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F I F T E E N: contact

Under the tent Jasper asked, "How long are we supposed to wait?"

"Will this even work?" the girl with braids wondered.

"Well, we'll see if we are dead or not in the next few minutes," I replied and Finn and Bellamy gave me a look, "What? I was just answering their questions."

Bellamy rolled his eyes. "All right. That's it," he lifted up the tent and instead of yellow fog, we were met with the sun's golden rays.

"No fog," Finn stated, "Maybe it was a false alarm."

"Or maybe it was someone saving our asses," I suggested.

"They're coming back," Bellamy said as he pointed in the direction of one of the Grounders running through the forest.

"I think he's alone," Jasper whispered.

"He doesn't see us. I'm going after him," Bellamy declared.

"Bellamy, don't," I protested.

"And what? Kill him?" Finn questioned.

"No, catch him. He can tell me where Octavia is, then kill him," Bellamy answered.

"Blake, think about it. If we capture him then that could send all of the other Grounders to knock on our front door. We can't risk that with no weapons to defend ourselves," I informed.

For a second, Bellamy looked worried but that was soon replaced with anger, "Then, we'll offer a trade. My sister for their attacker," he replied as he walked towards the Grounder.

"How do we know we're not being lead into another trap?" Jasper asked.

"We don't," I sighed.

***

We followed the Grounder into a cave in the ground. After making sure the man was completely in the cave, we followed. It was dark inside and there was a slight ramp leading to a bigger room. I followed after Bellamy and noticed the man we just followed was on the floor. I carefully checked his pulse which was thankfully still there. Next to the man was Octavia, who was chained to the wall. Bellamy quickly unlocked the padlock and the siblings hugged. Octavia turned to me and gave me a tight squeeze.

I checked her injuries, "It's too dark in here. I'll have to give you a thorough check up back at camp."

Octavia nodded and then turned to her brother. "We should go. Now. Before he wakes up."

"He's not gonna wake up," Bellamy said as he walked towards a weapon at the back of the cave.

"Bellamy, she's right. We should go. It's too dangerous here," I pleaded.

Finn walked over to the body and looked what seemed to be a horn, "Foghorn," he whispered.

As Finn inspected the horn, the Grounder suddenly came to life. It grabbed a knife from a pocket on his sleeve and stabbed Finn. Bellamy and the Grounder soon began to fight as I ran to Finn to inspect his wound. The Grounder stabbed his in the chest in his ribcage. Without light it was hard to see how significant the damage was.

"Stop! That's my brother!" Octavia screamed at the Grounder.

I grabbed a stick that laid next to me and swung it, hitting Bellamy's attacker in the head. The body once again fell to the floor, motionless.

Everything after that happened very quickly. Bellamy carried Finn's motionless body as Jasper and Octavia led us through the woods and back to camp. When we arrived, Clarke met us at the gate.

"I don't know how deep it is but at this angle it could be lethal," I informed the blonde.

Clarke checked his pulse. "He's still alive. We need to get him in the dropship. Now."

Raven pulled me aside. "Athena, please tell me you can save him," she pleaded with tears forming in her eyes.

"Clarke and I are going to try our best, Reyes. You better get that radio working soon," I said. As I ran towards the dropship, I bumped into Octavia, "Meet me in the dropship and I'll check your injuries."

We laid Finn out on a makeshift operating table. Raven had set up her radio near us and was trying to contact the Ark.

Outside, a storm began. Some of the delinquents started to tie down the tents or just tore them down and brought their belongings into the dropship.

I sat next to Raven as she continued to try to contact the Ark. "Can anyone hear me?"

"Are you sure you have the right frequency?" Monroe asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure," Raven snapped.

"Raven. Raven. Look at me," I said, "You can do this. I know you can. Finn and I believe in you."

Raven had a look of disappointment when I mentioned Finn but soon replaced it with a smile and continued to try to contact the Ark. I joined Clarke at Finn's operating table and checked his wound.

"I'm guessing Raven found out about you two?" I whispered to Clarke.

Clarke nodded in response as she checked Finn's pulse.

"This is a restricted channel. Who is this?" a voice over Raven's radio asked.

"This is Raven Reyes. I'm from Mecha station and I am contacting you on the Ground. The 100 are alive. You need to get Dr. Abby Griffin. We have an emergency," the mechanical genius answered.

"Raven, are you there?" Abby's voice boomed through the speakers of the radio.

Clarke signaled to Raven to give her the headset. "Mom? Mom. I need your help. One of our people was stabbed by a Grounder."

"Clarke. This is the Chancellor. Are you saying there are survivors on the Ground?" a deep voice said.

I took the headset from Clarke. "Look, sorry to rain on your happy-go-lucky parade but we need Abby's help. One of my best friends is going to die if we don't act fast."

"Athena? Is it my son, Wells, you're talking about?" the Chancellor asked.

I looked at the delinquents in the room surrounding me and sighed. "Wells is dead, sir. I'm sorry. I can explain everything to you once we save Spacewalker's life, sir. I'm sorry."

I handed back the headset to Raven and joined Clarke at Finn's operating table.

"I'm going to talk you through this, step by step. Give 5 to-- medical. Medical," Abby began to give us instructions but the radio cut out some of her words.

"What's going on, Reyes?" I asked.

"It's not the radio," she sounded worried, "It's the storm."