Keep Fighting || The 100

Eight

3rd POV

The Ark

"Data indicates that the violent criminals in the group are eight times more likely to have terminated signals. We believe that this means that the kids are taking off the wristbands by choice." Abby said to the council after her brief conversation with Raven.

"So how do you explain Wells?" Kane said.

"Kane is right. My son would... never take his wristband off voluntarily."

"The three of our children have done things that we could never have predicted." Jaha and Kane both look away with solemn looks as Abby continues. "The point still holds. These children need more time."

"We don't have time. Engineering needs six months to fix life support, and we'll be out of oxygen in four. Nobody wants to do this, but the inescapable fact is that for every day we delay, ten more people will need to be sacrificed. So today it's two hundred and nine, tomorrow it's two hundred and nineteen. The after that is two hundred and twenty-nine. We're the ones who need  more time. I move that we vote now."

"I second that." said another member.

"Do you think Rowan would want to sacrifice our people for survival?" Abby asked angrily at Kane.

"Yes, actually. She did it once already. That guard had a history that none of us knew but her. I know she would agree. She is my daughter after all." Kane said as both he and Abby held intense eye contact.

"Very well. The matter before us requires a four-vote majority to pass. A vote in favor is to vote to cull two hundred and nine citizens of the Ark from the supply grid in order to extend life support for those who remain by six months. All those in favor?"

Kane, along with two other members voted yes while Abby and two other members voted no. It was now up to Jaha to decide what to do with the matter.

"We didn't ask for this. Ours was to be a transitional generation... Ensuring that three generations from now mankind could go home. But everything has changed, and we will either be the generation that sees the human race return to Earth, or upon whose watch it finally ends. My son is already down there. I sent him. And the truth is I don't know if he is alive or dead. But I still have hope."

"How does the Chancellor vote?" Jaha looks between Kane and Abby, hoping that he is doing the right thing.

"I don't" Jaha said. Everybody was conflicted about his answer.

"Sir, if you abstain, the vote ends in a tie to be automatically taken up again in ten days."

"That's ten more dead every day."

"I ask again, how does the Chancellor vote?" the Senior Council member asked in a demanding tone.

"The Chancellor abstains." Kane slams his hands on the table in anger and storms out. 

"You have ten days." He said to Abby.

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The Ground

The four watch Finn and Murphy cutting the vines around Jasper anxiously. They've been there for about five minutes and each second everyone goes nervous about being in the open.

All of their attention is moved from Jasper to the trees and bushes behind them when something moves in the bushes. "What the hell was that?" Rowan quickly pulled her bow and readied an arrow, looking around. "Grounders?" Rowan looked to Bellamy as she moved slightly closer to the sound, wanting to know what it was but far enough to not get attacked.