The First On The Ground

Demons

(AUGUST POV)

Bellamy was driving the rover while Clarke sat up front with him. I sat between Raven and Monty while Jasper sat between Octavia and Sinclair on the other side.
"Becca's journal is amazing. At 26, she found a pathway to access a human mind. That same year, she had to lock up A. L. I. E. because her answer for what was wrong with the world was too many people. She was 27 when it launched the bombs," Raven explains as she goes through the journal.
"What did she write about the Flame?" Clarke asks as she turns to face Raven.

"A.L.I.E. 2.0 She saw it as a way to atone for her sins. She designed it to not just access a human mind but to merge with one. It could never wipe us out because it would be one of us. She would put it in herself first, altered her genes so her body wouldn't reject the implant," Raven answers.

"Bekka Pramheda, the first Commander," I say, remembering that she brought me back along with Lexa.
"The gene therapy made her blood black, didn't it?" Clarke asks.

"Yeah," Raven answers.
"How did you know that?" Octavia asks.

"Nightblood. That's where it came from. Somehow it became hereditary. Luna has it. That's why we have to find her. If she can access A.L.I.E. 2," Clarke says.

"She can tell us how to stop A. L. I. E. 1," Octavia says.
"Bekka Pramheda gets her second shot at atonement," Sinclair says.

"Umm. Quick question," I say and everyone looks to me. "Did everybody forget or does my nightblood just not count?"

"You just died. We have no idea what A.L.I.E. 2 could do to your body. Besides your nightblood is from the Ark, somehow, so it could be completely diff..." Clarke answers.

"Actually it says in the journal that some of the successful gene therapy was left on the Ark. So, it's possible some of August's family could have made it hereditary," Raven explains.

"Making it the same black blood," I say. "I'm supposed to be the commander anyways. If Luna does take the flame then that would make her Heda and not what Lexa's soul..."

"It's not an option. I'm not going to lose you, too," Clarke argues.

"If Luna won't take it, then we won't have a choice Clarke," I say.

"Luna did run from her conclave for a reason," Octavia adds.
"Let's just get back to the mind pathway," Monty says interrupting the argument. I had noticed Bellamy's face drop when I spoke about being the commander. I'm still not sure what to do with that whole situation. I still love him but I'm so angry with him. If he would have never sided with Pike, Lincoln would still be alive and I wouldn't have been shot. "If A.L.I.E. uses it to upload our minds to the City of Light, then there's a chance my mom's still alive."
"That depends on your definition of 'alive,'" Raven answers him.

"Eyes sharp. Weapons hot. We're almost home," Bellamy orders before picking up the radio. "Miller, come in." Nothing but static is heard. "Harper, you there? Ride's two minutes out." Something doesn't feel right. They should have answered. We then pull up to Arkadia to find the gate still bashed open from Jasper. Clarke, Bellamy, Octavia, and Sinclair had got of the rover and were walking beside it as we made our way to the gate. They wouldn't let me out and made me stay with Raven. Monty started driving the rover and Jasper was standing in the hole in the roof.
"We left two days ago. Why haven't they fixed the gate?" Clarke asks.

"Maybe because there's no one here to fix it," Jasper answers.
"It's like a ghost town," Raven says.
"Miller, where the hell are you?" Bellamy asks into the radio.

"I don't like this," I say as I move to the front to sit by Monty.
"Maybe they got chipped," Jasper says.
"If they got chipped, they'd been waiting for us at the cave," Bellamy argues.
"Maybe they saw the open gate, went in for Lincoln's book," Jasper says.
"Maybe you should stop saying 'maybe'," Octavia says.