"The sky is the source of light in nature and governs everything." -John Constable
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97 years after a nuclear apocalypse killed everything on Earth...
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"Cage, listen to me. I don't want anyone else to die. Stop the drilling and we can talk. There must be a way to get us all out of this." Skye tells the man over the walkie.
She watches him via the camera. He is leaning against a wall for support, clearly distraught.
He mumbles something to Emerson and the lieutenant walks away.
Skye swallows the little saliva in her mouth. "Emerson is coming for us."
Bellamy rests his hands on the desk in front of him. "They deactivated my key card. Can you do that to his?" He asks Monty.
Monty nods, pulling a chair up to the monitor. "That one's easy."
Skye glances at the floor. Dante's body lies there.
She looks away, clearing her throat.
"Where's he going?" Bellamy asks.
Skye follows his sight and sees Cage walking down a hall. "The dorm."
They watch as he walks in and orders for Raven to be taken off the table.
She turns to Monty. "Can you do it? Can you irradiate the level?"
"I can do it."
"Wait a second, Skye. We need to think about this. There are kids in there." Bellamy tells her.
"I know." She shuts her eyes tight.
"And people who helped us."
"Then please give me a better idea, Bell." She says. Hot tears begin to stream down her face.
He stays silent, taking a step closer to wipe them away.
She looks back at the monitor and her mouth goes completely dry.
Two guards are starting to strap Abby to the table instead of Raven.
"Oh my god." She says.
The doors to the dorm open and in walk two more guards, holding a thrashing Clarke.
Skye doesn't speak, instead just collapsing to her knees as Cage decides to strap her sister to the table instead.
She's going to have to watch her sister die.
Bellamy squats down to her level, wrapping his arms around her.
She feels like she can't breathe. Each breath is hard and quick. She blinks as more tears pour from her eyes.
She's having a panic attack.
Skye can only remember one time when this happened before. When her father was floated in front of her.
Now here she is, about to watch her sister get drilled for every ounce of her bone marrow, and she can't do anything about it.
Except one thing.
"Monty! Figure it out. Please." Bellamy begs, holding her tighter as she sobs.
She can't control herself. Ever since they've landed, she's had to be the strong one. She had to deal with the Grounders. She had to protect everyone. She had to kill Dante.
She's tried so hard to keep it together, but she can't do that anymore.
"If we do this, there is no going back." Bellamy whispers into her hair.
She whimpers, watching as the doctor begins to drill into Clarkes thigh.
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It's been several minutes now.
Skye is sitting in a chair beside Monty. Her face is puffy from her breakdown, but her tears are gone.
Monty is typing furiously on the keyboard.
Bellamy is watching the other cameras and notices something.
"Now what?" He speaks.
On one of the hallway monitors, two Mount Weather teens are running away from something.
Suddenly Octavia appears from around the corner. She launches her sword into one of the incoming guards.
Maya is following her, wide eyed.
Octavia slides onto the floor, kicking the legs of the second guard.
She rips her sword out of the first dying man and uses it to slash across the second man's throat.
Three more guards turn the corner, weapons raised.
"They gotta get out of there." Bellamy says.
Octavia and Maya run away from them, heading towards the mess hall.
Monty taps a few keys, and a map pulls up on the screen.
There's suddenly a bang on the door to the command center.
"He's here." Skye says.
On the camera, Emerson is outside their door, trying to kick it down.
Monty looks at the dorm camera. "Jasper. They caught him."
Jasper is brought inside the dorm by Lee. He is tied to the wall like the others.
People panic in the mess hall at the sight of Octavia. The guards have now surrounded both her and Maya.
"Why are you stopping?" Bellamy asks, noticing that Monty's typing has gone quiet.
"Because I did it. All we have to do... is pull this." He points at a lever on the table in front of him.
Skye's mind flashes back to the dropship.
The last time she pulled a lever, her and Bellamy were separated, and she killed 300 Grounders.
Now she has to kill 350 more people.
Monty is still talking. "Hatches and vents will open, and the scrubbers reverse, pulling in outside air."
Bellamy spots Emerson on the other camera, kneeling down, reaching into a bag. "He's gonna blow the door."
Monty spins around. "Skye, we're out of time."
She looks back and forth at all the cameras. Emerson outside their door, about to blow it off. Clarke being drilled in the dorm, while all her friends and mother watch. Octavia and Maya surrounded in the mess hall.
She places her hand on the lever. She takes a deep breath. She pauses.
