My Immortal

Chapt 18: The Ark Comes Falling Down

Kiran:

Since she had arrived at Tondisi, Raven had built a working radio. We managed to get it to the point where we were comfortable trying to reach the Ark, when Lincoln brought Clarke back to us. With our leader back among us, we started the radio up and attempted to contact the ark.

"Raven Reyes to Ark Station. Come in Ark Station." Raven spoke up, waiting for a response. She repeated her message a few times before someone responded back.

"Who is this? How did you get on this frequency?" the response began, before being cut off.

"Reyes?" a new voice answered.

"SINCLAIR!" Raven smiled brightly. "I am broadcasting from the ground. The 100 are alive." She bit back her feeling on how many actually were alive.

"Raven, this is Abby Griffin, we have you off the ark wide channel and here in communications." The Doc's voice echoed in the room. I flinched back from her voice, before I could stop myself. Mako looked at me in concern before glaring at the radio.

"Mom?" Clarke spoke up, taking the radio.

"Clarke! Oh my baby." the doc's voice came back. "Are you ok? When everyone's wristband went out there was a bit of a panic up here."

"Considering mine was off the first day... and theirs off a few days later... I would say that you have had a rough week, Doc." I spoke up, loud enough to be heard.

"Is that... Prisoner 2?" The doc asked.

"Hang on, I can get the video up and running in a second." Raven began to tinker with a few things before an image flickered on the screen. "Got it."

I flinched once more as Doc came on screen, once again, Mako spotted my response.

"Clarke." The Doc touched the screen, as if touching her daughter's face.

"I'm fine mom. Kiran has seen to that." Clarke answered, looking at me. She smiled softly and turned back to her mom. "She is after all, family."

The doc's face fell. "How did you find out?"

"Find out? Really Doc? She's named after me. I know her father's family tree. She's my goddaughter." I spoke up, venom in my voice. "Just like her father was my godson, his father, and his father, and his father before him as well. Loudoun made sure that I would be part of the family. That's why Bristol... sorry, Jake, made sure that she carried my name."

With that, I pressed a kiss to the top of Clarke's head and left the tent. I could hear footsteps following me, but I paid them no mind. I needed to calm down, so I headed to the training pits.

Clarke:

Kiran stormed out, and Mako followed after a look at Heda. I stared at my mother in a new light. There was something between the two, something I knew nothing about and that scared me. What kind of history were the two of them hiding?

Raven tapped my arm to get my attention.

"They need to come down, before they run out of air completely." She reminded me.

"Clarke." My mother spoke up once more.

"We can discuss this once you come down. How are we going to do this?" I shifted on my feet.

"The remaining drop ships won't carry everyone."

"So bring it all down." Raven spoke up, taking the radio out of my hands. "Have Sinclair run the numbers, and bring it all down. He would be able to say where to put the people."