug spinning her around.

"Wow, wow, freshly not concussed we don't want to rescramble her brain on the first day." Octavia stopped Raven from spinning again and gave Clarke a hug when Raven released her.

Raven insisted on carrying Clarke's bag back to the baracks, she was extra energetic today even for Raven.

When they got to the barracks Clarke headed towards the stairs to go up but Octavia and Raven both stopped her by each grabbing an arm. They each covered up one of her eyes and started leading her down the halls.

"You guys know concussions affect balance right?" Clarke questioned.

"You won't fall." Raven promised.

"Plus you aren't that concussed anymore or Dr. J wouldn't have cleared you." Octavia pointed out. They turned and removed their hands revealing the game room with a huge welcome back Clarke banner. Everybody from the Zulu and Delta units stood beneath it with huge grins on their faces.

A huge smile broke out on Clarke's face and she started to greet everybody. It had been a while since she had seen most of the Zulu unit and she hadn't really seen much of everybody from her unit other than Octavia and Raven who wouldn't let her go a day without a visitor in the infirmary.

There were snacks out and games set up with some music on in the background. Clarke was touched that they had thrown her a welcome back party. She hadn't even been there that long before the game of capture the flag but they had been like family fast. Jasper and Monty were the first to come up and wrap Clarke in a hug. The next hour consisted of everybody coming up and welcoming Clarke back.

Miller had looked pretty nervous when he went up to greet Clarke unsure if she was going to be upset with him but she decided to let it go and made sure he knew they were on good terms. The only person who hadn't greeted her was Lexa. She was there, Clarke had seen her next to Bellamy clapping when she walked in.