The 100

Earth Kills

"How's he doing?" I asked Clarke, kneeling beside Jasper as I reached out and touched his cheek. She pulled out her watch and begins checking Jasper's pulse. "Shut up already!" I hear a girl from downstairs shout out. I huffed, leaning down to his face. "Don't listen to them, you're going to make it through this, okay?" I smiled at Jasper, touching his cheek again. "I promise" I whispered to him. "Can he just die already?!" A boy then shouted loudly. "I'm gonna get clean water" I informed Clarke before standing up and walking over to the latter, climbing down. I needed some air, some fresh air. I get outside and take a deep breath, touching the locket out my neck with he letting A on it. "No! no!" I hear a little scream. "No! NO!" she screams louder as I walked over to the sound. I see the little girl curled up in the ball, kneeling down next to her. "Hey...Wake up" I whispered. She jerked awakes, sucking in much-needed air. "It's okay, hey it's okay" I whispered. "It was just a dream..." I added. "What's your name?" I asked her. "Ch-Charlotte" She stuttered out. I give her a kind smile "I'm Shadow, but you can call me Doe." She didn't answer me this time. "It's alright to be scared, Do you want to talk about it?" I asked, resting my back against the tree. She looked to be struggling with whatever she was holding onto. "It's...my parents" tears rolled down her cheeks. "They were floated and they..." She paused, sniffling and breaking my heart all at the same time. "I see it in my dreams and I just..." She stopped. "I understand, my whole family was floated" I confessed. She looked up at me, almost awed. "So, how'd you end up here?" I asked her. "Well...we were taking my parent's things to the redistribution center and I kind of lost it" She confessed. "They said I assaulted a guard" She added. I wanted to laugh, knowing how many times I've put down guards and how many times I've hurt them. "I can't say I blame you for that" I smiled at her. She wiped her nose with her sleeve and I try to think of a way to calm her down. I looked up at the sky "You see that bright star up there?" I asked her, pointing to the night sky. She looks, squinting a little to see it more. "That's the Ark orbiting above us" I explained. I leaned forward, pulling my knees closer to myself. "I think whatever happened up there, you know the pain..." I knit my brows together. "Maybe we can move on from the past. That now, maybe being on the ground is our second chance" I informed her. "Do you believe that?" She wondered. She's a smart girl, reminding me so much of Isabella. I smiled, trying to find the right words "I'm trying to" I truthfully tell her, tears still rolling down her cheeks. "Come here..." I offered, opening up my arms. She leaned into me, resting her head onto my shoulder as I hugged her tightly. I felt bad, knowing I was almost her age when I had lost everything.

Clarke carefully removed the cloth from Jasper's wound. "The Grounders cauterized the wound, saved his life" Clarke explained. "Saved his life so they could string him up for live bait" Finn stated, walking over to us after climbing up the latter and leaning against the wall. "This is infected Clarke" I informed her, knitting my brows together as I see the green infected skin around the wound. She nodded "He could be septic," She says. "Any progress on using the wristbands to contact the Ark?" Clarke asked Monty. "That would be a firm no" Monty responded. "My mother would know what to do..." She sighed. "How's he doing?" Wells asked, kneeling down to Clarke between us. "How does it look like he's doing Wells?" She snapped a little at him. "Hey, I'm just trying to help" Wells sighed. Clarke thought for a moment "You want to help? Hold him down...Shadow and Monty keep his arms down, Wells and Finn keep his legs down" She instructed. She leaned over, putting the knife into the little fire she had going. "I'm going to like this, am I?" Monty asked. Clarke pressed the knife into Jasper's infected skin. "AHHHH!" Jasper screams loudly, moving as he tried kicking and getting away. "Hold him still! I need to cut away the infected flesh" She explained to us. Jasper's head went to the side as his eyes rolled into the back of his head. I placed my fingers on his neck to feel a pulse "Stop! You're killing him!" Octavia screamed, climbing up the latter. "She's trying to save him" Finn informed her. "She can't," Bellamy's voice says, coming into the room now. Anger already built in my chest. I stand to my feet and Octavia takes my spot where I was holding Jasper down. "Back off Bellamy" I warned, glaring at him. "We didn't drag him through miles of woods just to let him die" I pointed out. "Kid's a goner. If none of you can see that, you're deluded" He says. "He's making me crazy" Bellamy added. "Sorry if Jasper's an inconvenience to you but this isn't the Ark. Down here, every life matters!" I hissed at him, getting closer as I glared harder. "Take a look at him!" Bellamy shouted back at me, pointing to Jasper. "He's a lost cause" He simply tells us. "Octavia, I've spent my whole life watching my mother heal people. If I say there's hope, there's hope" Clarke whispered. "This isn't about hope, it's about guts. You don't have the guts to make the hard choices. I do" Bellamy says. "He's been this way for three days now. If he's not better by tomorrow I'll kill him myself" Bellamy threatened us, causing my heart to sink. Bellamy glanced at me before turning and beginning to climb back down the latter from the first floor. "Octavia, let's go" Bellamy ordered her. She dipped a cloth into the hot water as I joined them once again "No, I'm staying here" She informed him, shocking me a little bit. "Power-hungry, self-serving jackass" I hissed out. "He doesn't care about anyone but himself" Monty added. I looked at Octavia "Sorry..." I sighed. "No offense" I added. She shrugged, not really caring. "Yeah. Bellamy is all that. But he also happens to be right" Finn pointed out. I knit my brows together.