Regina(On Hold) // The 100

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It had been a few days since coming back with Octavia, and most of the wreckage had been cleaned up. Raven managed to upgrade the communications system, allowing for video, and Clarke was currently in the tent talking to Jaha.

She told me she wanted me to talk to him as well because I needed to be seen as one of them and not as a Grounder. I agreed with her, but I wasn't ready to face my people yet. Only one person here knew where Strisis and I came from.

"Ai sonraun ste swich op ogeda sintaim, ona ogeda edei."

I paused in front of Clarke's tent as I heard Strisis's voice. I slowly pulled back the flap of the tent to find her curled up and singing to herself. "En ai flashpa, en's nowe fousen kom we em gada."

"Strisis?" She looked up at me startled. "Yu ste kei(Are you ok)?" She nodded and laid her head back down. I recognized the song she was singing. Our father used to sing it to us all the time, but after we had learned the Grounder's language, we stopped singing it in English so we could try to sound more like them.

"Ai gaf mou," Strisis continued. "Nou we na gon blou of." I got down on the floor of the tent next to her, and I saw her clutching one of my knives to her chest. "Emo na kom fousen au. Nou we na nou gon dula op."

I knew she was still terrified over what Bellamy did to me. She refused to go anywhere near him since then, and even being in this camp has made her feel unsafe. "Taim noni kom op hir, Klark na fis op betfou em kru na kep oso in klir(When Dad comes down, Clarke will make sure her people will keep us safe)," I reassured her. 

Strisis sat up and put on a brave face. "Ai get in(I know)," she said. She stood up and walked past me out of the tent. I barely gave her a glance before I followed her. I knew she was struggling to fit in. After all, for the six years she was on the Ark, she lived in the wall. She's never known anyone else from the sky, and she spent most of her life on the ground.

I was still worried about our dad. If he was alive and he came down with the rest of the Ark, would he still be punished for the crime of having a second child? Would Strisis still be considered illegal? I wanted answers to these questions, but I knew I couldn't ask Clarke or Bellamy, and Finn wouldn't be able to give me the answer. The only way I could figure it out was waiting for them to come down.

"Enyo, yu ste kei(Enyo, are you ok)?" Finn asked once he spotted me. Then added, "I hear you and your sister ask that a lot." I glanced around camp until I spotted Clarke walking into the dropship. "I just saw your sister, she doesn't look too happy."

"She's scared," I told him. I hesitated for a moment, but I decided to say what was on my mind. "When the Ark comes down, and your chancellor finds out that my dad had two children, what will happen to him?"

Finn pondered my question for a little bit before answering. "Considering they'd be on the ground, and not in a metal prison feeding them borrowed air and recycled water, I'd assume that he won't share the same fate as the other criminals." I smiled upon hearing that. I started walking and Finn followed. "So will you tell me who your dad is? Who you are?"

I shook my head. "If I told you my father's name, you'd know exactly who I was. Everyone here assumed that girl was arrested at the age of 13 and floated five years later when she never returned from the skybox. Chancellor Sydney must've been amazing at hiding my launch."

I stared at the communications tent where, one by one, each member of the 100 would get a chance to speak to their parents, and I wished I could go in there and talk to my dad. I never even gave him a proper goodbye, I wrote him a note telling him that I wanted Strisis to have a chance of survival.