Regina // The 100

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"Becca's journal is amazing," Raven said. We all were currently piled into the Rover on our way back to Arkadia, and Raven was looking through Bekka Pramheda's journal. "At 26, she found a pathway to access a human mind." She turned the page. "That same year, she had to lock up Alie because her answer for what was wrong with the world was 'too many people.' She was 27 when it launched the bombs."

"What did she write about the Flame?" Clarke asked her.

"Alie 2.0," Raven stated. "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."

"Bekka Pramheda, the first Commander," I said. "The gene therapy made her blood black, didn't it?"

"Yeah," Raven said.

"That's where Nightblood came from. I guess it somehow became hereditary," I mentioned, but I still had unanswered questions about Nightblood.

"Luna has it. That's why we have to find her," Clarke spoke. "If she can access Alie-2..."

"She can tell us how to stop Alie-1," Octavia interrupted.

"Bekka Pramheda gets her second shot at atonement," Sinclair said.

"Get back to the mind pathway," Monty said. He had a chip in his hand examining it. "If Alie uses it to upload our minds to the City of Light, then there's a chance my mom's still alive," Monty hoped.

"That depends on your definition of 'alive,'" Raven told him.

There was a small silence, and finally, I asked my burning question. "Becca was on Polaris, the 13th station that was blown out of the sky. She never walked the Ark, so how was Nightblood passed through to my family? The Grounders think she's my ancestor, but that's impossible."

Raven read through the journal hoping she could find some sort of answer. She found a page that seemed to hold my answer. "She had a brother," Raven said. "Two years younger than she was. James Franko. He was an astrophysicist, and before his very first mission, Becca tested the serum on him. He went into space the following week. And three weeks before he was supposed to return home, the bombs launched."

"Franko," I said. "James Franko was the first Chancellor of the Ark. It was his idea to join the 13 stations into one."

Raven read more of the journal. "Captain Franko warned the team on Polaris what would happen if they didn't comply. His last words to his sister? Right before she got on her pod, he said, 'Rest in peace big sister, you've given me all I need.'"

"What did he mean by that?" Joan questioned.

Raven shrugged. "Nightblood, maybe. He knew it was made to protect against radiation, so that's probably what he meant. He knew he could still survive on Earth if it ever came to that." I was learning so much, things that I didn't know at all. It was honestly crazy.

"After his girlfriend became pregnant with his son, he threw himself out of the airlock," Bellamy said. "And she refused to tell the kid anything about his father. Probably how no one knew who his son was, let alone his grandchild."

"Make's sense how I never knew I was related to the first Chancellor," I stated, and then it hit me. "I'm not a descendant of Bekka Pramheda. I'm a descendant of her brother. He's my great great grandfather apparently."

My question was finally answered, but I didn't know what to do considering all of the Grounders thought I was Becca's descendant. Anakin stayed silent for most of this, and I knew he was thinking about something.