Let it happen || Clarke Griffin¹

1. one

If you had told younger Athena that one day she would be heading to earth with a bunch of other delinquents, she would have laughed in your face. Not because the idea was ridiculous and she didn't believe it, but because she knew for a fact that was something The Ark would do.

They were already locked up until they were eighteen, and then they'd go under review and probably fail that anyway, so why not send them to be the test subjects.

It was just an idea that screamed The Ark.

This was the exact reason why she found herself strapped to a seat in a dropship plummeting faster than she'd like towards the ground. She was glad to be out of that cell. She was glad to be away from The Ark, but what she wasn't glad about was the fact it was against her will.

Athena let her eyes flicker around the few people she could see as the ship shook. She figured they'd entered the atmosphere. There was people behind her and she knew it but the pressure of them falling made it so she couldn't turn her head and before she could, the sound of Chancellor Jaha's voice rang out around them.

"Prisoners of The Ark, hear me now. You've been given a second chance, and as your Chancellor, it is my hope that you see this as not just a chance for you, but a chance for all of us, indeed for mankind itself. We have no idea what is waiting for you down there. If the odds of survival were better, we would've sent others. Frankly, we're sending you because your crimes have made you expendable."

"Fucking Jaha." Athena mumbled under her breath. She didn't entirely hate the Chancellor, but she didn't like him in the slightest. He was the reason for a lot of her families problems.

"If, however, you do survive, those crimes will be forgotten, your records wiped clean." The chancellor finished.

Athena wondered how many people actually believed him. She knew for a fact that if they survived this, if they managed to let The Ark know, and they joined them, her crime wouldn't be forgotten. She killed a guard and that was something that they reminded her of daily.

"The drop site has been chosen carefully. Before the last war, Mount Weather was a military base built within a mountain. It was to be stocked with enough non-perishables to sustain 300 people for up to two years. No one ever made it there. Because we spare you no food, or water, or medicine, I cannot stress strongly enough, that Mount Weather is life." Chancellor Jaha told them, occasionally cutting out due to the interference.

She whipped her head to the side when she heard someone shout happily and couldn't keep the grin off her face when she noticed two familiar faces. "Finn, Cruz"

"Knight!" They both shouted back at her and slowly floated their way towards her.

"You're both idiots." Athena laughed at her friends, reaching her hand up to smack the back of Cruz's head.

"You love us." Cruz smirked back at her before they went back to floating around the ship.

"Hey, you two, stay strapped in if you want to live." A voice that Athena couldn't see shouted but both of the boys didn't listen to her.

She watched as they unbuckled and floated out of their seats, following after Finn and Cruz but the second they started to move the ship roughly shook and flung them forward. The pipes they hit into burst causing a few of the people around to scream in panic, while the others held onto their belts.

"Finn! Cruz! Are you okay?" Athena instantly shouted and tried to turn in her seat, only to smack her hand against it when she couldn't see behind her. "Finn! Cruz!"

Athena forced her head against her seat once she realised they were close to hitting the ground. She guessed that the parachutes either didn't deploy or were pulled off by the force of the ship. Turns out paying attention to her friend's rants and their classes paid off after all. She let out a breath of relief once the ship hit the ground and the sound of the machines stopped.