𝗔𝗟𝗪𝗔𝗬𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗩𝗘, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝟭𝟬𝟬 (𝟭)

𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧

~ ✮ ✮ ~

chapter seven, Infected

--

TWO YEARS AGO

NOVA LIES ON THE FLOOR OF HER CELL, engrossed in a book she had finally managed to obtain. The cell door creaked open, revealing two guards. One of them stepped inside and snatched the book from her hands.

"What? I'm not even finished reading that! I just got it," Nova protested, standing up from the floor. The guard responded by whipping out his electric stick and shocking her.

Nova collapsed to the ground, clutching her stomach in pain. "Oh, sorry... thought you were gonna kill me," the guard mocked, tossing the book onto the floor as the other guard laughed.

Nova coughed and used her arm to push herself up, resting her head on the edge of her bed. "Are you done?" she asked, managing to sit up properly on her bed.

"We're just getting started," the guard sneered, both of them laughing in unison as they threw an envelope onto the floor before walking out. Nova reached for the envelope and saw it was from her mother, but it had already been opened.

She pulled the letter from inside the envelope and noticed that some words were blacked out and parts of the letter were cut up. A tear slipped from her eye as she lay back down on her bed. The only words she could clearly make out were "Memento Vivere" at the bottom of the letter.

Nova crumpled up the paper, threw it across the room, and buried her face in her pillow, letting out a muffled scream.

PRESENT DAY

NOVA JERKS UP AWAKENING FROM HER SLEEP on the bottom floor of the drop ship when she hears groaning from the top floor coming from Jasper and the rest of camp starts to grow restless from it.

"Quiet!"

"Go back to sleep!"

"Can he just die already?"

Nova sighed and climbed up the latter to the floor of the drop ship Jasper was on and Clarke let out a sigh of relief.

"Nova, hey... Listen I need to get him some clean water. Can you watch him?" Clarke questions and Nova nods.

"Of course, go..." Nova waves Clarke off as she climbs the latter. Nova walks over to Jasper and sits next to him while he moans in pain.

"Hey, Jasper. You're going to be okay" Nova smiles as she brushes his hair back and looks over at Monty who's working on some wristbands.

_______

DAYLIGHT BEGAN TO SET AND NOVA, Clarke, Finn, Monty and Jasper were all together. "The Grounders cauterized the wound. Saved his life" Clarke says admiring Jaspers wounds.

"Saved his life so they could string him up for live bait" Finn says folding his arms across his chest. "This is infected. He could be septic. Any progress on using the wristbands to contact the Ark? Monty?" Clarke sighs looking over to Monty who looks like he's got nowhere.

"That would be a firm no" Monty informs.

"My mother would know what to do" Clarke says and Nova tugs her lip in a side smile. Nova misses her mom and hopes she'll come down soon so she can hug her longer than 5 seconds and see her whenever she wants.

"How's he doing?" Wells questions stepping up into the room bringing Nova out of her thoughts. "Not-" Nova says but Clarke quickly interrupts.

"How does it look like he's doing, Wells?" Clarke questions slightly frustrated while Wells puts his hands in defense. "I'm just trying to help."

Jasper let's out a painful moan and Clarke sighs, "Right. You want to help? Hold him down" Clarke orders and Wells walks over holding Jasper down along with Nova and Finn who decide to help.

"I'm not going to like this, am I?" Monty questions as Clarke brings her knife down Jasper cutting into his wound. Jasper then let's out a loud shout, his screams echoing throughout the entire camp as Clarke works on him, still trying to take out the infected flesh.

Nova groans in disgust and looks away all while she continues to hold down one of the Jaspers shoulders when Octavia rushes in. "Stop it! You're killing him" Octavia shouts running to Jasper.

"Octavia, I promise you, she's saving him" Nova tells her, holding down one of Jasper's shoulders. "She can't" Bellamy walks in and Wells stands up to Bellamy while Nova puts Octavia's hands on his shoulder and walks down to Jaspers legs and holds them down.

"We didn't drag him for miles to let him die Bellamy" Nova argues. "Kid's a goner. If you can't see that, you're deluded. He's making people crazy" Bellamy voices and Nova shakes her head.

"Sorry if Jasper's an inconvenience to you, but this isn't the Ark. Down here, every life matters" Clarke defends stepping up to Bellamy. "Take a look at him. He's a lost cause" Bellamy calls out, pointing towards Jasper.

Clarke sighs and walks back over to Jasper and looks at a worried Octavia. "Octavia, I've spent my whole life watching my mother heal people. If I say there's hope, there's hope" Clarke reassures and Octavia sends her a hopeful reassuring smile.

"This isn't about hope, it's about guts. You don't have the guts to make the hard choices. I do. He's been like this for three days. If he's not better by tomorrow, I'll kill him myself" Bellamy says and Nova stands up straight appalled when Bellamy goes to the latter.

"Octavia, let's go."

"I'm staying here" Octavia says looking down at Jasper and everyone looks at Bellamy before he leaves.

"Power-hungry, self-serving jackass. He doesn't care about anyone but himself. No offense" Monty states looking to Octavia on the last part. Octavia shrugs as if she doesn't even care.

"You can say that again" Nova sighs crossing her arms. "Yeah. Bellamy is all that. But he also happens to be right" Finn says and Nova furrows her eyebrows in confusion, shocked that those words came out of his mouth.

"Let's see if you say that if you're in this position" Nova scoffs and looks down at Jasper and his wound.