Even In The Grave, All Is Not Lost

Follow The River

A/N: Me: *waiting nervously to see what people think of the new chapter* it's been a while, what if they hated it? Ah shit they most definitely hated it

My ADHD brain: wait did you even post the chapter?

Me: of course I posted the chapter!

. . . I did not post the chapter

And that ladies and gentleman is why you are receiving this tonight instead of last night ;)

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"If the earth is a mother then rivers are her veins."

- Amit Kalantri

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"We passed a river the other day," Luna said as they made their way through the trees, the entrance to the lab disappearing behind them. "There might be nothing of worth there, but it's always good to check. Otherwise, we'll look for another source."

Raven shrugged, happy to defer to the other woman in this. She didn't know shit about catching fish. To be honest, she wasn't all that eager to eat any, either. She'd never tried one before, though Octavia said they were smelly as hell so that sure didn't sound particularly appetizing.

But there was a certain air of content about Luna today that had been missing in all the time she'd known her and Raven suspected that it was because she was finally in her element. The lab and everything to do with it were foreign to the Grounder but this was familiar, this was her life before A.L.I.E. - before they - had destroyed it.

Raven would eat a hundred fish just to see the look that adorned Luna's face now.

It wasn't happiness.

But it was a peace that came without force or effort and that was close enough.

Luna turned to her, lips lifting faintly. "Thankyou for coming, by the way. You didn't have to. I could have come by myself, or accepted Murphy's offer this morning. He seemed rather eager to get out of the mansion."

Raven felt a seed of jealousy take up root inside her and grimaced at its presence.

For God's sake, you are not going to be jealous of Murphy just because you're not the only person on this god-forsaken island whose company Luna actually finds tolerable.

Jesus Christ.

She'd never been a jealous person before Finn cheated on her. Just another brilliant leftover from that fucking fiasco. And she and Luna weren't even a thing!

Raven didn't want them to be a thing. Refused to let them be a thing.

Fuck.

Could she blame this on the seizures too? Cos she was gonna.

Raven scuffed her boot, attention directed at the ground - which seemed safer. "Yeah. Think he and Emori got into a fight."

A small one, by the sounds of it, but a probable motivation for him to vacate the premises, something he was ever reluctant to do. Dude acted like he fucking owned the mansion and treated it like his baby.

"Ah." Luna nodded. "That would explain why she was so irritable this morning."

'Irritable' was one way of putting it. A pissed off Emori was a formidable force to behold. She couldn't blame Murphy for scrambling to get the hell out of dodge first chance he got.