"Hey, you know what I'd like to know?" Finn began as they all made their way along the forest trail. After seeing the two headed deer River had sped up her pace. "Why send us down today after 97 years? What changed?""Who cares? I woke up rotting in a cell, and now..." Octavia said as she grabbed onto a tree beside her before spinning around it. Her raven coloured hair flew in the process. "...I'm spinning in a forest"
River smiled to herself, seeing Octavia happy. Nobody deserved it more than her to be free. She couldn't even imagine how it would've been like to not have grown up with any form of socialisation. Well, besides Bellamy and her mother, Aurora.
"Maybe they found something on a satellite" Monty suggested. "You know, like an old weather satellite or-"
"It wasn't a satellite. The Ark is dying" Clarke interrupted Monty, walking calmly past the frozen teenagers staring back at her. "At the current publication level, there's roughly 3 months left of life support, maybe 4 now that we're gone"
Finn shook back into reality and met Clarke at her side. "So that was the secret they locked you up to keep, why they kept you in solitary, floated your old man?" He asked with no filter.
If it was River that had been asking, she would've probably left out the 'floated your old man' part. She knew what it was like to loose a parent.
Clarke tried her best to brush off Finn's question. "My father was the engineer who discovered the flaw. He thought the people had a right to know. The council disagreed. My mother disagreed. They were afraid it would cause a panic. We were gonna go public anyway, when Wells-" She explained, but got lost in her own thoughts lastly.
"What, turned in your dad?" Finn asked.
"Anyway, the guard showed up before we could. That's why today. That's why it was worth the risk. Even if we all die, at least they bought themselves some more time" Clarke said, once again ignoring Finn's question.
Monty at River's side spoke. "They're gonna kill more people, aren't they?"
River felt bad hearing his nervous voice. She didn't have anyone she cared about left on the Ark, but others did. River only really had Bellamy and Octavia left.
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Fanfiction𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 River and Bellamy's friendship gets tested as they get sent to Earth, along with one hundred other people. Along the way they discover that friendship may not be the only thing keeping them close... I do not own the 100 or the chara...