The 100 Reclassified

Chapter 3

He's dying and there's nothing I can do about it. It's been two days since we brought Jasper home and he's not getting any better. I stepped out of the drop ship to get some fresh air.

Most people were asleep already but a few were around the camp fire laughing, including Lexa.

I couldn't help but smile at her, she looked so beautiful. The fire, even in the dark, made her emerald eyes shine brighter. Her brown locks turned into a honey color. Her tan skin shone and her teeth were so white and straight and perfect.

She looked over to me and smiled. My stomach did flips.

I always knew I was attracted to girls the same way I was attracted to guys when I was younger but when I look at Lexa, things feel different. I don't even know her well but yet I can't help but feel right when I'm around her. It's not awkward like it was around my past crushes.

It doesn't feel the same.

We were looking at each other, smiling, for what seemed like a long time before I heard a girl scream. I ran towards her. She couldn't be more than 12. She was having a nightmare. I woke her up and asked for her name.

Charlotte.

Lexa came and sat across from us. She told us about her nightmares and how the chancellor floated her parents, she has this same dream every night. She got locked up for assaulting an officer who tried to grab her parent's belongings and take it to the redistribution center.

Lexa scooted to her side and held her close.

"You see that bright star up there? That's the ark orbiting around us." Charlotte and Lexa were both looking up. "I think we were sent down here to forget about all that pain and sadness; to have a second chance down here on the ground."

"Do you really believe that?" Charlotte beamed at me.

I looked at Lexa who was staring at me "I'm trying to."

Charlotte laid her head on Lexa's chest and fell asleep. Lexa laid her head on top of Charlottes and she seemed little then. She didn't say anything the whole time I was talking to Charlotte.

I never found out why she got locked up but this wasn't the time to ask.

I lay down on the ground next to them staring up at the stars. I wonder what's going on up there. I wonder if my mom is okay.

I woke up with Charlotte in my arms and Lexa was laying down too holding her hand. I couldn't help but smile. I think this was the first night since her parent's death that she had slept the whole night. She woke up soon after me, thanked us for staying with her, and left.

I didn't want to wake up Lexa but I didn't want to leave her on the dirt alone. I woke her up and told her to go to her tent.

She didn't have one.

She had been sleeping on the dirt for these past couple of days. I took her into the drop ship and let her sleep on my hammock.

I went to go check on Jasper. Monty and Finn were there. I took off the green gunk on Jaspers chest. The cut was infected. Wells came in asking how he was doing.

Seriously?

I made him and Finn hold him while I try to cut off the infected pieces of skin. He started screaming, Octavia and Lexa came rushing in.

"You're killing him!" Octavia pushed my arm away.

"She's trying to save him!" Monty yelled at her.