"Just like it did to 18 of our brothers and sisters, who we honor today, among them, Erin, Samuel, and Louis. May we meet again."
Everyone echoed his words as Jaha lit the bodies on fire.
"Too many funerals, too little time." Jasper said with a smile as he passed Bellamy.
Faye walked up to him.
"Show some respect for the dead." Bellamy told him.
"What for? They don't mind." Jasper kept walking.
"Where are you going, Jasper?" Faye asked.
"Wherever the day takes me?" Jasper threw up his hands.
"You got a chem tent?" Bellamy asked.
"Nope."
"Jasper. Jasper." Bellamy and Faye ran after him. "No one leaves without a chem tent." Bellamy told him.
"Do you have a chem tent?" Jasper asked.
"Yeah." Bellamy answered, confused.
"Good. Then we have a chem tent." Jasper kept walking.
Bellamy grabbed his arm and stopped him. "Maybe you didn't see how those people died."
"I saw. I'm just not afraid of it happening to me." Jasper kept walking.
Bellamy looked back at Faye. "Jasper, it's not safe out there."
"What else is new?" Jasper asked, but truly didn't care. "Come on." He opened the gate. "We're losing daylight."
"Jasper." The boy kept walking. Bellamy huffed in frustration.
"We can't let him go alone." Faye chased after him.
"Can't we?" But Faye didn't listen. "Damn it. Hey." He ran after Jasper. "Grow the hell up."
"Good. You're coming."
"Yeah. Only because we don't want to carry your body bag." Bellamy told him.
"Oh, come on. I'm pretty light. I mean, I'm wiry, but I'm light. Also, if we do get caught in the rain, I'm gonna need you two to keep your distance. I don't wanna be stuck with you two in the rain, having to listen to that."
"Shut up!" Bellamy and Faye scolded him.
- - -
"How much longer of this?" Bellamy muttered to Faye.
"Just let him tire himself out. He has to go back at some point. I hope." She said, following Jasper through the woods.
"I know it's bad and everything is dying and all, but I'm just gonna say it--I don't miss mosquitoes. Don't miss them."
"I've had it." Bellamy stopped walking. "This is all a big joke to you, isn't it?" He said to Jasper.
"Now you're getting it. That's exactly what it is. One big cosmic joke. You'd realize that, too, if you pulled the stick out of your ass."
"That's enough." Bellamy grabbed Jasper. "That is enough." He let go.
"I'm just trying to help you."
"Oh, you're trying to help me. That's funny. It's late. We're leaving. Now." Bellamy started walking back to the camp.
"Damn it. Open your eyes! The clock is ticking, and it has been since we landed on this terrible...beautiful planet."
Bellamy and Faye exchanged a look. "What the hell does that mean?"
"It means we are living on borrowed time, all of us." Jasper said.
"So if you know that, why are you throwing it away?" Bellamy demanded.
"I'm not. You are. What is the point in beating yourself up over all of the-the crappy things you've done? You did them! And don't say you had reasons, because at the end of the day, at the end of the world, nobody gives a damn about your reasons, because they are your reasons. No matter how much you punish yourself, it's not gonna change anything. It's not gonna bring anyone back."
Jasper took breath and let his words sink in.
"The way I see it is we can spend our last days wallowing in our reasons or we can do--we can do whatever the hell we want! Really mean it this time. Magic beans. Remember those?" Jasper pointed his flashlight to a stump.
"Hallucinogenic nuts?" Bellamy asked.
"That's why you dragged us out here?" Faye demanded, folding her arms.
"If you think I'm taking those again, you really are crazy."
Jasper pulled out a knife. "Whatever the hell you want." Jasper started collecting them in a bag.
Faye sat on a log and watched Jasper pick nuts like a scavenger. Bellamy walked over, sitting next to her.
"You okay?" He asked her.
"No. No, I'm not okay." Faye shook her head. "My people fight each other in Polis. In ten days I'll be alone. The commanders cannot help me." She said, holding her head in her hands.
"When we get the cure, I promise you will go back to Polis, you'll bring peace to your people, and we all will get to live." He laid his arm across her as she rested her head on his shoulder.
Faye felt someone else's hand wrap around her and Bellamy knew it was Jasper who had his head laid on theirs.
"This is so romantic, you guys."
"Get off." They both told him.
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Atlantis
Fanfiction"I'm sorry, I just can't pretend to be something like that." "But you are something. You are Worheda." Faye kom Trikru will have to put her past behind her to save her future and people.
